#94

So, I have a couple of shows I like to watch. LOST, HEROS, Prison Break, JHERICO. Basicly the heavy hitter for each network. The great thing about that is they are all available online. This week Prison Break and HEROS started back up so tonight I also caught up. Apparently, I missed an episode of HEROS in the fall. This explains why I have not understood half the posts I have seen about what is going on. Well, I got both of those episodes out of the way and am good to go now. Not much else going on. I am keeping up with the bible reading. We are in Exodus now and it is pretty interesting. Sometimes I get bored because it is the same stories told a million times, but sometimes I really enjoy the history of it all and wrapping my mind around the sheer awsomness of it all. Random-I took one of those online meme things about bible knowledge and I got a 100%. Of course the questions were like What was Jesus' mother's name a)Sue b)Mary c)Chuck E. Cheese D)The Hamburgler. Other side of my brain just kicked in. Tomorrow night there is a concert at the campus here in town. Robert Randolph and the Family Band. We hit up his website and they sound pretty good. Unfortunatly tickets are $15 a shot and we are flat broke at the end of the month. I am working on a budget, but it is a slow process of forcing ourselves to conciously live within our means, instead of doing what we can while we have dollars in the bank. Later.

#93

I am watching PotC:DMC or Pirates of the Carabiean:Dead Man's Chest. It is much better the second time around. I enjoy netflix and I am really looking forward to when they hook me up with the movie on-line deal. I think everyone is getting switched off of DVD's and onto online viewing by July or something like that. I still haven't seen Heros or Prison Break from this week. But I do have tomorrow night and friday night. Not much else going on. We went to a bible study tonghit. We are going to watch these videos by this guy Rob Bell. He is a post-post modern something or other. We watched one of his videos tonight and he talked about a guy with a megaphone standing on a corner going on about hell and damnation. He talked about how God is Love and Love is what Jesus is about. The most important comand being Love God and the second is love your neighbor. So, Loving your neighbor is loving God. He goes on from there and it was pretty interesting. It was just me,my wife, and Jim(the guy who's house we were at) so we talked about a lot of different things and it was a good time. Well, later.

#92

Ok, so I am failing at posting everyday.But that is ok because I don't really do anything exciting on a daily basis. Unless you consider successfully eating a meal without getting any food on yourself. But even then, I wouldn't post every day. So, tonight I am watching abc/cbs/nbc on my computer. Trying to catch up on shows because they all start up this week. Well I just stumbled across this show on cbs. It is called The Papdits. Think Borat on tv and with a wife, two kids and a mother in law he wants to die. Oh and they are from India. This show is crazy. Nothing over the top, but they say things that are a little off. It is a little funny. Well, night.

#91

So far this year I have been keeping very good record of our finances. See, our landlord likes to get his check on the first of the month. At the lastest the fifth. After that there are fines and he reports us to the credit bureau, blah blah blah. We are such good tennats that I think he would actually let us go longer then five days if we talked to him about it, but hopefully we won't have to. Well, the past two months he has been waiting until 15th or the 20th to deposit the check. This causes a problem because I have been doing all my bills online and the checks don't process the same, so I miscalculate thing. But not this month. I am using Microsoft Money 07 to keep track of things. So far it has been working out well. Anyway, that is what I am working on tonight.

#90

Nothing of any real importance to say. We got none of the cold snowy weather that the rest of the mid-america is dealing with. That is nice because we still have electricity. This is not so nice because I still have to go to work. The customer I worked with last week called today and I had to walk them through some things that could ahve saved them tonds of time yesterday if they had just sent me an email. Oh well. I really have nothing to put here. Blah blah blah.

