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I should be in Columbia right now. I should be hanging out and partying with Andy and Kieran tonight after an afternoon toss of the baseball on the horseshoe. I should be.

But wait, I’m not. About four weeks ago, my truck took me the entire 600 miles up to Virginia to see my family. Last night, it only allowed me to retrace 570 of them. About a half an hour outside of town, the engine gave a soft whine and started to gradually slow down. Clay thought I was messing around when I let flow of a steady, loud stream of expletives. I managed to pull the truck over to the side of the road, get AAA to town me to a mechanics, and my dad picked us up and finished the journey for us. Surprisingly enough, the mechanics were able to start working on my baby around 9 this morning. Unsurprisingly enough, they have absolutely no idea what is wrong with it. No belts are broken, the engine’s getting gas just fine, and not a damn thing appears to be wrong. But I can assure you, when you turn the key, all you get is the classic “Uhuhuhuhuhuh”. If they can’t fix it tomorrow, I’m stuck here until Monday night at the earliest and Andy leaves Tuesday.

Sometimes I seriously hate Fate.

There’s just something about me and trying to drive home from Virginia. Last year I was forced to do so on New Years night and was able to witness a tractor trailer exploding in front of me, sit still from 2AM until 5:30AM, and then watch my battery quickly died. I don’t know what the hell I did to anger the Gods this year, but it must have been a doozie.

But you know what the funny / not-so much funny, but more ironic thing is? My truck died within 3 miles of the exact same spot last year. Next time, I’m taking another route home.

A friend of mine asked to see the Ashlee Simpsons video clip of her being booed at the Orange Bowl the other night, so I figured I’d just post it on here in case anybody else wanted to see it. So here it is (right click and save as) for anybody that wants to see it. I found it hilarious that 70,000 absolute rival fans who just moments before were battling it out with one another over the game realized that Ashlee Simpson sucks ass and that they should join together in booing her. Maybe there is hope for this country.

Oh, and just in case your computer doesn’t show you the video, you need to install the latest codec for your computer. (And might I add, if this is the case, shame on you! Keep your computer updated!)

Is anybody surprised that I’m still here in Virginia? Seriously, anybody? I didn’t think so. My plans for leaving yesterday fell apart when I didn’t roll out of bed until 2:30. My plans for leaving today fell apart when I kept saying “Eh, I’ll leave within the next hour. Now let’s go play some more video games Colton!” So as of now, I’m leaving tomorrow. I swear. The truck is packed, I’ve got a bag of homemade cookies ready to go, and I am forcing myself to leave. Seriously. I mean it this time. Clay is actually going to ride down with me because he doesn’t want me to have to make the drive alone (Sidenote: See Waynus, that is what a true brother would do! You bitch and moan about maybe having to make the drive with me and Clay goes out of his way so that I don’t have to be alone for eight hours. I’m just saying. End Sidenote) We’re staying in Spartanburg for a day before making our way back to Columbia where he’ll stay with me until Sunday.

Speaking of Sunday, the Packers first playoff game is then at 4:30 EST. Now that I think about it, I might have to take Clay to the airport sometime during then…this could prove to be a problem.

I honestly would probably stay in Virginia for another week or so since all my stuff is here and I can work from this computer, but I actually have business to attend to in Columbia. You see, Andy is coming into town until Tuesday and I want to make sure we hang out for a while. Why? We’ve never met.

Andy and I “met” this past September on some messages boards and soon started conversing back and forth via IM. He recently graduated USC and moved onto Grad School out in Arizona, so we never had a chance to actually meet in person. When I learned that he was going to be in Columbia for a few days this month, I made sure to clear my schedule so that I could actually meet the fabled “Friend McSquash” himself. I’ve been warned by him that he’s not as funny in real life as he is on the Internet, but we’ll see. It’s times like these I remember why I love Shyzer and the people it brings me to.

Speaking of people I know only through Shyzer, Jaime pointed out that I have yet to post the results of the Best of Shyzer. I would upload them now, but I’ve already written the post about it and it’s back on my computer in Columbia. So what’s a few more days of suspense going to do to ya, honestly? But thanks for reminding me. I honestly wish I could get access to a floppy disk right now, because on my laptop is a Word Document 14 pages long full of posts that are ready to go. If I’ve learned anything over this break, it’s that the world no longer uses floppy disks and I need to accept that. So, I worked for two hours today (thereby theoretically making two hours worth of wages that I normally wouldn’t have made) and used those wages to order a USB Flash Drive for $25. No longer will I have to worry about carrying around a damn floppy disk with 1.38MB worth of storage since I now will own a 128MB flash disk.

Why am I telling you this? Well, now I will no longer be able to say “I would give you a real post right now, but it’s stuck on my laptop, so…”

And just to throw this out there. I’ll be 22 in a four weeks and living in Australia in five weeks. That’s after spending the previous three weeks with my family. Could I be any happier right now?

Well, I’m now back in Northern Virginia after an amazing trip out west. I would have posted while I was out there, but once you read my next post, you’ll understand why I was unable to =) I’m packing up tomorrow morning and driving back down to South Carolina to finally end my Christmas Break of ‘04. I would love to polish off one of the five posts I’m working on right now, but my body is screaming for some sleep. I guess I’ve just been doing way too much Bonsaiing lately =) But some of the posts I’m working on are great. One comes with some audio attachments, another with plenty of pictures, and even another which is a follow-up of this post I made a while ago.

But all in all, this past month has just been incredible. God, I love my family.

[EDIT]Apparently I’ve turned on my Trackback feature without doing anything. Well that’s interesting. I love it when Shyzer just ups and does something without being given any commands! [/EDIT]