Health Update: Next stop, Mayo Clinic

So I haven't posted in awhile, AGAIN, but I wanted to bring all my fans an update as to what's going on here in Scary's world!

The past few months have been tough with the health problems, but what can ya do? I'm just playing it day by day and hoping that I'll wake up the next day and feel better. Unfortunately, after getting as educated as I am about what's going on, I'm starting to become a realist.

In this top pic. that is not a view of my lungs, unfortunately. That is one of the 5 masses that I am dealing with right now!

For your viewing pleasures I thought I'd share a few sample pics of my chest x-rays so you could actually see what's going on here. In the view you'll see that my trachea is about an 1" away from where it should be. This is being caused by a mass growing on the left side of my neck thats pushing towards the right. It's causing breathing and eating issues, but I am still able to deal with it. Just very difficult to get comfortable at night to sleep. I've been very restless!

I met with my cariologist and my cardiothoroasic surgeon both in the past week and both are insistant that this needs to be taken care of a team of specialists. The mass on my neck is inter-twined with veins and arteries that should not be messed with under regular circumstances. So I've hooked up with the Mayo Clinic to continue this journey.



I haven't set up the date yet and won't until the doctors get back to me on when they can get all 3 of the specialists together at the same time for me. Very expensive deal here and I can't afford several trips up there.

I have some very cool CT scans that they gave me as well so I'm going to try and record a video of them and see if I can get it posted here for all to see. Technology rocks!

Alex's first steps!

Well, he's been taking 'baby' steps for about 2 months now, but he's finally getting his legs under him!

Tiffany and Brooke took his socks off yesterday and decided to see if they could entice him to walk more! Success!! It worked out great!

Now that I'm a YouTube groupie, I'll be loading more stuff up like this more often!

Enjoy!

'Live To Win' - Purely Paul!

I finally got my hands on it!

And as a bonus, it makes its release on my birthday October 24th, 2006!

People, the first thing I'll tell you to do is forget that this is THEE voice of KISS for the past 30 years. This is exactly what I expected though. Stripped down and just pure music. No bombs, no blasts, no over the top sound to it at all! And I love it from first track to last!

Ha, and I was gonna post a link to it over at Rock Confidential I get this message on the webpage "Audio removed by request"!

So, now you'll have to wait like the rest of the world for your opportunity to hear it!

Until then, here is a track listing:

Track Listing:

Live To Win

Lift

Wake Up Screaming

Every Time I See You Around

Bulletproof

All About You

Second To None

It's Not Me

Loving You Without You Now

Where Angels Dare

This album is very radio friendly as I listened to it. I'm just not sure what radio station would be playing it. I don't want to say it's Top 40, because its not, and it doesn't have a whole rock sound to it. It's just Paul laying out some melodic, catchy tunes.

I hate to say it, but Tiffany and I both agreed that it sounds like a Michael Bolton album. Hey, not knocking it all, I know what I'm getting when I put a solo CD in from Paul, it's just an obvious observation at this point!

When you write songs with Desmond Child and Diane Warren you know what your gonna get!

But I've gotta tell ya, give it a try! You may just be impressed!

EDIT: OK, upon further review, this album is absolutely killer!!! You must go buy this and let your ears taste some great music! I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I am! Good stuff!

Alexander turns 1!!!!!

My lil bubba turns 1 today!

Gosh damn! One year already! Never had I had so much in my life worth living for, and nothing more of an inspiration to me daily this this little child has become! He keeps me going every day and I couldn't be a prouder parent!

This weekend we are throwing him a birthday party and we'll be broadcasting it for family and friends to tune in and say hello! Stop by my MSN Messenger at acspicer@hotmail.com and say hi!

OK now everyone, all together, it's the SroutKids Happy Birthday song! "Happy birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you!!..........."
Bubba, dada loves you!

Happy Birthday Silver!

I wanted to wish one of my best friends a special happy birthday!

Mr. Silverblood has officially joined Club 30!!

I hope you have a great day my friend and remember, it's just a number!

At 9:48pm this Tuesday evening......

....this is what Tiffany and I just busted up laughing at!

Enjoy!!

Ready to get back at it!

So I snuck back on and wanted to post one more blog for the evening. After a nice hot shower, warm dinner and time to reflect I wanted to jot down a few notes from the week.

Things aren't always what they seem. I lost focus with this sarcoidosis the first time! Won't happen again and I sure hope it's not the last chance that I have to kick it in the ass!

