July 6

This was one of the better evenings I've had in a while. As I mentioned before, Meagen and Mike were making their way back to Flint today to visit the hometown peeps. They were driving all around until dinner, where they, and myself, met at Amanda and Theo's for a great cookout. I basically drove right from work, and proceeded to pig out on hot dogs, sloppy joes, chips and salsa, and corn from the grill. Amazing. Best of all, I got face time with Meg and Michael. Talking to people on the phone or chatting online is one thing, but when you finally get to see good friends in person, you can't beat it. And...there's some potential that it could become significantly easier to get said face time with said individuals in the near, near future. MIKE, YOU BETTER CALL ME AS SOON AS YOU GET DONE WITH YOUR PHONE INTERVIEW TOMORROW (later today)!!!

It was getting late and Meagen had left to see her brother before the red eye flight back to Jacksonville. Mike, Amanda, Theo, and I were relaxing in the living room and I got another call from Mr. Thibaut. Since things were winding down, I decided it was time to get going. I said my goodbyes and headed over to Brad's. A few episodes of Entourage and a Conan monologue later, we were sitting there and Ari started going crazy. Not just any crazy, it was a sort of cat-nip, late night binge type crazy. It had been full of energy since I got there, but really picked it up during the late night. I hope Colleen was able to sleep with all the noise downstairs.

I'm currently sitting in my bed and watching SportsCenter. Tigers lost today. Lame. Rasheed Wallace is sounding like he's going to be a Celtic. SUPER lame. Rhett still hasn't sent me pictures of his dinner on Saturday. ULTIMATE lame. Hahaha.

I once dreamed I pitched a perfect game,

B