It's the Happiest Place on Earth.

I can feel it, and I've only been here about half an hour. First impression of walking into the Disneyland Hotel: Pure joy. Because my main man Goofy was hanging out inside hugging children. I got a high five. IT WAS AWESOME. Then after hanging around and checking in, I rolled the bags over across the area in between the various towers of the hotel. I feel like I'm 10 years old. I just wanna go put on a bathing suit and go splash around in the Neverland Pool. Theres all sorts of cool shit here, and we're not even in the park yet. I got to the room with it's not so awesome view (still a little awesome due to the Disneyland factor) and as we speak my Dad's booting up a program called RideMax that should help us plan out our day tomorrow.

-After using RideMax -

Well. It's complicated, and it doesn't plan into us using both Disneyland and California Adventure in the same day which kinda sucks, but it's pretty cool. It's got times all planned out for everything, but I think that if one thing's too short or another's too long the thing is going to explode and it won't be worth it. We'll see I guess. Now I'm off to explore Downtown Disney, which'll include shops and Fireworks. :D

Plan for tomorrow: Check the new-fangled Twitter (over there ->) for what I'm doing during the day, then I'll give you the wrap up with more deets tomorrow night. Later dudes!

It's like a new age Tron.

So. It's 12:40 Eastern, 9:40 Pacific time. I've slept two out of the last 40 hours. I've ran errands, packed, visited friends, gone to Dave Matthews Band, gone to Wendy's, seen my friends fall out of their chairs for no reason, watched the 2nd airing of the Lakers Nuggets game, showered, shaved, flown to Cleveland, flown to LA, gotten lunch at a Country Club, helped fix a computer, checked into a hotel, gone to the beach, left cause it was too cold, gone to an outdoor mall, visited most of the shops, ate at The Islands, played a free iPhone game, and gone to see Pixar's Up in 3D. That's the highlights. Think I did enough?

Anyway, I could tell you how awesome Up was (really awesome), or describe the scenes of California, but instead let me tell you of an awesome happening.

As stated prior, my Dad, his friend Evan and I got food at The Islands restaurant. It's pretty awesome. The burgers are delicious. Anywho, Dad and I got there early and after sitting at the bar, and finishing my Roy Rodgers, he and I start talking about how he doesn't have nearly enough games on his iPhone. He says, "Jim, you go ahead and pick out any game for free and download it." I took this challenge. Opening up the App Store, and heading to Top 25 Free Games, a small app caught my eye. "Urinal Test." The perfect game to waste 5 minutes with.

After convincing my Dad it was a sound investment of his zero dollars and no cents, we downloaded it and began to play. Play consisted of the game showing you a set of 7 urinals, and then you selecting which urinal would be the most appropriate to take. Scintillating stuff; I know. After figuring out the formula, a 25/25 was soon mine. Evan soon arrived, and being scholarly gentlemen, my Dad and I quickly showed him this new game. Dinner came and went and then we left to go wait in the very long line for Up. This is when things got weird. Feeling that familiar urge, I quickly pardoned myself to the Little Captain's Room. Entering this winding corridor of sinks, I soon stumbled up a set of urinals. Yeah. Here's how the set up was.

Empty | Guy | Empty | Empty | Guy | Little Empty

A wave of déjà vu washed over me. Which would be the most proper urinal to take? A moral dilemma ensued. The rules of the game came back to me. Take the left most Empty stall. Taking the little stall; out of the question. And taking either of the two middle stalls not only put me next to someone already there, but also would force someone else into awkwardly forcing himself into the fray. By taking the left most stall, I would be able to take the small hit of standing next to someone, but protected my left flank entirely, allowing me to focus on defending my right flank. An excellent tactic, yes? After returning to Dad and Evan, they agreed that I was most just in making this decision. The cosmos had aligned to test my knowledge of the Urinal Test. I had passed with flying colors.

So after a laundry list of activities, and enough time spent in a collared shirt and loafers to last me till my next graduation, as well as not one but THREE blog posts, I'm going to bed. Or rather, I'm going to go lapse into a coma. Good evening to you.

Day of The Living Dead!

When my mom woke me up at 10:30 yesterday morning, instead of my planned 11, I was pissed. And rightfully so. Because then I'd have a half hour more sleep and me and feel a half hour less dead. Coming up on the big 24 hours up. Just peachy.

