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Steph has been giving me subtle hints about grilling out the last couple of days. Being the intuitive person that I am I picked up some steaks today on my way home from work. Considering it was around 5:45 I didn’t want to stop at the HEB on 281 & 1604. For those that don’t know anything about San Antonio, that area is a madhouse during rush hour.  Instead I stopped by the Wal-Mart right by the house.  After looking over their meat I settled for the small pack of rib eyes.  I fired up the grill, added a few spices to the meat and cooked it.  To my surprise the steak was probably one of the best steaks I’ve ever had.  I’m a pretty good cook if I do say so myself but good meat from Wal-Mart?!  Usually I stereotype Wal-Mart food with their service, average at best.  Boy was I wrong.  Looks like I might start buying my meat from them….

For Thanksgiving Steph and I went to Souix City, South Dakota to visit my dad and family.  After a long plane ride to Ohmaha Nebraska we then drove another hour and a half to Souix City.  I was expecting a suttle difference in terraine before we arrived and I wasn’t disapointed.  All in all, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota look exactly like I picuted it.  Farm land.  Having said that I wasn’t expecting the sand dunes they have there.  These dunes are found only in one other place in the world, China.  They look like everyday hills/small mountains however when you get up close to them you notice that they’re sand.  Sure there’ grass, trees, and other vegitation on them, but they looked pretty cool from up close.  Aside from the terrain, it didn’t snow while we were up there.  It did snow after we left but thankfully we avioded it.  Surprisingly it was rather warm last weekend.

For the weekend we just hung out at the house and vegged.  You need those days everyonce and a while.  We saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.  Like s1n mentioned, it was a good movie.  A little darker from the other but a good movie non the less.  Aside from the movie, we played some card games, and watched a movie or two.  The only bad thing that happened was that Steph got sick on Sunday which made for a LONG ride home.  Thankfully we made it home safe and sound and Steph is felling better.

I read an interesting article on Slashdot that I thought I’d share. It seems that the Xbox 360 is already plagued with problems not even 24 hours after its release! You’ll always have some problems after you release a new system but this takes the cake.  Good luck Microsoft ;)

If you haven’t been keeping up in the gaming news you probably don’t know much about Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson is a big-shot lawyer who is suing Rockstar Games, creators of the Grand Theft Auto series, for making a “Cop killing video simulation.” While I personally don’t play any of the Grand Theft Auto games, I do know something about them.  They’re rated M for MATURE!!!!  So, if a kid younger than 17 gets the game, goes and shoots 2 cops, what gives him the right to blame the video game makers?  He should never have had the game in the first place!  Jack Thompson decided that this would make a great case so he’s suing the game makers.  It turns out that due to his actions, he got tossed out of court.  Serves you right Jack!  If you’re looking to make a name for yourself and keep what’s left of your public image, sue the mother/father/who ever bought the kid the game!

If you’ve been keeping up with the Sony Root-kit issue going on for the past couple of weeks, you’ll love this article. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read it.

A good friend of mine finally sent me the link to his blog, http://newdadnoclue.com. You have to know Ian to understand his humor but I think you’ll find it interesting….

Today was my second day at work for Final Support. As you may recall from earlier I switched jobs from Avanade to Final Support. Thus far the new job is going smoothly. I received my laptop which unfortunately did not have all the tools I need to do my work, VS6.0 and DreamWeaver/FrontPage. Yes that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I said VS6.0! Most of the development that I’ll be doing is in VB 6.0 and basic ASP pages. However, there is talk about upgrading some of the code to .NET, 1.1 at most. While my preference is to write code in .NET you have to go with what the market calls for and in this case, its VB6.0.

Finally picked up a new hard drive. I went to Sam’s Club the other day to buy a hard drive on the fly and not get ripped off. As of this writting they have the following:

• 160Gig for $70
• 200Gig for $100
• 300Gig for $140

Pretty good prices if I do say so myself. Of course you can buy it cheaper on Newegg but I needed it now.  I’ve got to backup my work computer before I turn it in.