Well, I made it to the weekend! Still alive! Thank the gods. lol. I’m pretty much over the strep. I have lingering congestion which is profoundly annoying, but I can live with it–I just can’t sleep with it. haha. I flip and flip like a cooking hot dog all night long.

I got a breath away from 67 yesterday on my mage. It was funny, I hadn’t played my mage at all while I had been sick–just a lil bit of Oblivion here and there. But, yesterday I had a bit of a quest marathon in Nagrand and got myself through most of level 66. Maybe I’ll hit it today.

So, my bro has seen a few famous politicians and their spouses grace the airwaves of the radio show he’s producing. Well, this week it looks as though they might speak to Barack Obama. There’s so much I hope my brother asks him, like why he’d be crazy & stupid enough to effectively halt manned spaceflight after the Orion program (after they finish the new crew & cargo vehicles but before they go to the moon). He said he’d also compliment him for not following in Hillary & Edwards’ footsteps in pushing on us government health insurance. So much to ask and say, and probably only a few moments in which to say them. I wish him Godspeed. lol.

I had a pretty funny dream last night. I was flying with my dad–he’s a private pilot, semi-retired from it because of blood pressure issues. I always did love flying with him when I was little. There were some family trips we took that were in a plane–so, just as some people pack the kids in the back of the car, it was in the Cessna 172 with us. Anyway, we had gotten to our destination, I don’t know where it was, and this airport had an automatic taxi system–the plane would be automatically taken and placed in a hangar via a “moving walkway” taxiway. It was hilarious, because the plane ended up in completely the wrong place right in front of the tower. Not a very eventful dream, but pretty darn funny.

From my bro’s site, ProductionNinja.com

In other news, I have a sore throat today. I’ve had it over the past couple of days, but it really got frickin’ raw last night. I lost sleep. Booo! So, I’m taking off and headed to the doc today and resting up. Here’s hoping it’s nothing big.

Ruthie threw me a party yesterday for my birthday. It wasn’t really all that big a surprise for me, I guess. I knew that something would probably be afoot 🙂 Aaron suggested a LAN on that day, Ruthie and I had gone to Michael’s over the week leading up to it where she was looking for cake stuff. And, Friday night Ruthie wouldn’t let me chill at her place because “The Plague” was there 🙂

Of course, what I didn’t know was that the cake was going to be in the shape of an XB 360 😀 So, go figure, during a 360 birthday LAN party we ate an XB 360 🙂 It really was quite the yummy cake; Ruthie used fondant, which was really tough for a plastic fork but very good. And the biggest surprise of that day was that my bro showed up. So, he got to partake in cake, birthday door prizes and some killin’ on the 360. Mostly, we played Call of Duty 4. I don’t know if that sold him or not, but Keith says he’s getting a 360 next week. I certainly look forward to kicking his booty over XB Live 🙂

I got a VGA cable for the 360 via eBay this past week for $5. Even after the shipping, it was still 1/4 of the price for the retail crap that’s out there–$39.99 for an “official” VGA cable. Boooooo! This one suited me just fine at the LAN, thank you very much. I like paying what a cable is worth rather than what it’s licensed for 😛

I got a really kewl Mage shirt from Ruthie, official Blizzard merchandise, of course 😀 Matt & Rynn got me 1600 XB Live points. w00t! I also got one of the door prizes, Snakes on a Plane. I hadn’t seen that one before. Should be interesting. My bro got me season one of Jericho–we already watched four of them over at the ‘rentals today. Between all of that and the wings feast they made, it was quite the happy birthday 😀

Ruthie throws very awesome parties, and Aaron and Beth are certainly quite the smashing hosts 🙂

Today, I’ve been chillin’ at the folks, spendin’ a lil time with the bro before he headed back–he left a short while ago. Now that he’s only 3.5-4 hours away in Atlanta, he’ll probably be popping around once a month instead of every four. w00t! My folks got me a $50 gift certificate to a rather swanky haircutting place…but, I swear I don’t need one yet 🙂