Set aside a couple of days to spend at our house.

So the news came out in the last couple of days of a new Guitar Hero game. I paid no heed to this as I already knew about it (or so I thought). You see I am geared up for Guitar Hero Smash Hits
coming out on 6.16. It basically is going back and taking songs off the first 3 games and adding the drums and vocals. I got very excited to hear that the songs that got me into this game would now be available to wail on. Even more exciting to me is the Rockband Beatles game coming out on 9.9.09. Get it 9,9,9.... No you probably don't, it's a Beatles thing. Anyways that is sure to be the seed of another theme party! So I thought my plastic guitar thirst would be quenched for the remainder of the year with these well spaced games. Then today I actually paid attention to the chatter I was hearing. Evidently there are more things in store for the year! Guitar Hero 5 will be out on 9.1.09 with the likes of Santana, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Kings of Leon, and a lot more to be announced. Looks to be 85 new songs on this one. Then there is Band Hero, aimed at the family band, Pop 40 hits mostly. Might pass on this one, depends on the track list. Then there is the Van Halen themed game. I have never been really big on these guys, but it might be a lot of fun, No official release date yet, just sometime in the second half of the year. Wow you say! Too much right? Wrong! Then there is the Lego Rockband in the "Holiday 09" season. Way to capitalize on X-mas heart strings. Looks to be like the Band Hero thing, aimed towards kids and families. Maybe another pass, but it does combine two of my favorite things. Enough you say? No sir! This little gem popped up in the Internet today. Not on my radar currently but it might be worth a try sometime. DJ Hero. Go ahead take a guess what this is? That's right it is a rhythm game played with a turn table shaped controller! Over 100 songs from 80 artists and 80 brand-new mixes that have never been heard before. There looks to be some really big names attached to this. Well as big as a rapper can get.

My blog is back, Hay na, Hay na, my blog is back.

Yea, yea I know, what the hell? Where have you been? Well the nicer the weather got outside the less ambition I had to log in and post. But most of you asked me already, so I'm not sure why I am repeating that. So I've been outside ALOT. My house other's houses. In the month and a half since I have last seen you. I have......Cleaned my yard, cleaned other's yards, played paintball, Redsox/Mets game, built a porch, birthday parties, dinner out with friends, mowed at least twice, cruised around in a BMW for a week. got caught up on all our DVR'd shows, got a sketch and autograph from one of my favorite comic artists, went to see Wolverine, Fast and Furious, Angels and Demons, closed in a screen porch, started printing T-shirts for Robstock. That might cover pretty much it, oh wait no, I went and saw Tommy's cover band and visited with Mike too. there that's it. Upcoming I have to pick up a load of wood for my parents, buy a ladder, Seadogs on Monday, Phish next Saturday with Matt and Brett. I want to squeeze in paintball, go to see UP, knock out the front window in the living room, download some new music, go see a Mets game at Citi Field (anyone up for a weekend road trip?), Mow again, spend some quality time with the new Guitar Hero, and find a way to make a little extra cash to pay for all this. Sounds pretty much like the typical life of Melis and I, absolutely no free time. and you wonder why I haven't been blogging?

I'm not gonna lie

Cleveland sucks. Don't get me wrong we are having a great time. But this town has nothing to do at all. We have found a few cool things, but they don't out number the lame things. How about the fact that on a Friday night the mall closes at seven. Sounds stupid right? Well we went through that mall earlier yesterday. There is nothing there. Then we found out that the other mall is closed on the weekends. Doesn't seem like a good strategy. We did however find a nice hot dog cart for lunches.$1.25 dogs with all the fixings. and they are good. Then there is the breakfast buffet here at the hotel. Typical hotel buffet, eggs, bacon, french toast, fruit, bagels. $15. We almost dined and dashed. Except we live here, so no.We headed to the Hall Of Fame and illegally took photos of the Metallica stuff. Cool place. Then the greatest thing happened last night. We were going to a Metallica Club party at Hard Rock Cafe and we had to wait till 9 cause we hadn't RSVP'd in time to get dinner. So we went out into the closed mall. As we hung by the rail I caught a glimpse of Lars with one of his kids. We tentatively tried to intercept him but he made it to the restaurant door before we got there. So we decided to wait. A little while later as we staked out (pun intended) Morton's Steak house. He came back out. I congratulated him on the induction and asked for a picture. He said sure and here are our spoils.......

Then we skipped the MetClub party, It seemed kinda lame. We went to Local Heroes for beer and wings. we had been there for lunch the prior day and met Mary who told us to come back. So we ordered up two dozen wings and started boozing. Needless to say Mary closed down early and took us out for a drink at another bar. We finished getting hammered, and Mary gave us a ride back to the hotel. She was awesome and a great friend to make on our trip!

Ahhh vacation

So I return to the hamburger incident. Not me this time. I am sitting here in the Portland airport, listening to my Ipod and people watching. Evidently my “situation” does not affect everyone. I have been intently watching a young gentlemen eat not one but two greasy sausage egg and cheese bagel sandwiches. He is also drinking only what I can describe as a two-liter mocha-cocoa-colon blow-latte. With whipped cream. In my experience this type of “diet” would result in a 20-30 minute window of “opportunity” before it will be dealt with. Add in the coffee as an accelerant, and I figure the guy has about fifteen minutes till blast off. The dilemma being that his plane begins boarding in 10 minutes. I’m sure that they will want him to take his seat as there is another plane boarding out of the same gate soon after. He is traveling to Philadelphia. I guess that’s probably a couple hours in the air. If he is anything like me and refuses to use an airplane bathroom. That boy is in some serious shit. Yes pun intended.