A little blog time. Laura just went out for lunch and I'm almost done downloading some prgorams.

But anyway, about the interview. I would really like to work there with the kids. Granted they were probably in their best behavior since I was a guest there, the interviewers were like, "What? They're good kids??" and stuff like that. I'm sure if you work there and they get to know you, they'll get more mischievious and stuff. But yeah, I would like to think the interview went good. I'll know mid next week if I'll get hired on as a trainer/on-call. I would also like to work in the cottage that I stayed at. They were fun man.

I talked to TJ yesterday too in like months. He called and I picked up. He was like, "Dude, am I really talking to you?" lol, it was funny. He seems to be doing well, so that's good. Seems like we're both in the not-do-much-in-the-daytime mode. I really need to find a job too. For the dog's sake! :)

I hear Ashley just got/or will get a bassett today I think. I'd like to see it sometime. Maybe a picture or something.

Chris and Alicia coming up last night was fun. We just went and ate dinner and came back and chatted for a while. She seems nice and I think he like her, so yeah.

The iPod Nano is alive and kicking. It's almost out of it's first charge in the battery. It's weird and stupid at the same time because I'm just using it in front of my laptop when I could just listen to it on my laptop and save battery life. It just sucks that I have to recharge it via USB and that I can't listen to music while it's charging. Other than those quirks, it's pretty damn cool.

Cool, one of my programs just finished downloading. It's the new Macromedia Studio 8...don't tell anyone. :)

But I'm going to check that out and back it up now, so I'll write again soon.

SO I just got back from my interview at the Cathedral Home. I'll write more about it later. I think later on Chris is coming up.

Finally, the two things that I was waiting for this week comes. First the phone, which isn't as good as I thought. The service is so-so here, but I haven't really used it beyond my desk, so we'll probably give it a little more time. I don't have the many minutes that I used to have, but it is also a lower plan, so. Still unlimited weekends.

The other thing? A white iPod Nano 2GB...and I'm loving it! I didn't think I would, but I do. Reminds me of when I used to use my minidisc a lot, just much faster to copy songs and stuff. I copied a few hundred in a few minutes and was on my way. I think I'll use it a lot. I just can't stop playing with the touch sensitive wheel. It's ingenious and actually really easy to use!

But yeah, tomorrow is my interview at the Cathedral Home...I'm still not sure what I'm going to say, but I guess what happens, happens.

I think Chris and Alicia is coming up tomorrow to visit. I'll report on that tomorrow night.

I think that's all for now. Laters.

Almost there, that is, to getting my fricken phone. If the UPS lady comes by at the same time as yesterday, it should be in about an hour. Then by 4:30pm I should be getting my brother's iPod Nano gift. I can't wait to try it both out.

Tomorrow I have an interview deal at the Cathedral Home for kids and teens. I guess they first take you around the facility and then leave you in one of the cottage to see how you interact with the kids. Kinda weird, but anyway. I don't even know what the hell I'm going to talk about!

Nothing else new really.

I FUCKING HATE T-MOBILE AND THEIR STUPID ASS SITE THAT DOESN'T WORK.

So now that I know my cell phone is going to be cancelled on the 25th, I'm probably going to order my phone Monday or so, probably from T-Mobile. They're the cheapest and they supposedly have service here, so, we'll try them out. So far, I've tried Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and now T-Mobile. Of the previous 3, I like Sprint the best.

No word from job offers yet. Doh!

Gonna go see Two for the Money tonight. It's a gambling movie thing with a good cast. I think it's going to be good. Which reminds me, I REALLY wish Comcast was here in Laramie since they just upgraded their network to 6mpbs...that's fast! Bresnan here is at 3mbps still. Anyway, that was a tangent. Apple trailers changed their layout a bit and they've finally introduced QT7 for Windows, so we can watch HD trailers. It's pretty cool.

On another tangent, Laramie, I admit, had some nice sunsets. It seems every day it's an orange one. I like that. I'll have to go and take some pictures sometime.

It's starting to get cold and I do feel the Fall (Autumn!) feeling. But anyway, I'm gonna go surf a bit.

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Is this a blog? Yes it is!

So what's been up? Nothing much. Been to a couple of interviews and I haven't gotten a reply yet...that was late last week/today, so maybe mid/later this week. Other than that, just playing a lot of HALO to pass the time. Things are good, though.

Yesterday was a cell phone company madness...I had to call to cancel my Mom's number and switch my AT&T to Cingular...after a half-hour/hour, got that done...realized that Cingular doesn't have a good service up here...so I called again to cancel my new plan that isn't even started. The thing is, the lady who talked to me the second time was the best customer service person EVER for a phone company. First, she answered within 2 rings...that's a first. Second, she didn't care about me cancelling my service. Damn, that's how it should all be. Fuck quotas and "upgrades" and shit like that. I'm the customer, I want to quit, I'm not going to change my mind, let's just make it easier for the both of us. Anyway, I almost thought about taking her name/rep number or whatever to file a superb comment. Oh well.

So soon I'm going to be getting either Verizon or T-Mobile, since they both have service here. I here Verizon has the better of the two, but they're more expensive...tough choice.

Last night we went to dinner at Laura's friend's house and he cooked up dinner and all that. It was really fun. The food was good and although I sat there listening to them talk about Psychology most of the time, it was good and enjoyed listening. It was just a different kind of discussion that I'm used to, but yeah, they're fun, nice, and hopefully we'll do that stuff more often.

Sittin' here sippin' my tea, I should call TJ. I haven't talked to him since...well, August 11th or something crazy like that...shit that's 2 months! Such a bad friend I am. :)

Tell you what, I'm going to call him right now...be back...

*intermission*

Haha, so the time I call, he must have been busy or something because he didn't answer. Maybe next time.

Gloomy day all day today. Sorta snowing in the morning, sort of raining in the afternoon, it's just "stale" right now. I just made that use of the word up. I wonder if it even makes sense.

So yeah, my internship coordinator must be busy or something, I haven't heard back from him since I turned in my last assignment. I need to make one last appointment with him to get it all done. I hope that happens soon.

Over the last weekend, Laura and I went down to Fort Collins to eat dinner with her parents and Ellen. It was good. I drove the way back. Didn't see anyone else there, but that's ok I guess. I wonder what everyone is doing these days. Their own thing I guess.

Maybe tonight I'll watch some Early Edition or something and chill. Or maybe I'll just play more HALO, haha. I should really stop using Laura's laptop to play games. I'm constantly hogging it and she probably wants to play Zoo Tycoon or put the SIMS and play it on there since it's the best laptop money can buy, well, close to the best.

I helped Laura's parents buy their new computer. Hopefully they'll like it. That reminds me, I have to send my brother his laptop back up DVDs. I'm sure he'd like that soon. It's been like 2-3 weeks!

Speaking of my brother, www.motogolf.com is finally open. Go buy some electric carts! You have to be quite rich and play a lot of golf, though, since it's quite pricey. Other than that, hopefully things will pick up in terms of sales. I'll get $30 per cart or something after paying the initial capital.

This is quite the blog! I should really write more since I basically do nothing. I've been tired lately, though, and that's weird considering the fact. I don't know. I'm gonna end it here for tonight.

Keep ya updated more hopefully.

I can't make this a long one, because I'm about to head to bed, but this is my first blog from Laura's place using my laptop and, guess what, that means I found my wireless card! It was wedged between my CDs in my boxes all this time. Doh!

But yeah, I think I just finished up my last assignment for the internship, a thank you letter to my supervisor, and I'll probably send that in to my coordinator tomorrow.

That's all for now. Sorry for the shortie...haha, that was funny.

Bye.

So I'm about 75% moved in. All the stuff that I brought up is settled in and sorted out. I really don't have much to bring! Chris helped moving a trunk and a hamper up in his car. We had lunch/dinner and he left. I'm typing this on Laura's new laptop. It's nice. I've been playing Halo the last couple days.

The thing is, I forgot my wireless card for my laptop, either that or I misplaced it and I don't know where that is. Anyway, I can't surf on my laptop as of yet. Hopefully the card will surface soon.

Other than that, I have to find a job!! I haven't gotten paid yet for my last pay period...which is strange. I hope everything gets sorted out tomorrow morning or something. I have to pay some utility bills and such.

I have to get Motogolf.com going too, and to get my brother's actress friend's website up.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll hopefully be writing from my laptop soon so I don't have to use Laura's.

See ya.

Welp, I'm getting ready to move tomorrow up to Laramie. I've got most of my stuff ready to go. Truth is, there isn't much that I have and the stuff that I do have is already packed up in a way from the last move. The big things left are pretty much my desk, which I might get something new anyway, so I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it, my futon, which I'll get when I find a place and my furniture, which Chris is going to keep. That's all. Just little stuff you know.

It's sort of exciting starting a new chapter and at the same time I'm sort of nervous. But one thing's for sure, I'll be with Laura. :)

That reminds me of a saying that one of my group members said about this big, important project back in school that we were working on and stressing out about:

"I'm not sure why we're stressing over this. Everything will work out in the end anyway, it always does."

I don't know, that somehow stuck to my head and I think for the most part it's true. It's weird how much we worry for nothing sometimes. I know everyone's had one of those experiences before.

