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Welcome to the New Year

It's been quiet on here for a while, but don't worry I made it to the New Year just fine. A majority of my spare time the last few days has been spent writing up my Music of 2005 for my music blog.

A bit of what I've been up to the past month. I flew back home to PA for Christmas break. It was nice getting to spend some time with my family again. Here's a picture of our Christmas tree. I was fairly busy while I was home and didn't spend much time at the computer. I didn't see anyone from high school while I was home, but I did see a few family friends. One of the best parts of being home was all the great food. We did the whole turkey dinner thing on Christmas Day and on Thursday that week we had a New Year's Dinner (pork and sauerkraut), since I wouldn't actually be there on New Year's Day.

And now since Mike and Meri did it, I'm going to post what I got for Christmas.

Video Games

• Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
• Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (DS)
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife (DS)
• Kirby's Canvas Curse (DS)
• Resident Evil 4

Books

• Watching Football by Darryl "Moose" Johnston
• The Physics of Football by Timothy Gay, Ph.D.
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street

DVDs

• Scrubs Season 2
• The Simspons Season 6
• The Simpsons Season 7

Clothes

• hi i make macintosh software t-shirt
• new shoes
• 2 pairs of cargo pants
• track jacket

Misc

• Set card game
• Picaresque by The Decemberists
• America: The Calendar

I'll probably do a bit more of a write up the video games when I get a chance to actually play them

As for New Year's Eve, I got up 7:15 AM Eastern to catch my plane in Maryland (I was at my uncle's house). I got back to CA around 3 in the afternoon. Ricci picked me up at the airport and we grabbed some food at IHOP. Then when we got over to Apple to pick up my car, I realized I had left one of my bags on the baggage carousel at the airport. D'oh. What happened was when I flew home, I only had my suitcase, but on the way back I had my suitcase and a duffle bag. But it took forever for our bags to start coming out of the baggage chute, that I totally forgot I had two bags. Oh well. I went back to the airport and it was sitting by the Southwest customer service with about 20 other bags. After coming home and unpacking and relaxing for a while, Andrew, Ricci, and I went to BJs for dinner and then headed up to Dave and Buster's (as is becoming tradition). I was really excited to find out D&B's now has air hockey. They also have a trivia game that's pretty fun. We played various video games until midnight, then we went over to the bar area to watch the ball drop. As we were walking through the bar area, I saw a table with 3 rather cute girls, and I suggested to Andrew and Ricci that we go stand by them, but of course we didn't.

After the ball dropped we went over to check on the air hockey tables, and one freed up just as we got there. I ended up winning all 4 games I played, including one shut out. Go me! As we were playing, we noticed some people watching us, and it turned out to be the three girls from the bar. We let them use the table and talked a little and then another couple came and used the table. In the mean time, some random guy had come up and started hitting on one of the girls (though she didn't seem too interested in him). Eventually he got her to play him in a game of air hockey. While that was going on, I told Andrew I'd got check on where we were in line for pool. Fortunately Andrew took my subtle hint, because when I got back to say we had a table, he and Ricci had asked the girls to join us and they did. So we played pool with them (Jamie, Laura, and Emily) from about 12:30 until 2 am when they closed. They all go to school at Chico state, so I don't think we'll be seeing them again any time soon, but they were fun to hang out with.

So that's a bit of what I've been up to lately. And things stay pretty busy for the next month or so. Jeff flies in tomorrow and will be here all of next week for MacWorld, so it will be good to hang out with him again. Then in a couple weeks I'm taking my first trip to Tahoe with a co-worker and learning to snowboard. Then mid-February my aunt and uncle will be in town for several (my uncle has a training class to go to, but that's only during the weekdays). We're already planning to go to the winery I went to with Candice, because they really liked the wine she brought back for them. Busy, busy me.