3/23/02 9:03 PM.
Ok Played around with the PICS Page and added a Older Pics page. Seems I was using up too much bandwidth with the non-thumbnailed pics, and wanted to add some more pics, so moved the big ones. Since I lost my Hard Drive a long time ago, lost all the originals so cant jsut turn them into thumbs with out some work, and dont think its worth it right now. Maybe when Im really bored? Anyways. Bought a book on java script, so will try some things that I think are cool out on here. One Idea that I think would be cool is, since most of you know I love Miss Saigon, I was gonna put up a banner that went through some of the different ideas that were used to express "The American Dream". Some are funny!!
Anyways. Not much is going on out here in PGH. Me and Kendallica are looking and thinking of buying a house. So damned cheap! Another developement is I am looking into schools right now. Probably go first into CCAC (community College of Allegeny County). Looking to go full time, maybe work part time if I can swing it. Big decision. Finally found a decent Mexican resturante out here called La Fiesta! walking distance from work, and have an all you can eat buffet for $6.95 for lunch. Have to bring my own Tapatio though. Pretty tastey. Makes me think of home. :) Anyways. Gonna try to add some pics of some people I still talk to that have been bugging me to put them up (you know who you are JOE!! lol). Also have taken a few pics of some of the snow we've had here that I'll add sometime, as well as a current pic of me and my longish hair. Well, thats it for now. You know how to get ahold of me, so dont think I need to put my email link in here. Talk to ya'll soon.
10/31/01 6:35 PM.
OK. Been adding pics from my going away party to the PICS PAGE. Almost all are up now. Got some more of stupid crap like pics from the (moving) truck at the desert landscape, which I didnt feel needed priority. Geocities is either just starting to monitor bandwidth, or I have enough now to start haveing problems with it, but you may get an error message saying that the space has been exceeded or something along those lines. If so, is usually taken care of within about an hour. Dont think many people will have the prob. Think it is like if the page is viewed 3 tims in an hour thats when the bandwidth is exceeded. Don't get many visitors, so shouldn't be a huge problem.
Well, it's Halloween. Had a party at work. Tried to make some Horchata to show these white folk what LA has to offer, but my blender started smoking in the middle or it. So, had to scrap that plan. Have a lot of THICK rice water in my fridge. Looks almost like pudding. :) Made some brownies (regular, not "special"). Couple of weeks ago, Me and Ken went to the Live and Janes Addiction show. Live was AMAZING, even if they did only play for less than an hour. It was acoustic and Ed kept breaking into songs with lyrics from other great minds. He said something along the lines of
Radio has to get a lot deeper. I don't know. After September 11th, Brittny Spears aint cutting it for me no more. Wasn't doing it before, aint doing it now.
He then breaks into "I Alone." Middle of the song, he tells guitarist Chad to "Get deep." Chad breaks into "I AM" by Eminem as Ed sings along. Was cool! Also did the new one that keeps getting played for the disaster/"Act of War" on 9-11 "Overcome." John Lennon's Imagine was a nice touch also.
Janes was a good show in my opinion, but not into their music, so wasnt the best. was at the Mellon Arena, where the Pittsburgh Penguins play. Nice place. Also, I think the week before that, me and Oliver went to a Pitt game. Got their asses handed to them by Syracuse. But, got to see the brand new Heinz Stadium. now THATS a nice stadium.
Sometime soon have to do some sight seeing. Need to get up to (Frank Lowd Wright's ?) Falling Water before it starts snowing too much. Seen pics and looks cool. Speaking of snow.....:) We got some last weekend. VERY little. Didn't stay on the ground at all and just barely saw some flakes, but is the first of the season. Finally got my heat on (landlord controls when he turns it on since he pays for it) on Mon. Nice and toasty now.
Well, thats about all thats going on with me. Meeting new people. Having some fun. Found a cool bar that will suffice. Great beer selection (about 250), but more expensive then I'm used to (Rhonda). $5+ Pints. More for "Specalty beers." Food is between $8-$20ish. Is decent, but can't go as often as I'd like.
