Well, it’s that time of year again. Another Christmas. I have to say that I really don’t enjoy it at all, and it kind of makes me miserable. I just got back from Columbus from doing the big family thing. It was okay I suppose, but I just can’t really get into it. I guess it’s just kind of a reminder that I’m miserable and alone and to me Christmas is a time for spending with someone you care about. Don’t get me wrong, I care about my family but that’s not really what I’m talking about. My immediate family has never been the holly jolly, Christmas carol singing type of family anyway. It just doesn’t seem to be in our personalities for the most part. Oh well.

I finished up school yesterday, thank God. I got an A+ in the computer class, a B in the algebra class, and hopefully a passing grade in the history class. It’s not like I did bad in the class for the most part, it’s just that I started to not give a shit and neglected to do some crap but I found out later was pretty important according to the syllabus. Oh well, maybe the guy will have mercy on me and forget about that part or else I fail the class according to the fine print. Some teachers are nice and do that sometimes. If not the federal government will be harassing me soon about paying some of their money back. Shit.

I’m not going to do the Concordia University thing now. I’m just burnt out on school right now and I need a break. I need the money that I have now to buy a new vehicle anyway since the S-10 is really crapping out on me. I’m pretty much going to take a break from the computer completely for a while so my hands stop hurting.

Jason sent me a few more pictures from the big 12 championship game They’re in the pictures section at the bottom. The four that he sent me turned out pretty good.

Anyone heard of Geocaching? I’m thinking of giving it a try. It looks like it might be some fun. Basically what it is is people hide crap in various sized containers ranging in size from a film canister all the way up to a 5 gallon bucket and then post GPS coordinates for it on the Internet and you go and try to find it. Some of them are easy to find, and some of them are hard to get to and need things like repelling gear or scuba gear in order to reach them. You may need to solve puzzles to find them or whatever. It can be as hard as they want to make it. In all of them there is a logbook to sign to say you were there and in the bigger ones people leave little knicknacks in them and you take what you like out of it and put in something interesting in for someone else to find. I heard about it a few years ago but I didn’t realize that it was so popular. There are 690 of them in the 50 mile radius around my house and over 340,000 of them hidden worldwide. There’s also custom coins and dogtags that you can attach to things that you can track on the internet to see where they are in the world after people find them and move them someplace else. I’ve never done it yet but I have an idea for one already. Attach a trackable dogtag to a herbie husker keychain and give it the mission of visiting all the stadiums in the Big 12 and ask for pictures. The neat thing is people actually do something like that and take pictures for you as it slowly makes it’s way across the country. The whole thing just seems like fun, like looking for treasure when you were a kid. I need to pick up a GPS unit sometime in order to do it but I looked and I can get a decent one for like $80 bucks. After that it really doesn’t cost anything to do do it and it’s a good reason to go out in the woods or wherever and enjoy the scenery.

Except that for the most part it sucked ass . My body feels like it’s been hit by a truck right now. I’ll lay it out from the beginning. I left for Kansas City about 8:40 in the morning, about an hour and a half later than I wanted to start but it was no big deal. Made pretty good time down there except for a spot after St. Joseph there someone got in a wreck and traffic came to a complete stop. I stopped by and visited aunt and uncle Mike and Janine since they live right down the road from my friend Jason’s house. Went out for a quick lunch with them and talked for awhile and then made my way to Jason’s house. At Jason’s place we all got geared up in our warm weather clothes and headed up to Arrowhead. Tailgating at Arrowhead was pretty fun, I would have to say that it was the best part of the whole trip. We met up with a lot of friends and friends of friends and had a pretty good time. Someone we knew had an old handicapped minibus that was decked out with a couch and TV where you could warm up if you wanted to. We probably spent three or four hours out there before the game even started. Kasey, Gabe, Adam and the other guys finally showed up from Lincoln not that long before game time. I was starting to get worried because Gabe had my ticket. Shortly after those guys arrived it was time to head into the stadium.

I’ve never been to Arrowhead before and it was a pretty cool stadium to be in. It feels like you’re right on top of the field. There were a ton of Husker fans there in the stadium and it was pretty much all red. It seemed more like a home game than an away game. Up until kickoff things were going pretty good but then the game started and OU was on top within the first minute of the game. That pretty much sucked the life out of most people from the very beginning. There were times that it got loud but Oklahoma made some big plays that just killed us. I’ve been watching the game now that I’m home and it seems like we did a lot better on TV than it did watching it in person. I was getting so pissed when I was there because it seemed like Oklahoma was just running the same play over and over again and burning Grixby every time. I left the game past the midway point of the fourth quarter because Jason called me and said that they were leaving and my truck was parked at his place. Believe me I was glad to go because I was so miserably cold and sick. After walking around for 10 minutes looking for Jason’s vehicle we beat a lot of the traffic out of there and went back to Jason’s place.

After that most of the other people were planning on going out to the bars but since I was feeling like crap and was in a bad mood I decided to just head home then so I could sleep in my own bed instead of the sleeping on the floor at Jason’s place. I really put the hammer down heading home which was a bad idea. To put a period on the end of this wonderful day I got a speeding ticket on Highway 2 between Nebraska City and Lincoln. Dammit. To sum it all up it was Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Missouri, cold ass game, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and a whole lot of money out of my pocket in a 19 hour period.

Here’s some pictures, I didn’t actually take many of my own because the batteries in my camera froze and it would only take about 1 picture at a time after I warmed it for a while inside my clothes. I’ve got the ones I took and the ones from Gabe, and Jason is going to send me the ones from his camera so I will add those as soon as I get them.