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Here is a picture I took yesterday. It still looks great.

Well, I’m sitting here at work and our systems have been down all day long. I haven’t done jack squat. It has been a relaxing yet boring day. I thought I would take the last 30 minutes of the day and update my website. Obviously everyone knows that Grandma passed away on November 22nd. It was a tough time, but we know she is much better off now that she’s in Heaven. 2005 was a hard year for our whole family, but we got through it all. I’m looking forward to a good 2006. Good is all we can ask for.

On a different note, the CD is done and hopefully in the next week or two it will be ready for distribution. I think it turned out well for us non-professional record producers. I guess we’ll let the listeners be the judge of that. If anyone would like to have us come and play at your church shoot me an email or leave a comment. We hope to go and play more in the coming months.

It’s time for me to go from here and venture out to the RBC Center and watch the Pack. Max had an extra ticket to see the slaughter of UNC-Greensboro. I can’t turn down a chance to watch them play.

Well Mule Days was this past weekend. Didn’t quite seem the same as last year. I don’t think there were nearly as many people this time. But it was fun anyway. We watched the parade at Max and Crystal’s house on Main Street. She cooked a ton for us and it was good. I hung around and watched the State/Carolina game with Maximus. I’ll save my feelings on that outcome for another entry. Back at the campsite we cooked pork chops on the cooker for supper and had some veggies from the White Swan. A little bit of picking and singing followed the eating. What would Mule Days be without some cruising around town? We got in the back of Daddy’s pickup and rode around and got some funnel cakes. But you know the only time it rained all weekend was when we were in the back of the truck. It came down pretty good, but we survived. After that we ended up going to back to the house. All in all I had a good time. I think everybody had fun.

I have been applying for jobs and finally last week I got a call from Progress-Energy. I have to go ace a test next week but I’m not sure what happens after that is over. Please keep me in your prayers. This could be a great opportunity and there is a possibility of being closer to home. I’m going to try not to get my hopes up because I know what can happen. I’ll keep you posted if anything pans out.

By the way, I want to wish Brinley a Happy Birthday! She’s one of my oldest friends from college and she turns 25 tomorrow on 9/26. So Happy Birthday to you! She’ll soon have her own blog and I’ll link to it when its ready for those of you out there that know her.

For the longest time I’ve been all against the cancer bed. I’ve said myself, you’re going to be all nasty and nothing but wrinkles when you get older. You better enjoy it now because you’re skin is going to be like leather down the road. I, myself have been the proud owner of a farmer’s tan and a sock tan most of my adult life. I can’t explain why but at this point in my life I think I finally want to have a nice tan. A few trips to the tanning bed won’t do anymore damage than those times when I didn’t put on sunscreen resulting in bubbles oozing on my shoulders a day or two later. Heck it will probably give me more luck with the ladies! I guess I’ve convinced myself that the pros outweigh the cons. I don’t want to be the guy on the beach with his shirt off that everyone thinks he still has it on.

After the Wolfpack fell in the 3rd round of the tourney I didn’t have a desire to post anything new since then. So I had some time tonight and thought I’d just tell those of you that care what’s going on in my life.

The new job I was getting stalled out at the moment. I think my eagerness to change jobs got the best of me and proved once again that anything can happen. I’m still in the hunt for it and I’m praying God will intervene.

I finally got my car fixed after months of hearing my tire eat out on the inside. I got my money from my government that overtaxed me and dropped 200 bucks to get the tires and brakes fixed. Seems nice now to have a steering wheel that doesn’t shake and tremble for 90 miles round trip each day.

I have a couple of weddings this month to attend. Next month I’m planning to go back to the mountains and play in the golf tournament like last year. Hopefully it won’t be thunderstorming like it did last time. Also, my 26th Birthday is coming up. If you don’t know my birthday, then shame on you. However, I will still accept your gifts. I guess we’ve decided we’re going on vacation the last week of June. To the beach of course. I haven’t had a vacation in nearly two years so I think I’m due.

In between all of this I’m still playing guitar at church. Our band is growing nicely. I’m hanging with all my family and hanging a lot of the time with the Triple T’s: Taltons, Taylors and Thomas’. Sometimes I get confused ;)

Anyway, that’s a little update from me. So what’s going on with you? Send me an email or leave some comments. I’d be happy to hear from ya’ll.