What goes up

Must come down. Or vice-versa, if you parked at the top of the hill. That was my mountain-biking experience yesterday.
Today I decided to find a new roller-blading trail...unfortunately I couldn't. I went to Washington's Landing, where there is supposedly a good trail, but the only one I could find wasn't paved. I must admit that rollerblading on gravel is not a pleasant experience. Now I'm back home wondering what to do. I want to get outside before it rains later today, but I don't feel like driving all the way to some trail or park. What to do, what to do? I could take a walk...but that's kind of boring. Especially in this neighborhood. Same with jogging.
Maybe I'll stay at home and watch the Soprano's on DVD. What a great way to spend a sunny morning!

Later...
I paused mid-post earlier becuase I happened to take a break and read Mike's blog. To my utmost surprise I read that his sister JoBeth, my good friend from high school, had given birth early this morning! WOW!!! I was going to head up to Rochester tommorow for her baby shower...ironic, isn't it? She got a baby for her baby shower! I don't know anymore except that both mom and baby are healthy. I can't wait to hear from her!!!

A good time was had by all

So, I was in dreary Erie this past weekend. It was pretty cool.
All of my seeeeeeeeesters were in town, which is a fairly rare occurence. Julie and Diana now both live in Arizona, I live in Pittsburgh, and Virginia lives in Erie. We spent a lot of time being foolish and laughing...I think we all had sore stomach muscles from too much laughing!
Before my evil twin sister Diana moved she was the social queen (unofficial, of course) of Erie. She comes back for a few days...and whenever she goes out, the people always shout, "JOHN-JACOB-JINGLE-HEIMER-SCHMIDT!" oops. I got carried away. But, really. There was a large crowd of people out on saturday night. I think most of them were there becuase they heard she was in town.
I also got to spend some time with my Dad, who gave me his old laptop computer. Wow! Thanks, Dad!
oops. Its getting late. I'm supposed to pick up nick in 15 minutes! oh my!

We ain't got no blenders or nothing

Last night was a friend's 21st b-day. We were at a fancy-schmancy Shadyside bar first, where they have a special mixed drinks menu, including about a dozen martinis. Then we went one block away to Doc's. I offered to buy Jason (the brand new 21 year old) a drink. He figured he'd get a margarita.
Jason: "What sort of margarita do you recommend?"
Bartender: "I don't know what you mean."
Jason: "What sort of margarita do you recommend?"
Bartender: "I don't know what you mean."
Jason: "Do you serve margaritas?"
Bartender: "We got tequila and sours, but we ain't got no blenders or nothing."
We had to settle for that.

More on my exciting new life as an engineering student: I have 2 finals left, including the killer Differential Equations and Matrix Theory! ahhh! But, I have a new summer job at FedEx to look forward to! yay!!

Update

So.
No news from me recently. Dave even warned me here not to neglect my blog. And here I am neglecting it. My apologies, blog readers (read: myself).
My second to last post was a big long complaint. Update on arm pain: must get another MRI. First MRI was incorrectly done. Dumb-asses.
And, as horrible as this sounds, I've only been able to read one book in the past few weeks!! For some this is normal. For others this is a lot of reading. For me, it's starving myself!
The book I did manage to read was "Libra", by Don DeLillo. A fictional account of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his recruitment by the FBI to make an attempt on the life of JFK. Very interesting. While a lot of the assassination details/myths are common cultural knowledge, there is so much more unknown. In fact, there is even a character in the book whose sole job is to compile a history of the historic event. Although working for the government, no one in the government knows he is doing it. Is that typical of a lot of government jobs? Anyway, it was cool and was a very impressive and concise account (fictional of course!) of an otherwise never-ending Mary-Poppins carpet bag of an event. I recommend it!
Now that I think about it...have I ever not recommended a book I've read? Hang on...let me check my bookshelves...Ok...don't read Hemingway. I hate Hemingway. Is that blasphemous? I don't care!!
Continuing on...I've applied and interviewed for a summer engineering job at FedEx Ground. I find out tommorow if they like me or not!
I also have finals starting tommorow morning.
Wish me luck!