Okay, the long post.
Anyway, do you ever sometimes get the feeling that all is going to be all right, even if they aren't going to be? Well, yeah, I sort of felt that today. Like my teeth. It's gonna get fixed, yeah, but it costs a buttload...but I don't give a damn! That thought was really hard to write out...so don't even bother trying to decipher what I was trying to write.
My laptop is for the most part done tweaking. Just need to add a few more programs, Word, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop and it's done. Writing and using this laptop reminds me of when Laura and I were at the Sumac house. Yup.
What else. Nothing really, even though I said I would write a big blog.
Here is my proposed routine for the internship time period (if I get the schedule I want)
1. Wake up at 5:30am
2. Take a shower. Get the coffee going before the shower.
3. Out of shower at 5:50am.
4. Read up on news, e-mail, etc.
5. Leave for work around 6:00am.
6. Arrive at 6:15am.
7. Leave at 2:15pm.
I want to maybe get a second job, like afternoon/late afternoon. Heck, even right after my job would be ok. I would love to do newspaper routes, since it's like $400 or so a month, but I can't seem to readily find them like I did back in like 2001/2002.
Well, I just lost the urge to keep writing. See ya laters.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
This is my first post from my SCREAMING new (old) computer that I traded with my Mom today. Screaming as in not fast, but that because the fan is always on now since it's not an Intel Centrino processor. Oh well. She seemed to like the new laptop, so that's good.
What's been going on? Nothing much. Tomorrow I start work, almost exactly 2 months to the day that I quit. Seems like just yesterday. I'm not going to make this a long one, but I'm going to write a longer one tonight, but I just wanted to test everything out on this laptop, since it's going to be Laura's in a couple of months.
Laters.
What's been going on? Nothing much. Tomorrow I start work, almost exactly 2 months to the day that I quit. Seems like just yesterday. I'm not going to make this a long one, but I'm going to write a longer one tonight, but I just wanted to test everything out on this laptop, since it's going to be Laura's in a couple of months.
Laters.
Friday, July 15, 2005

So, what to do tonight? I don't feel like going cruisin', but that could change. I make decisions on the fly and if anybody knows best, Laura knows that I can change minds AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE, literally. Like one time, we said, let's go to Olive Garden. We were driving, as we were pulling into the parking lot, I saw that it was sort of crowded. Bam, I lost my interest to go there...and we didn't end up going there...I forget what we did...come home? Anyway, I just want to thank Laura for putting up with some of the stupid things I do sometimes.
Went to McDonald's with TJ today. We were talking a bit about the movie last night but nothing too important. We were trying to figure out what kind of restaurant was next to McDonald's. Turns out it was Mediterranean (or however you spell it). Looked good though. I love Greek good but I don't even know if Greek should be capitalized in this sentence. But yeah, like Renzios in the mall? It's awesome. The gyros are great and the fries are the best I've had in this city.
But yeah, after seeing that movie last night, I sort of want to go visit California again. I don't know if I ever want to live there again, due to a lot of different reasons, I would definitely like to visit. And I should because if I ask my brother, he'll get me a ticket with his miles for sure since he's been wanting me to come out for months and months. Since he lives sooo close to Beverly Hills, it's interesting when we head out to town to eat or go watch a movie and then get burgers at this small little burger joint that sits in like a median sort of thing. It's like, they pack so much stuff, people, restaurants, and yeah, porn stores in that city. There are more adult dance clubs per street than anywhere else I swear...well, that I've been to.
I would like to visit Little Tokyo again and see some ollllld friends...come to think of it, I wonder if they're even alive? Like the dessert restaurant that we are good friends with. The owners were pretty old when I was a kid. Makes you wonder if they left the estalishment to their kids or something.
I sometimes wonder what my past is doing, if that makes any sense. Like, I wrote before, I sent like 7 letters to my old middle school friends. No answer. One came back returned. But the rest? Either they didn't care to write back (which would make them a bitch, really) or some crazy freak received it, opened the envelope, and is now hunting me down.
One last thing before I go do nothing. The last couple of days I've been trying to keep my cell phone off...it's sort of a weird, calm, relaxing feeling. Everyone should try it sometime if you have a cell phone. I mean, it's amazing how much the cell phone is tangled into our lives. Just to not hear a ringing sometimes can make you very relaxed. I'm sure there are studies or something done where people are conditioned to get in a bad mood at the sound of a ringing phone, or something.
Well, that's it. And yeah, I just read TJ's blog and yes, the people next to him were fucking loud. I was about to kill them and their relatives...really.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Unfortunately, this blog is probably going to be my last one until Sunday at least (well, probably not, but hey) since I am pretty much done with reformatting this laptop with a fresh new install of Windows and pretty much factory fresh as it will be traded with my Mom's old (my old) laptop. I'll miss this one for sure, since it's probably a bit faster than my old one and the fact that my old one isn't widescreen and the CPU runs hotter than this, meaning the fan is always on. But yeah, it'll work out.
The good news??!!?!?!! I start my old job on Monday. Hell yeah. Finally. There are some things, though, like they were only able to secure me 370 hours of the 400 hours as pay, but hell, that's ok with me. That's 370 hours that I wouldn't have had. They are paying me my old hourly wage at $11.00/hour, so about $9.50 real money.
