On the Events of a Saturday Evening

Yesterday evening we had a delicious dinner of black beans and sweet mexican cornbread, all lovingly prepared by my wife.

We were invited to Lance’s for pipe smoking, card playing, and drinking throughout the night. We attended and it was grand. It was nice to see Nick again. It seems these days I only see him a few times a year, but he’s always in high spirits and makes me laugh.

The poker playing was a bit unsteady and hilarious. Every possible joke about seeing cards and knowing hands was made, especially by Nick. I could tell he knew what he was doing, even though Lance won the all-in.

After fourthmealing to the max, we purchased some ping pong balls, and we returned to Lance’s garage for my first experience with this classic game of the broseph variety. My first experience with beer pong was probably not one of the best. After Staci’s delicious dinner, of which I partook after not even really being hungry (for I had consumed the delicious $5 foot long only a few hours before), and then snackingly fourthmealed on a chicken burrito dipped in jalapeno sauce, I was painfully stuffed to bursting before downing many half-cups of beer. Mason and I managed to lose the first game, and we became painfully aware of how bad Coor’s Light tastes after being forced to consume the rockies over and over. I realized at one point that I had managed to fill any crevaces left behind in my stomach after all of that tasty food with beer, and one more drink would probably not stay down. So I sat for a few minutes, and thankfully Lance called a great forfeit based on the beer tasting so awful.

And drinking all of the beer that I had very fast, after already having a few while playing poker, I managed to get a fairly decent buzz going. It didn’t last very long, but it was a decent buzz.

All of this is sort of embarrassing, only because I find the phrase beer pong to be somewhat disgusting. Not to mention that I’m really one of the furthest cries away from being a broseph. But, dangerously, I’m down for almost anything to spend time with a few of my very good friends. I mean, I wouldn’t do hard drugs for anybody, but you understand, right?

I had some delicious tobacco last night as well.

After all of this raucus activity, at some point Lance, Staci and I ended up on his front lawn, sitting and eating some watermelon. This is something I haven’t really done since I was a small child. It was nice. Cats mingled with us, at one point Mason was being chased by Michael in a circle around us, and we talked.

Lance came on over to our place to cap off the evening. We sat out on the deck, and enjoyed Todd’s vast knowledge of tricks with a lighter, most of which Lance knew how to do - just not as well. Todd is just too gifted. Todd is a real street-smart people person, and is bound to know all of the most interesting things in life before anyone else. And endless beer-bottle torch, throwing fire from the palm of your hand, the blow-torch from his own mouth. And these are just tricks from a lighter. His wisdom is boundless on many matters.

So, as you can see, it was a real evening. The things that matter. People and tangible things. Memories that feel tangible.

Important things.

Harry Potter Week and Changes

Tonight was the first night of many in Staci's "Harry Potter Week" event. It went over pretty well. Everyone had one of those licorice wands she made. Those were cool. I think I liked them the best. I ate about 4 of them. For some reason the white chocolate just mixed well with the black licorice to me.

So yeah, that was fun. I hadn't seen the first movie in some time. I didn't remember that there were so many one-liners in there. "You're a wizard, Harry". Or actually, pretty much anything Hagrid says. As well as some of the cheesy lines they forced those budding actors to say as children.

But I guess that's half the fun of watching those movies. To see the kids grow up. I remember reading a review of the fourth movie by Roger Ebert, at which point he stated that the lighthearted tones are completely gone by then. I would have to agree there. That first movie is one of those kid movie classics, while by the fourth one, they seem to be trying to achieve a "Star Wars - esque" status of series. I think they pretty well achieved it and all. I just think it's an interesting switch from enchanting and fun kid tale to dark and lengthy slamfest.

Speaking of dark and lengthy, I'm ready for George R.R. Martin's 5th book already.

Staci and I spent a lot of time cleaning up today. Justin and Grace are moving out tomorrow I think, and hope. It's not that I don't want them here. I'm just tired of always having something to clean up. No really. That sounds crappy, but it painfully true. I miss the way most of everything looked when we moved in. I'm going to do my damndest to get it back that way and better. Staci at least deserves her dream home.

No more roommates ever. Never.

And dear lord, I can' wait for my own gameroom! I'll be able to play vidyagames whenever and however. A seperate room for all my messy man-boyish stuff. Magic cards, posters, vidyagames, wires, music... ect.

