Define Trust:
Leaving your 20 year old son home alone for 2 days with a fridge full of beer.

The posts have dwindled a little bit...but that's because all I've been doing is working. There aren't any stories there. If any of you live in the Lakeville area, you should go to my SA, 'cause our gas prices have been at least 5 cents (and as much as 10 cents) lower than every other gas station in the area....which is kinda weird, because we're normally the more expensive one. When I left today, the price was $1.91 and even Fleet Farm was higher. Crazy.
In other SA news, if any of you are looking for a side job or somehing, our SA is looking to employ a "Coffee Steward," which means you are in charge of the drink center and coffee machines from 6am to 10am. I, for one, think the position is rather unecessary, but then...most of what SA does is rather unecessary.
That's all I got for today....peace out.

I just went to Best Buy to get my first and only Jay-Z album because he finally made a song that is worth buying an album. On my way out, I stopped by the Beastie Boys spot just to see if there was like some weird import in or something, and there WAS an album that I had never heard of. It's entitled "Tribute to the Beastie Boys." When I saw it, I knew that it wasn't made by the B-boys, and it was actually recorded in Minneapolis. But, being the sucker I am...plus I was curious, I bought it. Just as I suspected, three guys attempted to reproduce the Beastie Boys, and covered 10 songs. It would be decent, but they obviously don't have any mixing skills and there is no bass to speak of. The vocals are actually really good, although the dude doing MCA's part is pretty weak. I give it a "C." Don't buy it...but if you want to listen to a track or two, talk to me.

Before I get to my latest news, I wanted to share a dream I had last night. So, every once in a while, I have dreams about Chad (the one from Rockford)...but I don't really know why. I guess he's just always in the back of my mind. The dream picks up at Chad's house in the evening. For some reason, in most of my dreams, I'm going over to his house to visit him because he's sick or something. I think that was the case again in this dream. Anyway, I got over there and we hung out for a while and then a bunch of people came over and we had a huge party in his front yard. His dad was there and I guess it was all cool. The party got a little crazy and I didn't see him very much until the end of the dream. And then I woke up.
I know that doesn't seem like a very interesting dream, but I often wonder what it would be like for him to be alive now. Like his personality was so different than mine was when we were growing up. Perhaps that's why we got along so well -- like we evened each other out...I dunno. But now, I've changed from college, and a lot of my mannerisms and views towards the world and society have changed. I think that we would've been even better friends now.
I woke up after that dream and realized that it was, indeed, Chad who I was dreaming about...and then I remembered that he is not sick, and he is not just in Rockford...he's not here anymore...and that made me sad again. But that dream was so vivid and it's still rather fresh in my memory. I still love having dreams about him, even if I wake up sad. I gotta go visit his family this summer, though. Not going last summer was inexcusible. I gotta go. No doubt.

So anyway, I said I had some news. Some of you may have remembered me mentioning something about attempting to right a short story...or even a novel, although I doubt I'm capable of that yet. Last summer, in about July, I woke up in the middle of the night and had a great idea for a plot...so I stayed up and typed for like 2 hours. But when I got up in the morning and read what I wrote, I decided it wasn't that great. It was still a good idea, but I needed to organize it differently.
Last night, the same thing happened again...but instead of getting up and typing, I let the thought sit in my mind for a day and then I went ahead and typed up a list of characters, their motives, and their personalitites...and then I typed up a setting and a little background information...and then stopped there. I don't think I'll write anymore tonight, but I hope to use the summer to create something better than last time. We'll see. I'll fill you in with the progress. Peace out.