Archive for September, 2004

Last week we had this thing on campus called Pioneer Picnic. All the dining halls are closed, and there’s a big food tent set up on Driscoll Lawn. They do it to promote the programs board(they were raffling off an iPod), and some study abroad programs and stuff. Anyway, I swipe my card to get food, and the lady gives me two raffle tickets. Whatever, no way am I gonna win. I go get my food and walk around and eat, chill with friends and such, go through the motions. I went over to the programs board booth and spun the wheel – I won a bag clip! Now we can preserve Jonny B’s gross salt-and-vinegar chips longer! Oh joy!
I pretended to take the iPod that was sitting on the table but put it down without making too many sudden movements. Got some cotton candy with Jake and Ryan, and then they said they were about to announce the iPod raffle number. I pulled out my tickets to check if the number was gonna be mine, and Yoal comes up to me and goes “Dude, you gotta put one of the tickets in the box so they have a copy of all the numbers people have.” I figured that they already had that and the two tickets thing was just the deal. I dropped my ticket in the box seconds before they started calling numbers. The girl behind the table already had a ticket in her hand, so I figured I didn’t have much of a chance. She pulled it out, called the number…… and nobody had it. She reached in the box, pulled out a ticket, and read the number. “518303…. 518303…” I looked at my ticket…. and it was my freakin’ number! She must have just pulled the next ticket off the top! I turned around (I was still walking away from dropping my ticket in the box) and walked up to them and said “Uhhh, that’s me…” and they were like “For real?!” and we checked it and they handed me the iPod that just a few minutes ago I was pretending to steal.
So now I can’t say I never won anything. Free 20GB 4th Generation Click Wheel iPod for me.

Listening to: To The Rescue – Goodbye Polar (on my iPod, suckas)

Have you Gees heard about that FreeiPods.com thing? When I first heard about it, I was like “Yeah RIGHT, no way is that for real.” Well, it’s real. Check out this article in Wired reporting that it’s totally legit. Now the same company that does the iPods is doing free flat screen TVs and LCD computer monitors. I signed up for the flat screens one – and I need your help! We can all get free TVs and LCDs if we sign up and complete one of their free offers (you just cancel it at the end of the trial period and that’s it). Once you finish the free trial thing you choose, then refer a bunch of your friends and you get a free TV/monitor. It’s ridiculously easy.

Please use this link to sign up – then we’ll be connected and we can get our free stuff!

Listening to: Eminem & Dilated Peoples – Wake Up Show Freestyles

Finally all moved in to my room here at DU… and done with RTA training! 2 long weeks of 9-5 talking about computer crap that I already know. Whatever – it’s money. I haven’t had any time to do anything I really need or want to do, but I have this weekend completely off, so I finally have some time to post, get my TV fixed, register to vote(I encourage all 18+ Gees do this immediately), unpack all my stuff, and fix up my room. Yay for free time.
I love my new room. I’ve got a single on the 10th floor of Centennial Towers, connected to a kitchen and bathroom, connected to a double room… and if you read my last few posts, you’d know that Jon and Jon are living there – the drummer and guitarist of To The Rescue! Hell yeah! I already went to Jonny B’s house one night so we could practice – and we rocked the house. We’ve got 3 new songs in the works, and I bought a Shure SM58 mic and I’m using Jonny B’s acoustic amp, and he just bought an electric guitar – now all we need is an electric amp for him and we’ll have enough of our own equipment to not have to borrow anyone else’s for practice. He just got a job at a Pro Audio shop teaching guitar for $30/hour, so we should have everything we need in a little under 2 months. Roooock! I can do some low-level recording in my dorm room, so watch out for some rough demos coming from us soon.
I’ve been the only person on my whole dorm floor for the last 2 weeks – and freshman move into their dorms on Monday, but transfers,early arrivals and exchange students have been moving in the last few days. Yesterday, I get a knock on my door, and I assume it to be an RA friend of mine or something. I open the door, and I’m starting at somebody’s freaking belt buckle. What the hell? I look up to see a 6′8″ dude standing there, hand outstretched to greet me. Turns out his name is Matt and he’s from England. He’s cool as hell! We hung out a bit and I told him about DU, and we compared cultures (they don’t have free refills – what the hell is that about?!) Anyway, I went to the ResLife BBQ and played some frisbee, ate some hotdogs, and came home to the dorm. There were a few kids walking around my hallway, and I knew they weren’t RAs, so I asked if they needed help with something. They told me(in assorted accents) that they were international students looking for Matt, and I told them that I was gonna hang with him so let me know when you find him. They found him right away and invited me to his room for a drink(they all drink and have been since they were around 14… alcohol isn’t a big deal in Europe), so I brought some Mountain Breeze(thank you Safeway for the cheapo store brand) and we stayed up til 3am talking about our languages and cultures and such. They’re from all over! Italy, England, France, Holland, and Spain. Ambra and Francisco, the kids from Italy, are cool as hell. Ambra adds “-uh” to every word she speaks in English… like “I bit-uh mai lip-uh.” Hilarious and adorable. Francesco is smooth as hell and loves Italian reggae(they have it there!). I call those two “the mafia”. Overall the group is cool as hell, and it looks like I’m gonna be hanging with them a lot this year – especially since Matt is on my floor and he seems like my kinda guy… very laid back and funny and polite and kinda crude. He’s a good dude. The girls are all cute and their accents just make them cuter… it’s great. I love my new international friends! Now I’m just waiting for all the freshman girls to move in and I’ll be one happy Peet. New pics in the gallery – it’s working a bit better now, at least it’s giving links… my host is still being dumb about my php GD library… so thumbnails should be created on-the-fly again soon.

Listening to: Craig David – Eenie Meenie (in honor of my new UK crew)