So I spend a bunch of time wrestling with this fucking website of mine and I get it to the point where everything is on the money. No major quirks, things are looking good, and it’s getting late. Because I hate the piece of crap Internet Explorer, I never use it. At the last minute last night I check the site to make sure it works in IE and a big chunk of it appears halfway down the page, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Anyway, for now hopefully you’re looking at this in Firefox or Safari or something. Apparently my trial and error form of coding doesn’t quite cut it today.

Now for the quick catch up… We made our way to Nashville a few weeks ago to hang out with the Birches. 4 days of playing the Nintendo Wii and picking up kids pretty much crippled my right arm, but it was a lot of fun. We hit the famous Hatch Show Print, swung by Griffin to check out Alex’s new office and world of iPod accessories, hit the Loveless Cafe, and pretty much anything else (besides the Jack Daniels factory) that Tennessee has to offer.

We had a moderately mellow Christmas and New Year’s, everything went pretty smoothly. No complaints…

Tara’s birthday was on the 28th, famously shared with another person screwed with a birthday too close to Christmas, Christian DaBica. We decided to head into NYC and spend the night since we don’t get there enough, and stayed at the chi chi SoHo Grand. My parents and Tara’s mom and grandmother came in to surprise her for dinner at Asia de Cuba, which was exceptionally good. Somehow it seems like every time that I’m in the giant city of New York, I run into people I know and this trip was no exception. We were stoked to run into the Capozzis roaming around SoHo. It was great to see them, it’s been a while. They are the next batch of VT transplants to land in Oregon, taking the roundabout way by living in SoCal first…

We’ve been playing a bunch of paintball, trying to make an every weekend thing. It sucks you in just like snowboarding. I’m already working on getting a second gun, and Tara just had the most badass pink gun show up today, so tomorrow is going to be another good outing. I knew I was getting a starter gun I’d upgrade pretty quickly, but I didn’t think it would happen in less than a month. We picked the right year to dive into this, it’s now January and is going to be 68 degrees tomorrow. Every weekend we’ve gone has been epic weather, good thing we haven’t been trying to go snowboarding.

We watched Chuck Liddell hand out another slaughter to Tito Ortiz. Good fight.

Speaking of riding, we’re heading up to VT next weekend with hopes of getting out, but it’s not looking too good. If anyone is left in VT, get in touch because we want to hang out. Woot woot.