May 11th

Here's for a little shamless promotion for this great day. Let's see my LJ, my birthday so why not really take advantage of the situation and really do it up right. I chose the above picture because it sums up one of the biggest events of the past year, the incident with the deer and the loss of my car for forty days and forty nights back in November.
Things that happened on May 11th in history:
1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1689 French and English naval battle takes place at Bantry Bay.
1812 British prime Minster Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1858 Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1866 Confederate President Jefferson Davis becomes a free man after spending two years in prison for his role in the American Civil War.
1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1944 A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1960 Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1977 Keegan Willis Sands was born in Newburyport, MA to parents Mary Louise and William Douglas at 3:23 PM.
1995 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1996 An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1998 A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
1998 India conducted its first underground nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998 A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.

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It has been a while since I have been this tired, but I keep waking up super early and I can't really explain why. For example on Saturday night I went to sleep around 1 AM and my body decided it would be a good idea to wake up at 5:45. Of course I tried to go back to sleep, but it just wasn't happening. So yesterday I ended up being awake for almost twenty hours before going to bed. Of course I woke up this morning bright and early, and on top of that I feel sick now. Woohoo what a great way to start off the week. The only good news I guess is that since I am sick my voice is really deep, I am thinking of grabbing the guitar and covering some Johnny Cash songs, hahaha.

My weekend was very busy, I did a lot of random errands on Saturday and then went in to the city to pick up Vanessa. We went up to the moutains because she had never seen them before and I thought that was something she had to do before she went back to Florida. So we drove up and along the way saw two deer and two moose. The first moose we saw was gigantic, I felt like I could have driven my car underneath it if I tried. We went to Suds and then back to the house to watch a show about Dave Matthews and Trey visiting Senegal. The next morning I woke up super early (see above) and then we went up to Grafton Notch State Park to see the sights. Next we drove by Sunday River, which was really sad since all of the snow and people are gone. We kept going and stopped at the Ellis River Falls, before going shopping in North Conway. I bought a new spring jacket, a shirt and a few pairs of socks, oooh exciting. The sun finally began to peek out through the clouds within minutes of us getting on to the Kancamagus Highway. We stopped again along the river for some waterfall pictures and continued on in the beautiful weather towards Woodstock. We grabbed a quick lunch and then went back to the 'Bury.

I washed and waxed my car before finally returning to Salem. Wow what a weekend. Oh yeah did anybody see the Survivor finale last night, actually I already know the answer, NO!! Well I am going to talk about it anyway. I just think it is hilarious how some of the people on the show don't realize its a game and take everything personally. They also don't realize that all of the alliances they make are going to have to be broken in one way or another. I am so sick of them whining about how the person lied and said it would be them until the end. Duh, that person probably said the same thing to four other people, but he obviously can't fulfill this tall order. Get over it!!!

Second and Third Date

I mean to update this on Friday after the second date, but of course since I never update anymore I haven't. Well anyway on Friday afternoon Allie and I agreed to meet for lunch down at the waterfront. We had some Baja Fresh, which turned out to be very yummy. Once again the weather was great and we had a wonderful lunch. It ran a bit long because we just didn't want to go back to work. We finally did go back and upon parting ways I asked her if she wanted to go to dinner over the weekend and she said yes.

We emailed back and forth a couple of times to exchange numbers and such. I thought the Miracle of Science would be a good place and so I told her I would pick her up on Sunday night. I drove in to the city and ended up going down her street at exactly six, which was pretty amazing considering I had been up in Maine and New Hampshire sightseeing that morning. She hopped in the car and we found our way over to Central Square. The dinner was good, although I did loose a piece of chicken which had shot off of my plate. We talked a lot about our families and after an hour or so we got back in the car. We took a more scenic route back to her apartment and I had her laughing like crazy from Beavis and Cartman impressions. Upon dropping her off I got a little kiss and then went home. I am now trying to figure out the next move, I was thinking about inviting her to BoCaNO this week and then perhaps a trip to Rockport for the weekend. Hmmmmmm...

Epic Entry

I am quite exhausted today, because of the craziness I have experienced over the past three days. Since I never once came across a computer in my travels I haven't been able to update this journal. Well I am getting ahead of myself though, it all began on Monday morning. After waking up and getting ready for work, I received a text message on my phone giving me instructions to go to exit 21 on I 495 and be there before the end of the hour. At first I thought it was a joke and just deleted the message and continued preparing for work. No more than five minutes later the message appeared again, but this time with the addition of "bring your passport". I thought for a minute and realized how boring my life is and how much I could use some sort of excitement. I grabbed my passport, my camera, iPod and a Nalgene full of water and ran for my car. My watch showed that I only had thirty more minutes to get to the exit.

Ooh I hate work. I would love to finish this, but of course everything here is going wrong again. Oh well it was going to be good.

:o(
KWS

Couple New Songs

My music will now be in mp3 format instead of the old MPEG movies so they can easily be added to your iTunes library.


Twilight
You've Got Her In Your Pocket

Enjoy,
Keeg

Another Random Weekend

It was a great weekend, once again I just went with the flow and just did whatever came along. This included hanging with the Emerson crowd on Friday, beach going on Saturday and some Amesbury activities Sunday, followed by a nice dinner with some of the BoCaNO crew on Sunday night. The weather was great on Saturday, but it was very strange today. We had some sun, lots of clouds and even some rain at points. I wish the the weekend was a little longer, becuase I am quite tired now.

Oh yeah an update on my living situation, I will now be moving on July 31st. It's a long story I don't really care to go into it, bottom line is that it is pretty much a dead issue for the time being. I am going to upload some pictures and then its off to bed then.

Monday, monday is right around the corner.

Zach's Baseball game
Day at the Beach

Lunch Date

So on Thursday I went on a lunch date with Allie, a girl I met on Boston.com. We had been going back and forth on email for about a week and finally met at Jessica's Deli for lunch. When I met her I was glad to see she looked even better than in her picture and had the most amazing blue eyes. For some reason I wasn't to nervous upon meeting her, though she did seem a bit flustered. I ordered a slice of pizza and she a salad, taking advice from Chris Hayes I paid for lunch. We walked to the waterfront and sat on the seawall to eat our food. The weather was great and made the lunch that much better. We talked quite a bit and for the most part I didn't say anything too stupid. After about a half hour we walked back towards our respective work places. I walked her back to her building and said I had a great time. She emailed me right away telling me she had a good time and that next time she would treat. The weirdest thing is I don't have anything bad to say about her, in one word she was great. Now I just have to make sure I don't make a jackass out of myself and let it slip through my fingers. We'll see.