I know, I know. I need a new poll. Too bad.
I rode my bike today. 24.26 miles. From Jenn’s, home, to see my dad, to Staples, then Jenn’s, then home. Fun, fun.
I have a job interview Tuesday, wish me luck, please.
I very hot and tired, just got home maybe an hour ago.
More on the Job Monday.
nick
Watch Tour de France, it’s fun!
I need to do something, I need something to change. I have all these dreams of things and I never do anything to bring them true. I once heard that dreams can’t come true, because then they would no longer be a dream, so maybe I should take the hint, or maybe I should stop calling them dreams and start calling them goals. That could be a good first step.
Anyway though, I want to ride my bike more, and swim better, and jog more, and maybe enter a bike race or triathlon, but I never do. I want to move out, and get a cool car, but I don’t even have a job to pay for what I have now. I want to read more, and be able to say I have read all the classics, and talk of great philosophers, and have a grand library of my own, but I seldom even read the books I have.
I want all these things, but I never act on them. I don’t even know why. Shouldn’t wanting something make you strive for it? Maybe I don’t really want them, just idly dream about them, and as dreams they can never become true. I don’t know.
I guess this isn’t a great time, because I am doing stuff, unlike over the last winter when I just sat and didn’t do much of anything for 6 months. Still though, I could, nay, should be doing something more.
Oh well, I just felt like a good off the wall rant, rather than the usual boring update.
Comments welcome.
nick
You’re no special agent, you’re just some jerk that hates my mustache!
Saturday night Jenn and I went to the Foreigner concert at Vets Park. There were something like 10,000 people there. We had to wait in line for 30 minutes to get in the gate, and were in about 7:05, with the concert starting at 7. There were 2 opening bands, with the main act finally beginning around 9:30. By 10:30, after hearing “Jukebox Hero” (my main reason for coming, too bad all the songs were over-amplified) we left to beat the other 9,998 people out.
I saw Lupé there. Poor stupid mexican, enlisted in the Army and broke his shoulder a week before graduating boot camp, got kicked out. His dad was offering me jobs, but I didn’t take.
Speaking of jobs, I applied for a really cool one, but it was pulled from the site a few hours later. No word from them about why.
Last night Jenn and I went to Old Great Wall Buffet. They have rear parking now, in case the front fills up, which it does. They had boiled eggs, and Jenn had one, I said you should get some more, and mix the yolks with some tarter sauce and hot mustard, she did, and said they were pretty good deviled eggs. Of course, everything at OGW is always good.
It is currently 80 degrees, with a heat index of 84 AT ALMOST MIDNIGHT! This is getting pretty shitty. The humidity being so high certainly doesn’t help. It makes you feel like your 10 lbs. heavier and gravity is pissed off at you or something.
I am at 4931 visitors, only 69 to go for my 5000. Thats one hell of a marker, I must say. Just think, about 2 more years I will be getting to 10,000. Wow.
OK, that’s it I guess. See you on Thursday, and stay cool.
nick
Just remember, heat makes peppers produce more oils, and oils make peppers hot, so come late summer, we can all have awesome homemade salsa. That’s really all the consolation I can give for the heat.
So, I finally have the new poll, 2 blogs after I promised it, and still haven’t gotten up the pictures I promised. In all honesty though, it has been way too hot to do much.
The back entrance blocks should be done tomorrow, and filled with sand Monday, for concrete Tuesday. Then we can put in some temporary steps, pour the bottom landing concrete, more steps, and walls, then a roof, then the patio, and then final grading, then grass and final landscaping. Yeah, were almost done.
Tomorrow night Jenn and I are going to the Foreigner concert and maybe St. Stans afterward.
I think that is all.
nick
Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
Really, not much happened. My grandma finally came home, and Roger is back and I worked for a bit yesterday, but thats about it.
Well, Jenn’s birthday happened, that’s something. We went to Grandpa Tony’s and she was served a strawberry daiquiri a whole 20 minutes early. She went home to see her dad for Father’s Day, and returned Monday night.
We might have the foundation walls for the back entrance done this week. Maybe, very maybe.
I guess that’s it. I will try for a new poll tomorrow, and I need to get the pictures back up, including all the camping pics.
Guess that’s it.
nick
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
I love that scene from jaws, the guy has such a great look on his face after the shark surfaces.
Well, we are back from our second camping trip of the year. As you should know, we went to the Rifle River State Recreation Area. There were very few people there, and we had a lot of fun, despite a bit of rain and apparently a tornado watch.
We arrived just after 5, drove around to look at the available sites, then went back to the gate to reserve it and buy some firewood at the gas station across the street. After setting up, we got the fire going and we made chili and biscuits over the fire. We sat around for a while, and later went up to the gate to call my mom, since Jenn had no cell service. My mom updated me on all the latest stuff, and I let her know we were all right, and we headed back. To our surprise, we found we had a visitor. A raccoon was snooping around our campsite looking for scraps of food. Jenn hid in her car and I tried throwing stuff at it, and it eventually ran off. My problem was it was behind the table, so when I threw, it landed behind, and the raccoon was pushed forward toward us. Anyway, after all that, we hid our cooler inside and went to bed. There were a few thunderstorms overnight, but not too bad.
