Knoxville, you now know what it feels like to be my girlfriend. I promise you something, and the delivery is just a touch late. Not so much that the pizza is cold, but the pepperonis aren’t exactly melting the cheese anymore. I apologize. Hopefully you have some patience so that our relationship can continue striding forward, marching through, skipping hand in hand we can make it. Let’s go Knoxville, let’s pull off a “Notebook” wrapped with “Love Actually” and dabbed into a bit of “Fight Club” type of relationship. I just said let’s kick some ass in the name of love. I’m ready to answer the Beatles who said “You say you want a Revolution/well ya know we’d all want to change the world/You say you’ve got a real solution/well ya know… we’d all love to see the plan."

For me to say I have always been an environmentalist would be like saying I have always been a blogger (Although thanks to a genius, I became part of a blog this summer. I have been aware of what was going on, I just haven’t been actively doing something about it, until now.

It’s difficult to define environmental concerns. You have local concerns (polluted streams, litter on the side of the road, hazardous waste, erosion, smog), you have global concerns (clean air, clean drinking water, wildlife concerns, global warming – 97% of climatologists agree global
warming are caused by human activities, unlike politicians, it is their job to research the issue)
and you have national concerns (mostly economic, energy supply, energy cost). And someone how they all mesh into this umbrella called environmental concerns that we can either hug (pun intended) - or we can say, “I only care about umbrellas (environmental concerns) when it rains (affects me).

Taking a quick look at history we can see how primary energy supplies have evolved from wood to coal to oil. We moved from wood because we burned all of western Europe’s forests (those rolling Irish hills weren’t always green…), we moved from coal because of air quality issues, and
oil is running out (not to mention wars?). I would now like to officially remove oil from our discussion, since it is mainly for automobiles (impacts global warming), although actions of oil companies are crucial to follow and we will return to this later (i.e. BP, Shell). But I want to talk about electricity production. The question is what is next? That answer is our solution. Our generation gets to stand the shoulders of decades of environmentalists and be labeled “the Green generation.” We get to answer the Beatles.

Let me first discuss the problems with using coal as a main energy supply. While, TVA has led the Southeast in cleaning up coal plants by installing scrubbers to reduce S0x and N0x (billions of dollars by the way), there is no way to completely clean up coal plants. There is a myth of clean coal. There is no such thing as clean coal. Asthma, lung disease, acid rain, global warming, mercury poisoning, are just the tip of the iceberg. I want to say – there is nothing sustainable about burning material that took millions of years to create. It is disrupting a natural ecological cycle, and it is in this disruption we see long-term consequences. There is also a tiny problem with mountain top removal. I could write an entire blog about this, but I think this video is suffice.

So who cares? Why should I care? It isn’t my mountains. What about your air quality, while it has improved, the years of coal deposition has taken time to build up, giving our area higher cancer rates, and asthma rates, than we had 30 years ago. It is kind of like how it has
taken our climate a while to adjust to the outpouring of C02. Just real quickly… global warming is more than just “oh, so I get to wear short sleeves longer in the year.”

Fact – sea levels are rising. If they rise as much as many scientists expect them too (once again, they do this for a living, not just reading it for some committee) then we are looking at upwards of 1 billion people being displaced from coastal regions. You think population growth has been unprecedented in the past? Try adding 1 billion people to a smaller land mass, see how high property values go then, see how high food prices go up, say good bye to that big back yard. It affects everyone. Then we have more people occupying more land, how do we produce
more food? Do we keep adding fertilizer, etc., burning up the soils? Well… the soils may already be getting “burned up.” Fact - Heat drives our weather cycle. We may have more
rain, more intense storms, because of the increased uplift of air, however, it will also dry up
faster because of the increased temperatures. Processes become accelerated. Let’s include THAT in the economic analysis. I once heard a representative from the Bush administration say, “Agriculture is only 20% of the economy.” Ladies and gentleman, if you believe measuring the importance of food supply by dollar amount is the way to do it, you’re an idiot. The best indicator of where our economy is going is agriculture. We first, and foremost, need food. Imagine if the price of food skyrocketed, do you not think the price of everything else would increase? Everyone suffers.

Anyways, so yes, we need to move away from fossil fuels. I hope I was preaching to the choir on that.