#2 Work! It's been a nice break to sit back and look at everything that's happened over the past few months. One thing that I am never quick to forget is my right-hand man getting me thru work, and being the ass kicker he is, Gary! He knows how to make these machines sing, I wrote the bad notes, he makes music out of it! LOL!! It doesn't matter what the situation, this kid has stuck it out thick and thin at this shop, where he could have easily gone north on me! Loved workin with him in Ohio and have been ever so grateful for all of his help both at work and away from it! Thank Chubbs!! It'll be nice to get back to work and start cranking thru some stuff again!

I just wasn't sure of the whole deal with the new guy at work, but after a few weeks now I have really learned to appreciate Clint and see how pretty talented the guy is. His buddy was very cool, I just really wished that had worked out differently with him. Clint probably could use a week off after being left there on his own with Gary and Bob opening shop up in North Cackalacky!!

The 'Ol man! I sure have missed him changing a complete design around! I have a few more to show him this week, let's see how many times we can change it! Really reinvigorated with work and ready to be able to get back to focusing on 'something' else for a change.

#3 Appreciating my wife, yet again! I spent the whole week at home with Alex and Tiffany (Brooke stayed with a friend for a few days during all of this) and just had the chance to see how challenging it is with my lil buddy all day long. He wears a guy out! Not to mention wearing a mommy thin!!! But I have been so happy to rest and relax with them at home and just heal for a bit.

We're going to go in to this more focused on the goal ahead, staying healthy!!

THe darker side of dancing........

Ha, and now here's bubba dancing to mommy's favorite music!

Well rounded kid he shall be!

Waaaaay too much time on my hands today!

Started updating another blog over at MSN's Spaces !

I'm going to do my best to make sure to keep things seperate with me now having 3 of these!

Hopefully I can coordinate it all thru the MSN Spaces site.

It seems to be my premier messenger for now an I'm gonna stick by it. Plus I'm learning some trick shit with keeping all the blogs and photo groups all together.

So here's the current list: Make sure you bookmark them!

http://scaryaaron.blogspot.com (here duh!)
http://aarons-sarcoidosis-story.blogspot.com (where I will begin to track my progress and stuff related)

http://scaryaaron.spaces.msn.com/ (this will be the newest addition)


Tiffany and I were having some fun making some cool pictures and videos and YouTube and we'll see how far that goes.

Lot's going on, time to take advantage of technology and keep track of as much of it as I can!

Leave my mark on cyberspace!

Lets see how well this works!

This is a video I took the other day of Alexander!

He is very much in to music, but this is daddy's favorite!

Alex - Headbanging!

Please let me know if anyone is having issues viewing the file!

I may have it set to just friends and family.

Started another blog

I just recently found out that my pulmonary sarcoidosis may have come out of remission so I wanted to start keeping a digital diary of how I'm feeling.

Anyone interested in learning something new, just as I am, please stop on by and enjoy! It's at http://aarons-sarcoidosis-story.blogspot.com/

Hope ya learn something!

Happy Birthday Anthony a.k.a. Capt. Crash 31!

I just wanted to take a second and wish a good friend of mine, Anthony, a very happy birthday!

Here's wishing you the best bro, and hoping you get everything you want on this day!

I just hope that Bon Jovi serenades ya tonight!! I mean, you deserve it, ya know?!!

Another month gone by!

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And the rainy season begins!

So here we go! Not even 9 days in to the season and we have our first Tropical Storm of the season, Alberto! As a note, last year we had our first one down here around the same time frame. So this is nothing new.

As of this morning, we're not seeing much except for rain [much needed by the way] and it's coming down in buckets! We've had such a dry spell that it's almost a godsend since we are way below average rainfall for the year already. It's being upgraded (per CNN) to a hurricane but I don't really think it's gonna get too strong. For that matter it's already way north, near the panhandle.

Works blah, blah the past few weeks. We're in deep with a lot of projects, and it just seems that we stall out quite a bit. Mind you that we have a boss that likes to micro-manage the hell out of our projects, so there is that holding us back. One day it would be nice to just come in, do my job, not get questioned on it, and deliver to a customer! What a concept ehhh?

Brookes' finally out of school for the year. We haven't seen a report card yet either. So we're waiting to see how 'close' she made it thru! She's done great for all of the changing around this year we did with her. We moved down and she started at one school and had to switch halfway thru the year once we moved in to our new place. As always, she's a little trooper!