I love Deer Tick. "I I I, I am the dotted line"

and Boom Blox 2. Love it.

Thems the updates.

The Fourth and After

Well, the 4th was awesome. Even though it ended up almost raining us out (we spent much of our time getting very slowly soaked while shooting off bottle rockets), we managed to make the most of it, and still successfully have a show. Tony's food was great this year. The burgers and dogs were top notch. Much better than last year's. Even though last year's wasn't bad or anything :). Can't call free food bad anyway.

So we shot off many bottle rockets. I managed to take some great photos of them. I was pretty impressed with myself, actually.



There are many that I'm pretty proud of.

And today, well, we went to a new place for pizza, Pizza Warehouse, and it was pretty good. I wish I would have been in the mood for pizza, though. It sure seemed like an awesome place to go if you are in the mood. They had an extensive arcade there, but most of which I've seen before and it was mostly boring. Arcades seem to be getting more boring. Except in Japan. Man, I bet their arcades are slammin'. They sure look slammin' in "Lost in Translation".

Later on in the day, Cody and I took off to meet up with Lance and Morgan at Lance's dad's place to shoot off the rest of our fireworks. However, the punk situation saw otherwise, as we ran out of punks after shooting about 25% of what we had left. So we hung out on the grass laughing as their dog drank my Red Bull, and then went and stared at some of the biggest damn goat testicles you've ever seen. This goat was majestic, man.

Then we went to Jonesy's. The best shaved ice station in the four-state area. Best everything.

And that's pretty much it!

We've been playing way too much of that damn farming game on Facebook lately.

Happy Fourth!

Made it to another 4th of July. I'll have a post tonight or tomorrow about it. :) Hopefully some pictures as well.

A True Saturday Night

It's 2:43am, and I probably have to get up early.

Rock Band 2 is blazing in the living room. A pretty classic Saturday night around here tonight. The smell of Justin's tacos and talk around the table outside.

I got new Bowerbirds and some Deer Tick on my Zen now.

I went running tonight, only to find that if I run a lot (which for the first time in a long time I felt I could) I get a massive tightening of the muscles in the front shin of my left leg. To the point where I can't really move my foot and I must quit running. I was really disappointed because I was getting a real workout tonight before I had to submit to walking the rest of the time.

I wish Dennou Coil had more episodes. I already miss it.

Well, I've managed to waste another three days off, and I'll probably continue to call it "wasted" until I actually go down to the school to see about financial aid and classes. Don't know what is hindering me.

I will go on my next day off for sure.

We played a lot of Magic today. We've discovered that Two-Headed Giant format is actually pretty fun, and a much better multiplayer format than free for all or rotate. The interesting thing about Two-Headed Giant is that no matter how slow your strategy is for your deck, it seems that you can get it out eventually. At least once. There are bad decks for two-headed giant, however. Like how most of my artifact cards ignore the "target" word, so I can't really cast instants and sorceries on other guys. It doesn't really help that almost every card in that deck is a creature either.

I watched more Dennou Coil today before responding to Casey's call about Hawghead Comics. So I rode with Mason over to Hawghead and bought some commons that I wanted. I'm working on a Domain deck. Should be fun.

Wish I had tomorrow off. I'd go to the waterpark. I'm sure Mike would love to go with us. Maybe next week. I am off next Saturday.

I want Boom Blox: Bash Party. I swear, the boxart for that game is the worst. You can barely tell it's a sequel to Boom Blox, or that it's even a Boom Blox game.

Hey, that BASH PATY game looks pretty cool. Oh well, it is still awesome. Seriously. It is.

Dennou Coil and My Bike

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. I spent most of it alone, and cleaning, but that's not all it was. I got to spend some time watching my current anime, Dennou Coil, and hung with Casey for a small bit.

I really like Dennou Coil. I don't think I can power-watch anime at all like Steve and Mason do to One Piece. I think doing so, or at least trying to force my way through something, really makes me lose interest. If the only forcing I do is about one or two episodes per day, then I really enjoy an anime, it seems. And I don't seem to miss any details. And I can get through an anime fairly quickly - at least compared to powerwatching seven or eight episodes and losing interest altogether.

Anyway, I had meant to write about Dennou Coil.