#89

I am home now. It is nice to sit on my couch and stuff. I have been playing basketball in the city league here and until last week we had not won a single game. During the four weeks we did not play over christmas, two guys quit, we got two new guys and last tuesday when we played we had a substitue or something so half of the guys we had there were new. Well, apparently it was a winning combination, because it was our first win. I was not able to make it to thursdays game because I was in california. This morning I saw Joshua Lundin at church. He made a funny face at me and then went the other direction. My two logical options are 1. He caught a wiff of something funny and thought it might be his pants 2. He had no idea who I was and only barely recognized me. That is ok. I understand how it is. Jerk. :) Anyway. It is time for bed. I need to catch up on some sleep still. I spent the afternoon working on our finances instead of sleeping so I figure I will do that now. Night.

#88

I just read a very interesting article about wireless powersupplies. Very informative on a subject that has been studied since we have had a control of electricity.

#87

Well, apparently I have a hard time posting everyday when I am travelling. Luckily, Sacramento airport has free wi-fi with access to the internat. This is very nice at it has given me something to do from 8:30 until around 11:0 when my flight leaves. Actually this could be the single best cross country flight to ever occur in the history of man. Usually the red eye out of California is a completly full flight. Tonight it is almost full. As a matter of fact, when I arrived at the airport only four seats were available. The super crazy thing is that all four of them were emergency exit seats and three of them were together. So I took the whole row, potentially, to myself. I will have a row of emergency exit seats on a full flight. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Also, on my second flight. Emergency row again. This is sooo gona be a sweet set of flights. There is a funny thing about California. Aparently they don't like to sell me gas here. See there is an gas station here on site at the airport but both times I have been here the network has been down and they will not take credit cards. How am I suppose to expense things onto an expense account if I can not use a credit card. Silly California, Credit Cards are for the rest of the States. I also have some more picks of adventures.


The first picture is where I had dinner last night. IN AND OUT BURGER baby. That is a sweet sweet delicious amazing delectible meal of fantasticness. I love it. MMMmmm. The second pick is Diablo Mountain. It is a mountain that dominates the skyline of the delta, which is where I have been this past week. Apparently the "island" I was working on didn't exist until the 1930's at which point they built some levy's and told the water you can only go so far and then all the dirt dried out a little. So now the whole island sits about 15 feet below river level just waiting for the levys to blow and drown the whole thing. Kinda like the dutch, excpet I think they had dykes not levys. Later

#86

So, California is a nice place. Apparently I am south of Sacramento this time. Last time I was north of Sacramento. Its different. The people I am working with seem alright. I am working with the marina and with our reseller, so things are going smoothly. Here are some pictures that I have taken so far. That first pick is how the airport handles unclaimed luggage. The second pick is my dodge durango, or as I like to think of it my own personal eclipse maker. The third shot is a pick of my hotel room. Fourth is a shot one of the many vineyards out this way. So, that is all I have right now. I will write more later.

#85

I am writing now because I may not have much time later tonight and tomorrow I expect to not have Internet access for most of the day I think both Atlanta and Sacramento have WiFi at the airport but you have to pay for it, so I might just download that demo for the Left Behind game. It has four hours of play before you get the cutoff. Oh well, we will see how far I can get in that time I guess. Although my layover is less then an hour so I will be hauling but to get to my second flight. Oh well. I have a good amount of peace today. I was able to handle the ridiculus customers and their issues/questions/imaginations very well today. I am a little less positive about the new hire situation. It may be that there is some disagreement about who to hire for the open spot, but that will get filled eventually and so on and so forth. I have a basketball game tonight and I just hope that we don't make fools of ourselves to much. I really expect to get slaughtered. Personally I can only hope to keep myself from dying of wind exhaustion. I was starting to get some steam there before the four week break of eating and sleeping and not running everyday like I wanted. Maybe next week I can get that going. Oh well, once basketball is over I am all over picking up TaeKwonDo or some other form of martial arts here in town. That will be sweet.

