Friday....YAY!!!

So it's Friday. Life is going pretty good, for the most part. I made it through a pretty busy week, alive and still feeling in one piece. I don't have anything special or exciting to write about now. Today is the last day of March and the first quarter has gone pretty fast. Hopefully, the rest of the year will slow down a little. I can't believe that in a little over 2 months, the baby will be here. I'm thinking sometime end of May more than the first of June. But that's just me, I'm sure Chels wouldn't complain. On to the Song of the Day. I've been listening all day and haven't heard anything that has hit me as a good song for the day, let's try the old hit next five times and find it. Just for kicks, the song I'm listening to is going to be it. The song is Basketball Jones, from the Space Jam soundtrack. This song is Chris Rock and Barry White. It's really dumb, but I'm laughing.

There is no winning in life, is there....

When I blog I try not to get to political or religious. I have a belief and you do too, and we all have the right to believe how, who, and what we want too. I believe that's what the founding fathers fought for. But I wanted to share something that has been kind of on my mind for a couple months. I guess I've already kind of said it. Let me believe what I want to believe and I'll let you believe what you want to believe. We all have the choice to do that. If you don't like something on TV, turn it off, don't cause a stir, it's free publicity. If you don't like the thought of a cross on the side of the road for a fallen officer, and claim it's mixing church and state, that's your belief. It's what's been done for years, just chill out. Anyway, if you want to start a bunch of comments blasting me for this, go for it, I really don't care. I can moderate them anyway, haha. Now that's off my chest, have a good day.

This arguement is based on two things that have been in the news as of late, the HBO show Big Love, it's all over KSL.com. The other one should be obvious from the rest of the blog.

Eatin' and Jammin'

Food is good, music is good, and if it's not I can change it. I do have that power. Anyways, not much going on today, just working on my project and trying to pass the time. It is noon'ish finally and I'm eating. Time has gone a little slower than I like today, but we'll see how it goes. I'm going to spend some time with my kids tonight, it has been a crazy week and I haven't spent much time with them. So it will be fun.

So I picked today's Song of the Day yesterday, but knew it would be today's Song of the Day when it played again today. Sometimes the iTunes random stinks and you hear some songs multiple times over different days. Anyway, on to the Song of the Day. It comes from one of my kids favorites. It is done by the Veggie Tales people, which include Pa Grape, Mr. Lunt, and Larry the Cucumber. Veggie Tales is great. The song is The Pirates That Don't Do Anything.

That song is funny, Larry is so funny, and there is a comment about Cap'n Crunch. It's pretty funny. And I just used funny 3 times in a very short paragraph. Haha! (I guess techincally 4, but who's counting.)

First Lost Tooth!

I have decided to post something. Amazing huh! Since everyone who reads this blog knows that Tiaree lost her first tooth, I thought I'd share how it happened. It's actually pretty funny. This all happened on Tuesday. Tuesday was a bad day for Tiaree, she had had the flu all day and had thrown up two or three times. Well about 7:00 she came, I'd say running, but it was more of a stumble, up to me and she had her tooth in her hand. She said it just came out when she was wiggling it. I had an idea that it might happen like that because the tooth was barely hanging in there but she wouldn't let me get close enough to pull it, or even look at it. So I take the tooth from her and she is kind of nervously giggling. I put it in a ziplock and then get her a tissue for the little bit of blood that was coming from where the tooth used to be. Now if any of you know my daughter, you'll know that she is the biggest gagger in the world. You can say gag and she'll gag. Well when she realized that she had blood in her mouth, that didn't sit very well. With her abnormally high gag-reflex and the flu she'd been suffering from all day, it was a very good thing we were standing right by the kitchen garbage!! The poor little thing procedded to empty her stomach for the 4th time that day. I felt so bad for her. But, when she was done, her mouth had stopped bleeding, she had her tooth for the tooth fairy and she was feeling a little better.

