Melancholy

Well today is a perfect example of why I want to move away from Chicago. I do like Chicago a lot, but it's all about extremes with the weather. Always too hot, too cold, too windy, too humid, only a handful of those great summer days. Would be nice to get a nice refresh somewhere else, but oh well...

This morning I was woken up to some type of jackhammering right outside my building. The cat gave me that look like what's going on, I shrugged and she looked back to the noise. I always wonder how much animals really understand, sometimes they seem really clueless, and other times I feel like I'm having an ongoing conversation with them. Anyways, I couldn't complain it was like 11am, but I just woke up in that kind of melancholy mood, so I knew it was going to be one of those days... and it has been...

Luckily though I have this awesome thing called a Stilletto, which is a portable satellite sirus radio player thing... Basically it's a life saver for me. It doesn't really get reception when you're walking around, but when it's in the radio dock thing (at home) it records hours and hours of stations that I have it set on so I have like 100 hours of radio music on it I love it. The ability to pause, remind, and fast forward through stuff is great. The ipod thing never interested me, there are only a few albums I like all the way through and it's somewhat rare when I'm in the mood to listen to it all. I know you can load whatever on there, but I love the randomness of satellite and I've found so many songs that I either forgot about or never knew the name of, it's just great. It also works like an ipod since you can load your own mp3s on it too, but I'm too lazy to do that. I highly recommend a subscription to sirius though, I think it's like $15 a month, but I just bought a lifetime subscription for $400. It comes with an online subscription so you can listen at work (if you're allowed).

Anyways now that my sales rant is over, the reason I got Sirius though is because of Howard Stern. I never liked him on regular radio, but on satellite the show is just amazing, there's nothing else I do in my life that can hold my interest that for long everyday (well when he's not on vacation or taking off every Friday). He came to Sirius in umm 2006 and I have been a loyal listener ever since.

When I was growing up I always wanted to get into radio, but when I realized that you have to be some fake annoying guy who is laughing at the weather I decided it wasn't for me. There only seems to be a handful of people who can be who they want, but I didn't think it seemed it worth it to put in all that time to try to get there (I wasn't dead set on being in radio, just thought it would be a lot of fun). I also thought, what if i sucked. Like what do those radio guys who work their whole career to get that big shot and then they finally do, and then they suck and are pulled off the air in a month. Kind of depressing.

Although the last time I was in Vegas I remember I was a little drunk and I was talking to these guys at some gift shop (you know the places that sell a bottle of water for $7) and since I was a little toasty I was yapping a little bit more and one of the guys made the off hand comment that I'd be good on the radio, I was like huh... maybe I missed my calling or maybe he said that and was thinking he would have changed the channel.