Well, not too much exciting has happened since last I wrote. I got paid today, so that was nice. Unfortunately found out that Dad won’t be coming up, thats a bit disappointing, but all good none the less. Today at work I got to meet the VP of our operation in the company. He seems like a real nice guy, very approachable and encouraging to talk to. Apparently I was able to hear his story, and he told me that they like to grow from within, and now that I am within, I hope to be able to grow into a full time role in the company. The phones were kinda hectic this evening, but that did eventually slow down. I was able to get out with my sanity in tact and ready to escape into the woods. Thats about it, paid the last of the rent due for this apartment this morning, and am ready to get out. Last night was a bit of an eye opener, but I don’t really know what to do with the open eyes but see all there is and not know how to deal with it. How do I close my eyes again?

Go figure, I am thoroughly amused at the stats that I can gather from this site. Visitors, contries of visitors, hosts, search terms to find my site. Most amusing lately has been the search term which explain some of the country results. My results from Saudi Arabia are growing scarily, but more amazing are random searches for that execution video voming to my site. I guess my mention of vanberge as “berg” and the execution of Ryan Chapelle in the show 24 turn up some interesting results of my site. More surprisingly are teh order the results show up in Yahoo vs Google(or gurgle as I mis-spoke at work tonight). Speaking of work, apparently I was not supposed to go in to work tonight, I guess my wednesday shifts are over, but that was not posted as of my last day of work, nbor was it emailed to me. In fact the schedule I saw on Sunday, my last day of work, said i was working today 6-10, so I hung with that and observed some things with Darrin and helped Stacy with a few questions.

Tonight after work was a good time, it was a second trip to Mojo’s, the piano bar. The music was overall very amusing, some of the songs a repeat of what we heard last week, with several new songs and a few new players involved as well. Something abou ttonight sat wrong with me though, I enjoyed the time spent with Jason, Darrin, Jenn and Amy, but I know there is something wrong with me. I see so many attractive girls tonight at the bar, but rather than seeing them for who they are, I manage to compare them to a girl that I honestly barely know. A girl that was an object of my desire, and apparently still is, and for some reason I use her as a standard to compare against. Between the girls that looked like her tonight, and the one that reminded me of Izabela, my Polish Princess, my eyes were quite busy following the action. After a few beers even the girl Nate was hitting on last week seemed attractive. I will say that I enjoy the music, and the ability to sing to the music and the fact that so many other people know the words to the classics and even some country. Too bad Amy wasnt there for the hand jive, I would’ve loved to see Jenn and Amy do that.

Otherwise, I look forward to some sleep after getting to bed so late, and I look forward to seeing my father and brother this weekend. I just want to get back into the woods, and see them out there in the woods with me, and possibly bring back some memories from back in the day, though that is not really a problem. I remeber so many things of late that have happened in my past and what not, but I popped in the video of my HS senior drama class, the taping of Godspell that I did. Wow it was pretty bad, but I miss the people involved. I really dont talk to Tony, Shaylin or Matt anymore, not by choice either. But wow. I miss the days, and I want to redigitize it, since it was edited on a computer and Adobe premire after all. But those were the days. I miss the days and I know I will grow to miss my college days as I grow older and I just hope I still have the people that love me and want to spend time with me. Is that a step down, I doubt it, I just know that I want someone to share my joys, my losses, and everything in between with. Aside from Jason and Darrin.

Maybe I will have some time to evaluate thing sont eh Vigil weekend, maybe go beyond average advising to re-evaluate where I am and where I need to be. Maybe seeing Dad this weekend will help me out. In any case, I will finish off this bottle of Goose Island and go to bed.

So here it is, Wednesday the 26th, I get to go to work today, and tomorrow. Then it is camping, glorious camping for a few days. Friday morning through at least Monday morning. The thing I look least forward to about the even out in the woods is the lack of opportunity to update my blog. So I will attempt to do another update before I take off. But hopefully my mind will finally be away from computers, and on to the actual important things in life.

Spending Monday and Tuesday at Owasippe was a good time. I am still quite sore from the moving of floor boards and barrels of rowboat oars. All in all, not that much work, but heavy work. Monday was a trip into Whitehall for dinner, with a trip up to Montague to chat with Zammie at his place. Then back to camp to stay in cabin 2 at Staff village. That was enjoyable, except setting off the smoke alarm lighting the pilot on the heater. It was nice to get to supervise some older gents from the hunt club and be given a truck to tool around and do their dirty work with.

