Wednesday, August 31, 2005

This Just In, Brought To You by Photo Archives

I spent a good part of today goofing off and sorting through some old photos taken from the time I spent going to school at New Mexico Tech, in Socorro NM. The few I’ve decided to show here really embody the shit that happened everyday. For your viewing enjoyment I’ll provide a brief discussion about each shot.

1. Los Rancheros! Nate and I drove all over Albuquerque piecing together these stupid Halloween costumes. I think this picture was taken at the “NMT Halloween Dance,” I don’t remember much of that night. Highlights included hauling a 10 gal cooler full of jungle juice a number of blocks from campus to some basement party. I also remember drinking a lot of corona at Nicks house and going to the haunted house.
2. Paul was always popping up out of places. This was his second car trunk, the first being a rental car we took to the Denver Grand Prix. He also hid in the box my TV came in for at least 20 minutes in order to play a joke on my mom. This picture was taken at the first and subsequently last NMTARC cruise night – although I don’t think it was the same night we were chased in Pete’s van by a group of cowboys in a big truck.
3. Little mr2 in the big city: a fly by on Wyoming. That’s really all I have to say about that one… except, look how happy Peter looks. Woot.
4. Another Halloween shot. Action doll Ken comes complete with standard Asian haircut, Duck-hunt gun, controller and matching shirt. Ken did a lot of crazy shit in his prime. Most memorable for me however is the time he accidentally ran straight into the Duck Pond while we were running from the cops out on the golf course. We were all pretty surprised about two things, one, that he didn’t smell all that bad, and two that he didn’t catch Fratphilenanagitis (a disease known to exist in duck poop with symptoms similar to the common cold).
5. This was the Mechanical Engineering department head, Dr. Reiley. Seen here relaxing at home the idea was to send Belinda to take a picture of him so that we could carve his face into a pumpkin. I stumbled across this picture along with the other Halloween pics in the same folder.
6. Pictured below is Dan, aka the Milkman, aka that guy they named that girls dormitory after. Dan and I were responsible for fucking with res-life on multiple accounts on multiple instances. At the day of the photo shoot he was wearing his “Whatup?” t-shirt, Dan can be seen wearing this shirt to this day… perhaps he still wants to know: Whatup?
7. This is classic Richard. If you know this guy there’s no way you wouldn’t agree. This picture was taken on St. Patrick’s Day 2002 – the same night Luis issued a drunken monolog about what’s wrong with the nations GOP in today’s fast growing economy (or something along those lines).
8. I’m Bald, look at my tracks, look, seriously take a picture of these sick tracks, I’m Bald. Ahhh, Dust-trip ’01, Shorty went crazy with the roadies. There was dust everywhere. While he was at it you couldn’t even see his car, just hear the engine screaming out from under a huge cloud of brown.
9. Look everyone its Shawn West. No day in the life would be complete with out this guy. This kid was everywhere. I remember the first time me and Phil met him it was in the trailer of some hick who refused to let us watch anything but porn while Shawn attempted to shot gun a beer while standing on his head. The electrical fire that’s about to be dowsed with Aquafina belongs to Jake’s Toyota pick-up.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Blogout

Whoa, it’s been a while since my last post – a little over a month, crazy. I’ve been super busy doing who knows what… I guess.

School is back in session which means I’m back into the usual routine of staying out way to late, waking up early to make it to class, and then catching up on the lost sleep in the middle of a lecture about low-pressure flow, stagnation points, inviscid something or other and a small elderly Chinese woman who cant figure out how to use the projector.

The weekend before school started Chelsie and I went out to Phoenix to visit her dad. We got a chance to check out Mills Ave in Tempe (Dueling Pianos and lots of beer). It was pretty sweet. I had a blast meeting that big softy and we seem to get along well. Bonus.