Nate's Lounge

Singleness

2007-02-07T21:19:00.000-08:00

I am still single. Can anyone tell me why? I'm 18, I've got a car, I'm a sensitive person, I'm not attached to my mother's umbilical cord, I'm not overbearing(so I've been told), I DO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, AND WHAT IT MEANS, And truth be told, I don't look THAT bad... I've got a few on me. I know this. But what the hell? Must I know girls that are cool, But not interested in a person that won't hit them, or curse at them, And will look above their chest?

Ladies, This is me:

I'm 18, I'm 6'4" 260LBS(dropping)I've got really long hair, I've got a job, I've got a car, I've got a phone, I've got a brain, I'm not wrapped up in the idea of getting down your pants the first night, (or the night after, or the night after that, either.) As a matter of fact, I think sex is best saved for marriage. I'm not a prude. I just believe a lot of problems can be solved by saving it, And keepin' 'em closed.

I'm being honest: The first thing I notice about a girl, Is her eyes. Then the rest of her face. I'll be perfectly honest here. MY EYES NEVER VENTURE BELOW THE NECK WHEN I FIRST MEET YOU. I'm sorry that you all think that's a bunch of bull, Just because the other 3/4 of guys does. Some are just like that. BUT DON'T CAST DOUBT ON THE REST OF US!!!!!!!

I'm sick of being single. I've been single my whole life. It's time for a change. Who wants to be the first? And possibly last?

First Day of Work

2006-08-08T10:02:00.000-07:00

Immaturity in adults...

2006-08-06T21:53:00.000-07:00

I just witnessed something that was so unbelievably retarded, That it bears repeating. My parents, Just got into a fight, That was 7 1/2 minutes long, And over $4.50 of SLICED TURKEY BREAST! And neither one wants to accept their end of the responsibility of the actions, Then my mom did something that was absolutely retarded, When I asked why they were fighting... *like a toddler, mind you* "he started it!" My Jaw almost disconnected from my head. OMG, I shouted, "You two are retarded, Now grow up." They both shut up, And End of story. It pisses me off, That I'm 18 years old, Never had a g/f, or married, And I'm giving two forty-somethings f***ing marital advice.

Second Podcast

2006-08-01T10:13:00.000-07:00

Click here to watch 'Second-Podcast'

First Podcast

2006-07-31T21:17:00.000-07:00

Click here to watch 'First-Podcast'

A poem by a friend of mine...

2006-07-11T20:31:00.000-07:00

This is a poem written by a Guy by the name of Lucas McCallister. He wrote it a day ago, For some friends of his, And I thought it was really touching.

"It'll All be Okay"
Written July 10/11 2006

These Last 2 years
Brought forth all my Fears
I fought them back
And, Hell, I won

How Things have Changed
Now it feels like
I'm in the Right Time and Place...

When I Met your Brother
a long lost friend
And you and I we chatted till the night was spent
(It'll all be okay)

When you Told me your secrets
As we looked over the Bay
And I said "Little Sister, You'll have better days"
(It'll all be okay)

When we Drove in your car
you played me a song
And the Music gave me a sense of Home
(It'll all be okay)

When you Prayed over my cross
I prayed over yours
And when we traded them back I knew I was blessed
(It'll all be okay)

When I was ready to Leave
you hugged me tight

And said "Man you are the smartest guy I've met"
(It'll all be okay)

You bound my wounds
You healed my scars
You picked me up, I know you won't Let Me Down

I walked the Circle
At the fire, I told you my story
After walking through Hell and Back, If there is one thing you can
learn from me
It'll all be okay

I'll bind your wounds
I'll pick you up, and I'll try not to Let You Down

Well, I'm Back...

2006-07-01T13:51:00.000-07:00

But I don't want to be... :(

East Bay Camp, HERE I COME!

2006-06-12T11:44:00.000-07:00

Is the world ready for Catch The Spirit 2K6? Probably not. ;-)

2006-05-10T11:26:00.000-07:00

I just bought this shirt from J!NX, Mainly because it's freakin' hilarious...

