Blog archives

A collection of all the nonsense I've posted to the internet over the past 25 years of my blog life

  • Hockey, Rollerskating, and Productivity posted - 9 comments

    This weekend brought a lot of hockey back into my life. Friday, we met Nick and Nicole at Wells Fargo Arena to watch the Stars game. It was really nice to watch. I've only been to 1 hockey game since I moved here... I love it so much... read more

  • My Clean Hair posted - 17 comments

    Today I washed my hair for the first time in 2006. read more

  • Grahm Geigle posted - 6 comments

    So a couple weeks ago I saw on my sister's AIM profile that she had a link to one of her friends' journals. I checked it out, it was a kid from our hometown that was friends with my sister. He got in a super bad car accident on Dec 30th and has been mostly unconscious in the hospital until about 3 days ago. I read the entire Journal which his family has been upkeeping and felt like a part of it. After all, any friend of a friend is a friend of mine... read more

  • Paintballing with Sushi and Steak posted - 8 comments

    Being broke is suddenly "alright" when Kari's parents come to visit, ha. We always eat well, make beer, watch movies, etc. Seriously, Friday, we went to Taki like I've never been to Taki before. We got so much food... edamame, squid salad, soup, tons of specialty rolls, lots of nigiri, and I have never seen anyone else do this, but we got dessert at Taki... read more

  • Money, Cars, and Movie Stars posted - 12 comments

    Oy, It turned out that Chicago was more expensive than I thought. Kari and I are so insanely broke, it's retarded, haha. I get so mad when I don't have money - like, I don't even know what to do with myself; I just sit at home and pout, haha. We haven't spent this much time hanging out at home in a long long time. Things are becoming somewhat clean and organized though... read more

  • New Years 2006 posted - 3 comments

    Kari and I drove out to Chicago again for New Years Eve. The plan was usual: hanging out with harper, good food, going out, along with going to the party/Gaylords concert at Kill Hannah's Practice Space. Friday we pulled into town and met Harper at Sushi wabi for a great great meal, then we went to Kill Hannah's practice space and hung out for a bit while the band practiced, heh. It was pretty nice, they were totally rocking out. Then we got to listen to the new Kill Hannah album... read more

  • Christmas 2005 posted - 1 comment

    Friday Kari and I drove to Marion to get Christmas started with her family. We hung out, met up with lindsey, had some beer and wine, etc. Saturday (Christmas Eve) we shopped for a present for Kari's mom. It's tradition for the whole family to go out Christmas Eve and buy her gifts. Maybe I should start doing this for Kari since she can never wait... read more

  • My 4th Grade Journal posted - 7 comments

    So here are some entries from my 4th grade journal, all written in cursive - which I'm not even sure I know how to do anymore. The cover of the notebook is pink and yellow with the word "Journal" written with an eraser. That is then crossed out and the words "RAD" and "COOL" are written with sweet lightning bolt underlines - all by erasing the pink/yellow ink. Some of the stories are awesome, some are lame... but instead of typing just the good ones, I had to document them all... read more

  • Rico's Party, Aura, and Sleeping posted

    Whoops, I forgot again. This weekend was pretty decent. Friday we went to Rico's holiday party, then Nathan, Zach, and I went out to Aura. It was a good time. We cracked open the homebrews at Rico's... read more

  • Wreck Number 2 posted - 3 comments

    One day Krissy and I decided to drive past my old house on Old Ranch Road in Port Byron. I was feeling pretty sick so I had her drive. In fact, I started to really feel like crap so I took my seat belt off so that the pressure wouldn't be on my belly. Right when we passed my old house we came up on this car driving 40mph in the 55. Like any normal person, we got real annoyed... read more

  • How I Broke My First Bone posted - 10 comments

    One time back in 2001 I decided to go snowboarding with Jason Reiter. Prior to that, besides backyard snowboarding, I had only been snowboarding on a resort once. Some extended family of mine own a small ski resort in Illinois (Snow Star). Every year the resort would be closed on Christmas Day, however, they'd invite a bunch of family and close friends out for a Christmas potluck and day of skiing/snowboarding/sledding. So needless to say, I got pretty decent at skiing as a kid... read more

  • Chicago Heely Demos posted

    Sorry Cedric, but I think Chicago was much better than your party, haha. No, the visit was nice as always. I'm becoming quite comfortable with my visits to Harper and the city. It's almost routine - I love it. So yeah, Friday I drove to Chicago, got there around 10, we hung out a bit then went to dinner @ Ziggy's... read more

  • A little nicer posted - 4 comments

    Over the last week I got a few things done on the site. Here they are... · Made the Previous/Next buttons nicer when browsing photos. · Added tag photo browsing - so you can now click Previous/Next when trying to look at all the photos of Cedric. (And you can even comment from the tags page) · Fixed the story comments to be more like all the other comments on the site · Added cookies to all the comment forms so you don't have to type your info in everytime... read more

  • Byron Hills Blowguns posted - 5 comments

    When I was in High School, 3 foot blowguns were pretty popular with my friends and I - the ones that you blow into and shoot a 4 inch needle out the tip. We all became incredibly good with them, we could hit pop cans from 30 feet away, etc. One day Nate Sels, Ray Terhune, and I were on the way to play a round of golf at Byron Hills when Ray decided that he needed a new blow gun. So we swung out to Discount Tool in Silvis to pick one up. Discount Tool was a weird place; it's about 1/2 car stereo equipment, 1/4 weapons, and 1/4 tools... read more

  • The Hamster posted - 2 comments

    So nick was telling this story at lunch about how he saw a hamster in the Pioneer parking lot - which is pretty hilarious. But while he was telling the story I started thinking about the word hamster, haha. I mean seriously, hamster, hahaha. It rules so much. Like someone that loves beef might be called a beefster... read more

  • Snow 05 posted - 8 comments

    The snow started last night. I'm so sad and so pumped at the same time. My car sucks like none other when the roads are slick. Probably due to my decision to get performance tires back in College - when my car was garaged for the winter. Now I don't have that luxury and I'm paying for it... read more

  • Food, Beer, and Shopping posted - 2 comments

    Last weekend was nice, Kari's family came over to hang out/make beer/etc. Friday we went to Vicki's to celebrate Matthew's 50th Birthday. The boys and I played Geo Cache and found our first one. It was pretty fun - I want a GPS now. Then we had a big feast, hung out, etc... read more

  • Best email ever posted - 2 comments

    This may be one of the best emails I've ever gotten. Top 10 at least.... derek, right now I am busy building a 6 foot tall anatomically correct paper mache unicorn. we're stuffing it with 1000 twinkies, putting on boxing gloves, and smashing it to pieces. the goal is to break of a part and eat whats inside... read more

  • Hip Hop, Punk, Arnold, and a Party posted - 7 comments

    This week was a pretty good one. Monday I went to the Brother Ali/Swollen Members/Gaiden show at Vaudeville Mews. It was awesome. Swollen Members are really hype and Brother Ali is really good. Wednesday, Kari and I went to a Cornell alumni thing at Mondo's in Des Moines... read more

  • Don Vito's Back to School Tour, etc posted - 12 comments

    While I was on my honeymoon I got this email from Kevi that said, "Here's the plan... Friday, Nov. 4, we go to Cedar Rapids and hang out with the cast of Viva la Bam. Saturday, Nov. 5, we film Tonya's musical and then come home." I was confused, but when I got home he told me that he bought VIP tickets for Don Vito's Back to School Tour, where apparently Don Vito and guests from Viva la Bam tour around with rock bands... read more