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Yes. A post, a first post in 7 months. A lot has happened, I got married, moved in with my wife and am having a great time. I am in the process of actually converting this site to a Mambo content management system. I just have to figure out a bunch of things, so bear with the changes coming soon!
Another post to fill some space. Got Tim this weekend, we went to the Badger hockey game last night, Spongebob movie today… should be fun I tell ya! 
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Well, the page is blank again, time to type some more. I do spend more time deleting comment spam than I do posting. pretty sad I tell ya.
oh yeah, I like, spent an hour deleting old spam comments from old posts, and it looks like I killed a few recently! SORRY!
Trying an anti comment spam thing now… what a pain! I get more spam than any posts. do spammers really thing people read comments from 3 years ago?
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Just posting with the new version of MT. neato!
Here’s my bi-weekly post to have a post post.
Tomorrow is my B-day. The big Three Three!
And now for a first in mattymo blog history… I’ve been dating someone! Things have been going great for us, and she makes me quite happy. So, we’ve been spending a lot of time together. 
I was thinking today, how I should compile a “cool things that happened to me this year” Well, here’s a few off the top of my head…
Meeting and dating my g/f!
Won a trophy for summer men’s softball (go see it at the Middleton Nitty Gritty)
Won a trophy for summer co-ed softball (see it at the lobby at FOX 47)
I hit a walk off home run in a men’s softball game to win after being down by 15 runs at one point and 14 at another point
Got to see Dream Theater in Madison!
Helped a lot in getting my work to broadcast HDTV
Had a photo pass and took some awesome pix at Ozzfest this year!
Took Tim on a week-long vacation up north with my Dad and Lisa
A bunch more, but as I said at that beginning, this was just off the top of my head.
This weekend, Tim will be visiting, and we’ll have a combo b-day deal at my mom’s for my birthday, Tim’s B-day (it was on the 14th, he’s 8!) and Marv’s b-day (same as mine). fun fun!
So, yeah, i’ll try to post more often, but um, you know how that usually goes!
How bout that! I post when everything turns blank. There’s been lots going on for me, just haven’t been posting about it. Is it a crime? naw. I’m quite happy and everything is going well. I will post some more drivel for you sometime soon.
Well, Vacation was in Kentucky this year for Golf Week. It was in the Land Between the Lakes, which is the area between two dammed up rivers, the Tennessee and the Cumberland. We golfed six different courses. They were all pretty nice. I personally played pretty good the first two days, and the last four? Eh.
And here are the newly uploaded AGAIN pictures:
http://www.mattymo.com/gallery/golfweek2004
Leave a comment and tell me which you like the best!
When I returned, Dream Theater was in Madison, so I went down to check that out. They never disappoint, even after this being my 22nd time seeing them live!
Other than that… been busy with some things 
Site was down and the last backup that could be restored was from sept 5th… so my last couple entries are in the bit bucket, and I will have to restore the vacation pix from golf week… maybe by monday.
I just got back from vacation in Kentucky. It was pretty good, golfed a lot, more later with a bunch of pictures! yay!
Hi! I went through some pictures from Vacation and Ozzfest. Well, I was too busy having fun on vacation that I didn’t really take a lot of pictures. But here they are!
http://www.mattymo.com/gallery/vacation2004
Then the next weekend, Aug 14th, I got to check out Ozzfest at Alpine Valley, was a great show, all day, about 13 hours worth, and lots of photos. I was lucky enough to have a media pass, and probably took over 300 pictures. About 100 or so are good enough for the website, so check those out here:
http://www.mattymo.com/gallery/ozzfest2004
I’m in the middle of a softball tournament now, our first game was at 9:30 and we played 2 in a row and won. I’m playing with a couple guys from my Tuesday team. By the way, our Tuesday team won our division championship against our heated rival team to bring home the Trophy! Go to the Nitty Gritty in Middleton to check it out… It’s the only trophy there! Yay us!
We play again today at 3.
Vacation was great! We had a really good time! Got back a week ago Saturday, and had to whip right into the work week on Monday. Went and saw a few concerts in the last week… including Ozzfest last Saturday (14th) I was hooked up pretty good with media credentials, so I took a LOT of great pictures. I’ll post again when I have them online. I also have a few from Vacation. I was too busy having fun and being part of the action to stop and take pictures… oh well!
After a really busy week at work, I am on vacation all week!
