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save crash clark

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

I just read about Crash Clark getting canned at Susquehanna, parent company of 99x and Q100. Crash is the traffic reporter for both radio stations and has been in trouble numerous times with his bosses for stunts that he’s pulled, but this stunt was too much for them.

On Dec. 1st, Crash was canned for an act that occured on Sat. Nov. 26th at Jack Rabbit Lounge. He was giving away 311 concert tickets to listeners and a woman came up to him and told him that she’d “do anything” to get some tickets to the show. So Crash told her to do something in a “Monica Lewinsky sorta way” to another random 99x listener, and she did, and he gave her the tickets. 

A website has started up to try to save crash’s job and it’s already getting some press attention. The website is www.savecrash.org if you want to check it out. It’s already received 60,000 hits in two days!

I’m not sure whether he’ll get his job back, but I think it wasn’t wrong for him to do what he did. She chose to do what she did herself and the act wasn’t performed on Crash, so he received no personal gain from it……but obviously more conservative minds have prevailed at Susquehanna.

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patrick

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xbox and the return

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

a friend had gotten me started on myspace with a blog so i haven’t updated this in awhile but i think i’m gonna come back to this one because it allows more freedom, and the only good post that i want to put here is below:

btw, this xbox 360 is freakin unbelievable, awesome graphics, great functionality, great surround sound and etc…..

i love it

oh yeah, i had bought a second system and sold it on ebay the auction just closed last night, here’s the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8237208417&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1
I bought it for $299, sold it for $521.99, awesome!

Till Next Time

patrick

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long time, no blog

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

I’ve been in a funk for awhile now. Works fine (give or take), have no personal life (not much new), and still live in parents’ house (sort of).

I’ve started watching Friends the show on DVD and I guess I’m kinda addicted right now. I watched the show off and on when it first came out. But with my job and lifestyle I didn’t get to watch it very often, but I still liked it. With my TiVo I started recording Friends and just watching it to fill slack time and I realized that I was getting to really look forward to watching those shows. I decided a few days ago to pick up the first season on DVD and watch it. 2 days later I finished it and went and bought the second season; less than a day later I finished it. I actually stayed up till 7 am this morning watching them.

I think I am living vicariously through them. After all, my job leaves little time to hang out with my friends, my dating life is non-existent, and they have a lot of fun on the show that I wish I had. But after finishing the second season today I started to get depressed cause I realized that I didn’t have that kind of life and I miss it. The last time I had that kind of time spent with friends and that kind of dating life was more than 2 years ago, which blows. Here I live, in my little studio apartment, in the woods, watching TV, sleeping, playing with my cats and dog, and working. That’s it………….

I have a funny habit of whenever I’m upset, mad, depressed, etc. I start cleaning or working on something. I guess I do it to take my mind off of whatever is upsetting me, but it’s strange. I started getting depressed about how my life is right now, and I trashed about 2 bags worth of crap that has been lying around the house and swept the floor, and cleaned my bathroom (that took awhile). I even do this at work, if I’m having a bad day, I will start making all the pizzas, do work that I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and cleaning stuff that should be clean. I guess I have femalien tendencies, I don’t know.

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patrick

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being a nice person

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

It’s amazing how many nice things people will say to/about you when you’re a decent person. I’m a pretty straight forward person, I don’t talk about people behind their back, I do what I say I’m going to do and I treat people with respect and compassion. I feel i’m a good person, but listening to what people say about me sometimes makes me feel like I’m a saint.

I was hanging out at my friends apartment the other day and as I was leaving some of his neighbors were outside that I knew. I stopped to talk with them for awhile and we discussed various events that have happened recently in my life and theirs. The neighbors were very amazed that I had handled the situations with such aplomb and decentness and just kept saying that they wished all guys were like me.

Now, I’m not posting this trying to act like I’m such a great person, it’s just the opposite. The way I handled the situations were what I would expect anybody to do when put in the positions I’ve been in. I just do what I think is right and fair and do that. 

So anyway, I guess my quick life lesson would be:
Treat everyone (including yourself) fairly
and
Don’t go behind people’s backs

Voila!
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patrick

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Life, One week at a time (give or take)

Monday, May 9th, 2005

The past few weeks have been pretty stressful. My friend was married without any “incidents”. A nice small wedding. It seems he actually found a good woman who won’t try to get between him and his friends. Awesome.

My father and I, drove down to Savannah to check out a Wedgy’s Pizza that has dine-in. It was something of a disappointment. The whole idea was to find out how another Wedgy’s implemented the dine-in idea, except they didn’t have dine-in per se. If someone wanted to dine-in, they ordered their food just like normal and waited for it to be prepared and then took their food, which is packaged just like a carry out order and sit at a table and eat. Our dine-in idea is to have a buffet for the busy times and then full wait staff for the slower times to serve the customers. 

