Happy Birthday Barb!

     I had a blast this weekend, period.  My lovely girlfriend (Hi Caitlin!) took us down to Hershey to celebrate her mother's birthday.  We drove down Friday after we both got out of work, picked up her brother from Pitt Greensburgh, and arrived in chocolate town at around 9 that night.  We spent a few minutes with the family then drove off to go drinking with Nancy and Dave at an interesting bar.  I've only heard great things about the Gas Station, but what I saw scared the tar out of me.  Jersey Shore had nothing on some of the douches at this place.  That being said, the company I was sharing was superb, which gives a lot of leeway for surroundings.
     The next morning we woke up late and worked around the house to get Jacob's Creek a little more ready for the holidays.  The main trip of the day sent us out to get a Christmas tree at Misty Run Farms.  This place has all of the charm of picking out the perfect pumpkin at the patch with the efficiency of families running the same small business that they've been running for years.  Once the tree was acquired we rushed home to get it into some water.  With such pressing manners taken care of we continued to CostCo for food and supplies.  We walked out with roughly 300 pounds of animal care products...and Brave.  We had reservations at Sorrento's for 7 oclock, so we parked the heavily laden minivan at Briarcrest and proceeded to gorge on delicious Italian food.  The night ended uneventfully at the OConnell's home with wine and Disney movies.
     Not much to say about Sunday.  We finished up almost all of the decorating and watched Real Steel for Barb's birthday.  The most important part of the day was breakfast at Tatiana's (who's chef is about to appear on the Food Network's Chopped!).  We sat around the house after exchanging gifts and cards and put off driving home until we had dinner at Neato Burrito.  After that the story gets as boring as the ride back to Pittsburgh.  I hope everyone out there has a great night and I can't wait for you to hear from me again!
-Kevin

     Life is an interesting thing.  I've gone from working at the airport, to working at the mill, to not working, to being a barista at Starbucks!  Now the current plan is to start working on the whole getting my life together thing.  It's scary to think that I am at the point of my life where I start using phrases like "Bettering Myself" and "Life Plan".

     Next step in my life is to work on adding a skill that I should have learned long ago, coding.  My current options seem to be along the lines of 1 - Teaching myself from books, 2 - Learning through an online class, and 3 - Community College courses.  At the moment I'm leaning towards a hybrid of the first two options, but my discipline may prove to be a big motivator for option 3.
    
     Other exciting things in my life involve putting paint on little pieces of plastic and metal!  I have 2 big plans with this hobby at the moment.  Phantom of the Attic : Games (Check them out on facebook and use them for all your gaming needs in Oakland) will be running a Journeyman League for Warmachine/Hordes and I've recently picked up a model or two from the Gatormen faction.  My other big adventure involves going down to Memphis to play a big ole game of Warhammer 40K.

     In an effort to keep my ADD at bay now may be a good time to stop.  I look forward to updating this beast in the future and would love to hear any suggestions the internet at large has to say about what's going on out there.  Enjoy folks!