One thing I HATE worrying about is getting a paycheck from CSU. Today was pay day, but alas, it hasn't gone into my checking yet. I got worried so I wrote an e-mail out, but I won't probably get a response until Monday. The thing is, I'm sure I'll get the money, so I'm not worried about that...so what am I worried about? I don't know. I just want things to work sometimes.

I caught a glimpse of the movie "Alive" today, like the last 20-30 minutes. I would have liked to have seen the entire movie, but anyway. The show right after was about the incident. I didn't know it was a group of people and that they survived for 72 days! That's crazy. And then I was thinking about one moment in the movie/incident. They interviewed one of the survivors and he said the most emotional part of the experience was when they were sitting in the airplane and they heard the faint noise of the helicopter.

Okay, I'm weird, but I was thinking to myself, what that feeling would be. You know...you've been in the middle of the mountains in the cold, no food (well, yeah, you know what I mean), the search for them has stopped after 8 days (but they don't know that obviously) for 72 days...they all probably lost hope, faith, whatever you want to call it and they are ready to die. And then out of nowhere a helicopter appears to rescue you. That moment of relief where you say to yourself, we're saved!...I want to know how that feels like.

That was a long rant about nothing. And of course a lot of the survivors were like, we prayed, we had faith in God, yadda, yadda. Call it what you guys want, but you guys got lucky! Plain and simple, lol.

Anyway, I'm going to wrap up my moving stuff. Here's to good things in the future!

P.S. I'll call you TJ, soon!

Time for an update and to play some catch up.

It's the 26th. So, last Thursday and today, as well as tomorrow and part of Wednesday, I've been and going to be volunteering at RMNP. It's been fun so far. The first day was 4 hours of data entry, helping this guy out. He's pretty funny. Apparently he's a big runner (along with other employees). He went camping to Steamboat with his wife and his car broke down so today ihe wasn't in. Today I worked with another girl that's head of the greenhouse. Man, I shoveled and worked in there all day. It was good though. I think I got sunburned (sunburnt?) in a few places. Her name was Laura, and yes, MY Laura is hotter. :) Tomorrow if Bill's back, I'm back to the data entry and then a few more hours on Wednesday to call it good.

I have to write up a journal and then a special project report and rate my supervisor and I'm done. What a relief. Now, I have to find a fucking job! Hooray! Oh well, I'll be moving in with Laura for the time being. I want to get an apartment that I can have a dog in. This time's for the reals my boy! Haha.

But yeah, it's been nice working with people who like to work outside and like nature. It's a change, from the "city" life of Ft. Collins and stuff (granted I'll be moving away from the city in a big way!) I like the simple, small town life. But anyway, Probably Wendesday I'll visit the park again using my pass and just walk around, thinking and stuff. It really relaxes you and I like that. It's so quiet, minus the cars that go by every now and then. I should walk into the park more and it'll be totally quiet. Maybe I'll get lost?

So yeah, that's what's been happening with me. I wonder how everyone else is doing. I've been busy and so have a lot of my other friends that I haven't really gotten to talk and catch up with them. I occasionally get IHOP with Ashley to see what she's up to. I talk to Laura. I haven't talked to TJ (I will after I get all done and I have some time!). Chris, well, he does his own thing now with his girlie. High school times baby!!

After I find a job up in Laramie, it's time for me to start another project with another friend at CSU. A college photo album website. It should be fun. We are deciding to do it before the big websites start to do it, like The Facebook and stuff. Hopefully it'll be successful!

Another thing is that my forums' software is running out of time to renew and I've been donated, so far, $145. I didn't think so many people cared! I was just going to raise enough money to renew for the year, but now I can purchase the license outright, hopefully. I sold my bro's laptop for $225, so I was going to use some of that to build my computer, but alas, probably won't happen. I'm going to buy some photo album software and pay bills with it. Oh well. Time will be soon my boy!

Come to think of it, I'm not really sure what's so funny about that saying but yeah, TJ's weird like that. Haha.

On Wednesday, another chapter of my life will be flipped over, opening a new one. I wonder what this chapter is going to be called? My last chapter, I will call, "My loooong college years." and the numbers of pages is, well, the LENGTH is 5 years. That's a big chunk of my life. I'd like for my chapters to be shorter in length, but oh well. We'll leave this next one tentatively titled "No name for chapter." Maybe I'll be finishing it in about 2 years. :)

So I'm about ready to finish writing. I wonder if my writing skills have been improving over these years? And I'm hungry. I want McDonald's and when Chris gets home, I'm going to make him drive me.

Some random facts about me:

1. Whenever I type, I ALWAYS use my right thumb to press the spacebar. I've tried using my left but it's just too weird and my typing speed dramatically decreases.

2. I have $1630 left on my credit card and I haven't used it in a looong time.

3. At home, I never sit in front of my desk with both feet on the ground.

4. I've collected $985 from PERA. lol.

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Some cool lyrics from an old song.

Switchfoot

"This Is Your Life"

yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
yesterday is a promise that you've broken
don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
this is your life and today is all you've got now
yeah, and today is all you'll ever have
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes

this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose

yesterday is a kid in the corner
yesterday is dead and over

this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose

don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes

this is your life are you who you want to be
this is your life are you who you want to be

this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose

and you had everything to lose

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And for the answer to the chorus, yes. :)

Now I'm totally sick and tired of all the news that has to do ANYTHING with hurricanes. Katrina, Ophelia, Rita...fuck man. I hope a huge one comes and they call it Hurricane Holy-fuck-what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do.

I tell you, the next thing is going to be tornadoes...and then earthquakes...and then we're going to realize that when Mother Earth gets pissed at us for destroying Earth, we can't do shit.

Hell, let's make use of all that wind and prop up a few wind generators down South. That'll at least do some good.

Rant over.

I figure it's been a while, so here's a post.

Yesterday we received Laura's new laptop from Dell and I took it up last night to give it to her and install a couple of programs. Man, the laptop is huge, but it's really nice. Now I'm thinking, I should have bought another one of those since Dell sort of stopped their awesome coupons. Laura's computer was $1200 and now a similar setup costs anywhere from $1800-$2100...I can't believe that! I could have made a few hundred dollars of profit. Oh well. But yeah, the graphics card in that puppy is the best for any laptop right now.

Tomorrow is my last paid work day, but have a few hours of volunteer time. I wonder what's going to happen. I got a letter from RMNP saying that if I don't hear from them in a week, let them know. A week!?! I need to know now. I want to get this internship finished up if you know what I mean. I might see if my boss will just let me work through the week at the office and just count that toward my internship and call it good at the end of the week. Hm...we'll see about that tomorrow.

And it was a hassle yesterday because I got an e-mail from the accounting lady and she said that since I wasn't registered for the Fall, which I need to be I guess and Summer registration doesn't count, I had to go in and fill out this form. Oh yeah, TJ, guess what form? PERA! Haha. So it looks like this paycheck and next paycheck, some portion will go to PERA. So I should get a few hundred dollars back. Haha.

Sent in a resume at a environmental consulting firm for a IT position. I hope I get it.

But other than that, nothing new really. Just gotta get crackin' on finding a job.

Will report later.

I was going to write in here just now, but I'm going to go play Halo 2 for a bit. Be back later.

This post is for Laura!

I would write you an e-mail but Gmail is down and I'm about to watch Early Edition...and to escape something...company.

P.S. Oh, Gmail is back up.

Time for some reflection.

So this past weekend I drove up to Laramie to hang out with Laura. The drive there was awesome. Here's why.

I was driving, cruise control set at ~72-73mph, and I passed a whole 3-4 trucks. That's about it. Maybe a car or two here and there, but it was just a really nice drive. I had all the windows down, sunroof open, and the music cranked up as loud as I've had it in a while. The songs that I chose to put on the CD was perfectly chosen for the situation. They were, how do I put it, those summer-time, just cruising down the highway, wind in your hair, sort of songs, you know? And I don't know, maybe it was me seeing Laura or whatever, but at that point, for the hour or so, life was great. Well and of course the rest of the weekend was good too.

That trip made me want to go on a road trip again. Like when Ben and I went up to Buffalo, Wyoming to see a friend. Or to Grinnell, Iowa to see a friend. Turns out, Ben and I hung out quite a bit and had some good times. It's a shame that I don't see him at all anymore. I think he's even in town too. Strange how that happens. To tell you the truth, well, I won't write it here. That thought is for me.

And of course, good things come to an end, sort of. The trip back, on the otherhand, sucked because there were lots of people and they just wanted to speed on by. You know me, I don't like getting passed by people. This one truck was crazy. I almost, really almost sped up to the same speed as him as he was passing me to make it so he had nowhere to go and he would hit the oncoming car...is that bad of me? I don't think so. :)

So I have about a week left and then some volunteer time and I'm off into the real world, again, so to speak. I have to start finding jobs here pretty soon. Either that or get my little project going asap! Time is nearing the end my boy! Haha, that was for TJ since he wrote a bit in his blog.

What I might do in the near future, is to make it so all of my blogs appear on one page, copy it and paste it into Word and print it out, like 2 to a page like a book. I think it would be sort of a cool thing to have, you know. I'll be like, yeah, that's my autobiography. Haha. I wonder how many pages I can fill.