I just realized, I wonder if this is going to go into the PERA account? I don't think so, since I'm a student at CSU. I thought I could make millions, haha.
Tomorrow TJ and I are getting Pizza Hut, I think. I don't have MSN installed on this machine, but I'm gonna just use the web messenger. Pretty handy for those that don't want to install it completely. I'm getting this laptop ready for my Mom's use, so there's no high-tech stuff on it. Just a good ol' internet surfin' laptop, although this setup is way too overkill for just that. She'll watch movies and stuff though and the fact that I can hook a TV up to this will be good, although I've yet to test that out. I'm doing that tonight.
What else. Today was and is still damn hot, but it seems like it's going to rain like a mother fucker. It's Thursday isn't it? TJ has his soccer thing tonight. I wonder if they'll play in the rain? It looks like it'll rain in a couple of hours. A chance of cancellation isn't out of the question.
My tooth is bothering me more these days. Like, not bothering like hurting, but just annoying and I can feel that something's wrong in that area, if you know what I mean.
I need to budget out my paychecks REALLY well if I want to avoid this no job thing again. I'm gonna start looking for a job way before the end of this thing. I hope that I can get a good grade on this 5-credit course...A 5-credit A would help me a lot, but since I had one stupid B last semester, my GPA will be like 2.99 or something ridiculous...I should apply for more credits, but oh well. I think I did good enough to raise it that much from a 1.3!!
I'm gonna go watch another movie now. I just watched parts of Cast Away.
Laters.
The good news??!!?!?!! I start my old job on Monday. Hell yeah. Finally. There are some things, though, like they were only able to secure me 370 hours of the 400 hours as pay, but hell, that's ok with me. That's 370 hours that I wouldn't have had. They are paying me my old hourly wage at $11.00/hour, so about $9.50 real money.
I just realized, I wonder if this is going to go into the PERA account? I don't think so, since I'm a student at CSU. I thought I could make millions, haha.
Tomorrow TJ and I are getting Pizza Hut, I think. I don't have MSN installed on this machine, but I'm gonna just use the web messenger. Pretty handy for those that don't want to install it completely. I'm getting this laptop ready for my Mom's use, so there's no high-tech stuff on it. Just a good ol' internet surfin' laptop, although this setup is way too overkill for just that. She'll watch movies and stuff though and the fact that I can hook a TV up to this will be good, although I've yet to test that out. I'm doing that tonight.
What else. Today was and is still damn hot, but it seems like it's going to rain like a mother fucker. It's Thursday isn't it? TJ has his soccer thing tonight. I wonder if they'll play in the rain? It looks like it'll rain in a couple of hours. A chance of cancellation isn't out of the question.
My tooth is bothering me more these days. Like, not bothering like hurting, but just annoying and I can feel that something's wrong in that area, if you know what I mean.
I need to budget out my paychecks REALLY well if I want to avoid this no job thing again. I'm gonna start looking for a job way before the end of this thing. I hope that I can get a good grade on this 5-credit course...A 5-credit A would help me a lot, but since I had one stupid B last semester, my GPA will be like 2.99 or something ridiculous...I should apply for more credits, but oh well. I think I did good enough to raise it that much from a 1.3!!
I'm gonna go watch another movie now. I just watched parts of Cast Away.
Laters.
I'm gonna head to bed, but man, this blogger thing is getting to the point where it's like an addiction when you have nothing to do. Damn! I think I'm on record pace to write more than I've written in 3 years in 1 year.
Anyway, I just wanted to say music is awesome. I thank all those who write and sing songs and make music because they love what they do...not those sell outs who do it just for the money...you know who you are. There are so many great bands on free download sites such as music.download.com that I can't believe it. I know Laura knows what I'm talking about because I made a CD with mostly these guys. They're just as good and most of the time they're better than the mainstream. Damn media gets a hold of them and it just becomes a money making opportunity for the studios.
Oh well, that's how the world runs I guess.
I'll talk to ya later.
Anyway, I just wanted to say music is awesome. I thank all those who write and sing songs and make music because they love what they do...not those sell outs who do it just for the money...you know who you are. There are so many great bands on free download sites such as music.download.com that I can't believe it. I know Laura knows what I'm talking about because I made a CD with mostly these guys. They're just as good and most of the time they're better than the mainstream. Damn media gets a hold of them and it just becomes a money making opportunity for the studios.
Oh well, that's how the world runs I guess.
I'll talk to ya later.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
I just had a personal thought. I think I rely too much on opinions and reviews and ratings and stuff. Like for things like laptops, desktops, movies, restaurants, pretty much anything that it's new I'm trying.
I think it's important to consider that the product or service that you're getting doesn't have to be perfect, but if it's perfect for you (lol, sort of a line from Good Will Hunting). Like, for example, my web hosting is Powweb.com. SOOO many people say they suck and what not. I've been with them for over 2 years now and it's been great. It's just weird that a lot of people take others' opinions and stuff, like, not like it 's bad, since it's a way to get a taste of what's coming, but you know what I mean. I think I'm going to start taking more leaps in terms of buying and experiencing things even though I heard bad reviews or something.
