The last week has been jampacked with graduation fun! Last Wednesday we went out to eat with Kevin to celebrate his graduation from CSULB and starting his new job. Not only did his parents treat us to delicious Lonestar, but we saw some friends we hadn’t seen in a while. Once you get married and start spending 90% of your time with your spouse, you really start to value the small amount of time you spend with your friends.

Then on Friday night we went to CSULB to watch Andrew graduate. He’s got a picture on his website, but here is one I took.

It was really cool to see my little brother achieve such an awesome accomplishment. He’s starting his first real job next week, and I’m sure he’ll do awesome. After graduation we went out to Ruby’s in Long Beach, and then headed over to Marina Pacifica to see X-Men 3. Saturday evening we went over to my parents for Andrew’s graduation party with friends and family.

On Sunday I woke up at 6 am to go to Stacie’s graduation at CSUF. She graduated with her MS in Education with a concentration in reading. Long Beach and Fullerton have very different graduation setups. Long Beach had 9 separate ceremonies for each school in the college, while Fullerton only had two big ceremonies, followed by a second ceremony for each school. Basically what this means is Fullerton’s was a lot longer and much more crowded. All my complaining aside, it was great to see the love of my life honored for her accomplishments. She is one of the hardest working and most dedicated people I know. After the ceremony we had a party at the in-law’s house with some friends and family.

Unforutunately about halfway through the Fullerton marathon ceremony I got sick. Sunday night I hardly slept at all, which resulted in me lying on the couch all day Monday. I never even changed out of my pajamas from Sunday night to Monday night, gross huh? Luckily Monday was Memorial Day and I didn’t have to go to work. This morning I was still only about 75%, but I went to a workshop instead of teaching, so that worked out. Spending all day Monday on the couch gave me time to finish off the final episodes of CSI:NY and One Tree Hill. I started to finish Smallville, but I still have a few episodes left from the end of the season.

So that was my long weekend full of graduation mayhem. Congrats to all the other recent graduates (Mike and Amy) I didn’t mention.

Most posts focus on a single topic, which aids the reader in focusing on that which the writer wants them to focus on. This post however will have zero focus.

Right now I’m sitting in the CSUF library wearing my CSULB Dirtbags hat. Crazy CSUFers have been mad-dogging me the whole time, it’s awesome. I saw a stupid girl wearing a t-shirt that read "Stop judging me based on your IGNORANCE." I wanted to tell her "Stop assuming I give a rip about  YOU." I think it would be awesome and she wouldn’t know what to say. How idiotic do you have to be to wear a t-shirt like that? I’m sure she feels so unique, because after all she bought a t-shirt and was able to put it on correctly.

Yesterday we went to Alcatraz Brewing Co. at the Block with Fanny and Mark. It was good. Then we went back to their house to watch part of the Dodger game and kill some time until cheap bowling started at Del Rio. Unfortunately when we went to Del Rio, not only was there a huge wait, but there were 1,000 dirty little kids running around at 9:30 pm! Now I realize it is spring break, but take your dirty little kids home and put them to bed so us adults can have some fun. Due to the dirty little kids and the idiots that work at Del Rio, we left without giving them a cent of our hard-earned money. We instead went to our house and watched the movie Derailed. Very good thriller and I highly recommend you view this movie.

I’ve been eyeing a computer upgrade for the last week and talked the wifey into letting me buy. I’m replacing a 4 year old videocard, a 4.5 year old sound card, and upgrading memory (which in turn will let me overclock). I’ll post more when I actually get the parts tomorrow and have a chance to see them work. It was only $15 more for overnight shipping, otherwise it might have been delayed until Monday, and that would be as annoying as the girl with the stupid t-shirt.

Spending time on a college campus like this reminds me of my years working on my bachelor’s degree. Can anyone explain why it’s "bachelor’s" and not "bachelors"? Who and what exactly is a bachelor, and why does the degree belong to them? Why not "bachelor degree"?

In case anyone was wondering, I still think we should build a wall on our southern border. In fact, the Minutemen are thinking of taking matters into their own hands. They already have landowners there on the border that would let them build. I love the entire Minuteman project. Ordinary citizens willing to do something when the government is not. If you’re a whiny liberal who thinks the Minutemen shouldn’t be doing what they are, then grab a big box of tissues. They’re only helping to enforce the already existing laws that our country has adopted. Citizens Arrest in da house!

I made what I thought was an awesome post over at Amy’s blog, but the only one who deemed it worthy of a reply was Kevin. I spent a good 20 minutes and a great deal of creative thought developing that post!

Who messed up the church bulletin? It went from a clearly defined layout broken up by ministry to just a garbled mess of text. I liked seeing everyone’s mug next to their little column.

The last two paragraphs were only a couple sentences long. I bet you think I’m running out of stuff to say, right? Wrong!

So now that I’ll have a computer that can actually run games created in the 21st century, any suggestions what I should check out? I’ve got Half-Life 2 with CS: Source, so I’ll definitely fire those up. I tried Oblivion on Andrew’s machine and it looked intriguing. Otherwise there are a ton of games that I haven’t even played like BF 2, F.E.A.R., Farcry, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3, Quake 4, and anything else that came out in the last couple years. I’m not really interested in a MMORPG. Star Wars Galaxies held my interest for quite a while, but that was because I had a profit motive. WoW got old…killing and questing for hours on end…and for what? So what should I check out?

I’m almost done with Feast for Crows. I don’t know what to read next though. There are a lot of other fantasy series I could check out like the Dark Tower series, or Goodkind, or Brooks. I’ve read several apologetic books regarding Catholicism, but I’m interested in reading some about Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Muslims. I know I disagree with them, but I’d like to know a little more concretely "why" I do.

I’ve now spent 30 minutes typing random thoughts, and while it’s been fun, I need to go work on homework that is due on Monday. Off to Disneyland after this and probably going to meet up with a buddy from work. Adios bloggers.