I believe the full title reads "Dennou Coil: A Circle of Children", and it seems fitting enough. The entire anime revolvies around many very likeable and very different characters in a very interesting city. We aren't given any hints as to what the time period is, but the technology - at least the personal technology - is very advanced. Everyone, mostly the children, it seems, has a pair of glasses that gives them access to the cyber network or server, and they can just about make anything on the server using those glasses if they have "metabugs", which seem to appear around "obsolete" or broken space. This broken or obsolete space is the name for an area which may be out-of-sync with the server, or out of date, thus when you look at it through the cyber glasses, it appears pixelated and broken. The story works off of this in the most interesting of ways, and mostly has to do with the origins of the "Illegals", which reside in said space.

Anyway, that's what I've been watching and enjoying thorougly. I might pick up One Peice next, but I don't know. Maybe in conjunction with another anime.

I'm finally getting my bicycle fixed up. Steve brought over his pump yesterday, and it seems my tires are still good. After jogging last night, we went to Wal-Mart, and I picked up some new pedals. I hope they aren't extremely cheaply made. I really wanted metal ones. I only need to replace the left pedal. But I did ride on it yesterday, and even with no pedal on the left side, everything seemed to be in working order. Now I just need a nice basket and a new seat to put on it. You know, so I can run over to the stores and stuff.

I Swear One Day We'll Get the Money Straight

After having four days off in a row last weekend, and spending them pretty well in my opnion, I've begun another three day run.

Staci's new job starts today at Ulta Beauty. I hope she likes it. I'm probably taking her to work in the morning. I might go to the college afterward to see what kind of hoops they'll make me jump through in order to attend again. I'm undecided, but I may not go back this fall if I can't get financial aid. I just don't see how we could do that again. But I don't really know yet. I would really like to go back. Maybe I'll just deal with the money stress in order to do so. I don't know. I want it real bad, though.

Last Saturday, we went to the water park over in Alma that almost nobody around here has been to or even knows about, it seems. It's both surprising and unsurprising, really. It's only got four water slides, but I think they're well worth the five bucks it costs to get in. I really did have a blast going down the toilet bowl. We immediately called it the toilet bowl, feeling all proud of our wit, and heard, pretty much right away, from the kids running past us in line up the stairs, "hey, are you guys going down the toilet bowl?" Supposedly, based on our answer, they would run past us, thinking it was okay to do so. I didn't really care. But I still thought it was hilarious when Casey sort of confronted a not-so-small boy about it.

I've been walking and jogging for the past two weeks. Last night, I jogged for the longest I've been able to do so for quite some time. I'm pretty proud of myself. It took two weeks of fairly consistent walking for almost an hour a night for me to get to this point. I still can't jog far, obviously, but if I were to attempt something like that a few weeks back, there would have been a good chance I would have ended up in the hospital. I have been feeling a lot better about myself lately, though. I think less negatively, I think.

Next up on the agenda towards being more active is to fix my bike, which is incredibly hard when every last bit of your money, and then some, is spent before you get it. It's also incredibly hard to spend money that a pending transaction at a gas station has kept tied up for almost 4 days. How the hell is that legal. And I'm asking this in all total and complete seriousness. If it isn't posted for the correct amount soon, I'm approaching somebody about it. Though I can't imagine the kind of wall I'd run into there.

Oye, I should'nt be up this late.

We've all had a late night here at the Holloway residence. Friends sitting around the table outside talking about religion and philosophy. Playing some Magic. Crazy singing my voice out of commission on Rock Band right alongside Lance. God I love singing Journey and other random songs you wouldn't think I would love to sing. Guess I just gotta be in the right mood.

Staci's sis Kindle (spelled wrong) and her friend Katie have been down for a visit the last few nights and will be until Sunday. I think they've been having a good time, even with Staci and I's especially rough money situation lately. We sure risked more than usual for the A-kon trip this year.

But the last few days, as I said, have been very fun. I somehow managed to get 4 days off in a row this week not asking for it, and I feel like I've used them for the best. We're actually all planning on going to the Alma water park that we haven't visited yet. Looks like they've got some awesome slides. I'm down.

I'm running out of deck ideas with my Magic deck. But I still love artifacts.

I guess I never really posted those A-Kon pictures, so I think I'll do that tomorrow. It was a fun A-kon this year. It's always fun and memorable. I would go so far as to say this year's was indeed better than last year's. It's not really hard for that to be true.

