Yay! Our old decrepid theatre is finally breaking out of the world of 32K modems and into the world of DSL. I just received a package in the mail from Verizon containing a DSL modem and a DSL instalation kit. Finally. ???? That was strange. I just got a phone call. When I picked up I was chatting with a two year old. Lots of babble about mommy an daddy and another room. There were “Hi’s” and “hello’s” and something about tv. In the background I heard an adult. I think his mom. After a few minutes I heard, “what are you doing? Oh, you’re on the phone”. Scramble scramble. Then she picked up the phone. “Hello?” So I anwered. She told me that her two year old son apparently picked up the phone and dialed some number. I told her that it was ok and her son sounded really cute. How funny. At least he dialed within the state. I think. I should have asked. Oh well. It was funny. Gavin will be that age soon. This kid had a slightly larger vocabulary that Gavin. Not much though. I’m at work by-the-way. The last movie gets out in 15 minutes. Then I get to preview a movie called Valentin. It is a spanish movie. Came out in 2002. I don’t know why we got it now. I hope it is good since I have to watch it. It seemed awfully dirty. I hope there is nothing wrong with it. Either way, it will be easier to enjoy it while sipping Minute Maid Yellow Lite Lemonade. Mmmm. We got rid of our Pink Lemonade for it. And soon we are tossing the Root Beer for Iced Tea. Speaking of which, I must get the list of available types of iced tea. Good night all.

Sometimes I wonder. Mostly when I am really tired and bored. There are so many things to think about in life. I don’t know how people do it. I try to take things on day at a time. Sometimes that does not work. Right now I am really tired. I have about 1/2 hour until the last movie gets out and all my paperwork is done for the night. There is probably more I could do, but I’m a little burnt out. I have been working abour 40 hours a week at the theatre and about 20 or so hours for KarateDepot. I am really glad for my blog, my monday night music and the new journal that Holly got me for my birthday. They have all been really great at helping me keep some sanity lately. I have been working so much and doing other things like organizing our Scottish dance weekend in February, that I feel that I don’t get to see Holly and Gavin enough. And when I do get to see them, we end up spending the time cleaning or doing launery or finishing house projects. It is really frustrating. The past 2 or 3 days since my birthday were nice because I got to spend some time with them. Mostly just sitting around playing with Gavin and talking to Holly. Which is great. That is part of the reason Gordon Biersch was so great. It was the most worry free night that I have had and got to spend with Holly, Gavin and Mary. Such a relaxing evening. Totally stress free evening. Now I am back to work desperatly missing being at home. Sigh. Tomorrow is my day off from the theatre, so if I can get my KarateDepot done before 1:30PM we can all go to the pool. That will be good.

I had a great night last night. I have been super exciting all week to go to Gordon Biersch. While relaxing all day yesterday, I received about 15 calls from my boss at the theatre. Apparently the person who was supposed to cover the shift that night while the other manager is away on vacation got sick. He was unable to com in to work. So naturally they wanted me to do it. NO WAY. I took an official paid vacation day off so I could celebrate my birthday. Their second option was to call in the manager who was on her 3 week vacation to work. Mind you she is on an unpaid vacation. She was on a neighboring island. I gave instructions to my boss, and made him go over to my theatre and run the shift. Serves him right. Anywho. Now that I had been all wound up over work it was time to drink good beer. So we went to Gordon Biersch. Gordon Biersch has become my favorite beer. Next to Guinness. It is a Brewery/Restaurant. We got there abouts 5:15 PM or so. We knew we wanted beer and their famous garlic fries, but didn’t really know what to eat. After much agonizing, we decided to just get the pupu platter. It came with calamari, chicken wings and BBQ ribs. Then of course we ordered the garlic fries. Gavin ate a small plate of spaghetti with butter. Yummy. Holly was our DD for the night, so Mary and I ordered us some beer. Mary the Marzan and Dunkless for myself, while Holly ordered their home brewed, unlimited refills Root Beer. It was really good. Over the course of the evening I learned a few things. 1 – My new favorite beer is the Gordon Biersch Dunkless. 2 – Banana does not go well in a beer. 3 – Our waiter graduated from North Rockland High School and had an uncle who owned the deli that I ordered from everyday on the way to Rockland Lake. Among the beers I tried was their Seasonal Beer. It was a blend of a fresh brewed lighter beer and bananas. A very odd flavor for a beer. Not one I would recommend. Gavin was wonderful all night of course. He played with the crayons that they gave him and drew all over his placemat, which happened to also be his menu. Oops. Holly seemed to be very happy. She took Gavin around the area to see different shops, statues and boats. I think she really like how I became very loose and casual. Being a little more confident I think. Anywho, It was a really good night and I enjoyed it tremendously. Such a great experience. Plus, I talked to the waiter about my little two person band and told him what kind of music we play and so forth. He told me that if we were to get one more band member, either another guitarist or a bass player, that there was a darn good chance that Gordon Biersch would book us for a gig. How cool would that be. So my night was complete. Some really great beer, super good chicken wings, told that there is a good chance to get a gig, a wonderful night with Holly, Gavin and Mary and a fun night out on the town. I can’t say how much of a good time I had. If anyone who reads this comes to visit me, you can bet your butt that I would bring you to Gordon Biersch. Oh yeah.

