Sunny Dayz & New Job Titles....

The Morning Song - Les McCann
Good Morning Sunshine - Quasimoto
The Sun - Ghostface
Breathe In The Sun - The Perceptionists


Ah yes...back off a long extended holiday with some freshness and some updates for the loyal readers of The Funk. If you were not aware, or did not get me email of last week, Brother B has finally gotten a new gig. No longer will I be a slave to the desk, a servant of 7 am conference calls, or an underling to an unwilling corporate master whose only aim is to put a fork between me and my family, NAY! I tell you. NAY! Here is a copy of the mass email I sent which will explain the situation further:

Greetings folks.

I just wanted to take a few minutes to let yawl know what's been going on and what will be going on with your boy, Brother B. Some of you I have not seen in a minute, others I see all the dag gum time, some of you I know only by your email addresses and tastes for All Thangs Funky, but you are all friends in my book. Hopefully, I'll get up with each and every one of you one of these days.

For the past few years I have been doing the office shuffle for my father's company, LightStream Technologies, as a Tech Services Manager/Gopher Boy as well as finally finishing up my Bachelor's Degree at Shenandoah University. For those who know me from before the SU days, you'll never believe it until I show up at your house/apartment/mansion (Mohammad!)/city (Jamar!) and formally present you with the degree I'll have in my hands in late August. For those Macon heads, I still have both letters from the academic department when they put me on Academic Probation for my less than stellar GPA (Take that!). And for the Beta Alpha Nu brethren, Sub Zero no longer means "below Cumulative 1.00 GPA". For those few who have met me after the RMC experience (The VeriSign Posse/Traveling Troy's Band Of Misfits/Cohort Six Family/The Downstairs Femme Fatales of 20602), it has been a pleasure to have become friends with all of you and I'm sure we'll all keep in touch and go out for a night on the town when the occasion calls for it.

I also bought a 1 bedroom condo/recording studio dealy in Ashburn Village, up here in NOVA last year. So Brother B has some equity to his name now. Thank you Lord! And for the 10^th time Kozak, the album will be out (finally) this summer at some point. Bash Brothers Crew - The Axiom, Coming Soon!

The reason that I write this sort of summary/diatribe is that I have left my position at LightStream (okay, I was fired by the Board of Directors and before you ask me how my pops could fire his own kid, they are trying to fire him too. It's hella complicated and I need some Erk & Jerk just to explain it correctly) recently and decided that now, at 26 (27 in a month) was the time to pursue a passion over that almighty dollar bill. So I set out on a quest to get into coaching football again. I had dabbled in the art form in '99 but eventually succumbed to the pressure of actually being able to eat (LOL) and live in Northern Virginia. So off to work I went.

Now some 5 and a half years later, I have finally accomplished one of my three goals in life. You are now getting an email from the newest member of the Guilford College Football Coaching Staff. That's right; I'm now a college football coach. Well to be more specific, I'm the new Assistant Football Coach in charge of coaching the Inside Linebackers (or Safeties depending on how it shakes out, but I'll update it when I find out). So my business card now reads:

BJ Lanier
Assistant Football Coach
Guilford College
5800 West Friendly Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27410
(I'll send yawl some cards when I get them).

I start August 1st and the season pops off Sept. 3rd 2005. I'll send a schedule around for everyone to check out in case you want to come out to see the team play. But the best part (or not depending on who you ask), is that I'm going to be in charge of an entire dorm on campus as a Housing Adviser. That's right Co-Caine, your little brother is back in the dorms buddy, causing trouble. Actually, I'll be that guy who is yelling at all these kids to go to sleep cause "It's 9:30 and I've got a job and yawl bamas don't, so can it!" or something to that effect.

So anyhow, that's the big news on my end. I just wanted to let you guys know what was in store for this fall. I won't give anyone any personal shout outs on this mass email, cause I'm sure I'll do it in person when I see you next. Whether that is at the BAN 10 year reunion cookout (What's up with that anyhow?), the Bash Brothers Album release party (Can we have one Zak???), or running into each other at some unplanned time, I'll thank you in person for helping me get to this point.

My cell will stay the same for at least the fall so feel free to hit me up at random points in the day or night to talk life/politics/or who's the greatest rapper of all time (and if you say Jay Z, you'll get punched through the phone LOL). It's "swatever" as Keith would say.

So in closing, thanks for being friends of 'ol Brother B and I'll be seeing you all soon; hopefully soon anyhow. Keep the faith and keep on funkin'.

___

It is such a nice day out this morning in the Metro Area that I thought I'd bring you some of the more "sunny" songs out of the collection to celebrate the occasion. And we all know what's coming next. Humidity and Gnats. I hate gnats. Little buggers love to mess up a bar-b-que.

But the songs are killer funky and I think best describe the feeling of a nice sunny day. If you are in the same type of weather as I am, I'm sure that you can get a sudden case of the Outside-itis and get your boss to have that strategy session outside in the sun. As the great X-Clan once said (well, said it a lot anyhow), Vanglorious! So download the tunes, crack open a bottle of whatever favorite beverage you have stashed away in your office desk and enjoy the day.

It's Gonna Be Greater Later,
Brother B.