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This will most likely be my last post for 2007 as I will be traveling the remainder of the year. I am really looking forward to 2008, especially the New Years day College Football Bowl Games leading up to the BCS National Championship game in which my LSU Tigers will be playing in. It should be a great start to what is already looking to be a very exciting new year. As for the rest of 2007, it should also be quite exciting.

My wife and I will be spending Christmas in Breckenridge, Colorado at Beaver Run. We will be meeting up with some of my wife’s family to do some snowboarding and other random snow activities. We will definitely be having a white Christmas this year. Unfortunately, we haven’t had much of the white stuff in Oregon yet this winter to get back on the boards before heading up to Colorado, but it shouldn’t be a problem. We missed opening day at our local mountain, but luckily for them, Dave and Tiffany took advantage. It looks like it was a great first day.

Once we get back from Colorado, we’ll have a little less than 12 hours to get ready for a total change of scenery as we’ll be heading down to Tampa, FL with Joe and Jessica for some business and pleasure. It should be a great trip and it will be nice to get some sun and hang out on the beach a little. I am really looking forward to going to Tampa for the first time and metting up with an old friend.

Happy holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you that I will not talk to until we get home from our travels. I hope you all have a great holiday season and new year. Geaux Tigers!

Until next year………

Random Access Memory (RAM) - The physical memory used to store data while a computer is operating.

Thanks to an awesome gift certificate given to me on my birthday by The Garstka’s and a memory sale at The Mac Store, I was able to add an extra 1 GB of RAM to my MacBook Pro for next to nothing.

Since adding the new memory, I have noticed a huge difference, especially when running Parallels. That makes me happy.

Finally, Michigan hired Rich Rodriguez as their next football coach. This should ultimately put to rest all of the speculation that Les Miles will be leaving LSU for Michigan after the National Championship game in January. At least I thought it would.

Even prior to Kirk Herbstreit’s sources telling him that Miles to Michigan was a done deal, the Mad Hatter said several times that he was not interested in the Michigan job and would be staying at LSU. Of course, that doesn’t mean much these days with football coaches leaving in the middle of the night to take a new job without even meeting with their teams to let them know. So it really wouldn’t have been a surprise to me if Miles did leave after saying he was going to stay. And it’s not like we haven’t had that happen before. Recall when Nick Saban left for the Miami Dolphins hiding behind the distractions of Christmas Day to make his announcement in Orlando, FL (not even in Baton Rouge) that he was leaving LSU.

I do think that Miles may still go to Michigan one day because eventually he will want to go back home. And I can’t imagine that Rodriguez will stay planted longer than a few years once a better offer comes around and he realizes that the spread offense doesn’t work well with big slow quarterbacks. I just hope that I do not have to hear any more about Miles going to Michigan any time soon, especially any more before the National Championship game.

From now until after January 7, 2008 all I want to hear about Miles is how he is preparing to hold up the Crystal Ball at the end of the game in front of Tiger Nation. It should sit nicely next to the 2003 BCS National Championship trophy.

My wife and I both reunited with old friends this week.

In my case, I have been knowing this particular friend for close to 20 years now and we sometimes lose touch for long periods of time. His parents lived in two different states, so when we were growing up, he was always going back and forth between his parent’s houses. After we finished high school and then college, we both moved away and haven’t done a very good job of staying in touch with each other.

One thing that I have always enjoyed about this friend is that even after not speaking to each other for long periods of time, once we do get back in touch with each other, we can pick up right where we left off. There is no weirdness or grudges, we just continue on as if we had been in touch the whole time.

With the technology available in communications today, there really is no reason to not stay in touch with your family and friends. Life is so much better when you surround yourself with great people that you enjoy. Plus, it is always great to reunite with old friends.

Homework:

Call,email or text at least 3 old friends or family members today. It only takes a second and you will make their day. Here is an example of a quick message you can send:

Hey [name],
I’m just writing to say hello. Hope all is well!

[your name]

As an added bonus, my friend is currently living in Tampa, FL and I am going there in two weeks, so we’ll get to hang out.

The dude is a triple threat!

He busts onto the scene doing the Robot and then mixes it all up. If you watch closely, I think there is a short type writer thrown in there. Then he drops it like it’s hot into a SPLIT for the grand finally! Oooooooh what what! I’m impressed.

After a long hiatus from the blog world, I have decided to start posting again. I’ve mostly used this blog for experimental purposes, but I would like to shift the focus to my personal life to highlight all of the fun stuff I’ve been doing. I really enjoy reading my friend’s blog post when they do fun stuff, so hopefully I can provide some of the same type of entertainment.

If you still have my feed in your feed reader, leave me a comment on this post to say “What up.” It will definitely be more motivating to post more often if I know I have a small audience. Word!