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Here is a texting conversation between me, and let’s say, someone named Charlie:

Jan 12 8:07am CHARLIE: Eww my finger stinks. What should I do?

Jan 12 8:08am ME: Ask someone else to smell it.

Jan 12 8:09am CHARLIE: Is that a paid service?

Jan 12 8:10am ME: Kinda. They will either smell it or pull it. They will not wash it though.

Jan 12 8:12am CHARLIE: Hmmm well maybe i should ask your mom then?

Jan 12 8:14am ME: Sure…oh wait, your mom just rolled over in bed and said she would take care of it. Once she is through with her business though.

Jan 12 8:16am CHARLIE: What are you doing still in bed?

Jan 12 8:16am ME: That is kind of personal. You should ask your mom.
Jan 12 8:18am ME: Are you off today or just waisting tax payers maoney?

Jan 12 8:24am CHARLIE: I’m pulling into work, which if you are going to be my new daddy, you should be doing too and not lounging around in bed!

Jan 12 8:26am ME: I have been at work since you started all this. I expect a super father’s day gift this year….

Jan 12 8:26am CHARLIE: Ass
Jan 12 8:28am CHARLIE: So ill see you at rosa’s around 11:45?

Jan 12 8:29am ME: So, you started with smelly finger and end with ass. I think you have answered your own question. Yeah, we will be at Rosa, but closer to noon.

So, there ends another successful word exchange using modern technology.

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Happy us day!!!

No, not the liquor store. I got new glasses today. It will take a couple of days to get use to them since they are progressive lenses. Believe it or not, I look even MORE smarter than I did with my old glasses. : )

Bitstrips is an upcoming comic strip creator that’s made the process of creating a strip pretty darn simple. I’ve come across a handful of services that aim to provide you with a simplified comic strip creation tool, but Bitstrips is the easiest and most social I’ve seen so far. Bitstrips is currently in beta, and was launched at SXSW.
With drag’n’drop capabilities, you can start by creating your own character, or using one that’s in the vast Bitstrips library. Any characters created by others can be used by the rest of the community. You can modify things like facial expressions, clothing, panel colors, and of course text. Your completed comic can be shared across the web.

Click here to cycle through my current comic strips. Some are inside jokes, but then again, everything can be considered an inside joke to people with no sense of humor…

“Thanksgiving Football For Aggies And Longhorns

The Big 12 Conference and its television partners announced the 2008 Texas A&M vs. Texas football game will be televised by ESPN and the game will be played on Thanksgiving night. This marks the first time for the game to return to Thanksgiving since the 1993 game, which is also the last time ESPN televised the rivalry game. “When I arrived in Aggieland, one of the first questions I was asked was when would we get the Texas football game back on Thanksgiving?â€? Aggie Director of Athletics Bill Byrne said. “I knew the Big 12 contract called for the game to be played the day after Thanksgiving on ABC, but that didn’t stop the questions or desire to move the game back to Thanksgiving. I am thrilled that ESPN has offered to move the game back to that traditional date of Thanksgiving. I applaud the Big 12 Conference and our television partners in making this happen.â€?”

Salzburg was everything the pictures and movies show with the bonus of actually being there. We stayed in a ski lodge just outside of town (6km) so a bus ride was our mode of transportation to and from Salzburg. Staying in the lodge in the off-season was excellent. We practically had the place to ourselves and the service was superb at their restaurant. We toured the Old Town with all the history and even saw their new police station (only 20 years old – because in a country with buildings hundreds of years in age, 20 is nothing). We relearned that Salzburg used to be its own country. With salt (hence the name of the city) as the life of the old world, the Salzburgers were able to control their destiny……that is until outsiders, like Napoleon, starting moving in. The weather presented rain on only one day and so we went shopping that day through all the little stores along the narrow streets. We visited the salt mines, countryside and ice caves to make for excellent trips. The people were really nice and most spoke enough English to help us when needed. Going back will be fun.

Excuse the lack of pictures but our broken camera did not capture images as well as a working one.

Salzburg was everything the pictures and movies show with the bonus of actually being there. (And, unlike in Paris, we adored the food!) We stayed in a ski lodge just outside of town (6km) so a bus ride was our mode of transportation to and from Salzburg. Staying in the lodge in the off-season was excellent. We practically had the place to ourselves and the service was superb at their restaurant. We toured the Old Town with all the history and even saw their new police station (only 20 years old – because in a country with buildings hundreds of years in age, 20 is nothing).

We traveled from Paris to Salzburg via the Orient Express. This was an overnight train that we boarded at 6pm so we had a little dinner in our sleeping quarters before enjoying the scenery. We were due to be in Salzburg at 5:30am and when we awoke at 6:30am thought we had missed our stop. Fortunately, even trains have delays and we were an hour behind schedule which meant we did not miss our stop. The feel of the train made it easy to sleep but the excitement overpowered that a little and Lori spent some time just watching the night time country side and small villages pass by. I would recommend a train ride while in Europe. I wish we had time to see Europe by rail or bicycle or car so that little surprises could be discovered along the way without having to plan actual events of things to do.

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Paris was very beautiful and had tons of stuff to do. We could have spent another four days doing things not yet done. The subway was a blast to ride making our passes extremely helpful. The Eiffel Tower was of course one of our main hot spots and was better than expected. We spent hours just walking around checking out the old buildings, people and city happenings. We met some friends (the original people we almost went to Europe with as described ont he opening web page) on the Steps of the Orsay as we were eating lunch. They had just finished spending a couple of hours in the museum and were ready for their own food. Funny how things go – meeting them unplanned and in a very large city. We spent about 30 minutes in the Orsay because Lori and I know how to speed tour. We saw the usual; Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Tall Black Building, Arch de Triumph, Louver, Orsay, on and on AND the unusual like Pig Alley. That is a cool place. Funny how in Louisiana you go to the French Quarter and in Paris you go to the Latin Quarter. Well, we went because when in Rome…….

The only thing that was not up to our expectations was the food. We were really disappointed because we figured everything would be pastry and frenchy. The best food we actually ate there was Italian – go figure. And, NO ICE. You would think that the ingredients to ice were under lock and key. If you got 3 cubes of ice, that was extravagant.

An excellent surprise for us were the bicycle tours (Fat Tire Bikes). It is run by an Aggie and he uses Aggies as tour guides. We went to Versailles and toured Paris through the narrow streets and sidewalks. Unfortunately, our camera started malfunctioning towards the end of our Paris trip so some things were not captured on digital-film.