I picked up Tim on Sunday and drove north! We met my Dad and Lisa at a cottage near Boulder Junction, WI. (About 5 miles from the U.P.) We got settled in yesterday, and today the motor arrived for the boat. Last night we stuck the pole in the water off of the pier for a little bit and Tim caught his first fish! It was a little bluegill, and later on, he got a bigger fish… a Perch! I think I caught the same when I was little too.
Today we went out in the boat and were pulling fish out of the lake left and right. At one point, all three of us (Dad, Me, Tim) had fish on our hooks! Granted, none were trophy fish, but enough to make dinner for the 4 of us! I got some sunburn too. Later on, after dinner, it was campfire time and some real S’mores! I golf with my dad tomorrow, Wednesday, my uncle from Green Bay is stopping over, and at some point we’ll find some places to swim!
Last week, we won our softball game on Tuesday, we were rained out on Thursday. But I went to Lisa’s house, as she planned a suprise party for her daughter Maddie’s 18th b-day party. Her and her dad got a reggae band to play in their yard! It was pretty cool.
Friday night, it was time for some Milwaukee Metalfest action. This thing gets worse and worse every year. A few bands were great, especially Watch Them Die and Death Angel. Yup, some nice family friendly band names! haha Anyways, after running behind all night, then cutting off bands all night, they still cut the main band off at the end of the evening. AND… the cops came in the middle of the fest and evacuated, because they said there was a small fire upstairs. NICE. There was no danger, and everyone was let back in. Sheesh.
Saturday, I had originally planned on the Metalfest, but it was looking so weak earlier in the week, and especially after the Friday debacle, I let it go, and spent most of the day packing up, then helping a friend move, and then… seeing Mirror Black at the Badger Bowl. Then on Sunday…yeah, vacation started! hehe
I’ll have some Vacation pix up when I get home!
Hey! Yeah, I meant to post after last weekend, REALLY!
I played in a softball tournament last Saturday. It was my first tournament, and was a lot of fun. We took 2nd place. After that was done, I met up with Andy and we took off for the Jefferson County fair to check out Styx! After doing a quick lap through the fairgrounds, we took hold of our places about 7 people from the stage. I brought my cam with, I figured I’d get a few pictures, but being that close, I went a little nuts, and with the changing lighting conditions, I had some fun with the manual settings on my camera, and trying to take pictures in the dark without the flash. So, here, look at the best 50 or so pictures that I took!
Let’s see, the rest of the week, um, was pretty normal. Radio show, softball on Tues and Thurs. Lost both games. Really sucked, and Friday night, went to the Capitol Brewery to meet up with my Dad and Lisa to hang out and sorta celebrate their birthdays. Afterwards, a friend called and was going to Waunafest, so, we went there!
Yesterday was WJJO’s Band Camp. Lots of “solid rock” bands, and it was just cool to go and check it out, and see a lot of the concert regular types there. After that, Andy followed me home and we checked out Cherry Pie at Waunafest. So, yup, today was a day of veggin’! I watched a few movies, Days of Thunder, Bowling for Columbine and In & Out, all on cable.
Then, of course, my new little habit, I go to the Internet Movie Database and look up the movies I see, and read the trivia on the movie, goofs, etc. It’s kinda neat!
Here’s a recap of some of the events outside the ordinary since my last post…
Attempted to go to Rhythm and Booms on July 3rd, (my sister’s b-day) a friend from the “metal gang” of friends lives near the park and had a party, but man, it just rained and rained and rained, and Rhythm and Booms was called off, so we just had a good time at the house. Some people had fireworks, and one crazy guy was blowing lighter fluid out his mouth on fire. The best was when he set up a few packs of bottle rockets and lit them with a ball of fire that he breathed on it! Crazy!
Flash forward to the 4th. Another guy from the same gang, Tyson, bass player from Mirror Black had a gathering at his house in Rio. We hung out for while there, someone brought a roll of 8,000 firecrackers and we lit it off. For about 10 minutes it was constant fire cracker noise! It got darker so a few of us headed to Columbus for their firework display. Fireball guy from the night before was one of the people that was setting off the big aereals. (with a flare this time I assume). I haven’t been to a small town fireworks thing for a while, and I was pretty impressed. While there weren’t a lot of aereals, the creativity and power of the ground pyrotechics was great! It was back home after that, time for some rest!
Monday, the 5th, my Mom’s 60th B-day, I was off from work. Got to sleep in, got all my metal show stuff done and picked up Mike and headed to the rain-postponed Rhythm and Booms. Got there early enough and I strategically planned the parking place so we could make a quick exit to get down the WORT by 11pm for the radio show. Great fireworks again, the F16 flyby was awesome and we made it back to WORT just in time. Gotta like it when a plan comes together!
