Nickelback, for the 5th time

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My boys were in town with Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace last night. Four hours of pyrotechnics, ear ringing riffs, beers, numerous fist pumps, and occasional shouting.

Here are a couple shots from my camera phone.

Floor seats – the only way to roll when seeing your favorite band!

Nickelback Concert - Orlando, Florida

Tiger Woods and Rogers Clemens were in da house!! They assisted in the launching of t-shirts into the crowd for about 10 minutes.

Nickelback Concert - Orlando, Florida

If I was in charge, I would have designated their assistance to the tossing of beers in plastic cups (which happened about 20 minutes later). Probably a smarter PR decision to stick with the t-shirts though, right?

Catch Up

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Over the last few weeks, there have been numerous things that I’ve wanted to share here on my blog. But, with surgery and its aftermath, on top of a monumental website launch at CG – my time has been squeezed. So, in my attempt to play catch up, I’m going to mix it up below and just start rambling. Dig it?

Lets kick off things with a concert I attended last month at the TD Waterhouse Center here in Orlando. Aerosmith and Kravitz together, how awesome of a lineup is that?

Blog photos (2004-2008)

Even though we had upper deck seats, it was still breathtaking to be in the same building as these hall of fame artists. Aerosmith’s stage act continues to give the perception of a young band, which is astonishing since Tyler & Perry are pushing 60! At one point during “Livin’ on the Edge” – Steven ran over to the crowd and locked tongues with a ecstatic female fan. Cool? Of course. Gross? Kinda.

A tired Yogi here. This is his little spot on the couch. If you currently occupy that space, don’t think he’ll stop his persistent attempt to take it over. With time, everyone succumbs.

Blog photos (2004-2008)

I’m about to retract his graduation away from the kennel. A couple weeks ago I moved the kennel out to the porch, optimistically thinking he’s over a year old now and the house should be safe as he roams during the day unattended. The first week or so he was completely fine, as we took “dog watch” turns in the afternoon to assure he was being a good boy. The past 2 weeks we took it to another level, leaving him and Rufus alone during the ENTIRE day. This move has probably been premature, as Yogi has been simply relentless. Here’s the damage so far:

- 2 couch pillows. They’ve been dragged THROUGH the doggy door, & completely chewed up around the back yard.
- A book (that a friend lended me btw). The cover was shredded and pages chewed.
- The tv remote control. The top of it is completely gnawed down to nothing. (But it still works!!)

I hate punishing my little boy, but wow is my patience running thin. He’s been smacked with the rolled up magazine more in this last week, than the entire first year I had him!

The website that the CG team has been working on so diligently lately has been for Parrish Medical Center, located in Titusville, a city on the East Coast of FL. Titusville is within the vicinity of the Kennedy Space Center.

This project started at this time last year, and has honestly taken a full year to revamp. This has not only been one of our best productions, but our best clients. They have been so understanding, confident, and open during all phases of the project. This site will grow exponentially throughout 2006, so we’ve established an incredible foundation for them from a creative and technical standpoint. All of us are heading there in two weeks to kick off their Intranet revamp – which is once again an enormous project in every way imaginable.

Here’s a quote we received the other day from the Director of Marketing & Communications:

“Parrish Medical Center set out to create an online experience that reflected our values and vision: “Healing experiences for everyone all the time.” Caxiam Group took our old, complex, static site and completely transformed it. Their knowledge of the very latest web technologies and design standards helped us achieve our goals for the site. The entire team was extremely professional, knowledgeable and responsive. On behalf of everyone at PMC, thank you for not only creating a healing web experience for our patients, visitors and care partners, but for making the entire web redesign a healing experience for us.”

Oh, by the way, the fantasy football trophy became MINE this year. Of the 12 participants in a private league, I took the regular season, and moved my way through the playoffs unbeaten.

Man, Joe Jurevicius was a great pickup for team Sharplacher! I also have to give mad props to my boy Alexander, for being so consistent. The Chicago D put up big numbers – I of course saw the potential early on so that was a no-brainer free agent pickup.

To think that I was once a non-believer in fantasy leagues, hmm. I’ve become quite passionate about it this past season. Ok, let me be honest, I think passionate is a bit of an understatement. I’m truly obsessed. It really adds to the excitement on Sunday’s, and I highly enjoy studying X’s and O’s and weekly matchups. I’m looking forward to defending my championship next season!

Sister Hazel @ HOB

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Blog photos (2004-2008)

Had a big weekend of live music with two concerts. Hit up Dashboard Confessional on Friday night and then one of my favorite bands, Sister Hazel, on Saturday night. Matt Nathanson opened for them, instantly became a huge fan of his music and personality on stage.

Every time I see Sister Hazel perform (3rd time now), I find myself becoming attached to a certain song that necessarily wasn’t on top of my favorite list beforehand. “Give In”, from their 3rd album “Fortress”, will be played frequently for the next week or so because it was just oh so spectacular live.

Florida Music Festival & Downstem

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Blog photos (2004-2008)

Local Orlando rock band Downstem is back at it after being dissolved for about a year and a half.

I was introduced to them before my Vegas trip mid March, been lovin’ their sound since. I was quite dissapointed to say the least that I’d never get to see/hear them live, or watch them release anymore albums.

The Florida Music Festival is the happenin’ thing in Orlando this weekend, so the members decided to rekindle and rock it out @ 9:30 on the Wall Street Catina stage. Oh yea…

“Standing here, searching for more…I want to be sure, of that Unopened Door…”

Check ‘em at www.downstem.com

"My words will be here when I’m gone…"

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“Sympathetic” by Seether

Shinedown, Seether, & 3 Doors Down. Three great bands, three memorable performances. Headed down to Hard Rock Live about 1/2 an hour before the doors opened to make sure we got close to the stage. Our planning paid off, as we got FRONT ROW to an eventually packed house, and came home with some souvenirs.

We became owners of a pick from Shinedown, a towel thrown out by leadman Shaun Morgan from Seether, AND a 3 Doors Down pick that I caught IN THE AIR. I must say, it was an incredible catch on my part. Thanks to Matt Roberts of 3 Doors Down for that final pick toss of the night! Brad Arnold has really got an incredible live voice, I was quite impressed with him and the entire lineup last night.

The night ended with me almost smashing into a car in front of me on I-4. Thank goodness the Jeep stopped on a dime before impact, it could have been messy situation.

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