Now let’s take a deep breath of fresh air (pun absolutely intended) and let’s talk about renewable
energies – defined as wind , solar , geothermal, wave , and tidal . The single greatest attribute for renewable technologies is that they do not disrupt the natural balance of the ecosystem - they embrace it. (In other words, the sun shines everyday, the wind blows everyday, waves crash, and the earth stays warm... coal, oil, and natural gas don’t EXACTLY do that… maybe only a couple million years off). We
can rest assure these technologies are not creating some horrible ecosystem imbalance.

Now, the second thing that is important to realize is that each technology is not available everywhere. For instance, in Tennessee we would probably not use geothermal, wave, or
tidal power. I don’t think we have active volcanoes in Tennessee, and I haven’t found a beach – but let me know if you find one, I do have a surfboard in my room (its true). This leaves wind and solar energy.

But you have to make sure you still have an adequate regime for the technology. The wind doesn’t blow enough in Knoxville for current technology to support a wind turbine, but the sun shines enough (90% of Tennessee can use solar energy very effectively, the other 10% would be perfect for wind energy). Renewable energy is about meshing with your environment, and generating electricity needs through sustainable practice. I would also like to point out that each of these technologies have free fuel, meaning that you don’t have to pay (or the government doesn’t have to subsidize) the cost of fuel and the disposal of waste.

World wide, solar and wind are the fasted of the two growing technologies. Solar technologies are often located on individual rooftops of businesses, schools, and homes while wind turbines are often created into utility-scale projects, but can also be applied to businesses, schools, and homes. Solar has been widely accepted by the public, so much, that demand outstripped supply last year. It is almost unprecedented that any business is set up so that supply outstrips demand. In Tennessee there are many incentives for homeowners, and especially businesses, to put solar PV panels on rooftops making them very affordable. Plus think of it this way, you add certain things to your home, like a paved driveway for instance. Now, I’m sure that driveway pays for itself over a lifetime… Even so, a renewable energy system reduces the amount of energy your home produces, or your home runs without using electricity, it literally saves you money over its entire lives (have I mentioned the original PV panels on the NASA spaceships still produce electricity, that is ancient technology working 40 years later!). Oh yeah, and if you were buying a house, isn’t energy use one of the things you look at… (equity…)

Wind technologies are a little more prone to skepticism. They have had their growing pains, but like any other energy supply, they have learned how to overcome these issues. With utility-scale wind technologies they must be sited where there are no endangered speicies, no migratory bird paths, and in high wind regimes (in Tennessee, along the ridges of the Cumberland Plateau and Appalachian Mountains.) These issues are all studied before any wind turbine project goes up. The bird lesson was learned in Altamont Pass, CA. Modern wind farms kill less birds per wind turbine than an average house cat, and certainly less than a cell phone tower . Wind turbines operate around 33% efficiency (i.e., the wind blows at the rated speed that percent of the time) and this is the same percent as Nuclear Power, and just about 20% below coal plants. A new study just came out showing that we could put wind turbines off of the Mid-Atlantic coastthat could provide power to cities such
as NYC, Washington D.C., Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Atlantic City, (take your pick of East Coast cities). It is important to realize that we need to spread renewable technologies out, to ensure that if the wind decides not to blow in one place, it is blowing in another place (critics will argue against windfarms saying ‘if you put all the turbines in one place’ I’m saying don’t ? ). If you want to see a wind farm, go to Oliver Springs, TN (literally a 45 minute drive) and I promise… you will not be disappointed.

With this said, renewable energies must be combined with energy efficiency. Energy efficiency is something you will here about in the upcoming years. TVA is going to have to raise their electricity rates, Congress has ordered them to get out of debt. So, you are going to hear these practices become more and more practical. I have already mentioned this guidebook, it is a great place to start.

It will take time for the United States to build itself into a nation that can rely on renewable energy for its energy supply. Transmission lines must be upgraded, and extended to accommodate energy rich regions. Infrastructure must be put in place, to bring down the cost of the supplies of renewable energies. Legislation must be passed (like a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) – if you hear of Carbon Tax, know that it is favoring Nuclear Technology, of which we have not solved security or waste issues). When a national RPS passes, you will hear complaints of “here is how much it will cost to get to 20% by 2020. The hardest step to 20% is getting the first 2%. But, if we demand it, if we take a stand, we will get this technology. The infrastructure is still being set in place, but it is coming. It has to come.

