Happy New Year!

Hi all,

Hope you're having a great start to the new year and you're doing well.

Kind of a slow night for me - I was watching tv and then I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was 12:06 a.m. (ish) and the new year had already started.

Oh well.

In my usual annual tradition, I've changed the look of the site to keep things fresh. Hope you like it. This whole customization thing is starting to require more skill (and patience) than I currently have, so I pretty much used a template and just bumped down the text size a little so it looked a little less like the large print edition.

Although now I think the text may be too small...

Anyway, so a few things today...

I can't believe I've been sticking to my blog and writing in it (fairly regularly) since 2002. I wonder if I'll ever go back and read some of the stuff that I wrote. (shrug) Reading a little history and learning from it never hurt, right?

Last night I saw M and her husband J. We cruised the shopping mecca (the toity side) and I got to see how rich people shop. It's quite impressive indeed.

We were in the Bang & Olufsen store checking out the wares and we got split up. I was towards the back looking at a system and M was towards the front. All of a sudden, music starts just blasting at full volume - It was Outkast's I like the way you move. The music was clear and sounded great - The subs were pumpin and you could hear it throughout the store (I'm sure outside of it too).

Immediately M looks over and thinks it's me. :)

I must have some sort of reputation for listening to loud rap music. Heh. But seriously, for once, it totally wasn't me - I was framed! It was the yucky salesguy in the semi-enclosed home theater area trying to make a sale by playing loud rap music for an a little bit past-middle aged Caucasian couple.

See something wrong with this picture?

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying middle aged Caucasians don't listen to rap music. I actually hope they do. But I'm just playing the odds. I'm guessing the sales guy got that reaction as well so then he whipped out and played the Norah Jones CD.

That's when I had to go have a listen :)

But again, yucky salesguy had it all wrong. You can't really blast Norah Jones. Her music's just not meant to be played that way. Plus he had some weird sound thing going on so the music didn't sound right (even though he was raving about it the entire time).

Anyway...

I also got to see my first pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes. I didn't try any of them on (heh), nor did I see what all the fuss was all about. (shrug)

But hey, everyone has to have a vice right? Shoes are definitely not one of mine.

The sun finally came out to visit today. I'm very happy.

Best wishes to everyone for a kickass 2006. :)

-Kirk