So I went to Best Buy yesterday to score a copy of Score, the new live release from Dream Theater. I was going to pick up both the triple-disc CD set and the double-disc DVD, but I was particularly interested in the DVD: in addition to the show (which was performed with an orchestra!), there's an hour-long documentary and live footage from the Portnoy archives. Of course, they had no DVDs and I think I got the last CD copy that they had. Ugh, I miss Media Play!

I've created a new blog here to track my progress toward my goals as stated in my last post. I'll be posting in this new blog on a regular basis...hopefully, the overwhelming majority of the posts will be positive. Find the new blog here: The Mission

I've been annoyed with myself lately. The usual reasons...slacking on things and such. I came up with a little idea yesterday at work, and I think I'm gonna run with it: As of today, there are 431 days until my 24th birthday. I'm giving myself that much time to meet a series of goals which, while not unrealistic, won't be easy work. Those goals include: weight of no more than 190, a metric century (100 KM ride) on the bike, run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes (lifted from your average police fitness test), cleanly picking 10 notes per second on the geetar and getting through my keyboard instructional package. Oh! and in typical geek fashion, I'll be busting out my ol' pad of graph paper and charting this stuff out and hanging the charts out in the open.

I just uploaded a bunch of pics from the road trip to Webshots. They're mostly Moestock pics but there are a handful of other shots in there.