Dad moved to Vegas. Wasn't gonna tell me, but I happened to call the night before he left. Thats about it. Wanna EMAIL ME, go for it. joeradose@aol.com
Laters.
10/07/01 2:55 AM.
Well, just hanging out here in the Pitt. Me and Ken just went to Lake Erie tonight. Made a 2.5 hour drive last 5 hours by taking back roads and stuff. Was cold as hell. Working at UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) in the Department for Liver Disease. It's all right. Been trying to get all my pics from my going away party up on the PICS Page. Got some up, but not all, so keep checking it. Got I think about 20 to get up, and have maybe half at the time I'm writing this. Well, Gonna go for now.
Joe
9/03/01 10:05 P.M. EASTERN TIME :)
I'm Hereeeeeeee, In Pittsburgh that is...
I made it to Pittsburgh PA! Been here since Friday night, Aug. 24. Pretty easy drive. Got a 15' Ryder truck and towed my car along behind it. Had a going away party on Fri Aug. 17th. If you were there, great to see ya one last time. If you weren't, WHY NOT??? Was gonna leave on Sat the 18th, but had too much stuff to load, and was to hung over to do too much of anything. Plus, had some problems with the truck. Got everything fixed and loaded by Sat. night though. Left on Sunday, Aug. 19th and went to Pheonix, AZ. (Thanks Jen). Left from Pheonix and went on to Albuquerque NM and crashed in a dive hotel for the night. Since we left a day late, we decided to skip the leg to Amarillo Tx and went straight to Whichita KS, a nice 11 hour or so drive through the desert, through a thunderstorm that made the truck leak, and, worst of all, through Texas. lol Ate a the Bar-H Steakhouse in a little town in TX, referred to us by a toothless man we met at the ATM lol. Took him 15 mins to tells us to go STRAIGHT ON THE STREET WE WERE ON 3 BLOCKS!! "Can't help but miss it!" Totally sterotypical Texas place. Dinner plate sized belt buckles, and an authentic "Ya'll come back now, ya hear?!" On the way to Whichita, had to grab some fireworks, just cause. Played with em at the place we stayed (Thanks Brad, Cathy, and "The Boys"). Set the field on fire a couple of times. lol Nothing major though. went from there to Iowa City that night (Wed.) and stayed with Fritha, Kendall's cuz. (Thanks Fritha) Next morning headed up to Monticello IA to vistit with Darlene for a bit before we headed out towards the promise land. Went through Illinois and ended up staying in Indianna at like a truck stop with hotels. Next morning went through the rest of Indianna and ate in a crappy place in Indianapolis. Went through Ohio and West Virginia and finally into PA. Got in and into my place about 9ish? on friday. Found the place I hwas gonna rent was WAY TOO SMALL, so on Sat. called landlord and worked it out to rent the 1st floor place instead. A nice 2 bedroom place. Still working on fixing it all up. Got all my stuff in on Sat and returned the truck on Sunday morning. Was 14 miles under the allotted amount they gave me. Have to look up the exact miles. was something just over 2800.
Have a job testing tomorrow at 6pm for like 4 hours tomorrow. See how that goes. Will be updating this soon, and more reliably since its gonna be too expensive to just call everybody in sight. Gonna get pics up of my going away party too soon. And the 2 or 3 that we took during the drive. Didn't really have time to sight see, so there arent many.
Joe
8/6/01 11:51 A.M.
Ok now it's once a year? BIG NEWS!!
GETTING THE F*CK OUTTA CALI!! As I type this, I am preparing to move to Pittsburgh PA. I am leaving here on the 18th, my going away party is the 17th. Already have my apartment set up out there (well, almost). Looking into a few jobs. Getting a digital camera today, so expect some pics soon. Gonna put up some from my party for sure. Planning on taking about 7 days to get to PA. Gonna look something like:
LA to Laughlin or Pheonix (depending), to Albuquerque NM, to Amarillo TX, to Whichita KS, to St. Louis MS, to Cincinattio OH, to Pittsburgh PA. Getting a 15 foot Ryder truck. It is way cheaper than UHAUL for the one way move (about $500 less). OK hopefully will update this more often in the near future.
