So it's bee roughly a week and what a week it's been! I'm writing from Laura's computer because I don't want to go into my room. Ashely and TJ are getting ready to go to Boulder. I wish TJ didn't take a shower because I need to. Now I have to wait a while dammit. Anyway, last week. Yeah, I got paid on Friday. All gone as far as I know. Paid about half my credit card, my car insurance, etc. I can't pay my Mom at all this month, which sucks. I'll have to e-mail her about that. Yesterday, Laura's Mom had two free tickets to Winter Park, so Susan and I used it. Yes, strange huh. Anyway, the first two runs were really nice. The thing was, though, that I used Laura's board, which was goofy, so I had to ride regular on a goofy board. How weird is that? And the weirder thing? I think I did better! I like it like that more than regular. Don't ask why! I was carving and picking up speed better, you know? Strange man. And then, it started pretty much blizzarding and every time we would pick up speed to go down the mountain, the snow felt like ice needles and it would hurt like hell. I would look up and the ice would hit my face, and it would melt, you know, and the water would drip into my eyes and that would get cold. It was hell. I couldn't see where I was going. I would imagine goggles would have helped, but I don't know. Susan said snow got into her eyes too, so. Oh well. After a few more runs and at like 3, we left. The place that we rented Susan's skis were fricken cheap! $13 for a pair of skis and $17 for snowboards. Damn nice! I'm going to start using that place. It's right on the way too. Convenient. I got home, I had to finish my fricken computer assignment. I whipped that up and I didn't even know the criteria, so I just added a reference section in the end and turned it in. Oh well. I don't really care about that class, so. Next week is the due date for my geology paper. This one I will have to actually do it good. I don't want to get a B in there. Astronomy test was, well, on the easy side, but I don't know how well I did. I could have made some real easy mistakes so. Other than that, Laura's in Lakewood celebrating stupid Easter. I'm gonna head to Starbucks at around 11 if we're even going today. I just messaged Chris. I should get a response here in a little bit. So that means I'm gonna get going. I would take a shower, but I can't you know, since all the water's gone before I even have a chance to use it. I'm really strapped for cash this week, and next! I'll have about $20 for the next two weeks, which sucks. Anyway, have yourself a dumb little Easter!

Okay, so the internet has been down on and off at our house for the last couple of days and frankly I'm annoyed. It's up now, obviously, but I can see it going down again. Wouldn't it suck if it went down just before I submitted this? Anyway, camping was fun, though at night it was a little on the cold side. I think the only problem was that the ground was cold. We were next to some red neck, drunk guys. They were funny, but their music kept me up for a little bit. My neck is so itchy. I want to itch it, but I know that it will just make it worse. I want a supra. Yes, I do. I think I am going to create another site. Something about trance or cars, maybe. What else...um, I don't know. That's it for now. Nothing's been up since the downing of the internet. It was so boring. Anyway, I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Lates. I love you Laura!

So, we're going camping tonight. It can't get any more last minute than this. I just went and got some firewood...though, Ashley and TJ are late...no reason they should be, but anyway. We'll probably get there around 9:30 or so, set up camp and chill for a bit. Should be a good time. PLUS, I finally get to use my new burner. I don't know what I'm going to cook, but it'll be something! :) Anyway, laters to you all.

The weekend. Yay. There's always nothing to do. Tonight, so, we may all go out to dinner or something dressed up. We haven't done that in a bit, so, who knows. Laura will be back around 6 I guess. I have no idea what's going to happen. Chris (if he ever wakes his ass up) and I will go driving around Loveland and the back roads today. I actually want to find the place that my field trip went to. It was a nice place. Anyway, yesterday Ashley rented Communion for me and watched it. It was freaky at first, but it was to the point that about 1/2 way through the movie, it wasn't anymore. In the beginning though, it was pretty scary. Oh yeah, I didn't even say what it was about. It's based on a true story about this guy who was abducted for a few years and he took hypnosis and found out what was happening. No one believed him and so forth. The aliens on there were cheasy, but freaky in a way. It's a nice day again. I want to do something outside. I will settle for just driving though. I bought Laura something, but she won't be able to see it until next week. :) I know you'll probably read this by then, so don't ask me what I got you. No word on the DMB tickets yet. I'm giving up and waiting until they actually e-mail or put a notice up on the board. All my tests are over until next Thursday when I take my astronomy test. After that, it's all finals I think. We have, well, I have, less than a month to go in school. Ain't that a good deal? Granted I won't be doing shit during the summer, hopefully moving out by May's end and all that. I will be saving up quite a bit to meet the rent and utilities of next year. I was going to get a savings account, but I am putting it off since I'm lazy. That's about it to report. Have a good weekend.

