Ahh I almost forgot about this thing!  Well Christmas has come and gone, and now New Year's is on its way!  Christmas was good.  It was nice actually being able to spend time with family and friends.  The past three years I haven't really been able to spend holidays with them due to my job, but I'm going to change that.

So Christmas meant that the NBA is back!  Alright!  Bulls vs. Lakers on Christmas day was great, and I'm so glad that the Bulls won!  It sucks that they lost to Golden State the other night though...  This season is going to be an interesting season.  I have a few predictions that I would like to share.  Here's what I think the standings will look like at the end of the regular season.

Eastern Conference:

1.  Miami Heat

2.  Chicago Bulls

3.  New York Knicks

4.  Boston Celtics

5.  Atlanta Hawks

6.  Indiana Pacers

7.  Orlando Magic

8.  Philadelphia 76ers

Western Conference:

1.  Oklahoma City Thunder

2.  San Antonio Spurs

3.  Los Angeles Clippers

4.  Los Angeles Lakers

5.  Portland Trailblazers

6.  Dallas Mavericks

7.  Denver Nuggets

8.  Houston Rockets

I think I'm stretching a little bit, but who knows.  It could happen!  A couple of teams were hard to place because of what may happen between now and the trade deadline (Magic...).  I think it's a pretty decent guess at it though.  We'll see if it comes true or not...  Anyways, go Bulls!  (And Rockets...)

So New Year's is coming!  I have a few resolutions and goals I would like to share...

1.  Spend all holidays with my family and friends.

2.  Get a consistent work out schedule going.

3.  Go on another cruise!

4.  Expand my sports memorabilia collection.

5.  Get suspension and wheels bought for the RX-8.

6.  Either find a house or get an apartment.

7.  This one is a secret...  :)

I probably have a few others, but for now that's it.  I can't think of anything else at the moment.  On to other topics...

So the other night basically sucked.  For starters, the Bulls AND the Rockets lost their games.  Then, I start the car to head to work and BLINK!  On comes the Check Engine Light.  Great.  So, in the morning I go to Advance and get the code pulled.  Turns out it's RPMs are too high at idle.  Apparently it's either a hose leaking, or a sensor gone bad.  I already had an appointment set up with Mazda on Friday for something else (Clutch Pedal Assembly is cracked, getting it fixed under warranty), so I'll probably just get it taken care of then.  Hopefully it all gets done and taken care of so I don't have to worry about it.  On the plus side this weekend is our trip to Chicago for New Year's!  Got the hotel reservation and the car rental ready, so we'll be leaving bright and early on Saturday morning.  We'll probably be back late Sunday night.  It'll be a good time, this is the first New Year's I've had off in three years also. 

Well I guess I should wrap it up for now.  See you all later.

Well I just bought some tickets to go see the Chicago Bulls!  Oh yeah!!!  We're sitting in the 3rd row right by the Bulls' bench and player tunnel.  That's freakin' awesome if you ask me.  It'll be on March 24th, Bulls vs. Raptors.  I can't wait now!

Anyways, other than that we've been trying to make it through the holidays.  Got just about all of our Christmas presents bought, and tonight we're heading up to hang out with a friend of ours about an hour away.  We're doing a little mini secret santa with a few people, so it should be pretty fun.

For New Year's we're planning on heading up to Chicago again.  I think we're just going to find a hotel somewhere, and then head out to Navy Pier and check out the fireworks.  I think it'll be a good time.

Well I just wanted to update really quick about these things, so I'll check you all later.

Here's an update...  Took the car out for some pictures a little while ago with a few friends.  Enjoy!

Thoughts

Alright I'll try this thing again!  In the past week or so I've done a few things.  On Monday I started my "P-90 Lite."  It's just a shortened version of P-90X I do after I get off of work in the mornings.  I stopped drinking pop on Sunday, but then I had one last night...  :(  I was getting some major headaches from the lack of caffeine though.  Anyways, so Thursday night I went out and bought a MacBook Air!  Wooh!  It's pretty sweet, I'm digging Lion.  I was skeptical to upgrade on my Mac Mini, because I had heard some negative reviews.  I'm loving it though, the multi touch trackpad is awesome!  So I'll definitely have to upgrade my Mini also.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary came out on Tuesday, but I haven't gotten it yet.  I'm pretty excited for it though, but after buying the MacBook I think I might hold off a little bit on it.  Plus, I still haven't played Battlefield 3 enough to justify it yet.  By the way, Battlefield 3 > COD: MW3.  Yeah, I said it.  I like COD for the zombie games that they have, but I highly dislike the multiplayer.  The campaign is alright, but I've only played Black Ops so don't call me an expert or anything.  But yeah, zombies beats everything else in my opinion.

I'm trying to do a little bit of Christmas shopping.  I've got quite a bit done and out of the way so far.  I still have some important things that I have to get though, so I do really need to get on that.  So I guess I'll do that for now, I'll probably update some more later so make sure to check back.

BYE.

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November 13th, 2011

Hello folks.  This is my first blog post here at this amazing place...  Lol...  Anyways, here are a few things that I wish to accomplish with this blog:

~Entertain you with...

   ~Phenominal bboy skills ("Breakdancing" to those of you less hip than I)

   ~Sensational rotary engine goodness (Stuff about my rotary engine powered Mazda RX-8 to you not cool people)

   ~Stupid videos of my dog Horse (My dog's name is Horse, Charlee Horse to be exact)

   ~Wonderful videos of video games (I can't think of anything witty here...)  :(

   ~Whatever else tends to catch my nerdy eye.

I'm sure I'll add to the list as time goes on, but for now that seems incredibly fantastic. 

That seems to be enough for a first post here, so I'll end with a link to a few different amazing places!

My amazing YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/amazingscooterman?feature=mhsn

Another amazing blog:

http://candy-rella.blogspot.com/

Yes!