So that is the story of Tiaree's first lost tooth! It was pretty funny, and a little bit sad since she didn't feel well. I hope I don't have to look forward to throw up in the kitchen garbage for all the rest of her teeth! That would not be fun!

Here's the picture

Life never slows....

I got up this morning, against my better judgement, and got showered and ready for work. After the last weekend, all I want to do is sleep in and take a day off to just veg out and do absolutely nothing. So I started to think about when my next possible day off would be. Here is the schedule I came up with:

I work today at Delco and tonight at Albertsons. No time off there.
3/31 - Work at Delco and have a double date with some friends that night. Not really a veg night.

Sat 4/1- Take Niki D. to the zoo for her b-day. Aly has training at the zoo for that time. I also need to take Niki D. to get he a b-day present (actually a couple. Her grandma sent her a gift card that she needs to use also.)

Sun 4/2 - BBQ with family (my side) and then cake/ice cream with other family (wife's side.)

Mon-Fri - Work Delco and a couple of those days I have to work Albertson's also.

Sat 4/8 - Lagoon Opening Day - Aly has training so I will probably take the kids and go with some friends (maybe, depends on what they are doing.)

Sun 4/9 - Since Aly is missing Lagoon Opening Day because of her zoo training, she is going to want to go on Sunday.

Mon-Fri - Work Delco again and then a couple of days at Albertson's.

4/15-16 - Not sure what's going on here, but this looks like a possibility. Aly will have zoo training on Saturday so it could be a zoo day or Lagoon day. Depends on how well 4/8 went without Aly.

Anyway, not sure if I'm happy about having lots of things to do or whether having a day off is more important. I'm excited to be able to do things with the family. The other concern is tasks around the house plus gym time during the week. Hopefully we can accomplish a lot over the next couple of weeks. As I start to think about the day off thing and all the other stuff I could be doing, maybe if there is a crappy weather weekend, I can decide that I can take a day and veg out in front of the tv but as long as its nice and I have stuff to do, might as well keep doin' it.

Braindead

So yesterday I was a little braindead. Don't know why, but I missed the song of the day. So today, I'm more awake and will remember to do one. As a matter of fact, I'm listening to it right now and those of you with kids can realate to this song. If you don't have it let me know, I'll let you hear it. Anyway today's song of the day is by another local band, that is starting to make it big, they have two videos that have played on CMT. The group is Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand and the song is Serious 2 Year Old Attitude.

So that's the song for the day. If you have kids, even nieces or nephews, that are that age, you may know that the 2 year old attitude isn't the funnest one in the world. Here's a quick picture of my 2 year old and her attitude.



That is a serious 2 year old attitude.

I Think I'm Alone Now...

So with the current creation of Thoughs From the Clan, I think that I'm going to be the only one posting to Whadda Blog. It's good to see that people have just fallen off or spread their wings and flew the coup. Sounds like Whadda Blog is becoming one man's thoughts and other inspirations. So readers, please add a bookmark to Thoughs From the Clan and keep updated on what B and fam are doing. As for the other "contributors" on Whadda Blog, contributions are always welcome. B, you are also always welcome to contribute here as long as you'd like.

Night O'Fun

So last night we went and celebrated Jarik's b-day. No picts, someone forgot the camera, sorry. (Yeah, I'm to blame for that too.) So we were going to go somewhere that they would come sing happy birthday to Jarik and make a semi-big deal of it. So the first choice was IHOP. We changed our minds, after having breakfast there on Friday, we thought it would be nice to go somewhere else. Jarik mentioned McDonald's, so he could play on the toys, and Sizzler, he likes the pizza at the salad bar. So being the wise parents, we asked him if he'd like to go to Chuck E. Cheese. He wanted to so we headed down to the nearest Chuck E. Cheese and had some fun. After eating pizza and using up most of the tokens we figured it was time to leave and head to Wal-Mart. We needed some Ice Cream and a few more gifts for Jarik. He got an outfit, which I think is really cool, it's a Superman shirt and some gray and black camo shorts. They are pretty cool. While we were at Wal-Mart Jarik decided that he needed to try and hang from the Harry Potter DVD display, which I'll warn you now, isn't latched down. As it came crashing down on top of him, I had a few emotions run through my body. I looked over right as it started to fall and noticed that Tiaree's arm looked as though it was giving it a little help down. After getting after her for touching stuff, I was told that Jarik did it. After finding out he was ok, and watching the Wal-Mart employees scramble around to get it cleaned up and make sure Jarik was ok, Chels and I proceeded to laugh about the situation. That was our "Night O'Fun".