I guess it really does goes to show that whatever the topic, it's different for everyone.
I think it's important to consider that the product or service that you're getting doesn't have to be perfect, but if it's perfect for you (lol, sort of a line from Good Will Hunting). Like, for example, my web hosting is Powweb.com. SOOO many people say they suck and what not. I've been with them for over 2 years now and it's been great. It's just weird that a lot of people take others' opinions and stuff, like, not like it 's bad, since it's a way to get a taste of what's coming, but you know what I mean. I think I'm going to start taking more leaps in terms of buying and experiencing things even though I heard bad reviews or something.
I guess it really does goes to show that whatever the topic, it's different for everyone.
I'm just killing some time until my car video download is finishing up. About 10 minutes, which is just enough time for a good blog.
Went to A&W and to Starbucks tonight with TJ and talked for a couple of hours. It was good. Just stuff about what's going on, what's been going on, and what's going to happen. The usual. Haha.
Laura is leaving tomorrow to go to St. Louis for a bit over a week. And then she comes up here for a couple of days. I can't wait for that. I miss her a lot! I think we were planning something like going to Estes Park or something and getting a place to stay or even camp since we're broke, but yeah, that should be fun. I haven't been with her alone for a while. This Summer has slowly crept along, although it doesn't feel like it to me. I mean, what, 2 months ago already I was in Alaska. Now it's mid July. Crazy.
No word from my boss YET. I need it quick man...if this happens to fall through for whatever reason, I have to dip into my tuition money to pay for a month or so of rent. At least to get me by. I mean, man. I don't even want to think about it!
And then I was thinking about the rest of my life and how Laura and I want to travel. I don't think we even need a house, well, okay, maybe a small house to come back to every once and a while, but we want to travel a lot. Some of the places that we want to visit are Tibet, the Great Wall of China, Easter Island, Oak Island, Madagascar, Moorea, Stonehenge, Alaska/Denali, and Egypt. There are other places I'm sure, but those are the top ones for sure. That would be so fun. I love going to places that have meaning, mysterious or otherwise...like, take the US...it really doesn't have a place with big meaning, you know? I mean, yeah, it does, but you know what I mean. Pyramids, the Moai, there isn't a "mysterious" place in the US, aside from Area 51 and stuff. The US is such a young country that it doesn't have the great history that we like, like Rome and Paris. Their history is sooo much cooler than ours. Japan too.
90% done with the download. It was a huge file too. But anyway, I wish Laura a safe and fun trip and I can't wait to see ya when you get back and hopefully I'll be working by then so I can buy something for you. Haha.
Laters.
Went to A&W and to Starbucks tonight with TJ and talked for a couple of hours. It was good. Just stuff about what's going on, what's been going on, and what's going to happen. The usual. Haha.
Laura is leaving tomorrow to go to St. Louis for a bit over a week. And then she comes up here for a couple of days. I can't wait for that. I miss her a lot! I think we were planning something like going to Estes Park or something and getting a place to stay or even camp since we're broke, but yeah, that should be fun. I haven't been with her alone for a while. This Summer has slowly crept along, although it doesn't feel like it to me. I mean, what, 2 months ago already I was in Alaska. Now it's mid July. Crazy.
No word from my boss YET. I need it quick man...if this happens to fall through for whatever reason, I have to dip into my tuition money to pay for a month or so of rent. At least to get me by. I mean, man. I don't even want to think about it!
And then I was thinking about the rest of my life and how Laura and I want to travel. I don't think we even need a house, well, okay, maybe a small house to come back to every once and a while, but we want to travel a lot. Some of the places that we want to visit are Tibet, the Great Wall of China, Easter Island, Oak Island, Madagascar, Moorea, Stonehenge, Alaska/Denali, and Egypt. There are other places I'm sure, but those are the top ones for sure. That would be so fun. I love going to places that have meaning, mysterious or otherwise...like, take the US...it really doesn't have a place with big meaning, you know? I mean, yeah, it does, but you know what I mean. Pyramids, the Moai, there isn't a "mysterious" place in the US, aside from Area 51 and stuff. The US is such a young country that it doesn't have the great history that we like, like Rome and Paris. Their history is sooo much cooler than ours. Japan too.
90% done with the download. It was a huge file too. But anyway, I wish Laura a safe and fun trip and I can't wait to see ya when you get back and hopefully I'll be working by then so I can buy something for you. Haha.
Laters.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
I'm bored again. My boss is contacting CSU about what they can do for me in terms of hiring me back...I guess that's a start.
I'm trying out Picasa from Google. http://picasa.google.com/
This thing is amazing if you like to deal with photos and stuff and organizing them on your computer. Right now it's searching my entire computer for pictures and organizing them for me. It's pretty sweet if you have a lot of pictures and sometimes it'll find pictures that you never thought you had!
Google is awesome once again.
I'm trying out Picasa from Google. http://picasa.google.com/
This thing is amazing if you like to deal with photos and stuff and organizing them on your computer. Right now it's searching my entire computer for pictures and organizing them for me. It's pretty sweet if you have a lot of pictures and sometimes it'll find pictures that you never thought you had!
