#53

Not so busy as bored. Today is the day MLKJ gave his famous speech. Here is a picture of it. or maybe not. Wheee. I will try to break out of my boredom/depression to put up a decent post this evening. Maybe.

#52

Ten more days until I get to see The Princess again. I am glad I am not in the military because I think I might just go crazy without being able to see The Princess for that long. I have a secret plan though. I plan of suprise for The Princess. MUAHAHA, she will not see it coming either and then BLAHM, SUPRISE. I hope she likes it.
For all the years that I was in college and for the time before and after that we travelled west on I-40, we have always gone one path. Drving through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Well, this last time that we went, we decided to drive through the Smokey Mountains. Yes, they are both part of the Appalachian Mountain Range, but every state calls them something different. Arkansas calls them the Ozarks, but I think ultimatly the mountains are all the same range with different names for different sections. Also, in Virginia I think they have named a lot of the mountains. Why? I do not know, but it makes hikeing a little more directional. Anyway, what I wanted to say was that this new path goes through North Carolina. And North Carolina means CHEERWINE. So, part of my evil cross country adventure involves stopping to get several bottles of CHEERWINE. For those that do not know, CHEERWINE is a carbonated beverage with a slight red color and a nice cherry taste. Not too cherry, but just enough. It is sooo good. Well, The Princess has never tasted the joy of CHEERWINE, so I intend on picking up a couple for me and a couple for her. I am so considerate, and humble too.

#51

From time to time something amazing happens. Sometimes it is a little invention that changes the lives of evreryon on earth. Other times it is a giant machine that throws itself into outer space. But this weekend an amazing thing is happening in Cinematography. That amazing thing is Snakes on a Plane. Ok, not really amazing, but I still will probly wait for this to be on DVD and for someone else to rent it before I watch it. I say all this inorder to preface a discovery I made in BlockBuster yesterday. This little gem of the cinema: Snakes on a Train. Wow, just wow. With all these snake movies you know some poor snake out there is makeing more money then me or you. And there is some little snake that is looking up to these rich mouse eating snakes and thinking thats the life instead of going to snake school and doing his snake homework. And then he gets in trouble and starts stealing and biting people and it is down hill from there. Poor snake, and it all could have been stopped if they had just not made these snake movies.

#50

I have two weeks left before I get to see The Princess again. I am not sure how people handel that when it is months and months of not seeing your wife/husband. I know that she is busy all day, so she probably does not miss me as much, but shoo, all I do is work and watch movies so I definitly miss. Speaking of movies, I have watch a couple this week. I am trying to get all the crappy sci-fi/fantasy movies out of the way so The Princess will not have to watch them. OK, last night was Underworld:Evolution and that was pretty good. There was one movie before and luckily they ran a 10-15 catchup at the beginning of this movie. Sometimes I like that, sometimes I don't, but I appreciated it this time. I was confused most of the movie as is, so I am glad I actually knew who was what atleast a little. I also watched RV. Which, for its terrible reviews, I enjoyed as a light comedic family togetherness movie. Some of the acting was really bad, but hey, I could not have done any better then those kids so I am not going to penalize them for that. Wednesday, I watched Aeon Flux, which again, I liked even if it did not have the best dialog. On Tuesday, I watched InsideMan. Had some interesting story going on and some crazy camera stuff. I liked it. Yep, that is about all I have done this week. Work, movie, sleep, repeat. I can not wait for the thirty-first. I will be on my way, to the glory land. Some people do not like Searcy, but once I switch my pace of life from big city to not so big city, I will be just fine. Slower food, slower traffic, slower talking. Taking your time, it is going to be ok, because we will get there when we get there. Ahhhh. Oh yeah, there is a new coffee place in Searcy. The Underground. I think it is the only business that is open on Sunday's before 11:36(that is when churches get out). We were able to grab some coffee and a bagel there before my flights left last Sunday Morning. I think I might go back there. Of course, the other option is in my back yard and has a Mr. Blonde Milkshake, which I have been craving for the past two years. mmmmm, that is going to be one sweet, sweet, drink.

#49

I have a meeting in fifteen minutes and I am just waiting for it to start. I have to call a customer and handel some issues they have been handeling. Of course, it is always possible that they will not be up yet. They are in California. Blekch, my coffee has not kicked in this morning.

