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

:|

Perhaps Mother Nature just got pissed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh well. Back to work tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More info later...

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

Another day, another day.

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

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

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

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

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

Talk to you later.

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

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

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

"Live your life"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See ya.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's Friday!

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

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

I'll write again later.

See ya.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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