Well it’s New Years Eve. I am not doing anything at all but that is nothing unusual for me. I haven’t gone out on new years in the last 3 years. I don’t really like the crowd and I don’t really feel like drinking. I bought a new digital camera with the christmas money I got because I was so mad that half of my Alamo Bowl pictures didn’t turn out. It was pretty cheap, only like $114, but it corrects all the problems I was having with my last one. It is the older model, just 3.1 megapixels instead of 4 or 5 but that is really more than I need because most of my stuff gets emailed or posted on the web. It’s easy to turn on, you can see the screen in the sun, and has optical zoom, easy to change the settings, and takes nice colorful pictures. All of those things didn’t work on my last one so I am very happy with it. This is the last trip I go on with crappy pictures to remember it by.

My dog is being very bad lately. I got home today and he was in the bedroom howling and had torn my weatherproofing and window blinds to shreds in the bedroom window. He also chewed on the living room table leg and pissed in my room again. I don’t know what the problem is but I went down and got him a new kennel when I got the new blinds for the window. I feel really bad when I have to put him in there when I work 16 hours but I can’t take this anymore. He is a really destructive bastard when he goes through these fazes and I am sick of fixing this stuff 3 times a week. A couple weeks of being in the kennel whenever I’m not home usually cures this kind of behavior in the past but I think that I am just going to keep doing it from now on and get him used to it. You aren’t supposed to let Jack Russells roam free around the house unsupervised anyway becasue they get themselves in trouble. It’s just part of the breed.

I am quitting smoking tomorrow. Picked up some patches to help me out with that. I was quit before for like 5 months earlier in the year and wish I would have never started again. Wish me luck with that.

It was kind of a pain in the ass getting over to the game. There were so many people going to the same place it seemed like we would never get going again. Finally me made it to the stadium and made it in to the game. I didn’t realize that I bought seats in the nosebleed section. They were pretty far up there and by the time that we got up there I was pretty tired. Not that they were bad seats that didn’t have a good view anyway but I would have liked to get something closer. Right around our seats were a bunch of Michigan people which kind of sucked because we were in the Nebraska hald of the stadium. I wish they would have sat on the other side because there were plenty of open seats over there. They were all talking crap about Nebraska and acting all elite like a bunch of jerks. We watched the bands do their thing until it was time for the game to start.

Once the game started our side was really rocking, especially when we scored first. I don’t know how many times some chant got going but it was pretty much for the whole game. The only time they took the crowd out of it for a little bit is when they went up 14-7 in the first half after Zac’s 2 interceptions and when they went up 28-17 in the second half. I dont think that the Michigan fans got more than 10 good chants going the whole game. They didn’t seem that into it, like they were too good to be there. I was making noise like a madman trying to cheer the team on but Dad and Adam just sat there with their arms crossed not making a sound. I told them they should have stayed in the hotel and watched the game in the room. I was all squashed in my seat by some 260 pound muscle guy sitting next to me taking up half my seat in the second half. That sucked. The ending of the game was all messed up on that final desperation hook and ladder crap that Michigan did in the last seconds. I’m glad that someone on our team stayed on the ball and knocked them out of bounds before they scored because that would have been bullshit if they won it that way. By the end of the game I was completely exausted. My hands hurt from clapping, I was almost losing my voice, and my stomach was cramping up from all the yelling. It was an AWESOME game to see in person. Out of all the bowl games that I have seen Nebraska play in my lifetime I would have to rank this one as #3 right behind the 95 and 94 bowl games when we won the national championship. I put it ahead of the 97 national championship game. I’m so glad that I went to this one even though I almost didn’t because I thought we would probably get killed.