#48

I am going through some folders on my compture here inorder to clean out some old stuff and reorganize my info and I found this. No where to put it, so I figure I would upload it and then delete it from my box here. There may be more of this on here somewhere. Later.

Stairing down the wood paneled hallway, into the bright light,
Burns my eyes as if I had grown old in the dark.
The hallway stretches out of my reach and beyond my grasp,
I am tossed to the side dirty, broken, and torn.

What has become of the strength that I held in my fists?
Where has my white armor gone?

OH GOD, When shall I at last lay sight to the fields of thine paradise,
Running free from pains and tears.
Partaking of your sustanance and becoming revivied to the very marow of my bones.
Breath the life into my heart,Father, and encourage me on to fight the coming storm.

Where has my strength gone?
What has become of my white armor that I held in my fists?

Bring me closer to the edge that I can understand where the past has lead us.
Unlease the chains that crush my decrepid body down, remove me from this burdened state.
"Push on till the marow", you wisper, but the morning has already come and the sights sicken my soul.
The degenerate has slipped beyond its natural bounds and it is now called pure.

#47

Alright, so the rest of our trip was long. Saturday took forever and we finally got to the house at two on Sunday morning. So, anyone who thought they might be able to help, thank you. Anyone who drove by or walked by or anything, thank you. And anyone who happend to take our dog for a walk and never even get to see our beautiful faces, thank you and I will probably do something nice for you in return. Like maybe a million dollars or possibly a post card.
Yesterday we had a big office meeting. I thought this was to tell everyone in the office that I was going to be leaving. No, this was to tell everyone in the office that the sales guy had been removed and that one of my tech guys would now be transfered into sales. After we finished up discussing that, we discussed opening a new office to help our customers in the lower mid-west. Arkansas, to be exact and whom do you suppose they are going to choose to run it?????? ME. Yeah, that is how they are going to spin it. Works for me and I think they can probably use it to help with contracts here. Kind of like a bartering chip or something. So, the move at the end of the month is fast approching. Two more Mondays, two more Tuesdays, less then three Wednesdays, three Thursdays and two Fridays. I have been calling The Princess a couple of times everyday. She seems to be getting a lot done. They unpacked the kitchen, painted the bathroom, painted the hallway and did generic cleaning type things. The house is not in the shape we left it. It is still in the square shape, but the floors on the inside are not so well maintained. The landlord came by and said he would find a new refridgerator, that is nice of him. Also, he said he would try and get someone to come take a look at the floors.
Yeah, so I have had people look at my site over one hundred times. That may not seem like a lot to some people, but to me it makes think someone out there might care about me mumbling about my life. Someday I might even go on a rant, or say something important. Or I could brighten your day by telling the world about my crazy adventures and my zany office experiences. Of course, in an office by myself, I am not so sure how zany those adventures can get. Anyway, I started mentioning this because of some of the hits I have gotten. They are from different contries completely. Poland, Sweden, Argentina(twice, same city), Hungary, and the UK. I realize that these are probly spam something or other trying to steal my info, but I still like the idea of someone in Europe checking me out. Of course, none of them ever came back, so they must not have liked what they saw, crud. Probably has something to do with my greek name. Master of Horses.
I apologize that I am kind of random this morning, but I am working out some work tension. I have some customers that are on my case about delays that can not be helped. Oh well, I realize it is not about me personally and that they have problems with the development schedule, but I just keep thinking about VISTA.

#46

MMMMOOOOOOONNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, Fist to the face. After this weekend, I can not wait to really be moved back to Searcy. Ok, so our story leaves off with the hero riding off to pickup The Princess and her cavalcay of carrier camels. I left work around one and we left here before five. I guess we had some extra stuff to pack and getting the trailer hooked to the truck. Also, The Princess wanted to take a nap, seeing as how she was the only one on the contract. That was ok with me, I had to go by the cabel company and drop of their modem. There is no way I am going to let them gig me with a modem fee. Not this time Comcast. Then I headed over to the truck rental guy to see if I could add my name to the Driver's List. I could, He did, I paid and drove away. Now, it is time to leave. We drive and get to where we are going. A little later then we hoped, but not to bad. We actually stopped off and Daniel and Cheree's place in Charlotte, NC. They are remodeling their home and it looks good. I really like the paint in the bedrooms, but The Princess tells me it is that way so they can put molding up across the top. Now for Saturday. We left Charlotte at ten. We had originally talked about leaving at four or six or maybe at the latest, eight. But, no it was ten. And that just started Saturday, but I am way to hungry to work on this anymore. later.

