Holy crap! Its November. To make matters worse, today is the first day off of daylight savings time. I look out the window and it is getting dark at 5:30 pm. If that isn't depressing, I don't know what is! I can't complain thought, as the weekend was quite nice. Mr. Shope drove in from Tennessee to spend the weekend in wonderful northeast Ohio. Friday evening, we warmed up with Rock Band, then headed out to see my cousins' band play. Blind Man Shuffle. Quite the show. Saturday was spent having some beers and playing some little plastic guitars ...correction, two plastic guitars, a set of drums, and one hot mic. Who sounds like the Beatles, WE sound like the Beatles!...at least in our own heads. Later on, we all convened at Mr. Causer's house for some good times. Cards, beers, heaven dip, shrimp, and more plastic guitars. Who could ask for anything more. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to snap any photos. Oh well. Mr. Matthew is on his way back to Tennessee now. Its ok though, we're already planning the next get together, sometime around Thanksgiving. Stop on by!

Ladies and gentlemen, I have yet another picture journal to present to you. Recently, myself, Leslie and Alliyah traveled down to Columbus to visit with my brother and family. This was also the weekend of Gaby's league soccer tournament. Needless to say, good times were had by all. Travel down was uneventful. We got a quick night's rest before heading out to the pitch to watch Gaby's Saturday morning games. We then chilled at the house and had a round or two of ear bleeding surround sound face melting GUITAR HERO!! The even was capped off by an impromptu mini-bon fire. Not bad. Sunday morning brought the second round of soccer games. Once back home, we relaxed for a while, then headed home. Please, check the pictures here.

Ok, one measly post for the entire month of September. I believe that this is an all time low for SirValence. I've seen as few as 2 posts for a month, but only one? C'mon! I truly believe that this site is lagging behind due to my job. Now, If I could site here and blog while at work, that would be a different story. However, being that I work in IT for a bank, their network security is tighter than Fort Knox.

On a lighter note, I did something last night that I haven't done in quite some time. Les and I headed downtown to University Pizza to see my cousin's band play. They are called The Integration. Granted, we were some of the oldest people there, but we had an awesome time. It really reminded me of the good old "Youngstown Scene" days. Back then, there were a multitude of awesome bands here in the area. It was guaranteed that there would be a kick ass show somewhere in Y-town every single weekend. Show up, fork over the cover, drink beer, and listen to the music. It was kinda like that last night. Not to mention the fact that my cousins, Dave and John effing destroy! Their other band will be playing a show Saturday, October 30th at Aces Wild wings here in Boardman. I highly suggest stopping out. You know I'll be there!