I was planning a relaxing weekend in Chicago, but I have to go down to Purdue again this weekend. My favorite player, Christopher David, was told yesterday that he will be dressing for the game against Penn State. And it's being broadcast to 44% of the households in America on ABC. I'm so pumped.

Sorry it's been so long. In the words of Lindsay and Tobias Fünke, "It's been really busy...crazy busy."

Spent two consecutive weeks in Denver with a weekend in between in Vegas. Ended up a little down, but I didn't pay for a flight or hotel...so in my mind I was up. Oddly enough I don't remember much about the whole thing (whatever happens there stays there). However, I think the Bellagio Sports Book is basically Heaven. The whole city is sensory overload. You have to see it to believe it.

I went back to Purdue for the game this weekend. That was uneventful, but everything else in West Laf was great as usual. I decided to cave in to all the jokes and went as Napoleon Dynamite to Breakfast Club. It was a hit. I ended up getting filmed out in State Street doing part of the Napoleon dance (as best as I could at least). They were going to upload it to Current TV, so if it gets posted, I'll let you know. In the meantime, you can check out some pictures.

I get to work from my home location next week, but it looks as though I'm going to come down to Indy that week. It will make it easier to go to Saint Louis on Wednesday for the concert. I can also catch up with some friends and maybe get a home cooked meal. I'm excited. Although, I am giving up seeing the Colts game here in Denver.

I went to the Colts game this week. Had a great time (especially with the win). And...my aunts want to hook me up with a Colts cheerleader they apparently know. Not that it wouldn't be a dream come true, but being set up by your aunts doesn't really factor into that dream.

I'll try to post again this week with some more news. I'm still pretty tired from the past 2 weeks. I worked 8am-midnight and 8am-1:30am a couple nights. Most others until 9pm. I spent that weekend in Vegas. Needless to say, I'm not getting much sleep.

Happy 21st, Susan Denise.

Working some crazy hours out here in Colorado. Went into the office yesterday at 8am...left at 11pm. Tough work, but I think I'm doing well. Plus...Vegas tomorrow. I can't really be in a bad mood.

I bought Thank You For Smoking last weekend. I know I recommended it when it was in theaters, but I have to again. You really won't regret it. Go out and buy it. It's hysterical.

Another purchase was made today. I bought tickets to see Brand New on 11/1 in Saint Louis. That's 5 days after I see them perform with Dashboard Confessional in Chicago. I'm a lucky boy. Although, I think this show will be soooo much better. It's in a small venue called Mississippi Nights which is a block from the river and a few blocks north of the Arch. Pretty cool location. And band. Have I mentioned I like them?

I am at work right now and drinking my second beer of the night. No lie.

I forgot to add a really funny line one of the guys on my project said the other day. When we were discussing our weekends, he mentioned that he went to the Cubs game. He was really excited and it sounded like he had a great time. Keep in mind that he is Welsh and played a lot of rugby growing up. Describing the baseball game he said, "It was awesome. The Cubs were down 8-nil, then came all the way back to make it a draw, only to lose in overtime." Yes, he used 3 rugby/soccer terms when describing a baseball game...none of which I think should ever be applied to baseball. High comedy.

I called up one of my old roommates and we met up at Durkin's (the Purdue alumni bar in Chicago) to watch the Purdue-ND game. It's always fun to watch games there...$25 gets you all the domestics you want until 5pm, and this year they even have "cactus cups" with the train and Durkin's logo. Not bad. And all the way up to gametime and during commercials they blast great 80s music, just like Breakfast Club.

Well, the big news of the day is that as I was sitting at the bar in the absolutely packed back room, I look to my left and none other than Kyle Orton is standing right next to me. (HOLY CRAP!). Yes, QB for the Chicago Bears...Kyle Orton. Unfortunately, he wasn't drinking. Soooo, drunk Kyle, drunker Kyle, creepy Kyle, swinging Kyle, and binge drinking Kyle did not make an appearance. Which, in all honesty, was a shame. I mean, the game sucked. But I did literally rub elbows with an NFL quarterback and a Purdue great for an entire second half of football. Not to mention the guy responsible for the greatest moment of my college history...being in Notre Dame Stadium as Purdue beat Notre Dame at their place for the first time in 30 years...42-16 no less. Yeah, he's my hero.

Just a note, some of the dumbest comments I have ever heard in my life were from girls coming up to him. Seriously, in a bar FULL of Purdue grads, girls would come up to him with the pick-up line I can only describe in writing as follows: "KyLe!!1!!! I wEnT tO PuRdU3 ToO!!1!! HeHe!!!"........gag me. Oh, and Kyle's hair was silky smooth, like a woman's. No lie.

I am now a member of Tottenham Hotspur Chicago.

