Its that time of year

Its winter. The weather is nice, the holidays are plentiful, and the blue hairs are out in force. Sure, I live in one of the nations retirement capitals so I should expect to see them on the road but now we have been invaded by the most insidious of blue hairs: SNOWBIRDS!
I hate driving snow birds. You may be asking yourself how you could spot one for yourself.
Here are the basics:
Identify the slowest vehicle on the road around you. Notice how they are driving like they have absolutely no where to go, and even if they did they don't know how to get there, and to top it all off, they don't care when they get there. Yah.. its a blue hair. How do you easily tell a snowbird from a normal blue hair? Look for out of state plates. Not all plates apply here, Texas, Florida, and New Mexico usually just mean they are visiting. Their state is already nice and warm, they have no need to move to Arizona for the winter. The ones you have to look out for are Oregon, Idaho, Montanan, the Dakotas, and all plates Canadian. Be especially wary of Canadian snow birds. Not only do they have the same oblivious driving habits as other snow birds, but they also have an innate distrust of our measurement system and will often drive based on kilometers instead of miles. Sign says 35 mph speed limit gets magically turned into a hideously small number because they can't do the conversion in thier head and don't want to deal with "foreign" driving offenses.

Not dead

I'm not dead. I'm just busy. I feel as though I have been in a month long gauntlet, but it should be over after next week and I can get back to my normal pace of too much school and too much work and not time for myself. At least I should have time for sleep again... maybe.
How busy am I? I am waking up early on the weekend to work on homework I haven't been able to get to during the week. Seriously, its 7 am on a Sunday.

Its nice to feel wanted

The job hunt has started in earnest: Career fairs and recruiters, resumes and applications. It is nice to finally see the years of acquiring unique and desired skill sets begin to pay off. I am getting interest from companies now, starting dialogues with HR and hiring managers. This isn't anywhere near the offer stage, more like putting the finishing touches on the roadside before opening the boulevard to a new career. Some of you might think this is premature, since I still have 7 months before I graduate, but you have to remember the really really cool jobs have a 6-9 month hiring process.
I know this is mostly just the lower end HR guys filtering resumes but it feels good to know that mine is getting through the first stage so readily.

Plus today was my 4th wedding anniversary. I do feel wanted today. I love you KK.

Go Cardinals

A new record for most points scored in the first half... for the Bretts.. I mean NY Jets.
Seriously.. I don't even know why I watch anymore. My beer tab is getting huge trying to drown my sorrows. We look like a college team out there today.

Even worse.. Bret is all they sports guys are going to be talking about for ANOTHER week.


4th Qtr update.
On a positive note, at the half I was "motivated" to start on my homework and should have it finished by the end of the game. It is really easy to concentrate on microwave circuits when there is something else I am trying very hard to not pay attention to (but am too masochistic to turn off).
This means I can watch the Redskins hopefully beat up on the Cowboys with a clear academic conscience.


I have skipped 3 intented posts to bring you my feelings on this. Maybe after SD and Washington play I will come back and post the other stuff.. like the huge storm we had and the pictures of all the snapped trees, or how awesome it is to go shooting with Cody. Realistically though this is probably the last you will hear of those two momentous events.
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