What up yo?

So, I'm at work, and it's hotter than blazes. I think I almost died it's so hot. Matter of fact, I did die, fortunately I also revived myself by self Jack Bauering myself. I know I make no sense, but man it's hot. It must be the heat making me all crazy.

Ok, well this has been a pretty much lame blog, but hey, you're the one still reading.

Chicken Burgers and fries

Yeah, so I just figured I'd update even though not much has been going on. We finally got to hang out with A&M last night. We barbequed and hung out in the pool, and then went back up to their apartment to watch 24 season 4. Quite exciting already, and we've only watched the first two episodes.
Tonight we are going to Chili's. I saw a commercial they have that tells about the "Make your own burger" deal. Sound kinda like Fudruckers, but maybe better, who knows.
So that's about it. Y'all can come over if you want though, I'm making chickenburgers..... and who doesn't love a good processed meat stovetop cooked CB?

Ok here's the real deal

We finally got our digital camera working, so we took some photos of my bike with me and bean. I have to polish the engine and whatnot, but for the most part I think I got a sweet deal. Thanks for looking. If any of you folks see my mom tell her my dad now needs a bike.

I got a MOTORCYCLE

Yes it's true. After years of scouring the globe, I finally found a motorcycle. I even paid for it and now am the official owner. It is a happy day for me. I was passing through craigslist and found it. The guy I bought it from just posted it this morning and I was the first to respond to his add. The carbs need cleaning, but other than that the bike is in great condition. There is some slight rust on the spokes of the rims, but I can hopefully steel wool them to get that off. The tires are new and the rest of the bike looks good. My boss Johnny went with me, as he knows quite a bit about bikes. He gave me the nod and I gave the guy the money. The guy even brought the bike to Johnny's house for me. I was going to have to come back and pick it up, or have Johnny's mechanic pick it up, so that was a very sweet bonus. The mechanic said hopefully I can have the bike back by friday or saturday and it will be running good, assuming the rest of the bike runs as good as it looks.
I don't have any pictures of my actual bike but here is one that very closely resembles mine. It will take me some time to polish up the chrome and the engine areas, but this bike is the same color and has the same style rims. My bike however does not have the wind screen.
Ok there you have it. Now I only have to get the old title, register this bike in my name, apply for a new title, get my license, buy a helmet and some gloves and take a rider safety course on base. That's it! =)

Oh the HTML

I figured I may as well make a little post since I'm on here anyway.

Once again I am trying to play with my title and creating my own custom header. Not working so well though. I created a faily simple design that I was just messing around with, but I can't get my head around the coding. What a pain. Maybe ZACH, you can hook a brotha up!

Back to the Daily Grind

Ok, well not so much since my job is much easier than I'm sure most of yours. And not that I'm bragging, it's just that "daily grind" doesn't really fit. More like back to the Halo.

Anyway, I got back on thursday night to rain and awesomeness. I pretty much love San Antonio, and this great state of Texas. Oh more like I am just super stoked to be back at home with my beautiful bride Beene.

Work was good yesterday. I pretty much should have just taken it off seeing how we didn't do anything except for one work order. I didn't however get a chance to play Halo, so that's unfortunate.

As for my trip to CA, it was pretty awesome. By awesome I would mostly say because I golfed four of the seven days, and on another day we went to the range to hit some balls. So really five of the seven days included golf. My dad's birthday was fun, and I got to see a lot of family that I hadn't seen in quite some time. Over all it was a great time. Oh and to top it off, I got to eat prime rib at Cattlemens. Always a favorite.

Ok well I did a lot more than I will write because the list could go on and on, but suffice it to say I had a great week in sunny California. Life is good and the all that stuff.

It's been long enough

For those of you that still read my incredibly awesome blog, I will update.

These past few weeks have been great. I really am glad to be so close to family. After the long three years in England, it is a huge blessing to be within a few hour drive of some family.

On a sidenote, there is a lot of you "Family" that is not in Texas, I will say the D. KEITH WALKERS have an excuse, seeing as they are going on for the Lord and all, yet the others should probably go ahead and move down here.

Anyway, having Zach and Marla here was really nice. We got to go tubing and to Corpus. I think I enjoyed tubing the most. Probably because all you have to really do is sit there and float. Sometimes I think God should have said laziness is next to Godliness. But hey what can you do?
Then going to Dallas was fun as always. I don't like the drive, but it can be fun when you stop(thanks Zach). Next time we'll have to get some walkie talkies.
We got beene's computers which I'm sure you all know. It is the dinky though. For those of you that don' know what that is, dinky =cool.

Pretty much I ramble. So add everything up that we have done the past few weeks and it would equate to good times.

I'm getting ready to fly to CA for my dad's 50th birthday. I'm pretty stoked because I haven't seen my mom and dad for many moons. Or a year and a half. The golfing should be sweet too. Let it be known though that if I get beat it is because I've only been golfing once this year.
If y'all could pray I get there and back safely and have good visits with all the myers. I think the week is going to go by way too quick.