So in a couple of week's time, my internship will be over as well, and finishing up my assignments, doing my internship rating and all that and getting a grade. I hope I get an A. I don't think I have a problem with that, though, unless my boss just messes up my rating since it's worth 40% of your grade!

Sadly, because of my stupid ass business management teacher's B, I won't be getting a 3.0 ending my college career. I really wish I would have...just one F or D converted would have done it, but I think I did a good job. I mean, my GPA when I returned to CSU from FRCC was 1.333! If only the FRCC grades transferred. My goal was to beat Chris out of school as well as beat him in GPA. I may or may not do the latter. I can't believe how much I changed after the first 2 years. Dunno what got into me. The thing is, Chris has so many withdrawals on his transcript. I don't know about anyone else, but I for one don't like to "quit"...even though I sort of did when I got kicked out. At least getting kicked out and quitting are different, right? :)

So I may be getting my brother's laptop. The thing is, his laptop had the same problem as Ashley's overheating and stuff. He sent it to me so hopefully I'll get it soon and if I can fix it, I can use that instead of getting a new computer. The thing is (god I say that a lot!), I think I can sell it for parts and get enough money to get my desktop, which would be SCHAWEEEEEEEEEEET! But on another note about laptops, I ordered Laura's laptop too. It's a greatly configured Dell with a $750 off $1899 coupon, so with a mini mouse, it came to $1210 shipped. Should ship about 9/19. I decided to get a loan for it through Dell and Laura can give me the money to pay the entire thing off to build my credit. Sneaky huh?

What else is worthy to mention? Um, not sure. I redesigned the guy from Boulder's website, which I already said, but this is the new redesign: http://www.voipnuke.com.

Well it's getting pretty long and I'm going to watch some TV as I head to sleep. Lately I've been thinking about writing a fantasy novel/book/story too. I have an idea, but I'm not sure how good of a write I am. I don't really know what the standard way to write conversations and how to make the story and chapters flow and stuff...oh well.

Here's a pretty website I look at once in a while just for visuals: http://www.joshuaink.com/

Aquarius - signing off...

OK, I've just about had it with this Katrina stuff. It's one thing when you really try to help. It's another when the Food Network announces "Please help the victims of Katrina. Go to FoodNetwork.com." WTF??? And uh oh, now all of a sudden we need to look out for tropical storms to the east. Ophelia is going to kick your ass!

:|

Perhaps Mother Nature just got pissed?

Welcome to another edition of me babbling. I haven't written here in a few days. I don't know why. Nothing much has been happening, but it seems the last few days has gone by faster than normal. Weird.

So, lots of talk still about Hurricane Katrina. Recently I've been reading a couple of things on the internet about people starting to get annoyed of all the Katrina talk. To each their opinions I say. I tend to not read into stuff like this, as there isn't much I can do. It's great that people are donating their money, jobs, homes, etc. But again, like I mentioned before, why does it take such a big disaster to make it happen?

Enough of that. On September 11th, there's going to be a show on the Discovery channel called "The Flight That Fought Back." I guess it's supposed to be about the crew of flight 93 (I think) that apparently saved others doing whatever they did. That's all good and well, however, when the commercial for it says that the show is to recount what happened on that day and what the "HEROES" did, it sort of pisses me off.

I guess the discrepancy comes when you talk about the definition of "hero." This is a hard definition, since everyone has their own definition of hero. I can't really think of a good definition or even a good example for some reason, but I myself would not call the passengers of flight 93 heroes. Answers.com has a list of people that are commonly recognized by heroes (and some not so common like fictional heroes), but obviously I don't agree with all of them. I won't even start to name some of them because it'll just start a big argument. But the bottom line is that the term hero should be reserved for much more than society deems it to be these days.

Going apart from the rather "down" topic, Motogolf.com is almost ready for launch. My brother has put the files and papers for it to become an LLC here in Colorado and once that goes through, it'll open. Probably in about 3 weeks I guess.

I've been working on other projects as well. Hopefully at least one of them will see completion. I need to start looking for jobs as well. Time is nearing the end my boy. I am hoping to do some volunteer time up at RMNP possibly working on weed/disease control (probably a technical terms for pulling weeds) and/or working with elk and stuff on chronic wasting disease. That would be sort of interesting. I will probably start finding stuff in Laramie soon.

A little about the image for today's blog. It's the main character from a Japanese cartoon that I used to watch as a kid. I glimpsed the name somewhere while surfing the web and I miss watching it. Not sure if it's even playing now since it was like early 90s, but yeah, it was cool. If I had to put it in modern comparison, it would be like the equivalent of the X-Men series, I guess, coupled with a little bit of the Addams Family...whatever. Haha.

I guess I will leave this with a little word annoyance (I'm not even sure what the correct answer to this is). How is the name Forrest (from Forrest Gump) pronounced?

I'm an advocate for Fawh-rest...sort of hard to write it in words but like the "fa" from the word "far". This is as opposed to the more popular "forest" as in, uh, the dense gathering of trees in an area. Oh well. Who cares...right?

So one of those songs that I listen to a lot, this time around, is Howie Day's Collide...and the chorus is especially thought-provoking:

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide

Yeah, it's been on the radio a lot, but it takes a few weeks to sometimes really listen to the song, if you know what I mean.

I just got an interesting idea for a gift. I guess this won't be until Christmas time!

I really want a new computer and I configured one for about $400 shipped that'll handle all my needs. Can't get it though, because I have other shit to pay for!

Oh well. Back to work tomorrow.

And one super random thought that's been in my mind for a while. I would pay a buttload of money to have a movie made of me and Laura and our life from a "3rd person perspective". That would be good. Photographs work, but only to a certain degree you know? I need 3-dimensionalism!

P.S. I'm thinking about moving this blog to another location so I can have more control over the design...we'll see about that.

Got back today from spending the weekend at Laura's place in Laramie. I had fun. I miss her but it's only a couple of more weeks, well, maybe more like a few more weeks before I may move up there. It'll be all good. I'm going to send in the app for the graphics designer job for the Cheyenne job probably tomorrow. I really need to get cracking on the Laramie apartments and businesses thing...I think it will work! I just need to get my mind set to it, more so than before. The thing is, my current job is sort of the thing that's keeping me at bay.

1 more month at this job. I can't believe that if I were in Alaska still, I would still be there, until the 15th. Crazy. I think most of my coworkers would be gone, save a few since they started school and all. I wonder how their summer turned out and all that nitty gritty stuff.

Looking back, this summer was a crazy one, for all of us. Me, TJ, Ashley, Laura...maybe not Chris since he's not been really doing much other than school and work. His routine hasn't changed for like years. Anyway, yeah, onto more interesting stuff.

Laura brought back the bow and I have it at my house now. It's pretty cool. It's pretty much the best weapon that I've ever got. ;) I'm going to probably buy some sweet wooden rods, sharpen the tip and get some feathers (okay, maybe not real feathers) so it'll fly straight.

I've been ITCHING to start a website...and put some Google Ads on it. Haha. I've just been reading about how Google Ads can give you a pretty steady income if you have a website with decent traffic. I think it would be cool to run a website with TJ. Once he gets a steady internet connection, maybe he will. We could just have a website were we have our individual opinions or something about anything and everything and people can come and comment on them. Then we can have projects like Cock Eyed. So in essence it'll be like that, but with a journal sort of thing. I think it would be fun. I was thinking of domain names and www.twoguysandanopinion.com is not taken. Haha. Long address, but it's pretty funny. Get on the internet connection out there in Iowa! :)

What else. Just paid some bills, nothing much else. I guess Comcast cable is upgrading their internet service nationwide right now, from the East to West. Colorado should be upgraded within a week or so but yeah, that's cool it's getting faster. Can't complain with that!

Well I'll keep this one a short one. Talk to you later.

P.S. Where's that blog TJ? Haha.

Well, with the ideas and help of Laura, I might have found something I want to do in Laramie!!! (With a part-time job to go with it probably for the beginning at least)

More info later...

...on second thought, I guess I would add something else. The importance of actually doing something when you find something you want to do...I think I really may try and do this. There might not be an opportunity again in the future, you know?

Another day, another day.

Didn't do too much again today. Ate lunch with Ashley at IHOP by my work and decided not to go back afterwards. She came over and scanned some pictures on Chris' scanner, but that's about it. I cleaned my bath tub since it was getting slightly dirty. I'm not a fan of dirty bathrooms. But that went well and I even used some bleach stuff.

Been watching Early Edition, but I think the re-run season started over from the very first episode, so they're the earlier ones and I don't think they're as good as the later ones. It's still good to see/remember how the whole show got started. I didn't realized a lot of the other casts were in it so much in the beginning.

Today was sort of cold in the morning and the high was only like 75 or something. Cool and refreshing day I would think some would think. That was a very poorly constructed sentence.

I didn't go and take pictures of Fort Collins yesterday. I would have, but I got lazy. Taking a picture of everything sounds and is daunting! If only I could hire someone and just get the pictures on my comp without me taking it.

Yeah, that's seems to be about it. I have to fill out this application and send it in to the Laramie Community College by the 12th...I'll probably send it out tomorrow night or something. They'll start screening on the 12th and I wonder if I'm going to have to go up there for an interview. I mean, I would like it, but I don't want to drive up there if I'm just going to be coming back and I'm not getting the job. Yeah, that sounds selfish doesn't it? Well, I'll be going now.

