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This past Friday I started feeling sick. I have this horrible cough and my sinuses are all jacked up, and then this morning my voice sounds like a bullfrog. I know. It's weird. Every time I try to talk you start feeling like you're in the swamp. Anyway. To go along with this lingering cold, if that's what you want to call it, I told some of the guys from lifegroup that I'd meet them at Jim's aka an even cheaper form of Denny's. I get up early, get ready and head out. My voice was horrible this morning, but I figured like yesterday, the frog thing would eventually go away. Well not so much. I get done with the guys and go back home to get ready for work, just hoping I'll feel better. Blah, blah, blah more rambling, drive to work, clock in an hour passes, now we are caught up. I just keep coughing all over the place, my voice is jacked up, so I go and talk to the supervisor and let her know that I'm sick. I explained that I knew it was my first week on the floor and that I was horrendously sorry for having to go home sick, but you know, for the good of everyone else I should not stick around and spread my germs. With the look I got and the snide remark from her, I should have stuck around and coughed all day in her direction. Eventually I spoke to the head manager and she let me go. She even switched around me schedule so I can make up my hours on my scheduled day off(Thursday). Long story, not so short, I really hope I am better by tomorrow so I don't get fired from this sweet temp job. I mean really.
OK, so in other news, did y'all catch the Academy Awards last night? You didn't? Nah, me either. But you'd think they were a big deal, considering even the talk news guys were going off about it. I mean really?

I Passed!

It's been a long hard road. Stress, fatigue and worry have racked my mind for a grueling week. I have endured listening to more unprofessional conversations and sad ghetto stories to last at least 1 lifetime, and maybe an eternity. Yet through it all I buckled down and passed the excruciatingly difficult test to become a brand new temporary ILD customer service representative. I have never in my life felt more successful or challenged. What a happy day!
On a side note I'm thinking to myself, How long can I keep up this sarcastic tone?
Well it's over. Now I will just say that I have one full week of work and then we get to come/go see Z&B&E! I haven't been this stoked since.......well....... I don't know. Maybe since moving back to the motherland. Anyway, I'm stoked and that about it.






This is lamp. I love lamp.

To be a working bum

I went to work. It was not fun. It was work. What did I expect? Hilarity, excitement, a good time had by all? Crazy!

So what else do you want to know? The West won the NBA All Star game. Charles Barkley beat the old referee. I still can't stand Dwayne Wade or LeBron James. I wish I actually still golfed. The Dallas Mavericks are still the best team in recent history. I live in Texas. So does the maker of the best roast in all time history. I really love my family. It's not cold outside. Although I wish I was cold, but night skiing at Shasta. My niece is due in mere days, hopefully. Being late though in this case would be okay with me, probably not so much for her mom. I love you anyway Marla. Bean my wife, is still the coolest person I know. And the most studly.

Not sure what other random thoughts may come out of my brain, but maybe I'll make that my new theme of my blog. Oh the randomness that would ensue.

Stinkin Titles

Really. I mean, who really needs a title. At some point I am going to run out of titles to begin my blog. And today is the day.
So I got another temp job. I'm very very excited about this one. It should actually be the best job in the history of the "American Dream". There should be an advertisement for immigrants. Hey you, no the other guy, Hey, Come to America and you can have this sweet job. No more back breaking work. No more callouses, no more early mornings. Yeah, come answer the telephone and we will pay you money. Sound to good to be true? It isn't, yes folks this is the American Dream.

Okay, okay, I'm being just a bit sarcastic, but what can you do. I have to leave soon, so maybe I'll post some more about my day after I have my day.

Oh yeah, we're back from Dallas. It was fun. I ate tons of roast. Nanny is the bombdiggity. Yup you heard it here first. BOMBDIGGITY.

Kayla and her dang sandwiches

Or should I just say, I'm hungry. This past Sunday we went to Firehouse Subs with some homies from church. I had this corned beef and pastrami sandwich, something to do with New York. I can't remember exactly the name but New York and (insert Homer Simpson hmmm gooooood line here). Anyway, instead of enjoying a tasty sandwich, I shall cook up one of creations finest pizzas. Delivery you ask? Nope, and it's not Digiorno either. Freschetta, Red Baron, Tombstone? Nope, none of the above. Oh Totinos you ask? Nope. Have you got it now? Yes, I have stepped down the ladder to everyone's favorite, Jeno's. Oh man, my stomach is turning..... uh growling for the scrumpiousness of the best 79 cent pizza on the planet. Only five minutes until it's ready.

