Wow…. so about 2 hours after I made that post (the day after the event)… I bought a package of wheat thins…. there was already one pack stuck in the machine, so when mine dropped, I ended up getting 2 for 1. Plus I got a raspberry cookie thingie that was hanging out next to the wheat thins. Sweet! 🙂
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Honesty
Hrmm, well I suppose my morals are strong…. yesterday I saw a vending machine that was unlocked… The thing had already stolen a quarter from me, so I felt like some kind of retribution. My conscience finally kicked in, and I re-locked the machine. Sometime I think I’m too nice of a guy.
Immune system getting a workout
I swear, a couple more years of visiting the Weber farm and I’ll be immune to anything. I seem to come down with something different each time I go there. Actually lately I seem to be getting assaulted too, but I’m told that means they’re accepting me as one of the family. Still, RC cars leave a mark on your skull… (JK Webers, I’m not upset or anything!)
Naw, I like going to her house. I finally have the names of her 10 siblings (Theresa, Jenny, Abby, Katie, Mike, Anna, Ben, Becca, Jared, Louis) and her parents down, and I’m slowly learning the names of her ten million relatives. I still haven’t gotten any good "farm" experience, but one of these days this city-boy is gonna learn how to milk cows (Insert Cledus T. Judd song here) and help out with other stuff. I’m up at 5am anyway… I figure I might as well learn something!
This weekend was mainly for me to meet Abby again, though I only saw her for about 5 minutes. They had a party for her on Sunday afternoon, so I met a bunch of relatives too. Took Amanda to a Lutheran church that we both got kinda weirded out about. Then we got stuck in the mud ’cause her car’s such a lightweight and the lot was new soil/gravel. Think maybe I can live through the Catholic services, or we could try the other church she talked about. Meh. I guess we both find traditional Catholic and Lutheran services very liturgical, and we don’t get as much out of them as we do from places like Cornerstone here in Ames or the baptist church she goes to in Wisconsin. Maybe that’s it. We’ll both become Baptist. 🙂
Anyway, good weekend. I’m sick on and off… mostly just a bad cold: running nose, sore throat, head-in-a-bubble. Probably a virus or something. I’ll get over it soon. Yay!
Wow
So, yesterday… I woke up and was reading ST, when I scrolled down to the bottom of a thread and suddenly noticed I had extra buttons. I went back out to the main page and just about jumped out of my seat when I saw Moderators: Russ, DigiMuzik listed at the top of the comptuers forum. (Jumping out of my seat is not a common event at 7:30am)
Rumor has it that I was reccomended by a former mod and super-cool-friend. Well, I’ll try to do a good job 🙂 . I’ve already started cleaning the Stuff for Sale/Wanted sticky, and I spent most of yesterday making a new FAQ which, in my humble opinion, is quite nice. Easier to navigate at least. Next on the agenda: locking random threads. 🙂
Uh… yeah. just kidding about that one.
Don’t Park in Bus Stops!
I had fun with this guy who parked in the Park’s Library bus stop (no pun intended in this story). He wouldn’t move when I got on his bumper, so I pulled around him and pulled into the stop, effectively cutting him off. I was early so I had to sit for a minute while he couldn’t get around me. Then I finally take off and go to Beardshear. There’s no one there, but it’s a mandatory stop, so he gets to wait some more. I’m about to leave when I see 3 people run out of Carver, so being the super-nice bus driver that I am, I wait for them. Sorry dude, I’m doing customer SERVICE right now. All in all I probably only held up the guy for 3 or 4 minutes, but he sped off once I got to the Union.
Don’t park in bus stops. We’re bigger than you are.
The fun part, is I wasn’t really bullying him either. Just doing my job. If he would’ve gotten out of the stop when I pulled up, he wouldn’t have had to wait for me. Anyway…. made my night by making me smile.
Big sisters are cool
Well, when they’re someone you look up to and respect, they’re cool. Especially when they mentally knock some sense into you. I should just give her a call every week. Heh.
Yay for multiple monitors again!
So I got myself 2 new 17" Diamondtron monitors. I was planning to use only 1, but the resolution and brightness of it made me so happy, I reshaped the heatsink on my PCI vid card so it would fit into the Shuttle case and give me dual monitors! Yay for 3200×1200 goodness. Can always throw the TV on as yet another display too. W00t!
I’m bad at updating
So last weekend our choir went to Chicago. It was okay… the highlight of the trip was going to the top of the Sears tower. Wait…. that was the only thing I did. Besides going to Ed Debevik’s and riding my first taxi-van. A couple of my friends had their SO’s on the trip with them, and I started to think about how much I was missing Amanda, and how much better Chicago would be with her there too. Then on the bus ride home I made a huge personal journal entry which ended up just making me feel worse. Yesterday was just kindof a bummer all around, but I got to laugh at the people swaying on my bus when I crossed Knoll road. More importantly, I talked to Amanda a bunch. Not that we really resolved anything, but I ended up feeling better and getting a good night’s sleep. I’m not grumpy anymore… I guess my current mood is just…. “Meh”
I just flushed my first fish.
It was a little more real than just knowing he’s dead at the bottom of his bowl. Granted, it was kinda creepy when he floated up to the top when I was talking about him online, half a day after he died. But flushing a fish is like burying your dog. Yeah, he was just a fish, and a long-lived-for-such-a-newbie-owner one at that. But it was still my first pet. First thing whose life I was ever responsible for. Gee… I hope my kids last longer than seven months 🙁
Anyway, I could’ve handled that, but I had a really lousy evening of work. And I’m anxious about the career fair tomorrow, not knowing if I really want an internship, or just take classes and work at CyRide this summer. And then a ton of other little things have gone wrong tonight (forgot the book I was engrossed in in my car, the ice cream I was gonna have to cheer me up was frosty, then some of it fell into my brand new keyboard).
I’m just gonna curl up in a little ball and go to sleep. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
(And to think, that I was planning to write an entry this evening about how I’m struggling with the direction of my life…)
CyRide and the like.
Well, there’s one question answered. I’m not going to be a dispatcher. Guess I can see this as better than having to make the decision myself. Though I was rather sumarrily denied the position by a terrible "oral test" score… i.e. I totally failed the interview. Ah well. This way I still get to see Amanda, and I can take that week off this summer. All around I suppose it’ll be easier to get time off. Hmm. Maybe I’ll still get to be an instructor in a month or two. Then I’ll make something like 11.50 while training. Not quite 15, but it’s something :-).
Well, Amanda and I spent the weekend together. Couple rough patches, but overall we had a good time. We went ice skating on Saturday and saw a valentine’s proposal. This guy got down on his knee in the center of the rink while the girl was looking all around. Then he slipped a ring on her finger…. we assumed she said yes ’cause they hugged and skated around together some more… even though she wasn’t really watching where she was going…. more focused on the ring and him. Ahh l’amor. Or whatever that means in french….