I'm glad that Lance has come around and has been open-minded. Not just about his beliefs, but with people. And in particular, Staci. For the longest time it seemed I would have had to officially say goodbye to seeing Lance on any sort of a regular basis, but he sure seems to want to be around and do stuff here lately. Plus, he just feels more relaxed. More relaxed than even our roommates right now. Which, that shouldn't be too hard considering the awkward situational and disrespect problems we've been having.

They're moving out at some point in the future. We know that much. I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm good with it, of course. Actually, I am excited about getting my own room for a study, video game, and card room. It's going to be a blast. And Staci gets her craft room, making the house totally and officially under our complete control. Don't get me wrong, it hasn't all been bad, it's just that here lately things have been annoyingly awkward and disrespectful with some people around here...

Well, that's all for now. It is ridiculously late.

The more I listen to John Vanderslice's new album, Romanian Names, the more I like it. I give up. I love everything he does.

Approaching A-Kon, Money, Respect, and Poo

A-Kon is just a few days away. We're both a little worried about money, of course, but it's nothing new. We are, indeed, used to being worried about money. I think we probably waste half of our life worrying about damn money.

But I always feel like we'll be fine. And it's because it's the truth. We're always slightly a step ahead. Everything will work its way out.

Staci keeps getting more and more excited about A-Kon, too. To the point of scaring us all.

Just kidding. But seriously.

I do feel like all of her planning and work for this trip had gone under appreciated, however. I almost wish that next year she would let someone else take the slam for the whole trip. I don't remember people turning down Matt's itineraries, for example.

I just get really sick of people not giving a shit about anything. Like they're too goddamn cool to feel anything. I get so sick of it. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one trying to avoid a fight or awkward, annoying situations. I'm not really trying to point fingers, it's just how I feel about a good chunk of my friends at times. Just a complete lack of respect.

Brahhg, respect. Not that I or anyone really deserves it.

The biggest accomplishment recently has been figuring out how to keep the dogs from poo-in all over the carpet in the dining room. Slam, take their food away from them after 11 or 12. And put them out one last time before bed every night. That was easy. Too bad it took me a year to figure it out. Too late for our dear, clean carpet.

Deanna, Brandi, and A-Kon Preparation

I've called in the past few days to visit family and friends since Deanna's been in the hospital. It's really helped my mood to do so. And it also gave Staci and I a chance to clean up before Brandi's family came to visit. It really needed it... we had been neglecting it from being fairly busy the past few weeks, what with getting ready for A-kon, many new Magic deck ideas, and just general partying. Nonstop partying. Well, not really... but the usual.

By the way, I thin Deanna is going to be just fine. It was a double bypass, and she is stable. :)

I did a lot of yard work the day before yesterday, and every time I do so, for some reason, I think of King of the Hill. The way Hank takes such great pride in lawn care. He looks at lawn care and general hand-man-ness the same way I look at a great sci-fi movie or video game. Thing is, I kind of feel that way about yard work, too. It's just a lot harder for a 25 year old to find time for all of his hobbies, I suppose. I know it's kind of silly to get ideas like this from an animated family, but I don't really think it's that strange. I think your brain finds and grasps whatever ideas it can from anything, no matter how potentially silly it may seem.

So I think I want to do much better this year in lawn care. I need to take better care of my lawn equipment, always have plenty of gas and gas mix on hand, and and build up a decent tool box for around-the-house work.

A-Kon is but a mere 1 week away. I've got 5 days off next weekend to attend, and I think this year will be the best and most memorable one yet. I'm going to be taking a ton of pictures and video. I'm bringing 2 SD cards and my laptop, as well as plenty of extra and rechargeable batteries. I'm definitely going to nerd out with the other nerds, take in all of the sights, sounds, and otherworldly nature of things that A-Kon provides. This year also holds a different spectrum for me and possibly a few of my friends. I might actually play Magic with a lot of different people, and see how well my artifact deck does. I really don't know why I had such an obsession with artifacts. I just thought they looked cool, and suddenly I'm hoarding all of the cards. I feel like my interest might be slowly waning a bit now, though. I think there is only so much you can do in the way of cool combos and strong plays in a standard artifact aggro deck. Though they are, indeed, strong combos and plays.

Well, that's all for updates for now. Tomorrow I'm off. Brandi's taking Staci and I out to breakfast first thing, and then I pretty much have a free one. I'm hankering for some Wii time. Excitebots and Zelda. I'm going to go for 100% on Twilight Princess. Wish me luck.

