Here's to New Beginnings!

Brad and Breanne made it in this morning around 12:30. They're in bed right now, resting up from their long road trip. It's gotten me to thinking about the road trips I've taken several times over the past few years, much the same route as they have.

I remember in 2005, we came to realize that living in Kit Carson, CO wasn't going to cut it anymore and decided to move on down to San Antonio, TX to stay with my grandmother for a little while. A little while became a lot less time as she pretty much ran us out of her house. "Psycho Bitch" is a little too nice a name for her. Anyways, we tried out San Antonio and things just didn't go well.

A couple years later, we ended up moving just a smidge northward to Austin. For me, things still weren't going well. I was fed up and truly missed Colorado. So, I took that road trip again, this time in reverse, and made my way back up to Lamar.

Time had changed Colorado though, or at least had changed my feelings on it. So much was different and friends just weren't what they used to be. I came back to Austin after only a month in Colorado, disheartened and disappointed by the whole situation.

Then, came a new job, a new beginning. That beginning has become a career and I'm at a job that, while often I complain about, isn't really so bad. I have good people who I share my workspace with and make me often forget that I'm working at all. Thanks to them.

I made one last trip to Colorado back in January, this time by plane, to meet up with some old friends. I was happy to see that Colorado had changed again. This time, for the better. My best friend was doing great and had a wonderful family to share his life with and, my other best friend was content...playing the hand life had dealt him. I left that time happy with what I had seen.

Not but a few months later, my friend, someone I've talked about a bunch on here, decided to make that same trip I had embarked on 6 years ago to give it a go down here in Austin. I certainly wish him and his love a great life here and I am proud to be a part of his journey. So, here's to new beginnings. Here's to Brad and Breanne. Here's to MY FUCKING VACATION AWAY FROM THIS HELL HOLE. Oh, did I say that? Meh, sometimes...you just gotta get away. Joe out.

Another New Author

Would like to welcome Chris on board. Nice to have my best friend adding his stories and nonsense here. Welcome home, bro.

The beginning...

Welcome readers to the Joe and Chris show! I was asked by Joe to be an author on his blog and I wasn't sure exactly what he had in mind for me to write. I racked my mind all day, thinking what should I write about then it hit me... I think that the readers deserve to know where the Joe and Chris show started. So I beleive it started as Joe stated 11 years ago. Now as most best friends always seem to have some awesome story how they were both in a bad situation and over came diversity together, or their parents grew up together blah blah blah, not our case. We went to a very small school where preschool through high school were all in the same building so we knew who each other were but had never had any form of intelligent conversation..not that we have ever. My dad was a foreign exchange student coordinator and one of our exchange students was placed with Joe and his mom. Well we had our family interviews blah blah blah so then I became more aware of who Joe was. So.. being the young naive person I was I thought that I now knew Joe. So we were in school the junior high had their lockers down a little from the upperclassmen but our paths still crossed because we shared teachers and rooms. Well my locker happened to be right across from the soda machine, as I passed Joe, or he was walking past one of the two.. I thought hey...theres Joe and managed to blurt out... "God Joe why don't you make some room for the rest of the people to walk by.." Next thing I know I was thrown against the pop machine (I would love to see this tried now by the way) ...with Joe yelling at me he would beat my head into the pop machine if I ever looked at him again. Ah.. good times.. well thats your basic start for the Joe and Chris show I will post more and more as I go along but that was our hollywood start for now tune in for more.

Lintendo

Been posting for the past couple of days and already don't like the layout I have going on. I figure what I'll do is just post what's on my mind when I have some time to do so.

Invited Other Joe to join me and he'll start posting his thoughts soon.



Chatted with Chris on the phone today. We talked about how our moms called Nintendos Lintendos and how no matter what we said, they could never figure out the lingo.

"What kind of CDs does your Lintendo use?"

"It's a Nintendo, Mom."

"Right, yea. Which kind of CDs? The big ones or the small ones?"

"It doesn't use CDs. It uses cartridges."

"That's what I said. Which ones? Big or little?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know the size of the CD?"

"Mom, here, this is what they look like. It's a Nintendo cartridge."

Days later...

"I got you a new CD for your Lintendo."

"Oh, cool. Wait a second. This is a Gameboy game."

"Yeah, for the Lintendo."

"Yeah. Well, it's too small."

"That's fine."

"Thanks, Mom."

Joe out.

Starting over

Hey all. Thought I'd come back to the blog. Went ahead and deleted all previous posts. I think I had, oh, about 20 some odd all about God knows what or cared about. So, I supposed I'd just start the whole thing over. So, yep. That's about that.

What happened today?

Well, work. Of course. That's about a daily thing anymore. Well, not quite. Mostly daily. 5 out of 7 days anyways. I figure "mostly daily" is a fair enough statement. That's going well enough. I enjoy myself for the most part.



I've been talking with Hop (Hop's a fella I'll let you guys in on a bit later) about starting up a Podcast. I'm thinking that'd be a fun way to waste time. We've been talking about a radio show for ages but, after listening to the Ricky Gervais show as of late, figure Podcasting might just be the way to go. He's reluctant. He fears it'll be all about cheese. See...he hates cheese. Yea. Strange guy. More on that later as well.

What's going on now?

And yea, other than that, I'm playing Dragon Age II. Yes. I know everyone's already beaten it but shit, I just got around to beating Origins so, shut the hell up.



Looking ahead

In other news, my little bro Bradley beans is moving down with his woman. He's a good, old fried of mine. Looking forward to that. They should be here by Wednesday or Thursday. We'll see how that goes.

As well, looking forward to what has been deemed as "Game Nights" with Chris...and whoever else decides to join us. We get together every Wednesday and Thursday morning, around 1 to 5 and enjoy ourselves. Chris is an old friend...the oldest I've got nowadays. Known him for about 13 years. Yep.

Get on with it then

Yea, yea... Otherwise, we'll see how the Podcast idea pans out. Chris and Brad are on board as well as Other Joe and Will from work. I've got a book coming in called "Podcasting for Dummies" coming in. Hope that shines more light on the subject for me. Really hoping Hop signs on to the idea. It wouldn't be the same without his...er...insight? Yea.

Anyways, that's all for now. Joe out.