starbucks raised prices

so i am sitting in the doctors office with my grandparents. The news is on and some entirely clueless fox news correspondant while reporting on starbucks raising prices said that in some taste tests mcdonalds coffee actually beat starbucks.


right

why do alarms suck so bad

alarms never wake me up. unless i haven't heard them much before. The one i've been using for the past year or so failed me this morning. As my lovely wife and i were laying in bed, i half remember getting up early in the morning to go to the bathroom or something, but the next thing i remember is waking up at 8 when i had somewhere to be at 9. No big deal right, except the place i had to be was an hour away. Blah. This whole "getting out of bed in the morning" thing is getting on my last nerve.

I think the whole thing started a few nights ago when we decided to stay up til 5 am reading the new harry potter book. Well, actually she read the new one, and i started the first one. Don't tell me, i know i am a bit behind. But i finished the first one just a few hours after she got done with the last one, both of these events happened about 18 hours after we got the books in the first place. So that kinda threw off our sleep schedule. I guess i'm still reeling from that, which might mean that i'm getting old. Of course Colleen and czech are at home right now in bed, catching up on their sleep.

I really enjoyed the first harry potter book. It made me remember how much i love to read, and to imagine the fantastic worlds that writers like that come up with. I have been thinking quite a bit lately about how much i need to read and take time to just sit in quiet. Oddly enough, reading things like that really help me to quiet my spirit, which has been harder to do lately with all the busyness going on work wise and life wise.

The forever movie

so we thought we should go see harry potter at the imax. Sounded good in theory but when they told us they were going to be moving us to the non large non imaxish theatre. Why such an animal exists at an imax theatre , I have no idea. It just seems so wrong. So anyhow after an hour they've finally gotten this thing started.

More details to come

So i am really excited to say that the new harry potter movie is freakin awesome, my wife tells me that the movie wasnt totally accurate but it was still done well. I could say that I've decided that I need to start reading the books, mainly just because I am dying to know what happens next

not sleeping in on vacation

the past few days have been spent in ruidoso with my wife and my mom. We took colleen's new car for it's maiden voyage and i am pleased to say that it has performed quite well. She has been so happy with it that it makes me want to smile. We came up tuesday evening and started early wednesday morning treking through the woods with a gps unit to find plot points set by the forest service. Why? Because they hired colleen to take pictures facing north east south and west.
Then we'll go back after they clear out a bunch of dead wood that could fuel a forest fire, to show what a difference it makes. It is really a pretty cool project, plus hiking through the woods on an adventure like that is just cool to begin with. We had a great time and col shot over 2gb of pictures (obviously more than just the plot point pictures, she shot a bunch of nature and random stuff of us playing around.

as I type this we are cruising somewhere between nowheresville and the middle of nowhere. Colleen is driving and I am on my lovely little iPhone. Believe it or not the Internet access capabilities are amazing. We have been in some seriously random and remote locations and I think we have had full data service nearly the entire time. Now my wife is telling me it is time to switch drivers. I guess i forgot to mention that we are on the way to san antonio to visit family and see warped tour.

Hours later we are at my cousins house and it is two am, wow it is so bedtime.
Random pictures of the trip. Now it is bedtime

ya you guessed it. iPhone! So when are you getting one?

so this post is coming from my new iphone. Yes it is incredible. Czech likes it too.
anyhow my wife suprised me with it as I was leaving work today. My family rocks.

i would post a picture but i'm sure you have seen them