Alex is growing up so damn fast. He's already up to 7 teeth, and may have more on the way. We've been watching him closely and he's becoming quite cranky, definitely showing signs of teething! He looks so funny with his teeth coming in. He's daddy's lil lady killer! Such a ham! We're full-on crawling now. He's finally found his foooting. And as a bonus, he's now standing up and pulling himself up on things. It won't be long now and I'll be chasing his lil butt all over the house.

Tiff's getting pretty bored at being home all the time, but you'll have that! I feel so bad for her at times. I wish that I could get her out to do more, but it's only a matter of time and we'll be back to be-boppin' around town again.

I've been looking for insurance since I moved down here and I have to finally switch it, but it is completely assinine down here how it works. I haven't gotten the full story (either that or I just don't understand it yet) but in order for me to get insurance (married) you have to have both of your drivers licenses valid. Well, since I can't do that 'easily' for Tiff, I'm forced to file for insurance as 'single'. I didn't figure this out until I called the 4th insurance company. What a bunch of crazy laws down here!

Not too much more excitement to talk about! I'm pretty busy on a few projects that I'm working on. Both are websites, and one of them is really starting to take shape. The other will come along more as I have time to learn more about this Community Server stuff! I love learning new things! Should be a blast.

Gaming has been cut to a minimum now. My 360 (the 3rd one) has taken a dump on me AGAIN! I'm up to 3 red rings and it's only a matter of time before it's completely toast! Since I was an idiot and didn't buy an extended service warranty it's gonna rock me about $140 to get it fixed! Gotta love that! So it's back to World of Warcraft and BF2 on the PC for a bit!

Oh yeah, and my fantasy baseball teams blow chunks! Nuff said!

Happy Memorial Day!

First off, I want to congratulate my 2 favoritist people in the world on 33 years of marriage, my Mom and Dad!

This is their weekend and I say 'Cheers' to them! Hope you 2 had a wonderful weekend up visiting Gramma!

This is a time that we as Americans need to remember that we are celebrating those that put their lives on the line for our freedoms! You too get a big 'Cheers' from me! Thank you for your service for my everyday freedoms that sometimes may go as 'unnoticed!'

I spent the weekend away from my family and miss them dearly! I am writing this from New York where I am visiting my good friend Ram and his family! We had a great weekend here where we got to see Mr. Silverblood and Miss Chatterbox and also my bud Capt. Crash 31! It was an awesome weekend and I just feel such great joy that I get to spend that time with my buds! I don't get to do that often, and now living in Florida makes it that much harder to do, but I am so glad that I got the opportunity to make it up here!

We stayed up late and had great times! Starbucks at 11:00 at night, WOW what a rush! Created some cool things for a new site we're working on, hubba, hubba!!! Weeeeeee! And we also got to see Jupiter last night thru Cable Monkey's killer telescope! Man, do I have to get one of those! Just good times people!

Thanks for the great weekend everyone!

Hope to see you all again soon!

Tiffany, Brooke and Alexander, daddy's on his way home! See you soon!

I give to you.........THE SNARLER!!!

Becoming a parent has given me such great joys over the past 9 months.

Yes, I have had Brooke, since she was 4 years old, but this is the first time that I have had a baby around the house. I have nieces and nephews, but that doesn't count in this case.

The thing that I have found so amazing is Alex's uncanny ability to pick up on things. We have several fun little games lately. One being the 'ehhh' call back and forth. He keeps this going until you stop completely. Quite funny!

But my all-time new favorite stems from a little incident that we had awhile back during daddy-son time! Mom didn't catch on to this until one hysterical night. See he was taking his nightly bath, which is usually the time that we also feed him as well. Well, daddy decided to mess with him and feed him some obscure food that I picked out for him. He didn't care for it and gave us this face that you see here!

It has now become a nightly habit, and now with the camera back, it's his preferred picture taking face! Witness.......




















What also makes this quite funny is not just the face, but rather the sounds that are created when doing so! I need to get a video over here to let you witness one of the funniest things I think you may have ever seen!

OK, I'll get over it!

I've been gettin a bit miffed by everything "Gene Simmons" lately and I just thought that he was really diluting and watering down my favorite band KISS.

But read this and see if you change your mind as I now have:

And an editorial note: Some of you get sick and tired of seeing GENE SIMMONS in front of every project. Not my problem. I like it. I like me. And, I am unabashed and unapologetic of being in the Gene Simmons Business. If there can be Geffen Records and Bloomberg TV and Walt Disney Pictures...there can be GENE SIMMONS EVERYTHING. Those guys did it right. And, I certainly intend to do the same.