Back into the city for a meeting on P&D dispatch stuff. Which is great, I knew nothing about this before then really. It was nice to be able to see all the stuff that the divers and dispatchers would be using. After that was a trip to Best Buy and Famous Dave’s with Abby and Jason, followed by a trip to vanlandw’s place for the season finale of 24. That was epic. There were so many people there, and it was good. Just Elliot getting on my nerves was bad, I had to puch him. Vandermmer cannot throw things up to a 3rd floor apartment from the ground. That was amusing.

I look forward to seeing my brother and father up at Owasippe this weekend. I talked to both of them, and I know Jon wants to come, but dad was slightly skeptical. I hope they both come up. That would be a great time. I am going to head out and pick up some stuff before my trip to Owasippe.

Saturday night was a different time. Instead of the typical doing nothing on Saturday night, I ended up going out with DaKraut and JennyLou. We headed to Fairlanes for some bowling, it was awesome, pretty empty in the place, but not totally devoid of others to find amusement in. Among the 3 of us, we consumed a pitcher of beer, pretty below par “bowling alley” beer and just had fun rocking to the music, slinging some balls down the lane and just generally having a good time. We didn’t really pay that much attention to the score, just to having a good time away from a typical bar atmosphere. There were some cute young girls a few lanes down that were really amusing to watch dance and get down with the music. The lady falling down in the lane to the other side was also really amusing, top the night off with a trip to Steak and Shake, and it come out to an awesome evening.

Today at work was horridly boring. I spent the first 5 hours and 42 minutes waiting for the phone to ring, I caught some Zs and did some reading in this time, just killing time. I closed out a few HEAT tickets and browsed the web. I then got a call in response to a page I made about a backup not completing on time, then another hour or so till I actually got a real trouble call, which required the guy to log out and in and his problem was fixed. I was half wondering if the phone system was having problems or something. I played a few missions of Warcraft III, and then watched some futurama and went home.

Today there was actually somthing pretty interesting on the tube when I got home. There was a game of NFL europe on Fox. I watched that, and it really seems like preseason or scrimmage games, but amusing none the less. I was most amused by the NFL “tones” kinda the jingle they play. Reminds me that NFL season will be comming soon enough. Otherwise I watched parts of The Breakfast Club and 16 Candles. Then the Simpsons and LOL sunday. Then for a change I went out with Jenn for some dessert and chilled at Jason and Darrin’s place. Now I suppose I should get some sleep as I want to head to OSR in the morning to give a hand up there.

Since my family didn’t make it up this weekend, maybe some time in the future. I can only hope, but in any case ……

Surprisingly enough as this may be for some people, I am not referring to being drunk or hungover this morning. After about 2.5 hours of sleep, one would think that I would be all falling over myself to fall asleep, but I am fairly not tired. It is this wonderful weather that we get here in West Michigan. I really do enjoy many things about living here, but the generally nondescript weather patterns that seem to hang on entirely too long get on my nerves from time to time. I was in a mood to update last night when I came home from the bar, but alas I could not as the-bob was still down. I will have to talk to Chris and see what the deal was with the downtime, for all I know it was something to do with the weather, but I do not know.

Last night was a good time out at the bar, a nice change of pace. It was a trip back to the Black Rose, and I rather like the place. The music was not as authentically Irish like last time, but it was some decent music, and some really hot girls playing/singing in the group. I had some Irish Potato skins, which were absolutely loaded with goodies and came with a red pepper ranch dipping sauce. Wow that was amazing, went so well with the Black and Tan. Our server, while not the most attractive, was good and didnt mind our constant harassment for more beverages, she got a pretty good tip from our group, then again we all usually tip well. Last night was epic, just due to the crowd that was in attendance. FullJeff and CJ were there, both not a usual part of the bar crowd, but nice to have there. CJ didn’t really talk much, but what does a guy with a Masters in IS have to talk to us lowly bar-rats about. Jeff seemed mildy amused with us, it was nice to see that he was able to brave the horrid weather to come out and hang out with us. And scary as it is we talked about movies and computer per usual, and it was a good time. The evening was capped off with just some sitting around, watching the band finish up for the evening, chatting with Rusty, watching Flo hit on two women in their mid 30s, and a nice drive home. We even got to see someone get pulled over in front of us on the way back.

I went shopping on Thursday night after the bar and picked up some veggies. I know that seems highly irregular as well, but fear not, I bought some corned beef, nutty bars and beer, so it wasn’t all healthy. But The salad and carrots ought to be a good snack for me rather than everything unhealthy. I guess I should my part to try to slowly improve my life.

