Greetings my faithful readers. Welcome to uh 2005, where there will be an update to this page approximately once every 90 days or whenever I feel like it.

Several years ago now, I was updating this place *every* *bloody* day. That seems like so long ago now.

Not that I don't miss it, but I just don't really feel as motivated to write long rants like I used to. I think this is primarily because I no longer design Yahoo stores, I no longer subscribe to Real Simple, and frankly nothing about The South surprises me anymore. Also I tend to rant directly at people while I'm at work, so that takes a load off.

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I have had a pretty decent couple of months though, thanks for asking. I like my new job... most of the time. Every day is a new obstacle course of land mines, and so far I've made it out in one piece.

We went to California for Christmas. The trip from Savannah to California via Houston was just about the worst airport/flying experience I've ever had. Kris picked me up from work and we went directly to the airport to catch our 6 PM flight, which was delayed more than an hour due to the fact that we were over our weight limit. (Not "we" as in "Kris and I", but our plane, which was overweight because of some weather-related FAA imposed restrictions)

After the flight people bribed five people to get off the plane, we finally left Georgia but didn't make up any time in the air and were way past making our Houston connection. There were tons of people who had either missed connections or had their flights cancelled altogether, so we had to stand in the most amazingly long and inefficient line ever. By the time we got to the front of the line (almost three hours later), I had long-since rebooked us on a flight the next morning via the 1-800 number (but we had to remain in line to get our boarding passes). Kris' mom picked us up, took us for something to eat at Denny's, and then we pursued a 45-minute nap at a Day's Inn not far from the airport.

Oh, did I mention that we got our flight rebooked into a different airport? So then we had to go to two airports once we were actually in California, because they wouldn't reroute our already checked bags? Yeah.

So after the initial getting-there woes, we had a pretty good time. Except that it rained almost the entire time we were there. Not that I'm bitter.

We finally got some nice weather when we got back to Savannah. It's been unseasonably warm here this "winter" (and I use the term loosely) - today it was in the mid-70's and has been like this for quite some time. I guess this is payback for all the hurricane nonsense we had in the Fall.

Well that's all I have for now, but you can't really complain because that's more than you've gotten out of me in a long damn time. Goodbye and goodnight!