Weekend is here, but working today

I get to go to work today, so great. Bad week for a couple of our machines at work this week. One of our box converters lost the hard drive to the computer which runs it causing it to be down 12 hours.
And we also lost two of the knife options on our 3 knife capable corrugators meaning it could only trim one knife or just one order against itself. For example, a 51" wide sheet order could trim itself out twice against itself out of 106" of paper. If it could not trim itself out of 110, 106, 100, 94, or 89, it would have to run on our other machine. To say the least, it caused a lot of headaches the last couple of days.
Off to work.

I have been away and yelled at for not blogging

Karen was disappointed to not see anything posted on here for awhile. I could say I was boycotting from writing anything until I was given a prize which was to be given for coming up with the best lines from the Neil and Sammy Christmas picture which I was told I won, but no prize has been delivered. I have had 4 guitar lessons and learning some things here and there. It is fun to actually play the instrument and hear the song- or at least hear a bit of it which sounds right. Thinking about taking longer lessons, but they are more expensive. It could cost almost 120 a month then. I am thinking that is too much now. I am going to buy the Metallica guitar hero game for PS2 when it comes out, just need to get the guitar. But the game doesn't come out until May anyways for the PS2 system.
We could get up to 18 inches of snow today. That is just crazy. I pulled a Kowalski the last three days and took naps in the afternoon. I slept Saturday before playing poker, Sunday before the Super Bowl (which I would haven't seen unless I took the nap) and yesterday after work.

Still looking for suggestions for what to do with my TV and entertainment center when I finally buy a new TV for the downstairs. Options are:
a. Put the TV in the living room with the entertainment center,
b. Put the TV in the living room without the entertainment center and convert it into a dresser
c. Same as above, but sell the entertainment center on Craigslist.
d. Put TV and center in the backroom (thinking no already though)
e. Put the TV in the backroom on different table.

Vote now. I got nothing more for now. Just dreading having to go outside and push snow around today. Jeeps are good for going through it though.

One last movie from Moline

At the 6:40 mark, James is standing about 12 feet away from me. I was standing at a 2:00 from where he was singing.

Road trips........

It looks like I will be spending some time hanging out with Dave and Jamie or Karen and John a lot this year. This looks so awesome.

Attack of the beach balls

Worth the drive

I took a small pilgrimage to Moline, IL. Was it to get as far away from Ohio State football as I can since the team was playing an hour away at Northwestern? No, but it didn't hurt.
I drove the 3 hours to have a relaxing, mellow evening with the soft sounds of




They didn't disappoint. They played 5 of the new songs from new release and even adopted a laser light show ala Pink Floyd. I held my spot in the third row of the general admission crowd through the first two opening bands and about half of the Metallica show before getting tired of boxing people out who tried to get closer. I caught a guitar pick from Kirk at the end of the show and tried but failed to catch a black beach ball with the Metallica logo on it for my nephews.

Now, I have the desire to see them play again when they come back to Chicago, but am worried that they could play almost the entire setlist I just saw. They are only changing 8-9 songs out of the 18 song set. I will probably wait until the end of next summer when they should be going on tour again. Maybe, just maybe with Alice in Chains when they release their new album. Anyway, I will hopefully be seeing both bands next year either way. Enjoy the video, it is For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Song suggestion again

Alright, I just spent over $100 for a Metallica ticket which will allow me to see them play, get a copy of the concert I will see via download online (one of the best thing bands have done in the past 5 years), received a free copy of the new Metallica album (which I already bought because I was not going to wait a few weeks for it to come in the mail - it is going to Dave) and of course the customary one free song on iTunes.
Now, what to get with that one song. I need suggestions. Currently I have 6924 songs in my library after downloading the entire Izzy Stradlin catalog. (Before you laugh, it is pretty good. He wrote a majority of the GNR songs).

Let me hear the suggestions.