Oh and could you tell, I'm bored and jobless again. I just realized that my posts are most insightful and wise when I'm unemployed. Ok that joke would only be funny if my blog actually was insightful and wise at other times. Riiigghhtt. So anyway, I'm going to go eat my pizza, hopefully talk to some folks about getting a job and then probably do absolutely nothing.

You talkin' to me?

Anybody watch the Pro Bowl? Yeah, me either. It seems that back in the day All Star games were cool, and now, not so much. For me, it used to be that all us friends from the neighborhood would throw and Super Bowl party with tons of bulk candy from Giant and then a Pro Bowl party the next weekend. And I'd always root for the NFC because that's who the 49ers belong to. And now, my niners stink so there's no shot at the Super Bowl and seeing as I'm only a fair weather fan, I haven't followed the niners since Steve Young retired, there's no point in watching the Pro Bowl. Man that was a ridiculously long sentence.
Anyway. Am I the only one that thinks the Pro Bowl is useless? Ok, now tell me who watches the NBA All Star game? Seeing how I find that the NBA has gone down hill ever since Larry Bird and Jordan retired I don't really care about watching the All Star game. That and all the new players seems to have egos entirely too large for how good they are, or not good. I mean, they are obviously talented as they are in the NBA, but until they play for ten or more seasons with good averages consistently, they need to settle down. LeBron, Carmello, Dwayne "Flash" Wade, ring any bells. That's enough ranting for now, considering the majority of folks that read this blog don't watch sports.... You can just tell me how incredibly studly I am and how you wish you could grow a sweet mullet like me, what!?

I'm out of work... again

So today, my boss Ande told us the great news that Aetna would be cancelling the rest of our contract, so we would be let go today instead of Friday. WHOOPEE..... or not so much. I called the temp agency yesterday to start hooking me up, but they said they don't have anything presently. What a surprise. Luis, one of the guys I worked with at Aetna, said his agency has some openings with AT&T, so I'm gonna try to hook that up tomorrow.
In other news if you didn't see American Idol tonight you missed the most hilarious moment all season. If I can find a clip I'll have to post it on here.
And for the record I would like to say that the Dallas Mavericks are the best team in the NBA still and the Phoenix Suns are slipping. And to think Josh Howard didn't make it to the All-Star game. Appalling.

What's it been, two, three days?

Although I have not posted in some time, it seems I have no real excuse as to why. Then again, eh, what can you do? So life has been living, and time keeps on ticking, so basically all must be well. I really don't know why I'm posting as I have nothing to say, but since I tend to ramble anyway, I guess I'll continue. My job ends Friday the 9th, if the rumors are true. One of those he told her and she told me, but he told her not to tell but I'm opening my big mouth anyway because I like to feel like I'm back in high school, rumors. Anyway, I guess I'll ask the boss, then again he's the one that supposedly started the whole rumor, so maybe he'll whisper to me the answer and I can included in the whole cloak and dagger ordeal.
As you can see I'm about tired of this job. It's been fun and I've learned a lot, but when you look at it, I'm ready to move and I wish we could just go. Seriously why is God always making us wait on Him? But seriously, I'm ready to move.

Alright, okay, so I am trying to wait on God and stay faithful to the praying for His will, but it's hard and I'm weak, but He makes me strong, so in the long run I'll be better off no matter how long selling this house takes if I've got the right attitude.

On a totally or mostly separate note, I was thinking at work today, yeah yeah, about holding my new niece and how awesome it's going to be to see her. I'm so stoked!

