boy oh boy…

Talk about cold weather, last night at 9:30pm it was 17 degrees here with a wind chill of 10! That’s too cold!

The Bronco has been fixed thanks to my parents chipping in and saving my butt. I still need to call the city of Snyder again since they didn’t have my citation in yet.

I am working all of this week and most of next week on my own project… Should I feel special? YES!

not a whole lot…

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.

back in Lubbock…

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

Been a while…

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.

people…

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.

Freedom Tower

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.