Google is awesome once again.



1. My old junior high school
2. Recreation/pool center - used to swim there and took field trips there
3. Elementary school where I and a few others used to volunteer
4. Best friend's house
5. My house
6. My elementary school
7. My brother's best friend's house, went to school with his little brother
The circled building in the middle image was where my sister worked for a bit and our family were great friends with the owners. We got a lot of desserts there and even a few years ago when we visited, they remembered us, naturally, but yeah...well, IRONICALLY, 2 stores down to the right in that same building was where my Dad worked, a golf/tennis shop. I hung out there a few times too and that's where I got my first clubs. Weird how everything is occuring in a small radius.
The last picture is my japanese school (the big building with the parking lot, duh). Had the festivals in the parking lot and had garage sales in that little front grass area.

I just thought I'd post a picture that I took when Laura and Ellen and I went to Horsetooth reservoir. :)
Recently, like the last 2 days, I've been messaging Amanda, Chris' old gf on www.hi5.com since she is on there. You should check to see if you have any friends that are on there. I found out that I have a few that I didn't even know about! Just like www.classmates.com I guess.
Anyway, she lives really close to Laura's sister's place and I guess she used to deliver pizza around the area too. She's even thinking about moving near there! It's crazy.
Do you ever wonder if your friends are interconnected indefinitely? Like no matter what happens, in the end they are pulled toward each other? Maybe, I don't think it's true, I just thought it would be a cool theory to write here. Haha.
Monday, July 11, 2005
So the last couple of days I had some trouble with FireFox and I finally managed to delete everything and install it again and voila, it's healed. The good news it that now the Blogger shows the correct number of blogs that I've written. This will be my 311th blog. That's cool to know since it was pegged at 254 for the longest time.
I thought I would have word from my boss by today, but not yet, unfortuntately. Dammit!
I made cake last night and I am eating it like a meal since I'm too broke for real food. Haha, it's like going to McDonald's or another fast food restaurant is like "splurging" now. Makes me wonder what people and families with real problems feel like everyday day.
I was looking at some of the new movies coming out for 2006 and there's an impressive line-up, at least for me personally. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye which are guaranteed 2006 releases:
Mission: Impossible 3 - I may like this, I don't know, 2 was worse than 1, so yeah
X-Men 3 - I can't wait for this one!
Cars - Not really into animated movies
Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - A sure watch
The Da Vinci Code - Have you read my Da Vinci-reading blog???
Superman Returns - Nope
Ice Age 2 - Perhaps it will be good, dunno what else they can do
The Italian Job 2 - I will watch this
So that's my next year's picks. This year, I'm probably only waiting for Chronicles of Narnia and Night Watch (an awesome looking trilogy).
What am I gonna do today? I don't know. It's so boring. I want to work, but now I don't think I can push my employment. Argh. Bad situation.
Anyway, hopefully I'll report back soon with some good news...luck hasn't been with me lately.
Check out all the Price is Right games...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_is_Right_pricing_games
I thought I would have word from my boss by today, but not yet, unfortuntately. Dammit!
I made cake last night and I am eating it like a meal since I'm too broke for real food. Haha, it's like going to McDonald's or another fast food restaurant is like "splurging" now. Makes me wonder what people and families with real problems feel like everyday day.
I was looking at some of the new movies coming out for 2006 and there's an impressive line-up, at least for me personally. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye which are guaranteed 2006 releases:
Mission: Impossible 3 - I may like this, I don't know, 2 was worse than 1, so yeah
X-Men 3 - I can't wait for this one!
Cars - Not really into animated movies
Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - A sure watch
The Da Vinci Code - Have you read my Da Vinci-reading blog???
Superman Returns - Nope
Ice Age 2 - Perhaps it will be good, dunno what else they can do
The Italian Job 2 - I will watch this
So that's my next year's picks. This year, I'm probably only waiting for Chronicles of Narnia and Night Watch (an awesome looking trilogy).
What am I gonna do today? I don't know. It's so boring. I want to work, but now I don't think I can push my employment. Argh. Bad situation.
Anyway, hopefully I'll report back soon with some good news...luck hasn't been with me lately.
Check out all the Price is Right games...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_is_Right_pricing_games
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Man, I'm so bored. And it's hot out. I think I'm gonna help TJ consolidate some of his computer parts into one, but I'm not sure yet.
I'm starting to finalize what parts I'm going to buy for my next new computer. It should be pretty good and it will last for a couple of years at least. As long as it plays World of Warcraft, I'm happy!
EDIT: Ha, I just cut my own hair, lol
I'll just keep adding to this one.
A website that I frequent (and a very good website in my opinion) posted a couple of articles. Here is the original:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/3/491/18474
Some girl is missing. This guy writes about how much coverage this girl is getting and all that and that he doesn't give a fuck.
