Good Bye Delorme!!
First of all, before I get all silly, to my department mates here. Thanks for making the last 2 years here bearable. Your comraderie and comedy as a unit made this one of the funnest places to work. And don't worry about the Exit Interview. They are going to get a fucking earfull...
Now for silly stuff... If it's your last day why do I have to buy the donuts for the department meeting? It is a good tradition and it should continue.
Cleaning out your desk is kind of fun. Especially when you find something you lost when you first started. Like your mind.
Gonna miss the free coffee.
Gonna miss the people I met here.
Gonna miss the advice some of you gave me while I was here.
Gonna miss the daily interactions with people in the halls.

See ya Eartha you big eyesore. Alfredazien! Ciao! Buh Bye!

- LewisG

Just plain silly.....but pure genius.
Buy an Ass Kicking!!

What a wedding...
Beautiful, picturesque day. Wonderful friends and family! Susan (the bride, obviously) looked stunning. Kevin looked extremely handsome. (Not that I was looking Kev...)
Perfect reception. Other than our table, 1863. The table to end all tables. Ya gotta wonder just how much you can laugh in one night.
Open bar. Dangerous with this crowd. I don't even want to know how much we went through. But with 2 hours left, they ran out of Tonic.
Great to see everyone from far away. Being in Maine I don't see anybody from high school/college that much. Some are in L.A., some are in the south. But all in all they were good freinds and we didn't miss a beat.
Special evening with plenty of side stories (thanks Pam) and comments here and there. I will take most of them to the grave with me.
I hope my wedding is just as good as this one.
Driving home to Maine with the CD Kev made for the guests. On repeat. 6 times. Never got old.
Cause everyone could use a little Poi Dog in their life.

Conan, Brad, Timmy, et al, see you in L.A.

- LewisG

Friday....One week remaining!
A couple of phrases to describe last night...
Can you spell hangover? I knew that you could!
Hydration! My kingdom for hydration!!
Don't you love it when you discuss music on a first date and both of you have the same favorite band? U2, obviously..
And any ideas for what to do work perfectly, probably for the first time in a long time.
Is it bad to come into work the next day, people you work with know you went on a date, and you haven't showered and were late by 30 minutes?
Still searching for the elusive hydration....

And it all continues tonight and this weekend at Kevin's wedding in Boston. OH Boy.....

- LewisG

I don't get this country.
When is competition becoming illegal?
Just read that if you want to switch your cell phone carrier, you still cannot take your number with you. In fact the date set by our government was just bumped up another year due to meetings with "carriers". Basically the heavyweights in the cell phone biz. They want to eek out more money from us cell users but once that date reaches us, November of 2003, we will then be able to choose from plans that contain too little minutes and charge us too much.
Then this morning while perusing CNN.com I read this story of a group of 15 men standing around a grill. Hot dogs? Nope. A kitten.
Who the fuck grills a damn kitten? How sick can you be to harm an innocent and babylike kitten?
That guy should be fed on a spit and then let's see how long he lasts in a grill.

Sometimes people make you wonder what happened during the evolutionary period that caused these people to actually exist on the same planet as us.

- LewisG

CLOUD NINE in Boston
First of all, Cloud Nine is the name of a hotel room on the 19th floor at the Tremont Street hotel named Nine Zero.
Second of all it is nirvana. A place out of an LA movie. Tailor made for strippers and a large mound of coke. Although neither, unfortunately, were available. Just a tub filled with good Irish beer and ice. Pristine floors and furniature and a view of the Boston skyline that you have to see to believe.
Lastly I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Jim McCarthy for setting up the hedonistic weekend now known as KevFest2002. The bachelor party to end all bachelor parties.
Throw in some F1 racing on one night. The next night, a dinner cruise around Boston Harbor. And the cruise came complete with a competing Bachelorette party. Great. Get a bunch of drunk Irish guys and a bunch of drunk Irish girls together. Asps...very dangerous...you go first!
It was a great weekend seeing all people that I hadn't seen in many, many years. And the hangover was well worth it.
Next weekend, the wedding. There won't be a dry eye in the house....

- LewisG

The Home Stretch
I think I have written two resignation letters in my lifetime. Because there were only two actual jobs I felt compelled to thank them for hiring me in the first place. I think this one came out well. Now I just have to wait the final two weeks of my tenure here and it's done.
Month off for beach and getting in shape.
Gotta figure out my classes. Always wanted to take a Movement/Dance class. I still can't believe they give you credit for a class like that.
I wonder if they have a class on creating digital music....
Ah let the countdown begin...9 days....