Guns, hunting and guitars

So this past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Scott's dad's ranch. As you read in Bean's blog, Scott is our lifegroup leader. Anyway.......
We headed to the ranch friday night which is about thirty miles south and east of San Antonio. It was very exciting as I haven't shot a gun except for an M16 in the past six years. And I only shot the M16 once for qualifying, so it's not like I got to go out and mess around with it. So Carl brought his 12 gauge and two handguns, one baby desert eagle .45 and a stubby glock .40. Scott had his hand guns down there as well. He had a Colt .45 1911, and a Taurus .40 and tons of rifles and shotguns. With all the fire power how could it not be fun. Long story short the shooting was great. Oh, and to go along with the shooting, the ranch is also chockablock with feeders, so the deer are plentiful and fairly large. There were also hogs, havalinas, turkey, rabbits, and many other birds and wildlife. To get to the point I shot a five pointer. He should have been a six, but somehow one of his center points were broken off. The best part of this whole deal is that there is a full time ranch hand named Tito, so after shoot the buck all we had to do is hang it up, and Tito did the gutting and whatnot.
We didn't really do much playing as Scott forgot his guitar. What a surprise. So everyone intermittently played mine, but that's about it.
Alright, so there you go. It wasn't Disneyland or anything, but I still had a good time.

An apology.

For some stinking reason a pop-up was launching after you would bring up my website. That is quite annoying. I took out the sweet picture at the bottom of the suzuki gsx-r and I took out the music from filelodge, and that seemed to have worked. Not sure what the dealyo, but now we're all good. A big apology to Zachary as he was the only big mouth to post a comment about it. I will go as far as say you will be shot my friend. Just so NSA doesn't bring me in for questioning, I will be shooting you with an airsoft gun with plasitc bb bullets. out!

I scoff, kahhhhh

I don't know what I'm scoffing about, but hey.

As you all have either talked to us or seen on Katie's blog, we are moving back to Redding. Tomorrow I have a briefing to figure out all the details about when to get packed up and some other information that wee need to know. I'm excited to get the ball rolling, but I also am not sure when to even make a pack out date as we haven't sold our house yet. We've given this whole decision and process to God, so I will trust Him to work it out.
I am also missing some work to go to the briefing, so I will have to make it up at the end of the day. I'm not very excited about that because the traffic was already bad today. I'm hoping it was just the fact that San Antonio drivers are bad at driving in the rain, but we shall see.

On another note, my fingers still hurt from where my father-in-law shot me. I've got three circle shaped wounds on my hands, a good mark on my left arm and a few other minor bb wounds. And thanks to my brother-in-law Caleb, I have to wear my headset at an awkward angle so as not to hurt my ear from where he shot me. All said and done though we had a great weekend. Hopefully we can get together in February and have another go at it.

Work and whatnot

Today was the first day of being "fully" trained. I am raising my hand for help about twenty five percent of the time still, so the whole fully trained is not really true. I really like doing customer service, so the job is pretty good. That and actually getting to stick to the rules is good. It seemed like in the Air Force as long as someone outranked you they could get you to do anything even if it broke the rules. So I am glad that a company makes rules and actually goes by them. Anyway, it's been fun, but we have only been averaging about twelve calls per person each day. Or about a call every half hour or more. It's pretty sad, but they keep telling me that I'll be wishing we only had a few calls after we are swamped in January. I somewhat doubt it, but oh well.

So, Christmas was good here. I got a new sweet coffee maker and a Mavs jersey. I got other stuff too, but what more can you ask for in life that is better than coffee and being a Mavericks fan. I don't know. We still get to have a Christmas time though with Old man Walker, aka Paj, aka D. Keith Walker and the rest of the fam, and Nanny. Don't forget Nanny. Well, ok she's part of the fam too, but you know what I mean.

Basically other than my shift getting switch from 10 am to 6:30pm to 8:30am to 5pm, life is good. How was y'alls Christmas's's's's'es'sses. For the record, I LOVE YOU BEAN.

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And Merry day before Christmas Eve!

100

So it has taken me entirely too long to reach this many posts. There have been numerous pointless boring blogs, probably like this one is going to be, and many others that were just boring or pointless, but hey.

For this monumental blog I want to share with you the greatest moments of the past two minutes.
1. I reached 100 posts on blogger. Woohoo.

Okay that is all. Like I said pointless and/or boring. What can I say, I warned you.

Pharmacy something rather...