My friend Cindy from L.A. was in town for the week, so on Wed the 7th, we got to hang out, and we saw Dodgeball and watched her bro play fast pitch softball. Wow, fast pitch is a TOTALLY different game! I’d be too scared.
Thursday, I had to bow out of our softball game. If you recall a few weeks ago, the band Kittie was in the studio, and a few weeks before that, we explored The Rave in Milwaukee with the band 36 Crazyfists. Well, the are on tour together and were in Milwaukee on July 8th. So, Mike and I headed over there to check out the show. We met up with the 36 CF guys again, and then went to explore the Rave again. They had some of the cool areas we found last time all locked up, but we got to see the pool room again. We feel like tour guides now, people will come downstairs, and we’ll say; “Hey, are you looking for the pool? yeah? okay, it’s over here…” funny. Kittie played, they were good, and Mike and I went to the Pinecone on the way home to wrap up the late night. UGH.
Friday night, an 80’s hard rock cover band was up from Chicago. My bud Harley said that I HAD to go. I had worked a little with the promoter to plug the show on the air, so I guess it’s a good idea to “be seen,” plus, bands like this are a lot of fun, even if I drank water all night! That was another late night.
Saturday morning, I had to take Torrie to the vet. Her eye has been bothering her. 
She has an ulcer and her 2nd eyelid is not looking good. The Vet gave me some anti-biotic to put in for a week. She’s all winky, and damn, she’s hard to catch! But it’s a good workout, and I hope she gets better!
After getting Torrie home, I went up and picked up Tim. After the normal stop at McDonald’s. Hey, I like that crap too, we came home and hung out for a bit, I broke out the walkie talkies, we went to the park, the store, I made some dinner, we watched a movie and it was bed time. Sunday, more playin’, and over to gramma and Marv’s house, then to Mini-Golf and Go-Carts! Fun fun fun! Back to granny’s for some dinner. Mmmmm cheeseburgers. Tim sure can eat!! WOW. Then back to Horicon for the lil guy. In a couple weeks we’re going up north with Lisa and Grampa MO for a week. That will be fun!
Monday night, July 12th. I got most of my metal stuff done later on Sunday night. I headed down to the Annex on Monday night for a show. Innatrance (I’m an aquantance with the guitar player) was opening for big time active rock band Breaking Benjamin. It was a cheapo show courtesy of the big rock station in town, and they sold the place out. Super hot and crowded. It was a decent show, they are all good at what they do, just not as heavy as I normally like, but still, a good show! You gotta respect a band that can get that many people going! I had to bow out a little early to make it to my radio show in time.
After being at WORT for about an hour, Lucas, er um, Meatwad as he’s known as now called in and said he could make it down for his shift of 2-5am. He was having issues with his recent wisdom tooth removal. He asked if we could stay til 5am! UGH. We did the normal 11-2 show, then just had fun playing stuff we like from 2-5. It was great! But damn, tired. I emailed into work, and was only an hour late.
Wednesday night… A few local area bands opened for the band Misery Signals (who are #1 on my chart this week) at a bar downtown called the Klinic. 1) I’ve never been to the Klinic and 2), Its always cool to have a good show in town and not Milwaukee (which had a couple other good bands playing, Himsa and Byzantine). So, Begin the End and Fallen to Ashes were the opening bands, they were pretty damn good, was a decent place to see a show and Linderman (Andy) was there to hang out with. Hell, even Meatwad was in the house. I got to talk to the bass player from Misery Signals after the show, he put me on the list I guess through their record label) and it was all good. Time to go home.
Softball recap? Been frustrating, and I’m such a dick! We pissed away our game on Tuesday by giving up dumb errors. (I had a home run, and was like 4 for 4), Tonight, we did the same, I felt like putting a bow on the scorecard and giving it to the other team. Last Tuesday we actually played well and won the game, I had a homer that night and one the Thursday before. We are really not that bad of a team, either co-ed or men’s, it’s just a matter of playing smart! This weekend, I was asked to play in a small tournament, and hopefully we have the right team playing! Then I plan on heading over to Jefferson County to catch Styx at the county fair! YAY STYX!!!
And as for posting? I know, I just don’t and don’t, and it gets easier to not post then it does TO post. I guess I need to get in the habit!
leave some commentage, so I know you are still there!
