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The worse of the holiday crap is over with, now in a few more days I will be able to go out when I want to go out and not have to worry about 10 million others being there when I am. I so hate the holiday rush crap.

I got a good haul this year, a Purdue hoodie and t-shirt, Colts hoodie and a Bob Sanders jersey, a money clip, and a bunch of movies on DVDs.

The Big Lebowski (All time classic)
Oceans 13 (We loved it as much as the first 2)
The Simpsons Movie (Somewhat a letdown, but the skateboard scene is fucking priceless)
In Harm’s way/Donavan’s Reef (In Harm’s Way is my #2 all time John Wayne movie, Donavan’s Reef… not so much, but it’s a dual pack)
Dogma: the collector’s edition. (Another good movie… and what’s not to love about Buddy Christ?)
Casino in HD
V for Vendetta in HD

Both “Casino” and “V” are very high on my all time top movies list; I also have “Goodfellas” on HD from my birthday. Now I just need to get the $170 Xbox 360 HD DVD adapter to watch them, or spend $300 to $500 on a HD DVD player.

Just when you think you are set for a while on toys, they make you buy more.

Peace all.

How Do I Feel?: okay

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin’ out as I was a-crawlin’ in
I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted “April Fool” in big black letters on a “Dead End” sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah

How Do I Feel?: calm

What a nutty year over all. We started the year living in Florida and end it living in Oregon.

The bad: My best friend Diesel had/has a brain tumor which almost killed him, I really thought he would be dead long ago, but his prognosis now is a good one, he is still reacting very well to the chemo and what cancer the Drs couldn’t cut out of his pea brain, seems to have shrunk even more so. So the bad has turned into a good ending so far.

The good: We moved from an area we did not want to be in, to an area we really wanted to be in and so far we are very happy with our choice. There is so much more potential and future here than in Florida both professionally and socially when you move to a blue state and a very blue city, which is a huge difference when we came from a very red city in a red state.

I still have not gone to the mountains yet since we been here, geeze am I lazy or what? I also still have not started to learn how to skate board or snow board either. Not like I have access to not one, but about 5-6 World Champions or US Olympic coaches or anything…. Nope, not like that at all…. sigh…

Purdue is in a terrible bowl verses a team we already beat by 22 in week 2 after another less then inspired year, but there is always next year. Purdue men’s basketball seems to be on the move up while the women are terrible.

The Colts, what can you say? We are the World Champs and we are looking like a true contender once more.

The Pacers are better than expected, but we still have Jermaine “Ouch, I’m hurt again” O’Neal and his way too much contract.

I did too much traveling in 2007. I still plan to travel a lot in 2008, but nothing too far in distance is planned other than a trip to Minnesota sometime, which will be super expensive thanks to cost of jet fuel. I have no plans to drive farther than Vancouver, BC all year long. 6 hours driving is enough for a while, and odds are we will stop over in Everett, Washington on the way up or down to visit with other friends.

Why drive 6 hours when you don’t have to?

We want to get back camping more and it’s not like we have a million places to camp at within an hour’s drive, we just need to get the gear and pick a place to go to. So anyone have a camping suggestion please speak up. We want privacy, where we do not have to worry about being over heard or whatever. Bears do not scare us, we are smart enough to know what to do etc and have camped many times in deep Minnesota country where they also have bears all around.

2008. What a weird number that is.

I am not really sure what we have planned for 2008. Learning how to skate/snow board would be nice. Get rid of this stomach would be nice as well, which if I learned how to skate would take care of itself. And as I already mentioned we want to go camping so buying a tent and other crap is on the “must get” list. We also are talking about getting a 2nd car. We have done very well with 1 car for the past 3+ years, but I am working in the city at least 3 days a week now and it’s a 30-45 min drive one way and we will have to contend with the hassle of 1 car until our current lease is up or until we get a 2nd car. Part of me wants a 2nd car, the other part is screaming just wait, its only 7 more months when the lease is up and we can find a house inside the Portland or in the Milwaukie area which more than likely will eliminate the need for a 2nd car.

For someone who is trying to do a review of 2007 I am doing a pretty crappy job.

Nothing really stands out for me this past year. The 10,000 miles I drove was more boring/bad then good. I enjoyed many parts of it, but so many more parts were hell, so it’s a wash of sorts.

We want to go back to Page, AZ, Zion, UT and the Grand Canyon, AZ and the Painted Desert, AZ. Other then that I seen everything I wanted to see in the places we stopped at. We want to go back to Alaska as well, and Minnesota as I already mentioned. We also want to explore Oregon a lot more, driving to Crater Lake and anything else that looks cool on the map.

Ok, this is a terrible year in review, I am just babbling so I will end it now.

Peace to all in 2008.

How Do I Feel?: content