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Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope everyone got a chance to take a break. Everyone seems to get so stressed out and ends up forgetting it’s a holiday, not another day of work.

God Bless!

Terrible movie…

The end of it is a Liberal’s utopia: all the power goes out, the vehicles, die, the oil rigs stop pumping, and everyone just stands there like, “uh gee George, what do we do now?”.

I admit that we need to “clean up” our act, but this movie is another example of fanatics who would kill someone for wearing a fur coat and then cry because they stepped on a cricket in the process. Global warming is part of the cycle, everything has a cycle. Here we call global warming Spring, we can’t wait for it to get here either.

I only rate so good because it has decent effects…

Rating: 30/100

My wife got me a new monitor for Christmas.

I freaking love it!  Thanks baby!

Check it out

Not only is it big, it has inputs for my xbox and pretty much anything else i would want on it…  freakin sweet!

I made it back, although the drive wasn’t all that fun. Luckily we didn’t get in any storms, but the roads were pretty nasty and slick the last 800 miles or so.

I’m glad to be back, but the weather here sucks..!

-2 degrees (f), feels like -18

I’ll be back to ND early next week. It’s been a nice change of pace down here in TX, but I’ll be glad to get home to the wife and kid. I wish I could take the weather home with me.

Last Saturday I watched an early screening of Yes Man, starring Jim Carey, here on base. I really liked it, possibly one of Carey’s best movies. If you have a chance this weekend, go out and see it (it opens Saturday I believe).

The premise of Yes Man is Carl (Carey) tends to lean toward the negative on everything. One day an old friend convinces him to attend a cult-like conference about ‘Yes’. Instead of saying ‘No’ to everything, Carey begins saying ‘Yes’ and his new direction takes him on a pretty wild ride. I won’t spoil anymore than that, but just imagine what life would be like if you said ‘Yes’ to everything and some of the crazy things that could happen.

Rating: 100/100

Yup, still here..  I have about another week of training before I head back to the frozen tundra. I’ve been liking the weather here.. hasn’t and probably wont hit negative yet.  Training has been going OK, it’s kind of boring, but it’s kind of good to get away from normal work for a little while.

When I get back I plan to write a lot on here.  I have a lot I want to talk about, such as politics, some of my development projects, and maybe even some rants here and there (if not included above).  Hopefully my PHP framework will be ready for release pretty soon, then I can talk about it on here

I never thought I’d consider 40s or 50s or whatever the temp. is here today as warm, but it is. I havent even been through a whole winter in Minot yet, but I’ve seen -16 windchill and that’s cold enough. There are tech school ‘kids’ out here all bundled up, if they only knew. Some of them may find out pretty soon, poor bastards. I wouldn’t wish Minot on anyone.

Well, someone is waiting to use the computer. I’ll talk more about Sheppard some other time…