Last night was the annual trek over to Summerfest. Mike, Andy and I headed over. A lot was going on. I really wanted to see Styx. It’s been a long time since i’ve seen them live, and I’ve never seen them since Dennis DeYoung left. Also, the band Thornley was playing on the big Marcus Ampitheater stage opening for Nickelback and 3 Doors Down. My friends over at Roadrunner records were kind enough to make it possible for me to have a pair of tickets. After going back the 3rd time, and then asking the person a 3rd time if they are SURE my name or tickets aren’t there. OH! LOOK, there they are! IRK. So, that was just in time. Mike and I went in, and set up a time to meet back up with Andy. We got to our seats, which were pretty decent, row BB on the side section, but as I really was there for Thornley and the REALLY good seats were still open, we moved to about row 10 center for the opener. Thornley is basically the main guy (Ian Thornley) from the old band Big Wreck, wth a new band and a new label, sort of a similar sound. It’s great good ol Rock n Roll. So, yeah all you metal haters out there, it’s not metal!
After that show was done, we saw the main guy from Thornley driving a lil mini motorcycle around the bus/semi area. Some people next to us were yelling to him holding up some Big Wreck shirts. So he decided to find a way to get up there and say hi. So, we had to go meet Andy near the big drum set at 8:30, and Ian is coming in the gate just as we were leaving. He was ready to sign stuff, but, nothing to sign, I was just happy to shake his hand and say hi.
So, we met up with Andy by the big drumset. At the entrance of the Marcus Ampitheater there is a giant group of musical instruments, a guitar, piano, drumset, etc. Mike being the crazy bastard that he is and aspiring drummer wanted a picture of him ON the drumset! Of course, as you can see with the photos in this post anyways, I’m having fun with the new camera phone. It doesn’t take the best pictures, but damn, it’s better than nothing, and it’s a lot of fun. So, yup, Mike on the drumset. Fun stuff I tell ya.
The plan for the evening… It seemed to have been 80’s night or something. All at the same time (10pm) on different stages were Kool & The Gang, Gin Blossoms, Pat Benatar, Loverboy, The Fixx, Tesla and Styx. As I already mentioned, I really wanted to see Styx, and maybe some Tesla, then figured I could maybe catch some of the other bands. Tesla and Styx were on the complete opposite ends of the grounds from one another. Mike was all about Tesla, so we all just went to catch Tesla, I figured I was good for a song or two, then book it to the other end to see Styx. That’s how it happened. Tesla started, saw a couple songs (some newer one, and “Modern Day Cowboy”) and took off to see Styx. Saw a minute of the Fixx, just caught Benatar walking by then cut over to catch Styx, on probably their 3rd song or so, “Too Much Time on My Hands,” they then did something new as Andy and I tried to position ourselves a little better to see and hear the stage! Mike stayed for Tesla, as we already set up a meeting place for after the shows.
Styx did a huge medley (18 diff. songs) then ripped through some classics like “Light Up,” “Renegade,” “Come Sail Away,” “Miss America” and some others I can’t recall off the top of my head. The drummer was just going crazy, well the whole band did. It’s awesome to see them still playing at such a high level! Can’t wait to see them again! They were done by 11:20, which was fairly early yet as far as 10pm bands go at Summerfest. So that gave Andy and I time to take our time back through some of the other stages. We caught Kool and the Gang in time to see them do “Celebration!” then got to see Loverboy do their big medley of classic rock songs inside of their hit “Lovin’ Every Minute of It” (i’m pretty sure that’s which one it was) After they were done, we met back up with Mike and found the shuttle bus back to Waukesha for our ride home. I ended up with a few blisters on my feet. Not sure if it was bad socks or I didn’t have my shoes tight enough for what, but all in all, it was a great summerfest, and it was especially cool to see all those bands pretty much as I had hoped and planned out! In the words of the immortal Colonel “Hannibal” Smith…”Gotta like it when a plan comes together!”
Other than the summerfest deal… Some softball games this week. We won on Tuesday (mens), and again tonight (co-ed). I finally got my home run power back, after it went away a month ago or something. It’s nice to be winnin’ again! Before the game on Tuesday, I had some time to kill, so I went and saw Dodgeball, and damn, that’s a funny movie! If you haven’t gone to see it, you really should. Oh yeah, I saw Shrek 2 and Around the World in 80 Days recently as well. Shrek 2 was really good!
Oops, did it again, didn’t post in a long time. So, um, I’ll just say, more later. I have some pix to post. but in the mean time, check out Kittie at WORT by going to the Photo Gallery, then scroll down to concerts then get to the pix of them at the WORT studio on monday the 14th!
last weekend I went down to chicago to check out Rush at the Tweeter Center with Tom, Bruce and Robert. Tom and Robert both have pretty good posts about it, so here’s Tom’s, and here’s Robert’s! Great time! And a Super Big thank you to Tom and Bruce for all of their hospitality!!!
