Phew, finally a chance to sit here and write a bit. I'm listening to some tunes from Sky.fm right now, going to work in about 20 minutes. So, back to the vague statement from last time. I finally decided to give this job a rest, at least for the summer, possibly (probably) longer. My last day full-time is going to be May 19th, but might be shorter depending on some other plans.

Today I had an interview with the recreation department for the city...I'm thinking that this is just a volunteer position, but that's ok. I have an interview tomorrow at the UPS Store, so hopefully that goes well and I get hired because if not, I'm going to be searching for a job quick! The thing is, I told my boss that I already had a job lined up and that I'll be working at this business in FoCo. I just don't want to have to get a job in town where I might have a chance of running into my staff. Oh well. I'll still be an ER, so I'll probably work here and there to cover shifts and stuff, but yeah, if all goes well, I'll be able to get the UPS Store job and start part-time or something if they let me and then move into full-time after May 19th.

The CRAPPY thing is that we start our new schedule this coming weekend I guess. Which means that I work Thurs-Sunday...wtf. Ha, oh well. If the hours weren't so crappy, I wouldn't mind, but it's 5-10 Thurs, 3-12 Fri, 9-9 Sat and 12-10 Sun. How much worse can it get? The thing that's going to keep me going is that I'm stopping on the 19th...but hopefully that Monday the 15th. I'll see if I can get out of it.

I would apply this this desk clerk job for the Best Western but it's like being built still and I'm not sure where to apply. It just says apply in person, but I don't know. I'll try to get an app or something tomorrow maybe.

But yeah, I'm in like that transition phase so it'll be a little weird for a few weeks.

On to the good news. We're officially going to have keys for the townhome on Friday! Sucks that I'll probably be working Sat and Sun pretty much all day, but fuck, such is life.

No word from the dog people yet. Hopefully soon. I think Laura was going to e-mail to make sure that our application was received or something. Other than that, the new house thing is going well. We're starting to pack everything (well, Laura has done much of it) and we've got utilities ready and stuff.

Last weekend we were in Fort Collins and I spent quite a bit of money getting stuff for the house. Namely tools like a circular saw, jigsaw, drill, etc. I spent about $160 for that set. I'm all pumped up to build stuff for the new house now. I also bought some new clothes and, holy hell, new shoes too. I haven't worn it yet, but I'm going to be breaking them in here pretty soon. I hate starting to wear new shoes. They are just so bright.

But anyway, I have 15 or so minutes left to get ready for work and stuff, so I'll catch you later!

P.S. I guess the other bigs news is that I'm finally debt free...from loans, from credit card debt, etc. It's a nice feeling. I'm going to try pretty hard to keep my credit card from being used. It's evil for sure.

Today's going to be a quite a day if I'm gonna do what I've been talking about!!! More later.

I'm typing this from my new (old) laptop. I'll write up a more detailed explanation of why I have this laptop, but yeah, it's nice. Laura's mom is using my old laptop, so I couldn't go without one for long.

I'm still finishing up tweaking everything to how I want it, so I'll catch you later.

I'm being late again with my posts. Anyway, the biggest news since the last time is that my loans are FINALLY done. The cool thing about that it that it's paid off and I still haven't used my tax return money yet. That'll probably go towards house stuff, like tools, desks, chair, etc.

We're moving in roughly 2.5 weeks! Not that moving is fun. It's never fun, but hopefully we'll be staying here for at least a couple years...it's crazy that we've moved every year since I went to college. That's a lot of moving.

Working is going ok. Things seem to be on a "smooth" cycle again, if you know what I mean. Other than work, hanging out, I've been playing WoW still. I finally hit level 60 on my mage character a few days ago. It wasn't that big a deal as I was waiting for it to be. I'm starting to go down in interest though since I hit 60. I started a priest character, but I HATE having to level up AGAIN.

Nothing else really. TJ STILL hasn't put up a blog yet nor sent me his brother's home address so we can send him a thank you letter for the living history farms experience.

The weather is finally changing to spring and it's been getting warmer and warmer. It's raining even. I like the rain although it makes my car dirty. Tomorrow is supposed to be a hot one. I don't like summer just for the fact that it gets so hot sometimes. I'd rather be cold than hot.

Right now I'm trying to see if there's a way to get my old laptop back from my Mom while I get her a cheap desktop computer from Best Buy or CompUSA or something. I saw some cheap eMachines for like $380.

A few more weeks until we get a dog! I hope we get the ones that we are looking at on the border collie rescue website. We're going to send in the application sometime this week. Exciting.

Laura is done with her homework now, so I'm going to go and head to sleep. I'm tired as hell.

Laters.

A new week and almost April. I can't believe it's been 4 months into 2006. Come to think of it, I've been at this job for almost 6 months now, despite all the complaining. Hehe.

Anyway, hopefully this week will be a good one! I'll write more later. Oh yeah...and time to file my taxes!!

I am about to head to sleep so I can be rested up for the long 12-hour shift at work tomorrow...I don't want to work!!! It's just a damn long day. Hopefully the next 2 Saturdays one of the other staff that owes me hours will take my 2nd half of my shift, so that'll be something to look forward to.

I'm FINALLY done with my taxes. I'll hopefully be triple checking everything and then filing it over the weekend. If I have any luck, I won't have to pay back some money like I did last year and I will get around $1100 back. That's a nice chunk of change that I can use to pay off my loans finally and then spend it towards stuff for the new townhouse.

