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Ate take-out from Outback Steakhouse tonight. I can’t believe how full I am. Ironically, it was both better and more for the money than the places I usually take out from. I guess if rupturing my stomach from over-eating doesn’t kill me tonight, I’ll add Outback to the list of places I frequent.
I just got off the phone with my brother Patrick. I knew he had some websites, so I thought I’d put some plugs for them up on this page (and that way I wouldn’t forget where they were later). It turns out he has three! So, in order of staleness (least recently updated first), I’m proud to present my brother’s websites. As I told him on the phone, I just wanted to get some HTML tips from the master.

http://trevarian.tripod.com/

This is his really old (June 2000) personal site. He’s got some wacky stuff on it though, so I’ll post a link to it. Plus, he’s my bro, so I can’t really dis him too hard.

The Society of Da Cow

You don’t want to ask, but I know you can’t help yourself. Let’s just say that, during a really boring summer, my brother lost his mind. As far as I know, illegal drugs were not, repeat not, involved. While I wasn’t present to witness the event first-hand, it was apparently traumatic enough to require an annual celebration. Enter at your own risk.

Virginia Tech Zero-G Project

Oh, in case I forgot to mention, my brother also works with a team at Virginia Tech’s Deptartment of Aerospace Engineering designing weird space shit. I don’t really know that much about this project, but it sounds like some sort of zero-G laser tag or something. Anyway, check it out if you’re into that type of thing.
He’s also working on another project that’s pretty cool. Some sort of satellite design. Beats me. I’m just happy I remember enough from my Comp. Sci. days to write HTML. If I squeeze a website for it out of him, I’ll be sure to make a follow-up report.

Oh, if I’m lucky, I’ll convince Pat to start posting some stuff here too, and we can scare people away twice as fast.
In other news, I’ve decided that the period in my life where I could totally ignore fitness and still look good is officially gone. I’m getting decidedly more middle heavy every week. Time to actually start doing that routine exercise stuff I keep hearing about. Fortunately, my schedule change in June will make it much more convenient to get to a gym.

So, last night I’m driving home from work on a windy road in West Virginia. Up ahead, there’s a opossum in the road. Well, I don’t like hitting things, so I swerve into the other lane to avoid him.
Bad Idea®.
As soon as I do that, another car comes over the hill. So I swerve back into my lane, tires squealing, as the other car passes by. I’m shaken, but uninjured. The other guy’s fine. The opossum probably doesn’t even know what’s going on. Thank God I was driving my car instead of some lesser vehicle. I was pushing the envelope a little too far.
Actually, the Bad Idea® was swerving into a lane I couldn’t see far enough ahead in. I can think of at least three occasions when swerving was the only way to avoid getting creamed. Which brings up a point about most driver education classes. Remember when they stuck you in a little box on wheels and told you to drive through those cone obstacle courses? That defining moment of anxiety was when you had to speed towards this artificial Y in the road and then make a sudden turn in the direction your instructor indicates. Well, the most ridiculous part of that exercise is that they invariably have you make a sudden swerve and then come to a stop. WTF? If I just swerved left into another lane to miss some idiot kid chasing a ball, I’m not about to stop in the face of on-coming traffic!
Oh well, at least I’ve managed to avoid all the idiots I’ve had the misfortune of meeting on the road so far. Let’s just hope I can keep the streak alive.
Oh, and to whomever I scared the crap out of yesterday, sorry about that. I was the idiot that time.

Another morning, another day. I’ll be posting about my near death experience later on this evening, but let’s just say I’m extra happy to see the sun this morning.

Oh, if you want to see some of the photos I scanned in from the hot air balloon trip Natalie and I took, they’re available on Yahoo! Photos.
I promise to try and get a real template put up at some point. I have to design one first .

Hmm, so I have a blog now. Pretty cool, I guess. Well, the only neat thing I can thing of to mention is The Wit and Whimsy of Jin Wicked, a very cool website I’ve stumbled upon in the last few days. Excellent art work by an intriguing young lady. Highly recommended.