Stolen from Cami...

Only rule: you have to answer with one word.

1. Where is your mobile phone? Manbag
2. Relationship? Healthy
3. Your hair? Spikey
4. Work? Stressful
5. Your sister(s)? Beautiful
6. Your favorite thing? Necco
7. Your dream last night? Empty
8. Your favorite drink? Dew
9. Your dream car? Firebird
10. The room you're in? Office
11. Your shoes? Tied
12. Your fears? Buried
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? Photographer
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? Parents
15. What are you not good at? This
16. Muffin? No
17. Wish list item? 1DM3
18. Where you grew up? PG
19. The last thing you did? Quake3
20. What are you wearing? Out
21. What are you not wearing? Sunglasses
22. Your pet? Jack
23. Your computer? Mac
24. Your life? Fun
25. Your mood? Nervous
26. Missing? Keys
27. What are you thinking about? Quitting
28. Your car? Truck
29. Your kitchen? Wifes
30. Your summer? Utah
31. Your favorite color? Sunset
32. Last time you laughed? Melted
33. Last time you cried? Teribithia
34. School? Half
35. Love? Love!

I promise something more interesting is coming.

The System is up...

Just a quick note. I am happy to report that themdg is out of the ICU. A new drive has been installed, and it should work better. We did lose a huge pile of MP3s, but those are replaceable, right?

It's nice to be back online.

Stay tunes for Utah Trip antics.

Mattie Are You Out There?

Well it has been several weeks since I have posted but I feel I must since Mattie is lost in space. Actually he is in Utah but it might as well be space since he is devoid of all access to the Internet. In fact while he was gone the Internet was replaced by Al "Lockbox" Gore with a brand new one that is funded entirely by selling carbon credits that were acquired on eBay from the Chinese. Apparently though these credits are fakes and have been shown to cause cancer in lab rats by the state of California (i think it was due to a ridiculously high level of CO2). While Mattie was gone I spoke to him once and he was playing golf. I have no idea what else he has been doing but as I find out so will you. Till then, I say good day.

The system is down...

I've gone cold turkey, and not by choice. I'm disconnected, in more ways than one.

My little file/web server that I keep in my room at home is powered down. This alone causes me to lose sleep! It's funny how much you depend on things, and don't realize it until they're not there.

We're in Utah for a long vacation. A few weeks prior to this trip, one of the hard drives in the server started acting up. The errors it produced caused me to manually restart the server once a day or so. I didn't have time to change out the hard drive before we left, so I was forced to just shut it down. Ouch. It'll be down for three weeks. That means, no photos, no music, no email (not easily anyway), and no websites for many people. Trav, Elise, etc. I apologize.

To add insult to injury, everywhere we've been staying has had NO wireless or otherwise internet access available. N.O.N.E. Hard times. We're at the in laws house now, and I found a 2-foot square spot in the house that gets a sketchy wireless connection from a neighbor. Beggars can't be choosers and all that.

I hate being so disconnected like this but I'm resigning myself to it and it's not being as hard as I thought it might be. I'm reminded of some cool things as a result of not being able to use the computer. Check this out:

• They have a great sunrise every morning, and it's open to the public.
  
• My wife is as beautiful and loving as ever.
  
• My kid is hilarious and makes me proud.
  
• My nieces are precious goof balls as are my sisters and parents.
  
• You can get a nice sunburn if you only put sunscreen on once while at the pool in the afternoon.
  
• Monkey-bars are delicious.
• You can go on a Napoleon Dynamite tour if you drive a few miles north of Logan, UT.
• And More!

So, the server is down for the count, but it'll be back. Count on it. For now...stop and smell the flowers. It's good times.