GAH!!! It's Cold!!

It's 32 degrees right now. Last night it was 21 degrees at about 9 pm. That's friggin' cold. Just another reminder of why I moved back to Texas. Good thing it hasn't snowed yet. But the weatherman has called for snow some time next week. Hopefully it'll hold off until Tuesday, since we fly out on Monday. Today we're taking a trip up to Decatur to visit some friends. It'll be a little colder there but not much. At least it's not Chicago. Not just because of the crappy weather there, but because the traffic there sucks too.

Home for the Holidays

I finally took some time off from working 2 jobs. On Monday afternoon the wife, the little man and I packed our stuff and flew out of Houston to STL to visit my parents and family in IL for Thanksgiving. Mom was pleasantly surprised. My sis actually somewhat did keep it a secret. Mom figured the next time she would see her grandson would be when he turned 18, save her coming down to Houston. She was complaining the other day about how I said we'd come home on the holidays before moving back to Houston and we hadn't come home yet. I didn't mean every damn holiday.

I won't be able to be totally lazy during my time off. I get to help my brother-in-law run a Cat 5 cable to my niece's room. I'm sure my Mom will have some stuff for me to do too. Plus I have to fix my sister's computer so it's no longer as fucked up as a soup sammich. Hmmm...first thing? Get rid of the damn thing. Oh wait, that's probably not an option. So I guess I'm gonna have to fix it the old fashioned way. Going through the damn thing with a fine-toothed comb. I hate Compaq/HP. Too much proprietary software. All of it junk. My wife's computer is my old Compaq with my own custom software install on it. I lovingly refer to it as "the Comcrap". I bought a Dell off a co-worker, and the thing has performed impressively. My next project will be to put aside some cash in order to build my own system, but right now that has to take a back burner to everything else. One of these days...