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Ahh, finally back here in Columbia…

Wait a minute, I would still rather be in Charleston =) Well, where to begin? I drove down to Charleston this past Thursday night and made it in time for the new ER and Daily Show =) You really have no clue how much you miss your daily comedy shows when you lose your TV. I am going through Simpsons, Seinfeld, and The Daily Show withdrawl…

Friday I woke up to My Birthday! I’m not usually a huge fan of celebrating my birthday and whatnot, but I do enjoy it when people remember and just take the time to let me know they remembered. I smiled each and every time somebody wished me happy b-day. Jessica took me out to dinnerm which was really nice. Ok, side note here. How many people actually eat the food they bring home from a restaurant? I’ve noticed that I will bring home any left over food, but I never eat it unless it is Chinese or chicken fingers. Ok, end of side note.

After dinner, we drove around and went to Toys R Us and the bookstore next to it. It wasn’t B. Dalton or Barnes and Noble I don’t think….great now, I’m going to be wondering what it was for the rest of the night! Jess bought me a few things and then we began our quest to find a Winn Dixie.

Now let me explain. A few years ago, my mom went to Winn Dixie and bought a cake for some party or something. I ate a piece. I loved it. I ate another. And another. And by that night, half the cake was gone. From then on, I have been hooked on Winn Dixie cakes with Buttercream icing. If it’s whipped icing, I won’t touch it. Since I like them so much, I only get a few each year on special occasions. Well, Jess and I drove around for a good hour or so looking for Winn Dixie, but we eventually found it and it was on to Blockbuster and then back to the apartment! We watched The Sum Of All Fears that night and it was actually one of the FEW movies where I can say they did a good job adapting it from the book. I was impressed with it. So my B-day was very nice and relaxing! And I got to spend it with the girl I love most, which made it all that more special!

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing with Jess =) Monday morning I was packing up to come back to Columbia when I saw that my one class that day had been cancelled, so I ended up staying in Charleston until late Monday night, which was very nice! I got to see Colleen’s new puppy, which is a pure bred Yellow lab…cutest damn puppy ever. Besides Chloe of course =)

Ok, now it’s time to thank those who wished me a happy B-day! (in order of wishing it to me on the boards) So thank you Jess, Stan, Teresa, Karynlee, Mia, Green, Telly, Amy, MJB, Isabelle, Die Hard, Angela, Mindy, ozmonkey, and Katie.

And to my real life friends, thanks Jess, Dad, Mom, Jules, Tom, Clay, Fitz, Fellner, Neece, Colleen, Caitlin, Casey, and Nook!

This weekend kicked ass. Jess is amazing. Seeing as how I have class in a few hours and have yet to sleep, I’ll post more later on today (I swear). Until then…

I found this article early this morning and it reminded me of a time a year or so ago when my 10-year old brother smuggled one of those off the airplane and found out just how cool these things were. I should point out that we realized after the fact that on the label, it said “federal crime to remove” That just made it even more cool =)

Ok, picture if you will one of those Fisher-Price neon colored slides. The “big” ones that stand like 7 feet tall and have a few tunnels and mini slides built on. Now picture me, a 6′ 4” 19-year old climbing up on it sporting an uninflated airline life preserver. Now climbs aboard my 13-year old 6′ 3” brother (no that’s not a typo. The kid is huge. Out weighs me. Out muscles me. Will be able to kick my ass in a year. And he isn’t even in highschool) and imagine him climbing aboard the thing. Then throw in my little brother who is 10 and the picture is already pretty amusing.

Now comes the fun parts. We start pretending we are in an airplane, a fighter airplane to make it even cooler. And we’re flying and making “hnhnhnhnh” machine gun noises and shooting down the bad guys. I’ve personally hit 6 myself! But uh-oh, we’ve been hit!! I scream out that the engines are out and my brothers frantically start pressing the buttons and pulling those oh-so-important levers that are everywhere, but the engines won’t start. We’ve got to bail! So we jump on the top of the slide, and jump into the icy depths of the ocean…I mean our pool.

