Another end to another weekend. This was a nice relaxing weekend, I did get get a chance to catch up on sleep, though again last night I didn’t fall asleep till about 3:30. Wake up and watch some TV, followed by a call from the brother, and a call from the Dutchman. I am definately wishing I was down there, but I’m also amused that he was so cold last night out there. I guess he didnt trust me that those clear desert skies turn into cold desert nights. It happens though I suppose, why should they listen to the guy who’s been out there camping before. Otherwise, some time just chillin out and attempting to feed myself today with remaining food around the house. I have no idea how to prepare some of this frozen market day food that mom sent up with me at some point. Otherwise, some good time catching up with American HotRod, seeing a car being built in 4 hours, over the course of 7 weeks. Some cyber-chatting or something like that, but there are a lot of people that I might normally chat with online, I’m guessing due to spring break at Grand Valley starting up. I really enjoy having my windows and sliding door open, and even like to leave my window open at night, but some of the people that leave cars running in our parking lot for periods of time haven’t been treating their cars so well. So this sound of the cars squealing and running really rough, and holes in exhaust really piss me off. And obviously the people next to or below me smoke, becuase sometimes I get that great odor of cigarettes in the apartment when in the windas are open. Oh well, No need for further bitching about pointless stuff. It was definately a good weekend and good times with Abby as usual, hopefully this week brings good news about a new job or at least something to do at GV. I am seriously considering going up to OSR tomorrow night to do some sleeping under the stars and some campfire cooking on tuesday since I don’t have to work and all.

You know if feels kind of strange that your weekend feels like a day during the week. Actually, I think I got up earlier today than I did either of the days I didn’t work this past week, and its not so bad. Otherwise I was also more productive around the homefront than any other day this week, cleaning the bathrooms, and my desk a little bit. Lots of self education with the Discovery channel again, having the desire to work on restoring a car, wouldn’t that be fun. Today I was thinking of just how jealous I am of Meer, I wish I was able to get away now and do some camping out in the southwest. Sure I don’t climb, but I wold love to just go out that way and screw around and camp and be one with nature. Otherwise, dinner-date with Abby was fun, Joe Chicago’s over in Grandville was not as good as I was hoping for a deep dish pizza. Sure it was good, better than most of the thin pizza around, but still it lacked a lot of flavor that I’ve grown to love. there was a bit too much cheese, and the pizza was only warm in the center, but the sauce was a nice sweet sauce. I believe that the dinner was cheaper than you can get in Chicago as well, but I when all is said and done, I would rather pay more for the delectible food. Then some watching of Xena, and some of the realization that I am loved, I was completely not expecting a post card from Izabela. That made me smile for sure today, I don’t know the last time I got a post card before that. I need to go camping.

What a day, my first full day of work during part time employment. I guess that statement is somewhat confusing though, really, it was not a full day of anything remotely productive the the ends of work. I was able to work on teaching myself some vbscripting and well as taking some lessons from Ben. Seriously, he seems to be one of the few people actually interested in my personal self interested above that of the machine that we call Grand Valley. He is always willing to take the timet o explain something or work something out so that I can understand, and that is one of the best parts of being where I am, the ability to further knowledge. Today I was able to further my knowledge to the point of getting a for submission to work with and ASP to actually for email something to a desired recipient. I would link to that from here, but there is no reason that my brother should be getting pointless BS emails from this script from my friends.

Tonight’s trip to the bar was anopther relaxing evening. We went to Kahunaville, then to TGIFridays to have some brews, after a bad experience with the waitress we ended up staying for 2 rounds then calling it a night. There was good conversation, some talking with Darrin about life and whatnot, his “forensic investigation” of when he lost his cell lsat weekend, to my complaining about working on the page for my brother. All in all it was a good time, and tommorw should prove the same with a trip planned to see the passion of the christ with at least Abby. A break is all we ever need sometimes to get somethign to work, and it certainly was for me tonight. Then some online conversing with some people I don’t normally get to. That always opens a few new rays of light on a situation, thank you for that for sure. Its just being able to follow those rays to the true brilliance that is the truth that is difficult. It grows late, and I should try to get to sleep to have a semi-normal sleep schedule. Check out this blast from my past right here .

