The Holtonian

Big 10 Joke

Ok does anybody else find it annoying that the Big Ten stops playing football 2 weeks before everyone else? No wonder Ohio State got killed by Florida last year, they play 3/4 the season.

The big 10 is a joke....josiah... they need a championship to at least give them one more game.

I was just annoyed by that. I mean we got some killer games going on this weekend.... well one really in MO vs OK, but TN vs LSU should be interesting since these teams didn't play this year. Oregon vs Oregon St, Va Tech BC, AZ vs AZ st. I mean even the Pac 10 is still playing, usc ucla....

My Black Friday

Blog is a bit blank, a bit of the holidays took my life over there, that and work has picked up again so I'm pressed for time, which is a good feeling.

We had a good time with the two families converging on the house for thanksgiving. Plenty of food was eaten and I managed to bust a door down on the day after thanksgiving.

Crabby was going to Target to snag a Olivia 37inch for cheap at 6Am and asked if I wanted to tag along. I not doing anything at 6AM said "Sure why not..."

Though I didn't want anything at Target, but there were a few things at Best Buy that caught my eye.

The problem was BB opened at 5AM, Target at 6... The hope we had was we could hit BB and run over to Target before by 5:30. But as we pulled up to BB at 4:15 the line was about 100 yards long. After standing in line for 15 mins the line was 200 yards long. So I encouraged Crabby to run to target to get his tv, as he has been waiting for a long time to get this thing and didn't want him passing up a good deal. So I stood in line by myself in the cold, chatted up with the locals and generally had a good time. I'm not a guy who minds cold weather and as long as I had my coffee i was good to go.

It was kind of funny though because I really didn't need/want anything. Most of the stuff on my list was for my mother in law: the noise cancelling blue tooth head sets were half off (reg. 100, on sale for 50), and a LCD picture frame for 50 bucks. I got both of those for her as well as two 2 gig SD cards for 15 bucks.

The one thing I was interested in was an LCD monitor for our computer for 99$. Other than that everything else was sort of bonus.

So the doors opened at 5AM, the line slowly worked its way up and eventually I got in at about 5:04. I went to the cell phone section and picked up two of the head sets (it said 1 per customer but I asked the clerk and he said take 2), then went to the monitors and they had a huge stack of and I picked one up (by the time I left there were none left). I then picked up the LCD picture frame and realized.... I was done... no pushing no shoving, just sort of casually walked, in and got it all.

But I realized the fatal flaw in our plan, Crabby had the car and was still waiting for his store to open. So I had about an hour to kill.

I got a few other deals, but nothing major. Crabby got his TV and we got home before 8AM. All in All it wasn't that bad.

Barforamas

Well we have had quite the fun few weekends, there was San Antonio two weekends ago, and then a week ago we went up to Greenville to see Jared Farquhar get married.

Well we left at 3:45 on Friday for Greenville, SC. Now normally its a 2.5 hour drive, however when it takes you about an hour and a half to get out of Atlanta... its a bit longer. So its getting late, the drive seriously took forever due to insane traffic. We're 30 minutes out from Greenville and we've been in the car for 3 and half hours. Well all of a sudden Anna-Kate has her own version of Barf-o-rama 2007. 3 times all over herself. She's crying, we're naucious, and 5 miles from the nearest exit. So I'm hauling it down 85, finally find a gas station. We begin to clean up, janelle takes care of Anna-Kate, I take care of the car.

Well we were going to stay with the Crabbs and Crabby's in-laws in Greenville. So I'm worried because I don't want Adam to get sick so we debate turn around and drive 2 hours back home or just hope that the barf was the product of a one time thing (Anna-Kate had just had tons of milk and cheese). We consulted the Crabbs and they told us to come on and hope for the best.

So sure enough Anna-Kate is fine for that night... next morning barf-o-rama part 2. So I call it time of death 9:00 AM. And we load up and head back to ATL. We were ok, Anna-Kate acted kind of weird, tired mostly all day Saturday, but all was well by Sunday, though we played it safe and stayed home from church.

So all is good, I go to the Thrashers game on Tuesday with my company (awesome game). I eat seriously the nastiest hugest chili dog in the history of man kind.... and then after a great great game, come home to Janelle barf-o-rama 2007. Really regretted eating that chili dog.

So she was sick all Tuesday night/wednesday. I stayed home from work to play Mr. Mom which was fine. All week I've felt queasy though I'm a bit of a hypocondriac so I'm probably fine. I think if I would have gotten it, I would have gotten it by now.

