Gas on the Cheap

Song of the Week: Mississippi Rain by the Weeks. Found these guys when they opened for Deer Tick back in 2014 at the Metro. They sound a lot like Kings of Leon. I'll be seeing them again in a couple of weeks! Check them out!

Meanwhile, gas is the cheapest it has ever been in my life (I think). I paid a mere 1.47 per gallon the other night. Road tripping across the US seems a whole lot more affordable now!

The Blind Hockey video I made has been getting reposted about the internet a bit. Check out a couple of the links. Link 1 Link 2

Tryouts for the Cats are exactly 29 days away. Looking to be a great year for the boys. It is all starting to come together here.

Last week The Edge restaurant and bar closed nearby, now another one bites the dust. Best Buy is no more! I am hoping some better places move in, but who knows how long that may take.

Finally, I am still on that iPhone4 life. With seeing all these new smart phones floating around, they all have one problem in my opinion, they are way too large. Is there a smart phone similar in size to the iphone4 that is out there? Any tips on this would be appreciated! Otherwise iphone4 forever!

TV Show of the Week: Nothing yet, thinking about starting Game of Thrones though!

Video of the Week: GoPro: NHL After Dark is a new YouTube series featuring some of the stars of the NHL. The camera work and skill in this video is off the charts! I look forward to these coming out weekly.

Movie of the Week: Soaked in Bleach. A newer version of the Kurt & Courtney movie. This 90 minute documentary movie about the murder of Kurt Cobain does the job that Making a Murderer does in 10 one hour episodes. Check it out on Netflix.

Until next week.

Yaboy Josh

Happy One (New) Year of Blogs

Tuesday December 30th, after a day of work, I went shopping and then picked up Beth. We then drove to my place in the city where Rachel made us some spaghetti for dinner. We relaxed the rest of the night.

Wednesday December 31st, New Year's Eve! Cam came to visit and we were fortunate to find him a parking spot with the help of Grant. After hanging out for a bit, we all got ready and then had a few people over to our place: Brian, Sarah, Colin, Matt, & Caitlin joined us for snacks and games. We played cards against humanity, as well as friends and enemies. Around 10pm we headed over to Kim's place for a party and we were not liked by many, as we (I) kept counting down well before midnight arrived. Finally midnight came and we all cheered and celebrated. We then got our coats and left around 12:30am. 2015 was here!

January 1st, 2015 was spent with a morning of mimosas and a lot of football being watched. Michigan State put on an amazing comeback and won their bowl game. We then got some dinner at Duke's which was delicious and we got an awesome Thursday deal. I had 4 burger bites and got a free 12 wings since it was buy one item, get one free! Duke's is always an enjoyable time and probably my favorite place in the area.

After Duke's we walked over to Lincoln Park Zoo and enjoyed the Zoo Lights. Check out some pics from the night where we saw handfuls of sad monkeys, ice sculptors, lighted animals, & pretty lights. Also learned that ice sculptors use a special machine to keep the water flowing so the ice appears to be clear, just like a frozen river bed. This will be the new way I make ice cubes. No more cloudy ice for me!

Beware of the Rainbow Tunnel! This tunnel was a tricky part to the Zoo since it was outside the zoo and we ended up in this tunnel when they closed the zoo doors on us, so we had to walk around the outside with no lights, how sad.

On Friday January 2nd, I headed to work for the first half of the day, then once home I made some rigatoni pasta for Cam, Rachel, and I for dinner. We then met up with friends and walked over to Mary & Jeff's for some Edward 40 Hands. With a lack of 40s in the 5 liquor stores we stopped at, our little group ended up just have 25oz cans, which worked out just fine.

After the party ended, Rachel, Cam, Colin, Sarah, and I hit up a bar across the street for one last drink before they had last call and picked up some Fat Sandwich on the way home. Cam, Rachel & I split the fat milf. Tastyyy. It also snowed on the way home, first snow of the year!

Saturday January 3rd started with me clearing snow off my car, then a bit of work. I picked up gas for an all-time low price of $1.79. Will prices continue to drop!? It rained on the way home and Rachel and I watched a bunch of Mad Men. We made a delicious pork dinner and then had some wine & gummies to go along with our lovely 4 hours of chatting to end the night.

On Sunday January 4th, Rachel and I spent most of the day watching TV shows. We finished season 3 of Mad Men, and season 2 of The Walking Dead. Both shows are solid. We went out to get some groceries and saw where the Best Buy close to us got robbed earlier that morning. Crime scene! Had a couple of buffalo ranch McChickens for lunch and after watching TV for a few hour we made succulent beef sandwiches in the crock pot for dinner. Sooo good.

After a work lunch at Lou Malnati's and a day of work, I spent my evening watching a few episodes of The Walking Dead Season 3 and then shoveled my driveway and sidewalks at my parents place around midnight!

Great end to 2014 and great start to 2015. Looking forward to the year. Maybe next week I'll post a review with bests of 2014 and some goals for 2015.

Josh