Adventures In Hiking

I have several different blogs and have written all about of adventure at Thoughts from the Clan. Please read and enjoy the pics that I have placed there. I will place our entire collection of pictures from this trip in an online photo album once they have been labeled and cut down.

BTW, as far as the bet goes, Aurora did complain a few times but given our adventure she did REALLY well. I'm not going to claim that she lost because by the time we got done with our adventure, she had earned the right to complain.

Monday, again...

Well today is Monday. I usually like Monday but for some reason today, I'm having a hard time getting into it. It might be that my little vacation wasn't as fun as it could have been. I did spend a lot of time with the family, which was the #1 plan. Hang with the kids and wife. But with the funeral and what not, I don't feel we had that much fun during the weekend. Chels' grandad's funeral was very nice. Her mom sang really well and her uncle played this cool song he wrote on the tenor sax. It was pretty cool. It was a nice day on Saturday for the funeral. Anyway, things should get back to normal now. The family is all getting over the virus that was going around, Jarik was the last to really have it. Chels' turned into a ear infection, which she got some drugs to help. Overall the weekend, even with the two extra days is graded a C, maybe a C+. Enough of my rambling, now I'm ready for...The Song of the Day. Today's song is from a Utah local group called Voice Male. If you like acapella you'll like them. The song is I'm in a Hurry and Don't Know Why

That is all for now, have a great day!!

Chronicles of Narnia ***UPDATE***

Got a wild hair today and decided to start looking up the actors/actresses from the Chronicles of Narnia. I enjoy seeing which movies they have been in before to see if I have seen them in other movies.

Well, I have discovered the next in the Chronicles to be created. The next one is to be released in 2007 and will be the book Prince Caspian.

Now that I think about it, that is usually the next one in the series. I don't think I've seen The Horse and His Boy. Its possible that it has been done, but not that I have seen. The BBC combined Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for their series.

Anyway, excited to see the next one. I should probably go back and read the books. Unfortunately, my books are in the original order with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe first instead of The Magician's Nephew.

Movie Review - Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was written by C.S. Lewis and is the first written of a 7 book series. Originally the first book, it has been superseded by The Magician's Nephew as The Magician's Nephew is a pre-quel to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

This movie was released in 2005 by Disney so knowing that, you know that they had a decent budget for special effects, music, etc. This movie runs 140 minutes and is well worth sitting through. For those of you that don't know the story, here's a brief synopsis.

Four British children are moved from war-torn London during WWII. They are sent to live with the Professor who has graciously opened his home to these children to keep them away from the war. In this house is a room with a wardrobe closet that magically transports these four children to the land of Narnia, a magical place dominated by a witch who makes it always winter and never Christmas. This magical place has fawns, minotaurs, cyclops, giants, talking animals, and every magical creature you can think of. (My favorite was the griffins mostly because the wolves were portrayed as evil creatures but we won't go there.)

This movie was was well produced and the music and visual effects were very wonderful. Comparing this to other movies of the same title, this one is more "adult" than the others but the kids will like it. I would give this 4 stars as well as a rating of "must own on DVD."

No rumors yet of other books being turned into movies. This could go one of two ways if they do. (1) The Horse and His Boy which is next in the series; or (2)The Magician's Nephew where they go back, do the pre-quel and then move forward. It is my hopes that they go in order of the original series of books meaning that The Horse and His Boy would be next on the list.