We'll definitely be moving in last week/first week of May, but hopefully we'll all be done in a couple of days. Thank god that it's not that far away from where we are now. About 30 seconds away by car. Haha.

We're getting close to putting in our application for our dog. Hopefully we get the one we like or something similar. I think the criteria is a bit too strict for the rescue, but oh well.

Laura is doing good overall. She's been busy this past week and the next week because of tests and essays and stuff. I'm still waiting for TJ to send me the address for his brother so we can send him a thank you card and all that...he must be busy. Haha.

It's weird to say, but I think I'm finally starting to lower in my addiction for World of Warcraft...well, that is probably until I start my next character...haha. It's neverending. But yeah, I'm getting tired of it because I'm running out of things to do (even though there really isn't). It's getting sort of repetitive, but you'll have to be playing the game to understand what I mean. But it's still fun though. Chris is more into than me. He's spent quite a bit of money in real life to buy golf for the game. Lol.

But anyway, I'm going to watch Laura play Harvest Moon for a little bit and then head to bed...gonna be a long day...

P.S. Write in your blog TJ!!!

So after a good break, I'm back to work in a couple of hours. Well, I guess I already worked this past Saturday, but anyway.

I've been looking around for other jobs and that's not going so well. There's a couple that I'm going to apply for here after this post that's at the university. I don't think I'm qualified, but oh well. Why is the job market so hard/bad here?

Maybe I'll swing by Howard Johnson/Comfort Inn and pick up and app there too for a desk clerk job.

Other than that, we're just chuggin along I guess!

Holy crap...Feb 13th is my last post!!! Almost a full month...tells you how busy (lazy?) I've been the last month. However, I have actually been quite busy, mostly with work though.

Anyway, what's been up (the big stuff) in the last month? Well, here's a list:

1. We got a townhouse with the help of Laura's parents and we'll be paying the mortgage. We'll be moving in April 28th! Cool huh?

2. We just got back from visiting TJ in Iowa for a few days. We had fun and met his new gf.

3. We're looking through a bunch of stuff to buy for the house, e.g. tools for garage, dog, furniture, etc.

That's about all. I still need to do my fricken taxes and get that turned in. We're still waiting for one more thing to come in the mail so we can put it in our tax programs.

Other than that, things have been good. Nothing major, so you're not missing anything . :) I'll try and try more and longer in the coming weeks!

About to head to work, but I thought I'd write in here since it's been a week. Laura's b-day was good. It sucked that I had to work 9-9 on Saturday, but yeah, she went to Altitude with a few folks and had fun. I came back and hung out with Chris/Ashley for a little bit before they went home. Man this working sucks, really. It feels like I'm ALWAYS working. I applied for some word processing jobs so hopefully I get it.

Started my taxes and just waiting for my brother to send me some tips and info about incorporating the Motogolf thing into everything. I'll probably get around 800 or so back this year...better than nothing huh. I'm almost done with paying off my loans. I fucking late loans. It just sucks to pay them back now. Oh well.

Laura's family came up yesterday to give presents to Laura for her birthday. It was fun. We played Scene It, the DVD movie game and that was fun too. I got Angels and Demons from them which I'll try and read sometime soon. Got the first two seasons of Roswell too! Now, the only problem is finding time to watch and read these things.

Things have been stressful lately. Pretty much 100% of that is credited toward work. If I didn't have that Saturday shift, it wouldn't be bad...just that it would take a little longer to pay off loans and stuff, but I guess that 12 hours help a lot...

I'm feeling guilty that I haven't called TJ back. I always keep it in mind and I just forget. Sorry man. Laura and I haven't been spending much time together either, mostly because she's at school when I'm home and I'm at work when she's home. Arg.

Other stresses include loans, bills, and stuff like that. I just sometimes, well, all the time, wish that I can win the lottery (although I never buy tickets). 2-3 million is all I'm asking for...lol. I would be set.

But yeah, enough bitching. Ellen recommended me to listen to Matisyahu, so I listened to some and I liked it, so I used my iTunes to buy his latest album. I like it. It's this weird Jewish reggae guy. Strange combo!

But I gotta get going. See you soon (probably not!).

So just a quick recap...I got off at 9 and got home around 9:30 since I went to Safeway, but after I got home, I started playing WoW...it's 3:42 right now. Holy shit!

Anyway, what's new. On my birthda, Chris, Laura, Ashley, and I went to the Melting Pot and had a fun time. I was actually filled when I didn't think I'd be full. It's something someone should experience once I guess. I wouldn't pay the amount we paid probably again, but maybe for a special occasion or dessert only. Then we went back home and ate some really good ice cream cake that Laura made for us.

That's been about it. Work has been up and down. I've never seen kids like these that are this crazy...but that's probably why it's a treatment place, lol.

Good news? I am actually and surprisingly almost done paying off my loans...crazy huh. Then I have to start doing taxes and house stuff for next year once Laura's parents find a yes/no for a house next year.

We've been talking a lot about dogs as well. I think we'd be ok with a Border Collie, but Laura wants to do the research for it thoroughly.

That's about all. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get the days off I need to get for spring break...I'll just have to work a lot before and/or after to make up for the hours.

Laters! I'm tired and heading to bed!

I'm so behind! I'll write tomorrow with an update I promise!

Wow, it's been 19 days since my last blog. I think that's the longest I've went between blogs in a long while. Anyway, since the 5th, what's been up?