Talk to you later.

This is a short blog while my laptop defrags, and then I'm heading to bed.

Wow, that really was quick. The defrag is done. So I'll be back later!

One more post before I lose the thought. I was watching Early Edition and in one episode, Gary opens this chest whose owner was the previous guy who got the paper. Anyway, the paper inside the chest had one sentence, probably meant for Gary. It said:

"Live your life"

Now, I'm not getting tomorrow's paper or anything, but I thought that phrase was really powerful, in a weird way. This combined with listening to this one song prompted me to write this entry.

Yeah, I guess I don't want to say in 5, 10, 20 years from now, "I wonder what would have happened if..."

Anyway that's all! I'll leave this blog with a message for Laura: I love you! :)

So yesterday I took a trip down to Longmont to lend my Mom Laura's printer because my brother in law won't help her. All went well and she go sushi for dinner, so that was good.

Anyway, a weird and crazy thing happened on the way there. I was turning onto Taft Hill going south from Prospect and an accident happened like, literally a few feet from me. I'll try and explain it (as I saw it or think what happened, at least). I was turning right. I think there was an SUV behind me and you know how if you're ever behind a car and they're slowing down to turn, you might swerve out to their left so you don't have to slow down as much? Well, that's what the SUV did. Keep that in mind. At the same time, there was a car wanting to turn left onto Taft Hill from Prospect, I remember that clearly since I saw him. And if you're ever wanting to turn left onto a road, you sometime go out to the intersection and anticipate a car coming down the road and you actually start turning left before they're out of the intersection...right? Ok, well, he thought the SUV was going to stay in my lane (the right lane) and I think he was starting to turn left...low and behold, the SUV wasn't in his lane, he was swerving into the left lane of Prospect, so it hit the left front of the car turning left.

I heard a big crash and I turned behind me and there it was. The guy in the smaller car was ok, I saw him get out and walk toward the SUV. I'm not sure what he was going to do, probably beat the shit out of the SUV! I mean, it was his fault. He shouldn't have been switching lanes at the intersection. Now I can understand even more why that law exists!

But yeah, for like a minute, I was like, dude, that could have involved me! And then I was listening to trance so I forgot about that. It was just a close call. Makes you think about what might have happened if you were involved. Like, I'm sure I couldn't have been part of that particular accident, per se, but in the future. Crazy stuff.

Laura is doing good I think in Laramie. She misses me a lot and I do too, but hopefully I'll be up there soon. She said people there just drink and all that, but yeah, what's with small places and people just drinking? Can't they just hang out? I don't understand. Laramie isn't THAT small, like 30,000 people, but anyway.

Just like Laura said to me, it seems like everyone right now is in a state of limbo, in terms of where they are in their life, what they want to be doing, what they are doing, etc., with the exception of a couple of friends I know. It's a weird time for sure. I've got about a month before my internship is over. Well, at the least paying part. I have to do 30 hours of volunteer, since they couldn't pay me for the entire 400 hours. My boss is trying to set something up where I might help out in Rocky Mountain to finish up the internship. That would be fun.

I'll probably start looking at jobs here pretty soon, probably starting sometime next week. Monday, I finally finish up my root canal with the crown procedure. Oh yeah, I haven't really talked about my tooth, have I? It's been good. It was sore a few blogs ago and I guess the problem was that I wasn't using it ENOUGH...or so I think the problem was. I starting slowly using it and it's all better, so.

I'm curious was TJ is up to and what he's thinking about doing. I also need to get his brother's e-mail address so I can ask him to make me sword! Haha. I actually do want a sword if he can make one. I would even consider paying for it! How cool would it to have a broadsword or claymore or something like that in the room and say to your visitors, if you fuck with me, I'll go King Arthur on you. lol. That was really nerdy, but oh well.

I think that's it for now. I'm probably going to make some coffee with the coffee maker that Laura bought me. It's working great (and it's was only $20!). I've been listening to a lot of new (old?) songs. They're old to the music industry, but they're new to me since I've never heard them. A lot of them are reflective songs and I like that. Well, that's it.

See ya.

Today I went to a work lunch meeting with some of the web people. I'm not exacly sure why I went, since I was hoping they would pay for the food and they didn't, and I really didn't say much because it doesn't concern me, but it was fun to do that with my coworkers. We went to Woody's pizza, which I don't like really, but oh well.

Tomorrow they're having like an ice cream social because one of the guys from DC who's doing the seminar is here and wants to visit the office so that's an excuse for an ice cream social.

I downloaded two good songs today, I think one's pretty old, but yeah. They're good. Tomorrow is going to be a laid back day. I'm probably going to head to work and I'm going to leave around noon and come back. Do my journal assignment for my internship and call it a day. Man, it's been boring.

My brother is really getting into the selling the electric cart thingy. I'm helping out with the website, obviously, and I guess I have 25% equity. lol. The website will be located at Motogolf.com but it's not ready yet. It will be open in a 1/2 month or so. This one's been a learning experience since I had to integrate a shopping cart and stuff since people will need to buy the carts. I guess I'll be doing all the sales parts, like forwarding e-mails and such. We'll see how much money this is going to make.

Another thing I've been sort of working on was building websites for businesses in FoCo. I think I wrote that already, but yeah, I have a template site set up and everything. Just need to find a way to approach this. Gotta think it through a bit more.

Laura is doing good I think in Laramie. She's been hanging out (I think) with her classmates and she starts school next week. Oh yeah, and we've been talking on Google Talk a lot too. It's a lot more convenient than typing, since I can just talk and so can she. I need to get her a headset, though. Then you can just surf and talk and it's so easy. Google is making everything better and they're going to take over the world!

I think tonight I am going to watch Early Edition. I haven't had the chance the last 2 days since I've been working on websites, but tonight is a chill and watch Early Edition night. Should be fun.

Other news? Not really. I've been involved more with the forums than recently...I'm about ready to let it go, for real though. October is when the forum software runs out and I ain't payin' another $85 for renew it. We'll see what the future hold for it. It's been just over a year now. Cool huh. 826 members too! I doubt I'll reach my goal of 1/4 the student body, but oh well.

I'm going to go make some coffee now to get ready for the show. Talk to you laters!

I'm not writing much at all tonight. I'm about to head to sleep. I'm pretty tired. Anyway, TJ's doing good back in Iowa, but he's figuring out what to do I guess. I'm sort of in the same boat, well, getting close. Come October, who knows what will happen?

I've actually been thinking about going to Wyotech, an auto school in Laramie. I was thinking about doing the auto body degree. That would be fun I'd think. I'm not sure how much it costs and everything, but they do have FAFSA and stuff, so I'd probably get grants and stuff. Then I can work at mechanics shops and stuff. That would be fun.

Well, that's about it. I'm tired, so I'll write again later. See ya!

Quick post while I'm waiting for some car videos to be downloaded.

Gloomy little Saturday afternoon. Laura is out shopping for dresses with Ashley at old town. I'm not sure when I wrote last, but since then, Ellen has moved into Allison. I think I wrote that, but oh well. Looks like she's settling in good I think.

Laura start her school stuff on Monday, like orientation or something and the week after I think she starts classes. Next week is sort of busy for me in terms of work, maybe. I have a meeting I'm going to Monday afternoon and Thursday a lunch meeting, well, I'm just really sitting in, with the big web developer from Washington D.C.

Chris is probably going to finish up building his computer tonight. I can't believe he bought that much stuff. That reminds me, I don't think I wrote that yet. $2500! Fucken eh. I could have made 4-5 COMPLETE systems for that that'll play games just fine. I guess that's what the rich does!

I think I'll stop for this blog. Talk to you later.

I just got done watching Early Edition on PAX TV. Such a great show. I then got online and checked out the status on Early Edition and what everyone (if any) had been talking about it. I was on IMDB's site and going through the forums. People were actually still watching and discussing it. I was surprised, so I posted too. Haha. Anyway, yeah, this episode was the one that was posted on the bulletin boards, about how Gary gives the "job" down to someone. Freaky!

And then I wondered how it would be like if I got tomorrow's paper. Would I do the right thing? Would I abuse it by looking at the lottery numbers? I don't know, I'm greedy sometimes, so I probably would.

I wonder if someone "saved" my life up to this point in life, like in the episode. Makes you think if things that are happening in your life is totally random or "nudged in the elbow" so to speak.

Laura is coming down tomorrow to help move Ellen in to the dorms on Thursday. Come to think of it, Chris is coming home tomorrow too I think. Gonna be a full house for the day I guess.

I'm going to head to bed now. Long day tomorrow.

I wonder how many blogs I will reach by the end of the year. 400? 500? Well, I hope it's not 500 because that will be about 1 per day or so (quickly calculated in my head so I could be way off). Been having PB&J sandwiches a lot lately. Cheap and filling! Sort of.

TJ called and I wasn't here to answer it. He was just about to leave for the island. Come to think of it, I haven't used by cell phone in a long time. Sure, for calls here and there, but I never carry it with me anymore. Sort of cool since I'm not always looking at it or fumbling around trying to figure out where I misplaced it and that sort of thing.

