Surprise visitor

So I'm sitting in a computer lab at school on Monday printing out some material for my next class, ok I'm also looking at facebook, and I get a text message from my long time friend Nick Carrillo (check out his facebook) his message asks when a good time time come visit is. We had been talking about him visiting for a month or so and we had potentially settled on sometime in March, so I replied "anytime after Feb 14th is great" he said I was thinking more like today. So I say great come today. So I go to class and he messaged me to pick him up at midnight in Austin. Good Times! I'm so excited he is here. He is the only the second friend to visit me here in Texas, the first being Lance Dombrowski, Nick is doing great living his dream of making his own schedule and making a living at something he loves.

Nick was nice enough to take me and my beautiful girlfriend Chelsea out to dinner last night. He wanted to treat us somewhere that was "super juicy". So I did a little research and we decided on Fogo De Chao. WOW is really the best response to the meal we had. I don't know how many of you are familiar with what Fogo is, it is a Brazilian steakhouse. After being helped into our seats we were asked what kind of water we would like sparkling, spring or regular water, being the water snob I am I requested spring and the rest of the table agreed and so our glasses were filled with a fresh bottle of spring water . Next we made our way to the salad and appetizer bar, it was a fantastic spread of traditional brazilian munchies as well as amazing salad toppings. We returned to the table to find a basket of bread, tried it and regretfully informed Nick and Chelsea how good it was so we fought over it the rest of the night. The bread reminded me of Popovers that my Aunt made when she visited. Moving on to the best part of the meal, the meat. So this is the neat part you have complete control of your dining experience, you have a little token that is red on one side and green on the other so when you want meat you put green up and guys come to your table with huge skewers of meat and slice off and this isn't just any meat it was delicious and so many different options from rib eye to fillet Mignon to pork and bacon wrapped chicken. It was unbelievable! By far the best meat I've ever eaten. I would highly recommend this place as a treat to yourself sometime.

After that treat we went and met my good friend Courtney to celebrate her 21st birthday on the square in San Marcos. We had a great time it was really fun to be able to finally buy her some shots and drinks while she was out with us.

All in all it was a phenomenal evening great friends and great food....what more do you need

My School

Here are a few pictures of my campus

The Library


LBJ Student Center


The Quad with Old Main

Work stuff

Not sure if you all know what I'm doing now for work but this is an example of the kind of stuff I've been working on



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Sports Night

So I had to write this short blurb on my favorite TV show for my Programming Electronic Media class so here it is in the rough..... add a comment whats your favorite TV show

My favorite show of all time is Sports Night. Sports night was a great show that aired in 1999 and 2000 but was cancelled due to poor ratings. The show is about making a show similar to SportCenter but it isn't all about sports, in fact their tag line is "It's about sports. The same way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement. It's a Show About a Show About Sports, That Isn't About Sports At All". The show was nominated for 8 Emmy's and won 3. Sports Night was canceled after only airing 45 episodes. The show had an all star cast that included Peter Krause, Felicity Huffman and Robert Guillaume.

I love this show, I own every episode on DVD and still laugh today when I watch it. The writing is really what I love about the show, the jokes aren't real obvious but are slipped in with amazing wit. The show is centered around two anchors of a sports highlight show and their trouble in producing a show every night along with the trials and tribulations of their crew and personal lives. My favorite character is Casey McCall who is played by Peter Krause, and is based loosely on Craig Kilborn during his days as a SportCenter anchor. The relationship between the two anchors is also very entertaining, they care for each other very much but are constantly in competition.

First of hopefully many

Today I start my blog. I would like to write a lot more so I feel like this could be a good outlet for that. This is probably the wrong time to start this since I am also starting the hardest semester I've had to date, but we'll see how it goes. I plan on finding random things on the web and perhaps elaborating on things that stupid people do around me or other irrational things like Braille on Drive up ATMs and such. You may find yourself being mentioned in this blog and I hope that I don't offend anyone. Also I will be featuring some writing assignments for a few of my classes.

Have a good day