today is sunday 30 december 2003.

got back from san diego yesterday. cooked a killer turkey. killer turkey, i tell you.

i hate it when you're flying--and you see another airplane also flying.

i hate the little puddle jumpers--how come all the skywest jets are all lined up at lax--and the one i have to get on still has propellors?

Christmastime is here . . . i love it!!!!

now on to baseball. yes, i'm cheering about curt schilling going to boston. gagne is relieved--and he doesn't even have to face him. yes, folks it is true--schilling has never lost to the dodgers, so this is indeed good--unless it's the red sox and the dodgers in the world series. even todd helton of the rockies is relieved.

and i keep telling you the padres will be the team in the nl west next year. the d-backs are getting older.

and the news yet to be official . . . sheffield to the yankees. you thought mondesi could rip management--wait and see and about this one, folks, wait and see.

today is tuesday 25 november 2003.

thursday is thanksgiving. i get to do the turkey. for the record, i'm still looking for recipes. no salination this year. no deep-fried turkey this year. not orange peels under the skin. one of these days, though . . . .

i don't like yams. or sweet potatoes. for the record.

so this thing about cell phone plans and portable numbers is a good thing. t-zones aren't working today--so i call t-mobile. in short they can't fix the problem because there aren't enough towers. they're short-term fix to to throw minutes at customers. and now for some odd reason i'm at a whopping 775 minutes on my plan, plus free night, plus free weekends. c'mon folks--get with the program! get my data transfers to work--you think i actually got a phone to talk to people?

today is still saturday 22 november 2003.

yep, double dose of blogging. observations in life.

first snow in denver. crazy stuff.

is it me, or is the real conspiracy about the jfk shooting is that people won't let this go? cnn has the best story--about the neurosurgeon in dalls working on jfk. even he had a hard time figuring a conspiracy--if there was really one.

not that i care--but i think michael jackson should have been in jail a long time ago. this latest charge is just a formality.

and finally--finding nemo. cartoons are known to have main characters with disabilities--but since when was psychological disorders part of movies. don't get me wrong--not that i care--but i guess you can only do so much with fish.

today is saturday 22 november 2003.

it's not even 11:00 a.m., and i've gone out for breakfast, coffee, and even graded two sets of tests. saturdays are fun when there's no pressure to really do anything.

seminary class is going well--it's all fun when you don't need to really do well.

travel to san diego for thanksgiving. get to cook turkey--may need a recipe. got a ticket to honolulu for Christmas--i don't get how the reservation computers. but i will give one hint--for some booking tickets before 7:00 on thursday worked. after that the tickets to honolulu climbed near $2000, i kid you not.

Christmas concert schedules are something to look forward to in the next few weeks. Cherry Creek Presbyterian goes until the end of Christmastide with their holidy schedule--Jan 5.

supposed to get cold tomorrow in denver.

why is it that when you send e-mail from aol to my phone it comes in as a text message. then when e-mail is sent from microsoft outlook, it comes in as a picture message?

not that anyone cares, but mo vaughn wants to keep playing for the mets next year. and tino martinez got traded to the d-rays.

today is tuesday 18 november 2003.

some observations in life.

why is that people who spend their lives talking into cell phones have the most ghetto cell phones? i have a sony ericsson t610--why don't people use this type of phone--they can even have a wireless headset with bluetooth.

i'm glad the city and county of denver figured to paint lines on eigth avenue between speer and the turn into sixth. people were merging into each other's lane--and there's not even snow on the ground.

talking about snow--not much here in colorado.

which by the way then, why is that new weather guy on fox telling us that it is going to snow? bring stacey back.

i hate fighting airline reservation computers. if anyone finds anything decent to honolulu around Christmas and new years, let me know. i know there's a guy in chicago who is enjoying messing with my head on this sort of thing.

stuff at the seminary going good. got next tuesday off.

today is friday 14 november 2003.

not real good with the blogging of late.

if anyone happens to come across a halfway decent fare to hawaii for Christmas--let me know. i'm not trusting orbitz.com these days. they list flights that don't exist.

Christmas stuff is coming out. can't wait!!!

i love when i have to wait for my coffee at starbucks--last time this happened, i get a coupon for a free drink of my choice. venti gingerbread latte here i come!!!

overhead projector bulb burned out today. so i try to change the bulb, but i drop the dead bulb inside the projector--tried to fish out the bulb with chopsticks. that got me into a chopsticks mode--used chopsticks eating macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets at lunch.

mama chula's mexican place is hip. ghetto, hole-in-the wall type place. and cheap!!!

finding nemo has some decent lines. that dori fish character is totally psychotic. nemo is like a cross between lord of the rings and toy story. some parts too intense--like the beginning with coral and the fish eggs--too much. sets too dark a tone. by the dori fish is pretty un-disney-like as far as the pschological disorder. can you speak whale?

took mid-term at the seminary today. wasn't too hard . . . made me nervous nonetheless.

new sony ericsson phone that i got last week is pretty hip. found t-zones content is getting pretty hip. plus t-zone access is unlimited!!! they've got l.a. times on t-zones . . .

which then you can read about . . . Gagne. since he closes, i'll do the same. 8-)

today is sunday 09 november 2003.

not real good with the blogging of late.

i guess the big news was i spent the better part of the week back in the homeland. all is good. nonetheless, was kinda missing being around the warrior people, the warrior dog, and the food for warriors. i need to get back more often.

kids hate their sub. kids hate it when i assign tests when i'm gone. at least i leave at least on my terms--missed a mid-term at densem. but much paper work when i get back--today it'll have to wait because of sabbath.

missed the lunar eclipse. i'm really hurting.

check-in lines at the airport scare me. all the reason to start using electronic check-in systems. but those things scare me too. getting assigned the middle seat on a 777 is not hip either. at least the people next to me didn't bite. or drool.

nothing new in the homeland. got lots of holiday coffee. if it were the beginning of december, i'd not want to get back to denver.