Today I apparently talked to a woman on the phone for a half hour, and eventually we nailed down that it was not an AS4o0 issue, rather the Citrix environment of a user was kinda hosed up and he was not able to gain access to the correct AS400 sessions, nor anything really. And when I put in the ticket, I should have payed closer attention to the fact that it automatically changed to a P2 ticket, when she said it was not all that high a priority issue, and it should be alright to workwith on Monday. Whoops. I am just glad that the person that it paged out to was already up and doing things.

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So yesterday was spent killing time and getting the leasing stuff together that I needed to have a place to live for the next calendar year. I will be living in Ramblewood South, on a 1st floor single bedroom place. I definately look forward to movine into a smaller place and paying a smaller rent per month, but moving to the South community I eliminate this common entryway and gain a patio large enough to stick a picnic table on. Not that I have that many friends that would come over, nor would I really want that much space, but I have a ground level dwelling with room for grilling. and more than that it is a place with a front to back view, which means that I will actually be able to enjoy a bit of cross breeze. That excites me to no end, and hopefully it will be much cooler on the ground level.

Last nights date with Abby was to Johnny Carino’s, which I must say had some rather delicious food. I had the parmigian Chicken and that was awesome, not to mention absolutely huge as far as the portion went. This was about twice as much as I could stomach coming off my eating little over the weekend. So I have some leftovers to feed me this week, hopefully not to stick around as young Cassandra’s leftovers in my fridge. Which I might add finally mad ethier way to the trash along with the remainder of the easter vittles. Last night’s dinner was rather affordable as well, I am glad to have such good food at a good price. Follow that with a nap and 24, it was damn near the perfect evening.

24 was the man, I think that is all I need to say here, I cannot wait for episode 24, the season finale.

Today was mostly spent trying to kill time. I watched some TV, played some video games and chatted with an old friend. It was nice to touch base with Cassie from my Highschool era again. Then some work, well get paid to be at work anyhow. I was able to chat with Darrin for a while, do some reading of that PHP book and a little actual work following up on trouble tickets with AT&T. All in all it was a slow night at work and Darrin and I were able to discuss 24, and I was able to chat with my mother about their house sale and whatnot. Apparently she thinks I might should move to Montana, but I don’t want to move too far from dad, I enjoy goofin around, chatting and drinking with him. I jsut wish I had a weekend or more to do that with him these days. I suppose Obi wuit today, so maybe there is the possibility that I coule move over to a full time position in the TSC, and get some more pay and benefits. That would be the man indeed, maybe even move to regular hours to regain my weekends, but I Will not be overly hopeful for that. If that happens though I do owe Darrin much more than what I do now, he will have gotten me into the company as well as getting me a ful time gig, while he is still a part-timer.

After work was a grand time. We all, and I mean, me, Jenn, Darrin, Jason and Nate were at Mojo’s. This is the dualing piano bar of GR, and it was a good time. The pianbo players were awesome and I was getting into the groove at $2 drinks and live music no cover. Unfortunately they did not get to our request, but if we had waited for that we all may have been too intoxicated to drive home. But seriously after they played the gambler and friends in low places, I was having waaay too much fun. Add some Beatles and several other good tunes and it was a rocking good time. Nate, thank God, wasn’t driving tonight. He is the drunkest I think that I have ever seen him, and I have seen hime on new years eve. It was a good cheap way to finish off a Wednesday evening, and I think that I might actually not have to tap that bottle of sleeping pills tonight. I just hope I wake before 1 tomorrow.

I guess a testament to the fact that food os good and necessary, is the effects that happen without it. I am not necessarily talking starvation and hunger like many might think, but the effect that alcohol has on an empty stomach. I should’ve eaten something today or yesterday, but that has not been a priority, I have been desiring more people to conspire with rather than dine alone. I could go out and get some take out for one, or sit here and cook a meal for one, but really what fun is that? None, I have been doing it too much and I hate being alone. I suppose that there are several things I could do to avoid this problem, like being honest and not pushing people away. But apparently that is not my nature, and who are we if we follow anything but that which is out nature. I almost feel like im sounding philisophical like meer, I shall stop.

Tonight was movie night. I went to see Troy with Meer. That was a good film, again I think I want to harm the stupid people the find it necessary to converse throghout the film. But its over now, and no one is harmed. I liked the battle scenes, and I guess I am just really amused at the style of fighting and the pausing of battles as it happened in those days. But times were different, and who really knwos what happened, there has been so much perversion to the stories as they have originally been written I’m sure. But the whole movie was good, I am glad that I saw it, and the women as in most movies were absolutely gorgeous. The walk from the theater to the parking lot took a detour to Fridays for a brew, that was enjoyable. It has been some time since I have talked with Jason, between the trip to FedEx and Fridays, I feel all caught up on life. I grow wearing of typing, some more sleeping pills should help ease the burden of being awake soon.

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