Sooo happy the election is over. Last night I noticed that most of the "weeds" are now gone from people's yards. And a big round of applause to John Kerry for giving a very gracious concession speech instead of pursuing a near-impossible-to-overcome recount and putting us through another 2000 ( Read more... )

Back in 2000, I had found this really good Web site where you could enter your opinion on a bunch of issues, and rate how important each of them is to you, and then they'd give you a list of your percentage of agreement with all of the main people running in the election. Since I can actually vote this time, I tried to find it again, and I think I ( Read more... )

Since it's been eons since I last made a post, I figure it's time for one ( Read more... )

I met some missionary friends of my future in-laws tonight. I liked them. It was awesome because the guy loves flying and wants to be a pilot, just like me, so we were talking about that quite a bit ( Read more... )

I have decided I will chuck my regular use of Internet Explorer and
Eudora and replace them with Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Just
loaded and installed them, and was *very* impressed with the ( Read more... )

On Thursday I went and played Paintball for the first time, with my department at work (yes, on company time AND department money!).  It was fun, and I'm glad I tried it, but now I have three big bruises each about 2-3" in diameter, not to mention I'm sore all over from running up and down hills with that heavy gun.  Those things shoot at 200 mph, ( Read more... )

I'm drinking BLACK coffee (no sugar or half & half) and NOT getting grossed out! And I actually LIKE it!

Okay, gotta go get ready for work now.

Wow, it's finally the last day of my 10-day weekend.  And it's been a busy one at that.  I must admit I'm really looking forward to going back to work tomorrow...I'm ready to have stuff to do during the day and start making money again.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, I have to announce that we have a probable date for the wedding.  We already ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm thinking that everyone who reads this journal probably knows my news by now. I think I've told everyone on my list of close friends except...well....ironically, my (hopefully) future maid of honor :) Fortunately, it happened while Carol was in town for 3 weeks, so I REALLY want to take advantage of the circumstances and tell her in ( Read more... )

I guess that about sums up this weekend ( Read more... )