The holidays went rather well. Angela and I visited her family the weekend before Christmas, and went down to my dad’s in Indy on Christmas day. I had to work that morning and night, off at 8am, back at midnight, so we could only go down for the day, but we still got to see my family and have Christmas dinner with them. I didn’t have to work on New Year’s, since I’d previously requested the shift off, so we went up to Chicago for a party with my friends from high school. Every time I’m up there I’m reminded of just how much I’d rather be living there than Lafayette.

Other things are mostly fine. I received a raise from my December eval, so am almost making as much money now as I did when I first started at Bell. I’ve also re-activated my WoW account to play on one of the new servers with Artie and company. I quit playing previously since there wasn’t anyone on Horde-side Durotan, so this should be more fun.

More to come later.

While I considered just wiping out this blog and starting fresh, I’ve chosen, for now at least, to keep my previous posts for archival purposes.

Like the subtitle says, I will try to update this new! improved! blog more frequently than the previous incarnation. I won’t make any guarantees, but at least some of the posts will include content other than pictures of my cats.

In New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood, Stella Chambers died after the twister slammed into her FEMA trailer, ripping it and a newly renovated home apart and scattering debris about 200 feet to the Industrial Canal levee.

This woman was still living in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer post-Hurricane Katrina. That’s definitely adding FEMA-related insult to FEMA-related injury (or is it the other way around in this case?)