Several companies have made large contributions towards making the United States sustainable. BP invested $4 billion in Clipper Wind turbineslast year (A US turbine manufacturer), BP also made several large solar investments. Shell (www.shellwind.com) has invested millions into wind and solar projects as well. Sharp’s leading product is solar panels. General Electric creates many of the wind turbines used today, and even though they may be sitting on their 1.5 MW design in order to make money, it is still important that they are contributing. These multinationals realize there is money to be made in the alternative field, do you think that might be an indication…

And for all the assholes in Washington, DC who are going to bitch about “jobs
lost” for coal miners, let me tell you something, coal miners lose jobs when coal companies are able to replace 20 miners with 1 large machine and dynamite (mountain top removal), that’s jobs lost. And for those miners looking for a job, why don’t you try out the renewable energy field? Studies show that switching to renewable sources would create 5 times as many jobs as relying on fossil fuels.

Knoxville, don’t gamble on your future, don’t be fooled. Don’t listen when they say “If we used only energy efficiency” or “if we used only wind” or “if we used only solar”. We aren’t going to use just wind, we aren’t going to use just solar, and we aren’t going to use just efficiency. They need to be all combined. We will not be replacing fossil fuel use immediately, but we will
be reducing it drastically.

Nuclear energy experts don’t believe that the energy will be ready for another 10 years, and even then, they aren’t sure how to store the waste. This is a waste that takes 1000 years just to halfway decompose, that’s a SERIOUS issue. Nuclear industry representatives have a
goal of maintaining the current percent of electricity generation. In the Southeast, we must fight to make sure this doesn’t increase. Don’t get me wrong, we will have to maintain a diversity of coal, nuclear, but we need to increase renewables. Coal will be reducing its share of the market,
renewables increasing, and nuclear maintaining the same, and efficiency will also eat a huge chunk.

Just keep your eyes open Knoxville, let’s use what we can, our economy will
improve, our environment will improve, and our lives will improve. I’ll talk to you ramblers tomorrow, if you have questions, leave them in a comment, I’ll personally email you back. Thanks for stopping by.

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With a weekend like the one we just had (in case you were out of town...the temperature got down to a frosty 20 and warmed up to a frothy 35), I contemplated sitting at home with some hot chocolate. I failed miserably. Friday night, after my return from North Carolina, I thought about just taking it easy. After all, I’m battling a cold thanks to my lack of insulation. My friends could care less about my health, especially when they refer to the almighty Brucerator.

Sitting a mere block from my house sits what we like to refer to as "The Big Blue House." It is in this house where many life-altering decisions have been made. For instance, the
decision to go to Las Vegas last year was made there (perhaps soley based on the fact we were able to enter a National Beer Pong Tournament. Yes Knoxville, you are home to the National Lampoon's National Beer Pong
Champions - no autographs, please). The decision to return to Vegas was also
made at the same house. But the greatest decision of all, was the instinctive decision made by the rentees of the house, to create a kegerator, not just any kegerator, but "The Brucerator." Covered by many famous Bruce's, this converted refrigerator has been the ignition switch to several forgettable nights. I am not here to talk about things I can't remember. I am here to talk about the culture of conversation that said
Brucerator stirred up Friday night.

My Vegas friends have bought this Vegas guidebook. I was always more of a Choose Your Own Adventure kind of guy (Or Encyclopedia Brown!). The truth is, I hate
planning. It reminds me of the time my Mom "planned" to encourage family bonding by visiting every lighthouse along the Outer Banks of NC. Really cool idea? No. Not at all. Not when a 5 hour trip ends up lasting 16 hours, riding 3 ferries, getting crapped on not once, but twice, by the seagulls your brother and sister continue to feed. Not to mention you are riding on this giant metal ship which absorbs every bit of sunlight, turning it
into one of the finest saunas you have ever set foot in. Although memorable, I don't think it morphed into a family tradition (a family tradition example: Every year my sister
(14), my brother (18), myself (22), and my parents put on Christmas pajamas (always from Old Navy) and take 3 rolls worth of pictures for a family Christmas card. Awesome.)

