#67

Ok, so I spent some money and I got a data cable for our phones. This main reason for this was so I could hack the phone and figure out how to put ringtones on there. I can, with some software, splice mp3s so they are the proper length, but I can not get them as ringtones, yet. This is a lead up to the fact that I am going to be able to post pictures off my phone. So, here is a first of hopefully many, but not to many, picture posts.

This is my office. You may notice that it is very blue carpeted. That is ok, because on Casual Friday, I am usually not wearing any shoes. Hurray for being the branch manager.


This is a picture of Pocky at Wal-mart. Not really important.


Almost finally, here is a poor picture of The Princess.


And finally, what I did on Thursday to waste some time. This did not come off my phone, but from the good people at HomeStarRunner and a little effort from myself. The two guys are suppose to be holding a sandwich.

#65

It has been a pretty good weekend. Both days were beautiful and I was able to get out of the house and be in the beauty both days. If you do not know, this weekend was homecoming weekend here at the local university. Because of this several of my friends were in town. Also, they do this thing in the GAC where all the social clubs have a booth and the alumni can come by and see what their old groups have been up to. See how they have changed for the better or for the worse. Well, I got a call from my boy, who shall remain nameless at this point, that he was over there and so were some other friends(B and Rach). So I put some clothes on a trundeled over there in order to see them. Well, I went inside and ended up stopping by the ATE both and seeing the new guys. It was a definite ego boost for me, because when I told them my name they were like, wowzer mcbowezer you are that guy. A definite ego boost. Oh and thanks to whoever laid down some great legends about me. Unfortunatly, there was a down side. Some young upstart by the name of twinkie beat my minor date record. He had ~1070. Well, they did have a football game during the week and I know that helped him out a lot, but all is fair game during rough week, so I congratulate you twinkie. So we talked for a little bit and I gave the current president my phone number because I still live here in town and I just sit around alot of the time. Maybe something interesting will come of it, maybe not. But it was nice to meet the next gen and to see that they were still all sitting at the table getting a face full(of food you pervert), just like we would have been :) Then I headed outside, because that is where the three amigos were standing, in search of some old faces. Ahh, it was good to see B and Rach again. We decided that it would be a good time to head on over to Charlie's. I had a good time at Charlie's and enjoyed some really good super pizza. Then I played some PirateKing'sOnline and uped my guy a level while killing off the next guy in the quest. Then we went to the musical. I have never seen Fidler on the Roof, but it was not to bad. The singing was not the best, the musicians were not the best and I do not think it was the best musical I have seen, but I was twice as long as a movie and only a dollar more. Then today, we got an extra hour of day light savings time. HUZZAH. We went to church at Cloverdale and I think that is probably where we are going to go while we are here. We really have not felt at home at any of the churches we have go to so far here in town. The closest was Covenant, but with the snake handeling I think it was a little much. After church we were catching up on Prison Break when Tony called and I went to go play some basketball over at the Academy. The Princess has two papers that she has been working on and they are due soon, so that is where a lot of her time is going. After I sucked at basketball for an hour and a half, I went home and read a book and ate dinner. Then it was off to our Sunday night bible study which was nice, if not a little unguided this evening. We talked about finances and other struggles that a newleywed couple comes across. Mostly they were issues that me and The Princess have worked through, but I thought it was potentially encouraging for the others. Now I am home and writing about all the glorious things I did this weekend. Oh, by the way, if there is anyone in LR who might have a place where one might sleep/stay this saturday night please let me know. It would also be nice if one could get a ride to the airport at 4:30AMish because I have a flight that leaves at 6:00amish, I think. I will have to double check, but that is going to be a long, multicultural day for me. It has been my experience that flying into the country is much more stressfull then flying out of the country. This is probly due to the fact that I fly into toursit areas and they do not care what you bring with you, but America cares what you bring back. Man, customs is intimidating. Although, I think it might not be so bad this time because I am going to an American Territory.

