I went out last night with Sammi. Man, she sure is awesome. I had a really good time 😀 *swoon, recover* Tonight is the eve of my 21st birthday. I didn’t think I’d make it this far, honestly. In celebration of this blessed time of my life, I am going to my parent’s place for dinner and presents and such, and then I am embarking on a several-day long voyage of drunkeness. This is going to consist of 1) Getting really, really shitfaced downtown post-midnight tonight 2) Having a beer with the coworkers tomorrow for lunch 3) Going to Bristol Brewery tomorrow with Sammi 4) Getting really shitfaced tomorrow night and 5) Having a weekend of complete and utter drunkeness/debauchery. If you are interested in coming along to any of these events, please let me know 🙂 Yay, celebrate alcohol! [b]Update[/b] OKAy so I am tottally crunk and so it mastt./ he’s ntot durnk he says. We went o *IN ORDER* 15C, phnatom canoyun, and then THE RITZ and the n to Jack Quinnss and then ot…. nop wait then we went to jack quients AND THEN we went to the ritz, and then went to TEQIULASA and tehn we went to rumbay. That was goodo. … I ate a chery at RUMABAY! and ti was good. oKAy, very drunk. PHOTOSOS to volllow soon. CHHErs for the 2`1… ready for the repate tomorrow!? Updated: 7/16/2003…. By Tony: Randal peed in the sink at tequilas, it was really funny, xgodadajit, i’m hitting th efuking backsapce button, which is against the norm for this cgoda damnd type of update, fuck you, i’m hearding that rdanla has a huj rwang , haha, according to the mastah, booyah, that mofo is the bombshitnizzle. fuckyall, other than than that, had christina aqnd troy come by and join the initial investigatory committee into getting randal drunk… Other than that, its 230 am, I’ve got pictures loaded on my piece of shit kodak camera, that are fuckin hilarious… but good… that being the essential piece… i’m actually very happy to help matt and randal back to the comfortable recluse to the essential order of drinking… it’s all good it’s all good it’s all good [b]Update 09/08/03[/b] – [L=http://rand0m.org/images/21stbday]Here are some photos from my 21st birthday[/L]

So the store thing is going really well. We are planning on opening up pretty soon 😀 … we’ve got our space leased, have picked our telephone #, have our PC ordering all lined up, have the cable-running dates set, everything is really coming together. I’m super stoked. So I called up Signs By Tomorrow the other day to talk about our sign, and guess who answers the phone? Janelle! I sorta sat on the phone for a second, gaping like a fish at the unexpected answerer. Anyway, the sign will be super 😀 I ran into Annie Wadman today at Pikes Perk … she was freaking out about something I [L=http://www.rand0m.org/archives/march2001.html#annie]wrote on my page 2+ years ago[/L]. Like, she was totally flipping out, rocking back and forth, doing the sad/hurt/mad ploy which totally doesn’t work when I don’t know you. It was fucked up. Anyway, I added a little note onto the entry.

We are having a get together at our place tomorrow, July 4th to grill up lots of meat and have a yea old time. [b]Who[/b]: You, your meat, alcohol,and a friend. [b]What[/b]: Barbecue Cookout Thing [b]When[/b]: 2pm – 7pm, 07/04 [b]Where[/b]: Team Weber, 423 N. Weber ([L=http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=423+N.+Weber&city=Colorado+Springs&state=CO&zipcode=80903&homesubmit=Get+Map]map[/L]) [b]Why[/b]: It’s Independence Day! [b]Note[/b]: We are providing a hot grill, some hamburgers and a 12pack of beer. That’s it. Please bring meat, or at least money to buy meat with. We are poor after the last party. See you there!

