Worked, went to Walmart, installed my last curtain. Re-arranged several knick-knacks, slept, chatted with two great friends, posted a thread, sent some emails and now going to do some writing.

Started a yoga workout. I am old and creaky.

Just found out the neighbors are selling their house for $879,000!!!!!! Holy crap!

That's a pile of glue, Baba Lou.

Just helped a friend install his new MSI nForce2 mobo, Athlon XP2600+, 512 DDR and his other goodies into a new case. Opening boxes to finished product in only 2.5 hours after an awesome spaghetti dinner.

Before that - washed the truck and diagnosed the boss's son's new truck with either a bad coil-pack, fuel pump, or MAF sensor. It runs up to 2300 rpm and 'stutters' after that. Beats me - 2001 Ford Ranger w/3.0 V6. You might wanna talk to Guy, Ron. You'd know more about it than I would.

WEnt to work, went to the doctor's for a followup on my blood test, went out for dinner.

Watched an HBO special on cannibals. It was quite interesting.

found out closing is not 15 June, but 28 May.

Found out I will be leaving for Ft Sill for 3 weeks on 1 June

freaked right the hell out wondering how I'm going to get totally moved in 3 days, and prepped for a 3 week deployment. <for about 30 minutes>

decided the best thing to do is pack for the trip on the 25th-ish, put the ruck where I can find it for the trip easily, and go ahead and start packing. Went all over town asking for boxes from different businesses, bought lots of packing tape and supplies at Harbor Freight, and priced furniture dollies and a large hand truck at Harbor Freight. Dropped by the Uhaul store and ordered a Class 3 receiver for the wife's Grand Cherokee and got the drawbar measurment for the trailer I'll use, then bought an electric brake controller for the wife's ZJ and my Blazer. Plan is to rent two 6X12 trailers and pack them both as tight as possible and shuttle to the new house, then repeat as necessary. Amazingly enough, this actually comes out cheaper than renting the one trailer for 2-3 days. <helps to have friends at Uhaul>.

I am gonna be busier than the proverbial one-legged man at an asskicking contest come move day.

Woke up this morning feeling gross, came to work, been at it like I used to, got a phone call from someone wanting to talk to me about my (very outdated) resume.

Kinda curious to what company (couldn't really hear him) and to how old the resume is (I've only applied to about 2 places the last few years) and why anyone would follow up on a horribly old resume. All the tech knowledge I acquired years ago has already gone out the window!!

Decided to gut the front lawn as the backyard is a complete marsh.

Came back home from running the Deaf Alpha Course, and now start planning for a regular Deaf House group!!

went to work, got 12 days notice to set a new office up 200 miles away

worked 2 hours more than i should..

came home, feel tired now

Did end of month reports, spent the better part of the day "data-smithing" to put a good spin on the first 4 months of the year.

Just squeezed a butt cheek and got quite a bit of pus out. Eeeewwwwww

Took a final. I think I did well. Got grossed out at what aladoc did today.

Did my first photoshoot in New Hampshire. Glad I dont have young daughters.

Woken up and realise only got 20 or so mins to get ready for work....decide not to bother the rush as Harvey climb onto my lap to do some kneading and dribble at same time. Aw bless....so chill out til he get off then rush!

SFA

Wiped/blown my schnozz 241 times. Guess I've got a cold.

<Blarrrpppp!!>

242....

Laugh at poor sod.... ^ Then off home to do some of the Open University Assignment....

Slept in, made some breakfast, and played with the cat for a while (the REAL cat ).

Discovered that mom went overboard on grocery shopping last night, so I have everything I could ever hope to want for ingredients for cooking finally. Could be more excited!

Found out my last three pillow kits shipped Monday, so I should have them to work on by the end of the week, which puts me about 2 weeks from having a major portion of my nieces' and nephews' Christmas presents done. In MAY!

Just found out I have to stop by the office on my way out of town this afternoon, so I suppose I should consider getting dressed.

Went to my second to last day of classes.

watched a sick child

Drinking Mexican beer - Tecate and Dos Equis

Took a final. Think I did well. The two finals from hell are tomorrow.

Worked like a dog because two guys on the crew are hound humpers. Getting pretty frustrated with their bulldip.

