The Colin Entry

I have been requested from many people, including the incredibly busy boy himself, to provide the masses with a blog update for Colin. Since I can't post to his blog I'm doing it here. You can read this if you want from the extended entry. Warning, its very long.
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Where to begin.....
Ok, well Colin returned to Worcester on the 24th of June instead of the 21st as was originally planned. Also, he neglected to tell me this until the night of the 20th at 10pm EST (9pm CST) while I was out in Boston. Nothing like finding out plans have changed less than a day before things happen, after you've cleared your calandar and made sure everything was in place to pick him up, but i'm not bitter. :-P hehe
The next big thing was taking him to his court date. For those of you who didn't know, Colin decided to bring back a replica hand gun (not an actual gun, but looks just like it) and two butterfly knives. For those of you who grew up in MA, you know that butterfly knives are strictly illegal. For the rest of you who want to give our resident Texan a break for laws that were new to him, don't. He asked me about the gun and the knives over a month before he came home and I quoted him the specific articles of the criminal code that forbade importing such items. (Colin, this is what you get for having me do a blog entry hehe) So we go to the court house, which is in Boston, and we have to be there by 8am, which means we were up by 6am. Anyone can tell you, I don't get up for WORK at 6am. We were there and thankfully his case came up pretty quickly in the rotation. His lawyer talked the DA into dealing with this out of trial and kinda negotiate it. His second appearance was the other day and they ruled that a replica gun is not an actual gun so this is pretty strong that everything will clear up and it won't touch his record. The (hopefully) finale of this saga will be in mind September some time.
Colin and I have settled into the apartment fairly well. It took until mid July for him to get a bed, and until that point he slept on my couch. Thankfully I have a very comfortable couch. We bought several things to help turn the apartment into a more liveable space for two people such as shelving in the bathroom and towel racks. He insisted we get a paper towel dispenser which is really cool and has an arm that makes it so you can tear sheets off one-handed. We also bought a grill so we can grill food during the summer.
The BYOBBQ (Bring your own bbq) that I have every year (this was my 3rd year) on the night before the 4th went off wonderfully. Colin brought Robin, the girl he met at Quizno's, and she got to see the spectacle of him being teased and harrassed by all his friends, co-workers and even his boss. We of course only tease him because he's our friend and he can usually give as good as he gets. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna catch hell for this post :). There's not much to tell of the story of Robin. Basically, there were a few habits he didn't care for and stated that those habits would be a problem if they continued. Shortly after he got the "lets just be friends" speech and then she stopped answering his calls. *shrug* You gotta give the boy credit for having standards.
Beyond that, everyhting has mostly been work, work, work. Colin is a work-study for NetOps and he's pretty much working full time at the moment. The summer is when we techies have to do the most work at a school since the students are away and it doesn't affect as many people if we upgrade things. He's also been spending a lot of time down at the house with the brothers and that's another reason why his blog hasn't been updated.
A few other things is that Colin has gotten several recipes from his mom for some good food and has been cooking a bunch. He made a really good corn soup, very tasty. Also good were the dill seasoned oyster crackers and the spinach dip.
Overall I think its going to be very good year living with Colin. Its my first roommate in about 2 years. (I had a roommate a year ago, Andrew, but he really didn't count, because he mostly lived at his girlfriend's apartment. Never-the-less, he was also a good roommate.) It's a nice change from my time 3 years ago, when there was constant bitching about cleaning everything that we both just clean what is necessary, whenever its necessary, regardless of who made the mess.
Ok, I think that's about it. If I forgot anything Mr. Lazy can write it himself ;)