Funny thing happened at work today. This morning was unusually foggy, so I turned my lights on. As always, well, not ALWAYS, I left my lights on when I got to work. Luckily Shannon was told that there was a red Civic outside with the lights on, so she came and told me. It was about an hour or so. I'm surprised it lasted that long. Anyway, I go to lunch and come back to see Shannon by the office door, calling someone. She comes up as I get out of the car and says she left HER car light on and the battery is dead. Now, it's not funny, but it's funny, you know? Very ironic. Anyway, I would have jumped the car, but I don't carry jumper cables with me. I should and I don't know why I don't, because it's probably the best thing you can do to keep one set in the trunk for emergencies. All said, one of the IT guys had a set of cables, so they jumped her car and all is well.

It's been cool lately, weather wise. The transition to Fall is coming! I think I already said the same thing earlier, but yeah.

The gist of the blog is to always carry some jumper cables!

I'm listening to an awesome Sarah McLachlan trance track that I wished I've been recording. Anyway, some interesting news.

So that CSUMaps thing? I mentioned it to the guy in Boulder I do websites for and he got all excited and I think we may work on a Boulder version or listings and stuff with pictures. Since he's a cab driver, I was going to hitch a ride and take pictures one day. We'll see how this pans out.

Laura is coming down in a couple of hours to stay the night tonight and tomorrow morning we're going to head to the CSU Oval for a dog show. My coworker is going to be there with her dog and my boss is going to be there as well. Should be fun. Afterwards, we're going to head back up to Laramie, since her Mom is coming up for the day I guess. Dunno what we're doing up there, not sure if I'll go yet or not.

TJ is leaving in a couple of days. Hope he has a good trip and that the experience is a good one. I e-mailed Casey a couple of days ago and she e-mailed back, saying she was doing good and she's actually going to Alaska today to visit friends up there. Ironic? I think not!

Well, I'm doing laundry, so I'll write back again.

It's Friday!

Not much at all going on. Laura was here for the last few days and went home this morning. I might go down this weekend, but I'm not sure. Probably just for Sunday if I can get a ride up there. I have to do another homework journal over the weekend to turn in for my internship. It's already 4 weeks into it! I can't believe it. Time flew by quick, which is bad since that means I'm nearing the end of getting money from work.

I'm dreading starting my next step in my CSUMaps project, which is to take the pictures for my map. Yup, ALL of FoCo, if that's possible at all. Maybe when Chris gets back, I'll make him drive. That's the thing, I would do it now, but the stop and go driving, coupled with the insane gas prices for some reason, don't go together.

I'll write again later.

See ya.

Just a quick thought. In about 3 months, I would have been blogging for 4 years. I don't think there is anything else in this world that has captured the events in my life better than this blog, save my brain and a couple of close friends. One day, probably never, I need to sit down and read through this thing in one sitting to do a flashback on my life. 4 years! I can't imagine that. That's a 1/6th of my life, written on, not paper, but online. Crazy. God knows that I would have never written this much by hand!

Well, I'm headin' to bed. Now that I have the TV in my room, I might watch a couple of shows or you know, channel surf until I find something good. I've actually been into the home shopping network and the local channels for some reason!

I found a pretty good trance streaming station to rip for the next few days. I like the music it plays and it's all high quality 192kbps baby.

So that big project at work is being put off for this year, meaning I don't have to develop it. I was looking forward to making stuff that people would actually use, but yeah. I did finish up another thing that I was working on for the last week or so. I sent it via e-mail to my bosses to see if they like it. I'll check tomorrow about that.

Chris left for the next 8 or 9 days I think to head to California. Pretty quiet here actually when people are gone! Laura is coming back tomorrow though, so we can hang out.

I just got an urge to get a new hard drive just for storing music, although I already have that in a sense. I just want a new computer I guess. It'll come in due time.

I'm going to check some job openings and stuff. By that time, Laura should be calling, so see ya laters!

So Laura moved all of her stuff to Laramie today. It was a long day of moving but yeah, we're done. The furniture dolly was actually helpful in making the armoir move quite easily. :P I know Laura, you were right. I think because you kept saying "dolly" I was thinking about the long, tall, skinny kind for grocery stores. Anyway.

Gotta turn in my timesheet tomorrow morning. Another week of work coming up. I'm not sure I'm supposed to be working on the big project that the big boss wants for the coming 4 weeks or something. I thought I should get on that, you know. I don't want to hear come 4 weeks that they need it and I'm like, oh, shit, I didn't know that. But yeah, I'll start on that tomorrow.

Not much news really. It's been quite hot the last couple of days for some weird reason. The house is like, not cooling or something. It's like like 90 or 91. A couple of weeks back, it was near 100 and it felt cooler. Oh well.

I'm running out of things to write, so I'll see ya next time.

Well, TJ left yesterday with his friends. Not really left for the islands, but probably left enough that I won't see him until he gets back. Not sure if he's going to be reading this blog frequently or anything, but if you are, hope you have a great time, better than my trip to Alaska at least!

The last few months have been super fun with TJ, making videos and hangin' out in general. He's been a great friend. More so than others sometimes, but that's another story and probably not suited even for the blog! Anyway, have a blast.

Today at work was funny. One of the coworkers who's really into World of Warcraft reached level 60 on his character, which is the highest level you can get. My other coworkers who also play, bought him a cake and 60 candles as a "birthday". Haha, it was funny. I think he was embarrased since he didn't want to explain the occasion, because it's sort of nerdy, but it was fun. Made me REALLY want to play and get into the game, but I need to build a better computer, which can be done for about $400. Not bad at all. I was doing all kinds of configurations and cutting corners to make it cheaper and stuff. I mean, I'm not going to be playing the most demanding games or anything. A little more research and hopefully I can get a computer piece by piece.

My first post from work since I came back!

Anyway, it was a weird morning today. I woke up at like 3:30am for some reason and wen back to sleep. The next thing I know, I woke up at 8:00 or so, and I was like, WTF? I was looking at the clock, thinking that it was one of those weird movie dreams where people wake up and the world's all different and stuff. But true enough, it was 8:00am...I didn't get it for a while. Laura said that I got up when the alarm went off, at 6:30am and I was trying to turn it off and she turned it off for me. I guess I went to bed. Strange thing is that I remember NOTHING of that occurrent. WTF?!?! I should know if something like that happens. Oh well,

Last night, I guess Chris went and bought a video game and video card to play the game with and his hard drive malfunctioned...so he had to re-format it and now he lost everything on his HDD...haha, I have to say, it's funny. He says he followed the directions, but I have a feeling that he didn't.

I am about to leave for Fazoli's to eat lunch with Laura. Should be good. I'm probably going to have the chicken parmesan again. It's good.

Gotta go!

Wow, another in a few hours!

Anyway, watching the trailer to Rent, coming out this Winter sparked me to write this.

Haha, 525,600 minutes!

But, seriously. A year is a long time. A lot happens in a year and a lot of us know that from experience. I haven't seen the musical yet, but I want to. If it's playing here in town, I would definitely see it.



Ok, so I thought we were going to head out to eat something, but since it's 2 for Tuesdays at Domino's, we did that.

Anyway, back to Rent (which I actually have to pay on Friday!) Yeah, watching the trailer for some reason makes me want to spend time with Laura and friends during the Christmas season. I don't know what it is, but the whole image of people walking down downtown, wearing scarfs, lights on the trees, and perhaps snowing just appeals to me. I like doing that or at least imagining it if it's too cold or something.

Yeah, And Laramie might be a good place to do that too with all the old houses, buildings and I really like the small community feel. I would like to live in a small community someday. I'm not a city person I guess like my brother and other friends that I know.

Oh yeah, another tangent, the other day I was thinking about seeing Crash and when I was out a week or so ago, it was just like Crash, in the sense that the world is a diverse place and we are surrounded by them, and those that "work together" without dicrimination...if you get my drift. My example. That day I ate breakfast, I forget where and got helped by a white person...later that day, I went to go get some school stuff and a latino guy helped me and he REALLY, REALLY insisted that I get a bag for my stuff, but I said it's ok. He was just really nice, not something you'd expect from the way he looked. This was at Long's Drugs. Then I think I ate at Taco Bell or something and another latino person helped me. The whole day was just weird. Don't get too many days with more contact with non-white than white.

Maybe that's what I liked about L.A. The fact that there are so many people, doing their own thing, and although they don't seem like the helping type of person, they do have good in them. People look out for each other, discretely and covertly, if that's makes sense. It's like an unwritten rule. I would assume that in L.A., for instance, Asians will help out Asians more, generally and so forth with the other races...not to sound weird, but I think white people are the least helped or attended to by other races in my opinion. Latinos, black, etc., in my opinion, will help out the white race the least among all races. I don't know. I could be just talking out of my ass, but I know what I know and I know what I've experienced. Hell, my old middle school's demographics, which I found easily, broke down like this, although this is NOT a 1996 census, it's probably still pretty accurate:

"The students come from diverse backgrounds, including 72.1% Hispanic, 12.5% White/Non-Hispanic, 11.4% African-American, 1.5% Asian, 1% American Indian, and 1.5% Other ethnic backgrounds."

