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Well, my Packers got a royal ass whooping today. Not what I wanted to see at all since had they won they would have gotten home field advantage throughout the playoffs and the Packers have never lost a home field playoff game at home. Oh well, I should be happy they are still going to the playoffs I guess.

I didn’t wake up until around 4ish today. I love being lazy =) I watched the Packers game with Jess and then we went to a little Ma and Pop’s store that sells subs and pasta and got some dinner. Then back to her apartment to eat and goof around on the computer. I got her GreyMatter up and running, which was really nice. That damn thing had been giving me problems last night, so I had to uninstall it all and reload everything.

I got a call from my new roommate tonight. I didn’t talk to him for long, but it turns out that my roommate was switched yet again. It was some guy named Cooper last week and now it’s some new guy. He sounded pretty cool, so hopefully things will work out like they did this last semester.

Well I am off to eat the rest of my Calzone and work some more on my site. I updated my Site Information and now I’m debating on which subpage to work on next. Any suggestions?

Well, it has been a damn long time since I have posted anything. I’m actually impressed with myself for going this long without being around a computer and not having some sort of withdrawl attack or spasms of something. Damn…now that I think about it, I have done a ton of shit since I last posted. What’s that? You want to hear about it all? Well in that case…

Well I last posted on Sunday, so what did I do Monday? Drive to Atlanta! Jessica and I had tickets to the Hawks - Wizards game since Michael Jordan is playing in his most likely last year and Jessica has always wanted to see him play since she was a little kid =) We drove to Atlanta and got a hotel for the night and then the next day we woke up and walked around Atlanta for a few hours before heading over to the arena for the game! We were afraid that Jordan would take the night off, but he ended up kicking the Hawks’ ass and scored a season-high 30 points that night! So we were pretty damn happy that we didn’t drive to Atlanta just to see Jordan sit on the bench =)

So what are we at? Wednesday? Ahhh, well we then drove home for the day to get ready for the next few days because we were picking up our siblings and heading up to Tennessee to stay at one of their state parks for a few days! My younger brothers Tommy and Clay and Jessica’s younger brother Kyle came with us and by Thursday morning, we were on the road!

Now Maquest had us taking all these backroads to get there and said that it would take over 3 hours. But I swore that I had found a short cut after looking at the map! So I navigated our way for a good hour or two….but by the 4th hour….we were a tad lost =) I know I know, but damnit, I swore that the way we were going would have gotten us there just fine! We pulled over at this Burger King where the employes were a bit….how do you say it….hickish? I really was surprised they knew hoe to operate that complicated cash register and when we asked them for directions, it was easily one of the funniest Unintentional Comedy Scale moments of all time. They were trying so hard to be nice and helpful, but NOBODY agreed with each other and then they started fighting with each other on how to get there and then they were getting confused by the TWO stop lights along the way and which way was left or right….Seriously, this stuff couldn’t have been scripted any better…So by the 5th hour and 2 mountain tips later, we arrived at our destination! I made a quick note not to take that damn short cut on our way home.

SOOOOO, we unloaded the car and headed up to our cabin, which intentionally had no television or telephone. So no TV, no phone, no Internet. Just us and……well us basically. We were the only guests and the nearest town was a good 10 miles away. So we drive into “town” and realize that there is only one little general store that sells food. As we walk in, we are expecting to be ripped off by the food prices, but once we start looking at things, they were cheaper than anything I have ever seen before! Since the “town” is so little, everybody knows everybody and the people who ran the store weren’t in it to make a profit, they were in it to help out their friends and family. So we stocked up on food and headed back to the cabin. It was night all ready and storming outside, so we decided to go ahead and make dinner and play board games. As we were getting into a good game of Stratego, the power decided to flicker out….and then a few seconds later it pops back on.

Well this goes on for a few minutes. After doing this for the 20th time or so, people start getting scared, and after 3 hours later, I pack us all back up in the car, drive 45 minutes to the next city, and get us a hotel room =) What a way to “rough it!!”

So now we are at, Friday? Friday we hike up to the top of one of the nearby mountains and then back down. The scenery was awesome and Chloe (our puppy) loved it. She was sprinting ahead of us, then dashing back to us, then doing it all over again. We got pretty tired though. We stopped for many “picture breaks” throughout the day and after a few hours of hiking, we headed back to the cabin. I don’t know if anybody has played these games before, but if not, you really need to go check out Ultimate Stratego (You gotta get the Ultimate Version, not the Original version. There is a huge difference) and Catch Phrase. Those were the only games we had up there and they are easily the best two games ever. The same went for Saturday and those two days were easily the most relaxed days I have had in such a long time.

