New Years

it is new years eve. i am at home sitting here doing nothing but playing sudoku and waiting for my brother to show up from texas. it will be nice to see him. and i do not really feel like going out anyway. i did spend most of the day out with friends. i went to the movies today and saw Four Christmases. to my surprise it was good. i went with 2 friends from Tennesse, a couple that i hope to go to there wedding in june. and the other a friend from lincoln nebraska. we then went to to dinner at the Outback Steakhouse. 2 other friends met us there, twin sisters. all the girls went to the restroom, leaving me and the only other guy. one of the sisters handed me her debt card and check to give to the server. as she walked away her sister swapt the card with her own and left her check, telling me to put them together. following suit, i put her card back at her seat and payed for all three of us myself. when the first of the sisters asked about needing to sign the receipt her sister laughed and said that she had taken the card and replaced it with her own, thinking that she had paid. then i pointed out that i payed for it. then the laughing come from the other sister. it was a nice piece of trickery if i do say so myself. it was a good time. but my brother should be here soon and i must go.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Youtube

so youtube has decided to go through there library of videos that people have put up and remove any that people put up that are copy righted material. i understand why they do it and all. but i think it sucks that i cannot watch videos of old music and stuff because of copy right law. videos and stuff that i cannot find anywhere else. just thought i would share my thoughts and i fear that this my mess up some of the stuff that i have linked on this site. (sigh) Oh, well.

Shopping

well tonight i and my daughter went to the grocery store right behind the apartment that we live in. and as we shopped and the music is playing in the store of the store PA system, i noticed that the song that was on was a song that i really liked. but i wanted to make sure. so i found a speaker in the sealing to listen better. and sure enough it was a Metallica song, Enter Sandman no less. at first i thought rock on they are playing Metallica in a store, then i thought at what point is it acceptable to play heavy metal in a store? i guess that is the way of things though.

Cool Video For A Great Song.

here is a video for a one of my favorite songs. but the video is clips from the movie 300. so it is very violent and such. watch at your own risk.

Melting

for the last week it has been very cold here. highs in the teens if we were lucky. even starting out the week with a high of 0 degrees. ice and snow all over the ground. but today we had a high of 56 degrees. i was unaware of this until i walked outside this afternoon to a river of water running down the street. it was different, but it was nice for the heat and sun shine. the unfortunate thing was that my roommate that love the sun, and his mood is often changed by the amount of sun light, was sick today. very sick and stuck inside all day. very sad because it is suppose to get cold again and a chance of snow.

Christmas

tomorrow is christmas and for the first time since moving to Nebraska i am making christmas dinner. it is just going to be my roommate and one of our finds from chruch whos parents are out of town, and then my son. my daughter is going to her boyfriends parents. tonight they are out with there mom so i am doing laundry and cooking for tomorrow. i know you are wondering what are you making for dinner. we let me tell you, but first i must explain that i am not making turkey. growing up we always had prime rib for christmas, but i am not making that either. i am making ham. it is easy and not to messy. i am going to make green bean casserole and mashed taters, deviled eggs and croissants. my roommate is suppose to be picking up some cornbread and pies. it should be a fairly easy dinner, but it will be fun i think. i hope all of you are having a good christmas with your families and loved ones.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Friend From Out Of Town

last night i had a friend from Tennessee come into town. she is in town to visit her family, she only visits once a year. we have been friends for about 10 years and she has lived in Tennessee for almost 7 of those years. she came over and we had dinner, i made chicken parmesan and eggplant parmesan. it turned out well. then we spent the rest of the night playing cards with my kids. it was nice to see her again. she is going to be in nebraska for 8 days and i do not know if i will see her again before she leaves. i hope that i will otherwise there is always next Christmas, or this summer if i can make it there for another friends wedding.

Winter

yesterday was the first day of winter and we had a whopping high temp of 0 degrees. Yes that is Fahrenheit. what a way to start the winter season.

Time Warp To Friday

well it is friday again, and it is dumping snow outside.

Bored

i have been at work all night and have done almost nothing. i worked on about 8 cases that took me about 30 minutes to finish and then sat and listened to an audio book until the battery in my ipod was about dead then i started playing spider solitaire. after winning 9 straight games i decided to play until i lost a game and see how many i could win in a row. well i when i reached 20 straight games of winning i decided to call it quits. now i am sitting here listening to depeche mode on youtube. the only thing i have to look forward to is that the new york office people are going to start soon and i may get a few phone calls before i leave. (sigh)

Snow

it is the first real snow of the year. it started yesterday morning before i left work. and it snowed most of the day. we did not accumulate much snow. but with the cold, the snow is frozen ice. the worst part is that most people freak out and get stupid with the first snow. there were a lot of accidents yesterday. it touch me 40 minutes to get to my son's school, a drive that normally took 15 minutes. then it took me 20 minutes to drive 1.5 miles to my daughters school. i really dislike the first snow of the year.

Back To Friday Fun

for the last few weeks i have not had to much access to the internet because i was off of work and moving. so today i am re-starting my weekly tradition with a most triumphant song. one of my favorites since i was a kid. i hope you enjoy

Friend From The Past

with the resent move and the lack of internet access i have not been online all that much. but i did happen to get online wednesday. as it turned out i got on and checked for comments on this page. I found that some highschool friends, that i had on facebook, had found me and happened to be in omaha so they contacted me and we went out for dinner. for information they are a married couple and he and i have known each other since 7th grade and his wife i met as a freshmen in highschool. she was 2 years ahead of us. i happened to switch schools my senior year so i am not sure as to when the last time i saw them, but i figure that it was about 15 - 16 years since the last time i had seen them. we had a good time. i got to met there sons and they met my children. it was a breif visit but it was refreshing. i had known that they lived on the other side of the state of me, about an 8 hour drive. i do hope to go and visit them someday, maybe in spring with the weather is not so cold.

Thanksgiving

well i hope everyone had a great thanksgiving weekend. as stated in the other post i moved this last weekend. i did however go to a friends house for thanksgiving. but i did not do much other then that. and i did not stay very long. it was nice having the day off and spending time with friends but it was just another day for me. i found it really hard to be thankful with so much other stuff weighing on me with the move and the kids coming to live with me and everything else that is going on. it is good to be off work though. i took this week off to finish up the moving stuff and getting situated. it has been hard work.

Moving

i am moved into the new apartment. it is nice. i am still trying to get settled in. and my room looks like a laundry mat blew up in it. i am still working on getting the old apartment cleaned. i just got the last of the stuff moved out of it today.

so far having roommates again is not so bad. i am off work this week, which is nice. but my roommates work days and i work nights. the only time someone is not at home is on sunday mornings when we are all at church or on tuesday nights when we go to our bible study. the kids seem to be adjusting to the living situation just fine. but it has only been a few days.

with the kids living with me this also may provide an opportunity to adopt my daughter. by state law she will need to live with me for 6 months before i can file adoption papers. for anyone that did not know my daughter is not mine, as you may have figured from the above statements. i met her mom, my ex-wife, when my daughter was 2 months old. i have been her father ever since. even though her mom and i have been apart for the last 11 years. she is 15 now. my daughters real father wants nothing to do with her and she wants nothing to do with him. so it works out in my favor. i get all the stress and responsibility of raising her. but it all works out.

life for the next few months is going to be interesting with all of us living here. i am sure that it will work out. my roommates and i will need to do a lot of praying.