I don’t want a long entry tonight. Tonight was more fun than I’ve had in a while, though I was hoping for differnet plans, I take waht the good Lord rolls and gives me. Yeah that is most probably due to where I am, but whatever. I never thought that online conversation would pre-empt a phone conversation, but stranger things have happened. Today was a nice day off work, slept all day, then went to Galyans with Meer to make sure he’s ready for his trip to NM. Then a trip to Meijer, where they apparently no longer sell Zippos, and then to the bar to await Bamm. HE worked the later shift so he wasnt ablt o make it to Logans for beers, oh well. At the liquor sotre on my way home I was hit by Alex, and told I should stop by the Shocka’s house, so I did, and we played some dice and Worms World Party. both great drinking games, but now that I get home I wonder what I have missed elsewhere in my life and where things go. My brother asked if I had a resume to send to some of the chool districts in Chicago for jobs. I guess I will not turn a connection down, we can just see where that goes though. It was also nice to meet a new lady tonight, Amber, Alex’s friend. gnight.

Well that was some of the most delicious chocolate milk I’ve ever had. Godiva liquor and milk make a fine chocolate milk. So today was spent in a way that I fear will be very much similar to the rest of the time I will be spending at GVSU, sit on my ass and wait for the phone to ring all the time I’m there. So I took 3 calls between 7:30 and noon. responded to an email or two. Tried to explain to a fool that his access has been blocked due to copyright infringement, which based on the MAC and IP he gave he is not blocked, until we check the MAC address and find that he has given us the wrong IP address after all. That was amusing for me, as was getting an email from Eric Weaver, Eric the Red requesting to be unblocked from his housing connection, though he does not even come remotely close to the University anymore. But whatever, lunch at Kleiner was good, grilled cheese, the rest of the afternoon at work I acutally had a few calls to address. JW assigned me some tickets, too bad that CJs system is so messed up over in his cube, I need 3 computers to successfully accomplish anything. So needless to say I didnt come across these till about 2 and, well I will take care of them on Friday.

Some TV and chillin, emailing and working on that stuff for Jon, no dice there. I was hoping to go out for some drinks this evening with a little lady, but she didnt call or respond to email, which I guess is cool. It gave me time for my weekly date with Miss Rooks. Dinner at Carrabas was amazing, good food and a amusing time all around. Then to watch some more history channel and educate me some more. Talk Jon through some issues, and eventually have some chicken tenders with hot sauce shortly after midnight, gosh I love meat. In any case, I have nothing more to say today, goodnight as I get back to Emeril.

A day without work, kinda nice, kinda boring. It is all good though, I was able to catch up on some more sleep. That is real nice, people tell me to do things I don’t normally get to do on my days I’m not working. Sleeping is probably top of that list, at least of things that I can do with just a day here and there since I seem to be working every other day. It would be nice to trade with CJ and work all day on Thursday and get off Fridays, then I would be able to go out to a few places that I would like to, though I really can’t afford the travel. Theres something sitting in my closet that I would like to work on, I guess its not that I haven’t had the time to work with it, but now that I have larger chunks of time, I would be able to just chill out and do it. I want to get that broad sword hung, that would be nice, I’ve only been intendin on doing that for a while now. The Braveheart srowd deserves so much more than just hanging behind my door in my bedroom, like a place on the wall in the living room.

Happy Fat Tuesday. Happy Paczki Day. I was able to continue that great tradition that I have learned in the family, the first time that I have made them by myself. But it seems that I have either done a good job, or people are humoring me, but everyone tells me they are delicious. They are a bit heavier than the ones I used to make with mom, but good nonetheless, especially for those up here who ahve never had the true Polish food. Talking to Kelly today, she wants to learn how to make Pierogi, I’m not opposed, but that a lot of time to spend doing that again, unless she and Deanna want to play together. So after making the authentic food, I was able to watch 24 twice tonight, which ws freakin awesome. That show truly is the man, it helps to let out agression that you can’t normally do in real life due to laws and all that. The gratuitous violence is just awesome, makes me less likely to veer into a pedestrian or something. With a comment like that, I’m sure that the parents will worry about me. Oh well.

