Today is the last day of classes before Thanksgiving break. Campus is mostly empty already. I have one class to attend, at 3:00. This weekend I get to run network cable all over my house. I bought a box containing 1000 feet of cat5e cable. I also got a crimper/cutter/stripper, a tester, and a bag of terminals. Last night I bought a drill bit. I'll need to drill a hole through the wall in Josh/Mike's room, setup a switch in on their desk, run a cable into their crawlspace, drill a hole through the floor into the ceiling of Jon's room, then back track a cable through the first hole in Josh/Mike's wall into my crawlspace, over to the edge of the house and through the floor into the ceiling of the living room. It will be a fun project.

Last night at FHE we played Guitar Hero III as our activity. It's a bunch of fun. I enjoy it particularly because anyone can start playing on "easy" without ever having played before, and be able to do alright. I've played a couple of times in the past and play on medium difficulty. It doesn't matter what system you play on, since they all use the guitar shaped controller, it's just fun. The people that make Guitar Hero, "get it". They know how to let the game be fun without getting in its own way.

Mom and Dad flew into town on Wednesday. Evan is coming in from Laramie, so we'll have everyone except Mike here for Thanksgiving. We haven't had this many of us together for Thanksgiving since Erin left for school in 2000. If Mike had been able to make it, it would been the first time since 1997 that the whole family has had Thanksgiving together.

I'm feeling unmotivated at the moment, so I'm mostly just killing time until I can leave campus today. I just want a chance to relax for a few days.

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