Back to this guidebook. I have to tell you I was not a fan. I've threatened at least one of the group members that if at every casino we go to, he says something like "Built in 1960's, the Stardust casino was one of the only Casino's in Vegas to be owned by more than one organized crime group..." (Not factual by the way, just saying), I may kill him. However, sitting around the Brucerator, the comment was made "Did you know Paris Casino has the only true French roulette wheel in Vegas?" My first thought - "What the hell is a French roulette wheel?" It was explained to me, "a French roulette wheel contains no 00, making the odds of Red vs. Black, the highest odds in Vegas." Crickie!!! I love this guidebook! And fyi, we are staying in the Capital of Freedom Casino the first two nights we are in Vegas, meaning this would be where our balls to the wall, put it all on red, extravaganza would go down. It occurred to me that perhaps the stars were aligning... the odds of winning it all on red were getting better. Conversation snowballed (thanks again to the Brucerator) into a decision that we embark on our "Journey" the next day.

That was the plan, head out to a random town, to travel through bars finding
themes that we could parallel to Journey songs. However, the choose your own adventure ended up being that it was too f’in cold outside, and upon some research, the temperature was going to get below 20 degree. (Salt doesn't
melt ice below 20 degrees) I live in the mountains of NC, I can drive on snow, but I say no to ice.

Saturday night I was unsure of what to do until one of my friends called and said “We are at the Tasting Room.” Now, I have never been to the New Knoxville Tasting Room before Saturday night, but I have tasted New Knox beer, that’s all it took for me. Once I had maneuvered past Blue Cats, left on Randolph Street and right on Depot Street, I walked into a small venue, where everyone was lounging on couches, listening to Medford ‘s Black Record Collection. It was the friendliest scene I believe I have ever walked in on. I literally thought I was in a scene from "That 70’s Show." Friends laughing with $2 pints of New Knox, people sitting on the pool table, and not a mirrored beer sign in sight, I realized by not going there before, “I’ve made a huge mistake.

I also had no clue that I had walked in to a birthday party. Not in the sense
that there were balloons, birthday hats, and streamers, but in the sense that the birthday girl was walking around giving away free shots. I declined, but I watched all of my friends celebrate this once-a-year occasion. I ducked out the door early wondering where the night might have gone if I stayed. As I met up with three friends the next day for brunch, I found it humorous that all of us had headaches, three from the night
before, and one (me) from battling sickness. I spent the entire day Sunday battling sickness by turning on events such as the Daytona 500 (which is awesome, I fell asleep and woke up at the end!) and the NBA All-Star game (fell asleep, never woke back up… not until the morning).

So Knoxville, it’s voting day! And President’s Day! I wonder what percentage
of Knoxville will come out to the polls? I hope enough. It’s going to be sad to see one of us go, we’ve all come running out of the gates, but which one of us will be the Knoxville 520 Barboro? I’m not sure of the odds, but I’ll hopefully be back tomorrow with the promised blog on our energy future, and the green revolution. Keep it in the road!

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"We're blowing right through naptime." Knoxville, it's Thursday, I have no clue what that really means, besides every single establishment in Knoxville is hosting specials. To tell you the truth, I can't make it out the door until I finish watching CSI. Yes, I am apparently a mainline American since it is "America's most watched TV show." Hell, now that I think of it, I may be mainline American. After all I did eat at an Applebee's last night (Valentine's Day) and I definitely had steak and crab cakes (I was going for the crab cakes appetizer, but it was $7 for 2 crab cakes... and the steak came with crab cakes and was $13... this math is much too easy.) Crab cakes and football - that is what Knoxville does (a very blatant joke stolen from Wedding Crashers).

Applebee's was my perfect choice for a Valentine's Day date. For two reasons: 1.) My date specifically requested we don't do anything out of the ordinary (by all means!) and 2.) I believe my date disliked Valentine's Day more than I do. (The whole "this is the day that Love has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it" type of thing). With her specific instructions being to just go with the flow and not really pay attention to the hype surrounding the holiday, I officially broke my 6th grade curse...

...Which involved getting up the gall to ask out the girl I had a crush on for the entire year. But to do so I ask my best friend's girlfriend to ask her for me-- after all she does sit by
this girl at lunch every other day. She said yes! Bowling it was! Unfortunately a pimple ruined my bowling form, and instead I called her on the phone to break up... even though we were never dating. In fact, we never spoke (but did manage to date later on, after my growth spurt and confidence). Applebee's saved me this year though, and so I will unabashedly promote applebees.com ala Wayne's World.