So I get these results from a job search today, and with a 48 page report of open jobs, in GR and Chicago, there are 3 listings in GR. Thats it, the rest are in Chicago, which I really dont want to go down and work there, but I guess I will do what I have to. That listing to work for the forest service in Alaska sounds like much more fun and my speed in life. But after a day of part time labor and a day off, I really have that desire again to go out into the woods and just live. Hey thats interesting, just so happens I flip channels and come across a survival show on the History channel, which has just been fun lately catching shows on the Food network, Discovery, TLC and History channel. I almost feel as though I am expanding my mind, since my job at GVSU no longer allows me to do that. I guess I Will be nice to my bro and Queen of Peace HS and attempt to teach myself some ASP stuff to get something together for the show they’re doing. Well enough of this for now, later.

My first day of part time labor at GV since I was a student, and as strange as it is, the least hours a week I’ve worked there since my junior year. So most of the morning was spent being very bitter, but really what can I do. I just ahve to roll with what they give me, if for some reason they want me there starting at 7:30 then I guess that will have to do, its better than being unemployed, just slightly though. I really did nothing till about 10 this morning but stare at a computer screen, then a few phone calls, and lunch. This is probably really bad, but lunch was the high point of the day, aside from actually finding a cute girl staring at me in the lab. And I was actually not tired this morning, though I did find that my snooze button apparently goes for 45 minutes. That would explain why I wasn’t getting up on time for a while.

Sorry to all that I may offend with my posts, that is not the intention here. Well not the intention to people that I actually like that read my blog, those in “the system” at GV, screw them. But to Jason and Abby, I apologize. I am halfway tempted to stop posting all together to a blog, this has grown to be much more than I would’ve intended it to be as far as scope of who reads it. I guess I never would’ve figured that I would have to endure cenorship from my thoughts here. Then again, so much of what is said makes sense in my head and not others. Which as far as I’m concerned is enough, but I ramble on again.

And as much as I love our front desk girls, sometimes I wish for the greater good of support that they knew something about computers and had the ability to troubleshoot problems. I think that Jamie has the best head on her shoulders over there, well aside from Nate, but we’ll leave him out of the group of front desk girls. I know that it has beenmy job to offer support to users, but it would’ve been so nice to have had some basic troubleshooting done, then let me know what has been done at that level, or if they simply took the call and passed it on, which I didn’t realize was the job. I will say that Tracy and Barb are the worst offenders on this list, as they could have serious competition on the knowledge of computers against a team of rocks. At least the other gals attempt to put as much as they can of their knowledge into their job to help others.

I guess I did actually accomplish something today, I have wired in that power inverter. It actually worked on the first shot of wiring it up, so that was awesome, I need to thank Tom B. for the advice on where to ground the thing to, his suggestion was much easier than a lot of other ideas out there. Once I finally figured out how to get power from the engine compartment into the passenger compartment, the whole process went much easier, when all is said and done, most of the wiring is hidden along the trim, I still need to mouth the fuse block in the enging compartment, as well as mounting the inverter to the floor, but it sits nicely under the passenger seat. All I tried to test it today was a desk fan to see if it provided power and didnt blow up. I did temporarily lose power to the system when attaching the positive tot he accessory block, which reset the time on my clock, but didnt lose the radio presets or anything. I also made spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner today, that was good times, especially with a little fresh garlic and onions, and its true, when mincing today I did not cut myself. A few small cuts and scratches from dealing with the car, but it happens. Then some general mischief and laziness watching TV. chatting some more. Played with photoshop a bit to just mess with filters. I posted one pic in the random pictures folder, which is here. That is pretty much it, I will say that I hate it when i can’t remember a person’s name, but thats all good. I was considering digitizing the GV championship game today, but i put it off, I think I will make paczki either tomorrow or tuesday for fat tuesday. Maybe I can find some more cooking competitions tonight on the tube.