I would like to say that I made a wonderful dinner tonight. We had some huge, brilliantly cooked ribeye steaks, with about three pounds of Snow Crab, corn on the cob, garlic bread, the works. It was awesome. There’ll be some photos of this amazing meal up soon. [b]**Updated:[/b] [L=http://rand0m.org/images/bigdinner.jpg]Picture of our awesome meal[/L] Friday night, I shot everclear. That was not a good experience. It was one of those nights where I was really loathing myself, and was rather disappointed with myself … so … I sorta got over it by abusing the shit out myself. It made me hurt pretty bad on Saturday. I really don’t know why I did it, but hey, that’s what happens. I went and played pool recently. That was good. Janina is pretty fun to hang out with — smart, fun, just cynical enough … but you know, she’s 18? 19? I am afraid of girls, though. heh. 🙂 I went to church this morning with my parents. That was surprisingly a good time. It wasn’t a religious thing at all … more of an academic interest. There were some talks about faith and such which were meh, but then a very good class about the passover. I saw some people I hadn’t seen in a while, and that was good. Then I had lunch w/ the ‘rents, and it was good, and then I came home, went shopping and made the huge dinner mentioned above. Work is going crazy. Our deployment in [L=http://www.hpi.net/falcon/]Falcon[/L] is exploding, which is making for busy busy busy busy busy work. The business is going well, also … a little slow, but it is progressing. EverLAN is this next weekend, as is July 4th. We’re having a barbecue, which I believe is starting at 2pm — I’ll update with that info soon.

Will have photos up and such ASAP. [b]Update[/b] – 06/25 @ 2:52p Okay, so the party went really well. I was afraid that nobody was going to show up, and that was the case until like 9:30. Gabe and Matt Blum showed up, which is neato, because they know a lot of people … Gabe fired up his cell and in no time we had a whole house full of people rockin out. The sound system was absolutely huge (a little too loud sometimes) with some damn-good DJs spinning it up. We had a full keg of Belgian Ale from the warehouse which received mixed results from our throngs of partyers. Tore made a surprise appearance — he drove all the way from Santa Fe, NM for the party! Not to mention that he finally had SE.. er … *IS* a SEXy beast! *hugs tore* 😉 Had a *LOT* of hot chicks come, which was really surprising because we usually throw grandiose sausage fests. A lot of people I invited did not show because of prior engagements and such, which made me really sad 🙁 Tony got *REALLY DRUNK* *REALLY FAST*. By 11pm he was barely standing, and at 11:30pm we had someone carry him upstairs to pass out. He didn’t even drink very much … what a lightweight. At about 2:00am, Matt disappeared mysteriously, leaving me to run the show. Everyone who was leaving was out by 6:30 or so, and everyone who was staying was already passed out. It was a really, really long night for me, because I had had very little sleep and got to enjoy running the party alone for 4+ hours. But it all turned out well, which is what matters 😀 We lost a pane of glass in our front door and a couple different drinking glasses to some drunk dumbass. Had a couple little skirmishes here and there, but all in all it went really, really well. We’re looking to either have a 4th of July BBQ or to throw another party at the end of summer. Pics are here: [L=http://rand0m.org/images/summer2k3]http://rand0m.org/images/summer2k3[/L]

