Well once again there isn’t much going on… School doesn’t start for another week so I am working and getting ready for classes. My truck is experiencing more problems (what’s new right?)… I am going to get it into the shop first thing tomorrow morning and pray that it isn’t much to fix.

Other than that it is just plain cold out here. The sky is blue but it is in the mid 20’s right now, which compared to the below zero temps north of here is nothing. Makes me happy to live in Texas and not Minnesota.

Well I am back in the city of Lubbock after a day of driving. It wasn’t too bad though, I took my time and even after a small bump in the road (I’ll explain later) I made it back and got unpacked. Now, the small bump in the road occurred right outside of Snyder. I was cruising along at an indicated speed of 71mph, well I come to a curve and I see lights, and yep, you guessed it, they were for me. A state trooper pulled me over and told me I was going 77 in a 65 (the night speed limit). So now I have a citation that I have to get worked out, which, since I have never had a ticket before should be easy to do.

Other than that it is cold and clear (normal Lubbock weather). It’s good to be back and ready for another semester of school.

Oh, some people have told me that this site needs a new look, others have told me it needs an archive of old posts, and even more have told me that I need to post more. So you know what? Here’s my New Year’s Resolutions for this site….

• New look for the site
• A whole new system for the posts
• I will post more often

Well it’s a little early but who cares, I am going to bed so I thought I would post… Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable New Years!

Well it’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing, so I guess it’s time to catch up.

Mostly I have been enjoying the break by either hanging with the family or in Pearland with Lyndsay. We had a Houston Christmas, you know, 80 degrees with 100% humidity… Some call it beautiful; I call it heat stroke. I received some nice things for Christmas which is listed below:

• Parents
1. Paring knife w/ sharpner (really needed one)
2. Poker chip spinning thingy set
3. “Bleachers” by John Grisham
4. “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley
5. “Flyboys” by James Bradley
6. Finding Nemo
7. Windtalkers
8. Finding Forrester
9. Car Care Kit (this thing rules!
10. The Best of ELO CD
11. Robert Earl Keen – Walking Distance

All and all some really cool stuff…

• Lyndsay
1. This throw blanket that has feathers inside… all I can say is, two thumbs up.
2. Bruce Almighty (of course, awesome)
3. A big bag of peanut M&M’s, she knows I’m an M&M fanatic
4. and Lyndsay’s parents gave me a hoodie from Aeropostale, very nice.

So it was a good Christmas. The truck is running great (thanks to my parents) and all in all it’s been a good break from school.

Just so everyone knows, Lyndsay has entered the world of geekdom. A few weeks ago she used “Google” as a verb by telling me she “googled” something, haha!! Then I found out she knew what Linux was and now she has her own little blog. So welcome her to geekdom by flooding her blog with traffic!

In other news, Texas Tech is playing Navy in the EV1.net Houston Bowl. My mom got tickets so we are going to go support the Red Raiders as they wreck Navy!!! Speaking of which, a friend I grew up with plays football for Navy. Be watching for him on ESPN.

Well I am testing out the new database. I think I may have lost the ability to retrieve some of the old posts (I don’t know why) so that kind of sucks. But this new database should be a lot faster.

Well I decided I was tired of my host so I am moving to a different server to host this site… hopefully it will be faster and better than the current one. The site may be down for the next few days but it will be back soon.

People are so hard to understand for the reasons that they do or don’t do things. I just don’t get how people say one thing, then they act a different way, then they go back and change what they said. I don’t understand it and I don’t understand why someone would do it.

Well the official announcement was made today for the replacement of the World Trade Center. The new name will be ‘Freedom Tower’ and it will be the tallest in a series of buildings. The Master Site will be a conglomerate of buildings with the Freedom Tower standing above them all. Height really didn’t seem to be a big deal with the designers since they knew the building would be surpassed in height in a few years.

Magic Muffler sucks! On my way home from Lubbock the tail pipe weld out of the muffler broke, the girl following me saw it and told me. I pulled over, looked at it, and saw that the only thing holding the piping to truck was the “hanger” near the rear of the truck. I took the truck into the shop and told them about what had happened and they gave me a lame response (as usual)… The muffler only has a 12 month/12,000 mile warranty. Well isn’t that convenient?! These are the same people who didn’t tell me that they had tie-wrapped my brakeline up, and we all know how that ended (broken brakeline). Anyway, I took the truck to another place and they fixed all up for me, so I’m happy. I have to take the driveshaft off tonight so that we can get the dual u-joints fixed tomorrow morning…. Fun stuff.

Well I made it to Sugar Land alive tonight after another 10+ hours trip. I had a bunch of stuff go wrong and was lucky to get home (again). It’s good to be back, but I realized that I cannot stand the freeways here. People are like bats outta hell driving around here and it’s nerve racking. They need to realize that the speed limit is 70mph for a reason…