#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.

#78

I am in Nashville,TN today. My little brother is getting married and that is just crazy. Later.

#77

So, we went to a Christmas party tonight. If was one for the MFT program so I knew only three people there. Well, ok, technically four I think, Me, The Princess, Holly and Becky. I guess I also knew Jim and his wife and maybe one or two others. Ok, so eight tops. At this party they have a tradition for first time visitors. They have to sing, in front of everyone. So, me and The Princess get up and we do our number. We chose to sing a jazz number called Moon Faced and Starry Eyed. I hate doing things in front of other people. Anything where I have to speak in front of a large group, I hate it. The more I know about it before hand the more it eats away at me. It burns in my belly sending the nervousness to the outer reaches of my body. Days of building up tension. When we start the singing portion of the evening my heart starts to race, my hands go clammy, and I start to sweet a little. It is all I can do to keep myself from vomiting up everything I just ate. Argh, I hate this. Even afterwards it is still there, it did not go away. So, I left. I had to get out of there and away from all those people. I am feeling a little better now. Not much, but a little.

I am not the man I once was. I am not the man I want to be.

#76

Well, work has been going ok. The only problem is that one of my lackies has decided to quit. I need to definitly find a replacement and quick. So, Josh and anybody else, please send me a resume tonight. Tomorrow morning I am going to put something in to the IT department at HU and see if what comes from that. I called over to the Computer Science department, but they said that it sounded like something that was better suited for the IT department. Oh well, that is what you get some times. Yeah, well, not much else is going on here. Just waiting for Christmas and all the travel that entails. Later peeps.

#75

So, here I am chillin at work. I will write more tonight. Promise.