So I've just been surfing around the Dave Matthews Band forums and it seems to me that I'm not the only one complaining about now knowing where my seats are for the concert that I've bought tickets for. I mean, it's kinda annoying to not know, when you already shelled out nearly $120, you know? Some people are getting more irritated than me, so I'm not the most crazy or anything. I'm just glad that I did get tickets. I just went to Ticket Master and the best seats they have are nosebleeds seats behind the stage. Hopefully mine will fare better, but I did read a few people's experience of people getting lawn seating and stuff like that. If that will be the case, I would have rather tried to get tickets on Ticket Master right when it went on sale and probably gotten better results. Too late to bitch about it now, so I'll have to wait and hope that it will come soon.

April is rolling along just great. I'm listening to Evanescence - So Close right now. I love the background music of this song. They are a great band. My website is coming along good, I guess, but lacking in the area of PICTURES, something I need. Oh well. Whatever. This month is probably the busiest month that I've had so far in terms of school. Everything is winding up to the end. I have papers due for each class (this month at that!), tests, and assignments. Hopefully I'll get a response from CSU soon knowing if I got in or not. I sent in my trascript and everything. I don't have much time to do anything these days. My life is actually becoming a life! I'm going to be overwhelmed with the amount of free time (hopefully) that I'll have in the summer. I don't know if I wrote this already, but Ashley's found a place to live at the Preserve (s******) so we went in to Armadillo to get out of the lease early if possible, that is, if someone wants to take it over. That will be the 1st of June. Then we'll be moving along to Collins West. Great huh? Hopefully next year the living situation will be even better than this year. It seems that it's getting better and better as the years go by. The other day for the first time in months, we all went over to Chris' to drink. Yes, me too. I just had a beer, but hey, whatever is ok right. Ben and I are going to the bars on Thursday to check out the scene. It's not something I'm into at all, but I figure I'd see what it's like you know. We're going to invite Chris to go too. That will be funny. I'll probably sip on a beer the entire time or something. Yeah, what else...oh yeah, our last geology lab was yesterday and it was a field trip. It was fun. This one place we went to was just awesome. We sat by the rocks that we pretty high up overlooking a small valley. There was a ranch and stuff, but that was the only man-made obstruction there. It's unbelievable when you look at the environment that hasn't been touched. It reminded me of the LOTR and stuff. I can't wait for Ireland, where there are surely more vast landscapes and such. I love those kinds of scenery, you know? It's inspiring in a way. I want to take Laura to this place, maybe even tomorrow or something, but yeah, it'll be fun. Nothing much to do tonight. I did a majority of my work yesterday and today, primarily tests. I have 4 more to go. 1 will be down tomorrow, another on Wednesday, another probably by Friday and the last one before finals on next Tuesday. Right now, I can't believe it's already 7:30 because of the fact that it's still quite light outside and the daylight savings time. It's starting to feel like summer again. :) I like it. It sorta, in a vague sense, reminds me of my childhood. I can't explain it. Anyway, I'm also in a money crunch. My credit card statement is coming here in a week or so. I'll get paid a good sum next time, so all of it might go towards the credit card and maybe a little to the insurance. I've got about $650 to pay back...slowly. I'm not a credit card person. I need a money making plan. The lottery would be just fine. It would be awesome, actually. Even a million would be so nice...I would put $700,000 into like a retirement plan to accumulate. The rest would go to, well, I don't know. Maybe $200,000 to a house that we'll live in after I graduate and the rest would go to a new car (Supra anyone?) and misc...like furnishing the house or something. Maybe I'll play sometime. I have no cash on me, so. Oh well. The friends department is the same old I guess. Looking at the weather, seems like this weekend might finally be a prime time for camping. Hopefully it is. I want to put my stove to use, you know? I bought it for something. But yeah, I'm gonna head off now. Nothing else to talk about. I'm just ramblin' right now. I'll see ya laters.

