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i’m not one who will dance around saying ‘this was the best day ever’ and ‘my life is so awesome’……not usually at least.

this weekend was one of the best weekends that i’ve ever had.  everything was just perfect.  Friday I got to hang out with a good friend that i hadn’t seen in 4 months (and she only lives a block away).  We went down to the Florida Music Festival and saw some good shows.  Every band that we saw had such energy for their music.  Even if I wasn’t completely into their music, you could still feel their passion for what they were doing…..it’s been a while since i’ve seen bands like this.  Saturday I had a date with a wonderful girl.  She came into town, and we hung out at my place for a bit. After that we went to dexter’s in thornton park for some dinner (their jambalaya is A1)  We had a wonderful stroll around Lake Eola while the sun was setting.  We eventually made our way over to the FMF.  Again we saw some great bands and met up with some more people whom I hadn’t seen in a while.  I really couldn’t ask for a better date with a cooler girl.  Sunday I woke myself up after an hour of sleep, jumped in my car, and headed down to Vero Beach.  It was finally going to happen…i was going to go deep sea fishing.  I had been trying to plan the trip for about 2 months, but everyone’s schedules didn’t work out.  I miss being on the water so much.  It was great just to be on a boat and in the beautiful ocean.  our first snag was a 2 lbs dolphin that stubs pulled in.  the second snag we got was a big one…..

it took me 20 minutes….but i lured this sweetie in with promises of acting work.

If you look close enough you can see sweat dripping off of my chin.

actually i had no idea what i was doing.  i just kept on pulling and listening to what everyone was frantically yelling at me.  I kinda figured it would snap lose at any time, but it never did.  he ran me around the boat two times.  he was a worthy opponent.  when we got it up in the boat i was exhausted…then it almost bit my hand with one of it’s last shakes.  we weighed it at 36lbs…it’s probably more.  Needless to say, I had fish for two days in a row and there’s still a few bags in my freezer. (View All the Pics)

now it’s tuesday night.  i’m am now just hours away from being in spain.  this is my first official full time worker vacation….it was quite good leaving the office today and knowing that i would not have to think about work for almost two weeks.  I’m extremely excited to travel and to see new things.  Beth has a lot of stuff planned out for my vacation.  it should be amazing.

i now have to pack.  i’m detaching from the modern era so i will not be near a computer or cell phone until i come back on the 1st. (another reason to be happy)  but once i’m back i will surely post some stories and tons of pics.

t minus 168 hours until I’m in Spain.  Some may not know, but I’m visiting my friend Beth in Madrid.  She’s been studying abroad there for almost a year.  I partied with her on her last night in town up in Bloomington last August.  That night I swore to her that I would come and visit.  A very small amount of planning and a very expensive plane ticket later…I’m going.  I’m starting to get quite excited for the trip, but work is going to be super busy until I’m at the airport.  Once I leave my place it will be wonderful.  I’m going to make sure to leave all cell phones and laptops turned off and at home.  It will be wonderful to just disconnect from everything and travel.  While there, Beth and I are going to jump on a bus and travel south to Sevilla for a day.  Then we are going to try to make it to Lagos for another couple of days.  Other than that I do not have much planned at all.  I really want it that way though.  I’ve never been across the pond and just by being over there I know I will be a sponge and just take in everything around me.  That alone will be worth it.

I’ve finally gotten further on some of my design projects.  You can check out some drafts here.  All input is welcome.

FUCKING SHIT FUCK FCUK

i HATE fucking insurance.

i go with my dad to switch the saturn over to my name.  afterwords we
head over to the insurance office….what’s my new quote….oh…only
twice the cost of 30 CPR trained monkeys wearing vests made out of dinosaur skin!!!!!

why is that you ask ?  ohhh…cause those aholes in south carolina
who decided to pull me over for going 7 mph over the speed
limit…WHILE GOING DOWN A HILL. also decided to not have a way for me
to not get points on my license….therefore i have 3 points for going 62mph down a hill!!!

so now i’m paying as much in car insurance as I did when i was 17 and
a 13 second sports car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i get to drive a 6 year old saturn.

insurance companies are the scum of the earth and everyone just lets
it fucking happen.  everyone listens to the scare tactic
of…’ohhh…you’ll need it when you get in a big wreck’

why thank you for hoping that i get in a wreck!

i’m not a gambling man….why the fuck would i bet some company that i
WILL get in a horrible accident and that i WILL have to pay tons of
money.

here’s a formula:

I (insurance company) bet you (pete) $(payment) a month that you will not get in a wreck where i’ll have to pay for you (or insurance company will simply deny payment through contract loopholes).

or

I (pete) bet you (insurance company) $(payment) that I will get in a horrible accident where you(insurance company) will have to pay far more money than I will ever give you.

and why the hell would i pay the exact amount in which that company
offers up.  they do have cube monkeys in oklahoma whose entire job is figure out the statistical chance that every person has of getting in an accident…and it’s corresponding dollar value.  one must remember that the company is a company and therefore requires PROFIT to survive.  they know the exact chance of me getting into a big
wreck….it’s probably about $60 a month….but alas…they need to
feed the monster…so they’ll bump that up to around $100 (which i
still probably would have been moderately okay with)…oh…but
there’s an excuse to push it up more (ticket) so lets snag some more
money from this kid because everyone in the entire world is ignorant
to the fact that these companies are a racket.

still everyone promotes them….’you can’t lower your
coverage…you’ll be sorry’….’yah…it sucks paying it…but it will
be worth it in the end’.  I GUARANTEE about 98% of the people out
there has paid more money into insurance over their life than what
they get back.  that’s the margin…and it’s huge…that’s how these companies exist…that’s how they can pull in about 13 billion in revenue a year (progressive).

when you play by the house’s rules….the house always wins.
i hope Mr. Glenn M. Renwick (made $8.07 mil last year) buys a new yacht with my money and names it ‘boned’