Well, work has been going ok. Just ok. It's just that some days are crap and some days are awesome, and then some in between. I don't know, it gets me paychecks so yeah...until the Spring comes at least, I'll be doing this and hopefully picking something up in the Parks and Rec division for the city. That'd be fun.

Man oh man, I've been in World of Warcraft since I got it. It's like an addiction. I think I got Chris into it too since he bought it and he's been playing a lot. He's almost caught up to my level, so he's probably playing more or something.

However, I REALLY should play less because Laura and I are hanging out less. I work when she's home and I play during the night hours when she's going to bed. I hope that this WoW phase goes away soon. It's like, bad.

TJ, sorry I haven't called back yet. Things have been hectic and yeah, I'll call during my day off on Friday or something.

That's about all...WoW, work, sleep, eat, repeat.

Anyway, I will have to start writing everyday for a little bit to get back onto my 1 every 4 days routine.

See ya soon!

P.S. Oh yeah, we have reservations at the melting pot for next Sunday for my b-day. It'll be damn expensive, but hopefully it'll be worth it. I don't know, I'm wary on the portions (like, I better get full!), but I'll have a review on Monday or something.

Aw, almost 1 week, but I'm sure you can consider this a 1 weeker-blog. Anyway, what's happened since? Well, I worked a shitload during the holidays, through Christmas, but then I got a nice line of breaks up until now.

I got some great presents from my friends, Laura, and her parents. I went down to Denver for a couple of days to spend time with Laura after my shift on Christmas day. I love driving at night I tell ya. Zoomed right to Denver. Laura came back up for New Year's and we just watched a movie and hung out until midnight and watched the ball drop on TV. That's pretty much it up to now.

If I'm to write a record number of blogs for 2006, a big year for sure, I better get cracking! At least once every 4 days on average is my goal. Let's see if I meet it.

Everything else has been good. No big news or anything.

Seems like the trip to Iowa is 80% or so in stone for spring break. TJ bought tickets to go see the Lion King play for us so I'll have to make sure that I get those days off! Hopefully there will not be any problems.

We have yet to ship out our package to TJ. We better get on that by next week.

But yeah, I started World of Warcraft on the 1st of 2006 (how convenient) and HOOVER DAM! I'm hooked. I've been playing it, well, not so much the last couple of days, but the first 2 days I was hooked. I'm at level 16 now. Woohoo! It's so fun, though. Everyone needs to try it out. I am getting Chris to get it...hopefully he will, since he complains he does nothing all day. This game passes time like gas!

I also want to get a laptop cooler for my computer. I'm still deciding whether that'd be a good buy or not. I think it'll definitely be used, but I just don't know how well it works. I bought the World Of Warcraft strategy guide via e-book and let me tell you, it sucks. I should have wait and bought it so I have it in my hand. I've decided now for real that books need to be purchased. It's just not the same reading it on the computer. But yeah, I bought it...I paid $19, but I should have just purchased it online, had it shipped 2-3 day and I would have gotten it tomorrow...I haven't even read much of it yet anyway...god I love to waste money.

But yeah, that's the wrap up so far. Can't wait for the weekend...well, Saturday's suck for me, but yeah, I can't wait to not work for a few days.

Laters!

P.S. Here's to my first blog of 2006 and to many more to come!

Just got back from Laura's place after swinging by Niwot to see my Mom and Chris. Went to Taco Bell in Fort Collins with Chris and then headed back up here. Good thing Laura is coming back hopefully tomorrow, because for some odd reason or another, I miss her a lot.

Maybe it's spending the last couple of days together with her? I don't know. I can't explain it. I'm not looking forward to 2 12-hour shifts Fri/Sat...but then I have another 4 days off, so. I wonder what the director is thinking after I slid the note about trying to get Saturdays off...oh well.

So yeah. 3 days until 2006. Another year, another era. Haha. That was dumb. Next year is going to be a hell of a ride! I can't wait. There are many things going on next year. I'll be sure to blog it up again in '06. I'm assuming I'll write a couple of more, if not just one, blogs for this year, putting the total since November 2001 to 411...unbelievable.

What's even more crazy is that blogging is still popular, if not the most popular it's ever been. I can't believe Blogger.com isn't bust! I guess we'll never have to worry about that because of its awesome owner, Google. But yeah, I can't imagine my entire blog being lost...I would lose a little of something, you know. It's not like I didn't spend a lot of time writing and some of these blogs actually have lots of thought put into it!

But, it's 10:21, so I'm going to wrap it up. What am I going to do? I don't know. Watch Food Network maybe. Who knows.

Later and, perhaps if I forget, I'll see you all in 2006!

I'm currently writing this from Laura's hous ein Denver. I drove down from Laramie last night from work and boy, my mood in driving at night vs. day with traffic is...well, night and day! I will never make a day drive again. I think I'll drive up during the night when I go back.

Anyway, I got some really cool presents. A year's subscription to Wired, some books, a National Geographic photo book, a sweater, a 2-month subscription to World of Warcraft and a water fountain that Laura made!...and other little things.

But yeah, just relaxing here for the next couple of days on my days off. Thank god for time off!!!

Merry Christmas!

(Darn working today, but I'll see Laura a couple of hours afterwards!)

First off, I'd like to say that I FUCKING HATE the show Party Line with Dan and Steve. Not so much Dan, but I want to kill Steve. I don't know why, he's just annoying and he's a prick...there, now that that's out...

It's not really late yet, not even 10, but I think I'm going to head to bed and lay there until I fall asleep. I've been waking up ealier than normal the last few days so I sort of want to get back to waking up early.