All I can say is that I won't find that kind of shit here in Colorado! MOST of my friends, however, strangely as it may be, was white. Maybe just over half. The rest were pretty much latino and Asian. Not quite sure what the 1.5% "other" ethnic background is, but that sort of tells you what kind of area I came and grew up in.

This is interesting, so here's the demographics of the H.S. that I would have gone to if it wasn't for me moving to Niwot:

"78.2% Hispanic, 12.7% White/Non-Hispanic, 7.1% African-American, and 2% Other ethnic backgrounds."

Again, similar to my middle school. Anyway, I just want to say that people are generally good out in the world and although as hard as it may be (even for me), it's bad to judge a person by how they look or act, however cliche or hypocrital that may sound.

Thought I'd write a little something that I was thinking about today at work. I was listening to Big Yellow Taxi by the Counting Crows and two lines of the song is really true in life.

"don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone"

I guess I'm just saying don't take it for granted what you got right now, because in a day, a week, a year, whatever, it might go away, and only then, that's when you'll realized that you lost something. Appreciate what you have right now and hold it tight!

I thought I'd write a blog while I'm waiting for my CD to finish burning. I've been into getting new music the last couple of weeks. I've gotten a lot of them too!

Today I was putting together a makeshift "new computer" from the computer that TJ gave me. It didn't run since it didn't have any RAM, so. I decided to use the case because it was better than mine. More room to work with. All went well. Everything booted up fine, so.

Today was a long day at work. I didn't have much to do, but at the end of the day, the big boss was talking to my boss and I'm going to do this project that needs to be done in the next few weeks. I should be able to handle it! I hope! I don't want to look like a dumbass when I said it can be done. Could be long and frustrating days at work the next couple of weeks.

Laura will be here Wednesday! That's like, 2 days. Then I get "paid" on Friday. Everything with the internship is going good. I missed a couple of points on the last assignment because I forgot page numbers...I saw it AFTER I turned it in on WebCT too, and I was like, damn, that's gonna hurt me. And it did, not much, so that's good. I am worried about my postcard assignment for 10pts. It was to be sent in by today. I sent it last Thursday, so it had PLENTY of time to get there, granted it went ok. I didn't put my address on there, but as long as the recipient is on there, that's ok, right? I never sent a postcard before, I don't think, so I was confused. Oh well, 10 points out of 1000 isn't much. Hopefully that doesn't kill me in the end.

GOOOOOOD! (That was "god" not "good") The burning is taking a long time. 4 minutes left. I've been writing for about 6 minutes now. I just realized that I probably write in my blog more than any other time, combined. If I took all my blogs, I bet it could be a novel. Really. I think there's a place where you can check how many words you've written or something, but I could be making that shit up.

Oh yeah, I have to make TJ a CD of some songs he wanted. I have to do that before he leaves. Well, my tooth is sort of getting better...but I think that's because I'm just making myself think that it's not sore and it's not...if you got that.

I'm going to sleep now...brush my teeth and it should be done. Laters all.

Today was a hot day. It felt hotter sinceI was helping TJ move, but it wasn't that bad. Just walking up and down. Everything fit pretty much into one truckload. Both of us got a load of big gulps (that sounds nasty doesn't it?) at the gas station. I almost died because the Mug rootbeer went down the wrong tube and TJ explained because it was because of the bad root beer brand.

I found a cool job that might be, well, cool if I got it. It's a recreation maintenance worker for the Parks and Rec division in Laramie. I would be cool with that job...combine what I liked about working at the golf course with my recreation degree. And the cool part is that it pays $25K-$35K a year...FUCK THAT'S A LOT!!! Haha. I would be content, though, really. I wouldn't know what to do with $35K a year. That's like almost $3K a month...I survive on wayyyy less than that right now. Shit, I'd be rich. Back when I had the steady job and going to school, I was getting, oh $750 a month. Imagine, 4 times as much money coming in.

Which brings me to the issue that people I know are "broke" when they're getting paid upwards of 6 figures. I know I can't put myself in that situation and all the expenses, but come on, say with $100,000 flat per year, that's plenty to do absolutely anything. I guess it's not though for some. I don't know get...they must be bad with money or something.

I'm about to sleep soon. I'm tired and another week of work is starting. Though I don't see much of it, I'm going to see a deposit in my checking account on Friday. w00t! By the way, if you're bored, head to http://www.woot.com for some interesting things. Yeah, small paycheck, but a paycheck nonetheless. Something I haven't seen in 2 months I guess.

I'm gonna do a few more internet stuff and I'm off to bed. Later gator.

P.S. Laura gets up here on Wednesday and staying until she moves up on Sunday. I guess we are helping, but yeah, I can't believe the Summer is coming to a close. It wasn't a bad Summer I guess. I've had worse. This P.S. is becoming like another mini blog! Yeah, Friday we are hoping to get a camp site where my boss goes every now and then. Apparently it's right by the lake and it's a great place, so. If we can get a reservation at a good or fairly good spot, we'll go camping. I might get some wood from TJ's place, though. I was sitting there thinking about it for the longest time today. Now I want it. But I'm sure when I'm there, I probably won't. Oh well. Ok, now I'm really done.

So I finally called the dentist to see what was up with my tooth. They were gone for the day...apparently they leave earlier on Fridays. Hopefully they call me back with a good answer.

I was looking in the pantry for something to snack on (yes, I look there even though I KNOW there's nothing there) and I found this little white bag...what was it? It was the coffee flavored chocolates that Laura brought up last Thursday. At that moment, among many moments of course, I got that feeling that I am lucky to have Laura with me in my life and how she does these little things that I notice. This is a precursor to what I may discuss soon, but the simple fact that it REALLY is the "little things that matter" in life. It's the small talk between friends, the silly things between friends (yup, both smart and dumb!), and just knowing the fact that some friends will really always be there when you need them, or even if you don't need them. Big things in life for me? H.S. graduation. Big deal. College graduation? Couldn't have done it myself obviously. I don't know...I just don't seem to remember the big things.

At the same time, everyday things, though they are a little, don't mean a lot either. It's gotta be a small thing, but out of the ordinar enough that I remember them. I won't write examples, but that's what life is.

At this point, I like to use the rocks in the jar analogy.

The jar is life. You fill the jar with big rocks, signifying big events in life...life isn't full yet. You then add smaller rocks, smaller, yet still significant events in life. Shake up the jar and you get a little fuller life. However, with these you can never fill the jar. Finally, you take sand, tiny pebbles in the big scheme of things, but in the end, these are what fill yours jar and your life. Without them, you can't live life to its fullest.

I'm a dork, but that's just a great analogy!

So strangely, my teeth is starting to get sort of sore again...I'm not sure if I should be worried about it or not...I'll wait a couple of days and if it doesn't go away, I might say something the next time I'm at the dentist doing my final crown procedure.

I'm so broke right now...I have $45 on the credit card LEFT. That's right. LEFT. I get paid in 2 weeks, but that's gonna go toward some stuff first. Hopefully I can pay down my credit card a bit before then.

TJ's gonna be leaving for the islands in a couple of weeks. Time flies! I sort of remember when he first came down to the Sumac house with the camp gang. That was what, 3 years ago? That's crazy. A lot has certainly happened during that time.

Um, not really much to say...I had another full 8-hour day at work today with no lunch break. I was working on this programming thing and JUST COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT. I got pissed. I'm working with one of my co-workers on this and she's great help, but man, I can't stand it. I hope they don't find this blog of mine!

I'm gonna eat something and then head to bed...the routine is sort of back. 7:30 to 3:30...be tired, go to sleep at 10 or 11...wake up at 6:30, start the coffee maker (to make hot water), get in the shower, get out, get ready, make some hot chocolate, head to work right at 7:12 from my house and I get there around 7:30, plus or minus a couple of minutes.

Laters.

Haven't written in a while, so I thought I do. Laura is in the living room watching Star Wars right now. I had a long day of work today...got there at 7:30, lunch with Laura from 1:30 to 2:30 and then until 5 or so. I was actually into what I was doing too, maybe that's why time went by fast.

This past weekend, TJ, Laura and I went camping at RMNP at Morraine Park. It was fun. Kids camping next to us were loud in the morning, but other than that, it was fun. We then went to see Bear Lake to see how it was, since it was my first time seeing it. It wasn't so bad, but yeah, the bad part was that we got locked out of my car in the parking lot...with the car running. I didn't hear my turbo timer and yeah, so, we called AAA and Laura had a free tow on their family account, so thanks to that, it was open and all that within 40 minutes or so and free. Thanks Laura and company.

I am calculating my budget right now...not looking good, but it ain't all that bad I guess...I won't have any spending money, and say good bye to my new computer, but oh well. Life moves on in ways you don't want sometimes.

Anyway, I've got some stuff let to do...then I'm gonna hang out with Laura tonight.

See ya laters.

#327.

I'm writing this from my laptop at my old house in Niwot, listening to some anime music...okay, that sounds dorky, but this one's awesome, right up there with climactic (climatic?) scores found in LOTR and Star Wars and stuff.

