so life in general is really awesome...more content than ever....granted i'm living paycheck to paycheck and skimming by with bills and having a cold...nonetheless cards have been dealt my way with friends by my side and life stories that can be told for ages to come. the past month has been really great. here are a few stories for recollection. My neighbor Rob has had a few tumors growing, its a real bummer but we've all been there for him cheering him on in his recovery. after his first surgery we all went to visit him at the hospital. which consisted of us playing games as to which elevator would open first on the ground floor with other families in serious situations waiting as well...it was really a funny concept when i look at it in retrospect a goofy looking kid waiting at each elevator laughing and joking with his friends while a mother and daughter stand in disgust at us waiting....joe had the right elevator to start. after that we get up stairs and visit with rob. while the doctor was talking to him they asked for us to wait outside where stew decided to play foam wars with the hand sanitizer foams outside of each door. this concluded to him throwing a handful of foam into a strangers room. having robs mom in a state of embarrassment and question as to why we were there. that following weekend we had our 2nd pot luck at the penalty box jr. house which went really well we played black out hide and seek between both houses as well as a bonfire and some kick ass delicious food made by all of our good friends. so fast forward to a week later we get a call from bobby inviting us to go to his work to watch some of the best professional skaters shred it up in his works skate park. it was the baker skate team as well as deathwish i believe. but i've never been to the place and it was a cool skate park/screenprinting company.


the following week rob returned to the penalty box and we caught word that the beastie boys would be speaking at the college up the street about the upcoming election we were really amped on it,in hope of maybe seeing them perform a song or so since none of us could afford the tickets to there show that night...since tickets were going on ebay for 200+ bucks. needless to say we waited for about 3 or so hours walking around campus waiting for it to start...we toured the trojan condom bus and gave a shout out as dan and smith a gay couple that supported protected sex in defense agains butt pregnancies. after that rob taunted the crazy preacher on campus with a condom and he was almost hit with a bible. after waiting three hours to see the 5 boroughs speak it lasted about 3 mins. still was an awesome day. that night we went back to the campus for a halloween show with free food and such. yardwork played and i got some cool photos, there are a few posted here and there on this blog. so yeah i've totally been enjoying life here at the penalty box collective and loving everything about life. we saw a band from Sweden play at lunch box last week as well as having an intense wall of death over the topic of pizza vs tacos as to which is the ultimate party food....Tacos won...
this past friday i also got to see an old friend get married to the love of his life and walk down the aisle to halloween by the misfits. after the wedding i tagged along with izzi and rick to rock hill this weekend to enjoy all hallow's eve i dressed as michael douglas from falling down. it went over well. rick was death metal and izzi was hello kitty. we ended up at a shitty house show where we got free things and spewed blood tablets all over the ceiling. good times.


thats about all thats been going on in my life right now. constantly busy constantly pursuing the life of community and happiness. more to come soon. no shave november is going on right now. i'll prob start taking daily picture to show how gross my neck beard is growing and how i really cannot grow facial hair in the first place.....more to post soon.