What is the world coming to when Ashlee Simpson and Hanson are the top two concerts coming to town. Where are all the talented people? How about the people that can actually sing and write their own songs? What about the people who don’t make jackasses out of themselves on national TV and piggyback their entire career off of their siblings?
I guess I’m a little bitter, but seriously who is going to pay money to still see these no-talent ass clowns?
Well this hurricane has really left a mess behind it. It’s been hard getting through this week watching people just sit in the middle of a deserted city and die. It seems like things are finally starting to happen, but what the hell took so long? Why is it that we thing we’re ready for a terrorist attack and that we can handle anything, but then a town is flooded and we’re caught with our pants down?
And people are dropping like flies, and without food and water for so long they’re starting to go crazy. You realize that any time something like this happens you’re going to have the bad apples and the looters come out. But I just saw a video of the police looting a Wal-Mart. I understand the need for survival, but when you’ve got the law and order in the town looting their own stores, how can anything be kept under control? It’s like it’s just become Lord of the Flies down there and they’re all just savages trapped in a city. But they’re American citizens, this is a town that many people know and love. It’s not Somolia or Haiti, looking at the video all this week it looks like we’ve turned it into a third world country……
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CNN.com - Hurricane Katrina slams Louisiana - Aug 29, 2005
Not too good….
I’m at least thankful that I was able to see New Orleans for one last time before this massive storm came through. I’ve had the luxury of being able to go to a football game in the Superdome and being on the field, as well going down to the French Quarter and the Garden District. I’ve had beneigts at Cafe Du Monde, and hung out in Jackson Square. Been on the Riverboat, and been to the top of the World Trade Center (their version) to see the city from up high. I’ve had nothing but fun in that town everytime I’ve been there, and I hate to see this happen.
I only hope that they can recover from this to make the Big Easy the fun loving town that it’s always been. I actually got to go over there about 3 months ago so it’s been pretty recent. Just hoping that the worst of it is already passed and the town will be what it once was again.
We’re about to play a gig at the end of September at a place called Monkey Barrel in Gainesville. So far we’ve been getting together every week to get ready for it and things have been going pretty good. We obviously have some things we need to work on, but the way things are coming together I’m not too concerned about it. I just hope Lee can get some of the lyrics down before the gig.
So far our setlist is:
There’s definitely going to be more added to this list, that’s just all I can remember off the top of my head.
I hope we can keep these up for a while and at least start playing some more around town. It’s a damn shame we’ve gone this long with not much to show for it.
I’ve started my new job this week and it’s going pretty good, the first day I was kind of worried about whether or not I would like it or not, but I think I lot of that had to do with it being my first day back from vacation and it is a completely new job.
It’s also tough because this job has never even existed before, so it’s kind of like we have to figure out what we need to be doing and the best way to do it. It’s pretty tough when you don’t have any guidance on what to do, but I think things are going pretty well so far. I just hope this new Pipeline product goes over well. It’s pretty exciting to be a part of it, but if people don’t but into it, then we might all be out of jobs. That wouldn’t be very cool at all.
But aside from all that I’m ecstatic to be done with my overnights (I still have one left, but that’s it) and I can rejoin the rest of the world.
Whitney and I are doing great, she’s been going through a lot of stress with grad school lately, but it’s mostly because she’s nearing the end of the semester. In a couple of weeks she’ll be done with school and work so that’ll be a good chance for her to kick back and relax.
And finally, I hit my first birdie the other day while playing golf with Tim. It was a par 5 and I reached the green in 2 and almost made the eagle putt, but it lipped around the edge and left it about 4 inches from the cup. I was kinda pissed I didn’t get the eagle, but I was plenty happy with the birdie.
Until next time (or I remember that I still have this thing again!)
Well I’m just about done with these overnights. I’ve got this weekend and then I’m taking off a couple weekends. We’re going to be throwing an engagement party on the 16th so I’ve taken off for that weekend, and also some of my friends from high school are getting together for a “Reunion” the next weekend. So I just figured I’d go ahead and take that week in between off as well. I mean they give us 30 vacation days, of which I’ve only used 10, I might as well use em all while I can.
I still don’t know what I’m going to do with that week. There’s a million things I’ve been meaning to do that hopefully I can catch up on. I’d also like to do some fun stuff too though.
For now I’m just excited about not having to work these ridiculous hours. It takes an entire different breed of person to work that shift, and I don’t have it in me to keep that up for too much longer. (Especially since I’m working some overnights and some days.)
I knew the day would come if I just stuck it out for a while.
Whitney and I at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans, if you look closely you can see Lee taking the picture in the background. 
Whitney’s first day of grad school
Originally uploaded by mdellinger.
Well Whitney’s started grad school this week, and she has been completely exhausted every time I’ve talked to her. I hope she’s not putting too much on her plate by working part-time and going to school. She said the other day that she’s the only one working in her classes.
If it comes to it she may have to cut back her work hours cause it would really be a waste to not get everything she can out of going back to school.
Grad school and working on top of trying to plan a wedding is going to wear her out I’m sure. Lately it’s been hard enough for us to even see each other, let alone plan a wedding!
I’d like to try and get out and check out some places this weekend, but it’s going to be tough with my schedule. Hopefully we can get this ball rolling in the right direction and get it done with the least amount of stress possible.
I’ve searched high and low and have finally discovered why the internet was invented. It needs no introduction….just watch.
So I looked back and saw it had been over a month, I need to keep up better than that. A lot has happened since then, Whitney and I got engaged earlier this week and we’re planning on getting married on May 20th next year.
Our wedding site will be at: www.mattandwhitney.com
I’m still doing overnights, but I’m starting to come in some for my new job now, so the light is starting to get brighter. I just want to be back on a somewhat normal schedule so I can join the rest of the world. It seems like I have all this stuff to do sometimes, and I never have the time to do it, because the time that I do have is at 2 or 3 in the morning when everyone else is asleep. It’s hard to try to get with people to do something when you’re asleep for the better part of the day, and they’re asleep when you’re wide awake.
Anyway, I don’t want to go on a rant like Dennis Miller and Mikhail Gorbachev in a tiny room full of paper towels and bottles of stain remover. (His really don’t make that much sense either)
But I’m real excited about this wedding. I know that we’re perfect for each other and I really can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her. I know this next year is going to be pretty stressful with the planning and everything, but I can’t wait.
I’ll let you know how things are going in another month or two, the gap between these posts just seems to get longer and longer.
