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I forgot to mention some of the movies that I have watched in the past few weeks.  I have seen so many that I forget what I've mentioned and what I havn't!  Pirates 2 was excellent, I can't wait for the last installment, Clerks 2 was raunchy (as expected) but, as Kevin Smith movies never fail to do, gave me an interesting new perspective on life, and You, Me, and Dupree was not nearly as stupid as I thought it would be and actually turned into an enjoyable movie.  Not a bad couple weeks.

Things have been CRAZY here for a while.  We lost power halfway through last week, and were part of the half of a million people without power in the St. Louis area.  Closing at Bob Evans was a nightmare!  Once we got power back on at work, we were swarmed with people throughout the weekend because everyone was seeking air conditioning and cooked food.

I worked through the week cause I had attended the Steubenville Youth Conference the weekend before.  It was absolutely AMAZING!  It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how much I learn or how much I think I progress in my faith that God always shows me how little I know and how much more I can do.  I really hope that some of the practical applications that I want to pick up become permanent.

Today is my back to work day, and I'm not really looking forward to it, but I know that I only have a few more weeks before I don't have to work anymore.  All of the management wants me to stay becuase they don't want to have to find a replacement.

Andrew is going up to Canada for a couple weeks, I don't know what I'm going to do without him over every other day.  Probably stare at the wall, or maybe post more frequently on my blog  :)

I'm still working on catching my music collection back up with it's pre-wipe status.  There's a lot of single songs I had accumulated from mix CDs that I miss, mostly dance music and good old songs.

It's been so hot here in good old Missouri.  Milk will probably not be a good choice of beverage if you care to venture outdoors.

When in Rome...

So this week has been pretty good.  I've been taking it easy, other than work.  I finally decided to buy an Xbox 360, but figured out a responsible budget for myself for until I'm working again.  I restrained myself well, and only got one game.  I was playing a lot of Call of Duty 2, and I finally completed the single player campaign.  I liked that you fight on 3 different fronts, starting with the Russian, moving to the British in Africa, and ending with the Americans in France.  Now I'm moving on to play it on a harder difficulty, which should still be fun.

I rented the Need for Speed game, and spent a lot of time playing it.  I had played it on the PS2, but the Xbox 360 version was definately worth the prettyness.  The customization of cars is so thoruhough, its crazy!  My only complaints are that after playing Burnout for so long, it doesn't seem like you're going that fast in NFS, and the whole boost system isn't nearly as satisfying.  The other part is the lack of fully destructable cars, another small setback.  Other than that, police chases are very cool, and the game looks verrry nice!

I took a pretty big computer step this week, and switched to Linux.  It was kind of random and out of the blue, but I had been playing around with the Live CD, which lets you see if you like the OS before installing it, and I really did like it, so I took the leap and switched to Ubuntu.  Performance and speed are much, much better than Windows was for me, so I don't think I'll need to upgrade my RAM anymore!  Although it isn't quite as user-friendly as Windows, I have had quite a good experience with it so far, I'll keep you posted about new developments.


Peace up, A town down