it rained, so i had the day off. i was going to spend it playing around with photoshop...then i got side-tracked; started to disect a site of a band that i don't like, but it was interesting to see how they built their site. then i vacuumed the floors...gave rohan a bath, since some sort of rash decided to pop up all over his feet and legs...mopped the floor in the family room for fear that some stray raid spider spray had gotten near rohan's play area when i sprayed the threshold of the back door... decided to mop the rest of the floors when our friend who cleans our house didn't show...then windexed and pledged the french doors...started cycling laundry...fed rohan lunch...forgot to eat lunch myself...emptied the dishwasher, loaded it...cleaned rohan's room right after i put him down for a nap...went through about a month of papers that allie had brought home from school...straightened up our room and allie's room...then i decided that if i was ever going to try and get the mold spots off of all of the doors in the house i had better take advantage of my day off...so i scrubbed them for about an hour and a half with bleach water...did the same to the panelling in the family room...thought that the bleach might be too harsh, so then i pledged the hell out of the doors...and the family room walls...scanned a school portrait of allie into photoshop, did some retouching (she had ruined all the pictures that she had taken to school to trade by signing the backs of each one and then stacking them together before they dried, thus smearing the heck out of each one) then printed the whole lot out on some good photo stock...took a shower...emily came home...we went and ate at bennie's...i was starving, so i ate an order of lasagna and a full order of toasted ravioli (hell yeah)...got home...emily put rohan to bed...she browsed ebay...i cut the small wallets of allie with the paper cutter, much to her excitement...got allie set up on the atari...played through most of my newest ideas on the piano...put allie to bed...emily took off to go work out...started browsing mp3.com...then DECIDED TO BLOG AND HERE I AM NOW!!! WOOHOO!!! i think i'll go to bed now...i'm beat...six-o'clock is going to come too early...oh hey...emily just walked in the door...BYE!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! we're back online!!! i held out for cable...seems to be worth the wait. now posting will have to wait...got to go to bed.

i'm at the house of our friends, nate and amy. nate is at work, amy and emily just ran into town for a little while for a drink before last call, and i'm here sitting little norah while they're all away. so...i can blog! we still don't have a connection at home. there is a place that swears that they'll have wireless broadband for where we live by the first of june, and our local cable company says that a cable connection isn't too far from being completed. we'll see. i'm still checking email at my dad's; which i don't have any filters set up on his outlook express, so when i check every several days, i have less than ten legitimate messages, and over a hundred pieces of junk mail.

we've been in a huge period of transition in our lives, so i haven't even thought about booking any shows for heavy wishing. we had some rehearsals, which have been a lot of fun, but nothing beyond that. we'll probably play some beer gardens this summer though.

we went and saw "a mighty wind" tonight. it was great, as we had hoped. i'm sure once it comes out on dvd, we'll watch it enough to where we'll have some favorite quotes, but for now all i can say was that it was a worthy follow-up to best in show. also, it was great that one of the folk bands in the movie called the folkmen, we're the three primary members of spinal tap which was just awesome.

a sad note about our movie experience was that this is the last weekend that the varsity theatre in carbondale will be open. i had some friends of ours take pictures of us outside of the theatre for the fun of it. i know that the place doesn't have the coolest seats in town, no cup holders, no surround sound, but it holds a lot of memories. also, i may be wrong, but the main theatre is probably the largest in southern illinois...it's huge. it's where i first saw "raiders of the lost ark" in '81 and "return of the jedi" in '83. i even saw "the lord of the rings" in the upstairs shirley temple theatre when i was five in '78. i've seen many films at the varsity since then, but those were all memorable moments for me. of course, it's being closed, because of the newest multi-plex opening in town, but i could give a care less. it's just not the same. also, although i'm not a student at s.i.u., nor do i live in carbondale, this is the second and last theatre within walking distance of campus to be closed down in the last ten years. i don't know, i'm sure that the owners have valid reasons, and i'm sure that the maintenance costs on such an old building are unbelievable, but it will still be sorely missed.