- LewisG

Feeling better today. Got in touch with my feminine side and got my haircut, had some ice cream, and bitched about things to my best friend. Frightening how well it works...
Giving your notice almost feels like admiting to your neighbor that "yes I was the one to hit the baseball through your $3,000 bay window, Mr. Wilson..."
Sesame Street is going to introduce a Muppet that has the HIV virus. I wonder if kids will even understand the disease from a blue sock...
I love Maine in the summer. The perfect weather. The activities that reside 10 minutes from my door. Joy!
It's nice for a change to not hear about some bomber in the Middle East blowing up innocent people. It's better to hear that our major companies, some of which I invest in, have shoddy accounting practices and our laws allow those involved to plead the 5th Amendment. They should lose that right when their company tumbles and people lose jobs and I lose money. Bastards.
Nothing beats a good cold glass of milk. Especially when it is preceeded by birthday cake. (Mine is in two weeks.....large gifts folks...large gifts)

If you are in Portland tonight around 6PM head to Fitzpatrick Stadium for my Ultimate Frisbee Team's game on the turf. Alchohol is encouraged but make sure it's in non descript containers....

Have a Weekend to Remember!

- LewisG

Waxing Philosophical on a Thursday morning...

How does one really know that they are 100% over somebody? Is there a light switch that goes off? Do I get an email alert? Did I miss the email? I don't think I'll ever figure that one out. One day you're feeling great. Taking on the world. Future looks bright (you gotta wear shades....ah Timbuk 3 where have you gone?). Then out of nowhere the right hook of longing and sadness. What was once a closed chapter is now back to become a full length novel.

Granted I see this person on a daily basis. Words aren't exchanged. A glance is enough to stir the pot of emotions in the heart and gut. Even on days or nights when I shouldn't even see her, there she is popping up somewhere. (If anyone remembers my Murphy's Law comment from a few months ago, it still rings true..) But lately instead of not worrying about any residual feelings, they have come back with a hammer. Why is it? If I knew, I'd be writing about happier things like having the next two months off or something.

My friend explained it thusly: I had been shutting all feelings for her in the back of my head. I was constantly doing something. If I wasn't I was making plans to do something. My trip to Sweden/Finland and consequential post trip euphoria. All these things kept my head away from dealing with these feelings. I hate it when friends get things right. Then again if they didn't....

You always want to be happy. It's human nature. But when you miss someone enough that everytime you see her your heart races and you get all gooey inside, it's tough to let go. In your mind the hope of somehow being reunited floats through the synapses of your brain. Some of those really should be a movie scene. Pipe dreams? Yes. Let it go Lewis? You have to...

No matter how hard and long it takes I have to. Especially if I want to date again in the next century on a clear mind. If things were meant to be then the relationship would still be there. It's not. Somehow things will finalize themselves in my head. There is really nothing I can be angry with her about. No more closure that I need. Just to be back happy again and feeling a sense of normalcy.

I promise that things will get happier on here. Having some new flavored coffe today got me all in a deep mood...

I don't understand how you can't complete an All Star game. Granted all the pitchers were done with pitching for the night and even some players, as early as the 7th inning, had changed into street clothes. But what about the poor Milwakee fan who wanted to see a completed game for the 200 dollars he probably paid for his tickets?

Naming the All Star MVP award for Ted Williams was a great thing. Naming the batting title award for Ted Williams. Priceless.

Not having an MVP for the All Star Game. Useless.

Something to remember. If you can't say anything good about something, don't say it at all. Normally you just get quoted in an article somewhere a month later....

With all these accounting scadals murdering the stock market, is there anything safe to invest in anymore?

When in doubt, resign, take a few months off, and really figure out what you want to do. And do it...

Good Quotes Monday! Humor to get you in a good mood on a Monday morning. Or with the hangover is it Friday yet???

My cultlike following is now accepting applications.

Forgive and Forget. And make sure to keep a list of the names.

If first you don't succeed, you must be installing Windows.

Oh, great time for the meds to wear off..

I have not yet begun to procrastinate.

If you can smile when things go wrong, then you have someone in mind to blame.

You can't make a person love you, you can only stalk them until they do.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I got stuck.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones to concentrate on.

It's great to be misunderstood. - Emerson

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my butt...

Happy Monday folks!

- LewisG