Thanks, J!NX!

Freakin' moron...

2006-05-01T18:11:00.000-07:00

I am really close to moving out on the streets. I cannot take anymore crap from my sister. I am ready to freakin' hitchhike. Or if someone wants to donate money, I'll buy a bus ticket.

2006-04-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

Bob Lutz is the FRKN best.

2006-04-14T10:57:00.000-07:00

Cars & TrucksRe-Igniting the Passion

The following is a speech by Bob Lutz gave yesterday to the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce in New York. It's caused quite a stir, and we thought you'd be interested in it.

Thank you, Ambassador Loretan, and good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for that introduction, and I’d also like to thank Mr. Dinerstein for your fine welcome, and all your hard work for the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce.

It’s a pleasure to be with you today.

It’s also a pleasure for me to be a part of Swiss Roots— it’s a wonderful project with admirable goals, and I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the people here who are doing the real work!

The Swiss Roots web site is up and running, and it’s going to facilitate closer ties between our two nations — my two nations — and among the 1 million Americans of Swiss descent, and their countrymen in Switzerland.

Switzerland and the U.S. have a long tradition of friendship and cooperation, and they have much in common, not the least of which is multiculturalism. Both countries have a very rich and diverse cultural composition, although the Swiss have embraced it more perhaps, at least from a language standpoint.

Despite the penchant on the part of Americans to get the rest of the world to speak English, we really do have a lot in common, especially the values we espouse, like individual freedoms.

That’s why I felt no conflict of loyalties by serving in the U.S. military, because the two countries, so vastly different in size, were so similar in values, especially during the Cold War.

I thought I would become a military lifer, but to become a senior officer, I needed to get a college degree. So I enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, and before I left there, I’d decided to pursue a career in business, in particular, the automotive business, starting with General Motors. And now, after more than 40 years and many stops along the way, I find myself back at GM.

Which seems fitting to me. Because not only is there a long, friendly history between Switzerland and the United States, there is a similar one between Switzerland and General Motors. But that shouldn’t surprise anyone, given that Louis Chevrolet was Swiss, and the Chevy Bow Tie logo isn’t a bow tie at all but a derivation of the cross on the Swiss flag.

When I was growing up in Switzerland, GM had an assembly plant that produced beautiful vehicles every day. Back in those days, this business was such that you could have a local assembly plant in nearly every country. Eventually, the auto industry transitioned to regional assembly, and regional optimization.

Now, the industry is rapidly entering a new chapter marked by global competition.

At GM, we’re positioning ourselves to compete in this global industry by leveraging our vast global resources.

We have streamlined our product development process, and aligned our planning, design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities under global auspices. It’s not possible any longer to operate as GM once did, as four regional and semi-autonomous auto companies.

Now all of our regions will be operating as one company going forward. And that will show in our improved product lineup. In fact, the process has already begun… the products we’ve recently introduced, and the ones to come in the short-term, are the best we’ve ever introduced. But it’s hard to get people to realize that.

Why? Let me give you a few examples of what some people are saying about us. You may have heard of this first guy:

President George W. Bush: “[The U.S. auto industry] needs to develop a product that’s relevant… GM is going to have to learn to compete.”

Another senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal: “The American auto industry needs to focus on producing cars that Americans want to buy.”

Automotive analyst Maryann Keller: “GM has forgotten how to make cars that people want to buy.”

Business Week’s David Kiley: “[GM] is not making very many cars that people want to buy.”

Are you starting to see why sometimes we think there’s a herd mentality out there? Here are some more…

The Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins: “GM is having a hard time persuading Americans to buy its cars.”

Automotive analyst David Healy: "GM's problem is that … its products are boring."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial: "Its real problem is that people aren't buying GM cars... To be blunt, GM cars are boring."

Fortune reporter Carol Loomis: “In product design, [GM] lost the magic long ago.”

Forbes Magazine senior editor Neil Weinberg: "[GM’s] biggest problem is product.”

