Hi. I haven’t blogged in a while, but quite a few of you have. Good for you! In the situation where I can either be living life or reflecting on it, I’ve been keeping a pretty full docket lately. Everything’s going well. Here’s an update. To keep it brief, each thought/paragraph will have no more than three sentences. Some might be Haiku.

With my family and Andrew’s help, my deck is now cleaned and stained. It even beads up when it rains, and it only took 15 months to get it done.

Now the front door, furnace and shower tile need attention. Some of those sooner than others. Thanks for all who have or will be recruited for help.

Football players should not punch other football players, in the helmet or the nads. Helpful tip: If you are ejected from the game, make sure your special teams coordinator knows to replace you so you don’t get three (three!) illegal formation penalties.

Alumni band is still the best part of homecoming, right after tailgating. Congrats to John and Annette on their future meatball. One year I would like to win a homecoming football game.

I had one of the creepiest dreams/nightmares in recent memory last night. Some spirit animated dead objects, like leaves and cornstalks, and used them to manipulate/monitor us. I could sell this as a novel if I knew how to explain it as creepily as it happened in my head.

Congratulations to the Saint Louis Cardinals for an excellent season. Goodbye Old Busch; I’m sorry I didn’t get to spend more time at you. As Cubs fans say, there’s always next year, and I’m looking forward to your new digs.

I don’t like the Stros,
And AL – who cares? But I
Still can’t turn it off.

Class is going very well. I’m getting exposed to lots of neat areas of study in LIS, and even the things that I don’t think will interest me have me wanting to learn more. I wish the class was discussion based so I could have more interaction with my peers and get their perspectives on things.

I like the horn playing
God Bless America in
The World Series on FOX

I’ve been getting better at getting organized. Almost all my work day is schedule time, and my inboxes at both places are finally empty. Now to buckle down and do what I have to do.

Basketball season tickets arrived yesterday, and I squealed like a little girl. Now that football and baseball are officially over, I can focus on the really important things. Go Illini!

Thank goodness for digital video recorders, allowing me to not miss the shows I like and get caught on them when I can. I haven’t moved a Netflix movie in a month, and I’m still behind on my watching, but at least I know they’re there when I can get to them.

The newer, IN shows I’m watching this season: How I Met Your Mother, Commander in Chief (The Breast Wing,) E-Ring, American Dad, Lost. Shows on the way OUT: Mythbusters, ALIAS, SNL, Jeopardy! What do you think I should be watching?

Baseball in HD is great. The pitch explaining baseball Scooter, and the FOX analysts are not. (Except for Joe Buck.) I want CBS HD by March.

I am borrowing a Toshiba M200 TabletPC from work to try using for my classwork. It’s basically a laptop with the added feature of being able to write on the screen. I’ll blog more about it later, because the tools and ed tech available are as interesting to me as the schooling itself.

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So there you have it, and there you are. I’ll try to stop in here and say hi more frequently. In the meantime, I’m still reading up on your stuff, so keep those cards and letters coming. Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow. *Dave throws pencil at camera.*

PS. I bet Houston is really, really getting tired of late game home runs costing them the game.