The only good to come out of the trip was that the owner of that Wedgy’s referred us to a person who was selling the equipment from an old italian restaurant. We ended up getting $15-20,000 of equipment for less than $8000. 

My father (who is my partner in this pizza place) and I made a second trip to Savannah to pick up all the equipment a week later (Apr 25/26). It just so happens that both trips fell on my two days off, Monday/Tuesday. So, even though the trips weren’t actually work I still didn’t get my days to relax. I’m esstenially working three weeks straight without a full day off anywhere. No fun. 

So anyway that’s enough of an update for right now.

Till Next Time

patrick

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Weddings and the death of the clique

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

I got an email today from a friend announcing that he’s marrying his girlfriend in two weeks. Sigh…….another one lost. I have four good friends from high school that I’m still in touch with and now one is married, one is getting married in two weeks and me and the last friend are the only ones still free.

I actually have no problem with my friends getting married and I have nothing against any of the girls. It’s just that it makes hanging out with them that much more difficult. Hanging is already hard enough to do with work schedules, commitments and sleeping conflicting. Two friends are 9-5 workers and the other and I are night shift people.

I don’t like the gradual separation that happens coming out of high school, but I guess it is inevitable. You just have to work harder at keeping those friends and making sure you make time for them.

Good Luck Josh…

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patrick

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final tss post

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

ok, here’s the quick summary of the couple shows I reviewed. They were mediocre. Not the worst shows they did but definitely not up to the old TSS show.

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patrick

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and then the downside

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Isn’t it great when you find that perfect someone that you click with, and doesn’t it suck when you find that you may lose that person through no fault of your own. When they may decide that it might be better to work it out with an ex even though you both know that you have something really, really special.

It seems that sometimes life can be extremely difficult and that nothing goes your way. But even with the latest developments I’m still happier by being with her this short amount of time. Normally I would be really depressed and make oblique references as to whether it’s better to just not have to deal with relationships anymore, or even life for that matter, but I’m not. She’s that special and makes me feel like every perfect moment in life is wrapped up and sitting inside your head. Whenever I may get a little depressed I just lightly touch on that ball of perfection and I immediately feel better.

It’s scary, kinda. I’ve never had this kind of woman before or this intense a relationship, and it’s great. I don’t want it to end.

Anyway, I meant this post to just tell about the depressing side of relationships but she’s already made me happier and feel better. So my next post I promise will be to get the critiques put up about TSS.

By the way, The ScreenSavers has officially died. This last friday was the last show. They are taking a week off and coming back with a new set, new name, but same cast. It will now be known as “Attack of the Show”, which will apparently be a lifestyle show of up to the minute news. I have two feelings about this: first, I’m happy they got rid of the screensavers name because it hasn’t been anywhere near that kind of show for months, and second, sad that the show that I loved to watch for 7 years is gone, finito, dead. I really loved having Leo, Pat, Cat, Kevin R., Sarah, Yoshi on the show. It was sometimes campy but they showed and talked about what they loved and it was all about the tech.

R.I.P. TSS

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patrick

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….and so I return

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

sorry bout the lack of updates, I finished the reviews of The Screen Savers but I haven’t gotten around to putting them up here, the txt files of the shows are here: 3-25, 3-28 [update: these seem to have been lost in domain hosting changes....sorry]

I will get my summaries up here shortly, I have two days off of work so I may be able to get to them.

and….
isn’t it great when you meet someone that you click with and feel perfect with, anyway, little more on that later :)

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patrick

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losing friends

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Isn’t it strange how you can lose friends. Not through disagreements or fighting, but just not putting the effort to keep those friends close. I have a small number of people I would call friends. I have probably 3 friends, all guys. One is married, one has been dating the same girl for about two years and the other is living with his girlfriend.

Needless to say, we all have busy/complicated schedules when trying to get together to hang out. I’ve never been one to really put all of my being into forming lots of relationships, it can be very time consuming for not much reward. Most of my friendships that have fallen by the wayside are the kind that are convenient in the situation and we’ll hang for a while, then when we no longer work together, go to the same class, etc… we end up not talking anymore.

The other day, one of my coworkers that I haven’t seen in about 5 months popped up and we talked for a while. I realized that I missed hanging out and I consciously made the effort to start up a conversation a couple days later to really start a friendship that wasn’t just convenient.

And so, from now on(or until it gets to be too much effort), I will purposely try to make friends with the people that I get along with well. And that I believe I could actually be friends with that are fake, two-faced, etc…

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patrick

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