#84

Yowza McBowza. I missed my post yesterday. I think maybe I won't make myself post one on both days of the weekend. I mean, if I do then great. I will make it a goal, but we will see what happens. So, what is there to know about our lives. Well, Thursday night we made it down to LR and were able to deposit my paycheck. Apparently when we moved they cut my paycheck inorder to compensate for the office rent and so on. This is not a big deal to me because I had originally suggested this, but they never brought it back up and I had no idea this was happening until I was home for christmas. They told me my paycheck was going backup to my original amount and completely caught me off guard. Again, this doesn't bother me because our company was tight in the budget at the time and now we are not tight, but I can easily see how someone could walk out the door if they found out that for four months they had been making about 10% less each month. They are taking a look at their finances now and I should find out about a real raise sometime this month or next.
On a sad note the woman who owns the house we are staying in died on Dec. 27. It looks like one of her children will inherit the house and they will either keep it or sell it. If they sell it then our landlord will probably buy it. We do have a 24 month contract so legally we don't have to worry about getting kicked out or anything. We talked shortly about making a bid on the house, but I am a little weary of that because then we would have to become Arkansas residence and that could throw some kinks in things. So, I doubt it will happen, beside we don't really have the funds to handle it right now.
Part of why I didn't post yesterday was the fact that we went down to LR again with Sean and Joe. We went and saw The Prestige which is a movie about magics. I LOVED IT. I thought it was amazing. The whole movie is out an out of sync time line and ends out super crazy crazy sweet. Then we ended up at T.G.I.Friday's and we split one of those 3 course meal deal and had plenty of goodness. THen we headed off to BaN for some coffee and book reading. We didn't end up back home until after 12 and into bed and asleep around 1. It was a good time.
That about does it for this weekend. I am headed off to California this week for work so I will post how that goes and that is that. Later.

#83

So, my paycheck finally arrived. Well, I use the term arrived very very loosely. At 5:05 when I called UPS they told me that they would get intouch with the local hub and then the hub would call me. So I wanted. At 5:37 I received a call from said hub and after a brief discussion, in which I was very polite, they told me they would get a hold of the driver and find out what had happened. At 6:10 when I called they told me that the driver had delivered it to my front door.
me - Front door?
ups - Yes he placed it inside the screen door.
me - What screen door?
ups - You don't have a screen door.
me - No I do not have a screen door.
ups - Hmmm.
me - Ask him if it was the Board of Realators building.
ups - Oh, he may have delivered it to another house on the block.
me - Wow, thanks.
So, apparently the driver decided that my address, which is clearly on the envelope and clearly on the building, was a suggestion. I had to truck on down the street in the rain asking people if they got my paycheck. Finally found it. The driver had dropped it off three hours earlier. Thanks UPS, thank you very much.

#82

So, here I am. Waiting at work. What am I waiting on? My paycheck. See, my rent is due tomorrow at the latest, I have an electric bill that needs to get paid, a water bill, a phone bill and UPS decides that I work at a residence. Oh wait, this is a freaking OFFICE BUILDING. Good Gravy I just want them to show up so this day can be over. It has been a stresful new year so far. Our customers have been ridiculus this week. Oh, and next week is just that much better. I fly to Sacramento on Tuesday to begin three fabulous days of installation and training. I enjoy the trips, but not all the time. I have very little idea about what I am getting myself into most of the time. I just show up and go from there. Very hap-hazard. I was hoping to get out of here at 5 today so we could go to LR and catch a movie or something, deposit my check, pay my bills and so on, but no. I am just stressed out. meh, eventually it will show up. I hope.

#81

Ah, it is time for the daily obligitory post. So, today was pretty rough in the office. One of my underlings has decided to quite. Now, this is nothing new, but what is new is that instead of accepting his resignation as of Jan. 12th we are taking it as of Dec. 31. So, we are short a guy unil we get a new guy hired. Luckily they have been interviewing a couple of people and are making some good headway in that area with several potentials showing themselves. This makes it hard for a little while, but the potentials seem to be very good. I had several training sessions today. It was crazy. I need to keep track of these things a little bit better. I was able to work with several customers to make them happy again, but I am one man. Ok, enough of the drama. For Christmas we got a digital camera. While in Nashville, at my brothers wedding, I may have left the CD and several cabels in the hotel. I am going to call the dealer sometime this week and see if I can't get an additional cd package. In our living room we are putting up a ceiling light. It looks nice and will definitly add alot of light to the room. Maybe I will get a picture of it. Hmmmm, not much else to say. I have kept up with daily bible reading so far(wohoo), daily blog posts, and I am constantly working on a budget to get us out of debt as much as possible by the time The Princess is out of school. Who knows what we will be up to then, so the more we can get rid of now the better. Oh, and her school loans. Yeah, that is gonna be realy pretty. Fortunatly she got a scholarship and it makes it almost the same price as going to a state school. Later