After the game there were a lot of happy huskers headed down to the riverwalk to drink. We went back to the hotel though because we didn’t feel like fighting the crowds and paying 6 bucks for a drink. I didn’t feel much like drinking anyway. I rarely do anymore to tell you the truth. We left the next morning to head back to Nebraska at about 8:20ish It was a long drive back again but it didn’t seem near as long as the trip down there. Dad actually told me about his time in the military which he never has before. We never really were big talkers. I knew that he was in but that was all. He had a lot of pretty cool stories to tell about it. To sum it up he was kind of a badass. He said there are some pictures around that grandma had of him jumping out of an airplane and other stuff from that time but he doesnt know where they are. I would actually like to get copies of some of that stuf before it disappears off the face of the earth forever. I am thinking that Joe might have them because he has a ton of old pictures from grandma and grandpa on his site. Dad said yea that is a good possibility but he thinks that a lot of them might be on slides and he might not know what it is a picture of. I might have to run those down sometime.

All in all I would give the trip a 7 out of 10. A lot of the things I have seen before but it was still something to do to get me away from work and the apartment. It was a good time.

Well I got back from Texas last night at about 10:30 and went and got the dog from Katie’s house. She said he was pretty good, he only pooped in the house twice. Overall the trip was pretty fun although there are parts that I could do without. We started off from Lincoln at about 7:50 in the morning on Monday and started south through Wichita, Oklahoma City, Dallas and down to Houston. We stopped just outside of Dallas at a Denny’s to get something to eat and I got to have the worst waitress I have ever experienced. I dont know if her parents gave her dryer rides wehn she was a baby or what but she was slow and dumb. She though adam wanted brown gravy on his hamburger. She ended up screwing up all three of our orders and dad still gave her a tip. I wouldnt have given her shit. By the time we got to Houston it was midnight and I was ready to get a room. No such luck though. Dad had his mind set on going to Corpus Christi to see the ocean. I tried to explain to him that Houston was on the same ocean and had the same islands that he wanted to see but it was a no go. We started fown towards Corpus Christi on the back roads along the coast instead of taking a faster main road which would have been fine if it was daytime and we could see the scenery. It was the middle of the night though and it was kind of a pain in the ass because the roads weren’t well marked. We ended up stopping at some wildlife refuge to catch a nap for a little bit at about 4 or 5 in the morning and I got out of the car and slept in the dirt because my back hurt so bad. About an hour later when they woke me up to go again I was all wet from the dampness in the air. I fell right back asleep though and was woken up at like 7:30 when we finally got to Padre Island in Corpus Christi.

We drove along the beach in the car and stopped and fed the seagulls some bread and looked at the ocean. Dad kept telling us to go swimming but the water didn’t look that great with all the garbage and crap washing up on it. It was still kind of nice to see though. It reminded me of lining in Charleston. After we got done with the beach we went out to see the USS Lexington which is a WWII carrier. It was ok to tour. It wasn’t as fun as it would have been had it been the first time I was looking at one but there is one just like it docked in Charleston that I have seen before. If I remember right there is also a submarine there that you can tour too. After the tour of the carrier we finally got a motel room and I took liek a 3 hour nap. Lucky me, my room was the only one that smelled like pee. None of the lights worked and the cable was messed up so I couldnt watch espn to see the bowl game that was on. It was good enough for sleeping in though if you are tired enough. After the nap we drove around the town a little bit and then got a pretty good dinner and went back to the motel to get a good night’s sleep.

Six in the morning we were on our way to San Antonio and got there by about 8:30 or so. After a few wrong turns we got ourselves orientated and found out where our motel was and ate breakfast at where else? Denny’s again. It was ok this time though. After eating we went and found the Alamo and went to the riverwalk. The Riverwalk is a really nice area to go into. It is a lot prettier than I remember it being when I went there in 97. Tons of resturants and shops. You can walk forever and not walk the whole thing. We didn’t make it all the way on the whole thing. At about lunch time we stopped and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. It took about an hour before we could even get a seat. The food was good though. The Riverwalk was packed with people by that time and you could hardly move and get anywhere. Most of them seemed to be husker fans. After lunch we walked around some more and made our way back to the hotel room so we could rest up for a little bit before the game. Layed around the hotel for a couple hours and then headed for the game.

I’m tired of typing for now so… TO BE CONTINUED. Check the photos area for pictures from the trip.