Here is all the hate mail that the site/he got:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/8/141115/2706
So, back to the article. Personally, I don't think I've really read or heard about this girl. Maybe a glimpse on Snopes or something. Anything, is it bad that I sort of agree with that guy that wrote the article? I mean really, why is she getting so much attention, and not other pressing issues? Sure, a life is a life, but how is hers more important than other missing children? Is it the money involved in the background? There is a website that says there's a $150,000 reward for information. WTF??? They must be pretty damn rich. Is she because she's white? Because she's slightly attractive? Why send a fucking Navy dive team to look for her? I also read somewhere that Holland is sending fighter jets to search for her!??! WTF!??! I doubt the media would give a fuck if it was another race. Frankly, I haven't seen the media cover an ugly, Mexican girl or boy before (no offense), at least not at this kind of level. I mean come on, just like Jon Benet...she was just another girl like any other, like my niece, for instance. Who fucking cares if she was a "talented", pretty girl. Why so much coverage? I think the values of the US and the US media are just not in the right place these days.
Here is another article that state a similar thought:
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2578582p-9013209c.html
Anyway, I think I'm done with this rant. From the pictures I saw of her mother and father, they look like snobs who only care about one thing right now. :/
I'm starting to finalize what parts I'm going to buy for my next new computer. It should be pretty good and it will last for a couple of years at least. As long as it plays World of Warcraft, I'm happy!
EDIT: Ha, I just cut my own hair, lol
I'll just keep adding to this one.
A website that I frequent (and a very good website in my opinion) posted a couple of articles. Here is the original:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/3/491/18474
Some girl is missing. This guy writes about how much coverage this girl is getting and all that and that he doesn't give a fuck.
Here is all the hate mail that the site/he got:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/8/141115/2706
So, back to the article. Personally, I don't think I've really read or heard about this girl. Maybe a glimpse on Snopes or something. Anything, is it bad that I sort of agree with that guy that wrote the article? I mean really, why is she getting so much attention, and not other pressing issues? Sure, a life is a life, but how is hers more important than other missing children? Is it the money involved in the background? There is a website that says there's a $150,000 reward for information. WTF??? They must be pretty damn rich. Is she because she's white? Because she's slightly attractive? Why send a fucking Navy dive team to look for her? I also read somewhere that Holland is sending fighter jets to search for her!??! WTF!??! I doubt the media would give a fuck if it was another race. Frankly, I haven't seen the media cover an ugly, Mexican girl or boy before (no offense), at least not at this kind of level. I mean come on, just like Jon Benet...she was just another girl like any other, like my niece, for instance. Who fucking cares if she was a "talented", pretty girl. Why so much coverage? I think the values of the US and the US media are just not in the right place these days.
Here is another article that state a similar thought:
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2578582p-9013209c.html
Anyway, I think I'm done with this rant. From the pictures I saw of her mother and father, they look like snobs who only care about one thing right now. :/
Let's do a quick (well maybe not depending on how fast I can type) blog. Went cruising tonight. It was more fun than normal. Lot more people and there were some people there that I haven't seen in a long time. One of the people that were there was Kellie. Yup, the first person I met from when I started the forums. Haha, we're good friends and all. It was nice to catch up. Met some other people...and then this fucking cocky, idiot guy came and I instantly didn't like him. We went for a lap and the best thing happened. He got pulled over. Fuck yeah, but it wasn't a ticket, just a warning. Ticket would have been better but oh well. That's about all tonight. Saw another good friend of mine. His girl is 4 months pregnant and he's all getting excited about the baby boy. It was just fun to chat about that kind of stuff (is that weird???). I guess it's kicking really hard already and we're like, yeah, he's just getting ready to work on cars! (He works on cars too) I dunno. At that point it felt like "grown up talk", if that makes any sense. We don't talk about school or anything. He talked about his new job, asked how my car was, I asked how his car was, but we're all busy paying bills, taking care of ourselves and the people we hang out with and care for. Yeah, it was just mature talk, lol.
So yeah, my old boss said she talked to the big boss and he said it was fine to hire me back for the internship. Good thing I had good relations with both! I e-mailed back yesterday, but I think it was too late since she might have left the office. She has Fridays off, so hopefully Monday I'll get an e-mail back and I can start next week.
Ahhhhh, money...wait, I'm assuming, but I hope I get paid the same amount!??! Either way, I don't care. I'm pretty much pushing the limits of my budget already. A few more days and I REALLY can't pay ANYTHING. My credit card is $1700/$1800 and although I have a grand in the checking account, that's for tuition. This is probably the closest call I've had to being homeless! lol
Well, other than that, pretty uneventful day, besides eating lunch at Pizza Casbah, where TJ and I saw a lucky kid being nanny-ed by a hot girl or could have been his mom, who knows.
Next week I'm going to swing by my Mom's place and give her my laptop and get my old one back. This one's a lot better, like I said, so I'm just switching so she has the better one. The least I can do.
My tooth was overly annoying today, like I felt it more...I gotta get it fixed soon. Really soon. The thing that sucks is that I'm already budgeting out my paychecks from when I start working. Basically it's already gone, if you know what I mean.