My birthday has passed. It was a fast day. I woke up at around 11am or so. Holly, Mary and Gavin had went out to the store to pick up a few things to make cake with. Mary also went to the chiropractor (I think). Meanwhile I did almost nothing. I turned on my computer to get some work done, and ended up checking my email, editing a few RSCDS things, and drooling over online pictures of the unaffordable guitars that I want. Mmmmm. One day. When the fam arrived, I headed downstairs. Gavin was passed out in his moms arms and went directly upstairs to finish his nap. We lounged for a little bit while eating Brie and Safeway French bread. Not a bad breakfast if you ask me. Then Mary started on the blissful cake. Since she was busy and concentrating so hard, Holly and I thought we would head upstairs and spend some quality birthday time together in our quality birthday suits. He he. It was a good afternoon. This now brings us to about 2:30ish PM. Holly and I eventually moseyed back downstairs. Shortly thereafter, Gavin woke up from his nap and starting immediately being cute. We decided on some filet mignon for dinner with potatoes and salad. While I got a little bit of work done upstairs, Holly brought me a small taste of wonderful icing from the cake. It was going to be awesome. It didn’t take long before dinner was ready. I believe it was around 3:15ish PM. The meal was great. So yummy. Afterwards, I was sung the traditional “Happy Birthday” song while the cake was carried out with seven candles on it. Two on one side, five on the other. Thus 25. Directly after eating the yummy cake, I opened my small pile of presents. First was a little bottle of tequila with an Agave worm in it (actually I opened that one earlier in the day, but didn’t want to go back and edit all this text). Next I opened the present from Gavin. A very beautiful journal with the cover designed after the “Book of Kells”. Next was the present from my Grandma Mc. She sent me a package the previous week, which I held off on opening until “the day”. It’s a good thing I did because my father informed me that it had an auto self destruct mechanism on it if it were to be tampered with prior to the 29th. This gift turned out to be a very soft stuffed Snoopy (very soft) with a lovely card and a box of chocolates. Next opened turned out to be a pedometer. Cool. A good simple gift to help with my running. Lastly I opened the one they told me to open last. I sort of knew what it was, but didn’t know. If that makes any sense. It was a Rio brand sport mp3 player. This I can clip on to my short and use it on my runs. As it turns out, it is also great for being at work alone at 3 am while switching commercials on films and adding and removing trailers. On the downside, I got a few strange looks from people as I was leaving totally forgetting that I should not sing out loud when other people are around. A great gift. Now that the gifts are all opened and it was 4:30 PM, I ran upstairs to prepare to be at work. At the same time downloading songs to my mp3 player to take to work. I was very late to work. I was supposed to be there at 5pm, but due to my excitement over the mp3 player and the fact that I had to stop at Koolau (theatre across the street) to get some change, I didn’t arrive at work (half and hour away at Aikahi) until 5:35PM. From there I preceded to work until 3 AM or so. That was my day. I crashed as soon as I got home and had a good nights sleep. I’m 25 years old. 1/3 of my life down. Maybe less, maybe more.