life hereafter

Went down to Delaware this past Tuesday to see the rocket summer, boys like girls and hellogoodbye perform. During the performance I was reminded of one of the many things at concerts that really annoys me… before we get to that lets step aside to the following…

Have you ever been on YouTube looking for a music video for (insert favorite artist here)? If you notice, as you are looking for that video, there are 4,000 other videos created by fans of live performances by said artist. Most of these videos are just awful… voice dosn’t sync to sound, too far away, too dark… the list goes on.

Back to this past Tuesday… I have now met these people who put awful music videos up on YouTube. They were standing in front of me at the hellogoodbye concert. Instead of just enjoying the show and looking at the stage like everyone else, these girls were holding up their cammeras watching the show on their tiny 1.3 inch LCD screens. Trying “oh so hard” to get the perfect shot so they can place it up on YouTube. This boggled my mind… Why ruin a perfectly good show by spending your own hard earned money to stand there, very still, not making an extra sound or movement so you can record the show for others to watch in really really poor quality?

As I am trying to catch the train home from work last night I get the usual Friday night “What are you up to tonight?” call. After I rattle off some half baked ideas the caller asks, “do you want to go to the Phillies game? I just got some box seats from the Firm…” Woot… Yes!

So that was the evening. 7:05 Phillies v. Marlins game with all the hot dogs, chicken fingers and cheese steaks you could bear to stuff down your throat. Oh and beer, free beer. Your jealous.

Oddly enough the last baseball game I was ever in box seats for was the Mets v. Marlins… The Marlins lost both times… coincidence?

Why I love being an adult:

I can eat gummy bears for breakfast.

Ok. Who invented this ’sport’?

Went bowling after work last night. I’m pretty sure my collective score after two games was 123. Thats pretty sad when you think of that as 123 out of a potential 600.

Maybe I’m just a little bitter, since I apparently can’t bowl…

1. Climb on bike
2. Get cocky, thinking you can pedal with no hands
3. Accidentally unclip right foot
4. Pedal really hard on side still cliped in
5. Go flying over side of bike where you were still cliped in
6. Hurt wrist, calf and snap chain

Go me.

I love April fools day solely because of the crazy new stories that end up getting posted all over the place. Here are two from Google;

• Toilet Based Internet Service Provider (including a step-by-step installation guide)
• Gmail on Paper

Additionally, here is a quote from an unnamed co-worker (in all seriousness):

When is April Fools Day… is that in April? … Oh, wait… never mind.

The roommate and I are planning on going to Europe this July.

Currently, we in our hands plane tickets from Philadelphia to Zürich leaving on July 1st and departing from Paris back to Philadelphia on July 23rd. I’m in the process of mapping out our trip between Switzerland, Italy and France and should have an itinerary shortly.