Say I get paid my old wage of $11/hr, in reality really $9.50/hr. 400 hours times $9.50 is $3800 total. That is until mi September or so. So, how am I going to allocate this? I don't know. I have a few main bills to pay. Car insurance starting August @ $125 or so for 4 months, $75 for phone bill for each month (yes, if you're wondering why I'm paying so damn much, I pay for my Mom's too), credit card is at $1700 and rent at $330/month with $80 or so in utilities every month. I get say $700 a paycheck, rounded down. It seems it's do-able and it is, but man, I just can't buy what I want, you know. I want a new computer, but that'll probably wait a month or two. I want to primarily get this credit card down to at least half and my fucking teeth fixed, which my Mom might help out, which would be good. After that, I need to find yet another job, like a real one to start my career in! That's scary if you think about it.
I think on that note, I'm going to take off and head to sleep. I'm tired.
Laters all.
So yeah, my old boss said she talked to the big boss and he said it was fine to hire me back for the internship. Good thing I had good relations with both! I e-mailed back yesterday, but I think it was too late since she might have left the office. She has Fridays off, so hopefully Monday I'll get an e-mail back and I can start next week.
Ahhhhh, money...wait, I'm assuming, but I hope I get paid the same amount!??! Either way, I don't care. I'm pretty much pushing the limits of my budget already. A few more days and I REALLY can't pay ANYTHING. My credit card is $1700/$1800 and although I have a grand in the checking account, that's for tuition. This is probably the closest call I've had to being homeless! lol
Well, other than that, pretty uneventful day, besides eating lunch at Pizza Casbah, where TJ and I saw a lucky kid being nanny-ed by a hot girl or could have been his mom, who knows.
Next week I'm going to swing by my Mom's place and give her my laptop and get my old one back. This one's a lot better, like I said, so I'm just switching so she has the better one. The least I can do.
My tooth was overly annoying today, like I felt it more...I gotta get it fixed soon. Really soon. The thing that sucks is that I'm already budgeting out my paychecks from when I start working. Basically it's already gone, if you know what I mean.
Say I get paid my old wage of $11/hr, in reality really $9.50/hr. 400 hours times $9.50 is $3800 total. That is until mi September or so. So, how am I going to allocate this? I don't know. I have a few main bills to pay. Car insurance starting August @ $125 or so for 4 months, $75 for phone bill for each month (yes, if you're wondering why I'm paying so damn much, I pay for my Mom's too), credit card is at $1700 and rent at $330/month with $80 or so in utilities every month. I get say $700 a paycheck, rounded down. It seems it's do-able and it is, but man, I just can't buy what I want, you know. I want a new computer, but that'll probably wait a month or two. I want to primarily get this credit card down to at least half and my fucking teeth fixed, which my Mom might help out, which would be good. After that, I need to find yet another job, like a real one to start my career in! That's scary if you think about it.
I think on that note, I'm going to take off and head to sleep. I'm tired.
Laters all.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Wow, so I just had a rush of old time memories. I was playing with Google Earth (of course) and I was looking up where I went to Japanese school on Saturdays from 9-12:30. Man, I can see the McDonald's that my Mom and I would go to before going to school and her dropping me off. She would go to L.A. to Little Tokyo for the time that I was in school. Come to think of it, I can't believe she did that every Saturday. I don't think I can keep myself busy for 3.5 hours. Really. I think a couple of times she went home, which was incredible because it took about 30-40 minutes to get there. I now realize how much work it was to take me there and pick me up, all while I just sat in class, had recess and didn't really challenge me, since I started at elementary up through junior high-level japanese. I can't thank her enough. I wish I could with the lottery so I can give some money back to her. The least I can do while I will always be in debt. We would sometimes even go to Little Tokyo AFTER my school, so I have no idea what she did during the time I was at school. Sometimes I wish I would have known a few more things than I did while I was a kid, like what went on and stuff. Things like how it was so that I had so much fun. What it took my parents to give me the life I had.
Back to the schooling thing, it was cake. Hell, I already spoke it pretty good. I just had to learn some writing and reading. Cake I tell ya. Anyway, more memories. The center would have annual festivals and stuff. That was FUN. I would volunteer to run some of the booths and stuff. Man, I just can't express this in writing. It was fun. Each year it switched off from a festival to a sports/game event thingy. The festival was the best, though. Lots of people came, mostly japanese and play games, watch shows, go through vendors and booths and such. It was from like early afternoon until sundown. Man, I can just put myself in that time.
These are the times when I wish a time machine existed. Not to go back, get rich, mess up the current timeline or anything, but to just "invisibly" relive my childhood and see my old friends again. Perhaps in the future.
And then again, the thing is, I sent about 7-8 letters to my old friends that I found their addresses online. One came back saying there was no person of that name and the others haven't written back. I wrote them letters, yeah, but come on, it was like a month ago. At least write back, e-mail or call or something. These were good friends too (or so I thought, if you want to reference one of my older blogs). One of them was my best friend through elementary and junior high. The last I saw him was like, 3 years ago I think when I was in California.
I don't know, I always thought that some, at least a couple, of my friends would keep in touch you know. I wonder how many actually think what I'm thinking now? Do they even remember me? Mysteries of our lives huh?