I can only say this about the Colts game. As the Jets ran back the kickoff at the end of the game, I was actually relieved. I knew that if they didn't, Pennington was going to score with no time on the clock. The Colts defense has been playing like crap. I'm praying that Corey Simon comes back like Superman and Bob Sanders has an even better year than last year's Pro Bowl year. It's the only way we're going anywhere in the playoffs. If I can say so, Peyton Manning is having a special season. His numbers aren't anything more spectacular than usual, but there's something differnet. He is just carrying this Colts team to victory, and by doing things differently than in the past. Running the ball in, showing a LOT of emotion. I love seeing it and it bodes well for this team. I hate to say it, but it's almost...(shhhhh!)...Tom Brady-esque (and I hate him).

After the game and mass, I went to Potbelly's still wearing my Colts t-shirt. The manager there is a Purdue grad and huge Colts fan. As soon as I walked in, he saw my shirt and yelled "FREE SANDWICH FOR THIS MAN!!!!" I didn't need much after the thrilling win, but that made my night.

I had a great weekend once again. I can't seem to steer clear of West Lafayette. I went down to Purdue on Friday and went to the piano bar. Drew and Corey came up (since Corey had never been there before). It was another fabulous evening with Bruce.

I went back to my buddy's townhouse where we were spending the night but got a text message from Cami Sue saying I should meet her and her friends back out at the bars...ummm, definitely. So I headed to Arby's to meet them and the line was too long at Harry's to stop in for White Russians. Long story short, I had no ride to take me back to Alex's place. Solution? Sleep at Delta Zeta. Yes, I can safely say this is the first time I have ever slept at a sorority, and I graduated a year and a half ago. Good times. When I woke up, I was waiting on my friends to pick me up at 7am with my costume (that picture was actually from the week before - I was Peyton Manning this week) for Breakfast Club. I was in the foyer of the DZ house when their house mom walked by and asked if I had been sleeping in the foyer all night. I calmed her fears and assured her that I had not. "No...I actually slept in the basement." I don't think she was happy about that, but no skin off my back.

Breakfast Club was great, just like the week before. I think the best costume award goes to the guy who dressed as Wilson from Home Improvement in a flannel shirt, hat, and a fence hanging in front of him and covering his face.

Colts game was a blast, even though they looked like crap. A win is a win. Bonus: appearing in my second major paper in a one week span. You can see me clapping between the 'D' and the fence here. You can also see our friend and longtime season ticket holder who sits behind us, Greg, in this picture.

Too much travel is starting to wear on me. Football season is carrying me through.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I'll try to make up for it with a longer post.

On the flight back from Denver last week, I got sat next to a lady who wanted to talk my ear off for the last hour. Swear to God I had my book open and everything, she just couldn't take the hint. She explained where she was born, grew up, moved to. Complete life story and I didn't even ask for it. "Strangers with this kind of honesty make me...(you fill in the blank)."

Interesting note, in the limo on the way home from the airport, I was chatting with the driver. Seemed like a cool enough guy at the time...and then his cell phone went off. The ringtone was definitely Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Didn't help that at the time we were driving through Boys Town.

I've been busy watching a lot of seson premiers this week. Thank God for my new DVR. No new shows really stand out, except for one...Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. It stars Matthew Perry (my favorite Friend, and the one with the best stuff away from the sitcom), Bradley Whitford, and Amanda Peet. Terrific writing, acting, and filming. No surprise that it's great considering it is created, directed, and produced by Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, the team behind The West Wing and one of the good shows, Sports Night. Tonight had 3 good premiers with a hilarious episode of The Office, and the two medical dramas, Grey's Anatomy and ER. I don't care how much press Grey's Anatomy gets, it's a great show but nothing will ever compare to ER. The writing and character development has just been perfect for too long. And no show on television even comes close to matching it in terms of cinematography. Period.

One new show I probably should point out is the show Standoff. It's a pretty good show, especially for one only 3 episodes in. I don't particularly like crime shows (except for Reno 911!, if that counts), but this one features two crisis negotiators who happen to be romatically involved. Sounds kinda cheesy, and I could have done without that second angle, but it features Ron Livingston who is one of my all-time favorite actors. Also noted as a new show is Jericho. While I didn't particularly like the premier, it definitely had the best music in a single episode of any of the shows (besides possibly Grey's Anatomy) with the new Killers song, Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls, and Run off of Snow Patrol's first album.

I went to The Green Mill for the first time with a friend last night. It's a bar/lounge right down Lawrence Ave from where I live. It's right near The Riv and the Aragon Ballroom. It's known as a place that one of Al Capone's guy's owned and Capone frequently visited. It's also the birthplace of slam poetry. I really enjoyed it, classy joint. Good recomendation, Kerry.

