My Life Blog

Today we went to see "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".  This is now the second Harry Potter movie that I’ve seen without having read the corresponding book.  I managed to read the first two books, so I had the benefit of the background context for those movies.  Suzanne on the other hand "inhaled" all six books within two months.  As a result, she usually fills me in on what the movie glossed over or how it deviated.  Its her opinion that this one was probably easier to follow.  Still, I have mixed emotions about going to see these movies without having read the book.  The books are so well-written that I feel like I’m probably cheating myself out of a good experience.  Nonetheless, the movie is highly recommended if you follow the series.

On a different note, I had waited all season to see what UT was going to do to my Aggies.  I feared the worst as they had been demolishing everyone.  Early on, UT took a 14-0 lead and I had that disappointed feeling you get when you start eating a taco and the bottom cracks in two.  You know its going to get messy, but your committed to the experience.  But it turned out better than I thought.  The Aggies hung in there and were competitive for the entire game.  Though they lost 40-29, they bested UT in most offensive categories.  So now I have a little hope that next year will be a better year.  But Texas is just a machine this year.

I have switched my websites to use Google Analytics as it offers tons of information for free.  I had previously used Sitemeter and the outdated Urchin package provided by my hosting service.  But speaking of analytics, I’m wondering how Web 2.0 apps will affect the analytics field.  As it is now, most everything is measured on page loads, but Web 2.0 apps will reduce page loads in favor of intermediate intra-page visits to web servers.  So I’m curious to see how analytics will evolve.

For our first Thanksgiving together, Suzanne and I invited my parents up from San Antonio to enjoy the Holiday with us.  Our not-so-hidden agenda was to send my old sofa back home with them and thus clear out space in our garage.  As Winter approaches (if it ever approaches), we’ll need the space in the garage for one of our cars.

This was Suzanne’s first time to cook turkey and dressing, but you would never have known it.  She flawlessly planned and prepared the Thanksgiving meal along with the many in-between meals that we needed to keep us going for three days.  She was an unbelievable host to my parents and continues to reaffirm my decision to spend the rest of my life with her. 

If the cooking weren’t enough, she spent almost the entire day Friday shopping with my Mother.  While shopping is not combat duty, I was still impressed that she could spend the entire day with her Mother-In-Law. 

Suzanne and I have been to Kauai twice and recently were married there and so its obviously a special place for us both.  As we have merged households, we have been looking for pictures to put up in our bedroom.  We wondered if we might find any art that would remind us of Kauai.  And we have.

The picture immediately below and on the left is one we chose to represent our waiting spots on the beach.  Its called "Paradise for Two".  The picture on the right is even more special…its the backdrop of the exact beach that we were married on.

These pictures almost seem like windows to Kauai as they hang on our walls.