It's been a while ... thought I would update!

        Well a lot has happened. I have been working on the paper route and things are going pretty good. You never know what your going to learn about even with a paper route. At night time it's kinda nice driving through the darkness to deliver the papers. It's been a lot colder here in West Texas. A nice change since the summers are so hot. Desert country don't you know. We did get snow for one of those cold nights. It snowed all night while I was delivering papers and then it was gone the next day.
        It's funny, but ever since I have been here in West Texas people have been saying that the weather has changed. We had a lot of rain after I got here and then it has not snowed in years. I hear this kinda stuff all the time.
        Cat's are doing great. I am off during the daytime so they like having me around. At night they are alone. It takes about 5 hours to get the 4 paper routes done that I do on a daily basis. This is a 7 day a week job. Something like the Navy... ha ha...just kidding. But a bit of truth there.
        February I will be calling it quits to Texas and the midwest for a while. I will be heading west to head back to California. I am really looking forward to the trip. I have missed the ocean and the beaches. However, I will be attending graduate school full time. I have been accepted to National Universities Graduate Program. The master of science will be in Database Administration.
        Am currently looking into Doctorate Programs and see if it's worth my time. So far the only Doctorate program I see that is worth anything is at Harvard University. Well we will see. That's an expensive school.
        Now back to the paper route...I have seen things here I have never seen before. I see birds at night time. Some sit in the road and as soon as you drive up they fly away. I have seen whole trees full of birds at night time. I would be delivering a paper and then you will hear many birds chirping or making noise in the trees. It was funny I would drive by one particular tree and I would hear these nice calls and I thought it was someone from a house and then I realized after a few day's that it was indeed birds.
        I have seen two types of owls at night time. I have seen a horned owl and then another variety. These were all seen by driving on the route.
        Now the animal I have seen the most of at night besides rabbits are foxes. I have seen so many foxes here to last a lifetime. On a few occasions I have seen two foxes together.
        Well I take that back... I have seen a lot of cats at night as well. Many, many, many cat's. I am surprised. People just let their cat's out at night here. I do not like seeing a dead one on the side of the road. I do not know what people expect if they do not take care of their animals.
        Recently Actor/Comedian Polly Shore showed up in Odessa, TX. He did the comedy club scene here. Some big Texan got up on stage with his cowboy hat on and punched Polly out. The man was escorted of stage. Polly stomped off calling everyone white trash. Later it was found out that it was all staged. It made the local papers in Odessa of course.
        Last Sunday I was doing my paper route and there was a street blocked off by the police. Lights lit the sky. It was a four alarm fire. An apartment building was burning. This put people out of their homes for Christmas. Two day's later a mobile home park burned down. More people out of their homes. The first one was arson. A 25 year old woman was arrested. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend who lived in the apartment building. I guess previously she had set fire to his car. So she was the likely candidate by local police. I am just glad no lives were lost. The fires were in Midland.
        Oh yeah! I bought a motorcycle. I ended up taking a motorcycle safety training class and found it was pretty good. You used their motorcycles for practice on different courses. I enjoyed that. So I will have this to get around on in San Diego. Especially heading to the beaches.
        Well that's the news for now.