Home, Aaron, and Work.

Dad left for Wisconsin on Saturday, he'll be there for a month. He's driving out there so that he has an available vehicle. He got to Madison yesterday.

I went home Friday and stayed until Saturday evening (to see Dad and hang out with Danny-- James was doing HS band stuff all weekend). Notes from this trip:

1. Don't watch The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. Although I love the Muppets (as Fozzy Bear (wakka wakka wakka) is my favorite), watching a semi-hip-hop The Wiz meets The Muppets Take Manhattan with my parents seemed a little strange-- separately, The Wiz and The Muppets Take Manhattan are great, together not so much. David Allen Grier was really funny (to whom my parents said, "Oh look, it's the guy from Jumanji!"). AND since this is one of their first post-Disney buy-out movies, there are tons of Disney references (which is no good in Muppet-land).

2. Don't buy motor oil and filter and then not change your oil while at a location at which you can comfortably change and dispose of the oil and filter (i.e. home). Now I have seven quarts of Penzoil 10W30 and a filter sitting in my kitchen in a location at which I can't change my oil (i.e. my apartment). If anyone has a garage or safe drive way I can borrow, let me know.

3. If you see your sixteen-year old brother crash on the couch after waking up at 11:30 on a Saturday morning, then it's the best time to run and jump and sit on him and give him a super-noogy (spelling?) because he won't react at all. And Danny's getting rid of the Mohawk. He wants to get a job at the golf course. It will be a sad, sad day.

4. (Last one.) Sometimes getting Outback Take-Away is a better deal than waiting an hour for a table because you can get the food in almost half the time.

Aaron starts his new job as a Documentation Specialist at CSC today. Wish him luck! He'll still work at Spokes on the Saturdays that they need him, which should be fun for him.

And I really like my job, now that I think of it. Not because some days there's work to do and others there isn't, but because I can wake up at 7:30 am and still make it to work by 8. Totally rockin'.