Well I'll post again sometime next month.

~posted by The Bean

Workin weekends

I'm sitting in the information center of the hospital. It's 227 right now, and fortunately I got some coffee, so I'm awake. It's kinda weird working at the hospital and telling people where to go, and answering the phone, because I have no real clue what I'm doing. I got a 45 minute briefing the other day, but it kind of just skimmed through what I'm supposed to do. I'd say though I'm doing pretty well all things considered.
Hey at least I got to watch the last quarter of the Mav's game, so I was pretty stoked. And they won, for those of you who did not watch or want to know.
Anyway, life's going pretty good. I can't wait to see Zach and Marla, and getting off work should be nice. Hopefully we'll get the shelves in the garage built. That's what I really want to get done.
I start school on tuesday so that's a bummer, but the more I do, the sooner I will get a degree.

Anyway, I'm just starting to ramble, so I'll post more another time.

Love you all and I'll talk to you later.

Work

As I'm sure all of you have read Bean's blog, so you know what we've been up to and what we plan to do in the next few days. I have to call the people whose house we are going to so I can say hi, and hopefully get directions. I've got to say, that calling total strangers and asking for directions to their house so we can crash their barbecue isn't my forte, but I'm hoping that they don't mind too much. I'm sure they won't, and that it will be great fun. We're praying that we have finally found our church. It's been so long since we've had a HOME church, and I am really optimistic about this one. Please pray with us in this.

Oh and on another note, does anyone notice that work coffee is always the best. I don't know why that is, but it seems to me that I can make coffee and home and it is never as good. But actually the best coffee ever is at IHOP or Denny's. I haven't had any of it in a little while, but hey what can you do.

Are they serious?

Ok, I just saw a Chevy Tahoe commercial. The commercial begins with a panoramic shot of a large field of sunflowers. They are gently blowing in the breeze on a seemingly refreshing crisp morning. Then comes the shot of the Tahoe driving down a curvy road with sunflowers blowing behind it. You get this nice relaxed, clean feeling of no cares or worries. The nice voice calmly tells how wonderful the Tahoe is and what great gas mileage it gets. What is that number you ask? 22 MPG.
Now I'm not Green Peace guy or hard core ecology freak, but are you kidding me? I mean I have two trucks that get 22 MPG or less. But I'm paying for the gas because I chose to drive these trucks. The question that I have is, since when is 22 MPG something to brag about? I guess I wouldn't use the 22MPG as a selling point.

Crazy Chevy!

No bike for me

I went to the police auction yesterday and came back empty handed. There were four bikes, which usually means that at least a couple are decent enough to buy. The two I was hoping for, an '84 Kawasaki GPZ, and an '84 Kawasaki KZ700. Both turned out to be in really poor condition, and needed more work than I wanted to put in. Quite the bummer, but what can you do? There was a 1996 or something close to that, Suzuki GSX-R, but it went for a ridiculous $2,900! So in the end I still don't have a bike.

On a good note, I was inspected yesterday, or should I say, my fitness program was inspected. The military likes to make sure every couple of years that everything is running smoothly. It seems that I did pretty well considering the inspector guy was only there for about thirty minutes. We shall see though.

I need to finish getting ready for work, so I guess I'll be going. Mostly I'm starving so I'm going to eat an english muffin and then drink a latte, then I'll go to work. Ok, I'm going.

Oh, I still have hope though that I'll get a bike before too long, and one that I really want. The Suzuki GS500E. Anyway, stay classy San Diego.

More bike stuff

I gotta admit, I really just love bikes. I can't wait to get one. Hopefully this coming wednesday, I'll buy one.
Anyway I was talking to one of my bosses and he was telling me about some other bikes I should look at. That is after I make some money and after I get used to my first bike. Anyway, one I was telling Zach about, the Suzuki SV-650S is a nice bike, with great gas mileage.
He then told me about a dual-sport that gets super good gas mileage and also has some good power, the Kawasaki KLR650. I don't know, both are good bikes and fairly cheap for being new bikes, but I still don't have that kind of money. But hey if you haven't made any contributions to good causes this year, I would be happy to invest your hard earned dollars into a new bike for a worthy cause. Me being the worthy cause that is.