Saw Harry Potter #3 on Sunday and that was pretty good, although I think I spent too much time trying to remember and compare it to the book!
Monday was Mosh Pit night, Mike went to see Rush in Milwaukee and made it in for the last half hour or so. So Andy came in and had a few picks in place of “Mike’s Picks” It was cool and nice to have someone there also.
Tuesday… yay, softball. Oh wait. BOO Mosquitos and getting shelled by a bunch of home run hitters. Oh yeah, and I play 1st base… never touched the ball. I was robbed of a home run, hit the wall on top of and in front of the scoreboard, so it bounced back in play. Blah. I got a single. yay me.
Wednesday, I picked up a new cellphone! My old one has been acting up and I was eligible for an upgrade with the plan I have with Cingular So, I’ve been drooling over this certain model of cellphone that just came out with a bunch of fanfare. It was too expensive through Cingular and was available after some weak long-term rebates on a few web sites. Also, to really use the full capability of this phone it helps to have a certain headset. So, to my delight, Best Buy had this phone with some instant rebate and a good healthy mail-in rebate, and the free ($100 value) wireless bluetooth headset Here’s the Phone, a Motorola V600, and a Bluetooth headset So, I think this is my 5th or 6th cellphone. Each time I’ve gone the cheapo route and got the free one with the plan, but have always wanted just a lil bit more. This deal came by at the right time, just a smidge more than free (after rebate) and has just about everything I wanted in a phone. Camera, midi and mp3 ringtones, color screen, speakerphone, the bluetooth (wireless connection with devices within 30 feet) thing is way cool, PIM functions, etc etc. So yeah, enough about the phone. It’s cool, and a new toy for this big boy.
So as I’m driving home, turning the corner into the condo thing, Sandi and Farrell are on a Harley zippin out. Normally this would be normal, but they weren’t on Farrell’s bike. They were on Sandi’s new bike! A Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 Custom. Yup, my sis is a Harley chick now. It’s a cool bike, she decided to take the plunge and hopefully she is safe and stuff! She has her temp license and will take the bike safety/learning course over the next few weeks.
This weekend I have Tim, and I’m stuck at work on Saturday from Noon - 5. I get to air NFL Europe football and a baseball game. Yea! Sit there, watch sports, press a button every half hour or so. Woooopie doooodle. It’ll be cool to see Tim again, as it’s been a bit over a month. I don’t have anything extraordinary planned, but it always works out fine.
Congrats to the Tampa Bay Lightning for winning the Stanley Cup. I don’t care what sport it is, seeing a Game 7 of Stanley Cup finals and having a team win it is the coolest damn thing in all sports! Enough to make a big guy feel a lil weepy.
Tentatively, the band Kittie is to be coming into my radio show Monday night. Tune in if you can! It’s really quite an honor to have some nationally (internationally, they are from Canada!) recognized bands come into my lil old radio show.
RIP: Ray Charles, Ronald Reagan and John P. ”Jack” Urbain (Sandi’s best friend Holly’s Father)
My friend Mike called on Saturday and said that our fav Local band Mirror Black was playing that night, so I had something to do! That was pretty cool. Ended the night at Denny’s with the slowest kitchen service ever! Got home way late! Sunday was Memorial Day fun with a cookout at my friend Jill’s house, bunch of people came and hung out, played Outburst and watched a couple movies.
Monday, I golfed with my dad and his friend tom. It was my first time out this year and I did pretty good for a 1st time out, heck, a good time for me period. 2nd shot off the tee went 270ish yards! We played 9 holes, and I just came back home to get ready for the Mosh Pit. Then off to my dads for another cookout! This time we had buffalo burgers. Yummy.
Tuesday was softball night, we came away victorious as we did last thursday. I think i have a home run in the last few games.
Last night, it was Mike’s 40th B-day! We went to the Prime Quarter for some steaks, then over to Visions. ugh. I honestly don’t care much for strip clubs, as they are kinda boring, but hey, birthday fun! The few of us that went chipped in and got mike the good treatment on stage with 2 “dancers” The look on his face within the first few seconds was priceless and worth the $$ we chipped in right away!
So that’s about it for now. This weekend, I get to go down near chicago and see my friend tom! and bruce too. The main event on the itinerary is going to see Rush on Saturday night!
That’s all for now, off to a 10pm softball game! UGH!