I'll just end with a few more "I wonder..." questions. I wonder what my dad is doing right now? I wonder what my middle school best friend is doing? I wonder what all my other friends are doing? I wonder...if my life is the best that I've been able to lead? I think so. Despite the what ifs of my life, if I could do it over again, I would and even if I had prior knowledge, I wouldn't change a thing. Who knows what a small change during my elementary school years would do to my current life.
Which brings me to believe some things about life. Is it predetermined? I think some parts are. Some parts are chosen and decided by you. Of course, I think the fact that we don't know what parts constitute what part is the best thing in life. The spontaneity, the mysteriousness, the discovery of it all. What happens after I die? Now that's a hard 5-word question. I think we just re-do our lives again, like a CD on repeat, or something. I truly have no clue what the afterlife, if there is one, brings someone. Is there heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Do we come back as the other gender? An animal? An inanimate object? (That would suck to be a rock, hoping to get thrown and skipped...and then settle on the bottom of the ocean) I don't know, coming back as a different person would be cool.
Anyway, this is a topic that I can talk and write about forever, so I'll stop for now. See ya.
EDIT: Holy shit this is funny! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/bubblegirl.html
Back to the schooling thing, it was cake. Hell, I already spoke it pretty good. I just had to learn some writing and reading. Cake I tell ya. Anyway, more memories. The center would have annual festivals and stuff. That was FUN. I would volunteer to run some of the booths and stuff. Man, I just can't express this in writing. It was fun. Each year it switched off from a festival to a sports/game event thingy. The festival was the best, though. Lots of people came, mostly japanese and play games, watch shows, go through vendors and booths and such. It was from like early afternoon until sundown. Man, I can just put myself in that time.
These are the times when I wish a time machine existed. Not to go back, get rich, mess up the current timeline or anything, but to just "invisibly" relive my childhood and see my old friends again. Perhaps in the future.
And then again, the thing is, I sent about 7-8 letters to my old friends that I found their addresses online. One came back saying there was no person of that name and the others haven't written back. I wrote them letters, yeah, but come on, it was like a month ago. At least write back, e-mail or call or something. These were good friends too (or so I thought, if you want to reference one of my older blogs). One of them was my best friend through elementary and junior high. The last I saw him was like, 3 years ago I think when I was in California.
I don't know, I always thought that some, at least a couple, of my friends would keep in touch you know. I wonder how many actually think what I'm thinking now? Do they even remember me? Mysteries of our lives huh?
I'll just end with a few more "I wonder..." questions. I wonder what my dad is doing right now? I wonder what my middle school best friend is doing? I wonder what all my other friends are doing? I wonder...if my life is the best that I've been able to lead? I think so. Despite the what ifs of my life, if I could do it over again, I would and even if I had prior knowledge, I wouldn't change a thing. Who knows what a small change during my elementary school years would do to my current life.
Which brings me to believe some things about life. Is it predetermined? I think some parts are. Some parts are chosen and decided by you. Of course, I think the fact that we don't know what parts constitute what part is the best thing in life. The spontaneity, the mysteriousness, the discovery of it all. What happens after I die? Now that's a hard 5-word question. I think we just re-do our lives again, like a CD on repeat, or something. I truly have no clue what the afterlife, if there is one, brings someone. Is there heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Do we come back as the other gender? An animal? An inanimate object? (That would suck to be a rock, hoping to get thrown and skipped...and then settle on the bottom of the ocean) I don't know, coming back as a different person would be cool.
Anyway, this is a topic that I can talk and write about forever, so I'll stop for now. See ya.
EDIT: Holy shit this is funny! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/bubblegirl.html
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Another day of doing nothing much. Had lunch with TJ. I haven't talked to Laura, but it looks like they're not coming done tonight. Maybe they might, who knows.
The guy at the Lakewood office for the city's parks and recreation called today to ask for my resume and I sent that just now. It seems he's interested, but he's going to look at that resume and get back to me in a couple of days. The thing is, it's another period of weirdness since I already asked my old boss to see if I can get hired for the summer, and now this. I would rather take my old job back, make that an internship, finish up this school thing and then move down to Lakewood to get myself into the field of parks and recreation through this job, so not really an internship, well, I guess it is an internship, but not school-wise. I don't know what's going to happen. We'll see what happens at the end of the week!
We were also seeing if we could rent out a boat for the day sometime late this month before T.J. goes out of the country...well, I don't know if it's out of the country, I guess not, but anyway. Boats were like $200 or so for the day for a 4-5 person, or however many they fit. That would be fun. The thing is that you can't rent it overnight, which would be awesome, but I guess that privelege is reserved for the rich who can buy their own boats and keep them there.
UPDATE: I just got a call from Laura and she said that they are leaving now for Fort Collins, so around 6:45 they should be here. Well, I guess I might go clean up the house a bit, even though it's pretty clean, to make it welcoming.
Laters.
Oh, my old website, partly, is back up. http://www.csuconnection.com. Har, har.
