along the journey

Amy and Caleb have been gone for over 36 hours now….. I definately miss them. Had Indian food yesterday for lunch, Thai tonight. I can’t eat out any more this week. We have lunch meat and other stuff for lunches and dinner, I just need to use it.

This evening I picked up a new monitor and computer desk from Sean. After dinner I cleaned up the house a bit and then re-arranged the computer room. Then cleaned up the computer, uninstalled some software, deleted left over directories, consolidated some personal folders in that wonderful MS Outlook.

Still no plans for the rest of the week…. whatever I do, I can’t spend any money. Hopefully Amy get’s over her boredome and starts enjoying herself.

I love you guys, Amy and Caleb.

I’m sitting in bed, surfing the internet, and watching Waiting for Guffman. Being a theater lover, it’s a hilarious movie. I’ve still yet to see Christopher Guests’ other movies - Best of Show and A Mighty Wind. This definately rekindles my desire to see the newer ones.

I made a house call this evening sort of. Our friends Will and Susans’ daughter decided to play with their laptop. She pulled off 90% of the keys off the keyboard. Laptop keyboards are kind of fickle, putting the little clips on is difficult, the keys just snap on though. After that I tried a bit to clean things up, moving files to the D: drive. Hopefully it’ll help things run smoother.

Amy’s going to go to Ohio next week. Caleb is going with her. I’ll miss them. We’re going to meet halfway the following weekend and go camping with Mom. Unfortunately Dad will be in Florida all next week. We’ll miss him.

Tomorrow night we’re heading out to Tronster’s house. He’s throwing one of his famous house-parties. Darin and Sarah will probably be joining us. We’ll get to hook up with the rest of the II-Crew, as well as people from Horizons. Should be a good time.

Well it’s almost September, and boy am I ready for the shorter days of fall and winter. It’s just something about the cool crisp air…. i get nostalgic for no other reason than a longing. I don’t hate the summer, we’ve had great weather this summer. I’m really not sure what it is about the fall that i love so much, or why I’m anxious for it to be here.

Hopefully we’ll be going camping sometime early September, I wonder if the water will still be warm enough to swim in. When we were there last month there were spots of the ocean that were bitter cold. Co-workers are telling me that they think it’ll still be warm enough to swim. First Landing State Park is just north of Virginia Beach, we’ll probably camp there. I’m definately looking forward to that. We haven’t been camping since Amy was pregnant. I love to camp, we don’t have the equipment so it’s not as easy to just go. I had wanted to go for my birthday back in March, but that didn’t happen.

Got things working. IF anyone cares I had to change the UMASK settings in the mt.cfg file.

We got a new tv tonight. Our friends that came over last night were telling us how they are pack rats and there house is such a mess. They asked us if we knew anyone who wanted a tv. Well we’ve been keeping our eyes out for one at yard sales and such, so we picked up the tv tonight. It’s a 35″ or so Floor model that we’ve got sitting up on a dresser in our bedroom. It’s huge.

Another friend of ours helped me get the tv, he had a truck. He sat with us for almost 2 hours and gave me quite a bit of business advice. It was good stuff and refreshing. I don’t have the self-confidence to make business work, yet. On his way out he was telling me that had I been an actual client that he’d have charged me $2500. It was good advice and he has definately helped me refocus and suggested some different ideas, and marketting ideas.

Well I’m heading off to bed. Thanks for sticking with me.

Movable Type is having problems. Similar to what Stephen Bergey was having, except that I can actually log in and work in MT.

So it’s a Monday. Just another Monday, submitting my time card to TekSystems again this week. And probably next week. Word today is that it looks like my start date will be Sept 1, but that’s not surprising to me.

Spent the weekend hanging out with friends. Friday night we played cards with one couple. Saturday night, a late dinner at the harbor with another, and last night played cards with another couple. We’ve had good times. Last night we had lots of good conversation about friends, and family, and relationships, and I’m very greatful for the friendships that we have.

I did a little bit of housework, fixing up the caulking in our shower, and started evening out the drywall in the bathroom. We’ve started to at least talk about concentrating on one room a weekend to repair/organize/decorate….. with money as tight as it is…. it’s going to be tough, but I’m sure we’ll find some ways to not spend much money.

The move is mostly complete. We’ll probably be dropping some of our internet services, until we catch up again with bills and such, but our websites/email should not be affected.

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Yep, we’re moving things around again. This time I’ve got some webspace putting each of my domains on their own pice of server…. when it’s complete, we’ll be ab le to turn all our computers off, for as long as we want. As it is now I have two that have to be on constantly, one for our webpages, the other for our email. As of now I’ve only moved Amy’s page. Mine is almost finished moving, I’m just weary to push that button.

I was hoping to go to purple door this weekend, but our A/C went out and we had to pay for someone to come visit. Granted it wasn’t as much as it could’ve been, but it was definately not in the budget, but then again neither was a ticket to Purple Door.

As Amy has already said, it looks like I’m finally going to be hired by my company, after a year contract it looks like it might be as early as Monday. Woo Hoo! I haven’t been this excited in a long time, maybe this time last year when I got the job to begin with.

Caleb’s birthday party was a lot of fun. A much smaller occasion than last year, and it was much nicer without so many people. It felt like we were able to talk to everyone, instead of just say hello and good bye. It was sad that we didn’t have all of the rest of the family though. I have some pictures that I’ll put online eventually.

Sitting on the couch with Jared. Showing off Movable Type.

Today is my one year anniversary at my employer. I was supposed to be a full-time, honest to goodness, working for benefits employee as of January 1st. It’s still not happened. They’ve told me that as soon as the budget for next year is approved that it’ll be almost immediate. But I’ve heard similar things before. I’m happy here, which is why I’m still here. I’d love to have all the benefits a real employee has though.

It’s not often I feel overwhelmed, or like I have too much to do while I’m at work. I have felt that way all week long. Today is really bad. I don’t even know where to begin or what priority to assign tasks….. my manager, he’s in the same boat. Too much going on to help us straighten things out. Tension is running high in the office. For the past few weeks I’ve been hanging out with the engineers during our lunch break…. I’ve actually felt the need to disconnect during my lunch, where for a long time I’d sit at my desk and eat lunch. The disconnect is good, and I’ve started developing relationships with some of the people in my department that I really hadn’t had the opportunity to otherwise.

Point is, I’m stressed. Amy’s stressed. Life doesn’t suck….. it’s just hard. There’s an older CCM song that the end of the chorus goes…. “Life is hard, but God is good.” Life was particularly hard at the time that was popular, the phrase has stuck. It’s come to mind many times since. And again here lately.