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

More info later...

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

Another day, another day.

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

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

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

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

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

Talk to you later.

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

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

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

"Live your life"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See ya.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's Friday!

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

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

I'll write again later.

See ya.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My first post from work since I came back!

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

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

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

Gotta go!

Wow, another in a few hours!

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

Haha, 525,600 minutes!

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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