Current mood:	exhausted
Current music:	Nine Inch Nails: Dead Souls

Oh yeah
Nine Inch Fucking Nails at the River Dome (aka Toledo Sports Arena) tonight. Awesome, awesome show. I've ALWAYS wanted to see them, waited over 10 years, and it was totally worth it. It was one of those shows that left you feeling physically drained, yet totally ready to keep going all night. I am in my ear-ringing glory right now.

It was, as ever, interesting seeing the blend of people at the show. From your die-ard metal-head East Siders to your Goth night refugees, with a generous helping of frat boy thrown in. Definitely saw way too many guys who had no business taking their shirts off doing so. Saw a fair bit of head-to-toe pleather too (are they frigging nuts? In the Hotbox Sports Arena???).

We managed to avoid being unwillingly inducted into a mosh pit. Lisa DID get to throw an elbow though, AND watch someone else get paid back for it. Someone has a karma raincheck coming! I definitely feel way more familiar with a couple dozen people than I ever wanted. General admission leads to all kinds of intimacy. I had more boobs on me tonight than I've gotten in nearly 10 years of marriage. We're just not going to talk about the fact that half of them were sweaty man-boobs. Guh.

Trent Reznor still puts on a great show. Stalking around the stage with brooding intensity and energy. It amazes me how much he has beefed up now. Kind of jarring. What are Glenn Danzig's guns doing on Trent? But I digress, I think Reznor's one of the few people who can manage to not look like a sissy playing a tamborine. The lights and stage show were impressive. A thin gauzy curtain doubled as a movie screen, while still allowing the band to be seen. The video show consisted of the expected disturbing images, including one George W., whom I might add, got soundly booed. Eat that, Bush!

It was a fantastic night. I couldn't make myself pay $45 for a t-shirt, but I'll remember the show forever anyway. They closed out the show with Dead Souls followed by Head Like A Hole. It just doesn't get much better than that.

On a personal note, I have a couple of job oppurtunities that have popped up recently. I took the test for the BP Refinery, AND took the Pipefitter's Apprenticeship test. These would both be GOOD (as in Get Out Of Debt!) jobs, with excellent benefits. I can't say I am overjoyed about the idea of doing either job, but I don't really love Automotive production either. The good news about my relative ambivalence towards the jobs is that I should manage to stay loose and de-stressed. I have an interview on 2-28-06 with the Pipefitters, and BP should get back to me within 2 weeks to let me know if I have moved on to the next round in their hiring process. Of course the job I'm REALLY hoping pans out is the one I applied for earlier today; Mega Millions winner. It's up to $175 mil right now. I think that would just about cover my expenses! I am defintely thinking that I WILL have to keep looking though. We are hearing rumblings now that they may NOT be adding a 3rd shift to my line like they have told us that they would do since I first got hired in. Now they are considering trying to do the work with 10 hour shifts instead. Let's see, a new-product launch and the very-real possibility of Jeep working 3 8s compared to our 2 10's makes me think that our 10 hour shifts will most likely be 12 hour shifts. Probably 6 days worth. So NOT going to last with me. Mother Murray's baby boy works to live, not lives to work. Oh well. Hopefully it doesn't end up happening.

EDIT: I just got an email with the Mega Millions results. I still have to go to work tomorrow. Damn!