So here we are, back in Columbia. Bri and I went to San Diego over our spring break; four days of fun, sun, and family, interspersed with about 6 hours in a dentist's office, where C's (she prefers it if I do not use her full name: works for me) dad used the power of SCIENCE and LASERs to cut out my wisdom teeth and repair a few cavities on both Bri and myself. He's an exceptional dentist, and the trauma was minimal as a result.
We spent much of the day with my brother and his wife, eating out at many an excellent restaurant and just generally enjoying the life of a southern californian for a few days.
We left for Columbia at roughly the same time a Storm of Ridiculous Proportions decided to attack the entire midwest like a drunken wrestler after a high school student. This caused a certain degree of problem, since apparently Albuqurque, Amarillo, and Oklahoma City were basically non-existent from the standpoint of highway driving. This left Texas. Miles and Miles of freaking Texas--the state that's so ludicrously big you can go to sleep in El Paso, sleep eight full hours, and wake up and STILL BE IN FREAKING TEXAS.
It, in short, sucked. A lot. Also, Yuma Arizona is an awful, awful place. But that's a digression from the story, which is centered mainly on Texas sucking. When we finally left Texas(about eight-thousand hours after entering), we went to Little Rock, then up through the Ozark mountains to Springfield, followed by the Lake of the Ozarks, dodging sleet, snow, and sheeting ice the whole way.
So we are back home, as is clearly the case, since I am writing this and classes have been back in swing for two straight days now. School becomes more and more onerous, as it becomes clearer that further advanced mathematics is fundamentally irrelevant to my new goals re computer science and a software development career. Bri is also struggling with the end-of-semester-slacking difficulty, which always makes complicates the completion of the spring semester. Still, it is six more weeks, and so we will simply have to straggle on.
Further information will, I think, have to wait until interesting things happen.
I love your wonderful stories - makes my whole day worth getting out of that warm bed for. Glad that you are back home safe and loved your picture in the newspaper. Alayna said "Grandma, there is Scott - he must of done something really good to be in the newspaper!" She seem to overlook the beautiful girl you had so close to you. I think she is jealous - better watch it Bri! Aunt Marie
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