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Today has started from bad and has progressed to worse.  This ice storm is nuts.  Of course some of you readers will be like “yeah whatever” but for Texas, ice storms can cause havoc.

Tonight on the way home from work I saw 2 accidents with one a rollover within 1/2 mile of leaving work.  Then saw about 6 more accidents on the way home.  Four of these had cars on the side or completely rolled over.

The main freezing rain and sleet is hitting right now and should last a few hours.  We are sitting about 30 degrees and by the morning commute time we should be about 26.  I sure hope they have the bridges and overpasses sanded better than then did tonight cause tomorrow morning will take me forever to get to work..

To warm up the ice I post this:

OK so check this out.  A couple months ago I found this website for a sci-fi audio book which is pretty awesome I must say.  It’s called ‘The Leviathan Chronicles’  Very well done and a work in progress.  In fact right now he is only up to chapter 16 and 17 should be dropped any day.  I do recommend you checking it out.

While listening to this audio book, he made a reference (at least I’m pretty sure) to this author J.C. Hutchins and his audio book (podcast, etc.) called the ‘7th Son Trilogy‘.  I listened to a snippet of it and wasn’t really sure what to think as I’m not or least have not been a huge sci-fi fan.  But let me tell you this.  This was one of the best , I repeat best, sci-fi I have ever listened to.  I just finished up with book 3: Destruction and wow this was just awesome! awesome! awesome!
In fact so good, when it come out in print I’m going to buy a copy and send it to my dad cause I know he will enjoy it as well.

Go check it out and take a listen, you will not be disappointed.

http://www.7thsonnovel.com/

Author site: http://jchutchins.net/

The other day some good friends came over for some lunch and a bunch of Wii playing.  After we went to lunch and started playing the Wii fit, we started talking about diet pills in conjunction with the Wii fit.  The conversation was short lived.

The background noise of the Wii took all of our attention as we played this game we rented so all 4 of us could play at the same time.  It was mario vs sonic Summer Olympics.  It was fun.  Good times.  We finished up the laughing and playing with some talk that we should really start working out.  I just always seem to come up with an excuse, but I really need to change that and we will see what happens in the next couple of weeks to months.

Today marks a great day.  Today we start a new presidency and the history aspect is this will be the first African-American President of The United States.

I’m happy for our country and fully understand the significance of this history making day.  Now I may not agree with his party and what he stands for, but that’s OK, tomorrow no matter what, he will be my president and will be in charge of our Country. I pray that he will run it with his advisors to make our country greater and safer.

I plan on watching the inauguration  live today.  May God bless our new President and he leads us for the next 4 years and as we mark a BIG day in History.

Mine was ok.

I can’t really complain about it right?  Although I didn’t have a whole lot on my list to accomplish this weekend, it sure seemed that I was always doing something or occupied.

It started Saturday with the dog waking me up way too early.  7:30am is a time I like to sleep past on Saturday.  And of course once I got up she went back to bed, lol.  Then I came into work about 11am.  We had a bunch of things on the list to accomplish:

• New phone system cut over.
• Upgrade our Quickbooks Software to Enterprise 9.
• Update our Active Directory Servers.
• Update the firmware on our Exchange server.

There were a few other things but I won’t bore you with them.  Finally got out of work about 5pm due to a last minute emergency and proceeded home.  Sunday morning we got up and went to an awesome church service and then met up with some friends for lunch and a couple hours of Wii time.  I left them to pick up my little brother and we went and saw Valkyrie.  Movie was simply Awesome! After the movies I dropped him off and headed home to relax and prepare for the upcoming week.

Did you do anything special this weekend?

I cannot believe it’s already the 17th.  This month feels like it has just flown by.  In fact it’s been so busy I haven’t posted anything in a long time.

Soccer started back up for 2 weeks now, and that takes up a couple of my free nights after work.  Trying to get the girls ready for spring league games which start in mid February.  Speaking of work, that has been busy too.  We usually are pretty swamped in January right after the holidays.  The IT Dept (my boss and I) came up with our 2009 goal list and there are some things we might not accomplish, but I hope we can complete all of them.  Here are a few items from that list which I also have to learn and research prior to completing.

• Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2007 (on a virtualization system)
• Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory)
• Put in new phone system (ah that is what I’m doing later today) – Check..
• Hire a web/print developer
• And various other goals and small projects.

I have put in a lot of Facebook time looking up people and using it more.  I haven’t played the Wii too much this last week but a whole lot up to last week.  I guess I need to jump on that today and get some time in =).  Tomorrow I will be taking my little brother (I’m a big brother for North Texas Big Brother, Big Sisters) to the movies it should be fun.   I have also been using up my commute time to listen to some cool books lately.  This one is called “The 7th Son” it’s by JC Hutchins.  I I just finished book 2 and starting book 3 today.  What an awesome story so far.  I highly recommend it.  Oh and it’s free to download.  And last but not least we got our final approval for our adoption/foster license.

The rest of January is uncertain except a few things.  Of course more soccer, might goto the sci-fi/comic con in Dallas next weekend and more work and soccer, lol.

Has your January been busy so far?

It’s been awhile since I had posted a cloud or Sunset picture.  I happen to grab these in the last couple of weeks.  The cloud shot was taken back on December 31st and the Sunset just last week on January 13th.

This sunset isn’t all that spectacular but it looked cool while driving home.