Ok complaint time. It's, oh what, March 6th, and I passed a house that STILL has christmas decorations up. And I'm not talking the basic ones like the icicle lights dangling or the wreath on the door. I'm talking the animal shape ones that light up and pictures of Santa Claus. Come on people....

I'm going to make a conscience effort to wave or say hi to at least one person a day. I'm tired of all this negativity in the world. Sure people are fickle but at least we can say hi to each other.

Ok so I'm a few days behind. I've been so damn tired. Not sure really why? It's not like I've been boozing it up, or staying up til 7:00 am or something. I think I really should go to the doctor's soon. Wednesday at Blarney was chaotically busy. No real problems though and we got a bit of a rush late after the Naughty by Nature concert, which was a total flop from what I heard. Maybe 50 people..... Are you kidding me? Typical Booda promotion. And we have another one coming at the Blarney Stone. March 28th, Swollen Members is playing there. Ugh.... Actually that's a group I really don't mind but come on guys, what are you thinking. And to charge $20 for tickets in advance and $30 at the door, is too steep, at least that's what I think. They haven't had any new music since 1996 although they have album due in September of this year. Booda if by some freak reason or coincidence you read this, please stop. You tried Method Man and Redman and D-12, which got about 200-250 people, you tried this year for Kardinal Offishall at Roadhouse which yielded about the same of about 250 people. You then tried Naughty by Nature and got about 50 peeps. Either get someone else to promote or get off your ass and do it better. Better yet, just stop all together. I do respect the fact you are trying to bring in some decent hip-hop acts but the time has come for you to step away.

Anyways, that was my rant. Studio was busy last night and Josh kept the floor solid all night. Working at Scores tonight then my first wedding of the season tomorrow. I can't wait for this weekend to be over. :o)

Work at Studio 54 was deathly slow. However me and Josh played and talked music for the better part of the evening, which was great. Played a lot of great retro tunes especially the rock songs of the 80's.

Got home and came across a horror. My computer was acting severely FUBAR-ed. Well I was not intent on letting this happen and for the 2nd time ever in the history of me owning a computer, removed a virus. It was a 'recycler' virus where I had NO sound, and couldn't access any of my drives. What a piss off. So I researched it on the internet, grabbed the necessary programs I needed to take care of the problem, and fixed er up! Everything seems to be back to normal and I saved a restore point which hopefully works. I believe it was from the movie Coraline that I downloaded and tried to watch but something fishy was up when I had to download a licence. That's the only thing I did differently. Either way I feel great about my accomplishment and am off to bed in about 11 min.

One last thing. There still has been NO trades in the NHL. Avery re-signed with the Rangers and Backstrom signed an extension with Min. Grrr. Which means it'll all explode tomorrow. Go Habs go !!!

Went to Essie's last night. Funny thing is I didn't feel the vibe at all. Had a coffee with about 3 oz of Kahlua in it, then added ice. I guess the good thing is that I'm drinking less. Had one shot on Sunday and 1 shot and 1 drink on Saturday. Why does everyone assume that because I work in the industry, I have to drink. I drank for 15 freakin years. Practically every day. Anyways I went home because it was my day off and I'm gonna soak up the day off. :)

Worked at Studio 54 on Saturday for Mardi-gras. Well it was actually busy AND fun. :) Even got to see some boobies so it wasn't all bad. No fights and just a good atmosphere. Our Saturdays there have really been picking up. But Sunday night at the Blarney Stone was horrible. Super slow. Now not sure if it's because people had exams and such the upcoming week, but wow. And the native population has really gone up as well. Now I have nothing against natives, but these were the kind that are usually looking for fights and such. Chris wants to change 'industry' night to 'ladies' night on Sunday. 'Industry ladies' night is much better. but offering $5 vodka/red bulls is not my idea of a special. Like Opi said, when it used to be great in there for industry night, 'industry' would mean cheap drinks to those that worked in it. Now I'm not saying, godown to $2 drinks, which you can't anymore, but drop it to the lowest possible of $2.75. At least until it gets going again. We're not in Calgary, or Kansas for that matter, we're in Lethbridge where people like their alcohol.... CHEAP !!

Completely off topic, the NHL trade deadline is on Wednesday of this week. And no major trades have been done....yet. Sure there was the habs picking up Schneider and the Pens trading Kunitz for Whitney, but that's been about it. And it's Monday afternoon. We're in for a frenzy now for sure.

Had the Debut at the university last night, which was a celebration of black history month. Was really busy (all seats were filled) and the acts and presentations were great !! The guest speaker who works at "Bridges of Hope" here in town, was from Ghana and his speech was extremely motivating and moving. Everything came together perfectly even though some of the organizers said that there were a few problems. Wouldn't see any though. Really good thing about it all there was an awesome mix of young, old, black, white, asian and other types of people there.

Studio 54 was the designated afterparty place. Had close to 200 in there I figured and Josh and I played nothing but music to accommodate our black friends. The vibe was electric and very positive. I really can't until next year.

So I just bought tickets to go see NO DOUBT !! I'm so stoked about it. After seeing her solo tour I can't wait for this !! :o)