Little things going wrong I mean. Tonight it was my 80 gig 5th generation iPod video deciding to poop the bed and die on the way to work. Hard drive failure. Could have been the fact that I kinda dropped it a little shortly before I left for work. Yea, I’m completely positive that was it. It sucks though, if I want to replace it with something that has enough space to hold all my music it’s going to cost about $250. Ouch. I definitely don’t have that right now. Things are going to be really tight in January since I had to pay more for tuition this time around. I’m taking more classes than I normally do in an effort to accelerate my graduation date a little and the cost really hurts when you pay out of pocket and have no loans or anything. I’m almost going full time this upcoming semester. I can’t really remember what classes I’m taking right off the top of my head, it’s all elective stuff not really related to my degree but I figured I would try saving some more of the degree focused stuff in hopes that my work will reinstate it’s tuition assistance sometime in the future. The management related classes are easier to get through the system to get reimbursed than something like say… music appreciation. I’m digressing a little bit here. Anyway, I need something to use while I’m training to listen to so I went looking for an iPod shuffle. I just got one of the small square ones for Jessica not that long ago that didn’t cost all that much so I went to go get myself one of those. Nope, discontinued. Now they have the 3rd generation ones out that talk to you and have no controls on them. If you want to do things like, oh I don’t know, pause it or turn up the volume you have to use the included Apple brand headphones. You’ve got to be kidding me. Don’t get me wrong, the Apple headphones are very pretty and all but they just don’t work for me. I can’t stand having to jam headphones inside my ears, and even when I do when I’m running along and sweating my ass off they always end up falling out. What happened to the old school ones that go over your head and don’t go inside your ears at all and instead sit on top of your ears? I’ve seen them but usually they are so cheap that they break getting them out of the package. I ended up buying one of the older 2nd generation 2gb shuffles off of ebay for $50. The guy must not have checked the other auctions because if he did he would have seen that the prices for them are going for much more than that. Must be a lot of people like me driving up the price that won’t use the new version because they have to use the included headphones. Down the road when I have a little more cash I will pick up a 240 gig hard drive replacement for the old iPod. It costs just as much as a brand new one but when I’m done it will have 80 gigs more space than the largest current model. Nice.

This winter storm needs to go away already. It’s just swirling over the top of us making everyone miserable. And to think a couple days ago I was saying how I was pretty disappointed in how little came of the whole thing with all the hoopla that was made of it. Weather forecasters cant predict their way out of a paper bag if you ask me. I don’t know why they go to school to learn the stuff, all they do is throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Anyway I’m at work right now but there isn’t really much worthwhile that I can really do. The drifts are 7 feet high covering the entrances to the new hangar, 5 feet high out the front door to the ramp and everything out there is pretty much an impassable mess. I would go try and knock some of the drifts down away from the entrances but it will just fill back in before I even finish. There needs to be some substantial equipment in here to even make a dent in it along with the wind going down from it’s forty mph gusts. I ended up getting to work four and a half hours early tonight. I had to make a run for it while I still had light and the plow finally made a path by my house before it filled in again. That and the road that connects Hickman to the highway was drifting closed and if I was going to end up in the ditch or stuck then I wanted to do it before dark so I had a good chance of someone stopping to pick me up. Once I got to the highway it was just fine though. It still makes me ponder getting an old beater Jeep though. Someday.

Christmas was fine, I was off for a couple days which I normally am not because I traded with Ed so he could go see his sister. Christmas Eve Jessica made a big ass turkey and it was great and we just stayed inside and watched some movies. 2012 is the stupidest thing I have ever seen, well maybe not THE stupidest ever, but the stupidest thing recently anyway. We got up at about 3:30 am on Christmas morning and opened presents. Mostly because I woke up at 3:30 am. Nighttime sleeping and I don’t get along on my days off. It was fun having things to open that I don’t know what they already are. Getting cash is fun but there’s no surprise to it ya know?

Jessica got Brian some dog shoes because he’s such a pansy about cold weather that he would prefer to piss himself inside than go walk in the snow. They are pink dog shoes… I guess they were out of blue ones. I guess it’s the thought that counts but I don’t think he really likes wearing them. Worth a try I guess. We got a nice video of him wearing his new shoes which was so funny at the time that I was crying. We missed filming a lot of the time that he was just trying to walk in them and got a lot of him wigging out and trying to take them off.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Merry Christmas everyone!