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So I was out of town all weekend. My Brother got married down in Minneapolis on Friday. The wedding and reception were great. They were a little different than I am use to, but they turned out great. His church down there is huge. It seats 2500 people. I bet the ceremony took 15 minutes tops. It was super short. My Brothers wife doesn’t like attention paid to her. She didn’t like being up front have having everybody watching, so they made it as fast as possible.

The reception was at this super nice golf course. My Brothers wife also doesn’t like dancing. The reception had a jazz band and they had deserts there. It was really nice. I hate dancing too, so I didn’t miss that part of it.

The days leading up to the wedding I hung out with my Brother and two of his other groomsmen. All three of them are chiropractors. I sure got an earful of chiropractic talk. Chiropractors think they can cure everything. I don’t really believe in all of it. One of the groomsmen spent $6000 to go to some seminar where is says he learned to adjust people from across the room. Yeah, seriously he believes he can do that. I think he was just suckered out of $6000. The chiropractors that I hung out with were smart people, but they sure believed in a lot of wacko stuff that makes no sense.

My wife had similar days hanging out with the bridesmaids. They were all super religious. She had to put up with a lot of God talk all weekend.

I love my family, but I don’t think I share any of the beliefs that they have. It drives me crazy, but I just keep my mouth shut respect their beliefs.

Not really. I bought the Tumbledown online album. Tumbledown is the country side project of Mike Herrera from MXPX. He released his first 6 song album online through discrevolt. For six bucks I got a little card with the code on back to download the album DRM free. I love this kind of stuff. I love to support the bands I like. Especially when they give me what I want, Non-DRMed music.

So last night we watched Click. Yeah, my Netflix queue is quite backed up. I was expecting your typical funny Adam Sandler movie. You know, funny, but not particularly good. I was surprised. I thought it was a really good movie. I was actually getting teary eyed toward the end of the movie. It makes you not want to take anything for granted. It makes you want to enjoy every day. Even the days spent at work. When it comes down to it, we don’t know how many days we have left, so we should enjoy want we can everyday, because when it’s over, it’s over.

I don’t get many weekends off with nothing to do. This weekend was one of them, but I was busier than hell. Yesterday I put up Christmas light, new curtains in kitchen and bedroom, installed a new programable thermostat, put up a shelf in the kitchen, and cleaned out the garage getting it ready for winter.

Today wont be so busy though. I am just going to sit my fat ass on the couch and watch football all day. Then it’s Red Lobster for super tonight. Yum! I love seafood, but the wife hates it. We are going out with her Aunt that loves seafood and has a husband that hates it. It should be good. I haven’t eaten at the Fargo Red Lobster yet.

I watch very little TV, so I thought the writers strike would have no affect on me. Well, I guess I was wrong. I was looking forward to seeing Motion City Soundtrack on Conan tomorrow night. Sadly Conan can’t write his own stuff so it will be a rerun. What’s up with that? Wasn’t Conan a writer for SNL? Can’t he come up with something?

It’s been a crazy busy week so far. I haven’t had much time at my computers. Monday night the wife got really sick and had to go to the emergency room. We were there until 2:30 AM. They gave her some pain meds and thought that it was maybe her gallbladder. She went back today for other tests they couldn’t find anything wrong with her gallbladder or anything else. She still feels like crap so she is going to visit her doctor on Thursday.

Then today I got a flat tire, so I had to get that fixed.

I really need to get outside and get the yard raked. I work the next two days, so I won’t be able to get it done until Friday. I don’t see the sun on days I work now.

I saw a couple snow flakes today. I hope the white stuff stays away for at least another week.

So what’s the point of changing the time now days? I say we quit that madness. It sucks now that it is dark at 6AM when I go to work and dark at 6PM when I get off. I guess I am done doing anything outdoors after work. Oh well, they are talking possible snow tonight, so there won’t be much to do outside anyways. it just kinda sucks going days without seeing the sun.

Last night I installed Leopard on my Macs and I gotta say, it’s way easier to install than Windows. I have installed Windows many many times, and it takes a good day to get everything installed and set up like I like it. I did both my Macs in half that time.

I bought my first Mac shortly after Tiger came out, so this was my first OS X install. This was a good time to upgrade my hard drives also, so both installs were on fresh drives. I hooked the old drives up via USB and OS X was able to bring all my data and programs right into the new install. I couldn’t believe how slick it was. I can even boot off the old drives via USB and I am back to Tiger. Just like I never upgraded. Why can’t windows be this easy?

I am really liking Leopard. It is so much better than Vista. People really should look at a Mac when they are buying a new computer. They really aren’t any more expensive considering on what you get with them, and from my experience, you get way less problems too.

I will be out of town and away from the computer all weekend. So, while I am gone, how fast are you? I got 42 in 5 seconds.