Contact!

I had some time yesterday between some running around that Tiffany had and just being a lazy day that I sat thru a good portion of the movie 'Contact' again with Jodi Foster. I've never had a chance to sit completely thru this movie and wanted to catch it all. Of course I missed the ending, but thank goodness for digital video recorders! I'll catch the end tonight!

The reason for the mention is because of a lil program that I used to run on my computer for SETI. It was a little program that would run in the background and would basically analyize the data that those satellite dishes in the movies would pick up on. I started doing this back in '96 or so and just thought it would be cool to help contribute to science in some shape or form.

Now it's got some leg's under it and the data crunching has grown exponentially!

I'm mean, c'mon, how cool would it be to have your computer possibly analyze a piece of data that could be from a different world?? That is just way too cool! There are also some different studies that they have as well, I believe at one time there was a program to help decode DNA. Now that's pretty damn cool! Check out some of their other stuff at the SetiAtHome link.

If anyone is interested in learning more go to SetiAtHome for more details! I hope some of ya find it interesting!

Finally, an update!

OK, so it's a bit slow at work today for me, and I'm looking busy by, you guessed it, typing on my blog!!

2 more weeks and I get to take myself a restful weekend. I'm visiting some friends up in New York and just cannot wait to get away. Work has me burnt right now and I need to recharge the batteries a bit.

I spent the weekend with the wife for Mothers Day and we had a very nice, relaxing weekend. My wife is a simple individual. I don't mean this in a bad way, but she just plays the role of not wanting anything so well. It makes it hard for me because I have a hard time understanding if she 'really' doesnt want anything, or if she's just being coy. But I cooked her breakfast on Sunday and we just relaxed a bit. She did want me to try and fix our digital camera so that she could start keeping photos of Alex.

I broke the camera about 4 months ago inserting a flash card in to it. It bent the pins and became worthless. I disassembled the camera, but typical guy that I am, I never finished the project. And, of course, when I jump back in to the project, I have no clue where the screws and and everything came from. So here I am with a disassembled mess, and a bent pin in the flash slot!

After 15 minutes voila! I have the pin bent back, insert card, test with power and batteries and just like that were snapping photos again.

So I've updated my Flickr (click to view photos) account again! We'll be updating you with pictures on a regular basis again, so stay tuned.

Not much to say right now, gonna see how much work I can get done with my machine operator out of the shop, and not harrassing me on a daily basis! Should be fun!

Oh yeah, and I'm playing an assload of XBox Live again! Who wants a piece of me in some UNO?!!

Invasion of my privacy?? You bet your ass!!

Folks, we've reached a new low in this society! The text color choice is due to both anger and embarrassment!

Let me tell you a little embarrassing story! I'm not shy about this, but after today, you bet your ass I'm afraid of the world we live in. And I'm only embarrassed due to the fact that both parties have no idea how we were tied together in this instance.

See, I have this friend, for general purposes, let's call him Big Daddy Love Muffin! Well, I only know Big Daddy Love Muffin thru my beloved XBox and XBox Live. Now this is a great friend of mine and damn near a brother to me, along with a few other love muffins online this guy is top notch in my books!

Well I got home tonight and my lovely wife tells me that Big Daddy Love Muffin called and that it was important that I call him back ASAP! So I call immediately!! Now folks, this is where you might want to make sure you are sitting down, you are about to enter Scary's episode of the Twilight Zone!

So Big Daddy plays phone tag with me and we're giving our hello's and he proceeds to ask me if I have ever used his phone number or given it out to anyone ever. Well, duh! I wouldn't know Big Daddy Love Muffins number if I had a double barrel shot gun at my head and my life depended on it. I rely heavily on my phone book in my home phone. On top of that, I only know that it's #13 in the phone book. OK, so I at least know where it's located!!

Big Daddy Love Muffin proceeds to tell me a story of how he got home from work and there was a message on his phone for ME. What? Are you kidding me?? I'm in utter shock. So we sit and knock ideas around about what is going on, who this is, and why in the f'n world they would have Big Daddy's phone number, let alone be attached to me. People, what the frickin hell is going on here.

Now I'm seething with anger, near a meltdown stage, and hyper-ventalating!!! Profusely!!! Big Daddy gives me the number and I call this bitch right up!!! I may have made Satan blush with the vulgarity flying out of my mouth! It was an ugly sight. So here's where we step deeper in to weird.