The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Ingrassia: “Robert Lutz has been surprisingly ineffective at GM, as if mired down like a raisin stuck in oatmeal.”

I’m especially fond of that last metaphor — that was a new one for me. I didn’t even know raisins got stuck in oatmeal; I always thought they sort of floated there proudly, going about their business.

Anyway, well, now let’s look at some of our awful, boring products and see just how unpopular they are:
Chevrolet HHR

* We’ve raised our forecasts twice for this model, from about 60,000 initially to now about 132,000 annually.
* March was its best retail month since launch, with very little spent on customer incentives.
* California, Texas and Florida are the top three retail states since launch. Those are not traditionally strong markets for GM cars.
* So far in 2006, HHR has outsold the Chrysler Pacifica, Nissan Murano, Dodge Durango, and Honda Element.
* Our dealers are requesting 200% of our ability to supply…

Chevrolet Impala

* We are building 250,000 of these a year, and demand is running about 300,000.
* March was its best sales month yet. It overtook the Nissan Altima as the third-best selling car in America, behind Camry and Accord.

Buick Lucerne

* March was its best sales month since its launch last year, and 91% of sales were retail, meaning non-fleet, non-rental companies.
* Lucerne has the second-lowest turn rate in the segment, 25 days, trailing the Toyota Avalon by just one day.

Chevrolet Corvette

* The world’s great affordable sports car, Corvette is sold out.

Pontiac Solstice

* Solstice? Sold out. Best turn rate of any vehicle in its segment.

Saturn Sky

* “All available production for 2006 is accounted for.” In other words, sold out.

Before I go on, I’d like to show you the Sky we introduced at the New York auto show just this morning, and the other Saturns we showed:

* Saturn Sky Red Line
* Saturn Aura
* Saturn Outlook
* Saturn PreVue

So we have big plans for Saturn, as we do for all of our brands. But at the moment, perhaps what we’re most proud of is our new fullsize sport utilities. Let’s look at what the “experts” had to say before they came out earlier this year:

University of Maryland business professor Peter Morici: "They're married to large vehicles and big engines, and consumers just aren't buying them right now… SUV sales are going to continue to lag and GM is almost in denial on that issue."

Analyst David Healy: "GM is … betting the ranch that they can sell SUVs in an environment of $2.50-a-gallon gasoline, but the big SUV segment will continue to shrink, and GM is going to have its work cut out for it."

Autobytel analyst Brian Chee: “Everybody else is coming out with subcompacts, crossovers and smaller cars while GM is alone in the woods when it comes to these big SUVs.”

By the way, it’s worth pointing out that we are most certainly not alone in the woods; Chrysler and Ford are coming out with new fullsize SUVs, and, would you believe it, Toyota is readying a new line of fullsize trucks, too. So, apparently, not everyone thinks this segment is dying out.

It makes you wonder just how these experts get to be experts!

Well, we went ahead and launched our new SUVs anyway. Let’s see how they’re doing:

* Year-to-date GM share of the large utility segment is 67.5%, up 8.6 pts from year ago
* Non-GM Source of Sales of ’07 models: Tahoe (29.8%), Yukon (27.8%), and Escalade (26.4%)
* Average transaction price increase versus last year’s models: Tahoe (+$6.5k), Yukon (+$6.7k), and Escalade (+$10k)

So, we’re selling more of them, for more money. The pundits will say that’s just because they’re brand new, but we’ll see, because we think these are the best SUVs that have ever lived. Take a look at them:
Chevrolet Tahoe

* March retail sales were up 35% from February, and it’s doing great on the West Coast.
* Total ’07 model year sales are the highest in the segment
* In March, it had a turn rate of just 19 days, compared to 80 days for the Ford Expedition and 41 for the Toyota Sequoia

GMC Yukon

* March Yukon sales were up 109% from February, and it had a turn rate of just 16 days, on average.

Cadillac Escalade

* March sales were up 73% from February. Its total sales lead the Lincoln Navigator by 300 units, and it has outsold the Infiniti QX56, Range Rover and Lexus LX 470 combined.
* Vehicles turned in an average of 7 days in March. That means the inventory is turning four times a month.

