Free at last, free at last, Halleljiah free at last!  That's right, kids.  At 10:15am today, we put the final touches of paint on our 2 week project for Burr Oak Tool.  On the one hand, this means I have some time to myself for a while - on the other hand, it also means I'm out of work until a new gig rolls along.  We'll just sit tight and see what ( Read more... )

So then, praise heaven for weekend bliss. My weekend consisted of a lot of sleeping, television watching, horn playing, and music listening. Thankfully, I don't have a bustling social life, or I would have missed this week's episode of "The Dog Whisperer," which I assure you all, was very good. Sometimes it takes a week of early mornings, later ( Read more... )

Before I go to bed, I wanted to share a marvelous joke I heard today. Quick background: my supervisor at work is a semi-sleazy guy named Steve. Today while we were painting, the radio station was hoasting a fund-raiser for children who are victims of abuse ( Read more... )

Yes, thank God it's hump day indeed. If you would have told me 4 weeks ago that I would be looking forward to the weekend at some point, I probably would have chuckled and shrugged it off. Today, I'm in desperate need of weekend relief. Right now, I really wouldn't care if I am stuck in the house all weekend, just so long as I can relax. My ( Read more... )

Good morning, campers! It's 6:20am and I'm getting ready for day 2 on the job. Yesterday was a real treat - I moved cannons, cleared out a smashed up cinder block wall in under 20 min, power washed some walls, then soaped said walls. Today will be much less painless but definately more tedious, as I will be painting all day. By the end of the ( Read more... )

Tonight and tomorrow is going to be on what I like to call the George Bush sleep schedule. In other words, I'm heading to bed early and waking up even earlier. That's right, kids - Tom has to wake up at 6am every weekday for 2 weeks. This is going to be interesting. The earliest I have gotten up in the past year or so has been probably 7:15am, ( Read more... )

Today has been a pleasantly wonderful day.  To begin the day, I was woken up by my cell phone, vibrating to tell me I recieved a voice mail.  Turns out, my pal
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In other news, with 33% of classes reporting, my semester GPA thus far is a 3.5, largely thanks to my 3.5 in Algebra (this is, by far, the highest math grade I've ever - especially impressive considering the highest grade I ever got in high school math was a D. Highest math grade up to this point was a 2.0, from Short bus math last year).

I took my last final exam today in American Government, more or less wrapping up my Glen Oaks experience. It's odd...I never thought I would feel as bad about leaving a community college as I kind of did today. No tears, or anything like that - just kind of a feeling of leaving someplace familiar for what will probably be the last time (as a ( Read more... )

Talk about your abnormal crappy day. I hate to piss and moan about crap like this, but apart from doing some old doctor's bitch work for 15$, I just spent the past hour and a half bailing out my basement. That's right, bailing it out. Seems that the sewer has back fired or something to that effect and our house is in ground zero. Just when I ( Read more... )