The guy at the Lakewood office for the city's parks and recreation called today to ask for my resume and I sent that just now. It seems he's interested, but he's going to look at that resume and get back to me in a couple of days. The thing is, it's another period of weirdness since I already asked my old boss to see if I can get hired for the summer, and now this. I would rather take my old job back, make that an internship, finish up this school thing and then move down to Lakewood to get myself into the field of parks and recreation through this job, so not really an internship, well, I guess it is an internship, but not school-wise. I don't know what's going to happen. We'll see what happens at the end of the week!
We were also seeing if we could rent out a boat for the day sometime late this month before T.J. goes out of the country...well, I don't know if it's out of the country, I guess not, but anyway. Boats were like $200 or so for the day for a 4-5 person, or however many they fit. That would be fun. The thing is that you can't rent it overnight, which would be awesome, but I guess that privelege is reserved for the rich who can buy their own boats and keep them there.
UPDATE: I just got a call from Laura and she said that they are leaving now for Fort Collins, so around 6:45 they should be here. Well, I guess I might go clean up the house a bit, even though it's pretty clean, to make it welcoming.
Laters.
Oh, my old website, partly, is back up. http://www.csuconnection.com. Har, har.
Happy 4th to those that celebrate it. I went down to Laura's sister's house yesterday and spent the night. It was fun, although this afternoon was sort of boring. Everyone except me, Laura and Ellen were doing yardwork. Anyway, light some sparklers and a flower bomb or whatever it is. Maybe next year we'll go big with the fireworks. Man, I can't even begin to think about a year from now. I think a lot is going to be different. Laura will be finishing up her first year of graduate school, I should hopefully (haha) be done with school in like Fall, and hopefully getting myself into a career. Who knows what everyone else is going to be doing. I really have no idea.
So some other news. Late last night, I couldn't sleep at like 10:30 ~ 11:00 since I always stay up late, Laura suggested I read the Da Vinci Code. I was like, nah, that's ok. She kept insisting and started reading the first couple of pages (the prologue). I was like, that's sort of interesting, so I started to read it from chapter 1 at like 11:10 or so while Laura tried to get to bed. Bad idea Laura!!! I started reading chapter 1, finished it. Chapter 2...then 3, then 4 and next thing you know it, it's 2:00am and I'm on like page 200 or something. I was literally hooked! I think I kept waking Laura up every hour or so since I would shuffle and get in a better position to read. Anyway, yeah, so let's continue the story. I read for another amazing 3.5 hours to about page 430 or so and finally put down the put at 5:30 since it was getting light out and everyone was starting to fricken wake up. The book is about 600 pages, I might add. So, I literally can't remember when I fell asleep, but I woke up around 9:45 or so. I got up and felt a bit tired, but I had to finish the damn book! I picked it up and continued reading. Finished in the next 2 hours and closed the book at roughly noon. I haven't read a book like that, albeit in 7 fricken hours, well, ever! I like it. The cool thing about the book is that I like the cool conspiracies and stuff that was in the book. I had actually read about some of the stuff in my spare time, about the Holy Grail and the true identity of it and stuff. In conclusion, it was a good book, went by quick, obviously, and I would recommend it.
I think I am going to sleep well tonight! Laura and Ellen might come up tomorrow or on Wednesday for a few days to hang out up here. That's cool. Well, that's really all. I'm still broke and hope to hear from my old work this week maybe. If not, I'm fucked in the ass! And I have no gas.
Laters. I gotta work on a website project...might start CSUConnection back up if I can get this figured out and working! Hundreds of videos at your fingertips.
So some other news. Late last night, I couldn't sleep at like 10:30 ~ 11:00 since I always stay up late, Laura suggested I read the Da Vinci Code. I was like, nah, that's ok. She kept insisting and started reading the first couple of pages (the prologue). I was like, that's sort of interesting, so I started to read it from chapter 1 at like 11:10 or so while Laura tried to get to bed. Bad idea Laura!!! I started reading chapter 1, finished it. Chapter 2...then 3, then 4 and next thing you know it, it's 2:00am and I'm on like page 200 or something. I was literally hooked! I think I kept waking Laura up every hour or so since I would shuffle and get in a better position to read. Anyway, yeah, so let's continue the story. I read for another amazing 3.5 hours to about page 430 or so and finally put down the put at 5:30 since it was getting light out and everyone was starting to fricken wake up. The book is about 600 pages, I might add. So, I literally can't remember when I fell asleep, but I woke up around 9:45 or so. I got up and felt a bit tired, but I had to finish the damn book! I picked it up and continued reading. Finished in the next 2 hours and closed the book at roughly noon. I haven't read a book like that, albeit in 7 fricken hours, well, ever! I like it. The cool thing about the book is that I like the cool conspiracies and stuff that was in the book. I had actually read about some of the stuff in my spare time, about the Holy Grail and the true identity of it and stuff. In conclusion, it was a good book, went by quick, obviously, and I would recommend it.
I think I am going to sleep well tonight! Laura and Ellen might come up tomorrow or on Wednesday for a few days to hang out up here. That's cool. Well, that's really all. I'm still broke and hope to hear from my old work this week maybe. If not, I'm fucked in the ass! And I have no gas.
Laters. I gotta work on a website project...might start CSUConnection back up if I can get this figured out and working! Hundreds of videos at your fingertips.