The lady that is talking to me will not divuldge any information to me only that she's looking for an "insert my name here" but the funny thing is it's me with a different middle name, AND she gives me the last 4 digits of the social and their not mine. But she's looking for "insert name here" in Massillion, Ohio. Now I'm originally from Ohio, but not Massillion. Now I'm freaked out. I scream that she better lose Big Daddy's number and note the account that it's not me they are looking for.

People, I ask you, "what the f' is going on?" Is this where we are at as a society? I wouldn't ever have Big Daddy's number written down for any reason, nor would I write someone down as a reference without first verifying with them that it was OK to do so.

Now I have to deal with the embarrassment that it's caused me. Now Big Daddy was totally cool about it, but what the hell man?

Let's just say this is just the beginning! I have an attorney at my disposal at work and I'm gonna do some checkin! Hell it is the new millenium, maybe I'll hire a vulture to get to the bottom of this for me!! Stay tuned folks! This story's just starting!

By the way, hey Big Daddy, thanks for workin with me on it, and lookin out for me! Trust that we'll get to the bottom of this nightmare!

Review: Operation: Mindcrime II = Saaawwwweeettt!!

As some of you may or may not know I am a very huge fan of the band Queensryche. I've followed them for years and years and years. I caught em for the first time when they opened up for Kiss back in 1986 on the Animalize tour.

To me, these guys are innovators in their genre and were always taking chances. Operation: Mindcrime was all I listened to the year it came out. The story in it was riveting and THE BEST concept album I ever ran across. Mind you, these are my worthless opinions!

So when I heard that they were going to tackle Mindcrime II, i was a bit skeptical. First and foremost, the heart of the band, Chris De Garmo is no longer with them, and it's sad to say, but their music just hasn't been up to snuff since he left. Oh yeah, I still loved every album thus far, but it was missing that feeling the Chris brought to their song writing. So with my fingers crossed and holding my breath I waited patiently......

After scouring the internet this morning I was finally able to snag it off of Rhapsody for a cool 9.99$! Not bad! I started with Operation: Mindcrime to get me started. I wanted the big lead up and then I then was thrust in to a very hard rockin, spot on album, Mindcrime II!! 17 songs telling the story of Nikki who has been in prison for 18 years after his crimes committed in the first Mindcrime.

The album has an appearance from the legendary small man himself, Ronnie James Dio, who plays the role of Dr. X. His vocals go to work battling Geoff Taite on the track 'The Chase' and gave me goose bumps listening to it!

Do yourself a favor if your in to this kind of music, download it or go buy it immediately! It's a great album. Rhino Records is streaming the album in its entirety today. I'd encourage you to go give it a listen!

Rumor also has it that Queensryche will tour this summer and perform both Mindcrimes, in the entirety. I cannot wait to see this one pulled off!!! Count me in!

Catching up!

So of course, I said I would keep this updated, and I'm a slacker!

What else is new!

Well, actually a lot.

Work is really kicking in to high gear, and we are making tremendous strides. After some internal house cleaning the past few weeks, we've eliminated some bad seeds around here and things are looking up!

These days, it just seems that no matter what, your going to run in to jackasses, where ever you work. This place is no different. But in this case, a certain jackass helped a brother out! I've had the pleasure of picking up the pieces on 4 major projects here and my good friend and co-worker Gary smacked the hell out of the work, and delivered! Fortunately, due to the last disaster the guy dropped on us, the owners finally saw thru the guy and cut him loose! Sweet!! Sorry to gloat, but I just felt lately that I was breaking my back, having tremendous pressure and stress on me and no one else recognozing what was going on. Now it's time to get back to what I enjoy the most, working with customers!

It's paying big divends so far. A customer that came on board with us called my boss and thanked em for the tremendous efforts I gave on a project, beyond the scope of what we were contracted to do for them. I ended up saving a disaster from occuring. A few parts we were to manufacture weren't up to snuff and we caught a major snafu! I called the engineer, walked her thru it, and helped her on the design. Well, her boss from France was here that following Monday and was just beaming ear to ear that a manufacturer would take the time to check the part for 'manufacturability' and voila, another satisfied customer, not to mention a boss who was overly impressed!!

Home life is great! Tiffany and I are just doing awesome now that we are down here away from the cest pool that is Ohio. The move couldn't have been more needed by both of us. It's showing every day in both of our attitudes towards each other. It's almost like being married for the first time again! That rocks!!

