And a very merry christmas to you!
It's the Ludwhig holiday post!
Greetings! Happy holidays! Merry Christmas!
Having a good time. A slow time. Sleeping lots. Eating nice food, reading too. Moby Dick, for the 2nd time. Very nice, and appreciating it so much more the next time around. I was... let me think... 13 or 14 last time I read it. And I cheated so bad! I skipped significant portions from the middle, parts dealing with whale anatomy descriptions that had little or no narrative. Could I be blamed?
Perhaps not as a young high-schooler, but unforgivably as a sampler of fine reading. I'm going it again, and this time, I'll do it right.
Streaming music Rhapsody is a good thing. Evil henchmen and Rhapsody nazis Shroud, Slope and our dear-departed Moose introduced me to it. Any computer with an internet connection and clearance to install the client suddenly becomes a jukebox of my favorite music. Yay! Music = cool.
What's playing now? Josh Groban's new live-concert CD "Live at the Greek." Where's the Greek? Not in Greece apparently....
So my granddad has a Suzuki Samurai. It's a little 4-wheel drive jeep of a 2-seater. It's great fun! My little brother and I took it for 2 great spins around the little roads and blacktops around our house.
Sometimes the roads would turn from blacktop to complete dirt, and whipping corners at 40 mph, skidding stones from the back tires, was a really cool feeling. Ben had to remind a few times that I wasn't Indiana Jones. :D
Then pulling back into our quarter-mile dirt driveway, I could go off into the field, weave away from a row of hay bales and go bouncing over old tomato terraces. Through a ravine, over more terraces, and then spinning circles through a miniature valley in front of our house. Then back in reverse for a perfect landing in the garage. Woooooohooooo!
On another note, my grandfather has been in the hospital for several weeks now. I think, not sure, but I think he may be stable enough to come home for the Christmas at my grandmother's and see his grandkids open presents. He's feeble, but if I were him, I'd sure want to get away from hospitals and firm nurses.
My family lives officialy in Kokomo, Indiana, but we love our Texas house and rent it to a recently married woman rather than sell it. She married her fiancee a few days ago, and so we have free reign in our old house while she's off on honeymoon. The day after Christmas, we're headed back to Indiana with my grandmother.
Shortly after we begin a 5-day vacation into the Northeast. We'll visit Niagara Falls (which I've never seen), and take in the beauties of New York (stop laughing Spork) on our way to Maine. We'll drive up and down the coast a bit, spend a day in Boston, and then come back through Pennsylvania. Nice to see a bit of country I've never been to before.
Then, all too soon, it will be back to campus for the apparently very laid-back winter IMPACT retreat of 2005.
I'm already missing school. :'-| It's just where I'm supposed to be, I really think. I hope I can act worthily there if I do indeed feel it is my current calling in life to be at LeTourneau.
So basically, yeah, I'm having a knock-your-socks-off good Christmas break. Now if only *someone* would get off my DAOC account!
And I hope and pray you have a smashingly great Christmas break too! Merry Christmas, yohoho and all that good stuff.
Greetings! Happy holidays! Merry Christmas!
Having a good time. A slow time. Sleeping lots. Eating nice food, reading too. Moby Dick, for the 2nd time. Very nice, and appreciating it so much more the next time around. I was... let me think... 13 or 14 last time I read it. And I cheated so bad! I skipped significant portions from the middle, parts dealing with whale anatomy descriptions that had little or no narrative. Could I be blamed?
Perhaps not as a young high-schooler, but unforgivably as a sampler of fine reading. I'm going it again, and this time, I'll do it right.
Streaming music Rhapsody is a good thing. Evil henchmen and Rhapsody nazis Shroud, Slope and our dear-departed Moose introduced me to it. Any computer with an internet connection and clearance to install the client suddenly becomes a jukebox of my favorite music. Yay! Music = cool.
What's playing now? Josh Groban's new live-concert CD "Live at the Greek." Where's the Greek? Not in Greece apparently....
So my granddad has a Suzuki Samurai. It's a little 4-wheel drive jeep of a 2-seater. It's great fun! My little brother and I took it for 2 great spins around the little roads and blacktops around our house.
Sometimes the roads would turn from blacktop to complete dirt, and whipping corners at 40 mph, skidding stones from the back tires, was a really cool feeling. Ben had to remind a few times that I wasn't Indiana Jones. :D
Then pulling back into our quarter-mile dirt driveway, I could go off into the field, weave away from a row of hay bales and go bouncing over old tomato terraces. Through a ravine, over more terraces, and then spinning circles through a miniature valley in front of our house. Then back in reverse for a perfect landing in the garage. Woooooohooooo!
On another note, my grandfather has been in the hospital for several weeks now. I think, not sure, but I think he may be stable enough to come home for the Christmas at my grandmother's and see his grandkids open presents. He's feeble, but if I were him, I'd sure want to get away from hospitals and firm nurses.
My family lives officialy in Kokomo, Indiana, but we love our Texas house and rent it to a recently married woman rather than sell it. She married her fiancee a few days ago, and so we have free reign in our old house while she's off on honeymoon. The day after Christmas, we're headed back to Indiana with my grandmother.
Shortly after we begin a 5-day vacation into the Northeast. We'll visit Niagara Falls (which I've never seen), and take in the beauties of New York (stop laughing Spork) on our way to Maine. We'll drive up and down the coast a bit, spend a day in Boston, and then come back through Pennsylvania. Nice to see a bit of country I've never been to before.
Then, all too soon, it will be back to campus for the apparently very laid-back winter IMPACT retreat of 2005.
I'm already missing school. :'-| It's just where I'm supposed to be, I really think. I hope I can act worthily there if I do indeed feel it is my current calling in life to be at LeTourneau.
So basically, yeah, I'm having a knock-your-socks-off good Christmas break. Now if only *someone* would get off my DAOC account!
And I hope and pray you have a smashingly great Christmas break too! Merry Christmas, yohoho and all that good stuff.
I'm enjoying your posts. And you are raving mad!