Heidi's Blog
She's even got a link back to my site...Good girl Heidi. I won't make fun of you too much. But you should've let us know so everyone else can go to your site and make fun of you directly.
Does anyone else out there have a blog that I didn't know about? Let me know so I can link to you too. You can find a link to Heidi's site on the left side of my page from now on.
If you're reading this, you've found the right place. Nice meeting you tonight. You caught me at a time where I'm transitioning this site over to my photography site so it'll take me just a little extra time to process your pictures, but as soon as they're finished I'll give you a call and post a link on this webpage. If you have any questions in the mean time you can call me at 361-815-3865 or email me at HollisMiles@gmail.com. The pictures should be up sometime on Wednesday or Thursday. Thanks.
Hollis Miles '07
Bridgette's Pictures
These are just the pics of Bridgette. Later today or tomorrow there will be more of the rest of the dance team and from the game. Thanks.
Hollis Miles '07
I'll be ready for those six weeks to go by so that I can finally lift weights again. I haven't been able to since I got it....so wish me luck. I'm sure I'll get on here and talk about it when I spend all that time in bed and on the computer. I just hope I don't miss the national championship tomorrow because of the anesthesia.
On my journey back to my bed, I turned the tv on to ESPN to catch the recap of the national championship game (I fell asleep around half time I think). It took a little while to get back into bed, then I realized that my remote control for the tv is broken. After four years of using this $99 Wal-Mart TV, the remote decides to break on the day I need it the most. Now I'm watching sports center for the 5th time in 2.5 hours...I can't even turn the volume down. Poor me. HaHa.
Surgery sucks, I'm bruised in places I'd hope to never see bruised, and I look like I've gained about fifteen pounds because of all the swelling....even in my face, which is weird.
Don't worry about me...I'll feel like a new man in about 15 minutes when this medicine kicks in. Want to go for an early morning run?
Coughing and sneezing still hurts pretty bad, but I'm sure it'll stay that way until I get these staples out (11 just below my waist line). I was thinking about taking a picture of the wound just so I'll remember how it looks. Either way, I'm doing fine in case anyone was wondering.
Chris made it back into town yesterday, and he brought a new roommate. Adam, Justin, Chris and I are still here...Lilly and Touche' are too, and now Lilly has a new friend named Diesel. He's a boxer, and our third dog in the house. I'll get some pics up as soon as I take them.
I can understand people visiting from the U.S. I can even see where the occasional Canadian could make it to the site (I don't even know where they found me). But here's a list of countries that have also visited my site...
The United Kingdom
The Netherlands
Germany
Poland
Spain
Russia
Qatar
China
One of the Korea's (probably South Korea, but it's close on the map)
Australia
South Africa
Algeria
I can maybe see where I'd get the occasional straggler from another country, but that's a large list. Where are these people coming from? If you're one of these visitors from another country, let us know who you are. Post a comment and say Hi, Howdy, Guten Tag, or whatever it is that you say.
I'm from South Texas. We don't have ice days, although I used to hear rumors about them when I was a little kid. I'd always hear about my cousins from the San Antonio area who got to stay home on the cold days. In fact, they'd have "snow days" worked into their schedule so they wouldn't even miss out on anything.
I guess this is what it's like north of south Texas....and I'm cool with it (pun intended)
I'm applying for a photography job over at the Battalion. If I get the job I'm going to try and successfully hold three jobs at the same time. I still have my web job over at GERG (www.gerg.tamu.edu). I have the photography business that I'm trying to get rolling (not really a paying job). And I'll hopefully be a photographer for the Batt trying to gain some more experience.
I also need to meet with my counselor today to get my schedule finalized...I know it's last minute, but we got hung up on a few things before Christmas (like my grades). Hopefully I'll be able to set up the schedule right so that I can work during the day too.
This is about the time where my mom is going to chime in and say something about studying....well, I'll bet that I learn more this semester than I do in any other semester during my entire college career....and I'm here to learn, not study. I'm half-way kidding. My classes will get taken care of, but this stuff is important too. I gotta find out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life during the next 8 months of it. As always, if you have any suggestions about which direction I should head, send me a comment.
P.S. If you're the praying type (or even if you're not) send some prayers over in this direction. Jessica has a family friend that could use them after learning about some bad cancer news.
The US Men's National Soccer Team plays it's first game since last year's World Cup against Denmark at 3:50pm on ESPN2. This should be a good game, with a young team and a new coach. I know that there are a few soccer fans that hang out here. You might enjoy this game.
Tomorrow night our Basketball team is gonna beat the hell outta oklahoma state. This game has the possibility of being our biggest win of the season so far. The turn out was better than great on Thursday morning, and the game is completely sold out. Check out these pics from the pull taken from "the12thmanchild.com"
This is all coming at the perfect time too....my senior year. I grew up an Aggie, looking forward to the time when I could come to school here and see my Aggies win. It didn't happen until this year....but I sure am enjoying it now.
We need to get through tech this week and then Oklahoma on this Saturday to stay on top of the Big 12 on our own.
In other news, I'm headed over to CC Creations today to make a few shirts and maybe some business cards for the photography business. Every good business needs a t-shirt right? I don't know how many I'm going to print up...maybe 10-20? Anyone out there have any interest in wearing a Hollis Miles Photography t-shirt?
I also had my first class of the semester this morning. It's a leadership class that I might actually learn something from (weird right?). That class got me thinking again about how much of a waste of time our current school system is...It's something that needs to be fixed. I don't have time to get into it again now (I'm a busy guy), but if you want to read an old article of mine on the subject...click here. I'll probably write again on the subject sometime this week.
His response surprised me a little. He did a Google search on "sports hernia surgery". In his results was my website. He clicked and found my post where I talked about my surgery. He then found my email and decided he would ask me a few questions.
I was cool answering all the questions he had to ask, but that's not the point of the story. What I'm amazed at, is how he found my site. How cool is it that he found my blog where he could ask me whatever he wanted through email about the surgery? The internet is a pretty powerful thing, and I don't think many of us realize what all you can do with it.
I never would've expected something like this to happen when I started this site last May. Label me as surprised. It's stuff like this that makes me believe that the internet will continue to grow and become something even more amazing in the near future. It will turn into something that we can't even imagine right now. It's going to be cool to see all of it happen in our lifetime.
These aren't all the greatest pictures, but I had to put the bad ones in there to have enough for a full gallery.
Let me know what you think about them.