Did my 2nd photoshoot in a new state.

Way to go, Varth!!! Lingerie???

I went running earlier today. Now my ankles are sore.

Try running on the soles of your feet next time.

Good Advice Burner but wouldnt it stink especially on warm days.....Sole as in fish...

Woken up and dribble on some more information onto assignment paper and showered and.......and.....delay the trip to work as it too early!

Filled up my gas tank at $2.06 per gallon.

Went to work, did a show, came home, went to the bar for dinner.

Going to post some news and then get some sleep.

$2.06 a gallon????? Damn!! We're still down at $1.69 here.

This morning I will go to the office. At lunch I will assist in a cardiac PET scan. Then I will come home and clean the pool for an hour. After that I must get on the tractor and mow for two hours. A little weedeating will probably be required. A stupid CPC meeting at 6 p.m. Then I will take one of my recent computer builds and use it at the office instead of my terminal ( which died). I will add a few extras ( DVD and maybe a TV tuner card ) . I am still looking at which 17" LCD monitor to get to go with it. Any suggestions? Needs to be around $400 or so.

CTX S700 for $396.90

http://www.provantage.com/buy-22055460-ctx...in-shopping.htm

Went to local Sainsburys to get some lunch....

Wore the highest heels to work ever. Tried to create a short cut to a program that I hadn't installed yet...

Ayuh...$2.06 was the cheapest I could find in the ~60 miles I was on the road.

Woke up hearing kids talking under my window, so got up to see WTF. Turns out my brother-in-law was mowing the lawn as a mother's day present, and the kids were here. So I played with my niece and nephew (6 and 4) for a while.

Got online, and discovered that some people simply can't figure out that no one is out to get them, when they do stupid things they get helped out. Much like every other site on the internet which is run by moderators. Oh well...whaddya do with persecution complexes, anyway?

Now going to make some lunch (something involving fresh asparagus, it's finally out) and hide from the freshly-cut grass flying around outside because I can't breathe.

Ha... I pumped gas in today for 99.9 Cents a litre... ($3.80 for you folks with that piddley little gallon, $4.50 a gallon here ... )

Other than that, Built a Prescott for a customer in one of those "Prescott" certified cases...

Went to work and there is no jobs on shelves so resort to write up a complaint letter to the said Typetalk.

Then chill out and pondering some more about this Report writing assignment. Boo!

oh there's just entirely too many ways to go with this....

met my realtor at my soon-to-be-house for the home inspection at 9 am, having confirmed with the home inspector TWICE in the last 4 days that he'd be there at 9am.

at 9:30, called him. "We're here-- where are you?". Turns out a confirmation from him is not worth a thing-- he's still dumb enough to misschedule- even though he's only a one-man operation. Pfeh. He said he can make it at 2. Rescheduled.

He is friggin' lucky that noone else in town is available at short notice!!

Needless to say, his normal $225 fee will only be $200. He just doesn't know it yet. $25 charge for screwing up my last day of vacation. I bought a new tropical shirt and wore it, sandals, and my shorts- all ready to go to the beach about 11. Now my day is shot right in the netherregions.

Stupidity should be painful.

It is - to the people that need to deal with it...

Hoped that the Candyman isn't making his rounds at the office yet...

There's this one guy that brings candy to every single employee and makes conversation...nice guy, I guess. But he's really pushy with the candy!! I don't want it!! But I always take one to be polite. Then he offers another and persuades me to have another. That's where I draw the line!!

Just say no to Stranger.....

Went to an end of the year picnic for the SCE department of my school put on by our student council. I got a $20 gift card for being one of the first 40 people to show up and I won a memorex MP3 player in a drawing. I've never won anything in my life up to know. It's a mmp3642 and I wanted to get a picture to show you but search as I might I can't find a site that has a picture of it.

Congratulation on your winning Zim!

Sat for 6 hours in a Crisis and emergency management course :S


Interesting in places, just plane dull in others, at least we got lunch

My advice during a crisis or emergency: Be in a place where you can't get a signal on your mobile phone.

But what if they use the "Captain Crotchless" signal?

Congrats Zim. Good on you, bud.