Ha - I suck at posting

Sorry for the long posting drought. I'm not promising to post more often, but maybe I will. We had a good Christmas and anniversary. I got lots of Blu-rays. New Years was interesting as I had to search far and wide to find a replacement lamp for my DLP TV. After calling many places and my dad calling many places, we finally found one place that had one in stock. I had to drive to East Lake near the airport, but I got the lamp put in so we could watch Kentucky's bowl game on my big TV. Next time I am going to plan ahead and purchase a lamp in advance online at a much cheaper price than I had to pay at the store.

I had a great workout today. I bench-pressed 295lbs 10 times! I had never done that before. That projects my max to be 384! We can build on this! Hopefully I can keep building on it anyway. I'm getting closer to my 400lb goal!

Maeve is still acting like Houdini. I thought I had the lock locked on her crate this morning, but apparently it wasn't latched all the way. When we got home, she came running out of the garage. She hadn't done much damage in the garage, but I can't believe she keeps escaping from her crate!

Fantasy football was fun. I came in second in one league and third in the other. Not quite as good as last year, but close. Congrats to Mark on winning one of the leagues. Fantasy basketball is going well. Our custom league is very competitive, with no one team holding a clear edge. In the other standard 10 team league I am in, I am in first place. There don't seem to be many good teams in that league. It is basically a three or four team race.

Why does Vista get such a bad rap? I've been using it for 2 years, and I really like it. It is more stable than XP, and I haven't run across very many application incompatibilties. As long as you aren't trying to use a really old program, there really aren't any problems. It is definitely a hardware hog, but as long as you have a dual-core processor, at least 2GB RAM, a good sized hard drive, and a nice video card for the fancy visual stuff, it will run awesome! Internet Explorer still sucks, but I like Firefox on Vista. Google Chrome and Opera run very fast, but both of them display some web pages a little strangely sometimes.

Kentucky's football team had a good year, with their 3rd straight bowl win. The basketball team is really coming along too. Jodie Meeks and Patrick Patterson are incredible. I feel like we can do pretty well in SEC play, and we should be in the tournament again this year.

The Spurs started out a little slow, with several injuries to key players slowing them down. After the slow start, the Spurs have really picked it up lately. They have been really clutch (and lucky) and won a few double overtime games and some other games on last second shots. I think they can really make some noise in the playoffs this year, but they may need one more decent player to make it to the Finals.