Now, all of this is amazing to me. We don’t make any cars or trucks that anybody wants to buy… but we sure do sell a lot of them. Either we are holding a lot of customers at gunpoint in our dealerships and forcing them into our vehicles, or the so-called experts are absolutely blind to what is happening in the marketplace.

It’s as if the folks working the op/ed and business pages don’t even read the product reviews anymore. Because if they did, they’d see that our cars and trucks are getting largely rave reviews.

Anita Lienert in The Detroit News: “The redesigned Escalade stands out as the sexiest full-size SUV on the market, an awesome Detroit offering that hits a bull's-eye in such important areas as horsepower and cabin design.”

Paul Eisenstein, The Car Connection.com: “The Escalade is about as good as a full-size SUV gets.”

And how bout this one?

Joe Langley, CSM Automotive analyst: “GM’s redesigned full-size SUVs will prove the segment is alive and well despite unexpected events that try to wreck their place in the market. The segment is far from dead. I recommend taking any of them for a drive, and you’ll be as surprised as I was.”

I make that same recommendation to all of you, on the SUVs or any of our new vehicles. They’re really a big step forward for GM.

All we have to do now is make people aware of it. We have to get word out that we’ve improved, and the marketplace bears us out.

For the first quarter of this year, our launch vehicles — that is, our newest cars and trucks —accounted for 30 percent of our sales. That’s more than double where we were a couple of years ago.

We expect that recently launched vehicles will account for 29 percent of our U.S. sales volume this year, and as much as 33 percent next year. That’s up from 22 percent in 2005.

And I should point out that despite our financial difficulties, we backed up our commitment to great products by raising our capital spending in 2005, and we’ll increase it again in 2006 to $8.7 billion, the bulk of it on developing new cars and trucks.

It’s full speed ahead for us.

Perhaps you have heard the economic parable about the old man who sold hot dogs on the street corner. He was hard of hearing so he had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes, so he read no newspapers. But he sold good hot dogs.

He sold so many that he increased his meat and bun orders. He bought a bigger stove to take care of his booming business. Business was so good he brought his son home from college early to help him out. And his son said:

"Father, haven't you been listening to the radios or reading the newspapers? The economic situation is terrible. All of our jobs are going away — we’re headed for depression. This is no time to be spending like this."

The father thought to himself, "Well, my son's been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio, so he ought to know."

So the father cut down his meat and bun orders, took down his signs, and his hot dog sales plummeted almost overnight.

The father said to the boy, "You're right, son, we certainly are in the middle of a great depression."

Well, we don’t care what the newspapers, or the radio, or our kids tell us. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we’re not going to listen to the naysayers — we’re going to listen to our customers.

Finally, let me just say that perhaps the title of my remarks today was misleading…. We said “Americans and Automobiles: Re-igniting the Passion.”

But what we really mean is… Americans and American automobiles… and particularly, General Motors automobiles.

People who think it doesn’t matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong. They think it doesn’t matter because the Japanese and Germans and Koreans are “producing” in the states now. But they’re not “producing”— they’re “assembling.” The parts are mostly brought from overseas, and the profits for reinvestment don’t stay in the U.S.

These are facts about our domestic auto industry:

* GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler account for 4% of the U.S. GDP, and 11% of all manufacturing shipments.
* We collectively employ 400,000 people — that’s nine out of 10 American autoworkers — and affect 7 million jobs in auto and related industries.
* We provide healthcare for 2 million Americans, and pension benefits for 800,000 retirees.
* We buy 80% of the auto parts sold in the United States.
* And we’ve made 85% of the total investment in the U.S. auto industry since 1980.

So remember those facts the next time somebody says it doesn’t matter what country’s supplies the cars and trucks we buy.

If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to read you a letter from someone who understands this. It was written by Congressman John Dingell of Michigan, to the president, in response to his comments on the U.S. auto industry. Congressman Dingell writes:

“The American auto industry is not being hurt, as the Administration suggests, because of the vehicles it is producing. Contrary to the statements of your chief economic adviser, American manufacturers lead the industry in fuel economy in nearly every segment. Our automakers face healthcare and pension costs which foreign automakers do not.

