Almo's day in court

Well almost 5 months after the big crash my legal obligations are behind me. I had received three tickets - DWI, careless driving and not wearing a seatbelt. Well the DWI was a no-brainer as I knew my blood alcohol level ws .02 - well below the .08 legal limit. I also thought the seat belt ticket was a no-brainer as 1) I was wearing one and 2) without one I'd be dead and that should be pretty obvious to anyone with a brain.

After waiting several hours I finally had my chance to talk to the prosecutor. He readily agreed that the DWI was moot however he threatened to take me to trial and persue an aggresive stance on the careless driving charge if I did not plead guilty to the other two charges. I was to say the least, pissed off. After a shouting match with the prosecutor I came to my senses. This was going to require another day in court and probably a lawyer. I decided to cut my losses, pony up and end this nonsense. $241 later I left free of legal debt, disillusioned by the process and pissed off at the township of Howell. Somehow I don't think they care.

CD of the Moment - Poison

As promised my first CD of the Moment. We lead off with Poison - Best Of - 20 Years of Rock. Really not much different from their previous greatest hits package but it was a good excuse for me to rip all my Poison CDs and shuffle play them in iTunes. Not the first hair band but one of the best and certainly the most flamboyant. A good solid greatest hits package to throw on your iPod.

CD of the Moment

Lot's of blogs I've visited have a CD of the day. Frankly that's seems like too much damn work. So I'll just post one when I want to highlight a particular CD and also have the time. Look for the first entry ASAP.

RIP - Arrested Development

Well you know the saying - all good things must come to an end. But how about truly great things like Arrested Development? Last night was the last 4 episodes of this incredible show and while I'm sad/disgusted/pissed off that a show of this brilliance can't find an audience, I take solace in the fact that it ended as brilliantly as it started. I can’t wait to download these and watch them again. Then I’ll buy the DVD and watch them again and again and again …….

In my opinion, the greatest show in the history of TV.

Return of WOA

This post serves as notice of my intent to resume - The World of Almo. Where'd I go? Well, last spring I got sick and poof, there went my race schedule. Then golf took control of my life for several months - as it should. This was followed by varicose surgery in the fall - my 30th high school reunion - 2 marathons and finally The Big Crash. More on all of these exciting topics in the days ahead - almo

Almo Top 30 Albums for 2004

Here they are ---
#1 TNT - My Religion - Modern hard melodic rock at it's finest
#2 Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending - Trippy Beatlesesque melodies
#3 Tesla - Into The Now - One of my favorite 80's hard rock bands is back!
#4 Pink Cream 69 - Thunderdome - Another hard rocker that is very well done
#5 Velvet Revolver - Contraband - Cock rock is back baby!
#6 Heart - Jupiter's Darling - Wow! A return to the early Heart sound.
#7 Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal - Cheesy, fun, heavy metal
#8 Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden - The best American heavy metal band today
#9 Collective Soul - Youth - Always classy, chock full of riffs
#10 Edguy - Hellfire Club - European power metal that never fails to entertain
#11 Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
#12 Megadeth - The System Has Failed
#13 Nightwish - Once
#14 Tak Matsumoto Group - TMG 1
#15 Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
#16 Jelly Jam - 2
#17 Adriangale - Crunch
#18 Scorpions - Unbreakable
#19 Dokken - Hell To Pay
#20 Dio - Master Of The Moon
#21 Mastodon - Leviathan
#22 Butch Walker - Letters
#23 Rick Springfield - Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
#24 Soul Sirkus - World Play
#25 Jeff Scott Soto - Lost In Translation
#26 Chris Caffery - Faces
#27 Fates Warning - FWX
#28 Seventh Key - The Raging Fire
#29 House of Shakira - First Class
#30 TCR - The Chrome Recordsings

Upcoming Races in 2005

Next up - Chill out 10 miler and 5k in Seaside NJ. Feb 20th @ 10:15 - http://www.jerseyrunner.com/races/racedetail2.asp?ID=1315 for details

E Murray Todd Half-Marathon on Feb 27th @ Brookdale Community College in Lincroft NJ - http://www.lin-mark.com/race/details.asp?race_id=309 for details

St. Paddy's 10 Mile run on March 13 @ 11:00 AM. It's held at Tighe Park in Freehold NJ. - http://www.farcnj.com/racecalendar.htm for details.


Hope to see you there!

2005 Hamilton Hangover

The results are in - http://www.compuscore.com/cs2005/janfeb/hamhng01.htm looks like my official time was 46:30 but I clocked myself at 46:11. This was my fourth hangover and my second fastest time. I was looking good for a 45 minute race after 3 miles but really phoned it in the last two miles. The issue as I see it, is fitness. While I'm fit enough to run 5 miles I don't have the lung capacity to run faster. So I have to really do a better job of training this year. We'll see ....

XM radio

Got an XM radio - the MyFi - for Xmas and I gotta admit, I'm getting addicted to listening to it. My favorite channel is #41 - the boneyard. This is basically a metal, 80's hair band format but they do manage to play new hard rock music that you never hear on commercial radio. The schedule for the boneyard can be found at - http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=41 while the general XM programming schedule is found at www.xmradio.com .