Roomates... and DUI's

So now that I am back in Milwaukee, I have roomates again. For 5 years throughout, I lived with a group of guys that were light heartedly referred to by our girlfriends and outsiders as "The Cult" because we hung out a lot together, and really did not need much to keep ourselves entertained besides a case of beer and a combination of Halo/Fusion Frenzy.

So after a year or so on my own through South Carolina and Washington, DC.. I am once again in the position where I must live with some roomates. Now very much unlike my previous situation, where by shear luck.. I mean shear luck... I ended up meeting and living with some really cool people, I have a little bit of choice in the matter. So let me describe my two roomates, one male and one female. The male is a 66 year old man, getting close to retirement if he could give it up, with two Master's degrees in Finance one from Marquette who works for the Federal Government. The second is a 55 year old women that is the principal of a inner city high school that is just a block away from our chosen residence (very nice for her).

Now before you go and start critizing me or them, you must realize.. They are my parents :)

I feel kinda blessed that I have cool enough parental units that I at 25 can live with them without feeling like they are cramping my style or impacting my everday life in anyway. They are pretty cool people who just like to talk to me these days. Which I think at 25 is a great thing, to actually be able to have a civilized educated discussion with my folks, with feeling like they are judging my life choices or need to give their input on everyone of my choices. They have become more like friends, and less like authority figures. Granted, if they ask me to do something, there is no question of whether it gets done, but rather they dont feel like they have to chase me around to do it either.

I am pretty sure you saw DUI's in the topic and started to worry.. don't both me and everyone I know have been safe the last 6 months and haven't recieved a DUI. However, I got a link I would like to share:

WI Courts Link

This is an awesome site that I can not take credit for discovering.. the credit goes to Mr. Dave Hamers, a guy I worked with on my last team. Basically you can look up any civil or criminal background on any person in the state of Wisconsin. It covers speeding tickets, to DUI's to disorderly conducts, to more servere trials that peopel were involved in. If you are in WI, check it out you may find out some scary things about the people you work or hang out with. Now the disclaimer on this is.. if you don't want to hear about something stupid or horrible your boss did:

DONT LOOK HIM/HER UP!!!!

My record is clean.. all my indiscretions occured prior to my 18th birthday.. which means clean record for Frank... but what about you??

Back after Hiatus Number 2..

So... I am back.. Just finished my major migration from Washington, DC (home of the White House, and "W") to Milwaukee, WI (home of the Antao's and cheap beer).

Its kinda funny, being home... in way a lot has changed, I am different (a year older), the city is different new condos are being built everywhere, my local best buy moved to a better closer location, some friends have moved around to new more swank pads, but yet it still is very much home. It feels very comfortable and nice.

I spent last week driving back taking the long scenic route of 1100 miles from DC, to Erie, PA, to Cincinnati, OH then then to WI, only to go to Chicago that night to catch a Marquette game. I basically made a zigzag path all the way back. It was pretty good execpt for getting stuck in Cincinnati for 2 days do to an ice/snow storm affectionately called by southern Ohio residents as The White Death. In fact, people did end up losing power for close to 2 days, and I am sure there was some severe car accidents caused by the storm, but still coming from WI all I could do was laugh as everyone ran to the stores for bread and milk.. yes bread and milk.

Apparently if you get caught in a storm, bread and milk is all you need to survive, not exactly what I would have chosen. What would I choose you may ask??? Beer and Oke Doke... Gotta love the artificially flavored cheese popcorn!

Anyway, this week has been spent catching up with work friends, and starting to ramp up on my new role. Which is very exciting. The role seems cool, and my new team is pretty awesome.. but really only time will tell.

In my normal effort to gain viewership of TV shows, I would like to point out some great stuff going on on the boob tube this week --

Tonight - We find out if Meredith is going to die (I hope so, it would be a first for network TV, killing a main character off in the middle of the season.

Tomorrow - If your watching TV on Friday night..you really need to get a life.

Saturday - Two clutch Wisconsin basketball games.. Marquette at Notre Dame and Wisconsin (#1 in the land currently) at Ohio State (#2 in the land).

Sunday - No football.. so everything else is crap!

Monday - Prison Break - getting close to the end... although I wished they would just end it soon.

Tuesday - You can watch Law and Order all night long between TNT and USA.. you know how much I love Jack McCoy and his hot Assistant DA's.

Wednesday - Not really sure.. there isn't much at all on on Wednesday, I guess that might make it a drinking night...

So watch some TV this week, don't do it for me, do it to rot your brain.

House of Tee Shirts

The first run of Frank's House of Tee Shirts is starting.. if you ever admired my classic one liner tee shirts, then now is your time to get in on the bottom floor... become a wearer, a distrubutor, a contributor, or just a fan..

Here is design number one for the MU vs Georgetown weekend Feb 9th thru 11th, aka Frank's Last Bash in DC...




Comment, email or call me if you want in on the first run...

PS.. the discoloration in the middle of the shirt will be taken care of by the printers.