PLUS, the damn kids at work I think have gotten me sick. This morning I woke up and my nose was all stuffy and it's a little stuffy now...I think I'm going to hit peak "sickness" Christmas day I think...which means I hopefully don't get Laura and the gang sick. :)

Anyway, that's all I had to say. I had McDonald's tonight. It was good. I sat there and tried to find the combo with the chicken sandwich, but I couldn't.

Oh well. I'm going to pay some bills since I got paid today (A LOT TOO!!!). I just looked at my phone bill. It's nice to see something in the $30 range again...woohoo. Laters.

Seems like now I've been writing like crazy! I don't know why. I'm just up around 12:30 and stuff. Anyway, work went good and it's only 3 more days until I see Laura! Can't wait. We should pick out a movie or something to see while I'm there too, like a date even! Haha.

Hope all our friends are doing well. I saw Allen for a little bit while I got off work and he came in, but yeah, Friday we're supposed to finish up the website or most of it at least. Other than that, that's all!

Happy start of winter to all!

This blog is for Laura!

Anyway, I was just thinking at work that I really miss her and that I don't realize how much I do miss her until she's gone. I can't wait to see her though late on the 25th (technically the 26th, if you know what I mean). I just checked my schedule and I work until 11 on the 25th...so if I leave straight from work to Laura's place, I'll hopefully get there around 1 since there will probably be ZERO traffic at that time and the fact that it's Christmas. I got Laura's Mom's present today in the mail too. It looks good!

Man, I just don't know. Somedays at work I just want to quit that night and be done, but sometimes, like today, went really well. Today one of our most troublesome boys went to another location in town because one of senior staff has had enough. I'm not sure how long he'll be there, but I hope that he stays there a long time! We got a new kid today too. Creepy looking, but hopefully he won't be a problem.

Other than that, nothing's new, just that I miss Laura. :) And our electric bill was like $96 last month. Yikes! Less heat for us. Lol.

That's all. I love you Laura! Everyone have a safe midweek.

It's actually pretty warm today at a high of 38F! Let's hope this warm weather lasts at least a week or so. I'm sort of getting tired of this cold weather. Dunno how accurate Accuweather can be, but the next 15 days says it's going to be high 30s and low 40s through the 3rd of January. That's great news, but I highly doubt (although I could be wrong) they can predict 15 days of weather.

PSHHHHH

I didn't realize that I hadn't written on here for 8 days! The drought it over. Yesterday was our little Christmas get together. It was just me, Laura, Ashely, and Chris. It was fun. Chris made dinner (most of it) and afterwards we traded gifts. I got two DVDs. I gave Chris a 2.1 speaker system and Ashley a Denver Zoo membership for a year. I still need to make Laura's, but I need to find the time to do it.

This week is going to be a long week and I already know because I work Mon-Thur this week because of the Christmas schedule. I have Friday off, and then Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...then I have 4 days off...then 2 on and then 4 off, I think.

I am, however, going to see if I can talk to the director of my cottage to see if I can get the Saturday shift taken off my contract hours...that day is just TOO long. 9pm-9pm is just killer. That is probably one of the worst shifts available, and yes, I'm new, but I ain't going to do that shift after this Christmas schedule. It's just killing me. My Wed-Fri shifts aren't too bad.

But yeah, that's all that's happened since the 11th. I think I am going to be playing World of Warcraft VERY soon. Probably after the 1st or so, I'll start playing...it's going to be addicting for sure.

Haven't heard much more about getting a house next year, but hopefully it'll happen so we can get a dog. That'd be soooo fun. I told Laura that after I get a dog, I'm going to try and go running consistently to get back in shape...(chances are that it won't happen, lol, but I'm going to try, maybe when it gets warmer)

Yeah, there was one or two nights a couple of weeks ago where the low was 30F-40F below 0...WTF is up with that!!! My car had trouble starting in the morning and late nights. I had to like keep my pedal depressed for a couple of minutes while the engine warmed up. I hope that's not a taste of what's to come, because that would suck.

So yeah, if I don't write for the next few days, it's because I'm working and I'm tired, so I'm sleeping. I will try and write Friday, though, since I have it off. I think I'm going to finish up my friend Allen's website soon too.

Check it out so far at: http://www.axiomcode.com

Over the next few days we'll be putting up the bios and history of his company too.

But that's all for now. I'm going to take a shower, perhaps get a bite to eat and then head to work!

Well it's Sunday and I said I would write so here I am.

Last night was crazy at work. I guess it's just it being the 4th day and it was a long 12-hour day. I had to grab a kid and put him on the ground since he was pissed at another and going after him. Not a restraint, though (I don't want to do the paperwork!) Anyway, this is my 401st post! That's so many I can't believe I've written that many.

Anyway, this year was another crazy year as ever before. It all started in the Spring, with my FINALLY finishing up my college degree. I remember when I was worried about finding a place to work and such. Ashley and TJ were still together and Chris was whining about no girlfriend (something that is actually better right now, haha). Um, yeah, TJ and I hung out quite a bit before he left for the Virgin Islands, since Laura was with her sister most of the summer. That was fun.

The next big thing was me moving to Laramie, which actually turned out not bad at all. I actually like it here, so that's a good thing. Then Ashley started going out with Chris and Chris got a girlfriend (OMG!). TJ came back from the islands early and is now in Iowa. So yeah, things are moving quite briskly through life.