“These problems are only compounded by the Administration’s failure to prosecute unfair trade practices by our competitors, counteract currency manipulation by Japan and China, and relieve the crushing burden of healthcare costs.

“Mr. President, we owe the auto industry a debt of gratitude for its contributions to this country and I am troubled by… the Administration’s complete disregard for this escalating crisis. The industry is anxious to restore its competitive edge, but they cannot do it alone.”

He’s right. We are not looking for any handouts. We just want a level playing field, and a chance to compete. We want people to consider our products again, because they deserve consideration.

Our quality numbers are way up from where they were in the past. Our designs are more compelling, more dynamic.

I am intensely and unapologetically proud of what we’re doing at GM, and also of what all of the so-called Big Three are doing these days. And I’m allowed to be: I’ve worked for all of ‘em.

GM has the broadest product lineup of any manufacturer … we have more models that get 30 miles per gallon or better on the highway than anyone else … we have OnStar, the industry’s leading safety and security service … we have the best large SUVs on the planet … and we have a host of great new cars and trucks worthy of your consideration.

Once we get that consideration… once we raise people’s awareness… once we get back on their radar screens, we will put them in the kind of cars and trucks that inspire passion.

Don’t take my word for it. Go drive one of our vehicles — I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at what we have out there now, and what we bring out in the very near future. And I think you’ll be as proud of our products as I am, just like we’re all proud of our Swiss Roots.

But before you head out to our dealerships, I’d be glad to take some of your questions.

And Nate is bored.

2006-04-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

And Todd said, "Death, You are my b**** lover!!!" <<<< Wedding Crashers. I wouldn't be typing this right now, If I had my license, But eh, Might as well.

I wanna go bowling.

The rambler...

2006-03-14T21:52:00.000-08:00

This post is going to be mainly Rambling, Because it's midnight, And I'm tired.

Lately, I've done some things that Carlos Mencia would call, "Dee DEE DEE!" I'm not going to explain either.

More later.

2006-03-10T10:30:00.000-08:00

The latest skit...

2006-03-10T10:13:00.000-08:00

Ok, Later on at church, I play the starring character in a church skit about hypocrisy. Will say more later on AudioBlogger.

Nate

Just a random soundbyte.

2006-03-08T18:21:00.000-08:00

What am I?

2006-02-07T11:30:00.000-08:00

Ok, People around me, Usually get freaked out. THIS IS WHY! I am an ESFP, Or...

Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
by Joe Butt

Profile: ESFP
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 25 Feb 2005

"Where's the party?" ESFPs love people, excitement, telling stories and having fun. The spontaneous, impulsive nature of this type is almost always entertaining. And ESFPs love to entertain -- on stage, at work, and/or at home. Social gatherings are an energy boost to these "people" people.

SPs sometimes think and talk in more of a spider-web approach. Several of my ESFP friends jump from thought to thought in mid-sentence, touching here or there in a manner that's almost incoherent to the listener, but will eventually cover the waterfront by skipping on impulse from one piece of information to another. It's really quite fascinating.

New! ESFPs are attracted to new ideas, new fashions, new gadgets, new ______. Perhaps it's the newness of life that attracts ESFPs to elementary education, especially to preschool and kindergarten.

ESFPs love to talk to people about people. Some of the most colorful storytellers are ESFPs. Their down-to-earth, often homespun wit reflects a mischievous benevolence.

Almost every ESFP loves to talk. Some can be identified by the twenty minute conversation required to ask or answer a simple factual question.

