Saturday, September 30, 2006

#61

Ok, it was a long week and last weekend was a blast. I will write out a detailed post later. I just wanted everyone to know that I am still alive.

Friday, September 22, 2006

#60

I am listening to the radio here at work this morning. Ahh, I enjoy the solo office experience. Sure, it gets a little boring in the late afternoon, but really, it is a good experience. So, the radio, every now and again they run some news shorts to keep all the listeners up to date. Well, they just said that McDonalds is looking at possibly making their Breakfast menu and all day thing. *DIES*. Holy Crud, bacon/egg/cheese McGriddles anytime of the day. Danger Will Robinson. We could be in trouble here. Also, I am starting TaeKwonDo(sp?) on Monday. Yep, I am going to get off my butt and learn something while I am here. Make myself a better/in shape kind of person instead of the circle of a man I am right now. Ok, maybe not a circle, but I am up almost 70 pounds from when most everybody saw me last. Again, that brings me up to an almost acceptable weight, I guess I was kinda skin and bone at one point, well, there is definitly more of me to love now. Wait, I did not mean it like that, stop being dirty. The Princess has a girls day out tomorrow, so I will probably be at home tomorrow desperate for something to do. Vacuming and cleaning the house.
I like Fridays. I have decided that the midwest branch is going to have a casual Friday. This means that during the week I wear my typical office attire, pants(usually jeans, sometimes slacks), a button down shirt, and some nice shoes. Then on Friday I get to wear whatever I want. Like today for instance, I am wearing a GATA shirt, some jeans and sandals. I think this will keep me from slacking off the rest of the week and keep me on mark for not losing my job. And I do not want to lose my job.
So, apparently there was some conservative radio guy here in town yesterday. He did his t.v. and radio show from the campus. My boss listens to this guy and when the radio guy said thanks to the school he was like KWAAAA, and then he called me and told me this morning about it. Crazy, I had completely forgoten about it. I think he may have had a lecture as well, I was kinda hoping to go to that. Oh well. I wonder what is playing at the rialto this weekend.
Speaking of movies. Netflix, yeah, ok, why does it take three days for my DVD to get there and one day to get back. What is the deal with that? I think it is because they do not get our mail from house until four in the afternoon. I am going to start dropping them off at the post office in hopes of it getting out of S-town quicker. We will see. So, We rented Akaale and the Bee, Sentinal, Sybil, Fruits Basket vol 3. AatB was really really good, I think I mentioned that before. Also, The Sentinal was a pretty good suspense, to bad they revieled everything to early and the end was meh. Sybil, I watched this once in high school, it is about multiple personalities and The Princess needed to watch it for school. Then Fruits Basket vol 3., we watched this last night. For half of the first episode I could not figure out why they had changed the voice actors and that the voices were so very very wrong. Then The Princess pointed out that we were listening to it in Japanese and that we had watched the first two vol. in English,wow what a difference. That series is getting crazier and crazier, I do not know if I can handel the fourth DVD, but that should be the last one and it should be here shortly. I hope, mail man move fast. Um, I think that is all I have for now. Love and Peace.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

#59

So, it is the weekend. Yesterday my wife calls me at four and asks if I think we should go camping this weekend. Sure, I guess so, camping is not so much my thing, but I usually have a good time when I go. So, She gets a hold of some friends and we head on out to Heber. Of course It is around 6:30 when we leave Searcy, so we get to Heber around 7:30 and, well, it is pretty dark by then, but we did find a nice spot, put up the tent found some burnables, made a fire, cooked dinner, paid for the night and went to sleep. Not to shabby for getting in so late. Then this morning we went for a hike around the trails, cleaned up, packed up, and went swimming. Then we headed home arriving back here at around 1:45. Not to bad of a weekend adventure, of course our weekend was not over yet. We still had to build a fence for our dog. Off to Lowe's it is. Oh yeah, before we left for Lowe's we had received a phone call about pudding or something. Apparently a good friend of ours is/was in town this weekend, but we missed him, maybe. Of course I tried to call him back, but no response, so I let him know that it is rude to leave a message and then not be available when the message-e(the one receiving a message) gives a call back. But, unlike most of my customers I know, use the message machine, just leave a note saying anything. Anyway, at Lowe's we picked up the fencing and the poles and the tie-ons and were headed home. We built a fence and are almost done, but apparently we have a large slab or cement in one part of our yard, possibly an old pattio under several inches of dirt, that is causing a problem. Our first movies from Netflix showed up yesterday, so I got to watch one of them this today. Akeela and the Bee. It was actually a really good movie. The Princess had already seen it and said she liked it a lot, so I figured I would use our first movie as a "peace offering" but I came to find that I really enjoyed it as well. It gave you that excited suspensful feeling in your chest, but it was clean. Like when you go watch a professional game of some sort and one of the teams is important to you. The time is running out and it is a tied game, so tense and so exciting. Very enjoyable. I thought the acting was very good as well, sometimes kids actors are not so good, but she did alright. Earlier this week we also watched Turtles Can Fly. It is a foreign film about a little town in the middle east just before Desert Shield/Storm. It has nothing to do with the war and is actually very sad to watch. Interesting and intriguing, but sad. One part I enjoyed is the fact that none of the actors have ever been before a camera before. It is really funny, because one of the kids yells all his lines. hehe. Well, I guess it is time for bed. Good night and good luck.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