But for everything good, something bad must happen. And that came on Sunday when I woke up with the worst flu ever. I wanted to pass out and never wake up again, but I could never fall asleep and ended up just laying in bed all day. Jessica went and got me some medicine, which helped a hell of a lot, and she ended up making me feel much better =) I was extremelly thankful for everything she did! By Monday it was time for us to leave. We got home a little quicker then our drive up there (thank fucking god) and we loved it so much up there, we are going to try and get a huge group together and go for the summer. Monday night we were originally planning on driving back to Charleston, but my parents begged and begged us to stay for Christmas because they said they needed us there for X-mas morning. So we caved in and decided to stay there until Wednesday. We went shopping for my family that night and then on Tuesday, we hung around and waited for X-mas.

So come Christmas morning! We woke up at 6 AM to go over to Jessica’s house to spend the early morning with her family, which was fun =) They unexpectedly game me a gift card to Best Buy which was really, really nice! Now I can go buy some new games!! After that, we headed back to my house and had another Christmas morning! I got a few CD’s, some cologne, a new watch that is sweeeet looking, and a few other things. Then my family game me a CD player with a car kit. Now if you know anything about me, it is that my 1985 Ford Mustang is sitting in the back yard sorta…..broken =) So I was very puzzled. Then they gave me a small box and when I opened it, there were car keys inside. We all jumped up and I ran outside to the driveway where there was now a 1993 Ford Ranger sitting with a bright red bow on it!!!!!!!! AND IT WAS MARINER GREEN!!!!!

Words simply cannot express the feelings running through me at this time. I was jumping all over the place, hugging everybody, screaming, and doing everything else imaginable. I jumped inside it and looked around and fell in love. My dad jumped in and pointed down and said “So, do you know how to drive stick?” Well, let me take you back to a summer day when I was in 10th grade and my friend’s grandfather was trying to teach us how to drive a stick shift. That was about the extend of my knowledge. But after about an hour and 50 stalls later, I had the hang of it and was cruising around town =) What a Christmas!

Thursday was my brother’s birthday! We decided to stay for the day and hang around the house. Then Friday came around and last night we drove back to Charleston. And that brings us to today, in which I have spent a majority of my time awake typing this damn long post and helping Jessica configure her GreyMatter, which I have failed at so far. Don’t even ask about that thing. It just keeps screwing up. So there you have it. That is what I have been doing lately and now that I am back to my regular schedule, I can post every day =)

The Packers are on tomorrow and if they win, homefield advantage throughout the playoffs! GO PACK GO!!! Geez, I have so much more I want to type about, but I guess I will save that for the rest of this week and go ahead and end this ungodly long post. I hope everybody had a great Christmas! Leave me a nice comment!!

Ahhhh…..FINALLY!

The semester is over and I am now spending some time down in Charleston with Jessica!! I have been looking forward to being out of school for weeks now! Jessica came and picked me up yesterady after my last exam and then we headed on down here. We went to this park close to her house where they had over 2 million lights set up in various different designs and whatnot. It was pretty cool =) Then we went to see the new Star Trek movie which was pretty good and then back here!

This morning….er this afternoon I should say, we woke up and headed down the road to get a full body massage that she wanted to surprise me with =) I had been trying to guess all week what we were going to do and let me tell you, it was amazing! Easily one of the best surprises I have gotten in a long long time! =) We are going to Atlanta this Tuesday to watch the Hawks-Wizards basketball game. Ever since we were little, we have both wanted to see Michael Jordan play in person. And we figured since we have the time off and this will most likely be our last chance, we should go!

Has anybody else noticed that SNL has sucked amazingly horrible this year? I mean, ever since their awesome years in the early and mid 1990s, they have sucked a little, but at least they had Will Ferrel to pull them out of the gutter every now and then. But now…jesus….this show is just horrible. It’s hard to stomach a whole episode now. What a shame.

Ok, I am off to work on my site a little and try to figure out what all I am doing for the month I have off. God it feels good to worry about having too much time off!

Well, I now am 3/5 the way finished with my exams. I took my Computer Science exam today and yesterday I took my English and Government ones. I think I did fairly well on all three of them so far, but we will find out in a week or two when grades are posted on-line. I can’t wait to finally be done with this semester and get the hell out of here for a month. I really need a vacation from school right about now.

Now, I live in the South. We don’t much snow here. In fact, we’ve only gotten maybe a total of 20 days of snow since I have ever lived here. But even before it snowed, I knew what it looked like. But obviously, this guy was so confused by the oh-so-mysterious concept of snow that he thought his car had been spraypainted by a gang of hooligans. Yeah bud, these kids found a thousand gallon drum of white spray paint, covered not only his car, but every other car, house, and yard within eys view, and magically made it feel cold. Jesus…..

