What The Hell Am I Doing?

It would normally be hump day except that Friday is a holiday for a lot of people being that the 4th of July falls on a Saturday this year.  And to boot I start vacation on Friday.  YEA!!!   We have people who will be house sitting which is cool so the cat won’t get too lonely.   Trying to jugle everything we have to do before we leave.   Still trying to visit Ed each day.  Didn’t drop by last night as he was sleeping when I was heading home.  Plan on dropping by tonight and spending as much time there as he’ll allow.

My comicon plans are set now as well.  I’ll be heading up with my brother and crashing with him.  He’s got the hotel and I’ll cover the car/gas portion.  Looking forward to that.  Ok, I need to get back to work now.  Enjoy!

Less then a week until my vacation.  I’m really looking forward to it.  A week in San Diego hitting up the Zoo, Wild Animal Park, and the beach with the family.  Until then we have some work to do to prepare.  And then afterwards we have more work to do to prepare for Calissa’s birthday.  This weekend I’ll be getting a watering system setup for the back yard so all the plants don’t die while we are gone.  Everything is doing well out there and I don’t want to ruin that for a little fun in the sun.  Most of my pepper plants have already started to fruit and I still have the grape bunch that is alive and maturing.

Yea, I wanna go back to bed.  I’m having a hard time staying awake today.  Tonight we are heading to a play with Audra’s Dad.  Calissa get’s a baby sitter so we’ll have a nice evening to ourselves for a change.  Alright, enough of the computer for today.

Oh look, it’s Wednesday and I still haven’t posted any updates.  Wow..what a weekend.  Ok, not really that big, bad, or anything, but interesting to at least me.  We decided to head up to Audra’s Dad’s place for the weekend instead of him coming down.  He’s up in Prescott and there are several lakes all close to his place.  I wanted to do some fishing and possibly take the canoe out.  Sooo…that was our plan.

So…we headed out Saturday morning and came back Sunday evening.  The trip itself was good and the Jeep carried it’s own.  The time in Prescott was nice and relaxful except for Sunday morning when I went out to the lake.  I got up nice and early and headed out expecting to get some fishing in before the rest of the group came out for some water fun and BBQ.  After a couple hours of nothing fishing wise and winds slowly picking up speed, I decided to take the canoe out and see how much of my canoe skills I had forgotten.

It’s friday…work is done.  Time to shut down the laptop and head home.  Tonight will be made up of packing for tomorrows trip to Prescott.  Going to do some fishing and canoe’ng hopefully and really try to just relax and enjoy the weekend.

Have a happy Father’s Day!!!

I got a call back today about a job I interviewed for a while back.  Originally they passed on me wanting someone with more networking experience/knowledge.  It seems they got more head count or something and I am at the top, or somewhere up there, of their list.  This was a job I really wanted even though it was Contract to possible hire.  It goes into an area I am not that familiar with doing something that would be extremely challenging and probably fun.  My skill set would expand quite a bit and the skills I’d pick up are bleeding edge which is always a good thing.  The call today was a “are you still interested” one so I expect to hear more soon.  Time will tell if I actually get an offer and what the details of that offer end up being.  They seem to want to fill the position in the next few weeks so this could move fast with me starting towards the end of July if they offer and I accept.

I’m kind of blank of how I feel about this right now.  I was as close to crushed as I could be after my interview and mostly expected the negative response for the position originally.  I went through my high and low already and am not allowing myself to go either way right now.  All I am worried about right now is getting past the next couple of weeks and starting my vacation.

So updates.  I’m drawing a blank.  Basically feel like I’m behind on everything.  I am coming close to the end of my current gig.  It may get extended another 6 weeks or so, but who knows.  I get to take a vacation at the beginning of next month which will be fantastic.  Really looking forward to that.  In the meantime, I feel like all my weekends are tied up going places.  That’s not the truth, but it feels like it.  I got a few things done this past weekend.  Sunday was a wash as we basically did nothing.  I played a lot of XBox which was a nice change.  Saturday I panted one of the walls in my garage.  I have to do it piece by piece but that’s ok.    The next weekend I have I’ll tackle another wall and get that much more done.  I also picked up a couple new racks and did some more organization in the garage.

but still not 100%.  I could use a full day of rest I think.  Oh well.  Tomorrow is Friday which is good.   So, I recently found a place to order all sorts of parts for my Jeep.  At the time I wanted to buy something for the Jeep but didn’t want to drop the money on the items I really need to get so I setteled on something cheep but still necessary.  I got these rubber bumper thingies for the tailgate.  We’ve had issues with the tailgate for years.  I had the latch mechanism replaced at one point in time after it completely locked up on us.  Since then it sticks.  Well, after replacing these two simple items which took a matter of 5 seconds to do, the tailgate opens and closes beutifuly.  Very happy about that.

This weekend will be a work-at-home weekend.  We are behind on house work and have a lot of work ahead of us.  If I get far enough along I might even start painting the garage.  That would be nice.  Stil have some things to organize and cleanup out there so maybe I’ll do that one morning this weekend.  It is supposed to be nice, in the mid 90’s, and I should take advantage of that while I can.

I am a couple of weeks away from the end of my current gig.  I’m looking forward to the change.  I’m really tired of what I’ve been doing and need to sink my teeth into something different.  I’m still hoping my company will pay for the CCNP boot camp.  If they do, it’ll be in October.  Either way, next month is going to be interesting.  We are taking a week for vacation and will be heading to San Diego.  Time at the Zoo and Wild Animal Park as well as the beach.  I’m hoping for a fun and relaxing week.    A couple weeks after that I’ll be heading back to San Diego for Comicon.  I’m looking forward to that as well except it won’t be relaxing but rather tiring, but still fun.

The Sunday before Comicon is Calissa’s 3rd birthday.  Scary!  I just don’t know what to say about that.  We have some cool presents for her that she will love and will hopefully give her endless amounts of imagination play.

Ok, enough of a break from work for now.  Now to stay awake for a few more hours and get home in one piece.

I really hate it when I’m sick.  On top of that I’m fighting off a bit of depression.  Too many things going through my head with too many desires, no results, and a ton of responsibility.  Nothing I can’t deal with, but still.  ugggg.   I’m consolidating my Internet life down to this blog as a process to focus my focus.  I have a lot of things I need to acomplish in the coming years.  There are some goals I want to acomplish but first I need to set them.  I spend too much time doing crap that is meaningless and not enough time doing things I really should be doing.

Yup

It’s Monday and time for some updates.  I had a good weekend and actually acomplished quite a bit.  I picked up a rack off of craigslist on Friday and set it up in the Garage.  This allowed some additional organization and that lead to cleanup and getting rid of more crap.  Now the Garage is cleaner and more organized.  I feel better.  Getting closer to it being usable.

This weekend I saw two movies at the theater.  I went with my dad to see the new Terminator film and actually liked it quite a bit.  Then I went to see Star Trek again this time with my wife.  Still just as good.

More later