My Aunt passed away this morning. God Bless Her.

Yesterday was December 26th. The high temperature was 79°F. This time last year we had snow on the ground. The average high for yesterday is 56°F. Crazy weather.

I can go to bed at 11:30 PM, don't get up until 11:30 AM the next day and still be tired all day. I don't even have to do anything. I can just lounge around and be lazy all day and I still sleep for 12 hours. I hate it.

When I first reported (to this website) about the new 747-8 I hadn't yet updated my 747 page or add the 747-8 specifications. Well, now I have.

The title explains is all. But you're going to have to see this one for yourself...

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Just look at the awesome power this beast yields.

Since last Wednesday I have been in my hometown. My parents were required to go to Idaho to visit my Aunt. She happens to be in the hospital with cancer. Many of my family members have died of cancer. Looks like one more is going to be taken. Although I do continue to pray, I haven't lost hope, and hopefully neither have my folks. I have to be in my hometown because my Grandmother needs taking care of. You see, she has to take like 10 pills a day and she can never keep them straight, or remember to take them at all. So I'm here taking care of her.

There comes a time in ones life where the young must start taking care of the old. My mom and I got in a car accident when I was three. I wasn't injured but a disc in her spine was crushed. She was in bed for a year after the surgery. She couldn't take care of me, and my father had to work. So enter my grandparents. They are the ones that took care of me. Now, in a way, I feel like I am repaying back the favor, even though I know that she didn't do it to get something in return. However, it makes me feel good just the same.

You know, we used to put Christmas lights on the house and put a Christmas tree up because it was mainly done for the kids. Moreover, since the kids (me, since I am the youngest and have grown up, but still the baby) are moved out of the house there isn't much point. However, I decided to cheer them up a bit and put the lights on the outside of the house again. (Although not crazy Christmas Lights, even though I want to figure out how some day.) Maybe it will make them feel better when they return.

It sort of puts the Christmas Spirit back in Christmas don't you think? Now if only we could put Christ back in Christmas. But I digress.

Well, I got another 4.0 semester behind my belt. That's the second time I have done that in three years. Easy in highschool, tougher at a University. Anyways, that brings my cumulative GPA to 3.75. So I'm pretty proud of that.

In other news, I got in Fred Langa's Newsletter again. Don't know why he is being so nice to me. I have, I think, like 9 links to his site from mine scattered about, not to mention the rotating buttons on the left nav bar. So, everytime he links to me (and since it sends so many visitors my way) I will reciprocate the favor and link back to him. So here is Fred Langa's website which is "[a] Free Site from Fred Langa Designed To Help You Get More From Your Hardware, Software, and Time Online."

Here is the 12/09/05 talking points from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.

Sears and Target see the Christmas Light

Sears and Target see the light, the Christmas light: that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."

While the secular media continues to spout there is no Christmas controversy, in the real world, we have proved there is. More evidence:

Apparently Sears and Target, two operations that were not saying "Merry Christmas" have turned around and are now Christmas kind of people. That's not good news for the anti-Christmas forces.

Take a look at this cartoon in USA Today, which has been drifting left over the last years. It has a scary looking anchor man, probably me, shouting Christmas warnings. Then the cartoonist takes a shot at conservatives and says the whole thing is "faulty intelligence."

Well, that's the kind of thing we have seen over and over in the media. Today on the CBS News Radio with Christopher Glenn, he reported conservative Christians forced Speaker Hastert to call the Capitol Holiday tree a Christmas tree. Yes, those conservative Christians again. Oh.

Of course liberal Christians, Jews, atheists, all kinds of people are objecting to the diminishment of Christmas.

This is about respect. Banishing the words "Merry Christmas" is simply disrespectful to people who celebrate that federal holiday.

Out on Long Island, where I live, a politician actually interrupted a Catholic priest who was blessing a town Christmas tree. That was blatantly disrespectful. The politician, John Cayman, has since apologized, but really enough's enough. Christian Americans have a right to celebrate Christmas without being demeaned.

Some more examples. In Dodgeville, Wisconsin, the Ridgewood Elementary School has changed the song "Silent Night" to "Cold in the Night" and forced the kids to sing the lyrics, "Cold in the night, no one in sight, winter winds whirl and bite," to the tune of the original "Silent Night." Simply absurd.

Want another one? OK. In Plano, Texas, just north of Dallas, the school told students they couldn't wear red and green because they were Christmas colors. That's flat-out fascism. If I were a student in Plano, I'd be a walking Christmas tree after that order. --Have a little thing on my head.

"Talking Points" understands that you, the viewer, know what's going on here. The good news is we're actually winning. Nearly every time we embarrass the secular forces, they cave. Only a few stores are now banning "Merry Christmas." They are listed on billoreilly.com.

And once again, we're not going for a boycott or any other punitive action. We are defending Christmas. We are exposing people who are disrespecting the federal holiday and the media that covers it up. And we'll continue to do that.

And that's "The Memo."

I think that is one of the worst examples. Not allowed to wear Green or Red. That is one of the most pathetic and disturbing things I have heard in a long time.

"My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things up to my goal of a house.

I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005.

You can read stories about each trade."

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I have lots of paperclips I wish I had this guy's bartering skills. Currently he has traded his paperclip through five or six items to a snowmobile right now.

I have finally finished my last final. All in all they were not too bad this semester. Next semester is going to be my hardest semester yet.

This weekend I get to see my brother graduate, again. This time with a masters in business. Which is cool.

It was a strange day today. Things just seemed more quiet. There were not a lot of people or cars on the streets. People in my office were quietly working away. It was just a relaxed day. I'm not the only one that noticed it either, when I went and got a hairshave (notice not haircut), she (beautician) said something too. Isn't it interesting how one person's actions affect another. Some kind of wave must have happened to cause the city to be so quiet. It reminds me of those soda (I think Coca Cola) commericals where somebody was handing them out on the street and started making everybody happy.