Joe
9/17/00 6:30 P.M.
Once every 5 months aint too bad to update this thing is it? Not like anyone ever looks at it.
Well, I went on a little vacation not too long ago (from August 5th through the 27th). If anyone wants to see where all I went, I'm gonna put up a table with everywhere I stopped. May take a while to get it up, but gonna work on it til I'm done.
| ROAD TRIP |
| Date | Start | Desitination | Comments |
| 8/6/00 | Home, LA | Delano | Visit with KenDawg's G-Ma |
| 8/7/00 | Delano | Dunsmuir, CA | I REALLY liked Duinsmuir. Nice, old railroad town just on the otherside of Mt. Shasta. Visited some old friends that we haven't seen in a long time. (Hi Cathy. Thanks again.) |
| 8/8/00 | Dunsmuir, CA | Salem, OR. | Didn't get to see much of Salem, but it looked cool from what we did see.
Ya know, in OR, you can't pump your own gas? BUT, there's no sales tax, so.... :) |
| 8/9/00 | Salem, OR | Portland, OR | Ok I know it aint that far from Salem to Portland, but we were making an easy day. Thats the point of a vacation right? Portland was cool. Stayed with Ken's familia (Aunt and cousins. Hi and thanks.). |
| 8/10/00 | Portland, OR | Seattle, WA | What can I say? I LOVE Seattle. Saw a lot. Did some stuff. Saw Lenin and a troll in Fremont. Went to Boeing's airfield and went in their museum. Stayed 3 nights, 4 days in Frigging Fife. Seattle is awesome. |
| 8/13/00 | Seattle, WA | Boise, ID | What can I say? Was Idaho. Just stayed the night in someplace that sounded like NAMBLA or something. Had to get away. |
| 8/14/00 | Boise, ID | Salt Lake City, UT | 2nd time in SLC. Like it. Nice city. Went canoeing on the Jordan River. Saw the city from a "make out point" type of place.Stayed an extra say here. Thanks to Charles and Shirly. |
| 8/16/00 | Salt Lake City, UT | Denver, CO | Saw a lot of cool places on the way to Denver. Steamboat Springs is cool.Went through some 14,000 foot passes ont he way in. I liked Denver. Went to the Coor's Brewery in Golden (right outside Denver). Had some tastey samples. Nice city. Came back later (see 8/23/00 |
| 8/17/00 | Denver, CO | Whichita, KS | Suprisingly, I liked KS. A lot of bugs, but nice. Cessna is there, so cant be all bad. (Thanks to Brad and Brad's mommy for leting us stay there. |
| 8/18/00 | Whichita, KS | Monticello, IO | This is the last leg of the trip for KenDawg. This is where his Aunt and cuz live. Spent some time here. Went to see cuz dance for the United Way. Hung out. You know, just chilling. A little break from driving. Stayed here til the 22nd. Thanks to Darlene and Fritha. |
| 8/23/00 | Monticello, IO | Denver, CO | Yeah. had togo back to Denver. Didn't want to go through the pan handle (OK and TX), so I went through Nebraska (Big mistake, hate that dame state. Nothing from Iowa til you hit Colorado. And thats going through the WHOLE state). Hung out in Denver Proper. Stayed about 4-5 blocks from the Mile High Stadium / Coors Field. Took me a couple of hours to find a decent place to have dinner and some brew. Found one and met some nice people. Good beer, decent food (first time I've ever had Chili-Cheese fries made with a green chili. Not bad. |
| 8/24/00 | Denver, CO | Albuquerque, NM | OK I have mixed feelings about NM and Albuquerque. It's not bad, just REALLY boring. Ate at a waffle house (first time) and drove around getting lost for a RELLY long time (seriously, like 3-4 hours.) Overall, it's a decent place I guess, but don't seem like a real party town. |
| 8/25/00 | Albuquerque, NM | Pheonix, AZ | Hot as hell. Nice drive. Rained a bit, but nothing major. Beautiful country. Saw a LOT of warnings from Flagstaff AZ towards Pheonix warning about Elk. That was kinda weird Thanks to Jen for letting me stay. |
| 8/26/00 | Pheonix, AZ | Home, LA | Well, after 6,675.8 miles, I got back home. Was good to be back, but since I hate LA so much, I kinda wished I could have stayed gone. Well, I promised my G-Ma that I would come home, so I kept that promise. I got back on Sat. night, and had to be back at work on Mon. early afternoon. Wish I planned it out better. I came home with $7 to my name. Talk about cutting it close. Sheesh. |
4/15/00 5:45 P.M. OK AGAIN I havent been updating. :) Well, I got a scanner so I've been playing with it a little bit. Got some new pics up on my Pics page. I have been doing stuff here and there, by the way, just haven't updated on this page. So, enjoy what you can. By the way, added a few pics to my JD page too, since I got more "toys." Thats it for now.