We will wait and see what happens.

A Weekend Off

I am taking the next two days off of work. Tonight we are headed up to Logan to spend the night up there. In my eyes we are going up to Logan for 2 reasons, 1. Angie's has this Chicken Cordon Blue soup. It's yummy. 2. We want to go swimming and have a good time playing in a pool and hot tub. I'm excited to go. Chels has an appt today and then she is picking me up and we are out the door. I think the kids are excited to go and have some fun too.

This is the 300th entry in Whadda Blog so to celebrate, I'm going to do a little dance, and have a Chocolate Caramel candy bar and probably a Dr. Pepper. So take time to celebrate in your own way.

It's now time for The Song of the Day...iTunes is once again on random, the next song is going to be the song of the day. And while I listen to the rest of the song that is playing, I want to warn you, I have a very wide variety of music. I'm in the debate mode that I get to have a skip or two to get a really good song for the day. My other idea was that the song of the day would be the first song that played when I got to work. I'll decide and let you know. Now time for the song...Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) by the Backstreet Boys.

So I'm going to open it up to the general population as to what the rule for the song of the day should be. First song listened to for the day or allow 1, 2, or 3 choices.

A Couple Things...

First off, a movie review followed-up by a new feature, The Song of the Day.

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story; starring Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, and Kris Kristofferson
So I'm not a big fan of the underdog that wins it all, but this movie was good. It was inspired by a true story, not a remake of the story that once happened. So Kurt Russell plays a horse trainer that owns a horse farm with no horses on it. He works for the classic big money boss that thinks the world revolves around him and that his money can talk, in other words, he's a jerk. Anyway the story is about a horse whose name is Sonador, which is spanish for dreamer, or dreamy, something like that. Anyway, Kurt Russell's character tells the jerk boss that Sonya, Sonador for short, isn't ready to run in a race. The jerk boss thinks he knows it all, tell him to race the horse. She's in the lead when she breaks her cannonbone, or something like that. Kurt Russell doesn't let them put her down, fixes her up and then races her. Sonya gets bought and the family is ticked, espically Dakota Fanning's character. They get Sonya back and the owner of the horse is Dakota, she gets to decide to do with the horse. Dakota fanning has some great lines in this movie. Anyway, it ends good, and me and the whole family were cheering her on. If you haven't seen it, go get it, it's out today...

Now for the Song of the Day: Basically this is going to be a song that I hear when I start the song of the day. Now that it's after 2 the day is almost over. So, iTunes on random, next song is the song of the day...drumroll please. The song of the day is Song For Dad by Keith Urban. If you haven't heard this song, it's pretty cool. It really makes me think of my dad and how much I think I'm like him. At least the good qualities he had.

That's it...have a good rest of the day!

Hiking Preparations

This weekend is our first official hiking trip. Aly, Aurora, Mason, Harold, Vicki and I are going to the Escalante area for the weekend and plan to hike about 11 miles. It is exciting to plan and prepare. We are taking extra precaution planning this trip because we have not done a trip like this before and we are hoping to learn from this for future adventures.

I know that the kids are excited about this trip. They aren't as much into helping prepare but hopefully they will help a little more this week to make sure that everything is taken care of and packed. I hope that this weekend goes well and that we are able to have a good time. We will hopefully take notes on what worked and what didn't and plan better for next trip. As we get a few hiking trips under our belts, we could hopefully get more proficient and have a better idea of what is really needed.

I'll keep you posted on the planning and then next week I will post on the results of our little adventure.

BTW, Aurora and I have a bet that she will not complain the whole trip. I informed her that our bet includes food as we are eating MRE's for the entire hiking portion of our trip. The bet is $5 and honestly, if it keeps her from complaining the whole trip, it'll be worth the $5. Somehow, I think I'll be the one that is $5 richer.