Alex and Brooke are doing spectacular! Brooke's finally settling in to her newest school as of January, and has pumped those grades right up! I'm so happy to see her doing well again. With the moving and everything else the past year, she needed some stability and I think we've finally nailed that for her. She's gonna pass with flying colors and has bet me on gettin straight A's! Let's see ya do it kid!!!

Alex is growing like a weed.!! He's discovered his vocal cords and learned how to play mommy and daddy now. Lil bugger! But hey, we all did it as kids! We're very close to him crawling around now, and at almost 8 months its about time! We're kinda getting the feeling that he may be walking before he even crawls. He's got the army crawl down to a science, that and the roll technique, but just cant figure out the whole crawling deal. It's funny as hell to watch, but you can see him trying so hard to get it.

I miss posting here and having all my friends stop by and comment, so I am going to make more of an assertive effort to be on here more often.

Thanks for stopping by and reading folks!

Cell phones and holiday's!

Well, it has been way too long since I've posted here!!

I was having a lot of fun with it and work just got in the way of keeping it updated. I'll do better guys I swear!

It's been a busy start to the year and the days are flying by! I try to spend as much family time as I can now being that my days at work are becoming very long!

So I thought I'd get something up here so all of my fan's would know that I'm still around!

I had a subject matter to leave for discussion here!

Cell phones! I don't have one and I'm always asked why? So I thought I'd share with you some observations of cell phones that I couldn't agree more with! Please feel free to stop back and discuss DAVE!!!

The kid from Brooklyn:

Where are you?

and

Where are you Part Deux!

And another favorite:

Cell phones!

And for my other reader, Keg, happy holidays mang! Somewhere in this world a holiday is being celebrated! And for that I say to you 'cheers'!!! Have a drink on me!

2006! Happy New Years everyone!

Well, for those of you that stop by my little treasure spot on the internet, Happy New Years!

It's been a wild 2005 and other than settling down and moving here to Florida, the only real thing I'm most excited about was my lil Alex being born! He's changed my world and I am so happy and proud to finally have my first child. Brooke has and will always be my first, but there's something very different about conceiving your own! It changes you, turns you in to a different person! And for that I am very grateful!

The holiday's are finally over, thank heavens! And Tiffany and the kids will be home from a 2 week vacation on Wednesday. I can't wait to get them home, I've missed them tons! One things for sure, I caught up on a lot of sleep the past 2 weeks!!!

Football season was ugly. After going to the Super Bowl last year, the Eagles were plagued with the T.O. disease and injury bugs, and are going to watch the play-offs and the Super Bowl from their couches this year. The Indians blew it.........AGAIN! But the Cav's look very promising! At 21 Lebron's doing magical things. I think this might be Clevelands first championship in forever very soon!! Fantasy sports wise was just horrible this year for me. Finished middle of the pack in all of my leagues football and baseball. Nothing like giving away money, ya know?? But congrat's to my good buddy Dylan who finally won one after so many years in it with us! After 5 years ya finally beat big daddy in a game! Congrats!

I finally had a chance, yesterday, to catch up with some good friends and we spent the day gaming on our new 360's! I've had the thing since the end of November and just now got in some good quality time online with my buds! What a blast we had! Can't wait to start doing this every Wednesday night again! My XBox Live Friends family has become a special group of friends to me, and it's nice to see that we are gonna kick it strong in to 2006!! Sunday I spent gaming with my buddy Dagon Fel from Band of Gamers! I feel so bad I hadn't gamed with him and the rest of the Band of Gamers in so long, that it was nice to pull out the old XBox and just have a great time gaming in Battlefield 2 for several hours. Dex Luther and Dagon's brother also got in to the action and we had a great time, after I spent several minutes muting all the other morons!!

So we'll keep it short, but 2006 I plan on keeping this lil ship sailing along and bringing ya more of my life and the things I find the need to spew out about!

No New Years resolutions for me, hell does anyone ever really follow thru with them??

OK, I'll give ya 2:

1. To bring the best lifestyle and all that matters to my family for this year. Make a happy home and make my wife smile at least once a day!

and 2. Make sure that I apply myself more and more each day at my job and make sure that I learn something new everyday! Cause 'God dammit Aaron, if ya didn't learn anything today, you just wasted my money!!' Famous quote from my boss!!

Hope your 2006 is as good as I'm going to make mine!