I can't help but think of my grandfather today. I hope everyone is having fun and spending time outdoors! Have a cookout or go enjoy yourselves in some other way!

Jason

PS - My philly trip was successful. I don't carry so much guilt, shame or embarrassment over that whole ordeal anymore.

Well I'm here, facing my own personal hell...the cheating ex. I'm doing great so far. I'll be back in Buffalo a happier person I think. The toughest part is over ("Hello") so now I just have to catch up and hopefully this ridiculous unhappy chapter of my life will be over.

Anyone wanna party? No elephant pins required.

Jason

I'm really flattered. I will have to take you up on that someday. I'm saving money to take a trip, and the monterey peninsula may be involved. I'm scared to death of The Big One, like I'll be there when it happens. It's really irrational of me to worry so much about it because it's a place I really want to visit someday.

Now back to our regular programming.....

I actually sat and watched the c-span webcast of the senate debate the other day. I could only take about 2 hours of it before I started to feel sick. There are only two parties here, the far left and the far right. Our elected people are acting so savagely. Who gets off on this besides people in the media? We need election reform now more than ever. Watch what's going to happen. The use of the filibuster to torpedo judicial nominations is going to explode. When the Democrats are back in power in '08 the Republicans are going to do exactly the same thing. We're going to be battling about every single nomination in the same way we're doing it right now. I don't care about pending cases - I actually support this idea and credit the Democrats for it because every single important judicial nomination should be closely scrutinized. I want to make sure that no more extreme judges, left or right, are given a lifetime post. Keep the filibuster! No more Clarence Thomas or Ruth Ginsberg types! I just wish the righties would have figured this out sooner.

Jason

Twisted, yeah it is a matter of opinion as I injected my own thoughts into the whole deal. I'm not necessarily saying people are dumb for living there, so if I came across that way it wasn't intended. I still wouldn't pay a half million dollars for a teeny weeny house, no matter how cool a place is perceived to be.

I've actually always wanted to visit San Fran, but I'm probably not welcome there. I'll have to go in covert.

Jason

Look at my User Pic. Feast on the beauty. This is how I dress when I go to the Suburbs. You see I have a dilemma. I don't look rich enough to get attention from Suburbanites, yet I don't look scenesterish enough to get attention from Elmwoodites. So eventually I decided "fuck it" and started dressing way down. You would never recognize me on the street because I look like a scrub. I do my best to stay low key but I really don't want to look like a scrub any more. I don't want to be outed as a decent earner. I need some girls or some gay dudes to take me out shopping because I need a personal style that makes me satisfied and at the same time will rope in the Elmwood ladies.

Of course, even with my new personal style I will still have to get the balls to ask out the girls in question, who are always in the hood. Some girls I would talk to no problem, but the ones I think are really cute my cheeks turn really red and I act like they don't exist. First things first, some new duds!

Jason