#45

The Princess has moved into our new home. And I am back on the East Coast. I will post More on our crazy traveling weekend later.

#42

Well, the van is all packed up and the air matress is all pumped. I think today has been a good day. A victory even. There were about twelve of us packing the van. The U-Haul we used to get out here was seventeen feet. Well, the Budget guy calls me this morning and says he has a fifteen footer for us. Um, the website said sixteen feet. No, those are the new ones, you get an old ones. YARGH, defeated. Well, with all those people we really packed it in there. Shwew. My parents drove by the Little Ceasers and picked up a couple of Hot N' Readys and we threw some Gatorade into the fridge and we had a nice dinner to go with our packing. HUZZAH. The only down side tomorrow is I do not know when my boss is getting into work and I can leave. The reason for this is two fold. One, my boss failed his driver's license renwal today. They do an eye test and he does not have the best vision ever, so he failed and then had to go to the doctor. I do not know if he was able to make it back to the DMV and finish up or what. That is ok. Oh yeah, he took me out to lunch today, "manager's meeting", and dropped me off at the office before he went for the renewal. I am so thankful that he is willing to feed me every now and again, it really helps out alot with my budget. You might not think it would, but it is one less meal I have to pay for and it is two less trips in the car I have to take. The second fold is that my boss' four year old daughter is having out-patient surgery tomorrow morning. I have no idea when she is scheduled to be done, so I have no idea when he is going to show up. This on top of the fact that I am leaving between noon and one and that our top support person(besides moi, of course :) ) has been out all week and will be out until monday. So, the new guy and the lazy guy are going to be there with the head guy and the sales guy for a Friday afternoon, which typically is hectic cause everyone wants to pack it in before the end of the day. I do have new guy coming in an hour earlier then usual, so that should help.
Next week we are finally going to tell everyone in the office that I am moving. My boss has been worried about performance in the office, but I think it will be ok. September should be pretty rough, but if sales can pick up maybe someday we can bring in some more support personell. Of course, I should be able to program full time starting in September. That should really help out alot, because people are all the time calling in with spelling errors or little bugs or tiny things that only they notice. And because the presure to fix it is small, it gets put on a very large and ever growing pile. At the moment, our head programmer, my boss, is the only one working on updating the software in any large form. I hit up a couple of things here and there, but mostly he develops the bigger picture. Bringing me in to help with programming should help take a load off his back. I might even even slip in some sales calls or something for the company. I will definitly be traveling more. Since I will already be out of the office, the performance in the office won't be hindered by my apscence. Grr, I really need some sort of spell check. Well, I need to get some sleep, tomorrow is setting up to be a very long day. Hopefully I can get one more post in before he kick out and bugger-off. I will also have my eye open for some free Wi-Fi so I can post from the road. Not that my road trip will be very interesting, but it will give me something to do. I can not drive. I was not there, so my name and license is not on the contract and I am not suppose to drive. Good Night and God Bless.

#43

Ahh, so it seems I do know someone in California. I had not realized that the Kemps were vacationing there this week. Well, I hope they have a lot of fun while hanging out on the West Coast. Here on the East Coast we are getting a fair amount of rain. There is a funny thing about the rain here. Last night we went to dinner with some friends and they said, "Everytime we eat at Penn Station Subs it rains." Haha, thats funny, yeah right. Well, we ate at Penn Station and today it is raining, wow, that is kind of crazy.
Today is the day folks. In two short hours, The Princess is going to be picking up the van from the rental location, drive it back to the house, and possibly start loading. Although, I hope she does not start with out me. I am not very good at packing. I just put things in a box, fill it up, then tape it shut. It is very possible for items from different rooms to end up in the same box. That being said, I intend to make up for my lack of box packing prowis by lifting heavy objects. Also, I think people from church might stop by and help out as well. My parents will definitly help out, but I am not sure who else will show up. And then we have to feed all of them. Not necisarrily feed them alot, but something, probly pizza. Everyone likes pizza. We have a Little Ceaser's up the road, so that is a quick hit for some Hot 'N Readys. Then, a night on the air matress, half a day of work and we are on our way. Fifteen sweet, sweet hours of driving, which will probly turn into eightteen or twenty hours. Blargh. Another thing, we are not driving straight through, we are making a detour through North Carolina to see some good friends. You would think that it would take us longer, but it is only an additional two hours. So, it is not to much of a detour,crazy I know, you figure going south does not really help you get west, but this time around it does. Then a long day of driving. Followed by arriving and unpacking. Hopefully this will happen around six, but with my complete lack of urgency for this move, it will probly be later.

