Matt the Geek

So. Christmas came and went, and 2008 will be here in just a few days. I swear, life on the highway makes the time just fly. Except each day on the road seems to take all year to end. I am looking for 2008 to get significantly better than 2007 is leaving off. Somehow.
Over Christmas though, I got to see my family, which I love doing. Although my parents inviting themselves over for Christmas morning was a little annoying, we got through it.
My kids went batshit insane over most of their gifts this year. Again. But I am glad they are happy and like the gifts.

Looks like I am driving to Gurnee, IL to take apart an old Checker Flag Lightning store that has been closed a while. It will give me great pleasure again to be taking apart something that those people people owned. They didn't treat us employees very good. Maybe we will do the West Desmoines, IA store next, and that's one I helped put up in the first place.

In funner news, I have my Audi all insured and re-registered, so I been driving that again. Love it!

Looks like thats all I got for now.
Put a Smiley ( :) or :] or whatever )here if you read this, no matter who you are :p
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yeah, I'm out.

And now you don't. I think that is the game the wireless internet is playing here. It gets annoying. Luckily I don't have much really to write here. 5 days till Christmas. Still doesn't much feel like it should be that time already. Maybe next year it will, since I don't have that travel-all-over-hell-and-back job anymore. Hope I don't have another job like that next, but if it's all I can find... Or if I happen to find myself in a warmer climate around this time next year, who knows how the holidays will feel. I'm sure I'll find out as I go.
Also, another year has passed without me attending a LAN party. Sure, I was at one last Dec 30, but that was still 2006 :p
There is one Jan 12, we'll see if I make it.

Well, since my brain seems to be out of fuel, I guess I'll leave it at that.

If only...

Well, not really sweet, nor home, but I am in Alabama for now. I do leave for St. Louis, MO tomorrow to drop off the Boeing trailer for the last time. So now I get to wonder if i will still have a job after this week. I hope so, I want to leave of my own terms. I supposedly fly from STL Saturday, to go home. There is the possibility I wont be traveling for work anymore. We shall see.
When I used to think Huntsville, AL, I thought hick town, since it's Alabama. But that was before I had been there. Before I knew it was nicknamed "Rocket City". This apparently is where NASA Space Camp is, and apparently 56 Boeing plants, several Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC. All high tech Aerospace/Defense companies. Today we were at the Redstone Arsenal, at the Missile and Space Command. I'm going to miss traveling with this truck...
Less than 2 weeks until Christmas, did it sneak up on anyone else?
Here's to a better 2008...

...I didn't come here to die.
Just a Trace Adkins song for the title, but it might fit my life too... Iunno.

I got to be home for the week up to, and including Thanksgiving, had to fly out the day after. All things considered, I enjoyed my time home. Partly because I got to see the wife and kids, and some of the rest of my family.
Aaaaannd, I got my Audi up and running again! Mega-Yay! Sure it's not registered or insured right now, but running is a step in the right direction. Wonder how she'll do on longer drives...

I was down in Orlando, Florida after thanksgiving, and now I am in El Paso, Texas till Friday. Then it's Huntsville, Alabama, and then dropping the trailer off in St Louis and drive back to North Carolina to be done for the season.

Then it's home for the holidays again... we'll see how that goes...