It seems like I’ve shoveled a lot of snow this year already, and today I get to shovel more.  It’s not so bad.  I don’t have to drive in it, and it meas I’ll get out of the house!  Plus the exercise will be nice after all of the Christmas Cookies.

I hope Christmas treated everyone well.  I have to say it was good for me.  It’s fun to hang out with the family.  The kids were alright, even if they did get a little loud from time to time.  The presents were fun.

I remember growing up wanting all this cool stuff.  As I grow older I look back and find that funny.  I got slippers and a sports coat this year, and I’m pretty excited about that!  I also got some giftcards, to 2 different places.  So I’ll have to figure out what I want to get.  If they were to the same place I know what it’d be.  Maybe I can talk Beth into getting something for “both of us”.  We’ll see how that works.

This week should be pretty low key.  I’m off this week, so I’ve been cleaning up from all the people here for Christmas.  Homework is also topping the to-do list.  I’m feeling good about that.  I’m doing some house projects, and making things look better around here too!  The New Years Eve is coming quickly!  No real plans yet, but I’m sure something will come up which will be fun.

That’s a wrap.

It’s my favorite Holiday.  Remember what the brave men did for us over 200 years ago to provide us the freedoms that we have and enjoy today.  It’s a great thing to be an American.  I hope you will all take some time to remember the events that brought us our Independence.

As for us, we’ll we’re going to where it all started.  We might make a trip to Independence Hall this weekend, and the Liberty Bell.  I’m not sure how much time we’ll have to see things, or if we’ll get out at all or not.

We’ll try to take some pictures of whatever we do.  We’ll see you next week!

I’m making the most of my day off, and I’m watching The Price Is Right while I’m waiting for my laundry.  It’s the first time that I’ve seen it with Drew Carey.  I’m not impressed.  Drew is not nearly as animated as Bob was.  And I think he just hit on a lady in contestant row.  Granted it is one of the first episodes he’s done.  Maybe he’ll get better.  We’ll see.

There’s been a lot of hype around the new Mac OS coming out, Leopard.   There are a lot of new features in the new os, over 300 is what I read.  Many of them seem really sweet.  I think Time Machine would be vary nice.  Finally a back up system built in.  Of course that would require a much larger external harddrive for me, which I want to get anyway.

The only down side is that the computer requirements are G4 with 867 mhz or faster.  Mine is a G4 with 1.33 Ghz.  So I technically fit, but I’m wondering if it would lag pretty bad.  It also requires 512 mb ram, which I have 768 mb so I’m good there, but the more the better.  So I’m not sure how worth the upgrade it would be.  My battery is also dying, so I’ve thought a little bit about a new computer, but that’s even more expensive.  What do you think?  Should I upgrade to the new OS or just wait a year and get a new compy and everything?

As for the house search: no news yet.  We’ve got an offer in on one.  Not sure what will happen.  We’ll keep looking on Monday I think, just so we don’t loose more time.  Perhaps next time I’ll have a better update on that.

I posted once.  Some stuff has happened since then.  We didn’t get the house.  They rejected our offer, again.  So we started looking again.  We’ve found another one that we like.  We’ll see what happens.

I’ve had some time off, which is kind of nice.  It’s given me a chance to focus on homework stuff, and do some of the house hunting.  Today I even got outside for a fairly long walk.  I enjoy the cooler weather.  It’s certainly nice.

Class is going well, but it’s interesting.  Working with people who are going back to school is interesting.  It’s definitely different than being in a classroom with your peers.  The online discussion stuff is also interesting.  I find that people don’t really take to debates quite as much as they would in a classroom setting.  Or at least the in-depth debates that would make the class more interesting.

I’m watching the ALCS right now, and the Red Sox are rocking the Indians.  I think the Red Sox will make it to the World Series.  For the NL I like both the Diamond Backs and the Rockies.  I’m not really sure who I’m rooting for there.  I think I’ll root for the NL to win the Series though.

We had a good time in S.D.  It was fun to see Barry and Lacey again.  We should try to make it out there again within 2 years.  We had a good time camping, even though it got pretty chilly Friday night.

We went to President’s Park, Roughlock Falls, and Jewell Cave.  We got to go on a lantern tour of Jewell cave.   Which was fun.  It was a fun time crawling around the cave.  Way better than just the scenic tour.   The falls were pretty neat, and the hiking trail along there was pretty cool too.

It was tough going back to work today.  Catching up on everything from the few days off.  And not having gone to bed til late.  I’m sleepy.  So I don’t feel like telling many stories.

I’ve got most of the pictures up.  Some more might follow.  Pictures here.