So oddly enough I’m getting this strange itch to make some changes and tweakage what Jabloggy is all about.  First, I’ve updated my categories to bits.  (I can hear you now: Wooooow, that’s quite a change…. Ya Jaloser).  It’s not much, but it kind of helps if I plan on trying to blog more often with less content per post in the future, kind of like “bit blogging” (yay, I coined a new Web 3.0 term!).

But I really feel Jabloggy has more potential and needs a swift kick in the pants, so right now it’s just a personal blog with bits from me that come from things around me.  What I will be changing will give Jabloggy some more substance and a purpose.

Today, friends, a personal blog.  Tomorrow, friends, a tech blog.  But not just any tech blog.  More on that soon…

So what I’m thinking is that this will be the final Jabloggy post in its current state.  I will be doing the changes soon after a few other things in my life settle down (it’s music awards season again and I just put my condo on the market, wanna buy it?  Move to Madison. ).

Don’t worry, I’m not going to totally go straight and unfunny with the new format, no matter how many of you want me to drop the bad humor.  No no, I will keep some fun in this blog.  However I will be able to write more often and with more substance in a “different kind of tech blog”.

For now, feel free to follow Jabloggy on Facebook and Twitter.  See you soon!

Happy 2010 Kids!  Another year closer to December 2012.  Start your preparations!  Unlock the Y2K bunker you never used!

I must say 2009 was an interesting year.  Lots of good, lots of bad, lots of so-so, but you know what?  This new decade is gonna kick 2009 in the ass, I think.  I have high expectations for this year, so don’t fudge it up!

As keeping with tradition of New Year’s resolutions, I plan to have one of my resolutions be to post here more.  While I cannot guarantee I won’t continue to suck at posting here, I will at least say that I’ll try, mmmkay?  Ok good, now quit yer bitchin’.

As for other resolutions, we’ll be tryin’ the ol’ getting in shape and eating better resolution (that one is probably the most popular and most cliche one ever!) plus my business is growing and things are going well in the relationship department as well.

Ok, enough of that boring crap.  In the great words of Tiger Woods as his wife chased him with a golf club, I’M OUTTA HERE!

May you enjoy this day with your family and friends.  I will be sitting here…. alone…. homeless…. with my laptop…. in my Lexus…. enjoying a bottle of alcoholic egg nog….

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I’m thankful for all of you, my dear readers.  Those of you who put up with my crappy posts, my slow post times, and my bad humor.

I bet you are all thankful that you don’t really know me in person and hope that the apocalypse happens to this site before it affects anything else in the world.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

LET’S EAT TURKEY!

Once again, I, the great Jabloggy Nuts, have gone missing in action.  Have no fear, I was just kidnapped by Santa!

Allow me to explain.  My last post was in October, almost 2 months ago *crowd booes*.  Since then I’ve survived Halloween, picked up a new significant other (let’s call her Girloggy), established a website dedicated to the new Microsoft Stores modeled after People of Wal-Mart, decorated my home for Christmas, and established 2 new Christmas websites that will be a part of the 2009 version of the Santa Live iPhone app.  The app now has a Google Android brother too.

So yeah, was I kidnapped by Santa?  Not really I guess.  I just kinda took on his identity because I have no social interaction with real humans anymore.  I feel as real friends-less and web-based as iJustine (you rock iJ! … nice save asshole).

It’s been quite the past couple of months, but it’s been fun, for the better, and looking forward to what those changes bring for me during the rest of the year and into 2010.

2010…. mmmm, that reminds me…. only 2 years left until the end of the world.  Better start digging my bomb shelter and stock piling food again (it all went bad after Y2K).  You really think we have any idea when the world is gonna end?  My theory for the Mayan calendar is that the retard that invented it either figured that humans wouldn’t last this long on earth or he just got sick and tired of adding years and gave up at this point.  We have our own calendar now, regardless if it’s based on theirs or not.  I think ours continues forever.  Sooooooooo, yeah……

If you know the show that quote is from, then I don’t have to educate or corrupt your minds.  To me, that quote signifies the beginning of the annual traditions where we either drink too much and destroy our alter-ego attire (costume, for those of you dumbfounded by my attempts of superior terminology, or lack thereof), or run around familiar and strange neighborhoods, talking to strangers (despite what we are taught at that age about NOT talking to strangers) and receiving free food from those strangers (at their own homes, making it easier for them to abduct several children at once) that will ultimately destroy our teeth and affect all personal hygiene.

To break that last paragraph of shit down even further, I welcome you all to the 2009 holiday season.  We kick of this year’s festivities like any other year, with Halloween.  While the true origins of this bizarre holiday are not 100% known, I personally believe it was a holiday that was conceived by pedophiles and axe murderers that somehow managed to convince our planet’s leaders and lawmakers to find it in their hearts that the world needed a holiday to celebrate psychos, homicidal freaks and Kanye West.