Living a Dream

I have this friend that I work with, well not currently, who is living his dream to ride his bike through the 48 contiguous states. His dream is coming true because of the Ascensia Dream Fund, a dream fund for people with diabetes. Peter, the rider, is a friend that I work with and wanted to spread the word through my blog that he is fulfilling his dream with the help of Bayer HealthCare. If you are interested, you can keep tabs on Peter and his trip by reading his blog The Dream Tour!

Zoo Update

Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Aurora and I were not accepted to help volunteer at the zoo (Alythea's status is still unknown at the moment), but the good news is that we are now free the Saturday of opening day at Lagoon. This works out better since the other 2 girls would need babysitters during those Saturdays for training and then when we are doing our volunteer work.

This way, we can do things together as a family like opening day and while we won't be "volunteering" at the zoo, we would certainly be able to go and visit.

Anyway, will post more later.

One Crappy Weekend

I've had bad weekends, but this one seems to top them all. So Chels and I have had these nasty sore throats for a while and the weekend seemed to take it's toll on us. Chels was getting a lot of pressure in her sinuses and yesterday she couldn't get her ears to pop so she could hear outside of the box. Bree wasn't feeling well either, and she is very clingy when she doesn't feel well. Clingy and whiny. Besides being sick, there was the weather. Stupid snow and rain and cold. Today is the first day of spring so hopefully, things will get better. Not holding my breath too much on that. And to top the weekend off as the worst weekend, Chels' grandad passed away. It was an expected thing, and it's good that he's gone, but it is still hard. He went peacefully at home surrounded by his loved ones so that is good. So there for the weekend was a total piece, and hopefully they will start looking up from here on out.

See's Chocolate Suckers

So there is candy in this world, then there is awesome candy. Last Saturday after the St. Patrick's day, we were downtown so I stopped into See's Candies and bought some chocolate suckers. Talk about great. I don't know what it is about them, but they are just dang good. I am just finishing one as we speak, and wanted to share my feelings with the world, or my 3 or 4 readers.

Movie Review - Chicken Little

Last night we watched Chicken Little, coming to DVD on Tuesday. I was plesantly suprised at this movie. It had a lot of humorous parts and the premise of the story was followed very well. Chicken Little feels the sky is falling and warns the city, which causes mass hysteria. His father blames it on an acorn hitting Chicken Little on the head. Chicken Little then becomes the laughing stock of the town. Even his own father thinks he's a little crazy. He becomes the hero in the movie and it shows the relationship between him and his father getting better. Then the sky falls again and he shows his friends and they know that he's not crazy. He tries to warn the town again, once again causing mass hysteria and nobody believes him. Not wanting to give to much away from the movie, it turns out that the truth is finally figured out and Chicken Little gets to be a normal kid again. I would give it a thumbs up, 4 out of five stars.

My next review of The Thing About My Folks with Paul Reiser, Peter Falk, and Olympia Dukakis is coming soon.

Zoo Volunteer Update

Those of you that have read my previous posts know that we (Aly, Aurora and I) were planning to volunteer at the zoo this year. Last Saturday was the interview day where you are asked a bunch of questions to see if you meet the criteria established to work at the zoo.

As posted previously, the original positions that we were going for were Jr. Zookeeper for Aurora, Zoo Aide for Alythea, and Docent Council for me. (See Hogle Zoo's website for definitions and job duties.) One of the reasons Aly didn't want to be on Docent Council before was because there was teaching involved. She would have to make presentations, teach and other stuff similar. Since she doesn't feel academically inclined, and she didn't like teaching, she didn't want to sign up for that.

As she was interviewing for Zoo Aide, the interviewer talked her into signing up for Docent Council. She reluctantly agreed and changed her position accordingly.

So, my interview and Aly's interview went pretty well. Aurora's interview didn't go so well. Her attitude was really poor. She said she wanted to volunteer at the zoo but she was tired and didn't act like she wanted to be there. So, we will see what happens.