Functional Analysis:
Extraverted Sensing

The dominant function of ESFPs is concerned with the reality that is perceived through the senses. This type's prime directive is to examine the tangible through taste, touch, sight, feeling and hearing. ESFPs' need for new experiences surely results from this function. Feeling gives focus to the collected information, producing the amiable nature of this type. As perceivers, ESFPs do not linger on moral concerns unless it is in service of a Greater Good and/or a unifying cause.
Introverted Feeling

Feeling, which tends to decision-making in the interest of individual beings, is auxiliary to sensing. As with all introverted functions, feeling for ESFPs has a surreal, cryptic, quintessential nature. It is more often implied than verbally expressed, more apparent in countenance and deed rather than word or creed. Feeling takes care that playful pokes and pranks do no harm to the victim.
Extraverted Thinking

This tertiary function is at the ready to give definitive answers when the world requires them. It provides a measure of balance to Introverted Feeling, allowing the ESFP some level of boundary and protection from those who would take advantage. When overused or overestimated, however, Thinking becomes a liability. ESFPs do well to seek out confirmation of the soundness of tough-minded decisions.
Introverted iNtuition

This function is least visible. As is the nature of the inferior (fourth) function, ESFP intuition lacks a sense of balance. This type seems most successful in deducing patterns and seeing connections only after a thorough examination of the facts (which process appears quite unorganized and haphazard to non-SPs). Although some ESFPs may develop such abilities, the mastery of logic, analysis and abstraction is usually difficult and wearying, and not very much fun.
Famous ESFPs:

Saint Mark (Christ's disciple)
Dale Evans
Gracie Allen
Bob Hope
Eva Gabor
Willard Scott
Goldie Hawn
Kyle Petty
Arsenio Hall
Marne Stanier, "The Weather Channel"
Woody Harrelson (Cheers)
Fictional ESFPs:

Tim "The Toolman" Taylor(Home Improvement)
Cody (Step By Step)
Mrs. Pumphrey (James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small)

To the engineers at Blogger...

2006-02-06T11:56:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the good work on Blogger, The Outage tonight will be much appreciated. I was kinda PO'ed Thursday when I could not view my blog, But it worked later that day. Thanks. :)

Nate

IT'S MY LIFE, IT'S NOW OR NEVER,I AIN'T GONNA LIVE FOREVER!

2006-02-03T09:53:00.000-08:00

I don't know what that was all about. Just a song I like, I guess.

Anyway, Is it just me, Or are there too many reality shows? (I know, Old question)Now we have channel devoted to Reality television. Fox Reality, Is one of the worst networks to ever exist, Next to The DuMont Network. I seriously think it won't be long, Before America revolts. WE WANT GOOD, QUALITY TELEVISION. Not some idiot's idea of a good show. The only "reality" show that should be allowed to stay, Is "Fear Factor". It's an OK show. But all this other crap, Like "Big Brother" and "The Amazing Race", Needs to have all recordings bought back, And dumped in sulfuric acid. There is too much CRAP on television as it is. The ONLY childrens shows that should be allowed on television, is "Sesame Street", Reruns of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", Or *sic*, "Barney & Friends". The rest can disappear for all I care.

I need better material...

Who am I, Hitch?!?!

2006-02-02T20:11:00.000-08:00

HAHA, Just joking. But I want all of my friends to know, If you have any problems in life, or in any thing, You can tell me, I tell NO ONE. Scout's Honor. There is no key to the Bank Vault in my mind. It's only a one way door. Stuck for good.

Lean on me, when you're not strong,
And I'll be your friend,
I'll help you carry on,
For it won't be long,
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on.

The worst month ever. >_<

2006-02-02T15:56:00.000-08:00

I don't want to write this. But I will anyway. January sucked chode. I lost a friend, One to the Reaper, He was in a carwreck, With him in it alone. Nobody saw it. They found him, approximately 3 hours afterwards, His car had rolled in a ditch, He was partially ejected.

Another reason this month sucked chode, Was because of other events that affected me, Rather personally. Something I'm not at liberty to discuss.

But of course there are obvious exceptions, Like that wonderful thing called WinterJam. That couldn't have been any better. Went broke 2 hours before the event was over, But I didn't need anything anyway. I was with my friends, And I was having a good time. What else matters? My friends are family to me, And they always will be.