The good thing is that I (and we) should be grateful for (greatful?) is that at least all our friends are still talking, with the exception of Chris and TJ, but he never really talked to him anyway. Being away from each other is hard, especially when trying to keep in touch since we're all busy, but yeah. That's what a phone is for, although I don't use it a lot!

So again, this year was a big year and the first step toward the next stage of life. I think the coming year is going to be bigger than this year. The good thing is that I think, as far as I know, we are all happy to some extent or getting there.

I guess this wasn't as long as I expected. I skipped a lot of details and certain events, but you really don't need to read that. I'm listening to the new O.A.R. album while I write this. It's pretty good. 6-7/12 songs are really good. I burned a few copies for everyone, but I've yet to send them out. I need TJ's new address too. *cough, cough*. I need to call him though.

Tonight we're headed to go see the Chronicles of Narnia. We went yesterday, but it was sold out. We didn't expect that, but it was. It's like the smallest theater and sells out in like 100 seats. Anyway, we got tickets for tonight, so we're going to get there early. We're going to get dinner beforehand as well.

But yeah, I'll probably write more before the year is really over.

Laters.

I'll be doing my annual reflections on Sunday since that's my day off. Tomorrow is a loooong day, however, but the cool thing is that I'll try and get off earlier than 9...maybe like 8:45, to go see Chronicles of Narnia since it came out tonight. Hopefully it's not crowded.

Other than that, I sort of had to restrain a kid today (not a big deal really), but yeah. Good night...still better than Wednesday!

Just a quick little blog before I head into work. Last night was crazy! Everyone, except a couple of kids, were acting up and two got into a fight in the gym...and I was the one supervising! lol. I actually didn't see it until I turned around and one was on the floor and another staff pulled one away. Crazy kids I tell you.

What else? I don't know. I've been sleeping way more for some reason the last couple of days. Now that I'm back to my regular sleep cycle, I thought it would be 7-8 hours, but last night I slept 11 hours! Maybe my body is trying to catch up from the overnights...I don't know. At least I wasn't tired at all at work until the very end though. We'll give it a couple of more days or so.

I think I'll make my next blog the "reflections of 2005" blog, like I always do at the end of the year. There's a few weeks left and some big events coming up, but I can talk about that in early January.

Laters!

Holy hell it's cold! I just checked the temperatures and with the wind chill it's like 20 below...WTF!!!! My pee just might free in this temperature.

Tomorrow starts my looooong 40-hour work week, but it's nice to be in a regular schedule again (somewhat). I work until 11pm or 12am most nights. Not bad. Hopefully Laura and I can find time to hang out!

Woot! More good news, and some bad. The good news? I got contracted to work at one of the boys cottages full-time starting this week! Good deal huh? The bad news is that I work Wed-Sat, so Laura and I can't go see The Chronicles of Narnia anymore...I'm mad about that, because it would have been fun to go see it and get sushi and spend the night at a hotel and stuff...oh well...hopefully there will be other opportunities.

That's the only thing to report really...a few more blogs until my 400th! Yup.

I can't believe it's already the 4th! I'm excited about this coming Friday. Why? Because we bought tickets for the Chronicles of Narnia at 4:45pm in Fort Collins. We're going to head down there, hopefully get a place to stay so we don't have to drive back and yeah. Should be fun.

Gonna play some Halo tonight with some people. A 3v3 from what I hear.

We've been trying to get some awesome prices on Priceline's bid thing on hotels for Friday. So far we've failed, but we'll keep trying. We're thinking the night before we might have some more luck.

Anyway, I gotta get ready, so I'll catch you later!

A couple of things today!

First of all, happy 4-year anniversary to Laura. I can't believe it's been that long, but yeah, it's 4 years.

Second, I forgot to write about my Phantom of the Opera experience last Saturday. Overal it was good. The 1st half wasn't as good as the second, I really liked the second, but it was good nonetheless. There was an idiot, big head in front of me and his wife or whatever that *THING* was next to him had an ass 10x the size of his head. But like I said, it was good, but nothing I would see again. I might catch the movie version or something. I'm not much of an opera guy I've decided, but some of the songs I did like...is opera called songs? For some reason aria keeps coming to mind. Anyway, it was fun!

So 2 more days until you know what. If you don't, well, too bad and you can try to figure it out. ;)

I've been fiddling with the layout of the blog the last couple of weeks. I think I like it better now. I like the diagonal lines in the background. Subtle, yet noticeable...sort of.

Work's been good. Overnights aren't getting as hard. My friend Allen's been really into Halo and just last night he wants me to help him with a website. I was like, ok, I have fun doing it, so.

It's been so cold lately. The wind is just killer. It's not THAT bad without the wind, but with it, I would rather die. Really. Among other news, we received Chris'...well, his parents' invitation to his graduation. Hopefully I don't have to work, but oh well, not a big deal, at least for me. Other than that, I haven't had time to talk to anyone really. Been sleeping during the day, hanging out with Laura for the little time I have each day. I have the next 3 days off, so that's good, unless another cottage calls me to work, but I hope not, haha.

My csuconnection.com website is doing good, actually. My site's Alexa ranking (popularity on the internet) is like, 220,000...that's damn good I think considering there are over 16+ million websites out there. The statistics say I reach ~10 per million every day. Woohoo!

I took off the videos from my site for now since it was using too much bandwidth, but I'll get those up. I REALLY want to make a commercial website, like have commercial clips from TV and stuff. That'd be funny, but I need to get a new computer with a TV tuner and stuff to do it. No money right now. I have to pay off my loans and then another big expense will be underway most likely.

