Good grief, went out to get a few last minute gifts and let me tell you – the shoppers are out in force. Store racks and shelves are in a mess from people rummaging thru the merchandise. I was looking for a coat for my sister, so I joined all the guys wandering around the ladies departments trying to figure out how the sizes for women worked. If I could remember back to my retail days where I had managed some womens departments I would be fine, BUT… I’ve slept since then. I pulled the “phone a friend” thing and got the technical support I was needing and walked out with a gift in hand. Mission accomplished.

I also have a good experience to report from TomTom, the GPS people. My parents are here from overseas and are having to do a lot of traveling around. I loaned them my TomTom to use on their journeys. Thing is, the maps on there are 2 years old. I went to the TomTom site to buy updated maps and found what I needed. The map update was $79. I downloaded it then put it on my device. The next day I was on their website and saw they had put the map update on sale for $59. Craptacular. I made one call in to their tech support line and they hooked me up with a $20 credit back to my card. Great service from them.

Anyway, Megan and I have been getting our eat on this week. Tuesday night we had dinner at Bonefish Grill with our friends Brandon and Jaime. Thursday night was dinner with Beth and Jimmie at The Jazz Factory. Food all around was excellent. Friday night we ate at Red Robin before catching a movie at Monaco Pictures over at Bridgestreet. Whew! Party tonight with Megan’s church group. The fun just keeps on rolling!

I’m sorry my blog has fallen a bit by the wayside as of late, but I’ve had less time lately to spend on it. If you’re following me on Twitter though then you’re up to date on the day to day stuff. Several of my close friends are on Twitter and that’s how we’ve been keeping up with one another for the most part. To that end, I’m still digging my iPhone. So far, it’s the coolest little piece of technology I’ve got. The Blackberry 8700G I had before it served me well, but it’s time had past and it was time for a technology upgrade.

I briefly played around with another “look” for my blog, but it turned out to need a whole lot more time to keep it looking good so I dumped it and went back to this one for now. Wordpress (my blog software back-end) is about to upgrade to a new version any day now and I think this current them I have going will transition well once the upgrade is released. That’s not something I could say for the one I was trying out.

Church was great today! We started a new series titled “Inked : Leaving your Mark” complete with a real tattoo artist and a live tattoo session on stage. You can check out the service HERE. You can also check out the intro video HERE. In that last video, you’ll see Stacey (Kevin’s wife) then Megan (my chica) and then Rodney (Jenny-Fur’s Hubby). Incidentally, Rodney was the one getting the tattoo work done on stage. He’s no stranger to tattoo’s. Check out the intro video and you’ll see.

Kevin was a trooper today. He was actually less fussy despite him fighting pneumonia (or so he says… heh). The band made it just fine with a limited number of “brown” notes. Thanks to Chris for holding down the low end and to Tony for showing us that those guitar effect pedals have more than just a “clean” and “distorted” setting. I’m just saying – if you’ve got technology, it’s amazing what you can do if you learn how to really use it.

Had a great afternoon hanging out with friends for lunch at Rodney’s place. KILLER potato soup over there. WOW. Alexis (their daughter) had an incident with her bike though. She was riding it down her driveway then suddenly forgot how to ride. That’s never good. Funny, but not good. Back home for some laundry and nappage then met up with a crew at Cracker Barrel to get abused by a Dutch waitress. Good times.

Back to work tomorrow which means it’s past my bedtime.