Nothing of big news to note. Laura gets back tomorrow, so I can't wait for that. I'm still not sure if she'll be up Thursday or Friday. I've actually worked 8-hours shifts at work the last 3 days (or the first 3 days if you want to look at it). Tomorrow is another story. I'll be working from probably 12 or 1 to 4 or 5. We'll see which comes first. Friday is my first end of the week timesheet time. I should get it signed and stuff Friday. It's going to be, what, 35-36 hours? That's so much! lol. My next paycheck is going to be AWESOME. I haven't had that much money in a while.

So, I am assuming that Aramark isn't going to pay me the 3 training days that I was there. The thing is, I'm probably not going to call since it's like sticking it up their ass asking to get paid when I quit, but who cares? I sure as hell don't. I SHOULD have gotten paid $120 or something after room and board and taxes are taken away, but I probably won't see that.

Gosh, it's 9:38pm and I'm not tired, but it's too early to sleep! I might head upstairs and see what I can scrounge up to eat, but anyway, I might have some great news tomorrow night.

Stay tuned.

New facelift for my website: http://www.csuconnection.com

I sort of have a loyal following back...in the tens, lol. Hopefully I can get it back to what I had it at a few months ago.

Went to Jim's Wings today. TJ called to see if I wanted to go, but I opted out first since I really have no money (i.e. $80 for the next 3 weeks for everything I need)...but then he offered to pay. I felt bad, but I went and got 5 wings. Thanks goes to him.

I still don't know when Laura's coming back, but tomorrow I'm not heading to RMNP. This weekend will be fun. I had an argument with Laura about the price of a U-Haul truck, one-way, renting from here in Fort Collins and dropping it off in Laramie...she said she called and the guy said almost $200...I call BS, but Laura doesn't believe me and says what the guys says is true. I say it can't be that much. So I hop online and run a quote...one-way from FoCO. How much? $96 and that includes 91 free miles. Bam, I win!

Anyway, gonna get Pizza Hut with TJ tomorrow. I will also see my old supervisor as well. Hope he's well. I'm gonna head to bed soon. I was TIRED today. I went to sleep around 12, got up around 6:20 or so. I'm almost getting in the hang of it.

Well my first day of work went ok...pretty much what it was before I left, but that's ok. It seems though that my boss is going to really try and make this "internship" worth while, so that's good. On Wednesday I'm going up to RMNP to do some volunteer work planting plants/trees and pulling weeds and the sort. Should be fun. I actually get paid so it's not volunteering, but yeah.

I also want to get a part-time job, another one (I think I already wrote that), either that or volunteer at the parks and recreation for the city. It would be fun to coach little kids or do stuff with them.

It's weird because it's days like these that I feel good about life and stuff, like I wrote before, even though things are sort of rough in terms of money right now. Days will go by, I guess. My credit card is at like $1720 of $1800...$80 left and I don't get paid until probably the 3rd Friday from now....THAT SUCKS! We'll see what happens. I'll chronicle my "living with no money" here in the blog.

Laura went to a Cardinals game and she text messaged me saying she met Ozzie Smith. lol. She'll be here Friday! Also, I was going to head to Bandimere on Wednesday, but I won't be because I am going to be in RMNP. Oh well.

I'm listening to a new, good single from Lifehouse right now (actually, it's weird how I say new since it's on there latest CD). I'll copy and paste the lyrics for you, Laura. :)

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"You And Me"

What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

All of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

There's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you
and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it?
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
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Well, that took up a lot of space without spending much time. Today's going to be a song ripping day. I'll write again soon!

Okay, the long post.

Anyway, do you ever sometimes get the feeling that all is going to be all right, even if they aren't going to be? Well, yeah, I sort of felt that today. Like my teeth. It's gonna get fixed, yeah, but it costs a buttload...but I don't give a damn! That thought was really hard to write out...so don't even bother trying to decipher what I was trying to write.

My laptop is for the most part done tweaking. Just need to add a few more programs, Word, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop and it's done. Writing and using this laptop reminds me of when Laura and I were at the Sumac house. Yup.

What else. Nothing really, even though I said I would write a big blog.

Here is my proposed routine for the internship time period (if I get the schedule I want)

1. Wake up at 5:30am
2. Take a shower. Get the coffee going before the shower.
3. Out of shower at 5:50am.
4. Read up on news, e-mail, etc.
5. Leave for work around 6:00am.
6. Arrive at 6:15am.
7. Leave at 2:15pm.

I want to maybe get a second job, like afternoon/late afternoon. Heck, even right after my job would be ok. I would love to do newspaper routes, since it's like $400 or so a month, but I can't seem to readily find them like I did back in like 2001/2002.

Well, I just lost the urge to keep writing. See ya laters.

This is my first post from my SCREAMING new (old) computer that I traded with my Mom today. Screaming as in not fast, but that because the fan is always on now since it's not an Intel Centrino processor. Oh well. She seemed to like the new laptop, so that's good.

What's been going on? Nothing much. Tomorrow I start work, almost exactly 2 months to the day that I quit. Seems like just yesterday. I'm not going to make this a long one, but I'm going to write a longer one tonight, but I just wanted to test everything out on this laptop, since it's going to be Laura's in a couple of months.

Laters.

So, what to do tonight? I don't feel like going cruisin', but that could change. I make decisions on the fly and if anybody knows best, Laura knows that I can change minds AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE, literally. Like one time, we said, let's go to Olive Garden. We were driving, as we were pulling into the parking lot, I saw that it was sort of crowded. Bam, I lost my interest to go there...and we didn't end up going there...I forget what we did...come home? Anyway, I just want to thank Laura for putting up with some of the stupid things I do sometimes.

Went to McDonald's with TJ today. We were talking a bit about the movie last night but nothing too important. We were trying to figure out what kind of restaurant was next to McDonald's. Turns out it was Mediterranean (or however you spell it). Looked good though. I love Greek good but I don't even know if Greek should be capitalized in this sentence. But yeah, like Renzios in the mall? It's awesome. The gyros are great and the fries are the best I've had in this city.

But yeah, after seeing that movie last night, I sort of want to go visit California again. I don't know if I ever want to live there again, due to a lot of different reasons, I would definitely like to visit. And I should because if I ask my brother, he'll get me a ticket with his miles for sure since he's been wanting me to come out for months and months. Since he lives sooo close to Beverly Hills, it's interesting when we head out to town to eat or go watch a movie and then get burgers at this small little burger joint that sits in like a median sort of thing. It's like, they pack so much stuff, people, restaurants, and yeah, porn stores in that city. There are more adult dance clubs per street than anywhere else I swear...well, that I've been to.

I would like to visit Little Tokyo again and see some ollllld friends...come to think of it, I wonder if they're even alive? Like the dessert restaurant that we are good friends with. The owners were pretty old when I was a kid. Makes you wonder if they left the estalishment to their kids or something.

I sometimes wonder what my past is doing, if that makes any sense. Like, I wrote before, I sent like 7 letters to my old middle school friends. No answer. One came back returned. But the rest? Either they didn't care to write back (which would make them a bitch, really) or some crazy freak received it, opened the envelope, and is now hunting me down.

One last thing before I go do nothing. The last couple of days I've been trying to keep my cell phone off...it's sort of a weird, calm, relaxing feeling. Everyone should try it sometime if you have a cell phone. I mean, it's amazing how much the cell phone is tangled into our lives. Just to not hear a ringing sometimes can make you very relaxed. I'm sure there are studies or something done where people are conditioned to get in a bad mood at the sound of a ringing phone, or something.

Well, that's it. And yeah, I just read TJ's blog and yes, the people next to him were fucking loud. I was about to kill them and their relatives...really.

Well that didn't last long!

I would write a movie review on Crash, that I just watched, but I want Laura to go see it too, so. I'll hold off on it.

Great movie though.

Unfortunately, this blog is probably going to be my last one until Sunday at least (well, probably not, but hey) since I am pretty much done with reformatting this laptop with a fresh new install of Windows and pretty much factory fresh as it will be traded with my Mom's old (my old) laptop. I'll miss this one for sure, since it's probably a bit faster than my old one and the fact that my old one isn't widescreen and the CPU runs hotter than this, meaning the fan is always on. But yeah, it'll work out.

The good news??!!?!?!! I start my old job on Monday. Hell yeah. Finally. There are some things, though, like they were only able to secure me 370 hours of the 400 hours as pay, but hell, that's ok with me. That's 370 hours that I wouldn't have had. They are paying me my old hourly wage at $11.00/hour, so about $9.50 real money.

I just realized, I wonder if this is going to go into the PERA account? I don't think so, since I'm a student at CSU. I thought I could make millions, haha.

Tomorrow TJ and I are getting Pizza Hut, I think. I don't have MSN installed on this machine, but I'm gonna just use the web messenger. Pretty handy for those that don't want to install it completely. I'm getting this laptop ready for my Mom's use, so there's no high-tech stuff on it. Just a good ol' internet surfin' laptop, although this setup is way too overkill for just that. She'll watch movies and stuff though and the fact that I can hook a TV up to this will be good, although I've yet to test that out. I'm doing that tonight.

What else. Today was and is still damn hot, but it seems like it's going to rain like a mother fucker. It's Thursday isn't it? TJ has his soccer thing tonight. I wonder if they'll play in the rain? It looks like it'll rain in a couple of hours. A chance of cancellation isn't out of the question.

My tooth is bothering me more these days. Like, not bothering like hurting, but just annoying and I can feel that something's wrong in that area, if you know what I mean.