Oh well, I might be started on some cooking now. Tyler Florence on the Food Network was making this awesome artichoke/sausage dish that just looked awesome. I don't know how it tastes, but it can't possible taste bad!

It's officially "Christmas season" I would say. I can't wait to get the few DVDs that I ordered from my bro's friend in Paramount/Disney. That brings me to the topic that those DVDs, coupled with Laura's that she's probably getting for Christmas, will overwhelm our DVD rack. Doh! Don't know what to do.

Been playing Halo with a new friend at work. It's pretty fun. The FUNNY thing is, that he's black and his friends are too. Lol. They're all street fighters and stuff, fighting with sticks, knives and stuff around the country...scary, but they're nice, but if anyone fucks with me, I'll send them off, haha.

But yeah, the weather's been mucho cold lately and the winds aren't helping. It's like 20s, but with the wind it's like in the single digits. Cold, cold, cold.

I work overnight tonight...I slept overnight last night and not sure if I should have done that. Although, it's only a 6-hour shift, so yeah, it shouldn't be too bad if I take a nap this afternoon.

That's it for now.

This blog is for TJ. Sorry I haven't answered the phone in a few days/the couple of times you've called. I've been either working or sleeping, but I have the next few days off, so I'll try and give you a call then. Thanks for the reference check...if I get fired, I'll blame it on you! Haha.

Anyway, hope you had a good Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. I can't remember if you do, but yeah, talk to you soon.

Ok, as I sit here and listen to some Carbon Leaf, I'm going to make a milestone blog.

What milestone? Well, today is the, not 1, not 2, but 4 year anniversary since I started this thing called blogging. Back then, blogging was sort of new. Not anymore, but that's a tangent.

Anyway, wow, 4 years ago. SOOOO much has happened in 4 years that it's really hard to even think about it. I can put it in a list, but that would take a long time. Haha, just now the song from Rent came into my head. 525,600 minutes in a year...that means over 2 million minutes has passed. That's crazy.

Here are some big events during these years:

1. Got kicked out of CSU ;)
2. *something* made me shape up at FRCC
3. 12/1/01 - Laura and I officially start dating
4. The Rod/Derek/etc. fall out
5. Ben/Chris/roommate fall out
6. Ashley/TJ stuff
7. Camp stuff
8. Alaska internship (whoa, big jump in time!)
...um, I don't want to write anymore, lol.

I guess not much happened between, oh 2003 and 2004, but I can't even think about it it's so far back. Think about it, I was 19 still...a teenager! I had a lot of problems going on late 2001/early 2002. Turned out for the better, though.

Lots of stuff has happened, like I said, but then again, lots of stuff has still stayed the same.

I think I've been pretty good in the blog thing. I'm pretty sure that I lost a good amount of blogs like from 2003, June-October or something, but not counting those, I have around just under 400 blogs. That's about 1 every 4 days. That's amazing! This is so much better than a journal, you know? You know I would never write that much out, and some of these are long!

But looking back, I don't think I regret anything from when I was 19. Things happen for a reason you know. Have I grown up? Lol, I would like to think so. I think I'm definitely more responsible. One thing that I would have liked to do is to have started bloggin when I started college. That would be a better starting point. Oh well.

Sometimes it's hard to think where I've lived:

Fall 2000/Spring 2001 - Dorms w/ Chris
Fall 2001/Spring 2002 - Chris' house with Ben
Fall 2002/Spring 2003 - Sumac house with Laura and Ashley
Fall 2003/Spring 2004 - Collins West with Laura
Fall 2004/Spring 2005 - Chris' house with just Chris
Fall 2005 - Laramie with Laura.

That reminds me, the big ordeal with Chris telling Ben to leave. Wow, I remember that night pretty good. I think Ben and I are still in good terms, though I haven't seen him in a while. I should call him or something. I think Remi is done after the Spring semester, so before then. He will probably move out to Seattle or something. At least wherever Remi goes for sure.

But anyway, I have to admit, it was fun back then. Smoking up (lol), hanging out with Rod/Derek/etc...through all the things that's happened, they were pretty good friends. They really were.

Another interesting thing that I could do is look through the e-mails that I have from back then. I have this weird habit of saving ALL my important correspondence e-mails from friends, family, etc. My earliest saved e-mail is from like Oct/Nov of 2001 I believe. It's interesting to see how Laura and I talked and stuff like that. We talk A LOT different now. It's a weird change. We were like, sort of giving attitudes to each other via e-mail. Haha.

I should put all these things, including this blog in time capsule or something. I've always wanted to create a time capsule, but I never knew where to bury it. I mean, what if a building was built above it? I don't know.

Well, what now? The next 4 years? 10 years? 20 years? Will I be blogging then as well? Who knows. I very well may be. I think the next few years will be a lot more change-ridden then the last, if you get my drift. My life is starting to become just that, a real life. College days are like, you know, having fun, working jobs, and just eeking through. The next few years will really get you thinking I think. Hardships will follow for sure, but then the rewards are that much better I think.

I can't wait to get started on my life. I really can't. I love Laura so much and I am lucky to have to her love me back the same. Sometimes things are hard, like school, bills, etc., but it's good that we're there for each other.

I'm grateful, as well, for all the support that I've gotten from friends and sort of family (mostly my Mom since I don't really talk with any others, maybe my brother more recently these past few months).