Caesar Idol

Yes it is true, some folks in ancient history Idolized Caesar, but I'm talking about some not so old stuff. Actually it better have been pretty new or that's gross.
Anyway, the Bean and I went over to A&M's house tonight to watch American Idol and eat some really awesome Little Caesars pizza, with crazy bread. It wasn't as crazy as it was bready and garlicy. But it was great either way. Bean's known Matt ever since she started working at Cap Group, but I have only known him and his wife for two short weeks. It's pretty great having friends to hang out with.
Hopefully tomorrow of thursday I'll get to ride Johnny's bike and get some practice. If I haven't said before Johnny is my boss at work. He also found out about the police impound auctions. There's been a few bikes the past few weeks, but next week and the week after there are going to be at least four bikes up for auction each week. Most are categorized as prisoner's property or uninsured, so that usually means they haven't been wrecked. I'm hopeful that they won't go very high, and I can get one for even cheaper than what Johnny has estimated them to go for. One on the 17th is a Suzuki GSX-R 750. It's actually the bike I've wanted since we lived in England and a guy at work had one. They're sweet bikes and they look pretty sweet too.
Anyway, the Kings are playing and I'm hoping the beat the junk out of the Spurs.

Which one

One of these I've bought, the other is what I really really want. Guess which is which.
Yeah, so I'm done with school now for a while. I'm pretty stoked.

Platelets

I told my boss that the next time he went to donate, I would go. They went two weeks ago, but it ended up that I had to go to the OR for a shoot, so I didnt get to go that time. So today he came back and asked if I was going. I really wanted to, but man I was a bit nervous. Apprehensively I went. I went once a while back, but only to watch and see how the process worked. I really didn't think I would want to donate, but now it's not so bad. I got there today, and the people that work there are laid back and quite nice. My boss and Al have been going for a long time so they know all the workers there, and they all just have a good time when they come in.
I was still a little nervous, but considering my boss goes every two weeks, it couldn't be that bad. All said and done it was easy and pain free. It was nice because they put a numbing agent on your skin, then they inject some numbing stuff just under the skin, but you can't feel that injection because your skin is already numb. Then when they are ready to hook up the blood tube you don't feel that because your arm in that spot is numb. Then I figured I would feel weird after I donated, but not at all. It's cool because they draw your blood, but after the machine processes the platelets out, it puts your blood back into you, so you don't get that light headed or nauseous feeling.
All said and done I think everyone should donate platelets. You don't have to be scared because I'm a big wuss, and if I can do it, so can you.

And a big plus, it takes about an hour or hour and a half, so you get to watch a movie and eat cookies and crackers and drink Dr. Pepper. I had a great time.

Oh school

So I am in my last four days of English, and then I will have a 5 week break. I decided to take a break so I can study for promotion. Although, I may not ever get to put on another stripe if I don't reenlist. I'm still on the fence. Oh the fence. I reckon Chuck should come knock it down with a motorcycle and then I'd have a decision much easier.
Other than those two things, not much else has been going on.
We're in a tornado watch. That's pretty sweet. But not so much.
Oh and I just took over for my squadron's PT program. So now I'm in charge of making sure people are in shape and following the rules for staying fit. I kinda don't want to do it, but then again, it will be good for my resume.
Oh boy, my favorite!
Later on.

The Bean is HOME

Well two days ago she got home, but it's sweet nonetheless. Paj, I don't have it as bad as you, but I feel you on the not functioning on all cylinders when your woman is gone. But she's back!
And our 4runner got here. It's pruty hot. But I'll let bean tell you about it seeing how it is her truck.

I'm in my forth week of english now, and surprising...or not surprisingly it isn't too bad. Normally I would think english stinks, but UoP is not exactly the hardest school.

The Spurs are on top. That's sweet. I need to watch some more games to be ready for the playoffs. Should be great.

It's time for dinner though, so I reckon I'll check on my pizza.
Later on.

Tax and UoP

The good news is we received our tax return from the state of California today. The bad news, is that although during the year we will no longer see extra money every month taken out of our paychecks for the state, we won't get a little present at the end of every year. So depending how you look at it, it's a bummer and a sweet deal!
In other sad news, I started a new class last week. English. Also known as......nuts! I can't stand English. It's not fun and I'm not good at it. Yeah, yeah save all the funny jokes. I'm aware that you could find tons of typos and mistakes, I know, I could really use this class. Yet I don't really want to do it. Then again, only three and a half weeks and it's over and on to Geography of World Commerce.

OK, well the Spurs are about to start, so I'm gonna watch. It's not the Kings, but then again the Spurs are doing much better than my real home team.

My new and slightly improved blog

It feels like I change my template pretty often, but oh well. My last template was just so hard to work with, so I found one that was easier to play with. Hopefully over not too long of a span I will have cool pictures and other cool html and java junk. We'll see.

In other news, we finally got the garage cleaned out and swept and then put back in order. Although I could use a Zachary and maybe chuck and caleb to help me with some shelves and a workbench. I was measure tonight where to put the workbench and shelves, now it's just a matter of getting some help to build them.

I finish Human Nutrition tonight, and start College Writing tomorrow. Just because I am in the class though, does not mean I will apply what I learn to use in this blog. That's all I have to say about that.

And the last thing I will say or ask is for y'all to pray for God's leading in my career path. I'm really not sure what to do as far as getting out and finding a civilian job or staying in the military. I do know that praying though will eventually bring an answer to this crazy question. Thanks.