#64

Well, let us clean the dust off of this one. Good gravy I have been out of it for a while. I apologize that I have not posted on here for several weeks. Needless to say, you either decided I was dead or figured I was in some kind of funk that was causing me to veg out infront of my computer the moment I walked into my house every evening. Well, the second one is more accurate. I have been in a bit of a funk, maybe it is because there is less sunlight during the day or something. I do not know. Anyway, I got a data cable for our phones so I should be able to drop some pictures in here soon. I am still trying to figure out how to upload a song so it can become a ring tone, but I will get it eventually. Nothing else really to say right now. Just working away in my office. Slaving away for the man. Oh yeah, I am going to be slaving away for the man in Puerto Rico in two weeks. Yep, my hotel is a casino, but really I am going to look for a decent arcade, maybe they will have DDR there or something, I know the last time I was in a foreign country I spent more on the arcade then the casino.

#63

I do not know if I have mentioned this before, but I am a LOST fan. So much so, that I got up early this morning to watch it online, because there is a serious church conflict now that we are CST. And church takes a priority over a tv show. Anyway, I am going to try and watch it again this afternoon/evening and I will probly write out my thoughts here. So, back to the grind.

#62

I am at work. Huzzah. The nice thing is I got paid today. Not only did I get paid, but I got PAAAIIIIDDD. Which, basicly, means I got my reimbersment check for my first month in this office. Now I just need to figure who's grubby little hands I need to put next months check into. Then it will be good. So, the last two weekends have been pretty nice. Two weekends ago Josh was here in town for a fish fry at a local church and since he was here we hung out all day on Saturday. We went to Bobby's for breakfast, and let me tell you, I do not think there is a better breakfast on the planet then Bobby's. And one of the great things about it is that the restaurant is smoke free. Does it make a big difference to me, no not reall, I would eat their even if it was not smoke free, but it was nice. And the biscits and the gravey **Dies**. Then to ThackerLand where I ended up buying a hatchet and forgetting to buy a bat. Oh well. We then hit another flea market, Hastings, GameStop, the other game place and the Tractor Supply Outlet, where I got a rake and a pick-ax. We then watched Kiss,Kiss,Bang,Bang which was hillarious and then it was time for Fish Fry. So josh wondered out the door and our good friend Scott came by very unexpectidly. He dropped off a couple of books and then ate dinner with us and we went to go see Monster House, which was actually pretty creppy good. I made it through the week and we got to finish off Fruits Basket, that is one crazy anime and apparently the first season only covers the first eight managa, so there might be a second season on down the line. I also watched Man on Fire which was a decent movie, but I feel that it was a meh performance by Denziel, it just did not do it for me. I also watched the first DVD of the FireFly series, pretty good, I enjoy it, reminds me alot of Hercules and Xena, but better. ALso, I love the space shots where the camera zooms in and out to get better focus. It is the simple things that impress me. Then this last weekend on Saturday we ended up at Gilliam Farm where it was Free Day and they had beef stew, chili, hotdogs, BBQ and all sorts of desserts. The big attraction was that you could pick all the Muskadines that you wanted. And I did, I brought home none of them. That was followed by driving to Bentonville and then Jonesboro to spend time with some friends and eat some really good steak. Sunday was church at Pineview, both times we have been there now have been guest speakers. I am begging to worry, we had really hoped to find a church that we could become very involved with. We want to take it seriously and give as much as we get, but so far we have not been able to find that place. We are doing a bible study on Sunday nights with a group of people from Covenant, and that is nice, but I think we might visit the West Pleasure Church of Christ this week, followed by a trip out to RoseBud Church of Christ. Hmm, I wonder if Church is suppose to be capitalized or not. That might offend someone. Oh well. So, that should catch everyone up on what is going on in our lives. I am working on creating a budget this week. Based on our expenses since we moved here, we should be able to find out if I can do some extra things, or if I need to get a part time job.

#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.

#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.