Stardate 070305.4

Captain's Log:

Well, it has been quite a while since I have been here. I almost forgot my password. The main reason I am writing a much overdue update to this rather neglected journal is the numerous disgruntled fans that have grown quite angry with my complacency and have expressed the desire to stone me for my apparent indifference. As one would expect, a great many things have happened since the last entry, and it shall take quite some time to express all of these events in writing. I am going to have to group all of the events into months and relate them to you that way.

December:

I have forgotten much of this month by now; however there were a few major things worth mentioning that have come to the forefront of my mind.

1. Work at the base was quite busy during this month, for my coworkers and I had a great project which consumed our entire workday—everyday for three weeks. Per Air Force directive, we had to install a Standard Desktop Configuration on every desktop (550) in the Wing manually. No shortcuts here. It took about two hours per computer and much of that time was just sitting around waiting for the revised operating system to finish installing. Needless to say I finished nine books in the month of December. Many of those nine were written by David Eddings. I have now finished ten of his books and I am currently reading book eleven. That rather interesting and astonishing fact has nothing to do with the project at work.

2. My family took Christmas vacation in the hills of Tennessee. We had quite a good time in our cabin and enjoyed the break from work and school immensely. Two sets of grandparents traveled to spend Christmas with us.

January:

Steve was in town for New Year’s Eve, so he and DJ came over for the turning of the New Year. DJ brought quite a few fireworks with him and he set them off in the street in front of my house. I was forced to clean up the rather affluent mess of trash and waste left behind by the fireworks, because DJ conveniently forgot to come by in the morning to clean it himself…hmmm. Anyway, his fireworks were followed by those my redneck neighbors had stockpiled and during that show it seemed as if all of the houses on the street were surely to catch fire and burn to the ground. No, it was not quite that dramatic or harrowing, but it was exciting.

The Wade basketball teams finished their unbroken streak of losses this month and brought their stellar records to 0-16…could have been better.

I finished six books this month and started the reading year off well. My goals for the year are 40 books and 15,000 pages, which are both low compared to last year.

I started two more classes, C++ programming and technical writing. My technical writing teacher is cool, but the material covered in the class should be covered in Comm 1 and 2. I feel like I could have done every one of these writing assignments in my Comm classes and gotten them over with a long time ago. C++ is getting a little harder, but it still interesting.

February:

In conclusion to the Wade saga I started in the description of last month, both teams finished with a 0-18 record, effectively closing out the year with a perfect season.

Of course, Groundhog Day is in February (the 2nd) and I spent the night—after a Wade game—watching the Groundhog Day movie. I believe this is the seventh year in a row that I have watched that movie on that day, and because I only watch it once a year, I have not tired of it yet.

I beat last month’s total by one, for as it turns out I finished seven books this month. I am almost a third of the way to my page total goal and my book total goal, which is a nice head start on the year.

March has only just started, so there are very few things that have happened. Christy has been flying all over the world in the past two weeks, which is not very fair at all. Just in the past two weeks, she has been to England, Holland, and Germany. Not only that, but she gets to go to Rome next month.

I purchased the Xbox 360 game Oblivion last Friday, which I am finding out, may seriously limit my book reading for the next month or two. Oblivion is an awesome game. I have already finished the main quest, but with the hundreds of small quests built into the game, it could take quite a long time to finish everything.

I went over to Marc and Sarah’s house the other night for an enjoyable evening. To be honest, this is when I found out about the stoning mobs calling for more posts to this journal. I do hope to write in this more than just this once, but I always forget and time flies by.

I have not written any more in my book or any of my short stories. There is a competition coming up at BCC for short stories and I will enter one, but the judges have different tastes than I do I suppose. I have gotten one of my stories in the top ten though.

I will have to come up with a better idea for the next one, but because there is a 1000 word limit, I am restricted. If anyone has a good idea for a short, short story please feel free to submit them through the comments for this weblog. Thanks.

I believe I have written more than enough. I will end this post now and write again soon…probably.

Later,

Lorimer