Well, in a little less than 24 hours, I'll be on CO 2607, from Indianapolis to Houston on an ERJ145 in seat 12A.

The holidays went pretty well, overall. Christmas was nice, but the time with the full family was almost as short as it was last year. We had a good time all in all though.

The day after Christmas, I was ordered to bathe the dogs, which kinda irked me. I figured I would do that though and it would be the end of the big laborious tasks while I was here. Wrong. I ended up spending the following day helping Dad (which in and of itself wasn't bad) fix some plumbing in a neighbor's house. The next day was again spent helping Dad (I still didn't mind helping him, it's just the rest that was annoying) clean up fallen limbs in the neighbor's yard. The next few days blurred together, but they all started with being awaken sometime between 6am and 8:30am, and were filled with the typical "Tim, I need you to..." tasks. This is the only rant I have about the entire time: I was on vacation, and I was here to visit my family. I didn't come here to break my back cleaning the house because someone else lacked the motivation.

I took Mom and Dad out for a nice dinner last night at Mountain Jack's in Lafayette. We also saw "Seven Pounds" before dinner, which was pretty good. For the money I spent on the meal, I was far from impressed. I don't know if I've been spoiled by the Texan food or what, but it was basically a $40 meal that cost $100. Yeah, it was a lot of money, but I wanted to go somewhere with supposed good food. I don't think we'll be going there again.

Yesterday for lunch, I went to Grandma's house for pizza and some board games she and I used to play a lot. We had 2 rounds of "Sorry", which had a final tying score of 1-1. We followed that up with 2 rounds of "Yhatzee", which Grandma won both of. It was a good time though, and I really enjoyed it.

Today, Mom and Dad and I went to lunch at Pizza Hut. Aside from the waitress being a complete n00b (or idiot, I'm not sure which), it was a decent meal. When we came home, I helped Dad with some things on his computer, then we had dinner. I don't completely remember what else happened, but it was a decent day.

Tomorrow will be spent on the road to Indy, then in the air to Houston, then on the road back to my apartment. I have to work Saturday morning, so I'll probably be in bed fairly early tomorrow night.

Overall, I rate this trip 7 on a 1-10 scale (1 being the worst).