I don't know if you've seen these new VW commercials, but they are freaking excellent. It's about time a car company shows you what your car can really do. It might be seen by some as shock advertising, but it's definitely effective and great filming. Not your standard commercial, I think that's what makes it so great. They aren't afraid to total the product they are trying to sell you. That takes balls. Mostly because it's self-referential, this one is my favorite.

I'm coming home tomorrow.

I had a fantastic weekend back at Purdue, although I got a taste of what my hectic fall will be like. Had to work Friday in Denver since it was a shortened week. I landed in Chicago at 8pm, got to my apartment at 9, packed and showered and left. I got to Purdue at 12:15am on Saturday, drank, got an hour of sleep, and then got back up for Breakfast Club. I did get some decent sleep on Saturday, but it was right back to Chicago after lunch and up at 5am for a flight back to Denver on Monday. Yeah, I'm livin' the dream.

Breakfast Club was a blast (as usual). It was family weekend so my parents and Aunt and Uncle came up to tailgate with us. Good times had by all. The game was a nailbiter which it shouldn't have been. I also got sunburned beyond recognition for the second weekend in a row so that was special. I'm still putting on aloe and it's Tuesday. But it was a great time and I am thinking since I have season tickets, and some friends will be in town, that I might go down again this weekend even though I'll be there on the 23rd from Homecoming. Boiler Up!

I added some pictures from the weekend out here in Colorado. They are just some from the day in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park. The pictures we took with this camera all came out washed out with sunlight. I tried to do some editing, but the only program I had on this computer to do it was some crap Microsoft Picture Editor. I have Photoshop at home so if I get time I'll try to make them look better. Sorry if the color and brightness is off. They seriously were WAY washed out with light.

On Thursday of this week, I will have spent 84 nights in a hotel since April 10th of this year. That doesn't even include my vacation in Breckenridge, the nights I went home to Carmel, or stayed at Purdue on someone's couch. Seriously...84 nights out of 158. You got to want it. I think that's why I try even harder to drive down to Purdue or Indy. Or use my free trips to bring my friends out to Colorado. You really start to miss the little things. Thank God I don't have anything tying me down really. There's probably no way I could do this.

I am an avid supporter of Facebook, especially given the alternative of MySpace which is Satan in electronic form. However, they are starting to freak everybody out. I'm not as concerned about it as everyone, mainly because if you post something online about yourself - you damn well better be sure you don't care if anyone in the world reads it (even current/future employers - when I was helping out with interviews at Purdue, I witnessed HR people from other companies actively searching out students' Facebook profiles that were coming in for interviews). I think I can speak to this seeing as I've been writing about the goings on in my life online here for the past year (and on another site for the summer I was out in California). I really don't have too much to hide so I'm not overly concerned about it. I do make sure not to use last names (that's part of the "genius" of my site). If you search on Google for "Jeffrey Brice", this is the first site that comes up. However, using my last name will never point here. It's really the little things that you need to understand about how the web works that can protect you. Getting back to the point, what worries me about Facebook is not that it's opening up your information to other people on the site. The "other people" have been remarkably controlled - and that was the genius of Facebook. Now, I'm worried because they are opening up the site to everyone. What made the site so popular in the first place is that it was a closed resource for college kids to socialize with their own. Now, not only have they opened up the site to high schoolers, but also to anyone in a major company (yes, your boss). Next week they are set to open Facebook up to the complete American (and more?) public. Earlier this week they made an apology saing they "really screwed this one up", referring to their News-Feed. It was a nice apology, but they still didn't get rid of it. I ask you to join this group only because it has the most members at the moment. However, I am willing to bet they won't bow to the desires of thier consumers (just like they didn't with the News-Feed). The geniuses there are officially selling out. I can't blame them...great product, great viral marketing, rapidly increasing market share, 18-24 year olds are the most sought after demographic in the world. Any good businessman would want to rapidly increase their userbase right before they sold off their property. It's kind of like a rancher feeding its livestock a bunch of crap to fatten them up right before they go to market. Mark my words, Facebook will be sold by Mark Zuckerberg and Co. within the next 18 months for just over 1 billion dollars to a media company intent on increasing online advertising.

Exactly 21 years ago today, the best-selling, and one of the greatest video games of all time was released: Super Mario Bros. That's definitely something worth remembering.

Well, I had an absolutely unforgettable weekend here in Colorado. Bill and Kristen came out to spend Labor Day weekend with me. We had a blast. After I picked them up from the airport, we headed up to Boulder for the evening. We stopped at the hotel and then headed out to a couple bars. West End Tavern on Pearl Street was the first, and probably my favorite bar of the weekend. Nice and laid back yet slightly classy at the same time. We then headed to 'Round Midnight to get our hip-hop on. In the first night I was very impressed with how good the bartenders were in Boulder. Never did I wait over 1 minute before someone taking my order. Good conversation with the friends about tattoos and piercings...

