My friend, Kevin, just tagged for this “Four Things Meme” that is circulating on a lot of web designer’s blogs right now. So, without further ado… my four things list.

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Fast Food Cook
2. Vegetable Cook
3. Cashier (at a Drugstore, Cafeteria, and Movie Theater)
4. Web/Graphic Designer

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Any of the old Star Wars movies
2. Any of the Lord of the Rings movies
3. Any Indiana Jones movie
4. Highlander

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Canton, IL
2. Normal, IL
3. Evanston, IL
4. Elgin, IL

Four TV shows I love:

1. Lost
2. Smallvillie
3. My Name is Earl
4. Scrubs

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. St. Louis, MO
2. Mountain, WI
3. Coco Beach, FL
4. Black River Falls, WI

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Pizza - with mushrooms, black olives & garlic
2. Ice Cream - something with caramel
3. Cheeseburger & fries
4. Lasagna - no meat please

Four Two sites I visit daily:
Because I do so many rss feed via Bloglines there aren’t many sites I visit daily.

1. Bloglines - feed me baby!
2. MyYahoo - I life (digitally) in their products

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Home with my wife and son
2. In a studio painting
3. In a video arcade
4. Somewhere outside of my head

Four Two bloggers I am tagging:
I don’t know 4 people that blog.

1. Ashlynn - my niece
2. TommyMac

This year was a pretty good one overall. We went down state a few days before Christmas to celebrate the holiday with my side of the family. A good time was had by all, except when I woke up sick on the morning of the 24th and remained sick until I woke up on Christmas morning. Luckily, I was pretty much over whatever it was that I had and we got to have a normal Christmas day. Quincy got a lot of good gifts from everyone in the family. I think that he is very happy with his haul this year.

My main gifts this year were… A Dremel set and RAID card from Mom & Dad. Star Wars Episode 3 from Troy & Laura. A jingle bell necklace and Pass the Pigs game from Quincy.

There were also a few smaller gifts that I can’t remember right now, but that’s the big ones. Mahra and I also got a Dustbuster from her Sister’s family and A steam cleaner from her parents. Those will come in very handy.

Oh, and a funny thing Quincy said on Christmas morning… Since I slept most of the day on Christmas Eve, I woke up at 3:30am and could not fall back asleep. I got up and laid on the couch to watch some TV for awhile. When 7am rolled around Quincy finally woke up and came stumbling out to the living room looking all dazed and confused. He looked at me on the couch then to the coffee table were there was a plate with a cookie and a half next to an empty glass of milk. Rather than running over to the tree to start tearing into presents he walked up to me, gave me a stern look and asked…

Daddy, did you eat Santa’s cookies? And did you also drink his milk?

After a few moments I finally convinced him that I didn’t not and that they were that way when I woke up. He told me that it made him mad when he thought that I did eat them, but now he was fine. Then he giggle at me, turned to see his gifts under the tree and the opening began.

Last week we spent a few days in the cabin of some friends, just outside of Rhinelander, WI. This was Quincy’s first real vacation and he had a blast, because several of his friends were there with us. That’s right, we had 5 children, all age 4 and under, together in a cabin for most of week. The first night was really crazy and I was afraid of what I had gotten into. After several hours of being stuck in a car, the kids went wild that first night. But, after that night things got easier and we had a really good time.

A hike through the woods, a visit to the Eagle River children’s museum, campfires, and smores were some of the fun activities we did with the kids. And on the way back home Mahra, Quincy and I stopped off in the Wisconsin Dells to go on a Duck Boat ride. Quincy seemed to really enjoy that as well.

Overall, it was a really good time.

Yesterday I was given a hard time by several of my friends that claim I am obsessed with my iBook heating issue. They were mocking me for going on and on about the heat problem and wither I should have gone with a Thinkpad instead.

Well, in my defense, I don’t see it as being obsessed. The iBook is no small purchase for me. And using it in my lap is a must. I think I have a legitimate concern and I just happen to be sharing that concern with my friends that I talk to on a daily basis. So maybe I do bring it up on a hourly basis, but is that obsession?

Ok, so maybe I am concerned to an obsessive level. But the good news is that I’m no longer worried about wither a Mac was the correct choice or not. I’ve been experimenting with the Chill Mat and think I will be able to work something out so that I don’t burn my lap with the iBook anymore.

I’ve been using the Chill Mat for a couple days now and it’s not the greatest, but it does help. The past couple times I’ve used it without turning on the fans and it still keeps the iBook much cooler. So, I think if I return the Chill Mat and get the Lapinator (which holds up the back of the iBook even more than the Chill Mat) I’ll be good to go. I’d still rather not carry around extra gear, but I guess it’s work it to have such a cool laptop.