TSO

Last night Erin and I went to a Trans-Siberian Concert at FedEx Forum. They rock. We are not exactly fans of Christmas music, but they jam out in a way that makes it entertaining. The string music goes great with the electric guitars. The string music was provided by the Memphis Orchestra. The concert was kind of broken up into two sections-the Christmas story and non-Christmas music. However, they ended with my favorite song of theirs, "Carol of the Bells".
We decided that long dark hair is necessary to be a guitarist in the band. They were some serious head bangers. We were very impressed with the band's musical talent.
Overall it was a great night, we found free parking, although it was kind of far away the temperature was perfect to walk in. Only negative of the night is that we had to take our camera back to the car after been checked at the front door.

SNOOZING THE DAY AWAY

Christmas break is a time when relaxing is possible for some of those in the education world. I am currently on Christmas break and I do not have any morning responsibilities. So that got me thinking, what constitutes sleeping in. One friend I talked to yesterday acted as if my time of awakening at 8:45ish was late. Later that day another friend said, 8:45 is sleeping in for you? That got me wondering. What is sleeping in?

HORNS

Driving around Memphis I hear lots of horn honking. Most of the horn honking that I hear is unnecessary; the honking is only for the purpose of showing displeasure of someone pulling out in front of you, etc. By honking for that reason the purpose of the horn is lost. Car companies did not install horns for drivers to show anger to another driver. Rather, horns should be used to let a car know that they are there so they shouldn't back up and things of that nature. But since horns will not stop being used in that way, I have a suggestion for car companies. Multiple horns. One horn could be one that communicates "come on out" as someone is waiting to pull out in traffic. Another horn could be "don't back up I am here". One horn could communicate "hey, I know you". This would save a lot of confusion and immediate defensiveness when a horn is blown.

W, X, Y, AND ZAMBIA

Erin and I are going to Zambia this summer. We are very excited. Sycamore View Church of Christ (the church we attend) supports mission work in Zambia and take a trip every summer. This mission trip we are going on will be of the medical sort, so I have been searching around Wikipedia on how to perform major surgery. I am sure there will be more bloggage about this event in the future. For those of you who are not familiar with the location of Zambia-which would include me if Sycamore View was not involved-there is a circle drawn around the country on the map above.

MY FIRST ADULT PARTY

That title is a real attention getter. But all I mean by that is a party in which people dance, drink alcohol (don't worry my friends, I did neither), and there is no charge to enter. This party also had live entertainment adding to it's party atmosphere. What makes this adult is that adults were there. Last time I was at something of this nature was in college at a frat party. So you may be wondering why I would attend something so unlike me. Good question. It was a thing for Erin's work. The live entertainment was good, although a little loud. A little loud? I am an old 24 year old. The entertainers were very interesting as you will notice in the picture.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR...

There are some subjects that I would like to take the time to blog about but:
a. I don't really have the time.
b. I am tired of writing stuff.
But I have just brainstormed some ideas, so keep your eyes open in mid-December.