Now, if you will allow me to remove my blogger coat and put on my environmental jacket for a second: I'm not going to preach on renewable energy, coal, oil, etc. I hope you know about those things (if not, please let me know, I will submit one blog to summing up the entire issue in detail - I'll probably do it anyways. Let's make it February 20th, please). I want to talk about the biggest issue in my life right now-- when it gets below 40 outside, my house gets down to below 50, below 60 with heat on. When
you can't afford KUB, but you can't afford a doctor, what do you do? Last night, I found my solution. Last night was one of the last straws, laying in bed not being able to sleep
because my curtains are blowing in ice cold air, I wondered, is my cheap rent worth this? When the heat comes on, the warmth just reminds me that at least half of that is leaving my house, racing outside to the colder air, the other half is sucking my bank account dry. I have requested insulation for my house (we literally have none - evident by my nailing a picture through the wall, and catching upwards of of 10 mice, 2 rats, and a
couple of serious colds).

I found this really great publication, hopefully each of you all will use it the way I plan on it, looks like we could all save some money really easily. I thought this was worth sharing. I am an environmentalist, because I'll be damned if my ignorance and laziness is going to ruin my way of life - I say that, and I still eat meat, I'm such a hypocrite.

Back to Thursday night-- I am unsure of what the night brings, I guess it depends on which way the wind blows - and if you want to know what to do - hell, you're already on the site. Friday night I will be out and about on the town, but not before traveling back across the mountains to watch my brother compete in his high school wrestling regional championships (not to mention congratulate him on getting a minimum $10,000 scholarship from Coca-Cola, one of 250 out of the original 88,000 applicants, not bad for a guy who graduated from a high school of 650 total students).

Well ladies and gents, it's off to the plasma center! Keep gamblin.

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How are you? I'm having an incredible year. For everyone's
reading pleasure I managed to sneak around the town yesterday / last night. It was Kentucky vs. Tennessee in basketball that really got the spirits rousted, but it was the Holiday performance of "Featuring Chad Kroeger of Nickelback: Anna Nicole's unborn child's father" (i.e. Nintendo Rules) that stole the show.

At 2 p.m. I received a most generous phone call from my friend who demanded
"Why are you not at Moe's?" A quick background, before most men's basketball games, a group of us gather at Moe's for their $3.25 pitchers (Student discount - $4.50 regularly) of Michelob Light, Bud Light, Miller Lite, or Amberbock - seriously, it is your pick. Several of us gather there, others stop in to have a pitcher, being quoted as saying "For $3.25 I feel like I have to buy one." It's true. Regardless, I made my way down to Moe's around 4:30 p.m. to a crowd of hecklers, raining down smart-ass comments about my
arrival time. One pitcher and a couple of glasses of Amberbock later we left at
5:15 p.m., our ears ringing... "Welcome to Moe's."

I hope you know the outcome of the game. I tend to geek out on sports, so I'll try to tone it down. But I just want to point out that when Tennessee's two freshman who play inside (Wayne Chism and Duke Crews) outscore a player who (at one point) was entering the NBA (Randolph Morris - extremely big headed, overhyped Kentucky center) my expectations for Tennessee basketball, not only for this year, but for upcoming years, are high. Tennessee built a lead, then slowly let it dwindle (similar to my gambling habits), however unlike myself, the Vols held on for an exciting 89-85 victory. The game ball goes to my buddy who arrived at Moe's at 2pm, was escorted to outside the building where an officer ask him "Have you been drinking?" to which he replied "Yes sir, would you like to see my tab." Instead, he handed him his ID, verifying he was of age, and he returned to cheer on the Vols.

By the time the game had ended, I could already tell you I was going out on the town (the 2 p.m crowd did not join me). I need to point out "out on the town" means somewhere with culture-- a splash of class. I need atmosphere, not 300 beer signs that are also convenient mirrors. Granted, if a place has a pool table, I tend to make exceptions. Not because I am good at pool, but because I'm confidently mediocre. Old City and Market Square qualify as normally having culture and class. I do plan to venture out west-- I figure this contest should serve as motivation for all of us to enjoy the entire city of
Knoxville. In fact, Knoxville520 has the calendar available, so there is no excuse not to.