I hope we get accepted. Our first year, we get trained on animal handling and if we have been on Council for a year, we can take the training and get our falconry license which is something that I've wanted to do for years.

So, it'll be interesting to see what happens.

I'm Hooked...

So recently I found this cool game online and I'm starting to get the hang of it. It is pretty fun and very addictive. If you've played it, you'll know how fun it can be, but if you haven't try it out. The game is called Sudoku. I have a RSS feed for a daily Sudoku from Brain Bashers. It also has some pretty cool stuff on it like puzzles, games, and some cool illusions. Anyway, check it out. It's cool to start learning you can turn on all the cheats and work on it that way. I did today's medium puzzle in like 15 minutes. Sometimes it's easy other times it takes a little bit more time. Ok, that's all, go about your normal business.

It's Tuesday

I guess the title says it all, it's Tuesday. Not much about a Tuesday that is really likeable. Its not hated like Monday, isn't exciting like Friday. It doesn't have anything distinguishing like Wednesday being hump day or Saturday being a day off and Sunday being a rest day. Thursdays are kind of the same except that is the day to prepare for Friday.

I know Dominos tried to do something a couple years ago to get people excited about Tuesdays like some kind of special deal only on Tuesdays but it just didn't catch on because Tuesdays just can't really be all that exciting.

Anyway, that's my thoughts on Tuesday. Since its not an exciting day, no exciting blog (not that they ever are anyway.)

A Busy Weekend...

This weekend was a lot of fun. Went home on Friday and went out to dinner with Chels' Grandma for her 80th birthday. We went to Marie Callender's, and I remembered how much I dislike that place. When you are in a big party, It is sad how long you sit there. We got there at 7 and finally left around or a little after 9. It was nice to visit, but I am very impatient when we are at restaurants because I like to eat, and leave. Well the kids were being good, and as I said we were visiting with everyone that was there, it did just take a while.

Saturday, got up early and went and played in the St. Patrick's day parade. It was cold, but it was a lot of fun. My family was there to see me. We had lunch at the mall afterwards and then headed towards home. We then went over to Nic's house for a welcome home party of sorts, we had pizza and played Burn Out 3 and Tiger Wood's Golf on the XBox. It was pretty fun.

Sunday was church, and then we went to Chels' parents for Jared's b-day dinner. Roast, mashed taters, carrots, peas, and rolls. It was some good stuff. We got home shortly there after watched Crossing Jordan, which was a good one, and went to bed.

That was the weekend. I'm a little tired today, but not too bad. Well time to get back to work...

A Song for the Occassion

So I have had the ability for a long time to tie a song that I know to good and bad experiences that have happened throughout my life. Usually I will want to listen to a song based on what is going on and it will usually pep me up quite a bit. I think that music is one of the best things for the mental and physical attitude that is out there today. Now don't get me wrong, when the wife or kids is around a hug and a kiss is the bestest therapy I can think of, but to get my mind to move away from a "stressful" or otherwise situation, it helps to have your music. I think it comes down to the days of hacky sack in the band room in high school. You'd usually do pretty good if you had your music. Anyway, for a situation that I'm in right now I'm thinking the perfect song would be by the Beastie Boys, Fight for Your Right. Anyway, keep the music blastin' and don't let life get you down.

Lucky

We have had our van for several years and have not been the best about taking care of it. A couple of weeks ago, I had new plugs, wires, fuel filter and air filter placed in the van and they checked the belts and hoses which they said were in really good shape.

After that, we had a safety and emmissions inspection and the van failed miserably. Mostly because the computer was having problems understanding information. The causes were either a faulty sensor or bad computer connection. We were afraid it was going to cost us a LOT of money.

Come to find out, the oxygen sensor went bad costing us only about $140. We feel very lucky that it didn't cost more. Anyway, some good news.