Deanna, and Music

My sister Deanna is having an operation today. I randomly get to see my brother, which is a great thing. The surgery is not a great thing, but we all believe she'll be fine. So does her doctor.

I really enjoyed getting to talk to my bro again, though. He's exactly the same. Didn't realize how much I missed him. I hope in a few years he's around so much that I can't stand him.

I'm calling in to work tomorrow to go back over and visit and see how Deanna is doing.

So far today I've listened through Say Hi's The Wishes and the Glitch a time and a half and through their new one Oohs and Aahs once while driving. I'm listening now to Romanian Names again, however. It's all sounding good to me now.

What does D.I.A.L.O. mean? Let me look it up... Defense Intelligence Agency Liaison Office

Well, that's interesting. And it's more likely than Urban Dictionary's definition, which says it's the equivalent of a typo on a telephone.

I've had the chance to listen to John Vanderslice's new album multiple times now. It's the album entitled "Romanian names". I think it's pretty good stuff. It is, indeed, a lot slower than even his past few efforts, but the good melody that I've come to love about Vanderslice is still there, and I don't think that it's something that could change about his music. I'm not sure if the sounds that highlight the melody would seem strange to a new listener or not. To me, they sound too familiar to be strange at all. Although I believe some of the sounds through his masterpiece "Pixel Revolt" ring strange till this day to me, but in an amazing way.

A-kon is just a few weeks away, and everyone, especially my wife, is getting pretty excited. I think this year may turn out pretty great. Almost anything could be better than last year, with its angry people and sour, awkward internal struggles. It was mostly terrible, yet I still missed it when I left.

Work has been killing me lately. I'm not sure if my back is hurting more or just the same lately, but I think it's really dragging me down. And my feet hurt immensely. And I'm so angry so much of the time from what I feel is unneeded stupidity. So much shit just directly aimed at me because I'll put up with it.

May 9th, 2009. Friday. Holden Village.

Lightning flashing in the night sky. Driving through the Oklahoma countryside. Visiting family. People that eventually accepted me. People that accepted me right away. People that make you too sad to think if you think about too many of their possible outcomes.

Aliens. Star Trek. Magic the Gathering. Say Hi. Modest Mouse. Andrew Bird.

Lightning continuously flashing in the night sky.

I want to progress. I want college. I want a career. I want to feel the music. I want to lose weight. I want a house to be proud of.

Tornado watches. Warnings. Nickel and dime sized hail.

Lightning continuously flashing in the night sky.

the truth is, i want to do too many things. a no caps special.

worked today. played videogames. magic the gathering. stayed up way too late. still up, in fact.

i'm writing in no caps to express how much i feel that it is hard to write something of worth for me anymore. is it working? did that sentence make any sense at all?

nacho keeps rolling in dead shit. my study smells like dead shit. maybe i should move that nasty sleeping bag out of here.

i keep watching that mark gormely video. why does that tune get stuck in my head?

i keep trying to think of a new niche to tackle in building a website that makes money with adsense. i'm not putting much effort into it yet... i will though. i will.

4:44am still not really ready to go to bed. thats what i get for sleeping till 12.

my usefulness goes in phases.

i decided today that i wanted to continue my zelda fanfiction. i posted it. got a good first review. a review that consisted of "good first chapter". i said thanks. shortly after that however, i took a look at other 'ocarina of time' specific zelda fanfictions. there were too many to count. a good number of which who were doing exactly the same sort of thing i was doing. a personal retelling. a novelization. a walkthrough, basically, with their own specific twists. some of these people are good writers, too. i'm not so sure that my version was any better...

so suddenly, don't feel like continuing that. doesn't mean i won't. just means... it was a much less original idea than i thought. why didn't i realize that before?

and why do i want to write my own sci-fi? i want to have technical knowledge, though. i guess i could just create my own technical knowledge.

the truth is, i want to do too many things.

On St. Patrick's Day I had the immense pleasure of seeing Andrew Bird live at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I went with my wife and some friends. I really hadn't been to a concert that great in a while. I mean, I did see The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice the last few times, but this kind of concert is quite a bit different from the 'hole-in-the-wall' intimate admiration sessions at the Opolis.

It was just beautiful. He's an amazing musician.

I've begun smoking a pipe while sitting on my back deck. We have new deck furniture. Or I should say, we've had new deck furniture, and I just finished building it on Sunday.

I'm working and getting closer to understanding how to build websites that turn a profit. I really need to work on content.