And We've had a great second season in Drama Ministry. We finished our 1st script. "Putting it Straight, With Dr. Phyllis", Written by Gwen Solomon, And Myself, will debut sometime in the summer, I'm guessing. I'm the main Character, "Robert Prague", And I'm supposed to appear on a TV show, As the newest spokesperson for F.A.D.D, Fathers Against Drunk Driving. The Catch 22, However, Is that I'm drunk. The whole thing is based on Hypocrisy.

I have however, Found myself, Increasingly lonelier. Not in the, "I'm a Nomad" sense. As in the "I NEED A GIRL!" sense. I am sooo lonely right now. I seriously want a real relationship. No Golddiggers though, HEHE, As I can't support that kind of need, 0_o. Plus, I hate Golddiggers and Harlots. Ladies, If you are interested, Please, Tell me!

Note: The above offer only applies to any girls I know. :)

So, It is with sadness that I close this first blog in February,

See ya tomorrow.

Nate

Informal Survey

2006-02-02T15:40:00.000-08:00

*TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey*
Name:	Nathaniel R. Gnau
Birthday:	04-21-88
Birthplace:	St. Louis
Current Location:	Brighton IL
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	6' 4"
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	German
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Nike
Your Weakness:	I'm a hopeless romantic
Your Fears:	Too many to list
Your Perfect Pizza:	Meatlover's with LOADs of Canadian Bacon
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Get a G/F
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	LOL
Thoughts First Waking Up:	Where am I?
Your Best Physical Feature:	My head
Your Bedtime:	Late
Your Most Missed Memory:	Hanging w/ Friends
Pepsi or Coke:	Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King:	Non Plus, I'd rather have White Castle
Single or Group Dates:	Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Coffeeeeeeeee
Do you Smoke:	No
Do you Swear:	Yeah
Do you Sing:	Yes
Do you Shower Daily:	Yes
Have you Been in Love:	Yes, But it was Just a crush, And she said No.
Do you want to go to College:	I dunno. But I guess I should decide.
Do you want to get Married:	Yes
Do you belive in yourself:	Sometimes
Do you get Motion Sickness:	Nope
Do you think you are Attractive:	Fuck no.
Are you a Health Freak:	Hahaha, No.
Do you get along with your Parents:	Usually
Do you like Thunderstorms:	Yes, I love them.
Do you play an Instrument:	Learning to play the Guitar, And the Harmonica
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	No
In the past month have you Smoked:	No
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	NO
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	No, Damnit.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	No, Yuck.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	Nope. Hate Sushi
In the past month have you been on Stage:	No, But Have been working on a script.
In the past month have you been Dumped:	No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	No
Ever been Drunk:	Yes
Ever been called a Tease:	HAHAHAHA, Not a snowball's chance in Bermuda!
Ever been Beaten up:	Yeah, once.
Ever Shoplifted:	Yeah, But I was in second grade.
How do you want to Die:	I dunno.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	An On-Air Radio Broadcaster, And Media Tycoon
What country would you most like to Visit:	Czech Republic
*In a Boy/Girl..*
Favourite Eye Color:	Blue
Favourite Hair Color:	Brown, Not dyed
Short or Long Hair:	Long
Height:	Don't matter to me.
Weight:	Same as above.
Best Clothing Style:	Whatever She likes to wear, Is ok with me.
Number of Drugs I have taken:	None.
Number of CDs I own:	300 plus, But most are for the computer.
Number of Piercings:	None.
Number of Tattoos:	None, But will get ONE and only one.
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	Too damn many to list.
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Ladies!

2006-01-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

This is really corny, Because I am putting a Personal Ad, On my OWN SITE.

Ladies! SWM, VERY loyal, Trustworthy, 17 year old man is up for grabs! Infact, Always has been! Never had a girlfriend(of any type), And have been lonely, For the past 5 years. Please comment if interested...

I'm never staying up till 4:20 in the morning again!

2006-01-24T03:36:00.000-08:00

I did, Then I found myself up at 5:20, Cuz MY stepdad hit a deer, on his way to work. I had to field dress it. At 9:00 in the morning. Ugh.