Well, I am off to do a little studying and maybe play some video games for an hour or so. I need a break from studying =) I need to do some laundry too. I am totally out of clothes. Anybody wanna send me $5 so I can afford it?! =)

Well the past two days were quite unexpected. Jessica called me up Tuesday night and said that she was going to be in town! She had her puppy with her, so we couldn’t sneak her into my dorm, so we went to the hotel down the road and got ourselves a room where we could sneak the puppy in there =) It was wonderful being able to spend two days with her! Today is basically the last day of classes for me. I have one last class tomorrow and then that is it. Then exams for a week and off to Charleston to stay with Jess!

I updated…er, created that links page over there. It’s still not totally complete, but it’s good enough to go ahead and put up. I am currently typing up my Bio page which should be ready to go within a day or two, so keep a lookout for that.

So does anybody want to give me a job? I am sorta looking for something I can do at my computer here at home, not have to really report to anybody, and pays good =) Seriously, I do want to work from home if there is any way to. I tutor kids in my classes and that actually pays pretty damn good compared to the little amount of time I put into it, but I would still like to have a “real job” if I could. Something where I can actually know when and how much I will be paid on a regular basis.

My roommate is moving out next semester, which means I get to go through the whole “meeting and living with a new person” bullshit. David was pretty cool this semester. I thought it wasn’t going to work from the phone conversations that I had with him, but in the end he didn’t smoke, drink, party too hard, or get in my way which was perfect. We did everything seperatly and I know that makes it sound bad, but god it was perfect. We just kept out of each other’s business and everything was smooth. Now I have to get a new roommmate (most likely some freshman who didn’t get housing this semester) Hate to break it to him, but he is coming into my room so if we don’t get along, I’ll personally open the door for him. Bad roommate = Very Angry Goob

Ok, well it is ungodly cold and I still need to run, so I guess I should go do that. It is like below freezing out there and I can’t run in sweats, so I go out in my T-shirt and shorts…..I come in frozen solid, but oh well. After running it’s back here to update my site and write a little bit of my English paper that was due 10 hours ago =)

I found this horrible ugly construction sign, so I decided that if I went and put it on each of the pages I have yet to finish with, it would motivate me to finish them faster =)

Well I’ve been working on the links page over there. It’s nothing huge or special yet, but I got something done =) I just found out today that I have a 6 page paper due Thursday but that is on some stupid ass topic that can be bullshitted like nothing else. I also have a 6 page paper due Monday on a much more serious topic for Philosophy, so I guess I had better get started on that sometime. Only 3 more days of classes left and then exams and then a month off! YES!

Jesus, it’s been over a week since I posted last? Talk about time flying by. Good ole’ projects in all my classes were just kicking the shit out of me this past week, so I had to take some time off from everything that wasn’t due in my stupid classes. I have final exams on the 9th-13th, so that week will suck some serious ass, but I think I’ll make it through that all right. The week after that though is gonna rock since I get to go stay in Charleston with Jess until the 20th =) That will be some serious fun and relaxation time for me!

Thanksgiving Break was pretty good. I rented a few video games and played them with my brothers all week. If anybody has a PS2 and hasn’t played GTA: Vice City, please stop reading this and go rent / buy it at Blockbuster. Go. Now. Stop reading this. Damn it, GO NOW!….ok, now that you all have rented it, notice the stars up in the top right corner. Now go run over a cop and jack a police car and murder some civilians and then hijack a tank and watch the whole god damn world come down upon you as you try to shoot, run, and drive away. Pure, wholesome, legal fun!

Thanksgiving itself was pretty nice. I went with my family to a friend’s house and had some damn good food. It was nice being able to spend some time with my siblings doing some goofy shit whenever we could. And the food…..my god. There wasn’t a thing there that I didn’t like and I know I ate far too much, but the nap that I took right after dinner took care of everything. =)

Another bright spot of the week was being able to spend some much deserved time with Jessica! That was one of the biggest things I was looking forward to being able to do and it was everything I hoped it would be =) We ended up getting to spend each night over the Break together, which was very nice! I even brought over all my siblings one night since I was watching them and we played Monopoly…that damn games takes far too long to finish. If you are looking for a game that can be played in any time period under 5 hours, forget about Monopoly.

Overall, my Break was excellent. Now it’s time for me to finally work on this site for a week or so and get this damn thing working and looking a little better! But first, I have to reformat this computer sometime. I think I will get that done tomorrow and then start working on this site Tuesday!

I’m still working on getting this stupid GreyMatter working right and all my links, etc. I don’t have any exams for a few weeks, so I should get it all done pretty soon! Thank you everybody who has already visited! I know it’s not the best site graphically, but it’s the best I can do =)