We woke up early on Saturday and drove up to Estes Park and into Rocky Mountain National Park. We immediately drove up to Bear Lake. We took a short hike halfway around it. We then climbed out to a huge boulder a good 20 feet out in the lake and just laid there for a good half hour. It was quite possibly the best part of the entire weekend. Tranquil. We finished our hike and then headed to town for lunch.

After lunch, we headed back into the park and went to the Alluvial Fan where we climbed up the boulders to well above where you can see from the valley below. It was a lot of fun. We then headed back to Boulder to get ready for an evening on the town.

We ended up going to a few more bars on Pearl Street. My favorite this night was Attic Bar and Bistro. I played foosball which I hadn't done in quite a while. Plenty of quotes and things to remember, including meeting a man who just got out of Boulder County jail for 120 days and wanted to die, a man who thought he was a deputy sheriff and wanted me to get down off an elk statue - then asked me for a cigarette and tried to steal our pizza, and Kristin's views on both dancing ("pre-sexing") and what she takes pleasure in in life. I think the last comment about Kristen will be taken out of context - but it was at the time too, so it's all good.

Sunday we went to mass and then walked around campus for a while. UC Boulder is the most gorgeous campus I have ever seen, and I have been to some pretty beautiful schools - Notre Dame, Stanford, Berkeley...Purdue. Everything about it is unbelievable. That includes University Hill which has some cool shops, restaurants, and two great small live music venues. If I ever go to grad school, I will have to seriously consider Boulder. I can't thank Bill and Kristen enough for coming out and visiting me. It was exactly what I needed with all this travel and not being able to see friends often. And it was great to do this in my favorite place in the world. I'll post pictures later this week when I get them. Stay tuned - they are really good.

Last night I was driving back to Broomfield and saw the most amazing sunset over the mountains that I wanted to cry (not really, but it sounds good for dramatic effect). This place is awesome.

For the longest time, the Colts never had a good enough team to even have someone that a national company would want to use as a spokesperson. Now, they not only have one (Peyton Manning) but he is one of the best athlete-endorsers that have been around in a long time. Wheras Tom Brady seems only willing to endorse high end watches, the key for Peyton is that he is not affraid of satire or to poke fun at himself. To give Brady some credit, he did participate in a decent commercial for Visa (couldn't find a link), but he was clearly overshadowed by his humorous (and better acting) linemen, notably Purdue alum Matt Light). Unfortunately, Gatorade has been able to put only one decent commercial out (Gatorade Lemonade), as evidenced my his most recent one. They just have a bad marketing group I guess. However, you can't deny the genius of the Mastercard commercials the past couple of years. I have also stumbled upon a pretty good NFL Shop commercial recently that he did with his brother Eli and dad Archie. Peyton has also put out a couple of good commercials for DirecTV that I wasn't able to find. Finally, there is no denying the genius of his latest effort for Sprint.

Most awesomely bad video ever made - Apache.

I was reserving some conference rooms at my current client the other day. I noticed that in one of the buildings in Santa Clara, CA they name their conference rooms after elite universities of the world. You know...MIT, Oxford, Sorbonne, Stanford, Yale, Cambridge, Columbia, Purdue. I just smiled.

This week, a co-worker of mine informed us that his wife keeps a blog. It's nice for him since he's always out of town - if he had to work late the night before and doesn't have a chance to call home, he can keep up with her day's activities. Well, this week he went to the blog one morning and was presented with a picture of their Saab that had been in an accident. Not a good way to start the day...or to find out that your wife wrecked your car.

I can't tell you all how excited I am with the your point of view... page this past week. I seriously let out an audible "YES!!" in my hotel room the other day when I saw Jonathan William's and William Richard's posts with multiple points. This is exactly what that was supposed to be. Let it out.

I had the WEIRDEST dream last night, which is odd because the past few years, I have rarely remembered my dreams. The whole thing lasted about 2 minutes when translated to normal time. But in that span, there were approximately 15 people coming in and out of my apartment in Chicago. Most of them I have seen only sparingly in the past couple years, which made it even weirder. People in the dream included a friend of a friend in Chicago I met only once giving me a 10 second half-assed back massage, a cousin's spouse stopping by to say hi, Elaine dropping in, a kid from my neighborhood in Carmel knocking on my window from the street and waving, my roommate and his girlfriend, Drew calling my cell, the younger brother of a friend from high school youth group in town for a cross country meet, and about 5 other people I can't remember. Seriously the weirdest 2 minutes of dreaming in my life I think. I'm not even going to try to understand it. However, I think facebook might have something to do with it. Oh - and I remember looking at a clock in the dream and it was 9:30am and I was drinking a beer.

Jeffrey Brice (AKA "The most badass friend you have")