This is gonna be a long update, because I haven’t posted in a long time. Like, a Loooong time. So I’m going to start out like a couple weeks ago or so. Heh. Told you it was long. Okay, so a couple weekends ago, I am out with Chris Bonk and Keen, and we go to Sticks to shoot some pool, but they are 21 and up, so we leave and to Corner Pocket. While there, we meet two girls, Lilly and Kirsten. It is Lilly’s birthday (23) and Kirsten looks oddly familiar. So we start chatting, and they invite us over to Lilly’s place to get lit. So we head over there, and I’m mackin on Kirsten, and Chris is mackin on Lilly, so I ask Matt, our fifth wheel, to drive my truck home and spare himself the agony of watching the four of us get it on. So he leaves. And then Chris and Lilly disappear. So Kirsten and I chill on the couch, and around 6am, Chris comes out of Lilly’s room and leaves. So then Kirsten invites me over to her place. That’s cool. So we go over there, get completely blasted and proceed to have a great time until approximately 11:00am, and then we pass out until 6pm (saturday). That was a good weekend. 10 days after that, I call up Kirsten and ask her on a date. Kind of backwards, you know? Fuck, then date instead of Date then fuck. Backwards, you know? So then on Wednesday of last week, we go out. Long story short, meet at Joe’s Crabshack at 7, go to a carnival around 9, stay till 10:30pm, ends with a hug and a kiss and that was that. I don’t know if I’ll go on another date with her. Nice girl, just not my type. Odd to say that, what with me being so super desperate 😉 *goes and hits on receptionist* So then this past Friday night, Tony had our poker buddies over to play Poker. This was not an ordinary night. I was in good spirits, and glibly paid my $5 buy in. End of the night rolls around, and I’m $17 ahead. Rock the hizzy. That was a good night. Mexican Sweat = good times. Went to the Underground on Saturday night and had a wonderful time. They had DJ Etaine, DJ MLE and Evenflo downstairs, with the whole [L=http://www.downstairsproductions.net]DownStairsProductions[/L] crew upstairs. The music was really good (despite not being a happy hardcore fan), and I had a wonderful time. I wanted to kill my sorta-friend Chris because he has the Can’t Keep His Dick In His Pants syndrome … Seriously, isn’t two chicks enough? Makes me want to punch his lights out. Fucker. Grr. My truck is making a ticking sound. Either needs a valve job (time consuming but cheap) or has an exhaust leak? I was on the porch yesterday on Sunday chilling with Shawn and his girl Emily when this silver car pulls up in front of our house. I stood there, grungy as shit (hadn’t taken a shower or shaved, wearing basketball shorts and a lounge-TShirt), wondering who the hell that was. Then the two girls in the car started waving, so I looked at Shawn, and he was waving back uncertainly, so then I looked back and sorta waved, and then one of the girls yelled “It’s Janelle!” and I was like “whoa that voice sounds familiar. Oh, hey, is that Janelle?” So then I went over and chatted for like 10 seconds before they had to stop blocking traffic/leave. Feels odd yet refreshing that I didn’t really recognize her … I don’t know what to think aobut the whole situation. Heh. There is a party at my place, Friday night at 9pm. Click the little linky banner thingy or check out [L=http://cosparties.com]cosparties.com[/L] for info.

My [L=http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/]article on WiFi[/L] and how to make it cost effective [L=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1840257&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=193]got posted to slashdot.[/L]

We are throwing a huge summer bash: Who: You and all your friends What: Partying, Chillin, Boozin, everything else When: 06/20/03, 9pm Where: 423 N. Weber Why: It’s summer time, of course! Bring: Donations, Booze, all your friends Catch party updates and info at http://www.cosparties.com

She left without saying goodbye. I found out an hour ago. It rained really hard tonight, and all I could do was sit on the porch and watch.

You ever have one of those days where you are like really not so happy, and things aren’t going well, and then you finally go home and all you want to do is like some laundry and watch some tv or read and then pass out? But then you get like this sick nervous energy that you can’t shake? Even with warm milk? That was me today. So out of the blue at 10:30pm I get up, go to the perk, get an iced mocha, drive around for an hour, have a smoke, drive around, sit on the porch and wring my hands. I have no idea why. Except for maybe Becky. Becky is leaving for Oklahoma, permanente. Sunday or Monday. So Soon. Maybe I’m stressed about that, hence the odd energy/whackiness. I don’t know. I’m gonna miss her though :-/ Monday is Memorial Day, and Tony is thinking about doing a morning hike up Barr Trail to like Barr Camp. Not all the way up Pikes Peak (because I’m out of shape and would die on the ascent), just a morning little hike thingy. If you are interested, please comment below. We are throwing a Beginning of Summer Party sometime soon. Probably early/mid June. It will be good. *BUT* I need your input: should we have a go-to-the-mountains party where everyone drives to some remote location and gets shit faced around a fire and then participates in a wild tent-orgy, or a run of the mill house party? Again, please comment below with availability and your opinion. Thanks!