My B-Day!

Well, my birthday has came & passed.

Now that I'm older, it is really just another day. Birthdays lose their luster a bit in my opinion after you get passed your twenties.

Though this year, I have to admit I had a pretty nice birthday.

Nichole made me a delicious cake and went with me to see "Devil". The cake was much better than the movie! I got several really nice gifts, especially from my parents and the Reds / Diamondbacks game, but I gotta admit that the cake & time spent with Nic was the best part.

I also got myself another baseball glove to me from me...a sweet Rawlings Pro Preferred PROS17ICB with custom Oxblood web & Primo laces...a real beauty! Shit, sometimes ya gotta spoil yourself, right?!?

Add in the fact that I'm 30 pounds lighter & in better shape than I was the last time my birthday rolled around, got great friends and a beautiful, young woman to share life with...I like to think that life is pretty good!

It's Nichole!

(pics by Eric Brock)


Meet Nichole.
Or Nic.
Or Nic Nac.
Or Nicki.

She answers to them all. She is awesome for lots of reasons...

She's hot.
She's super sweet.
She likes GOOD music.
She's funny.
She likes cartoons.
She has a killer collection of t-shirts.
She's caring.
She likes tattoos.
She always smells good.
She's intelligent.
She likes Chinese food.
She's unbelievably hard working.
She changes her hair alot.
She knows "Boondock Saints" by heart.
She's uber-sexy.
The list could go on, but I'll stop there. :-)

Tune Of The Week - 8/9/10

"Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac

When I first heard this tune, I thought it was odd as hell.

Now, years & years later I still think it's odd, but I find it fascinating too. The beat is what gets you in this song obviously and Lindsay Buckingham's tortured "vocals" are great.

Hunt it up and let me know what you think in the comments.

Pic Of The Week - 8/9/10

"Brocker"

Pics taken with the front-facing camera on the iPhone 4, then transformed to a "drawing" and colorized with iPhone apps, and finally put together with the Diptic app.

Tune Of The Week - 7/28/10

"Fly By Night" - Rush

"Why try? I know why. This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone."

From Rush's second album, the first with Neil Peart, "Fly By Night" is one of my favorite songs and one of the first Rush tunes I learned to play complete on guitar, and then on drums as we covered it in a band I played drums in.

"Clear head, life ahead, it's time I was king now, not just one more pawn."