9/9/2010 Update

It's 4 days until I leave and there are still a lot of things to be done before I can depart.  I've got a house (not mine...it's for a project I've been working on) that is supposed to close on September 15th and I finally got all of the closings documents signed today.  Now all I need is to find a mailbox for the buyer and it should be good to go.  On August 30th I had 48 items on my "to do" list.  To date, I've accomplished 27.  This is pretty typical of the way I operate.  I thrive under pressure.  It'll get done.

I've had a lot of time to think these past few months.  It's a byproduct of trying to save money for the trip by not leaving the house.  One thing in particular has occured to me in the last week.  I am REALLY going to miss OSU football. 

I love everything about gameday in Stillwater.  The game, tailgating, throwing the football around, friends, family, cookie eating contests with Austin, the post-game show, Sunday morning post-ops with Mike Holder, etc.  Even when I lived in California, I would always listen to and/or watch the games.  This is going to be the first time in my 27 years of life where I will not be able to do so...and that includes the 0-10-1 season!  It's going to suck.  That may sound trite to a lot of people but Stillwater/OSU is part of my DNA.  It doesn't mean football is the most important thing to me.  Far from it in fact.  It simply means that the atmosphere and the environment mean a lot to me especially when you consider the people I get to experience it with each week.  I've decided that a good consolation to me missing my first football season since birth would be a BCS bowl so make it happen Pokes!

Hopefully the next time I update I'll have some pictures to post.

Cheers!

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” - John Steinbeck