Preservation Pub. Everybody seems to know everybody. Even though I don't, I
feel like I do. I feel like I should announce that the Pub is holding a meeting for those interested in joining a co-op to purchase Preservation Pub and keep it just the way it is - absolutely rockin'. That meeting is on Thurs. April 15th at 6:00 pm. So Tuesday is singer / songwriter night, and I met a group of my friends down at the bar
for the traditional $2 High Lifes (Champagne of Beers). The Pub's singer /songwriter night is unique in that it isn't an untalented "artists" stubbing chords and wailing pitches that even I know to be way off key. Instead, it is a gathering of Knoxville's talent to play amongst each other. It's a neapolitan of shows, typically 2 or 3 songs each, covering the full music spectrum. At the end of the night, it was the Nintendo Rules rendition of Justin Timberlake's famous via You Tube SNL skit "Dick in a Box" that brought chants of "encore" even aspiring a quad of ladies to audition for dancer's in the music video.

So Knoxville, where do we go from here? Valentine's Day is here-- enjoy it! I've gambled a few times on this oh-so-American holiday and just like I normally do, I've lost. I'll
share some Valentine's Day "don'ts" and if my evening goes right tonight, I may go with one Valentine's Day "do." What else can you expect from ol' Joe Vegas?

Rumor has it that Longbranch saloon may be rented out for an official event, I invite all my fellow bloggers to join in this over 21, BYOL ( Yes-- Brown Bag baby!) event. I'll be solidifying the venue in the next few days. Also - look for a random "Journey" as I embark to a nearby
city, unknown at the time, with the idea being to find something the band Journey could sing about at each bar I find. My final finale will be a unprecedented pub crawl.
From the Old City to Market Square to the strip (I have to walk to all these places). This all-downtown pub crawl is both ill advised and well advised at the same time. I guess I will sacrifice for the good of the whole. In between all these events look for random events, thoughtful insights, rambling, and most importantly living on life's little edge, putting it all on red. I bid you adieu.

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Put it all on red. My gambling motto. The same motto that saw me soar back from nearly broke, to even, to completely broke last year in Las Vegas. The truth is I have never won on the roulette wheel. Never. I don't even think on a hand-held video game. My new motto - put MORE on red! It's gotta hit soon...

KnoxVegas? I'm looking to go back to Las Vegas! Confidently I have spotted myself $500 to book airlines and hotels for 5 nights of an up all night, is that a girl or guy?, tip anyone who smiles at you, kind of experience. Now I have two options to scrape up that money to gamble, either continue donating plasma twice a week (which is a pretty good gig right now!), or let you enjoy my KnoxVegas adventures. Either way, I'm putting it all on red.

You see, I'm not a Knoxville bar groupie. I don't have my own "Cheers." At one point I did-- every Tuesday I went to a particular drinking spot for free pool and $2 New Knox drafts. Apparently I am a leader, an innovator, because after two months the word got out of where I was located. And one Tuesday night I saw more pastels than a pack of Smoothie Mix Skittles (which if you have ever tried, you
will find there are is no flavor diversity, plenty of colors, 1 flavor). Regardless, I'm not sure if it was the first popped collar or the second, but my $2 New Knox drafts were replaced by "regular price" and I was replaced by "regular college students."

I'm not a band groupie, I don't jump up and down and scream (a la Little Miss Sunshine) when a particular band comes in town, although some of my friends religiously follow
Breakfast Club (come on who doesn't?) There is one particular band that plays on Preservation Pub on most Tuesdays that I will follow. At one point they had a record 21 opening acts, a feat that is unheard of outside of Woodstock,
Bonnaroo, (name your favorite large tour). What is their name? It doesn't matter who... we just say "Last Act at Open Mic Night."

So what the hell is it I do? In the words of Cal Naughton Jr., "I like to party." I enjoy enlightening people, which is what I plan to do. Jim Beam normally results in a good night (which on my 21st birthday led to me waking up in the back of a car with a cop asking "who stole the bottle of Jager" and me getting pissed at all my friends out for not admitting to it. Little did I know that I had gone to the upstairs bar, grabbed a bottle of Jager, and drank 1/4th of it before escaping the bar, scot-free, until I ran into a VW, which reminded my body I had a touch too much alcohol, and while I attempted to get
rid of any alcohol from my stomach, I was caught - not a good night). I don't dance very well, but Mr. Beam and I do tango.

I just made my first KnoxVegas survivor decision. If I win, I am placing all
the prize money on red, the second my plane lands in Las Vegas on March 9th (9:05am). That's part of what I'm surviving for, the other is to hopefully give you a laugh, and an inside look to what is sure to be a very interesting few weeks. I'll enjoy reading
everyone else's posts as well. Stayed tuned Knoxville, we're in for a classy ride.

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