It's been a while! The last week has been stressful as hell. You wouldn't even know. 5 tests in the next 1.5 weeks (though I finished one already today), applying back to CSU, work, bank stuff, having no money, signing the lease and stuff like that. It's just way too much! Hopefully it'll start to settle down here soon. I really haven't been able to do anything. Things are so hectic. Ashley has found a place for this coming May at the Preserve, we've found a place at Collins West, and well, we're going to try and get out of this lease here at the end of May, hopefully. I wish to get all the deposits and shit back, so. We'll know about that on Friday when we go in to talk about it. It's been a nice week in terms of weather though, that's something to look forward to! I want to possibly go camping this weekend, if the snow is melted and all, that is. I'm sure it'll be fine though, unless the weird ass weather brings us shit again. That's it to report. Oh yeah, I JUST changed the font to Arial instead of Verdana, to give it a little change. I've been doing a lot of my school typing in Arial, so I've grown to like that font right now more than others. Um, I guess it's back to more school work for me though. Laters.

So the problem is averted for the time being. I'm just getting a little annoyed at the moment. People need to learn to be, well, more educated or something. I don't give a fuck. I just made a CD with new trance songs that should hold me over for a little bit. Other than that, I had my 2nd geology lab and my 3rd and hopefully last one will be next Saturday, which is a field trip to see the rocks of the area. Interesting to know that Horsetooth Rock, this rock not too far from here and it's visible, is 1.6-1.8 billion years old. Pretty amazing considering the fact that the Earth is only about 3 times as old as that. Anyway, I'm going to head over and play Catch Phrase now. It's a very recommended game from me. Trust me. I don't like many games. Laters.

It's just incredible the things that happen when people say stuff sometimes. I don't even know what to say. I've probably created a big problem that may or may not stick around but I really don't care. There's a fine line between being dependent and being ridiculously dependent. Solving YOUR problems at the expense of OTHERS' discomfort and dissatisfaction is just wrong. It's just asking to wage war. Taking things for granted is also a bad thing to do and just builds up the problem even more and sooner or later, you're going to have to face it, whether it may end nicely or fuck up your life. And it seems as though war has been waged in a sense. Some things are just how they are and you just have to accept them. Some people just don't want to do that. I'll keep an update of what's going on in this situation over the next few weeks and we'll see how it progresses. I mean, I'm not going to back down or anything, but I'm not going to push anything more than it's been pushed already, unless it comes to the point where it has to. I hope it doesn't come to that because once it's come to that, some things won't be able to be healed. I'm going to burn a CD now, with the latest songs that I've downloaded. I may have some news for the blog later on, even. We'll see.

So, today was an exciting day at work. Not really, but I finally got to spend a few hours on a project and felt important. Unfortunately, I'm done with it, so I'm out of things to do. Great huh? It fricken snowed today and during the little snow shower, the sun came out...what is wrong with the weather in this state? I mean, come on. It's supposed to become pretty good weather, you know, this week. Strange I tell ya. I have a lot of stuff to do in terms of homework this week. I do not want to do them. I think I'm going to visit Zach on Wednesday. I have an ortho appointment, so I might as well stop by and say hello or something. I didn't even know he was in town, nor did anyone else. Seems like people are starting the stray away from their friends and starting to do their own thing, if you know what I mean. I think, well, life's starting! Not for me though. Not yet at least. I have a couple more years to go. So boring today though. It was a good mail day, I guess. I got my 256MB of more RAM and I installed that already. I do feel the computer is a little more zippy. I also go 2 movies, A Beautiful Mind and Time Machine. I think I'm going to watch the Time Machine tonight. The other one seems to be kinda slow, but that's ok. I signed up for Netflix (2-weeks free trial) so I'm renting a few movies for the next couple of weeks, then cancelling it. Cool huh. I'm watching my lava lamp do its thing while I type. It's sooooo boring. Today my ad for my website went up. It was in a great place apart from the other ads. Hopefully this will increase traffic a little, but I'm beginning to think that it's a lost cause. I doubt anyone is going to send in their pictures. I set up a forum for the website, but I doubt anything will go on that either. Oh well, I have three month before my hosting runs out, so I guess I can wait until then, but I mean, I had to try it. I'm kinda hungry but dunno what to eat. Ash and her sister are playing Mario Party downstairs. They have nothing better to do I suppose. We tried to go to the office of the new apartment we hope to live in, but again, they were gone. What is up? I'll know the Dave Matthews tickets status by this Thurs. Hopefully I won't have to buy it through the public sales. My car is pretty clean. I like the rain since it cleans the car, but snow I hate. Well, that's all for now. I'll be here soon I think since there's NOTHING TO DO.