Today I showed up to the Aetna building and took the elevator to the fifth floor, then I was locked out. We hadn't been given our employee badges yet so I stood there in the hallway looking surely like a big sack of pitifulness. Maybe that's not the right word... helpless, sad, like a reverse fishbowl. Everyone on the inside staring at the weirdly moving dude outside of the bowl. I don't know.
Work was good though. It's not as high class as bean's job, but it's a decent enough place, and it's not the military, so it's all good. My supervisor is a pretty young looking guy that has only been with the company for nine months. He's apparently one of those movers and shakers. Anyway, the job seems easy enough, once we get trained that is. And it must be easy, as they told us they were only giving us the easy calls. So it must be easy, eh? And to top it all off, my supervisor doesn't like the Spurs either, so I think I like him even more. Way too go buddy.
I also found out that it's business caj......but if you want you can pay $5 to some "fun fund" and wear jeans too. Actually the first month is free, so as far as my contract is concerned I will only need to pay $5. Since I can wear jeans, I'm rather stoked because then I can ride my motorcycle to work somedays. Good times, good times.

So it's for real

Today was a nice day, we got to finish painting our bedroom, and now I get to look forward to starting a new job. I went by on Saturday to find out where exactly it is, so I won't get lost on the big day. I found out I also have to go by the temp agency and sign some more paperwork before I start working so I'll have a little extra stuff tomorrow. It's weird that I haven't worked in two months. How crazy is that?

Anyway, life is good, as we found out today at church. A very deep sermon to say the least. Anyway, I think there's a link to our church if you want to hear the message, or maybe it will take a week or so for them to get it up onto the webpage.

Have a good week and I'll let you know how the job is tomorrow or the next day.

Last day of freedom

Today is my last day to be free from "The Man". It's quite a bummer, but then again making money is not. I need to take my car in to get the oil and some other stuff done. I figure why not, I'm not working and when else will I be able to take it in.

I stepped away, and now I don't remember what exactly I was going to say for the rest of the post, but oh well.

So y'all are having a hard time posting comments. To remedy this problem I recommend going to your templated, click inside of the html and then press command A. Then open a word document and pust Command V. Save that and then update to Beta Blogger. After you update if you lose anything go back to your word document and command A again and command V into the template. Problem solved.

Man I can be ever so helpful at times.
Later

Only four more days

It's weird, when I didn't have a job I was tired of staying home and wished I could be at work. Now that my first day is fast approaching, I am kinda of bumming that I don't just get to stay home and paint and hang out. Oh well. Life is always greener..... Or should I say, The grass is greener at American Funds. Nevermind.

So it's late and the Mavericks are straining to maintain the lead again. I don't think I can watch anymore.

Update from last post, I have ridden my bike the two past days. I'm loving it. It's great riding the motorcycle. Even if all I did was go to the store again.

I should have taken a picture, if I had a working camera, of my bike yesterday. Picture a bright yellow ratchet tie down strapped to an ice chest to the back of a bike. It was so ghetto white trash looking. But it served its purpose and I was stoked to ride instead of driving. Someday I'll show you people. Maybe I'll bust out bean's old film camera.

It's nice weather

The forecast for today is 74º. It's a little disappointing as it is winter and almost Christmas. The weather should be in the thirties or forties, but hey, what can you do. Anyway, I'm pretty stoked though because I can now ride my motorcycle to run errands today. When you weigh the two I guess it's ok that the weather is going to be in the seventies.

On a more serious note, the grass is brown. Or should I say -er. Browner. Sad news I tell ya.

Well it was a sad, as in boring update, but that's all I've got for you.

The Lord giveth....

....temporarily at least. I just got a call this morning from the temp agency I have been working with. They had sent me an email about a call center job, and after some debate, I told them I would like to be put in for it. Well, I guess they saw my resume and decided to accept me for one of the positions out of a possible twenty they had open. So what I'm saying is I am one out of twenty selectees out of a possible 1.6 million people that live in or around San Antonio. I'm the man, you can say it.

All kidding aside, I am very very thankful for this position. I like to work and feel productive, and this is a blessing. Hopefully after two months, that's how long this position is supposed to last, I will be able to find a better position or at least get offered a permanant position with them. I guess we will see what God has in mind for me/us.