#80

So, this morning is full of catching up at work. Nothing really going on. I kind of want to write a little synopsis of Christmas and so on, but I probably won't. There is this group, the ACLJ(American Center of Law and Justice), that has a radio show that I catch sometimes. On Friday they were talking about the Military Chaplins and how currently they are not allowed to use the name of Jesus when praying. Well, on Friday it sounded like Congress was going to pass a bill that would allow them to use the name of Jesus again. Sounds ridiculus, there are several kinds of chaplins in the military, there are Catholic, Protostant, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. How can you tell a person, anyone, that they are no longer allowed to pray to their god. Also, during this whole time the Jewish and Muslim chaplins were not getting any of the fire about their prayers. Anyway, it looks like that is all taken care of now. The other item they were talking about was the kidnap/abortion clause. From what I understand, it is legal to transport a minor over state lines, without the gaurdians permission, in order to give the child an abortion. Hmm, taking a minor over state lines, well know that sounds an awful lot like part of the definition of kidnapping. Oh, I see, if you are kidnapping someone to give them an abortion then it is ok. Also, take into account that my 18 year old brother who graduates from highschool in the spring, can not take peptobismol with him to school without being sent home. I just do not understand the left side of things sometimes. Later.

#79

Ok,so it is the 2007 and he we are. Somethings have changed, some things haven't. Well, instead of a year in review, which would have been appropriate yesterday I think I am going to try a year in pre-view. I have several goals for the next year. These items might even be called resolutions. So, without further ado......
THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN 2007, or MAYBE NOT
1. I am really looking forward to writing a thoughtful post everyday. Sometimes it will be politics, sometimes it will be what is going on in my life, and so on. This should up my posting from 78per year to around 356per year.
2. Start taking TaeKwonDo lessons. I have some friends doing this in VA and I wanted to start but didn't have the time or money. This last week, the accounting gave me my first of two raises. This one gets me back up to the amount I was making before the move.
3. Go to France. This may seem like a large ticket item, but really we already have tickets and are starting plans so it is not as impossible as it may at first seem.
4. Be Active. This involves getting off my less skinny butt and going out and doing things. Right now this can be covered by the city basketball league. This might also be taken care of by learning to play the guitar or working on creating a video game or a hundred other things beside being depressed and self-loathing.
5. Create a budget. We want to try using Microsoft money or maybe QuickBooks. We have copies of both lying around. I think we will probably use the MSMonies though because it was designed for use by families. That is probably what I will be doing tonight.
6. Be a better husband. This involves a lot of things. I think the whole being active will help out with this. Also, because The Princess is a student we get free counseling so we have an oportunity to work out things not just between ourselves but baggage that we may have brought into our relationship from our parents(which is like most people).
7. Continue to work on my blog and make it presentable again. After I switched over to Blogger Beta, or whatever, I lost all my format stuff and so far I have been less then persistant in continuing to update it.
8. Read my bible through in a year. I have a group that I am in on LiveJournal that goes through the bible in a year and they talk about what they have read everyday, so I am hoping to work through that and actually have some intellegent conversation about the scripture. Over the past three years I have become very un-educated when it comes to the scripture and I am really looking forward to fixing that.
9. Work on my netflix queue. Updating and keeping track of the movies I watch in and out of my queue.

Ok, that is all I got for now. I have a couple more hours to work with before I go to bed. Later.