Wednesday morning, we woke up and I cooked scrambled eggs and biscuits (this time I used butter, and the came out of the pan WAY easier). We then drove around the park exploring and eventually back to the gas station for ice. We returned to camp, and decided to go swimming and do some fishing, so walked to one of the lakes and tried swimming first. Water was rather cool, and took us about 20 minutes to make it to our necks. We saw some small fish and minnows, and decided to venture toward the boat launch for fishing. There were some 4″ bluegill just below, and they would nibble on whatever we hung in front of them, but their mouths were too small to take a hook. Further out we couldn’t get anything easier. Then the rain started, so we ran back and ended up napping. After waking up, we built a fire and made beans and hot dogs. Soon after we finished though, the rain returned, so we decided to go look at Rose City 5 miles away. Of course, as soon as we left, the rain stopped, but we went anyway. We ended up stopping at the gas station on our way back (it became like our new Meijer) and Jenn got an ice cream cone. We got the fire back going, and sat around it for the rest of the night, with no more rain or raccoons.
This morning we packed everything up, and were home by 2.
Overall it was very good. It always rains on us though. The bugs were a little heavy too, in Mackinaw we had none. Still fun though. It was a lot cooler up there too, though with all the rain, especially late in the day, it made for very high humidity. Would have been nice to get just enough sun to dry everything up last night. My mom said the rain early Wednesday morning was accompanied by a tornado watch somewhere in the area.
I think thats it. We almost bought a raft for the lake, but decided no. I will have pictures up some time soon, I hope.
We saw maybe 8 people the whole time we were there. It was definitely nice. We were right between 2 of the 5 lakes.
OK, thats all.
Next time a ranting on Apple, anything I forgot from here, the Mike thing (finally), and a new poll.
Really.
nick
Is it hot in here, or is it just you?
Sorry about my week long absence. It wasn’t really my absence though, it was my computers. There is a bug in a video chip on some iBooks that causes them to fail, and mine was one of those. Thankfully, Apple recognized it as an issue, and the repair was thusly free, though it did take a week to request, send, and receive. I lost video Monday morning, and received iBook back this morning. Hopefully it will be good to me for some time now.
I am reading an update stream from Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference right now. There have been (in my opinion) false rumors going around that Apple may be switching to Intel chips. I think reality is that they are, but not as the main CPU, but as they already did a year ago for RAID controllers in some of their rack-mount equipment. Anyway, I will probably know the truth by the end of this blog.
So, the back entrance is gone, the patio is too, and we have a 6 ft deep hole in our backyard. Thats most of what I have been doing. The forms for the footings are in, and could be poured as soon as tomorrow, maybe Tuesday. After that, we build up block walls, lay a concrete slab, stick walls, stairs, and a roof. Then just re-level land, put up fence, seed lawn, plant some trees and shrubs and such, and we will be done. Yeah, easy.
We lost power for most of yesterday. Was a nasty storm. South end was one of worst hit areas in the state. Power went out during the second storm, was out about 3 or 4, and didn’t come back till 4 or 4:30. Woke us up cause all the lights and TVs and stuff that had been on, suddenly came back on. So we watched the news for a bit, then went to Rudy J’s, then back to sleep. Was almost unbearable trying to sleep without a fan or anything on.
Tim and my Grandma went to Pennsylvania for the weekend. They took Molly there (new one, not mine) because of a long story I don’t want to get into. I just hope the dog gets a good home.
Jenn and I are going camping tomorrow, for 3 days (Tuesday evening, Wednesday, Thursday morning) at RRRA. I will post on that Thursday night.
OK, I think that’s enough for now. Will add anything else I remember next time, along with a new poll.
nick
“What are you doing here?”
“You know.”
“I don’t think I do.”
“Oh, I think you think you don’t know, but I know you do.”
Blank stare.
I went fishing, 3 times now. Thursday, Friday, and today. Thursday I went, casted about 3 times, and WHAM! I got something.
Now, you must realize I haven’t been fishing in like 6 years, so I was excited as hell. I finally get it in, and I have no idea what it is, so i just stare at it. Finally, i realize its hanging there half in the water, and as I reach down to grab it, it snaps my line. I run back to the truck to get another lure, and can barely tie it on because I am shaking so much. So I run back to the water, and cast, and cast. A freighter goes through, and that was the end of it. I ended up loosing both lures I brought and finally went home. Friday went about the same, but with Jenn, and today was the same, but a new place so I didn’t snag, though Jenn did.
Our shed is now moved, and it was decided that due to the condition of the back entrance, it has to be rebuilt. So we started tearing it up today. Roger says should be down Monday.
Jenn and I our going camping a week from Tuesday. She opens Tuesday, then has Wednesday and Thursday off, so we will have plenty of time. Hopefully I can sneak away from backyard, and weather is nice.
OK, that’s all. I had something else, but the fishing was enough for now, and more important.
nick
A jerk waiting on a jerk.
So, despite setbacks, the hole has been dug, forms set, and sand laid for the shed slab. Concrete will be here Saturday morning apparently. Once the slab is poured, and has set for 5 days, the shed is put on the slab, and the yard can be leveled (the main thing we are going for).
It has barely been a week and I am already getting antsy for more camping. I think its because we only did 1 night, and in Pinconning. I need a good 2 night, with some fishing too. I don’t think biking, since it requires taking the truck, etc… Maybe we should consider a bike rack for Jenn’s car?
What else…
I haven’t made it back to Mill End, perhaps tomorrow. I also want to make it to Bay Port to the fish market, but that’s a bit longer trip.
Tomorrow is my magic day, 20-05-2005 at 20:05:20.05 (May 20, 2005 at 8:05ish PM).
That’s about it. I guess I will see you Sunday.
nick
Does it scare you that Ortho, the weed killer company, is also Ortho, the contraceptive company?
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