So I’m heading home tonight, and I’m off work for almost a week. Should be relaxing and tons of fun. I already am planning to go to The Shantee show on Sat. night, so come on out to that if you can. Other than that, I’m open to suggestions and ideas.

We decided to leave Amstel here at home. Doni and Phil are gonna watch him for us, as well as the other pets. :) This makes it a ton easier! Hopefully he doesn’t shit all over the kitchen this time though…

Now 2003 is up. Click here to see it, or don’t if you want to be surprised when I hand you a copy. :b

Well it’s time to start this crazy day. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you!!!

It’s almost time for NYC! I’m so excited for this big weekend!!!

Kim and I got a rabbit today. That digital camera I keep talking about would really come in handy right now. It is adorable. We named it Amstel, because the type of rabbit is Netherland Dwarf and Amstel comes from Holland. It just made sense. :) It is so small though, and quite fun, although Kim just said it bit her. It did poop on me earlier too, but they are supposed to be easily potty trained. I also got some new fish today, 6 bleeding heart tetras! They look really cool against my blackskirt tetras. Enough about pets though…

I’ve now worked 2 full 40+ hour weeks. I don’t think I’ll have as much to do with 3 days this week, but it will all help in the end. Now if only I had my check for those 2 weeks of work. Oh well, I’ll have to borrow for NYC…

Still no word from Optimal Solutions, but I am gonna do some work for Ed Hearn and his website. You can check out his current site here.
Feel free to pass along any ideas…

Saw Finding Nemo tonight. Good little movie and quite funny.

We found a bar that has REAL darts here. It’s called the Flea Market, and it actually has a small flea market inside of it. Pretty interesting place, but it was good to play darts!

Things are still going well, and the apartment is looking really nice. My pets are all fine, and I even picked up some guppies. Hopefully I can have some babies sometime, and if I get too many, I guess they will become turtle food. :)

I found a place to play hockey, but that won’t start until September, so I may need to find something else to do. Which reminds me, I have gone running with Kim twice now. The last time we ran 2 1/4 miles. It was too much for me.

I also have a severe ear infection, but I went to an urgent care place and it is getting better.

Well this week I’m really gonna start trying to find a job. Once I run out of things to do around here, I’ll be getting very bored…

Well this month has flown by. Basically I’ve been doing the whole school thing, not working much at all, and having fun on the weekends. I haven’t been going out during the week because my schedule is just so time consuming, unless there is a show in the area. I just saw Ordinary People’s CD release party in Columbus and it was awesome. Such a great drunk time! In addition, I’ve seen Graham Colton, Fate Hates Us, Jason Mraz, July For Kings, and maybe others all one time.

My turtles have grown. At least Liam seems to think so. It’s hard for me to tell, because I see them every day. They are so much fun though.

School is taking up too much time though. I’m on campus from 10 until 6:30 on monday and wednesday. Then 11 till 2 on tuesday and thursday with friday being 11 until 3. I do have breaks to do homework in there, but still. I definitely need to do a better job at scheduling next quarter, and I need to do it soon, since that has started already.
Scheduling for my last college quarter. That is freaky. I think I finally will have my resume all updated by the end of this week, thanks to some help from pops! In the meantime though I need to find a shit job in clifton. I just don’t want to have anything I need to commit to since who knows what next quarter will bring.

That is really all I can think of right now. Less time at work means less bored time, which leads to less updating of the journal. Sorry, but I’ll try to remember to do it more…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well, since the last time I wrote, Christmas happened. It was a great one for me. Here are some of the coolest things that I got:
A turtle tank (and now I have 2 little baby turtles as well, hopefully I can get some pics soon).
A new 80 gig hard drive
A new optical mouse
A new wallet
Clothes of course
and Best Buy gift cards

I love my little turtles, they are so much fun, and I keep learning more and more about them. One of them is a Peninsula Cooter, so I had to name that one Hudy, since Liam had an old guys ID and his name was Randal Hudy, but we called him Cooter Hudy. That was easy. The other turtle is a Red Eared Slider. I’ve tossed many names around, but wanted to go with something sort of unisex, since it is hard to tell their sex at this age. The one I’m going with as of now is Terry. If you have some ideas, let me know. Kate gets the best gift award. :)
The funny thing about all of this is I got a fish tank for Kate. We are so damn goofy…

I finally got my computer working with the new drive, it was quite the pain, but my buddy Doug helped me through it in the end. Me and my dad just couldn’t work it out talking only on the phone about it.

New years was kind of shitty. I think I had a 24 hour flu or something. I woke up on the 31st with the worse stomach ache. It went on all day, and made me pretty miserable. Funny thing is, I woke up on the 1st feeling fine for the most part. Pretty damn strange, but apparently this was happening to all of Kate’s family. That’s the last time I visit them on the holidays. :)

Well I’m at work, guess I should go do some work things. Basketball game tonight, go CATS!!!

Well I am keeping very busy so I haven’t had the time to write. School takes up most of my time, just trying to get all of my work done and my programs. The rest of my time I spend drinking with friends or just hanging out with Kate. Everything is pretty fun though.

We had to get rid of our dog, Liam didn’t want us to have it. It’s all cool now though, he is living with Fighty’s parents. He is still close enough to visit which is cool!

Of course I’ve seen some shows. Check that section of the site for info, cause I can’t remember them right now.

It’s basketball season! We have made it to the first two pre-season games and plan to hit up all the others that we possibly can. We are even talking of camping out to get tickets to the Xavier game. That would be a blast and a great thing to do before I graduate.

That’s about it for now, more to come later on…

Alright that was awful. I’m now an official slacker. I guess I have a somewhat good excuse, school has been keeping me busy. Life has been pretty good lately, even though very busy. I feel like I don’t ever have much time to be on my computer like I did before. Now, I get on to do my homework and update the site (usually in the morning now). I guess I just find this to be shocking, since I’m typically all about my computer. Well let’s see, anything big going on? Not really. I saw some kickass OAR shows at the Newport, and saw some other shows. Fate Hates Us has had some lineup changes but are still kicking ass. I can’t wait to see them again. I think my next show is Keller Williams. My rig has been treating me really well, I just dream for the day that I can afford a DAT. My (I mean Kraut’s) stupid MD likes to skip quite often.

That’s about it for music, as I said school is busy. Not too hard, although data encoding is rough. I’ve just been busy with “busy work” as I like to call it.

Oh yeah! We have a dog now! Duelie is his name and picking up chicks is his game. :) He is a spoiled dog, but is still in that crazy puppy stage. We bought him for $15 from some neighbors.

Ummm… that is about it for now. I’m gonna try and get back to my normal routine…