Here's to the next stage in my, and everyone else's, life. Let's not try to regret a single thing that we've done. Just keep in mind that stuff happens for a reason, even if you might not think it. It could be for better or for worse, but in the end you'll be a more *complete* person, if you get what I mean. Let's all try and have the opportunity to experience all that life has to give us.

So I just had to write this. I've been watching the All Star Thanksgiving on the Food Network and man, I CANNOT stand Paula Deen...I had it on while I was playing Halo and her Thanksgiving special came on...my god!!!!!!! I just about broke my TV because I couldn't stand it. I don't know why. Maybe it's her attitude. Maybe it's her accent. Maybe I just don't like her??? I really wish they would discontinue her show...I would rather watch Emerial Live over this show. And that's saying a lot.

It's 10:42 and it's time to stay up until the wee hours of the morning. Why? Because that's my new schedule. Sleep during the day so I can do overnights without falling asleep! Last night we good. I don't think it'll be a problem. Now to get other shifts.

Got an iTunes gift card from my bro. I'll have to look around and see what kind of new albums are out and stuff. I haven't been really keeping up with the latest music and stuff. I need to do that.

This is pretty short, I don't have much else to write, so. See ya later!

I think this is my first blog from Laura's new computer. I really like the way text appears on this laptop. It's really, well, smooth.

Laura is having fun I think on her trip to D.C. She was a little scared of the subway, and who wouldn't since D.C. is such a crime ridden place. :) Anyway, I think she gets back tomorrow and she's going to stay in Denver until next week. I'll be going down there (what a looooong drive!) on Friday and spending the night and Saturday is Phantom of the Opera time. Should be fun since I've never seen it before.

What else. I stayed up until around 4 am today so I can sleep most of the day (I woke up at 2pm actually) so I can be ready for my overnight shift tonight, beginning at 12am until 10pm. It's a long day! Yeah, I think I might actually take another nap because another hour or two would be better than none. I don't want to be yawning all day. I just hope the suicidal girl doesn't run away or kill herself. lol.

The Christmas season is starting to bloom. I sense it everywhere. Grocery stores, commercials, shows. They're all Christmas themed. It's pretty cold out right now, it snowed a bit last night, so. Not at all today though.

I'll end it right here. I'm going to see if I can sleep after a bit of Halo.

:)

I thought I'd do a quick post. Today while I was visiting my cottage and getting off work, I look outside and see the best sunset I've seen yet here in Laramie. It was the most purple-rich sky I've ever seen. It was crazy. I was inside and I wanted to go out to see it but I couldn't. I think tomorrow I'm going to head out there and take a few snapshots and post it. It was just awesome. Sort of gave me the feeling that living here isn't so bad. ;)

I have some time before I head to bed and get some stuff done online. Things are going good though, life overall that is. Laura left today (tomorrow morning actually) to head down to Denver and then off to D.C. for about a week for a conference. I miss her already! I'm pretty bored right now, even at 11pm. I might even head to bed before 12pm...I don't think so though. I'll probably end up watching some TV (I found the Sci-FI channel recently, although Laura insists that we've had it here AND in Fort Collins...). They have some good UFO stuff sometimes.

Work is good. Tomorrow is my policy quiz, which I hope I pass. I've read over all the material except the last couple of packets. And then Friday's the last real training for meds and diabetes stuff. I have a couple of more things to get checked off after that and then I'm off training. Things are starting to pick up, though. I picked up 40-hours next week for some people taking time off for the Thanksgiving holidays. It's at the girls cottage and they're all overnight shifts, but oh well.

Once the regular schedule starts, I am hoping to pick up part-time overnights at the girls cottage and some day part-time at the boys cottage which I'm familiar with so I can have some interaction with the kids. We'll take it one by one I guess.

But that's all for now. I'm going to go read the rest of my packets.

Our internet is slow right now! Wow.

Holy shebang! I was wondering when my "anniversary" (haha) for my blog was and it's the 21st of this month! I'm going to have to write a good one for that day.

So I've got some time this morning since I woke up early so I don't have to give Laura $1 (a bet that I couldn't get up when she did). I'll write a bit about what's been happening.

So training is ALMOST over for my job. Just a few hours this week and I'm done and I can finally be an ER/on-call. I have to study for my quiz though, make sure I don't fail that!

This past Saturday I trained from 3-11 and wow, that was an experience. I don't want to talk about it too much since if my employer HAPPENS to find this on the 'net, it would be a no-no, but it was interesting to say the least. It was overall fun though and go to interact with the kids more. I was tired though!

Today Laura is coming back sometime and getting the refrigerator that my Mom bought for her for her office (yeah, weird huh?). I'm heading to the bank sometime today to deposit some checks and maybe do some budgeting for bills and stuff. We'll see. My loan payments start in March I believe, at $40 a month for one of them and probably the same for the other. I'm not sure what or where my other loan is, so I'll have to dig up papers and stuff to find information on that. My goal is to get the damn loans paid off in 6 months or less, which I should be able to do once the spring time rolls around and I possibly get another part-time job for the city parks and recreation, unless I am working full-time at the Cathedral Home. We'll see about that when I'm done with training and the hours are filled up with the new employees.

Other than that, just chugging along. Thanksgiving is almost here...and then shortly afterwards Christmas. That time of year again. Comes and goes faster each year.

I hear TJ got a new car. A Ford Contour. lol. I think it fits him, although I could have seen him more in a station wagon. ;) He needs to get a digital camera (unless he has one already) and take pictures and most importantly, get an internet connection! Perhaps he can do the AOL thing again over and over. Better than nothing I suppose.