*sigh* It's just a drat when you solve one problem and that just sprouts up another. That's about the only news I have. I just finished talking with a good friend from high school that's going to the school of mines. Also, maybe I'll mention it in this blog that I have a "secret" website that is very well underway. I'll show Laura sometime when there's enough content. :)

Well I got my timesheet signed for a measely 28 hours...that's not going to pay for anything. My credit card bill is up the snafoo and I'm screwed. I'm gonna die. My Mom messaged me on MSN today from Japan. I thought it was a little weird, but anyhow. I guess it's cold there. Why is this Earth so damn cold? Laura went to Denver today and tomorrow so she can shop with her Mom and spend her sister's b-day down there. I'm left to do nothing. There is nothing to do. Haha, here's something funny. I tried to spray paint the small inside area of my car red to match the car's exterior and yeah, it didn't work. I'm looking for some paint thinner now to try and get the paint off. Hopefully it'll come off, otherwise, it won't be appealing to some buyers if I ever sell it. I should sell it soon if I am to, so I get get some good deals around here. But yeah, nothing else to report. Literally, nothing!

So the snow finally stopped and the city is well on its way to recovering in terms of driveability and clearing them damn roads. The funny thing is, yeah, I decided to go to breakfast with someone and that in turn caused a part of my underside of the front bumper to break off and a little piece is just hanging from there right now. I mean, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't think they sell just the underside, but it's ok I guess. Doesn't hurt the car in any way, so. The driveway is hard to get into. It's ridiculous. I am going to take down the TV to Longmont today. And I also have to stop by radio shack, maybe, and swing by Chris' house to pick up his smaller 19" TV for Laura's room so we can watch movies in there without the "choppiness" of the computer DVD player. I may also stop by work to see if it's even open and to see if my bosses are there. If not, better for me as I can put some hours down on my timesheet for this week since you know, work wasn't so fun this week. Anyway, I'm gonna get some shit done. Later.

Well, I've found a "saving" event that will calm my nerves for the most part, but it just keeps on coming. It's snowing like the devil out there. Predictions put the number of inches of snow at 345872340952435" or yeah, roughly the end of the world. No kidding, either. My car and every other car out there is covered like fuck. It's already snowed a few inches and it the bulk of the storm hasn't even reached us looks like. It's gonna be one heck of a week. My ad for the collegian for my website got rescheduled for next Monday, the 24th, which was nice of them since they aren't going to publish any newspapers probably all this week. My paycheck in turn is going to be shit, or maybe nothing at all depending on whether or not I can even get to work or if work's even open this week. My turn in date for my timesheet is Friday and yeah, frankly, I don't think anything will be open, so, I'm screwed probably for the most part.

I'm going to blow up!