#58

I just signed up for NetFlix today. After being in Searcy for almost two weeks, I realize that I am going to have a large amount of usable time on my hands. That, and the fact that our television gets about one and a half channels have combined to drive me to try the two week free trial. Oh, and that one and a half channels is split up about sixty-fourty between ABC and FOX and depending on the time of day, the type of car that is driving down the road and if my neighbors decide to eat dinner at their table sometimes FOX comes in better then ABC. Another way I plan on spending my time is either with Guitar Lesson or TaeKwonDo or something else, I do not know yet. I still need to get around town and see what the different places charge and class times and things like that. For Guitar Lessons I just have to find someone who is willing to teach me. Oh yeah, and a guitar. I figure those probably will not be to hard to find. I also have thought about taking up Golf, but I think it can be pretty expensive to play and you have to buy your own clubs. Of course ThackerLand could definitly help with that. Oh sweet ThackerLand. Anyway, if anyone else is on NetFlix and wants to friend up I would be more then happy to share my opinons and what not. Of course if no one wants to be my friend I will just talk to myself. Alot. Just like my day in the office, except I will be at home, or on a street corner with a cardboard sign. Whatever.

Monday, September 11, 2006

#57

Ah, Monday. Let us see, what is different this week. This week, there is much less early morning coffee in my system, there is much less background music, and the walls are all white. But, I don't get odd looks from the staff, my internet connection is a bit more predictable, and I have a fax machine. Now that my office is setup I will be spending a lot less time running around Searcy and a lot more time sitting in my office staring out the window at Mi Ranchito. I sure hope I don't get fired in the first month. :) Of course, I still have plenty of work to get done, and I am hopeing to actually get some programming finished. The communication between this office and the main office is still a little shaky, but I am sure we will work something out.

After this weekend, I think I am going to start working out. I kind of have to ideas in mind. Either hook up with the Rock Gym or possibly TaeKwonDo(sp?). It really depends on how much each costs and what the times are and blah blah blah. But I really want to get off me duff and work out.

Oh yeah, I sort of have a gotee, but really it is just a trial bases kinda thing. Not sure how long it will last. I might be able to get a picture on here. I just need to get a hold of a mini-usb cable. Walmart here I come.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

#56

Midnight Oil this morning, Underground this afternoon. If you stop by I will probably say hello. Maybe not, I might ignore you completely. I am wearing an stripped orange shirt and I am ten feet tall, according to some high schooler sitting on a couch over there. Anyway, tomorrow I should be getting my phone number and DSL. Hurray, then I will be settled into my office. I hope.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

#55

Right now I am at Midnight Oil. Sitting outside on their balcony, enjoying the nice fall morning and a grande cup of coffee. But really, I am working. Working, working, working, oh the horror that is my life. For real though, I want to get into my office, but there is no phone there and no internet access till Friday at the earliest, and what happens in the office yesterday? Three customers call in and start yelling and complaining and hanging up the phone on people. Yeah, great, now I have to help rehab these people from the coffee house and I am sure everyone here wants to know their financial problems that have been going on for months and just now started telling us. Well, ok, maybe not just now, maybe one of them was from a month ago and the other one has never been satisified with the software and the third was expecting a call back last week on an issue. But still, I am sitting at midnight oil, working, hard. No, really I am. Well, except for this post. Well, back to the coal mines. :)

Monday, September 04, 2006

#54

And I am Home. WHEEEE.


It was along grooling drive, then my brother and pre-sister-in-law came to visit. Then we went to a wedding of a good friend. At this wedding I saw several people that I knew when I was in school. I also saw several GATA girls. I think? Because the wedding was on campus the Aramark staff was there, and I think it can be safely assumend that several of the girls on the Aramark staff are GATA. I also met a guy who knew me, but whom I had never met. Oddly enough, he knew me as shiny pants guy and never knew my name until Saturday morning. Ahhh, my college escapades live on. MUAHAHAHA. THen dinner at Charlie's and some more hanging out with my brother. Sunday involved us going to church. We ended up going to the late service, so it was some really nice singing, but the preacher was overly aggressive, raising his voice un-necisarilly and then makeing everything real quiet like. Not my cup of tea, but we are planning on trying the early service, class and sunday/wednesday nights before we decide to go somewhere else. Today, I mowed the lawn, spread pesticides, watered the pesticides and I am now sitting in Midnight Oil drinking a Mr. Blonde Milkshake, mmmm, definitly a favorite of mine. ALso, working on paying some bills, as our phone orders have been screwed up and they keep sending us the wrong phone and we have no DSL on our phone bill. Silly phone company. Hopefully we will be able to get that handeled tomorrw, when their offices are open. Well, I have to go dig a hole and clean the gutters. I'll write later, when I can steal internet access again.

Oh yeah, does anyone know if there is really free wi-fi in the parks???