Brad’s Life

Segway Recall Notice

Yeah, that’s right. The coolest toy of the early double-oughts is now a deadly death machine. It can randomly reverse on you, maybe knock out a tooth or 20. Makes you think twice about paying through the nose to let gramma jet around on one at Disneyworld, eh?

Blog is now moved over to zoocat.com…who need Blogger? hoo-rah for mobile blogging, too!

This is my first mobile blog post ever! And for all that, I’m sitting in the living room at home with my laptop in my lap. Will this really add convenience? Only time will tell…

After only…what? 2.5 years since my last post on here? I’m going to make yet another attempt at keeping up with life via this blog. I realize I will most likely be the only person who ever reads it, and I actually prefer the freedom that gives me. It’s a lot easier to talk about anything and everything when you can imagine that no one else has a clue what you’re saying. So if you’re reading this (and you’re not me), maybe just pretend when you see me that you don’t know it exists, eh?

I’m going to try to actually post random thoughts and such on here as I have them. I’m looking for some good moblogging software for my Treo to make that a little easier. We’ll see how well it works, but here’s hoping!!!

BYX Island Party picturesare up! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! Man, this year was awesome. Bands were great. I got to be stage manager, even though I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Great times, great times.

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Privacy what? I WANT GMAIL!!!!! When can I do the stinking beta? Maybe I don’t really want it so much as I just don’t want to not have the choice. I dunno. Give me a shot at it and we’ll find out, eh?

So I just read about Chris Pirillo’s divorce. It apparently happened forever ago, but I didn’t know anything until I was reading his weblog this morning and he mentioned his girlfriend. I thought, “Wait a minute, isn’t he married?” Apparently he and Gretchen split some time last year. How sad. For anyone who doesn’t know (again, like it matters, I’m the only one reading this blog so far as I know), Chris Pirillo is the author of the Lockergnome website, newsletters, etc. He is a great geek, and I’ve been subscribed to his stuff as long as I’ve had email. It kills me to know that I missed this news, first of all, but also to know that it happened. It’s kinda crappy when anything bad happens to someone you respect, and Chris has had a bad enough run of it lately. All sorts of problems when he was at TechTV, most of which I don’t even understand, and then this stuff with Gretchen. I know that something like half of all marriages these days end in divorce, but someone has to be the other half, right? I’m sure planning on staying married ” ’till death do us part.” I don’t think there’s anything so crazy about that, either. Why is it so much harder for couples to stay together? Or is it that it’s just so much easier to get divorced now? i.e., Is it just that now, in modern society, divorce doesn’t have the heavy negative weight that it used to, so people who used to just stick it out when it got crappy now just pull the ejection seat lever? I don’t know, just food for thought.

So here I am, true to form, months after my last entry, and back again. I’ve got to start picking this thing up. Maybe it’ll be a good release for me when I’m sick of everything. Doesn’t really matter what I type, since I’m the only one who knows it exists.

I’ll tell you this, I am tired of school. I don’t want to go to one more class. Yes, I know, I only have one week left. But I don’t know if I can handle that week. Seems like all I ever do anymore is work and go to class, with a little bit of sleep thrown in every now and then. What’s a boy to do?

No, really, what am I to do? I’m starting to get worried that this whole Baylor Med School thing isn’t going to pan out this fall. Then what? I might be working at good ole’ McAlister’s for a while yet, at least until I can apply to a bunch more schools and see what happens there. Stress, stress. It’s rough knowing exactly how your life is going to go for 21+ years until everything just suddenly flops.

Oh, in old news, married life is wonderful. Jenn is a great girl, but we already knew that. It’s always nice getting to come home with her at the end of the night. She’s great company, always has been. Now I just don’t have to tear myself away when it’s time for bed. We’re not perfect, I guess we have “fight”-ish things now and then, but we’re always good about talking out what we want without completely pissing the other off, and we’re really great at working our problems out. We DO have about 1 million pieces of china, though, if anyone needs some.

All I really want right now is a while off. Not a day off, maybe not a week of. But a while. And by off I don’t mean not having school, and using the time to work. I mean OFF. No work, no study, no class, no wedding plans. Just lounging around on my butt getting fat watching The Godfather movies repeatedly. Anyone else think that sounds good? Let’s do it! I’ll walk out if you will.

I’m beginning to realize that I really suck at blogging, journaling, whatever the heck you want to call it. I just can’t seem to consistently keep it up. Nontheless, here is another post. I hesitate to call it an update, beacuse I don’t feel like actually updating you with everything that’s happened to me since 5:15 PM on July the 14. Suffice it to say Hawaii was a great trip, and school is not the most fun thing.

Here’s the real meat, though. I went outside today to go to church, and found something incredible: the Perfect Weather!!! I kid you not (tangent: who is you? as far as I know I’m the only one who reads this) the temperature was neither hot nor cold, just perfectly cool, the sun was shining brightly and perfectly, and the air was crisp but not humid. A gentle breeze kept it all together. If I could find a place in this world that had this weather 364 days a year (why not 365? because nothing’s perfect, that’s why), I would move there tomorrow. Wherever it was, it would be so incredibly worth it. But I have my doubts.

Thing about going to church today was this: Jenn didn’t come. She’s back in Longivew, doing bridal portraits and other assorted stuff. Now, it’s not that I’m physically tied to her. I am quite capable of going to church without her. It’s just that, while there, everyone asked me but two things: “Where’s Jennifer?” and “How are the wedding plans coming?” Imagine. I mean, really. Yes, I love the girl, and yes, she is normally with me. But it was as if people couldn’t fathom the concept that we two might actually do something apart. The wedding plans question really kills me, though. Everyone asks me that every week. I DON’T KNOW. I’m not doing much of anything for the wedding, really. My role is quite minimal. I keep replying that plans are going well, etc., but what I really want to say is, “If I have any problems, I”ll be sure to email you and keep you updated. In the meantime, STOP ASKING.” But I think that might be taken as a little bit rude or overboard or something by my friends at church.

My plans for this afternoon are simple, but twofold. First, clean out the closet. It’s full of crap that doesn’t need to be in there, and it’s getting crowded. Second, sleep. Sleep like I’ve never slept before. Brady (from McAlister’s) and Crystal (his girlfriend) came over last night, and we watched Shawshank Redemption. It’s a great movie, I loved watching it despite the fact Brady and I had watched it just the night before. It did, however, keep me up until 3:00 AM. I don’t sleep much anymore, and I think that’s a bad trend. I should fix that. Better go clean out the closet now so I can.

Adieu