The Holtonian

Updates and My money making idea

Well life is cruising at about 65 mph. I don't know what's going on but I'm praising God that he's in control because I have no idea what I'm doing. We're gearing up for Gene's wedding (aka my oldest bro) in Contitecticut next week. It should be fun, bachelor party, food, hotels, the Constitution state, great times.
     Tomorrow we travel to Birmingham for a wedding shower (Not Pete's). Its crazy we won't be in Chattanooga for a weekend for a while. We may or may not be here the weekend after Pete's wedding it all depends on what's going on with Hunt returning from Iraq. He's got a week of leave and my mom might be throwing a bash up in st. louey that weekend. The military's pretty unpredictable and unreliable so we really can't plan anything.

      Other than that I'm pretty stinkin tired.

      A brief game note: I've gotten really into Zelda on gamecube now. As it turns out it ties into the prior game and sort of tries to explain things a bit. The game definitely gets better as it goes along. But I won't say any more cause the wife will get mad.

      Copper is good, he's got a bump on his back, and I hope it's not a tumor. He crawls under beds a lot so I'm hoping he just whacked his back on the bottom of a bed and got a welt.
      Car stuff: It's going ok, the insurance and repair guy seem to be cool. The car still isn't fixed so we're still driving the red-hot dodge neon. Its an ok car, not bad for a rental... smells funny though.
      There's a car dealer in Chattanooga that is apparently giving neons away if you buy another car, not sure how that works but its peaked my interest. Though I need to go in on it with someone because I don't want/need a neon, I just want a pickup truck. My goal is to get a Nissan Frontier King cab, that's the four-door variety. Basically its an SUV with a bed, but isn't ugly like the Avalanche or the El Camino. I like the Nissan because all their trucks are V6's standard, Toyotas come in a 4 banger so you can get stuck with a truck with a wienie engine. The four doors would give me an opportunity not to have to get a new car when kids come. My sentra's dies a little bit everyday... literally and emotionally. It tends to die if the AC is on and I'm stopped. It's not really worth spending money on fixing so I'm just driving it till she passes away. I've been impressed with the Nissan engine since I've pretty much put it through hell and then some. So if you got about 10k you can spare I could use it to get a new car/truck.
      Actually that's been one of my ideas for a long time, asking people for money. I've thought it'd be cool to start writing letters to rich folk, movie stars, musicians, billionaires, and just start asking for money. Basically something like this...

      Dear Robin Williams, or Bill Gates, or Bono, or Brad Pitt, etc,
               You make a lot of money, you might have a lot of money just sitting there that you don't know what to do with. Well I'm a lower middle class person living in the south. I make a modest income but could really use a little help every now and then. Basically if my house was paid off I'd be set for life almost. I mean the majority of my income goes to paying off the house, and if I owned it out right I could use my money in other areas of life, like seeing your (movies, concerts, buying windows, etc...). What I would need would only be a fraction of what you make per day and you'd be setting me for life. If you could spare a few dollars to an average Joe, I'd greatly appreciate the help. And who knows, maybe you'll get some good publicity out of it.

         Sincerely Chris Holton

Something like that, I don't have the stars' addresses... and I don't want to be arrested for stalking or black mail so I guess I wont' do it. But hey if you know anyone who's got their addresses I'd love to give it a shot.