Okay, it's later. Well, it's been quite a hectic week actually, despite the spring break that it's supposed to be. First, an update on my website. My friends' profiles aren't up yet. They'll be up hopefully on Sunday so by Monday, everyone can come to my site and enjoy and flourish it...yeah right. Second, when I went to work on Thursday, for the first time in ages, they complained that I should tell them when I'm not going to be in the office. Oh well. Third, I had a dentist's appointment today to fix that lone cavity that I've had for over 2-3 years now. It's fixed, no pain, all good. Fourth, my credit card is up the creek. Hopefully I'll be able to pay it off by within 2 months. Sixth, my data cable I was finally able to figure out. My computer I think is just too old or needs a heavy upgrading in the motherboard/BIOS area. I did it on Laura's computer and it worked wonderfully. The speed it connected at was amazing from just being a phone service. Over 110Kbs! Even 56K modems don't work that well. I'm going to start abusing it soon, like when I go down to Denver or on a road trip or something, granted, I have a laptop. Seventh, I finished up on lots of homework for this week. It really wasn't a spring break...more like a spring weekend. Nothing different for me. Ashley and TJ are back from their trip and they got my a nice little cactus plant in a pottery. Nice huh? Which brings me to my Eighth and final point, our trip to NM. Okay, so we left at 4:30 sharp on Saturday as planned. I drove hell of a lot faster than I should have been, but that's okay. After a couple of hours, stopping at Colorado Springs for some breakfast, we got to Santa Fe in 6 hours. 8 hours courtesy of MapQuest my ass! I put the cruise control on 100 for a good part of the desolate landscaping which helped. Lots of dirty bugs hittin' my windshield too. Right when I got into town, the atmosphere was noticiably different. The people were all mexican! Go figure. We got to our Days Inn ok and we decided to go to the plaza for Laura to shop. We did, and we ate at The Shed, which is reportedly supposed to be good, but my enchilada was just too damn hot and wasn't good either to boot. Strike one. The next place we ate, Tomasitas was really good, despite the idiot hostesses that worked their who made us wait 30-40 minutes. Anyway, that was that. I must tell you these mexican people aren't friendly toward tourists, especially those of japanese. This one guy in the gas station was laughing at me. I'll rather fucken send him to the border patrol than stay there. Anyway, the next day we set sail for Roswell...yes, Roswell. The infamous alien crash landing incident. We got there in 2 hours (4 hours my ass, MapQuest) and went to the UFO museum. What a place. I loved it. Took a picture next to an alien and we were off to see the contents. Good stuff. We visit the gift shop where I went ahead and purchased a alien mug and a keychain. Laura bought just the mug. There were some cool posters and shirts, though. After that, we ate at Applebees (always good service served by crackers :) ), and headed up back to Santa Fe. This time we ate at Denny's...ok, usually Denny's's (??) are ok, but this one sucked. The hostess was an incosiderate idiot who I hope dies soon. The waiter (mexican) was just TOO nice and weird. Whatever. We got back to the Days Inn and went to bed. Next day, we drive back to Black Hawk, where our free hotel room awaits. We get there, sort of slower than on the way down, and I get the room. Nice room it is! My Mom was coincidentally staying there that night too, so I found her and we went to dinner. Laura was all nervous and actually getting mad about it. Don't ask why...I eat and do all kinds of stuff with her family. After dinner, I think my Mom gambled a little more and left early that next morning for some hot springs. That night, we decided to watch LOTR:TTT and ordered high speed internet. Yeah, I know I can't believe I did that. Anyway, next day we stop by Laura's house in Lakewood and head home. Fast forward to now and here we are. You're all caught up now. I'm so tired of this constant typing...I'll be doing that again soon since a paper is due for astronomy in the coming weeks. 2 to be exact. I'll pull it out of my ass. Anyway, already 11:30pm...time for bed, or rather, way past bed. I'll talk to you again soon. See ya.

Okay, I don't have much time as of right now to talk about our trip to Santa Fe/Roswell, NM, but I will tomorrow sometime. We are going to Rod's to sit in the hot tub here in a little bit. All and all, I had fun. But yeah, I did get the data cable...TODAY. God damn it. I tried to fiddle with it for a few minutes today, but I couldn't get it to work. Hopefully I can get it to work. I don't want to have spent $30 for nothing. My credit card bill is up the roof. I am in deep shit! That's right, very deep. My Mom is going to Japan in a couple of weeks. Hope she has a good time. Nothing to report right now. I am in the process of promoting my CSU Connection website. I hope it gets big. Really. On a side note, my site is 100% up now. Checking the webstats, it seems as though some amount of people are actually visiting the site because the hits on the site is going up and that's during when I didn't check it, so it must mean SOMEONE is checking it out. Once spring break is out of session and everyone's back, which would probably be this weekend, I'll report again on whether or not I think it will be good to continue keeping it up. That's for now. Be back later.

