Well, I recently passed the 2,300 mark on Seti. In an ironic twist, Brad is back in our group's Top 10, because Astroboy (the one who pushed Brad out in the first place) ended up quitting the team. Also, Yeechang Lee, a long-time participant in our group (and somewhat of a famous LDS web celebrity), quit the group at some point in the recent past.

We went to Sears a few days ago and had our annual Christmas portrait taken. Here's a low-quality preview from the SearsPortrait.com website (they let you preview them online):



Well, I recently had another birthday, and got a fabulous Baskin-Robbin's ice cream cake. I didn't age at all this year, however, mainly because I thought I was 33 this whole past year, but when I stopped and did the math, I actually was really only 32. Thus, when my birthday arrived, I became 33 (again). Pretty good, huh?

Misti and Becca treated me to some really cool movies for my birthday. We went and saw "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the day after the opening day, and it was really awesome. The spiders were creepy, but this movie has more 'teeth' than the first one. Lucius Malfoy (Draco's dad) is really good in this movie (i.e., Jason Issacs, the guy who plays him, is really excellent).

I also got "Star Wars, Episode II - Attack of the Clones" on DVD. I had forgotten how long this movie really is! I really like it, though. It's my favorite so far, although I already know that Episode III is going to be the best one out of all six.

Becky says "olive" now, as well as "cat", "guh" (for dog), "muh" for cow (moo), and a few other choice words. David left for the MTC a couple of weeks ago, and we've been trying to catch a glimpse of him on the MTC webcam, but haven't yet been successful. My folks got a letter from him today, and he's doing well and his Espa�ol is coming along nicely.

We babysat Sarah a couple days ago whilst Marci, Brett, and Rachel went to also go see Harry Potter II. We went to Comstock Park, and the kids had fun running around and playing on the playground equipment.

Becca's first paper cut happened yesterday, and she was sad. The funny part, however, was watching her afterward fighting with the band-aid. It was really irritating to her to have something stuck on her finger that she couldn't get off.

I have joined yet another distributed computing project, Distributed Folding. Their DOS command-line client works really fast, which is nice because it lets you climb up the ratings fairly quickly.

I wonder how many Americans bite the inside of their cheek? I know quite a few people that do for various reasons, including stress, worry, or anxiety. I do, too, but I'm not really sure why I do. Hmmmm. I'll have to see what I can dig up on the web regarding the subject.