3/20/08

Before I get disowned by a member of my family (who's probably adopted anyway) I would like to give a birthday shout-out to my sister Alexis. This shout out will be so powerful that it will travel back in time to yesterday, when her birthday actually was. She is 43. :oD

I also meant to shout out yesterday to my friend Bart (who also posetd a comment.... weird). He will be a father in the coming year, which is awesome. Congratulations. If anyone else knows/knew Bart but hasn't talked to him in a while (or just can't stand talking to him), he's got a blog set up over at http://www.bartraeke.com/ , so go ahead and catch yourself up with the Ringo of Phobos Magnet. Not because he played the drums, but because he was the least popular with the public, despite being my favorite.

Okay, now that I've slammed the only two people nice enough to have posted comments on my new blog, time for some news. I think I mentioned yesterday that Kathy and I were going to Carmax to test drive a car. Well, we did, and we bought it. It's a 2007 Toyota Corolla, and it had about 20,000 miles on it when we bought it. The idea is, since I do so much driving for my job, that I'll use this car mainly, and Kathy will start driving the Jeep, which guzzles gas (but makes up for it by virtue of the fact that the best grandparents ever sold it to us for an excruciatingly fair price). Anyway, I drove it into work today, and totally love it. After driving the Vue (and briefly the Jeep) for the past couple years, it's weird to be driving a small car again, but I think I'll manage.

One of the great things for me about the new car is that I once again have a CD player in my car. I know this doesn't seem like a big deal to most people, especially considering that my beautiful wife has never had a car with a cd player (and that won't change with the Jeep- sorry sweetie), but I just about went crazy having to survive solely on radio and the one tape I was able to find (an acoustic set by Local H done at WHFS studios way back in the day- Just Passin' Thru, for those that remember it). This also means that I can continue my massive task of going through the mountain of CDs that I never/hardly listen to, and consequently sell them for dirt to Record and Tape Traders after ripping the songs I like to iTunes. The good (or bad) news for you is that I'll probably post my thoughts about each CD here, as I go through them. I do this not only because it's fun for me, but I also enjoy the distant possibility that someone will think what I have to say is interesting enough to go out and buy the cd (or ask to borrow/have it from me before I dump it off at R+T).

I might go through the archive of CDs that I listened to before the accident, but didn't post about. If I have time today, and I'm not lazy, it may appear here. If not, it won't.

I do want to quickly touch on tonight's episode of Lost, which Kathy and I will be watching with a group of friends, since they all have off tomorrow. They advertised that someone would die, so I figured I'd throw out a quess. Jin would be too obvious- besides, I'm slowly being converted into one of thos people who doesn't think he really died, but just got left on the island. A lot of people are saying Claire, but there's too much left for them to do with her character. Actually, there's not, Aaron is her only real interesting point, and we can explore that without her. Still, I don't think the fact that Aaron's off the island without her means that she died. My official guess is Miles, mainly because I want him to get killed off. Also, if it was a main character/original survivor biting the dust tonight, I think there would have been more buildup. Maybe it's just me. Although, I would love it if someone dies in a flash-forward. Someone like Hurley or Kate that we know gets off the island, but they die before they get back. I don't think that's happening tonight, bu that would be awesome. My official guess, though, is Miles, killed by Ben. Bank it.

3/19/08

Well, for the second time this year, I'm making the first post in my new blog. Of course, I can actually call it a blog now, instead of an online journal. Hopefully people can find their way here- if not, I'll try to hype it up to everyone I know.

Some personal news- Kathy and I are test driving a car at Carmax tonight, and possibly buying it to replace the Vue that was totalled. It's a 2007 Toyota Corolla, slightly used. If I ever stay on top of this blogging thing, I'll let everyone know what we thought of it.

At some point, I might actually start posting stuff with some substance to it. You know, like a great story of something that happened to me, or my opinions on a big issue. I'm trying to steer awat from only writing about my thoughts on the latest episodes of Lost and American Idol (although I'll probably still do a little bit of that).

Well, hopefully I'll like this Google blog better than the old LiveJournal one. We'll see. Feel free to comment (it should be easier now than it was), and don't be afraid to let other friends and family know about it- I really don't feel like sending out an email, and I'm probably not going to end up promoting this thing myself, but it would still be cool if people read it, especially people I don't see very often.