Hello, my name is Aaress, and I am a RSS feed addict.

Life since Hurricane Ike made his grand, but entirely unwelcome presence felt in Houston has been interesting. Very interesting.

I have had the dubious pleasure of living through a few hurricanes in my years on the East and Gulf coasts, but nothing comes quite close to Houston’s Hurricane Ike last night.

All my life I have had a special fascination for Nessie.

For years, I have dreamed about one day traveling to Loch Ness—not to search for the monster, mind you—-but just to see the place where the fascinating legend began.

Now that I’ve had a chance to catch my breath after the US Open, I’m headed back to my school books.

The last six weeks have been fairly challenging with an extra heavy workload thanks to the Olympics and the US Open, family and friend commitments, and projects out and about town, which all summed up to equal a whole lot more stress.

Through it all, I’ve learned (at least!) two things.