The minute I go under, I grab my emergency life cord and tug on it, and the magic CO2 springs into action, filling my life vest with air and rushing me to the surface. My brothers grab on and we float for days upon days until the search boats find us…I mean, my mom threw us a raft after we moaned and complained that she wasn’t playing with us.

And there even was a blinking light on the back of the vest so she knew where to throw the raft!

These things really work folks. Without ours, we would have sunk the the icy depths of our three-foot shallow end and been shark food….or pissed on by our baby brother *shudders*

MWAHAHAHAHA

Take THAT mother nature. Every since my first El Niño memories, I have hated that thing. Every few years when it decides to show up, the whole world’s weather has to be screwed with just because of that stupid warm water out in the Pacific. And everything is blamed on this damn thing. Turn on the news, wait until the weatherman comes on, and listen to him say:

Weatherman: “Well you see, we are experiencing a higher average rain fall this winter, which can be explained by the current El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific…” or “Due to El Niño, things around here are going to be much more warmer then usual.” Yeah, sure bud. My theory? This guy has no clue why things are happening, so he just blames them on El Niño. So what do I propose? We follow in his footsteps and blame everything on El Ninño too!

Imagine the possibilities if instead of “I overslept” you could try and pull off “Well you see Professor Smith, I really wanted and meant to write that 10 page essay on the 14th century beaver hunting industry, but you see, due to El Niño, I couldn’t finish on time.” or if your doctor told you “Well, it seems like you have caught bronchitis. How did you catch that? Um….well….El Niño!”

We could just blame everything on El Niño. Late to work? Flat tire? Divorce? Your favorite baseball team just lost the world series? El Niño, El Niño, El Niño, and the Mariners =)

I say it’d work. Anybody else with me?

Guess what is still broken. Yep, my good ole TV on my computer. Gotta love that No Free Range Memory crap it keeps giving me. I really should have thought twice before reformatting.

This week is kinda dull for me. Just sitting around my room, going to classes, and doing plenty of homework. I’ve updated a few sections of this site ( I know, I know, shocked aren’t you? Frankly, I am too. I figured this site would just half-ass it’s way through existence and here I am actually updating it.) I’m heading down to Charleston again this weekend, which is always nice =)

In 3 days and 19 hours from right now, the Mariners will open up Spring Training. God I love this time of the year. Baseball finally gets going and by June, it rules the sports world =) I think starting tomorrow, I am going to start giving a little run-down of all the MLB teams and their chances this year. That way me and my 3 other people who visit this site can see if I know what I am talking about or not when it comes to baseball =)

So, does anybody else have an ATI TV Wonder VE Video Card? If so, have you ever had the Free Range Memory problem? (Ok, shut up. It was worth a damn shot)

Well, I went and did a stupid thing. I thought it would be a great idea to reformat my harddrive, so I backed all my files up and wiped the damn thing clean. I just forgot one little fact…

….computers like to hate you.

My video card now is having all sorts of errors, my TV card can’t find any Free Range Memory (whatever that means), and my speakers have decided that instead of playing the Aerosmith song I clicked on, they would prefer to scream and hiss at me….wait a minute, maybe that is the Aerosmith song I clicked on. The funny thing is, everything worked fine on my computer before. I just had built up so much junk files and defrag wasn’t really working and I had little errors here and there with applications that I had loaded on over the year. But all of my main components worked just fine. Goes to show I need to stick to what I know best: Video games, Mariners, and Jess.

Anyways, I am busy trying to fix this stupid thing. I hope to have it done by tonight (yeah right) and then first thing tomorrow morning I am heading down to Charleston to be with Jess for the weekend! That, my friends, is something I have been looking forward to all week.

And don’t look now, but somebody is having a birthday soon. And I’ll give ya a hint. It’s me =)

There are few things that I love about South Carolina. For the most part, you can find me bitching and complaining about any number of things, from the Confederate flag still being flown on the state house grounds, to the amazing racism that still is bred from 100 years ago, to grits.

But one thing that I love about South Carolina did appear this morning. Snow. Ok, well maybe we don’t get snow as often as I would like. Once every three years usually. However, that turns out to be a good thing because if I can tell you one thing about the South, it is this. Southerners are scared shitless of snow. I’m not joking. If the weatherman predicts that there MIGHT BE a chance of flurries, there is a mad dash for the supermarket to grab all the bread and water. I can still picture the lines at Ingles where a good 50-70 people were buying the last of the bread and water and nothing even happened that night. It’s like they think they will be snowed in their house and unable to leave. Quite humerous.

