Nice weekend. Weather was great, and the kids loved being the center of attention by pretty much the whole town all weekend

took a few more pictures of the festivities, even got to take the monkeys to the park today. they LOVE swings!

http://mikecompton.com/pics/thumbnails.php?album=61

So it’s happened! Jen and I are now OFFICIALLY married. Everything turned out wonderful, the ceremony, the reception, pictures, and thanks to mother nature for the nice weather. Everyone had a great time. The food was good, the beer was cold, and the dancing was fun. Dont have the time to post the photos right now. I think I personally took about 100 photos, and I saw a lot of friends and family doing the same. Plus we had disposable cameras on the table, so hopefully we wont have too many wang shots in there I’ll post some photos later. We’re kinda busy right now Thanks to all that came. Hope a great time was had by all! Jen & Mike

*update*

photos: http://www.mikecompton.com/pics/?path=wedding

more: http://nata2.info/?path=pictures/events/2005:06:11_Mikes_wedding

I’ve been on Marlboro’s marketing mailing lists for about 7-8 years now, and since I always give them all the feedback they want, and show up at any events they send me to, they continue to send me all kinds of free stuff. Myself and my family enjoy watching racing alot, so it worked out well Marlboro sent me and a guest to the track. Last year I was pretty suprised when they sent me two free tickets to the IRL race in Milwaukee.
This year they had a promotion called Hot Laps, where they take instructors from their racing school, and bring them to a local track and have them give you ride-along experiences that most people have never had the chance to do. So I graciously accepted, and took my dad along. We had a great time! We got to ride in the actual IROC cars that drivers such as the Earnhardts, Allisons, Fitipaldi’s, and Unsers drove back in the mid 90′s. After the IROC (International Race of Champions) cars took us around Chicagoland Speedway, we went over to the Mustang Drift course, where they took stock Mustang’s and basically tried to create a little road-course style driving in the confines of a track parking lot. It was pretty wild, with the drivers pushing the cars to their absolute limit, tires squealing and smoking the whole way! Afterwards, Marlboro provided us w/ some lunch and some swag on our way out.
More pictures are here, and some videos are at the bottom

[Listening to: The Shortest Straw - Metallica]

So yesterday afternoon our family and friends held a bridal shower for our upcoming wedding, and it wasn’t as bad as an event that I had imagined it would be.
I imagined myself surrounded by 50 women going on and on about how nice our towel sets we just received were and stuff, but it really wasn’t bad. We had some good food, then snacked on some fruit and pretzels dipped in a chocolate fountain. I refrained from just cupping my hands and drinking chocolate out of them, so kudo’s to me. Jen and I got a lot of nice stuff. Tons of gifts, enough to fill two Chevy Blazers really, and some Target gift cards, some green $tuff, and some gift certificates from our travel agent for our honeymoon. That’ll help alot, thats NOT cheap.

Since my dad loves to Photoshop pictures, I can only imagine what he’s
going to do to the photos of me surrounded by 50 women *shudder*

[Listening to: Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock]

I was gonna be all fancy and go to one of those "what happened on the day you were born?" sites, but shit, they didn’t have dates that went back that far. Was that B.C or something?

oh wait, 1947 Salvatore Sciarrino composer, was born. yeah, I’m sure he doesnt know you either!