#42

Hmmmm, someone from California has been reading this? Who do I know from California. Or maybe the questions should be who do I not know from California. BUM BUM BUUMMMMMMM.

Sorry, it is a little slow in the office right now. Hopefully this will not change.

Edit: It has been pointed out to me that the statement should be Whom do I not know from California. Well, now I know that The Shua is reading.

#41

There was some slight miscommunications on my last post. So, I figure that I will straighten them out. S-Town, also known as the bubble, is in fact Searcy. If you know the house that we were living in the last time we were there, well, that is the same house we are going back to. We called the Landlord and he said,"Oh yes, please oh please come back to this house. The last tenents were not so good, please oh please. What you are staying two years, hmmm, let me lower the rent for you." It feels kind of odd to be going back like this. I mean, I have never lived in Searcy without being a student. I am sure that I will be disapointed that the waterfalls are not as large as I remember and that some of the teachers are shorter then the last time I saw them. I have grown up a bit over the past two years. Probably not as much as I think. I am sure it just has to do with the fact that I do not get to goof off as much here. I will write later on today. I always think of things to write about when I am not near my computers.

#40

This is a notice to everyone. On Saturday, August 12, 2006. I and The Princess will be make an appearance in S-town. This will be a one night only performance for me, but The Princess will be making long term arrangments with our landlord. Fear not, I shall again be making an appearance on Friday, September 1, 2006 in order to claim my place beside The Princess on the stage known as S-town. If you are wondering as to the veniue of the one night only performance, do not fret to long. We have managed to acuire our original location.

Oh, and we will gladly accept any assistance with moving into our home. Probably with bribes of pizza or some such dinner like food item.

#39

Movies are nice sometimes. But, if you try and jam fourteen movies into one week, then they become not so nice. Blah, I think I am sick of movies right now. After V for Vendetta I got The Worlds Fastest Indian, Lord of War, Firewall, The Island, The Constant Gardener, and Pride and Prejudice. Maybe now you will understand why I am movied out. These were actually all really good movies. But I LOVED tCG. Fantastic. Not anything like I expected, but fabulous. That being said, I missed Taladega Nights on Friday night. The church was throwing us a Good Bye thingy and we were going to watch it afterwards, but everyone bailed on us. Blah, so we picked up tCG and PaP. Then we were going to try and make the matinee but we were packing and not in the mood for a movie. I think I probly won't see another movie for a while. Or maybe I will. This guy in the office is a fan of some movies that come a book I have been reading. Naturally, he burned the movies for me. Now, don't worry about pirating or anything like taht. These movies were not released in America. They are from Japan. Battle Royal, if you must know. Well, this weekend if the Big Move, and we have started packing. What a great week for all the crazyness, in the office we are down two guys this week, which makes for a lot of fun. One of them is my boss, so I am in charge here, running the show, the big man. Dealing with upset customers is a blast let me tell you. Then the stress of having to move, plus some debt collector guy has a bill that I allegedly never paid, except that I paid it twice already. Grrr, I have to call some people and figure that out. Stupid AT&T. No way am I ever doing busniess with them again. Then I have to close all my accounts here, electric, water, cable. Ok, I guess just those three not so bad, but I do have put in a forwarding address for the post office and contact all our bank/loan people and let them know. Meh, I guess it isn't so bad, I just have the extra stress of work. Over and out.

