Published on 12/26/2007, 11:14:21 pm .
To say that the evening was a Wild one is both cheesy and cliche but I’m going to do it anyways. Tonight’s Stars game was a Wild one for several reasons. One of those reasons was they had their highest scoring game since November ‘05. The other reason was because, well, they were playing the Minnesota Wild. Their fan base is comprised of all the old bitter and booty hurt fans that hated the Stars for leaving them over 10 years ago for Dallas.
I had gotten my Dad some sweet tickets for Christmas and he was nice enough to take me. It was great. The Stars scored 3 in the 1st, 1 in the 2nd, and capped it off with 4 more in the 3rd period for that grand total of 8. Total domination. Now as long as the Cowboys win on Saturday and Texas Tech wins on New Years then I will be a happy camper. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Stars,
Tech,
Texas Tech,
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Published on 12/22/2007, 11:37:34 pm .
Tonight we had a great time with friends, food, football, and poker. This evenings festivities were attended by Angela, Joe, Holly, Chad, and Elizabeth. We ate some pretty scorched looking cheddar and regular brats with beans and salad.
Joe didn’t get Holly the Diet Coke she asked for. Elizabeth thought I was wearing shoulder pads and proceeded to poke me to test that theory. There were plenty of “That’s what she said!” moments and my Mom talked about a banana hammock with all of us. We had to explain the “alternate” meaning of that phrase to her and she cried from laughing so hard. We literally have a miniature hammock that fruit sits on in our kitchen.
The Cowboys beat the Panthers tonight and I beat Holly heads up in poker. So all in all it was a pretty good night.
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Cowboys,
Friends,
Poker
Published on 12/21/2007, 1:44:13 pm .
After being on the job hunt for the last six months my Dad accepted a position with Usability Sciences Corporation this morning. Hell of a Christmas present, eh?
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Christmas,
Family,
Work
Published on 12/14/2007, 6:21:37 pm .
Today my company, Perot Systems, had our annual Christmas party at the brand new Main Event in Lubbock, TX. It was awesome. First we played Lasertron (a.k.a. laser tag) of which I got the second highest point total of both teams and helped RED team to victory with a total of 155,140 points (23, 890 being mine). After that we got to bowl for an hour and I managed to win out of my group of six with a 119. Finally, I had a few dollars left on my card so I walked over to the arcade and managed to snag myself six small plush toys from the metal-crane-grab-machine-thing. I did quite well picking up two Jessie’s (from Toy Story 2), Barney, CareBear, blue Tweety, and last but not least Dora the Explorer.
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Christmas,
Toys,
Work
Published on 12/13/2007, 4:22:49 pm .
Katie just called me to say that she just got her first full time teaching job as a pre-school teacher for the Levelland ISD in Levelland, TX. For those of you not from West Texas, it’s about a 20-30 minute drive west of Lubbock. I told her I’d take her out to dinner to celebrate wherever she wants to go but she was volunteering at Scholastic south of Loop 289 and was distracted so she couldn’t tell me. Congratulations!
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Published on 12/11/2007, 1:50:47 pm .
Since opening up the 3rd Floor of the Covenant Specialty Hospital and with my close proximity to the nurse’s station I am treated to many of the intelligent, or unintelligent, ramblings of the nurses around me. I have been hearing stuff with greater regularity that makes me laugh and if you know much about me then you will understand why these comments would make me laugh. It’s like these people don’t even know that I’m here half the time with what they talk about. So here’s the first installment of many more to come. I give you Overheard…
Female Nurse to Male Nurse: I just don’t trust technology. That paperless stuff they keep talking about I just figured is double the work.
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