1:39 PM

Another Birthday has come and gone.

So I'm 24 now. One year from a quarter century. I almost went out and bought myself a 2004 Pontiac Vibe, but I decided I needed to get out of debt before taking on more debt. I'm planning on getting a 2005 Vibe (taking advantage of year-end clearances) next October as part of my official quarter-century crisis.

Other things going on. I went down to New Orleans last Friday for a property visit and I was suprised to find that Country Day had a major game against district rival (and #2 in the state for 1A schools) Boothville-Venice. I was shocked at this coincidence. Anyway, the CD Cajuns took out 5 years of anger on the Oilers (we hadn't beaten them since my senior year) with a 45-0 blowout. I chose a really good game to go to, I mean I chose a good Friday to go work in New Orleans.

Then Saturday it was down to Thibodaux for Jason and Mary's wedding. Fun time at the reception. Duck quesadillas taste a lot better than they sound. I left my credit card at Rox's Bar with a tab because we left so fast, I never got a second drink. Its in the mail and will hopefully get to the office tomorrow.

Yesterday I didn't do much for my birthday. The boss usually takes the office out for birthdays, but we have 5 in late Sept/Oct, so to save time and money, he just takes everyone to Ruth's Chris. They happened to choose yesterday, so that was good. Otherwise I didn't do much at all.

Interesting speech at Country Day tonight by my history teacher for their Homecoming: "75 Years... In Spite of Ourselves". Wish I could see it. Maybe they will have him do it again Alumni Weekend in the spring.

Friday night is a guy's night at Hooters, names being withheld to protect the soon to be guilty. Saturday is my birthday party/Homecoming. LSU finally takes on the Trojans (even though its Troy, not USC) and I will be in the student section for it (for those of you keeping score, I have not sat in my season ticket seats since the first game).

The next few weeks look like work will be sending me down to New Orleans at least once if not more, so if anyone's doing things in New Orleans, let me know and I might end up being down there for work at the same time.