I need to budget out my paychecks REALLY well if I want to avoid this no job thing again. I'm gonna start looking for a job way before the end of this thing. I hope that I can get a good grade on this 5-credit course...A 5-credit A would help me a lot, but since I had one stupid B last semester, my GPA will be like 2.99 or something ridiculous...I should apply for more credits, but oh well. I think I did good enough to raise it that much from a 1.3!!

I'm gonna go watch another movie now. I just watched parts of Cast Away.

Laters.

I'm gonna head to bed, but man, this blogger thing is getting to the point where it's like an addiction when you have nothing to do. Damn! I think I'm on record pace to write more than I've written in 3 years in 1 year.

Anyway, I just wanted to say music is awesome. I thank all those who write and sing songs and make music because they love what they do...not those sell outs who do it just for the money...you know who you are. There are so many great bands on free download sites such as music.download.com that I can't believe it. I know Laura knows what I'm talking about because I made a CD with mostly these guys. They're just as good and most of the time they're better than the mainstream. Damn media gets a hold of them and it just becomes a money making opportunity for the studios.

Oh well, that's how the world runs I guess.

I'll talk to ya later.

If you're ever bored, check out www.engrish.com...it's the funniest place.

Like this image that is attached...so funny.

I just had a personal thought. I think I rely too much on opinions and reviews and ratings and stuff. Like for things like laptops, desktops, movies, restaurants, pretty much anything that it's new I'm trying.

I think it's important to consider that the product or service that you're getting doesn't have to be perfect, but if it's perfect for you (lol, sort of a line from Good Will Hunting). Like, for example, my web hosting is Powweb.com. SOOO many people say they suck and what not. I've been with them for over 2 years now and it's been great. It's just weird that a lot of people take others' opinions and stuff, like, not like it 's bad, since it's a way to get a taste of what's coming, but you know what I mean. I think I'm going to start taking more leaps in terms of buying and experiencing things even though I heard bad reviews or something.

I guess it really does goes to show that whatever the topic, it's different for everyone.

I'm just killing some time until my car video download is finishing up. About 10 minutes, which is just enough time for a good blog.

Went to A&W and to Starbucks tonight with TJ and talked for a couple of hours. It was good. Just stuff about what's going on, what's been going on, and what's going to happen. The usual. Haha.

Laura is leaving tomorrow to go to St. Louis for a bit over a week. And then she comes up here for a couple of days. I can't wait for that. I miss her a lot! I think we were planning something like going to Estes Park or something and getting a place to stay or even camp since we're broke, but yeah, that should be fun. I haven't been with her alone for a while. This Summer has slowly crept along, although it doesn't feel like it to me. I mean, what, 2 months ago already I was in Alaska. Now it's mid July. Crazy.

No word from my boss YET. I need it quick man...if this happens to fall through for whatever reason, I have to dip into my tuition money to pay for a month or so of rent. At least to get me by. I mean, man. I don't even want to think about it!

And then I was thinking about the rest of my life and how Laura and I want to travel. I don't think we even need a house, well, okay, maybe a small house to come back to every once and a while, but we want to travel a lot. Some of the places that we want to visit are Tibet, the Great Wall of China, Easter Island, Oak Island, Madagascar, Moorea, Stonehenge, Alaska/Denali, and Egypt. There are other places I'm sure, but those are the top ones for sure. That would be so fun. I love going to places that have meaning, mysterious or otherwise...like, take the US...it really doesn't have a place with big meaning, you know? I mean, yeah, it does, but you know what I mean. Pyramids, the Moai, there isn't a "mysterious" place in the US, aside from Area 51 and stuff. The US is such a young country that it doesn't have the great history that we like, like Rome and Paris. Their history is sooo much cooler than ours. Japan too.

90% done with the download. It was a huge file too. But anyway, I wish Laura a safe and fun trip and I can't wait to see ya when you get back and hopefully I'll be working by then so I can buy something for you. Haha.

Laters.

I'm bored again. My boss is contacting CSU about what they can do for me in terms of hiring me back...I guess that's a start.

I'm trying out Picasa from Google. http://picasa.google.com/

This thing is amazing if you like to deal with photos and stuff and organizing them on your computer. Right now it's searching my entire computer for pictures and organizing them for me. It's pretty sweet if you have a lot of pictures and sometimes it'll find pictures that you never thought you had!

Google is awesome once again.

1. My old junior high school

2. Recreation/pool center - used to swim there and took field trips there

3. Elementary school where I and a few others used to volunteer

4. Best friend's house

5. My house

6. My elementary school

7. My brother's best friend's house, went to school with his little brother

The circled building in the middle image was where my sister worked for a bit and our family were great friends with the owners. We got a lot of desserts there and even a few years ago when we visited, they remembered us, naturally, but yeah...well, IRONICALLY, 2 stores down to the right in that same building was where my Dad worked, a golf/tennis shop. I hung out there a few times too and that's where I got my first clubs. Weird how everything is occuring in a small radius.

The last picture is my japanese school (the big building with the parking lot, duh). Had the festivals in the parking lot and had garage sales in that little front grass area.

I was just watching the trailer for The Talented Mr. Ripley since I've always wanted to see it. I always remember that line where he says:

"I've always thought it would be better if I was a fake somebody than a real nobody."

How true do you think that is? Interesting little quote huh?

I just thought I'd post a picture that I took when Laura and Ellen and I went to Horsetooth reservoir. :)

Recently, like the last 2 days, I've been messaging Amanda, Chris' old gf on www.hi5.com since she is on there. You should check to see if you have any friends that are on there. I found out that I have a few that I didn't even know about! Just like www.classmates.com I guess.

Anyway, she lives really close to Laura's sister's place and I guess she used to deliver pizza around the area too. She's even thinking about moving near there! It's crazy.

Do you ever wonder if your friends are interconnected indefinitely? Like no matter what happens, in the end they are pulled toward each other? Maybe, I don't think it's true, I just thought it would be a cool theory to write here. Haha.

So the last couple of days I had some trouble with FireFox and I finally managed to delete everything and install it again and voila, it's healed. The good news it that now the Blogger shows the correct number of blogs that I've written. This will be my 311th blog. That's cool to know since it was pegged at 254 for the longest time.

I thought I would have word from my boss by today, but not yet, unfortuntately. Dammit!

I made cake last night and I am eating it like a meal since I'm too broke for real food. Haha, it's like going to McDonald's or another fast food restaurant is like "splurging" now. Makes me wonder what people and families with real problems feel like everyday day.

I was looking at some of the new movies coming out for 2006 and there's an impressive line-up, at least for me personally. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye which are guaranteed 2006 releases:

Mission: Impossible 3 - I may like this, I don't know, 2 was worse than 1, so yeah
X-Men 3 - I can't wait for this one!
Cars - Not really into animated movies
Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - A sure watch
The Da Vinci Code - Have you read my Da Vinci-reading blog???
Superman Returns - Nope
Ice Age 2 - Perhaps it will be good, dunno what else they can do
The Italian Job 2 - I will watch this

So that's my next year's picks. This year, I'm probably only waiting for Chronicles of Narnia and Night Watch (an awesome looking trilogy).

What am I gonna do today? I don't know. It's so boring. I want to work, but now I don't think I can push my employment. Argh. Bad situation.

Anyway, hopefully I'll report back soon with some good news...luck hasn't been with me lately.

Check out all the Price is Right games...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_is_Right_pricing_games

Man, I'm so bored. And it's hot out. I think I'm gonna help TJ consolidate some of his computer parts into one, but I'm not sure yet.

I'm starting to finalize what parts I'm going to buy for my next new computer. It should be pretty good and it will last for a couple of years at least. As long as it plays World of Warcraft, I'm happy!

EDIT: Ha, I just cut my own hair, lol

I'll just keep adding to this one.

A website that I frequent (and a very good website in my opinion) posted a couple of articles. Here is the original:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/3/491/18474

Some girl is missing. This guy writes about how much coverage this girl is getting and all that and that he doesn't give a fuck.

Here is all the hate mail that the site/he got:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/8/141115/2706

So, back to the article. Personally, I don't think I've really read or heard about this girl. Maybe a glimpse on Snopes or something. Anything, is it bad that I sort of agree with that guy that wrote the article? I mean really, why is she getting so much attention, and not other pressing issues? Sure, a life is a life, but how is hers more important than other missing children? Is it the money involved in the background? There is a website that says there's a $150,000 reward for information. WTF??? They must be pretty damn rich. Is she because she's white? Because she's slightly attractive? Why send a fucking Navy dive team to look for her? I also read somewhere that Holland is sending fighter jets to search for her!??! WTF!??! I doubt the media would give a fuck if it was another race. Frankly, I haven't seen the media cover an ugly, Mexican girl or boy before (no offense), at least not at this kind of level. I mean come on, just like Jon Benet...she was just another girl like any other, like my niece, for instance. Who fucking cares if she was a "talented", pretty girl. Why so much coverage? I think the values of the US and the US media are just not in the right place these days.

Here is another article that state a similar thought:

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2578582p-9013209c.html

Anyway, I think I'm done with this rant. From the pictures I saw of her mother and father, they look like snobs who only care about one thing right now. :/