Not a whole lot going on, apparently.

Went to the Carolina football game on Saturday. At least the weather was nice.

Sunday I drove around in the 'Sploder looking for new places to go mudding. Yes, I am all that is man. Well, if all that is man amounts to doing donuts in muddy dump sites until the windows are so covered in dirt that you can't see out of them. Good times. I found this really awesome area that's a material site for one of the local developers. It's easily several acres of open marsh, with no trees or anything - just mud. My shrink says it's important to make time for my inner child. And just who, exactly is my shrink? Why, the advertising geniuses at Miller Brewing, to whose ads I'm exposed for easily an hour a week, considering the football that goes on around my house.

I'm sure you all caught the recent OJ arrest. Lately, it seems that celebrities are acting more and more like crackheads. I mean, we've got Britney who's really gone pretty far down the path to trailer trash. I've got to admit that the only thing that seperates her from anyone who lives in a double-wide is her bankroll. And if things keep heading this way for her, she won't even have that. And Madonna recently called herself an ambassador for Judaism; which is just so far out there I can hardly process the information without disentegrating into bouts of laughter. That's like Whitney Houston claiming to be a poster child for A Drug Free America.

The Wife and I are getting further and further into this home-buying thing. We've talked to builders, checked out a few existing homes on the market, and spoken with a few lenders. The money thing is virtually a non-issue. Our credit is in the stratosphere, so really all I'm going to do is shop interest rates. We know what we can afford, what we want to spend, and what we want in a house; and there's plenty of overlap there. I'm most interested in negotiating upgrades and incentives out of the builders, and playing builders and sellers off of eachother. I truly enjoy negotiation tactics; and a market like this only helps me. The best part is when parties start to tire, they just want to make the sale; that's when you hit 'em. I mean, you can't abuse them or anything; but you can lean on 'em and that's when they really loosen up.