Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
have not had time to update in the last few days. the trip this last weekend went well. probably the most exciting family reunion i’ve been to in years. on our way back we had an adventure with a family who barely spoke english and had a flat tire in the middle of the west texas plains. after helping them out we made our way to montanas to eat in weatherford. while there, we watched the police chase going on… you know, the one where the guy went gta with the big truck? how stupid…
this has been a long week at work. lots going on. i’m ready for this weekend to get here.
monday night mandy bought a laptop. we spent the evening shopping and playing with it. tuesday night we spent the evening working on neo’s computer lights and mandy’s laptop. tonight, mandy and i just chilled. she went to target to find a laptop bag and found one she liked, but passed because it just wasn’t what she was looking for.
now, it’s time for bed so i can get up and do it all over again. …eeehhh..
Friday, July 21st, 2006
work this week was busy. it was a week of the unusual questions and hard to find answers. i went in to the doctor this morning for my blood pressure checkup. he messed with the cuff thing for a few minutes and decided i was fine. he said he figures my blood pressure was high last time because i was fighting an infection. so i was happy to get out of there with an “okay”. :)
mandy got off work early this afternoon so we could go run some errands. we stopped by a music warehouse while we where out. apparently i’m either spoiled on the itunes music store, or i’m way out of touch, but the music at this “warehouse” was outrageously priced. if people are forced to pay $17+ a cd, no wonder music pirating is so out of hand. i mean, i can buy the same cd on itunes for $9.99. burn it off to cd, re-rip and i’ve got not only a music cd, but a guaranteed unmarked mp3 of the music. itunes is now including a digital cd cover also, so whenever you read the cd on your computer or ipod, it shows the cd book with it.
tonight mandy and i went to look at laptops for her at frys. i’m leery of buying anything that big at frys, but compared to the price of hp laptops on the hp website, for some reason fry’s beats the price of the same computer, in store. i dont get it. afterwards we looked at music at frys. they are more reasonable on prices at $12 and $15 each. but i still cant justify that much money. especially when i want to buy 5 or 6 cd’s at a time.
this weekend is the lackey reunion in west texas. we’re all leaving in the morning and we’ll be back sometime sunday evening. neo is hanging out around my house to keep an eye on jack and let him out side every now and then. neo’s basically moving in, so i’m sure him and jack will get along.
thats all for now though. i’m going to finish burning my cds for the trip and head to bed. ya’ll take care. i believe the hotel has internet but if not, i’ll see you all on the other side of the road trip weekend.
here’s a pic of jack chewing on a bone. he’s getting so big…
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
yesterday was slow at work, today was busy.
on my way home from work, i called neo to tell him i would be home later than i expected. i detoured through irving to go by the cemetery. today marks two years since my father passed away. i think about him every day. his wisdom sure would have been nice over the last two years. i’ve spent the last week thinking alot about what i’ve done, and where i’m at now. recently i’ve caught up with some old friends, some of which i never thought i’d be able to again.
i miss dad being around, telling me what i needed to get done, and offering advice on what i should do tomorrow. whenever i saw pirates of the caribbean 2 on friday night, i couldn’t help but think that movie would have been right up his alley. he loved those kind of flicks. it’s the little things like that, that i go through all the time. it’s something you cant imagine until you’ve been at this place. and don’t get me wrong, i’m not clinically depressed, but it’s a place you can never put your self into, unless you’ve been there. i know times get better, and the feelings never really go away, but that’s because i understand why those feelings are there. my dad left such an impression on my life, that i will never forget his wisdom, honesty, and knowledge. he got me to where i am today. he’ll help me get to where i’ll be tomorrow.
shortly after i left work, the feeling hit me that i had to pee. 45 minutes later whenever i made it to the cemetery in south irving, the feeling was not a bit better. i could not stay there long. but i did look around and see that things where in order here and there. i never really know what to do when i get to the cemetery. what is one suppose to do? it feels weird talking to a rock and flowers. i mean, i always say a prayer whenever i get in the truck to leave, and i don’t goto the cemetery just to look around and visit my other family’s headstones. i always feel different whenever i leave, but while i’m there, it’s just awkward.
two years later. it’s been so long. i see the funerals going on from time to time. i don’t like to make eye contact with the people because i know what their feeling, but what do they get from me? in two years, they’ll look just like me, and i’ll probably look just like them.
it is a scary world. i enjoy my friends being around. neo hung out tonight and we more or less tried to install age of empires 3. it did not go over so well until we installed the latest patch for the game. we’ll try to get in a real game tomorrow. this weekend is the lackey family reunion. the following weekend is the tsn bbq in granberry. i don’t know if i’ll be able to go because i’m on call, but we’ll see. the following weekend is quakecon. i have not played any first person shooters in over 6 months. i don’t even have any installed on this new computer. it’s going to be interesting. perhaps i should at least install counter strike…
ya’ll have a happy thursday. i go to get my blood pressure rechecked friday. after talking to some of my co workers, i’m more worried about what the doctor will say. i’m starting to look at what i eat from day to day and i’m going to start getting on a better diet. i enjoy my walks at night, but i need to get on a routine to be sure i walk every night. we’ll see about that. for now, i’m going to bed. ya’ll take care.
Sunday, July 16th, 2006
twas a bum weekend. friday night mandy and i met her family to see pirate of the caribbean 2. it was a good movie, but i my lack of attention span made the 2.5 hour movie hard to sit though, even with the adventure and action.
saturday, mandy was at her parents most of the day. i got a new mp3 player installed in my truck and messed around most of the day at susans. then i went to have dinner with mandy’s family. we left there with the intention of maybe going fishing. we got to mandy’s and i decided i wanted to go for a ride. we burned off half a tank of gas and went through 3 hours of mp3s. it was a good night.
today, i go up with the intention of going to church with susan and mandy. by the time i got to susans, we where already going to be 20 minutes late. while debating on weather to go, we burned another 10 minutes and decided we where not going. instead, i helped susan setup her new computer and move her files over from her old one. mandy played roller coaster tycoon 2 for most of the afternoon, and is now addicted. heh. i sat here at my computer tonight, after dinner, and now have 9 cd’s of mp3s for my truck. the ride to and from work wont be so commercial filled now. :)
tomorrow begins the new work week. it is a short week, but friday, i have a doctor appointment to follow up for my blood pressure check. i guess i’m going to schedule my physical. but i’m actually thinking i’m going to put it off for a month while my weekends clear up. i now see why the every other friday off work schedule is such a cool thing to have.
ya’ll have a good week. happy monday. stay cool.
Friday, July 14th, 2006
i imported my livejournal posts. a few did not make the import. i could not import the comments because of all of the buggy plug-ins i found that only half-ass work.
303 livejournal blogs. all labeled under the categories tab. —>
i would like to import the later half of my xanga entries. for a while i was posting duplicating my posts on xanga and livejournal because it was two different audiences. whenever i started paying for the xanga service in november of 2005, i went to strictly xanga. maybe i can manually import the good ones…
p.s. yes, whenever i imported the journal entries, i did loose some titles for whatever reason.� so you’ll see numbers that used to be words.� dont know why it happened, but live journals export tool put those numbers into my xml files.
