I gotta admit, the day before I leave for mini-Christmas break, I'm having a hard time getting work done. Now I'm looking up tvs as I will finally upgrade from my 23" after being ridiculed at my company's holiday party. Part of my Christmas bonus will go to this as a pat on my back. I'm thinking 46" LCD ( Read more... )

I made Mindy watch Requiem for a Dream on Sunday night. She was an emotional wreck afterward. Note to self: Don't make her watch really heavy, depressing movies ever again.

As I have a brief second to myself, I will post for the first time in too long ( Read more... )

Two days until the test. I was certain I was going to pass one and fail the other until I took a practice test for the fail test and I feel a good bit better about it. Now I have to reassess the other test ( Read more... )

Five days until the PE. I'm freaking out about one of the subjects. The surveying instruction booklet is awful and totally not a reference. It has a ton of practice problems and that's what I'm trying to study exclusively. We'll see how I do. I also had my first anxiety dream in ages: I found out that not only was I not signed up for the two tests ( Read more... )

Got my car broken into again. First time in over two years. I thought my neighborhood was fairly safe as I don't see broken glass hardly ever. The jackass got away with the following ( Read more... )

2 1/2 weeks until the PE 2: The Revenge. I've been doing my weekly Costco study sessions as well as exploring the peninsula public libraries after work. I've been cutting back on revelry and Mindy as well. This shit is major important, son. Luckily work is lightening up and I feel better than I did on Monday.

Superquick update:
Saw Arcade Fire on saturday night. Was awesome. Supposedly the sunday night show was better. Mindy had a blast.

I had my last weekend of saturday and sunday classes. I still have 10-12 hour work days. Ugh!

My cousin Johnny passed away a year ago yesterday. I called my aunt and uncle. I let them lead the conversation, so it wasn't too down. They spoke of a cardinal that has been flying into the house since February. They think it is him in some way or another. It's interesting. I told them some poorly worded things about how I think about him every ( Read more... )

It turns out it wasn't salmonella and probably was a 7-day stomach flu. I lost four or five pounds but have started eating real food and not bread and rice. Yes ( Read more... )