More updates!

Our San Diego trip went off without a hitch! D got to tour the Padres baseball stadium (which was awesome apparently) and he even caught a game against the Chicago Cubs. We stayed in a quaint one bedroom condo for a bargain price and rented a car. The AAPA conference was good; I learned a lot and it was good to catch up with friends from school. D and I drove up the coast one day and watched the sunset from a state park. It was beautiful! We had a blast at the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park where we spent 2 days looking at the beautiful animals! We even got a private tour at the Wild Animal Park where we saw the behind the scenes work of the zoo. We were able to pet a miniature ant eater, visit a pregnant Okapi, and see lots of baby animals including a 2 week old rhinoceros. It was a fantastic trip all in all. 

Now that we're home, things are starting to settle down...well, sort of. We found a great deal on a pontoon boat and purchased it last week from an older couple down at Lake Murray. It's a 2000 20 ft Bennington Pontoon. It is in fantastic condition and was well maintained by this older, semi-retired couple. We've taken it out a couple times already and really believe we got an excellent deal! We are so excited and really looking forward to taking our friends out on the lake and relaxing on the weekends. 

We'll put pictures up of the boat and our trip to San Diego soon! 

Cool Internet Stuff

So right now I'm listening to an audiobook excerpt from Denis Leary's latest book Why We Suck. I got this for free on iTunes (cool thing #1 about the internet). How did I found out about this free excerpt? Twitter (cool thing #2 about the internet).

I have recently gotten into Twitter and I dig it. I follow (that's Twitter speak) iTunesFreeDLs which non twitterers can get to with this link: www.twitter.com/iTunesFreeDLs and those of you savy enough to be on Twitter can find them @iTunesFreeDLs. That's how you refer to other users. Anyways, you can check out all the newest free stuff that is on iTunes, sometimes songs, videos, audiobooks, etc. via the @iTunesFreeDLs updates.

Now I don't personally know many people that use Twitter, but I find that it's a GREAT way to follow different newspapers, sports teams and even some celebs all in one place. I go there now to find the latest links to articles regarding the Redskins and Gamecocks among others. If someone has music or articles they've written Twitter is a great way to let other people find and enjoy those things. As a matter of fact I'll be tweeting (more Twitter speak) the link to this blog so if anyone actually cares about it they can check it out.

Sometimes I write articles for a website called Bleacher Report. There, sports fans can write and read articles written by other fans. Later this week I'll be writing about what the NFL Draft told us about the state of the Gamecocks. Guess what, I'm gonna post a link to it on Twitter. You folks should check it out if you haven't already.

Oh and you can follow me here.
Holler.

Ramblings

So as it turns out, I really suck at keeping this thing updated. But we have been really busy. Here's what our spring has looked like so far and what is coming up:
- C's bday weekend 4/4 and 4/5
- Simpsonville for Easter
- Aiken/Augusta 4/17 - 4/19
- Work and the NFL draft this weekend (4/25 and 4/26)
- Next weekend we have a going away party at the lake for Jordan and House
- Then on 5/9 I'm going to the Darlington race and Christina is going back to Simpsonville
- The next weekend (5/16 & 5/17) Heidi will be visiting and I'm going to the All-Star race
- The following weekend we will leave for San Diego and be there a week (woohoo!)
- The weekend after we get back from San Diego we'll have our yard sale
- After that we get a weekend off!!!!
- But then we rev it back up again, going to Charleston for my company picnic and to see friends
- Then another week off before we celebrate July 4th at the lake.

WHEW!

So that's a lot of stuff on our plate. I didn't realize how much until I started typing it out. Most of that should be really fun though. It will be sad to see Jordan and House leave as I mentioned. House reports to Eagle Pass, TX around May 18th I believe and he'll be there indefinitely. Jordan leaves June 9th(ish) for Douglas Arizona and he'll be there a year. But we'll send them off with a nice little lake shindig in which we'll be able to lounge on our new lake toy (picture to follow).

That's it for now folks. I talk a vow to keep this thing a bit more updated. At least once a week and some links to pictures should be on the way too. Hope everyone watching the NFL draft will enjoy it as much as me!!

Snow in SC

So its been a really long time since the last post. I'm not gonna bother with going back and posting pictures of all the past events, but we'll just try to keep up from here on out. Here's a quick run down of the events that have happened since I last posted: we moved to Lancaster, SC and our beautiful home, we got married, went on our Honeymoon Cruise to Haiti, Jamaica, Grand Caymen and Cozumel, Mexico, went to a bunch of Gamecock football games, watched way too much football on the weekends in general, got Remi, our new puppy, built a beer pong table, had an awesome new years party, watched some miserable bowl games and now we have played in the snow this morning. I'll try to put some pictures up of the snow a little later today. We'll be updating this more frequently now, so stay tuned.

Oh yeah, Barack Obama is being innagurated today. I'll just say that there is way too much hype surrounding this event. This is an historic event and the change is good, but my feeling is that Obama is getting a lot of support for not so great reasons. I do however wish our new President the best and I hope he makes my beloved home country a lot better during his term.