#38

Wow, it has been a couple of days. This could either be a big ol honkin' entry, or I might just get bored with typing half way through and then have nothing else to say. Well, first I guess I should tell you about The Game. The Game is actually very easy to play. So easy in fact, that you are all already playing it. You lose The Game everytime you remember that you are playing it. At which point, you must notify those around you that you have just lost The Game. See, real simple. The only hard part is trying to not remember that you are playing. Along the same lines, I have been playing RE4 and I beat it about two weeks ago. I was kinda lost on parts of the story line, but that happens when you play the fist of a series and then jump back in four games later. That is one thing I enjoy about newer video games. There can be multiple came story arcs, kind of like in movies. StarWars has several multiple movie story arcs and it was good, very good. Similiar with RE or Mario Brothers or Zelda, you have reocurring characters that bind these stories together. Anyway, I beat it so now I have to move on to something else. I am thinking Online Poker. I play for free so do not worry I have no intentions of going bankrupt or anything.
I bought a laptop yesterday. I have been wanting to buy one for some time know and yesterday I just wanted it badly enough that I went out and bought one. I got it from TigerDirect so it looks like I got a pretty good price for it. No, I am not going to tell you what kind it is. I did look around, but I got antsy and had a spontanious urge so I bought it. I know that I should have waited till after work, called my brother and seen what kind of deal he could make me(he does sales for DELL), but I just couldn't do it. I was going crazy with the lazyness at work and my mind just kept going back to that laptop. So, being the spontanious person I am, I bought it. Heh, I am not very spontanious.
My Parents are out of town this week. They are going to gone for 7 days. Now here is the part where someone might care. They have the double movie pass at Blockbuster. With them out of town, I, being the only in town son, natuurally inherit their pass. HuRah for super movie overdose. Let us see. I have watched FlightPlan, 40 Year Old Virgin(only 10 min.), Kicking And Screaming, Kingdom of Heaven, Running Scared, 16 Blocks, V for Vendetta. I think there was one more, but I can not remember what it was. I might remember it later. FlightPlan was meh, not overly suspensful, but I do not have a child to look after, so maybe some moms thought it was nerve racking. 40 Year Old Virgin, it was the unrated version, the only copy they had at the store. Personally, I have tried to avoid this movie, but The Princess, in her ignorance, thought it might be funny. The first 10 minutes was pretty rough so we turned it off. That is the great part of the deal, I did not have to pay for it. Kicking And Screaming was another meh movie. I think Will Farell(sp?) can be pretty funny. I loved ELF, but this one just did not do it for me. Kingdom of Heaven was really good. It tells a story about the crusades so there is a some violence. Still, I really enjoyed it. A lot. For Running Scared, I in no form, shape, or fashion encourage anyone to see this movie. That said, I liked this movie a fair amount. The only turn off for most, would be the language. I remember a movie from a while ago, Boone Dock Saints, that was very good. It had this grit to it that stuck with you for a couple of days. Running Scared has that same feel. A good guy sort of wins in the end. I think that is what endears me to this movie. The real reason I rented 16 Blocks was because it has Bruce the Willis. It actually reminded me of Bruce's carrier, he use to be big top performance blockbuster and then he ramped down and got all drunk and disorderly, but then he makes a come back and Hurray saves the day, sort of. There are a couple of twist and turns, so it comes out ahead of the curve, but just barely. Again, I am glad I didn't have to pay to see it. Not paying really allows my to enjoy a movie that I would have been pissed if I had paid to see it. :) I liked it, but not paying really movied it up the list. A lot. And Finally, V for Vendetta. I think maybe I have over saturated myself with well told stories this week. I enjoyed the movie, it was good, well thought out, well shot, nice color schemes. Over all, very enjoyable. Not sure what the movies will be up for the rest of the week, but one of the WILL be The Constant Gardener. I am excited about that movie. It is my understanding that it comes from a book. I usually love books that get turned into movies. The Bourne Identity being a favorite book of mine. I love the book so much that I actually hate the movie. There is a bright point for that movie. The movie is sooo far off from the book that the second movie doesn't have anything to do with the book at all. Absolutly nothing, so I was able to really enjoy that second movie and I am fairly confident that I will absolutly love the third one. And this is where I get tired of writing and go off and do something else. Maybe even work.

#37

I just lost The Game. I will have to tell you guys about it some day. It is a blast.