Um.....yeah.

So I tried to come up with some clever and witty title to this post but I gots nuthin'. Of course, if you're reading this, I'm sure you've gotten all too used to my complete lack of a sense of humor - that is, of course, unless you're my father, in which case you think I have an amazingly well developed sense of humor. ;)

So what's been going on over this way for the last week or so?

Liz and I spent the weekend at home last weekend and pretty much vegged out. We played way too many online games but we did find some time to clean the house as it really needed it. We sat down to watch "The Italian Job," which I had gotten for Christmas. Neither of us had ever seen it and I have to say that it's a good flick. It's got a lot of big names in it and it's a pretty fun movie. It's no Groundhog Day, but, come on, what did you expect?

Saturday night, we went over to a place in Rochester where you can do some indoor rock climbing. We went through a short class on how to tie knots and how to not let your wife fall two stories off the wall. After that, they pretty much let you run free and do you as please. It wasn't bad - certainly a good workout from time to time. Some of the walls were pretty easy, but a few of them were particularly difficult. We might have stayed a bit longer but the climbing shoes they gave us were killing my feet.

Earlier this week, I found that my endless fidgeting that involves playing with the wire on my headphones caused a severe technical problem. My left headphone would cut out periodically and I found that I could only get it to play consistently if I held the wire over my head with my left hand while working at my computer. In an attempt to make my fellow co-workers believe that I'm not clinically insane (although they can probably treat that here), Liz and I made the obligatory trip to Best Buy.

I got myself some new headphones (which are truly ginormous and probably make my head look something akin to the dude with the shrunken head at the end of Beetlejuice - so much for making my coworkers think I'm normal). I also got myself a new headset for my home computer - the microphone on my old set wasn't working so well and it was interfering with my ability to play games and use my well developed sense of humor on Nate at the same time and we just couldn't have that. We picked up a copy of "Ray" (the movie, not the sitcom), but we still haven't watched it.

We also got a new clock/radio/CD player for our bedroom because the CD player in my existing one wouldn't play any CD's and you had to unscrew the case to get any CD's out of it that you managed to get in there. This one apparently includes "nature sounds." It includes "the Ocean" (apparently just a new name for the sound of snow on old televisions when your reception went out) and "Crickets" (which sound vaguely like crickets at first but them become rather creepy as you begin to realize that they don't quite sound right). Nonetheless, the urge to search your house and squash the little bugger is still there. Apparently, that's supposed to be relaxing, though. I imagine such a device would give Nate nightmares about half dead crickets...

I also picked up the new Green Day album - American Idiot. Awesome album! I haven't found a track on it that I don't like and, get this, it has songs with movements. Not movements as in "Body Moovin'" but movements as in Beethoven movements. I would have never expected something like that from a band like Green Day, but the album is totally sweet. I've had it in my truck for the last few days so I've listened to the whole thing a couple times now. I'm totally impressed.

So, after we picked up all our items (I did mention we went there just to pick up new headphones, right?), we went to the counter and I had to fend off the woman who wanted to sell us a $6 insurance policy for a $40 CD player and 5 free issues of "Entertainment" magazine. After a successful defense of numerous "No thank you's", we fled the store. Exciting trip, huh?

This wekeend, we're off to see Angie and Chris (Angie was Liz's maid of honor and roommate in college). I really don't know what the plan is, but I was informed that we were going so I guess we are. So, that should take up most of the weekend.

In a couple weeks, Liz and I will be taking a vacation out to Colorado. Sarah's boyfriend, Marvin, is out there for an internship and we're going to go see him (Liz, Sarah, and I) over Spring Break. It should be fun, but I don't really know what there is to do in Colorado Springs. We'll find out, I guess. Nonetheless, it's an excuse to leave work for a week so I'm not all that upset.

I guess that's about all I've got for now. Catch y'all later.

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