It's coming down to the wire now. I have all the things for the website set up. All it needs to do is for my domain name to recognize my new hosting and it'll begin. I have to go put flyers and such up around campus tonight. I'll let Laura do the design. I hope this really works out. Anywho, got my Astro test back and got a 88%. Not bad eh? Rod, however, didn't fare as well, but he wouldn't disclose his score. Goes to show that goofing off and not taking notes kinda hurts when it comes to it. I have been discussion on the forum at the paranormal site pretty intensely today. Did not much else. Turns out that my Mom has also reserved the 10th of next week as the day for the free night at the casino hotel. That's the same day Laura and I are going there...weird huh? I heard from a co-worker that this time of year is cold for New Mexico so I should bring some warm clothes and possibly get ready for some snow there. I thought it didn't snow in the southwest? Aside from that I have to get a couple of things done homework wise before this trip. Also, the package containing the data cable that was allegedly sent via USPS priority mail on Tuesday wasn't here today. Seems kind of odd, but it better come tomorrow, or this money I spent was down the drain. I want to surf the net this weekend dammit! I am so impatient for this website to go online! I know it's going to take 1-2 days for the change to occur on the settings that I had to set, but still, I just want it to go faster. Hopefully by tomorrow morning it'll be up...but with my luck, it probably won't. The launch date is supposed to be tomorrow, but I may have to change it to the 8th, just in case. But I don't want to have the students try to actually go to the website when it's not there and get a message saying that it's not there. I want it to be there. Chances are they probably won't come back if they're not interested when they first get there. I am getting used to the new stuff I have to learn for setting up my own site and what not. I had read a little about how to set up a message board and it doesn't seem hard, but I'm sure I'll run into some problems. The problem is that I have to pay another $10 to setup a database access thing for my hosting to be able to run the message board. I am contemplating even putting on up, but I think it would be for the better. I'll have that answer by next week or so. I am kinda low on money right now, you know what I mean? My credit card is rapidly increasing as we speak. I need to cut back. My Mom is going to Japan in a couple of weeks. Ben's b-day is coming up and he's going to Las Vegas. Oh yeah, I haven't said anything about my dentist's appointment that I had this week in years. Well, luckily I only have one cavity, which considering I haven't gone since I put my braces on is quite incredible. For me anyway. Next Friday I have to fill that cavity in, then in a week go to the ortho to put the permanent retainer on the bottom. Thank god, because this temporary retainer is a bitch to talk with. Among other things, that's it. Really. This is the longest posting I've done in a while. Depending on whether or not I get the data cable, I won't be writing for a while.

The internet has been slow on and off all day, but oh well. Tomorrow we are going to get donuts for our astronomy class. How nice are we? Also, I am actually really doing a website, called www.csuconnection.com where I compile people's information who send me pictures and their information at the website and other visitors can meet and talk with each other. Nice huh? I got the design already done, the website domain is purchased and the hosting is being taken care of right now and shoudl be ready to launch by tomorrow. I'm excited. This is the first real website that I've attempted and hopefully it'll go well. I'm going to have Laura and Susan and TJ pass the word along about the site to CSU students and put up flyers and what not. I might put up an ad in the CSU newspaper for a day or two, because it's so expensive. If it wasn't, I would do about a week. Anywho, I'm learning up on setting up a bulletin board for my site. I think it's $10 to set up a database thing and then I can start having members and stuff. I have to learn more of this because it's an area where I haven't touched ever, so. It's a learning experience for me I guess. I'm going to New Mexico in about 3 days. Woohoo. I hope my data cable comes tomorrow so I can test it before I head out. I'm going to help Laura study for a test now. I'll talk to you guys later and just so you know if I don't write in here on........well, I guess if my data cable works, I'll have internet when I'm in New Mexico, so nevermind what I was going to say. Laters.

Well it's been quite some time now hasn't it? Yes, nonetheless, nothing is new. I just received an e-mail regarding Dave Matthews Band ticket sales and they go on sale on the 29th...EXCEPT for Warehouse members, which begin on the 7th. Yes, stupid me that I am, I joined just so I can be part of the early ticketing. I hope it pays off! It was $30 for the membership! Anyhow, I vow to get good tickets. Among other news, I ordered a data cable for my phone so I can surf the net through any computer. How cool is that. True portable internet! I should get that tomorrow or Friday and I'll mess around with that so there's no trouble using it on Saturday. We already reserved the hotel rooms and what not. Should be a fun time. I am getting two tests back this week and hopefully I didn't bomb both of them...or either of them, actually. I bought a new Nalgene bottle yesterday. It's a 16oz. one, but with a narrower neck, with is soooo much better, personally, for drinking. I think I am going to read some history now. I want to get rid of MOST of my homework before this trip. I have to finalize a few things so there's nothing to be worried about. Worry free road trip baby! It's been snowing like crazy. Well, it just snowed all day yesterday and it's fine now, but there is a bunch of snow. Looks like, for the most part, the work abroad is going to happen. Hopefully my brother will have enough spare tickets by next year that my airplane ticket can be paid for...that would be such an awesome deal. But anyway, have yourselves a day.