...weekend...

Went to Birmingham this weekend to see Olivia and just get some general getting-out-of-town done. Left work Friday at noon and left town about 1ish after some general running around. Traffic wasn't bad, met alot of Auburn folks on the road (at least until 65 split North and South) and then I was headed up the Tuscaloosa way with the Alabama folks. Not too bad. Made it to Birmingham after nearly skirting a small wildfire on the side of the road. Met up with Olivia at Nidek and then we went back to her house to clean up and meet Jenn for dinner at La Paz (?)... awesome cheese dip. We stayed there for a couple hours -- Jenn's sister came over after she got off work and just generally caught up on what'd been going on since the last time I saw Jenn (her wedding to Kody in '06). Saturday was supposed to be body pump (slept through it), then running around until kickoff at 8:00 CST. Went over to Olivia's parents house for dinner (amazing steak -- oh man!!) and watched the Auburn game there. Killer game, total hearbreak. Man. I still am a little bit in love with Will Muschamp (my apologies to Mrs. Muschamp). Still think that a couple of calls could have gone our way that didn't which could have significantly reversed the game, but nobody likes a Monday-morning coach so... anyways. and I really hate people who brag about their team winning and my team losing, or even just calling to say "war eagle" after the final seconds tick down. ugh. Is it really that big of a deal? Whatever. Anyways. Got up Sunday and went to eat lunch at an Indian place (The Silver Coin) with Olivia's dad. Pretty good -- it's been awhile since I've had Indian so that was a nice change of pace. Left from there and headed on down the road to home. Made it through Celera where there was a car on the side of the road on fire. I pulled up just behind the fire trucks and scooted on through before they closed the road until the fire was put out. crazy stuff -- I could feel the heat from the car ablaze in my car. wild! good weekend -- had so much fun with Olivia and laughed alot and it was, other than the football game, a nice way to spend a few days.