I'm Tired of It...Aren't You

So once again the Salt Lake Valley has woken up to snow on the ground. I guess it's warranted since it still is winter and all that stuff, but come on. Now I know I can't control the weather, but I do want to say that I'm ready for a change. Not only am I ready, I'm hoping it happens soon. I'm not the biggest fan of snow. I've lived in Utah almost my whole life and I don't like snow. I don't ski or snowboard. I do like to go sledding once in a while, but for the most part that isn't any fun because you have to carry things up the hill to have your 5 seconds of fun. I know I'm complaining a little here but it needs to be said and this blog is where I can say it.

As for anything else going on in my life...I'm back at work today after being sick for a couple days. Being sick isn't fun, but getting better is. Nic and Rick get back today after their 6 week trip to Missouri. They've had a fun trip home I'm sure and my kids are way stoked to see them. Well I'm going to get some work done. Have a good day.

Apocolyptic Movies

One of the things I enjoy watching is movies that show natural or man-made apocolyptic events. Some of them help to answer the question "What if...." Not that they are entirely accurate or realistic, but it does give an author's rendition of what they think may happen. Some are backed by scientific data that "could" happen.

Anyway, one movie that I watched recently is Supernova. This one talked of a possibility that the sun being older than we thought and a very large meteor fragment setting off the events that would lead to the sun going supernova. There is nothing that could be done, nowhere to hide if this type of event happens.

Of course there is always the reporter that is going to break the story and get to the "truth" of what is happening so they can tell the world. Once it is theorized that the sun is to explode, the question then becomes, do you tell the world?

Here is the question I have. If the world is about to be destroyed and there is absolutely nothing that you can do, would you want to know? What would you do?

Now, add the fact that everyone else knows and everyone panics, riots, and general chaos ensues. Would that affect what you would do and where you would go?

What a Day...

I am starting to feel like crap right now. My head hurts my body is starting to ache and I'm really tired. I'm hoping for a good night sleep tonight to cure all my woes.

Today the power went off at work for a couple of hours. As fun as a power outage can be, like playing hangman on a whiteboard, not a whole heck of a lot gets accomplished. You can probably imagine. My cube became the place to gather when it came down to it. It's cool, it makes me feel special, or used anyway for the treats that I have. Anyway, I'm now waiting for my ride to come get me and then we are headed to band for the last practice before my first appearence before a live audience, minus my family, in many years. Wish me luck...

Friday, Friday, Friday...

It's here. The weekend. I'm leaving work in about an hour, and it's not going to come fast enough. This weekend, I have a pretty hefty list of things I want to get done, like the garage, the basement (moving stuff up), working some in the yard. That type of stuff. Will I get any of it done, maybe. Depends on how I feel when I wake up. It depends on the level of enthusiasim that the rest of the people in the house have. It depends on what's on TV. I'm going to get started on some stuff this afternoon when I go home, hopefully if this storm that supposed to be blowing in doesn't blow in in the next few hours. Anyway, life is good on this Friday and we are moving forward.

Headaches Suck!!

I woke up this morning, after what I thought was a good night sleep, with this major headache. I also had a stomachache, but that has since gone away. My headache is such that I'm having a hard time focusing on things that I'm working on. It's like the thoughts in my head are more out of whack than normal. So hopefully the Advil I just took will kick in soon, I have a Dew that should help as well. Caffiene is always nice for this sort of thing. Anyway, just wanted to complain a little about the headache. Now I'm going to try and focus a little and get some stuff done.

Music and Work

As some of you know, I'm a programmer, well my official title is Web Software Engineer, which means I engineer software for the web. Hahaha, incase you didn't realize that. So one of the coolest things about being a web software engineer, still just a fancy name for a programmer, is that I sit at a desk and listen to music on headphones and work my fingers to the bone. We are just getting ready to roll-out an application that will help track problem requests. Basically when the someone calls into our help desk, they will enter a problem request and that is how that problem will be tracked. It is pretty cool. Well I just wanted to share how cool I think it is to work somewhere you can listen to music and work all day.