Until next time;
Joe
12/5/99. 4:00 P.M. OK So I havent been updateing here.But, I have been doing work to this fine site of mine. Most importantly/noticeably, I added a Jack Daniels page to this fine, fine site of mine. Have to get all the legal crap up on it though. Not associated with Jack Daniels in any way, shape, or form. Blah blah blah. Will be trying to keep it full of pics and such, but don't know if I will put the info on this page or not. So that means you have to check back often. ALSO, if you happen to have any pics of JD decanters, send them on over to me at joeradose@aol.com Gonna get more pics up right now, so enough writing..Until next time;
Joe
10/25/99. 7:15 PM. Yeah Im still around.
Just waiting to go to work. Thought I'd finally do a little work on here. Like that effect of keeping the backgound fixed. Gonna see how it looks for awhile before I do it to all the pages. Well, time to start getting ready. Gonna update the midi soon I think/hope. Maybe put a new lil song on it for all ya'll. That's it for now.See you laters
Joe
9/26/1999. 1:45 PM.
Not much going on right now. havent done much latley. Fixed the link to the PICS page. Added a midi to this one (as if you didnt notice.) (P.S. KP, told you I was gonna put that here.)
If it's too big or anything, let me know here. Still trying to figue out why the link to Kendall's page doesnt work. Not like there's anything there of importance. OK Thats it for now.See you laters
Joe
9/17/99, 5:40 PM. What the H E L L is he doing awake???
I am back again and, again, I am working on the background. I think this one is cool. It's just not quite as weird as the "Burning Baby Head" one I was using. I got a quote from a friend sayng that I might go berzerk and shoot someone if I really liked the last background. For those of you who havent had the grand oppertunity to see it, I moved it to my first page. :)
OK, so, I got this background. Trying to get the link to Kendall's site to work, and I don't know why it doesn't. Will get it up and running soon.
I have been asked what I plan to do with this site. Well, here goes:
1. Do whatever the hell I want.
2. (A little more detailed)Just put up different stuff. Pics, interesting things, Favorite links. All the usual BS that goes on personal web sites.
3. Cant think of anything else. Maybe e-mail links to funky people?
How about this, whatever I think is worthy, I'll put up.
See you laters
Joe
9/14/99, 5:00 PM. Ok, am back.
I have been messing around with all these different backgrounds and settled on the one which you now see. I know some people will think it's "weird" (to say the least), but I think it is kinda cool. At least for now. Until next time,
See you laters
Joe
9/13/99, 2:53 AM. The insominiac is here again.
I think I have done some good work to this thing tonight. Added the links (below) as well as the PICs/GIFs on the first page. I also moved the lame "victory" speech to the bottom of the page. Is symbolic and all, don't really want to get rid of it. Well, time to leave for now. Will definatly be back soon to play somemore. Be sure to sign my guest book (below). Until next time,
See you laters
Joe
Click the PIC above to go to the 4-H web site!