Staci quit Sam's Club a few days ago. I think she needs a lower stress job. We're both thinking Movie Gallery maybe.

I finished Burnout Paradise last night. I've been having a lot of fun with it.

I'm up too late. Work at 9.

Magic: The Gathering and Geocaching: The Gathering

I know it has been a bit since I've updated. I've actually been quite active in my interests... just about everything too. Photography, gaming, music, and Magic: The Gathering stuff. As I said before, everyone around here has gotten into it along with me, and we've built ourselves quite the collection. We all really love building decks around specific strategies, and then countering everyone else's strategy with a whole new deck. I'm seriously considering joining some tournies soon, too. Well, maybe not online. Something turns me off about paying a lot for online cards. I mean... maybe it shouldn't. I use them just as much if not more.

But anyway, today Lance gave me a call as soon as I woke up and told me his car battery was dead, so I grabbed some cables and drove to where he was... which was just down the road, actually, from where he lives. We ended up spending the next 3 hours hanging out and he showed me Geocaching, which could be a fairly big and fun part of our lives in the near future. It's very simple, and very fun. You look up the coordinates of places near you where people have hidden small items and a logbook or paper that lets you write down that you found it, and what date. You can even leave small prizes or items where you find something for the delight of the next person. Seeing that we kind of lived in a podunk sort of place, you wouldn't think a lot of people would be interested in that sort of thing (you know, with that newfangled innernette), but apparently, when they did a search for our area it listed literally hundreds. You should go check it out, seriously at http://www.geocaching.com . It's a hella-awsome way to get out and about, get a little sun and excercise, and you get the reward of finding something out there somewhere... you really can't explain why it's so fun until you do it. There's something about standing in an abandoned alleyway or walking through some public woods and finding something that is shared among an almost secret society of people.

It was actually pretty cool when we found this one today, because we noticed the last date that someone had found it was today, and as soon as we noticed it we heard a car honk on the highway across the way and the guy was waving at us. It was a delightful moment.

Welp, back to housecleaning. I'll give more later.

Stimulating the Economy

Well, it's been a zany past couple of weeks. But, for the most part, it has been really fun and enjoyable.

Staci and I got the biggest tax refund we've ever gotten, due in no small part to the fact that we filed together and married for the first time, and that I paid for college last year - so that's also a write-off. So, today was spent spending. "Stimulating the economy" as it were. We bought lots of stuff, and I've still got around 600 or so left. I got me a 1TB external for my lappy.

My Magic: The Gathering craze continues a bit, but it now seems like it's just going to be one more of my hobbies. This time, though, I'm not going to quit. I think I'll just keep on the lookout for cards, and play online. Online play is pretty fun, and the recent update made the system seem more stable. It was a bit laggy and unpleasant for a while. And, as far as Magic goes, I really need to start looking at some good deck builds. Finding out which cards are worthwhile and so on.

In addition to my re-interest in MTG, almost all of my friends jumped on the bandwagon full-force, right along with me. This was a pleasant surprise for me, seeing as I thought it would be more along the lines of a friendly game against Justin or Staci here and there. And maybe some random people at A-Kon. Actually, the latter was my original plan. And now, everyone, including Steve and Lance, are card-buying machines, with Steve going in together with me to buy another lot off of ebay (this time, two of the 500 card lots). Thing is, I don't know if Steve holds any interest in playing. I think he still has yet to play a game, which seems a little strange to me. But he seems targeted more at eyeing abilities and working out what would be horrible combos. The one deck he built sure seems to work very well against what I've thrown it at so far.

I'm still torn as to what to purchase with the remainder of my refund. I'm fairly sure I want a new camera, since I got a new hard drive and would like to document the passage of time on digital photography like the past few years. Used to be, not a month would pass without another album from Adam on Facebook or his current blog. I might go for the gold again. Speaking of cameras, I saw an 2GB SD card at Sams for 5 bucks. Media's getting cheap, my friends.

Staci's getting into gardening. Awesome. I really would like our living area to be spruced up. She's going to deck out the deck with plants, and grow an herb garden out front. I'm thinking of fencing off the front yard in some way or another at some point. Maybe widening the parking space over to about where our sidewalk/walkway begins, to give it just enough room to fit cars side-by-side. This would make it to where we would have at least a small front yard and Staci could put some pretty color to those two front small-flower-garden-type areas.

I guess that's it for now. It's 4am.