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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is the longest single word (without hyphens) .com domain name in the world. This Welsh town actually exists and its name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave". For brevity, it is understandable that many of the locals simply refer to their village as "Llanfair"

Well, I'm sitting hear streaming wacky XMas music via XM radio, trying to get all in the mood for the holiday. It's tough though, with the 70 degree weather and consistent sunshine. Oh well, I think I'll manage ;)

I do admit though that my heart kind of sunk when Ron sent me this picture from Buffalo.


I can't say that I'll miss waiting for my car to warm up enough that I scrape the frost off the windows without shattered the ice scraper. Then sitting in a stiff, frozen seat, as my hands freeze themselves to the steering wheel, and cold air blows through the vents making the boogers in my nose freeze up and my throat burn, as I shake uncontrollably.

I CAN say that since I've left home (for college) no Christmas has been the same. I think it's mostly due to the amount of decorating my parents would go through, including the lights on the house and trees outside, having an xmas tree both upstairs and downstairs (upstairs was the "nice" tree, downstairs was the "fun" one...with presents) supplied from our local back-woods, and xmas music playing throughout the house complimenting the smell of pine needles and cinnamon potpourri.

So this year I've decided to play xmas music as excessively as possible, and to decorate our apartment (especially including a little light-up tree my grandmother gave me right before she passed away) as well as stink it up with seasonal smells.
I especially looking forward to going crazy with the xmas lights, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to top this dude
http://media.mypartypost.com/ryan/videos/wow/christmaslights.wmv

The fridge will be fully stocked with egg nog for at least a month, as is the side of the road on the I-610 N.

Yup. You see, when you go to visit your girlfriend's parents for Thanksgiving, and they give you a jug of egg nog that you decide to open on the way home because you're thirsty, and then your car's drive shaft falls into the road rendering the vehicle useless, and then realize you won't be home soon enough to refridgerate the egg nog as soon as it probably should be, you end up leaving it behind on the side of the road.

Words cannot describe the amount of inconvience the car break-down provided. And no, it's not the good type of break-down that mid 1980's hip hop artists do.
We were just driving along, doing a casual 100 mph, because...you can. When there was a sudden 'clunk'...'clank clank clank'....'engine rev'....which is a somewhat subtle way for the car to say, "Hey guys, I need to go potty."

So we coasted to the side of the road, and discovered that the car started perfectly fine...it just didn't go forward.
So we called AAA asking for a tow. They wouldn't let up on asking where we were, which was impossible to tell because WE DIDN'T KNOW! The only thing we did know was that we had just passed a sign saying "73 miles to LA."
Eventually a cop pulled over (after I just finished saying "how come cops never pull over when we break down?") and told us what exit we were near. As well as to be sure to strap on our safety belts while we wait for our tow.

Because wearing a seat belt while getting rear-ended by a tractor trailer that's doing well over 75mph while we sit there at a dead stop will REALLY make the difference.

So after an 1.5 hours of going in and out of a light sleep a tow truck finally showed up. There was only enough room for one of us up in the cab of the truck (the guy decided to bring his girlfriend for the ride) so Brenna ended up sitting with them while I say inside her car, atop the tow truck.
If you ever have the choice to ride in a car on top of a tow truck DON'T. It's fuckin' bumpy as hell and NOISY.
I was actually trying to sleep, with my arms folded over my chest, but bumps were making the car bounce so hard that I actually occasionally knocked the wind out of myself with my arms. Ugh.
So we finally got to Long Beach, and pulled up next to my car, so I could follow them to the car shop (so we could get home). We couldn't find the shop Brenna had seen before that serviced VW's, so we ended up leaving it at a different one. On our way home in my car we found the one she originally wanted to go to though, so we turned around and manually pushed her car until it was facing the right way, and then I pushed it with my car for about a mile.

All of this actually wouldn't have been SO bad hadn't we left Brenna's parents house at 8:30 pm. The car broke down around 1-ish, and we didn't get home until about 3 am.
Brenna had to leave for work at 4:30 am.

Alright, so how about something cheerful....here's a bute!


That's Drew. Drew lived on our couch in Hadley for a few weeks a couple years ago (and apparently caught on to my goatee). Derek and Adam were not big fans of Drew. Everyone else was. Derek and Adam ended up being right. Drew has now kicked up his sleeze a notch by posing for a really gross goth porn site that's trying to be like the actual good ones.
Way to go Drew. You lost at life.

Here's a pic of my tattoo now that it's not red and irritated...just in case you care...


I'm trying to find an animation of how the suns light cycle on the Earth looks, but there don't seem to be any. I have this thing on my desktop that will let you watch as the sun shines over thy glorious ball of dirt, and I want to share it with you, YES, you. Because I love you.
And because of that I took the time to take these screenshots (it wasn't easy). Here is the cycle of full day, notice the shade is very wide towards the stop, that's because it's winter...that's why we don't have as much daylight right now.

LIGHT CYCLE DURING A DAY- the shadow shifts towards to the left throughout the day, and cycles back around from the right (since the earth is round...moron). And just in case you're really dumb, the shadow is NIGHT and the light part is DAY.





But Derek! What does the light cycle of a YEAR look like!?! Well, let me tell you!

LIGHT CYCLE OF A YEAR- So because the dark spot at the top forces us into longer dark periods, which we call Winter, then the opposite needs to be true to provide us with Summer. So the "U" shape of the shadow basically just flips, so that the wide dark spot is on the bottom of the Earth in the winter.





See how now we have very little shadow that would cylce around the world?

So why do I have this on my desktop? Well, naturally, because now that I live on the West coast I can watch the impending doom shadow crawl across the world snatching up everything in it's path...as it heads towards ME!
Yes, I do laugh to myself as it crosses over NY......DIE NY SCUM!!!!!! (and Ohio for that matter)

Ron and I are planning a movie...I can't say too much now...but it will be awesome. You will love it. And I did your mom last night.

Sucka.

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I was going to put the lyrics for Europe's- "Final Countdown" but they just don't do the song justice. So download it, and rock out with me. 'raises fist in the air'