But yeah, I'm gonna go. See ya later and I'm going to start picking up writing because I want to hit 400 blogs by the end of the year...like 19 more to go I think. :)

WOW. What a long day at work yesterday. I'll probably write more about it later. I just got up an hour or so ago and I've been catching up with e-mail and stuff.

We'll be selling our 2nd and 3rd Motogolf.com sale today. Cool! Little bits of profits from each one I guess. :)

Hello!

I know, I didn't write like I said. Things got busy.

New happenings:

Motogolf.com sold our first sale! lol, pretty cool, although all the profits are going to the company again.

Work is going good. I am still in training until next Thursday when I take my policy quiz. I might take that Monday, depending on if I'm ready.

I don't remember if I wrote this, but I opened up http://www.thefinaldish.com so if you want, visit, register, and write a review about restaurants you've been to!

That's it! Nothing really big. TJ got a new place of his own, another studio. I would do that, but no money for me. Haha, oh yeah, he got his PERA and he only go $850 or something like that. I could have SWORE he would get like $2000 haha. I don't know why I got $985...I still have some left since I graduated in the PERA account, so I might take that out again. We'll see how much it'll be.

Hm...other than that, that's really it. I am going to training in about 40 minutes. Today's a long day, learning about securing and restraining the kids. The second part is tomorrow too. Long!

Oh, I guess I'll put one more thing. I've been into the band Carbon Leaf lately. So much in fact, that when I couldn't find good versions of their songs online, I went on iTunes and bought their latest CD. lol. $9.99 is pretty cheap I guess. That's the first CD I've bought since like, early 2001. Wow! But yeah, check them out:

http://www.carbonleaf.com/

Laters.

It's been almost a week since an update! I don't have time now, but rest assured, I haven't forgotten about this.

I'll write about what's been going on probably tonight or tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Happy Halloween to all.

I can't believe it's already November tomorrow! 2 more months and the year is over with. I'll be doing my annual reflecting probably near the end of the year. This year was the best year in blogging for me I would say, seeing from the number of posts that I did. Wouldn't it be great if I could do 365 posts next year? lol, yeah right.

I've been downloading music videos from Yahoo music the last few days. I'm watching O.A.R.'s Hey Girl right now. One thing that I would love to have done is be in a band, trying to make it big. In the video, it looks like they're having so much fun. I think it'd be fun to be in a band for sure, travelling around and stuff. Oh well, maybe in my next life huh?

The next 3 or so weeks I'm going to be doing training a few times a week and I'll probably be finishing up the 17th or 21st of this month, depending on when I want to take the last training. And after that, I HOPEFULLY will get a good shift that'll give me some hours and get my bills paid, find a house to rent and getting a dog. I can't wait for that yo.

Hopefully TJ's interview went well. Maybe I'll call him this week.

Other than that, I think Chris and Ashley are both doing their own thing lately. I haven't talked to either in a while. I'll have to head down to Fort Collins one of these times.

Ah!!!

I hate my host. I've loved them for a long time, but now the errors are getting out of hand...so, I've made the decision to switch to Site5.com instead of Powweb.com to host CSU Connection and CSU Forums. I'll be doing that later tonight.

Other news? Well, I got the job at the Cathedral Home for Children! Cool huh? I start training next Tuesday. Hopefully this'll become like a full-time job after a while. I need the money and there's been super cute Border Collies around on the net that Laura and I have been looking at and torturing ourselves with.

TJ has an interview at a similar place where he's at. That's today. Hopefully he gets it.

I'm just chillin' right now, probably going to get some Sprite here in a minute. I wonder what everyone's doing for Halloween I wonder?

Oh yeah, and Laura and I carved a pumpkin last night. Pictures here:

http://www.csuconnection.com/halloween_pictures.php

Laters.

You can do IT!!!

-Tony Litte, Geico commercial

While surfing the Navy SEAL website, one of the guys (a SEAL I presume) wrote this in response to someone asking "what drives a SEAL to do the things he does?":

"Aggression, pride, the desire to do what ever it is you do to the absolute pinnacle of performance, the Brotherhood, respect and self respect, honor, integrity, inner strength. All internal motivators.

In the dark of night when you're standing on the windy beach in wet cammies, grinding sand against your raw skin with every movement and colder than you've ever been before, there is nothing else that will keep you there. Everything outside seems suddenly small and insignificant, you focus on yourself, you dig within. You find these traits and you build your character on them, they keep you warm, they keep you going. They keep you motivated when your classmates drop beside you one by one, you hear the bell ringing, ringing, and you keep going. You see the sun rise and you see it set and rise again, and you're still going, you persevere. When you finally reach the end of that long, dark gauntlet, you look around at the few steely eyed men still standing beside you, and know that you are a man among men.


You have it in you or you don't."

Pretty well written if you ask me.

It's almost 7 minutes to 11. I woke up at 7 when Laura did and I was going to get up at that time, but the next thing you know. I'm up at 10:40...wtf man! I don't even remember falling asleep. Oh well.

Nothing much going on today (do I ever??). Been looking in the classifieds, but nothing good there. Hopefully the Cathedral Home place calls. I need a job. I was going to make start doing the Fort Collins thing and maybe driving up and down or just doing phone communication, but I don't know...I need to get motivated you know.

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.

http://www.billionpageviews.com/

Check it out!!!

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.