But today I awoke to this glorious news. “The University of South Carolina Columbia Campus is closed today, Thursday, January 23, due to winter weather conditions.”

I looked outside and started to laugh my ass off. We got MAYBE half an inch. The roads were perfectly clear. But those good ole’ Southerners went ahead and closed just about everything. But I wasn’t complaining. Thursdays are when I have the most classes (4) and I have to spend about 7 hours in the classroom….not fun. But today, I just slept in and can go home early.

So if you ever want to see an entire state panic over nothing, please make a trip to South Carolina in the winter time. Wait, did I just tell people to actually travel to South Carolina on their free will? Scratch that, I’ll just take some video footage for ya. Nobody should ever have to come down here on their own.

Well the State of the Union Address is tonight and I for one could not be happier. I used to hate this thing though when I was a kid. It seemed like every channel covered it (this was before we got Nickelodeon and the 500 HBO channels) and I hated watching some old guy talk.

And up until last year, I still hated this thing. All they talked about was political double speak and while there were important issues to be discussed, they never really talked about those. But now…man, I just can’t wait. So you may be asking yourself “Gee Goob, why are you so excited? It’s just President Bush making a speech. Are you hoping he will talk about the upcoming personal war he has decided to wage with Iraq? Are you excited about the fact that he might address the economy? Or maybe he will talk about…”

Iraq? Economy? What the hell are you talking about? I’m going to be watching just for one thing. Preisdent Bush making a speech. That my friend is unintentional comedy at its greatest. Where else can you hear such things as “If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything!” and “I think we agree the past is over.”

And come on, I know you all remember “There is an old saying in Tennessee. I know it’s in Texas, it’s probably in Tennessee. It says fool me once, shame on…..shame on you. Ya fool me, we can’t get fooled again!” I’m not making that one up folks. I have the video clip to prove it. So damn hilarious. It doesn’t get much better then that. Vegas should get in on this and let people wager how many words he will screw up. I’m putting $20 on 9.

And it’s not just Bush! It’s his surrounding characters too! Take for instance White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. When asked about the recent reports that no “smoking gun” had been found in Iraq, he responded with “The problem with a hidden gun is that you can’t see the smoke.” Ahhhh. Thanks for clearing that one up for us Ari.

Could there possibly be any more crap that I have to get done in the next week or two? From classes, to homework, to this site, to other obligations…it’s starting to become too much. And it seems like everything needs something else to be done first before I can do it. Like this site. I really need to reformat my harddrive before I start messing around with my files that I already backed up. Which means that I have to find my CDs to restore this thing. Which means that I have to unpack my room and then repack it…..all for something that shouldn’t take nearly that amount of time.

Do you know what this site has become? My personal place to come and bitch. That is all I do. Look at this. What the hell. I hate bitching. I never try to bitch. I always smack myself when I start to bitch. But what do I do here? Bitch my little whinny ass off.

Ok, enogh bitching. Good news #1. I’m in Charleston for the weekend spending some time with Jess. No reason whatsoever to bitch while I am down here. Good news #2. ….. ok, so there isn’t good news #2. lol. Ok, ok….my birth is less then a month away. That’s always fun. Birthdays are the best.

Ok, I am off to make a list of things to do and then go to bed. Hopefully by this time next week you will be looking at an employed, ahead in his classes, happy man who just put up a new redesigned website.

HAHAHAHA, yeah right.

Not really in the mood to post right now. In fact, I am still trying to get my schedule fixed. I have some of the worst classes ever, including a oh-so-lovely Women Studies class. Then I have a nice bank account, which is about -$300 with a nice little credit card bill. Thanks alot FASFA. Good for nothing piece of shit government. And I still have yet to buy my books, which is already hurting me in the homework department.

But I am just looking forward to Friday, when I will leave all my problems behind and go to Charleston for a few days. I’ll post more later on tonight / tomorrow when I am in a better mood.