Meanwhile, while I'd like to rant on the travesties of going through airports, I'm sadly disappointed. As my dad travels so much he gets all kinds of neat perks, so we get to lounge in the President's Club or whatever it's called, and are provided with free drinks and free wireless while we hang around until boarding time. All I can really say, is that I was kind of weirded out by the dirty needle disposal unit in the President's Club in Cleveland, and that I was surprised by stumbling upon "America's Best Bagels" in passing at the terminal. Hmph.

Since then however, another plane ride has passed, and besides the two hours of sleeping on and off on my fold out tray table, I'm just plain tired. In LA, got some grub, now I just need to find a bed. Disneyland and E3 to come. Giggity-giggity, giggity-goo. Stick around.

So Much To Say

Ok, if you don't like Dave Matthews, just stop reading here.

Now that that's over, Dave Matthews Band, Live at Fenway Park, May 29th 2009: Amazing. You can look up the Set List here. (It's a little screwy so you might have to come back later.) I've listened to a lot of Dave's Live albums, and I have my favorite versions of my favorite songs, but I have to say. Hearing live, and seeing live? Two completely different things. The energy of the crowd at Fenway, bundled with my sheer excitement of seeing DMB live, made this concert into one of the, if not the, best concerts I've ever been to.

I suppose it doesn't mean much if you don't know what else I've seen so here's the quick list:

• Weezer
• Coldplay
• Gym Class Heroes
  
• White Stripes
• Rodrigo y Gabriella
  
• The Eagles
• Vampire Weekend
• All Time Low/Girl Talk/Lupe Fiasco

All great concerts in my opinion, but Dave... Dave was something else. Witnessing the infamous Dave Matthews improv right in front of my eyes was a trip. Thinking to myself, "That's not the line that comes next...wait thats something completely new, different, and Awesome!" Really just one of those things you have to experience for yourself. The atmosphere was incredible. Fenway, illuminated by the stage lights, was a sight to behold. The smoke being pumped out from the stage (and by probably half of the fans) made the lights shine in mid-air, which was a sweet effect. Though I would have like to be closer to the stage, I can't complain too much. A few of his new songs, and the neverending jam on Dreaming Tree, I could have done without. But the jams for Ants Marching, Everyday, and All Along the Watchtower? And all the other songs in general? I'd go again in a heartbeat. Worth the 92 dollar price tag? I wanna say yes. But here's for lobbying for cheaper tickets next go round. My only complaints are that I didn't hear every song I wanted to hear, and.... well I guess that's my only complaint. I would have like to heard Say Goodbye, Two Step, Dancing Nancies, and a lot of other songs, but I guess that's why he does two nights at Fenway.

My recommendation: Go. See. Dave.

Next up: Jim vs. The Airport!

CRUNCH TIME

So, I'm getting ready to go see Dave Matthews Band tonight at Fenway (bitchin' right?) and as I am leaving at 4AM tomorrow morning, I have to get all my crap ready to go to California today too. Laptop, Books, iPod, DS, Nikon; Check to the 5th. Yeah, that's mathmatically correct.

Anywho, just a small update cause I felt as if making a second blog post would make this entry more official than it already was. I'll update you in the wee hours of the morn to let you know how the concert was. Later hombres.

IT'S ALIVE!

Good....Goood....; And so it begins...; Good news, everyone!

All phrases that capture the momentous creation of this blog. I say momentous, because the creation of this blog is most certainly not momentous. While sure it marks what could be a historic landmark, it also is the beginning of yet another impulsive idea come to fruition, like my recent purchase of a harmonica. However, like buying the harmonica, I doubt I'll regret this. The harmonica was much more shiny though.

This blog will contain everything, and thus, nothing. I'll put up random stories I think are funny, news stories that pique my interest, rants about stupid things, all the generic things you'd expect from a blog. So, "Why read this blog?" you ask. I ask, "Why not?" I know with all the time I have in my day, even when I'm piled up with work, I end up procrastinating or goofing around, and browsing all 50 websites I have piled into my iGoogle. So if you're browsing all your other websites, why not tack this one on the end? Maybe you'll catch that spark that'll rekindle your passion to get back to work! I wouldn't count on it though.

I'll be nerdy, funny, and I'll be covering whatever whenever. You can feel free to point out flaws in my logic in whatever I'm talking about, but I must warn you. I did get an A- in Logic. Yeah. Bet you didn't even know you could get a grade for that. Well. Yeah. Great. I think that about covers the awkward blog intro.

IN DAYS TO COME: Dave Matthews; Airports; Books; Disneyland; E3.

Stay tuned. Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel!