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

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

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

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

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

Our internet is slow right now! Wow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello!

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

New happenings:

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.carbonleaf.com/

Laters.

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

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

Happy Halloween to all.

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

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

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

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

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

Ah!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laters.

You can do IT!!!

-Tony Litte, Geico commercial

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

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

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


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

Pretty well written if you ask me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think that's all for now. Laters.

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

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

Nothing else new really.

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

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

No word from job offers yet. Doh!

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

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

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

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Check it out!!!