Before I go, I want to ask a favor of the Jabloggy community.  What do you think is the better costume for me this year: Kanye West (and get the shits beaten outta me) or a Mistletoe (and potentially get mouth-raped by every female downtown)?  TOUGH CALL!

Tis been awhile no?

Summer is coming to a close, way too soon I might add.  Please hold while I curse the season out for being too short ($#$#$@!!).

4 days ago I officially became another year older.  Yay.  3 years until I hit 30.  Could this aging thing get any better?!  I elect that it can not!  *gag*

Summer’s been a busy one, whether I’m helping with a music event or playing in the band at our own music event; whether I’m painting my house or listing lazily to the left on my couch watching Family Guy; whether I’m at my day job or working on Local Sounds; whether I’m working at all or out enjoy time with my friends.  Yup, it’s been a good one.

As August starts to come to a close, I’m reminded of the great No One, who said, “Fear not, for the summer isn’t over quite yet.  We have Labor Day weekend, Taste of Madison, and a few several weekends of good weather left!”.  Then I realized it was I who said that and can no longer be quoted as quoting someone else’s quote.

While it is a good thing to think that we still have a good number of Summer / Beginning of Fall days in which yet to enjoyth, we are also just over 2 months away from that time of the year when our little ones dress up like the undead in order to collect that which kills us anyway: sugar-filled treats and those moronic apples on a stick covered in something that’s totally unidentifiable.

Yes parents, Halloween, that glorious holiday in which our children become the living Apocalypse, is drawing nearer.  Why do I say that?  Well for one, the stupid Halloween store in Madison has had it’s sign up for a month already as they prepare the store for shoppers.  I almost shat myself when I saw that a few weeks ago.  As if it isn’t bad enough that Christmas comes earlier every year (and for those of you who know me, you know I don’t care about that as much as I may make it sound), now Halloween is moving up.

What the hell happened to the Back to School season?  I do believe it was eaten by a werewolf, little Bobby.

On that note, I now know what I want to go as for Halloween: a Wannabe-Good-Blogger.  Scares the living shizzle outta me, but hey, that’s what October 31st is for right?  Or is it?  (Enter Vincent Price’s post Thriller video monologue here)

I know how much you all care about my ability to further my skills and refine what I already know (are you sleeping yet?  (dick)).  

It’s for this reason that I’d like to share with you that my friend Todd and I spent the week last week working on the first hard core condo remodeling project (and I thought painting it was hard core!  BWAHAHA).  We tore out the old door and frame that leads out to my back balcony from my office (extra bedroom) and replaced it with a brand spankin’ new door and frame.  We also fixed the broken drywall around the door, finished painting the wall and (gasp!) actually added casing around the door so it looks like…. like…. A DOOR!  OMFG!

While Todd did a good portion more than I did, it sounds like neither of us had ever done this kind of work before, so we were both pretty proud of ourselves for taking it on, and we learned something new in the process.

So, moral of the story: THERE’S HOPE FOR ME YET!  :)  Aside from the 2 photos here, there are more of the entire project on my Flickr.  Oh yeah…..

Well, the publication isn’t exactly about my soap opera known as “life”, but it is about music!  Behold, Local Sounds Magazine is now publishing content!  Hooray!

In related news, Local Sounds TV is currently attempting to get the post production crap underway for the MAMAs coverage and we were recently approached to cover a CD/DVD release party on June 12th.  Means that the video coverage is something that I think people are gonna latch onto sooner than later.  Friggin’ A, Bitch!

Last bit of Local Sounds updates (since that’s what the recent weeks of my bitchin’ life have consisted of), we are currently in discussions about a sweet deal that would have Local Sounds acquiring (or merging with) a local website that’s proved to be very popular amongst the music scene with some nationwide penetration (mmmmm).  Stayed tuned for that bit of fun later this year if all talks go well!

Anywho, there’s been a lot of going on with the band too.  Just finished up a couple of concerts, one being Felicia’s Trade CD release party at the Frequency on May 22nd (read about it on Local Sounds Magazine!) and May 24th at Brat Fest.  Those were the shit.

As usual, the Madison Area Music Awards never die.  I’m actually working on the updated site as we speak and we are opening registration soon instead of October.  Talk about a year round ordeal!

Next, just planning on doing some hard core remodeling around the house.  We’re pricing and planning right now to tear out my condo’s back door so we can replace it.  It’s not sealed right and it appears it was kicked in at one point.  Very attractive to the next buyer.

As a final note, that has to be the worst, most God-awful, photo of me ever!  However, the point of the pic is the shirt, not my ugly mug.

So that’s been “the rest of the story” for me.  Now take a hike you moron, and I’ll see you next time I post…

The birthday girl is 5 years old!

Originally uploaded by jabloggy

That’s right folks, this week is National Lexi Week! My fuzzy lil’ daughter turns 5 and we’re celebrating! The celebration consists mainly of balloons, streamers, a cake, and her taking extra long naps and playing with string. Oh to be a cat! Life, so simple!

So everyone, please join me in saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI!