the end of any current addiction to alcohol

some hiking days have gone by. i think i won't update about that anymore....it was quite a ride.

there have been enough non-drinking weeks gone by that there is now no concern. on the other hand, i find it impossible to write anything. my mind has emptied of internal strife - and that was all i had to go on. i look at the same place i used to find words to write and i keep blanking. it's a wild change. it's so much for the better, but i somewhat miss writing.

maybe i can find a new, better place to look in to find words, but this idea kind of ruins my ideal ideas about writing. i always hoped i'd find a new style but i hoped to be able to intermix it with my previous one at will. instead there's nothing. blah. by the way, i'm the devil

hiking day

Hiking Day.

note: I will start labelling days 'hiking days'. this will probably become the only use for this blog (prevented i don't start giving chapter by chapter summaries of star trek books - which sounds quite fun now that i think about it)

hiking days are the equivalent of me saying 'wow, today is a perfect day.' so far this year, there have been perhaps 5 days that i made a mental note of how great they were - so there might not be that many updates to come. i think it would be fun after a year of noting these days, to be able to look back and see what days over the last year were days that struck me weather wise. this is starting to sound pretty lame, but anyway.

more notes: hiking day is synonomous to the kind of day where listening to the radio in the car seems just as enjoyable as listening to a cd. these are also the kinds of days that are good for pavement.

note: these days don't have to be good all day. don't come to me saying but chad, it rained this afternoon - as it's doing today. i'd say, well the first hiking day it rained - but that didn't stop me from sticking to it! - although it might have had i not just figured that if i didn't make today a hiking day, then i'd never think of it again. there.

if you're just joining us, i have taken the liberty of naming today a hiking day of the year. i'm thinking i'll try to get in at least one day a month (which, yes, may lead to some questionable days earlier in the month getting in)

as a reader, you should think of hiking days posts as things that matter to me and do not concern you whatsoever. unintentionally, i understand, you will be subjected to them however. maybe i'll throw in a line or two for your entertainment.

A Call To Darkness

i figured i owed it to some to give a little more info about that book. yes, it was hard to choose. at first, the first one looked best. then, another one looked better. i couldn't decide, and, although i wanted to, i couldn't buy them all. so, i chose the second one i looked at, A Call to Darkness.

Worf is dead center on the front, all wild-eyed, with geordi flanking him on the left, and disappointingly, dr. pulaski on his right.

here's the book's tagline:

Captain Picard is trapped on a brutal worlf - where war is the only entertainment.

it's always safe to go with a picard centered storyline, especially when he's separated from riker and so riker gets to be in command.

will Will figure out how to find the captain? hopefully, i'll let you know

first attempt at boring entry

well, i saw this comic book store a few weeks ago, and i thought, hmm, sometimes i'm bored, maybe i should try to get into comic books/magic again and the likes. it was always too expensive, but when i was young, there wasn't much i would have wanted more than to be able to read marvel comics week by week. so i'm thinking i might get into this new civil war thing. i bought a comic book today that is supposed to get me down with who's on whose sides and etc. i don't plan on buying the comics though because it's crazy how they tell the story through maybe ten different series. so i'll just buy the paper-page book that will encapsulate it all at the end of the year.

secondly bought was a ST TNG book. i think i read one before. i think i'll like to read these. and unlike reading jurassic park and seeing jeff goldblum in my mind, i'll be correct to see gates mcfadden. well, actually not, but whatever.

so, tonight i cancelled with my sister and brother in law the viewing of Lost and catching up on all the arrested development dvds they have and i'll go see steve who has a break from football practices finally and won't start wrestling for a week or so. he's already bought six guiness and a ps2 and ff12 for the evening. hah! oh, and he got hooked up by one of my brother's friends too (read: you know what i mean?)

but i'm not really that anymore.

the ps2 was bought mostly for the upcoming, highly anticipated (use your coolest voice in your head to say:) guitar hero II. so, steve and i are finally starting that band we've always dreamed of.

and lou's coming in the 11th. and j newsome's trying to rain on my parade, but as long as it doesn't rain it should be ok.

and the new lady i work with at work is super-christian and in her teens was super drug addict and when asked, she'll respond with brightened eyes, 'Yea! I know the Mad Katz'

boo ya

(all things said were true)