This weekend thankfully nothing is going on. I'm chillin now with Anna-Kate on the sofa catching up on our friend baby Einstein. I wanted to watch football but she wasn't too keen on it.

We're probably going out to 5 Guy's burgers tonight, all that barfin talk made me hungry.

Guns

In My inlaws told us we could take pretty much anything we wanted out of the house, but their "style" was a little outdated/asian influence. A lot of nicknacks and furniture they picked up on their travels around the world. We did get a piano... but will have to go out and pick it up. I think around Christmas I may go out there with my inlaws and drive a small uhaul back with stuff that we all want.

The only thing I was interested in was a gun collection. I'm not a big gun guy, but mr. Hensley had a pretty cool collection of 6 rifles and 10 pistols. Their were several 22s, 1 shot gun, a few hunting rifles, and the coolest, two japanese ww2 era rifles.

I asked to have the better of the two japanese ww2 rifles and a hunting rifle that looks like this but i have no idea what kind it is.

It shoots big pointy bullets... I'd like the shotgun but the janelle's dad claimed it.

There was also a samurai sword or two which I may take one of those, but not sure. I plan on hanging the guns as sort of decorations in my office probably, buy a gun rack that locks and may or may not even own any bullets for it. Like I said, I'm not much of a gun person. I like the japanese rifle for its historicity, and the hunting rifle is just a nice gun, but I doubt I'll ever hunt.

We looked at the pistols and the only one that I really liked was Mr. Hensley's side arm from WW2, a 9mm I guess. But my father in law claimed that one too, he's got good taste. There were a couple of Japanese WW2 pistols, that oddly enough all looked like german lugers. I may take one of those too for the historical nature of it all. There were also a few texas style 6 shooters and may take one of those, one of which was antiquish. Its kind of like, well they're there and free, might as well take them. Though I only like the ones that have a historical significance.

Here's what the japanese pistol's look like.

My mom's dad always had tons of cool muskets on display and I always thought it was pretty cool addition to a den. Now i just need walls of books and dead animal heads and a smoking jacket and pipe... then i will have a true man's office.

So I may get these, though when I do, I will lock them up so tight. Guns in general in a house scare me. So I doubt I'll even have bullets in the house or if I do they'll be locked in a safe, which will be locked in another safe, and then that safe will be burried and will need voice verification as well as DNA imprint to open it. My dad was pretty good at imprinting a healthy fear of guns, "always treat a gun as its loaded..." was what he always told me and I still treat them with that healthy sense of fear.

San Antonio Trip

Janelle, Anna-Kate, and myself just got back from San Antonio yeseterday. Janelle's dad's dad (her grandfather) passed away last week so we flew out their for the funeral. It was a touching as he was one of the kindest men alive, though I really didn't get the experience of seeing him in his prime. By the time I arrived on the Hensley scene he was not his "old self."

The whole weekend was kind of an ordeal due to the traveling with a child. Our flight was at 6:30 AM on thursday so we had to wake Anna-Kate up to get to the airport on time. Also to get a bereavement fair you have to fly American Airlines (the only airline that still offers them) and you have to have a layover or a stop. So we flew to DFW which thankfully that flight was rather empty so we had a whole row to ourselves. Then the flight to San Antonio was rather short so luckily it was over quickly.

I took my laptop along though in case of an Anna-Kate meltdown, i figured pop in a Baby Einstein dvd and all would be fine... well during a meltdown on the flight to San Antonio I was getting the computer ready and for some reason the laptop wouldn't play the Baby Einstein dvds... all the other dvds I put it in worked, but something about the Baby Einsteins crashed the various movie players i have on the computer. I blame Disney...

The service was touching though I missed the military burial due to Anna-Kate needing to nap. Mr. Hensley served in WW2 as a reconisance pilot taking pictures in the pacific theater. Pretty cool stuff. He then stayed in the Airforce after the war and retired a Colonel. Really cool stuff.

It was a rough weekend, due to bad sleeping by anna-kate (we were all in the same room so when she slept bad we did too). Also the house was very dusty and smokey (from its current resident a friend of the family) so our allergies are all out of wack and I'm still stuffed up.

The flight back to was a nightmare, delayed flights, 5 minute layover in dallas due to the delay, running to make our a connection, janelle carrying anna-kate while she slept in her arms, while trying to run and being pregnant, lost luggage... yeah just tons of fun on the way home. We got home and just crashed.

So not much fun overall. Though the mexican food was terrific. There just isn't anything in the southeast that compares to good texmex from texas. Fresh home made tortillas, steak that is properly marrinated, spicey salsa (not sweet like most places around here). Ooooof, man i miss Taco Cabana and Alamo Cafe already.