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Three hundred!

300, School, WP Perks, Oldies, Dinner, and Addition.

Yay! My 300th post. Granted, it was really a few back, since I deleted some, but this is the official one. The one that really counts.

School is going well. None of my classes seem too horrible. Though, I am out of Fin-Aid money for books and supposedly will still need 1 more, but that’s how school goes.

One of the very cool parts about having Word-Press is, I am at Jenn’s, on her computer, and can post a blog. I love that.

All the old posts are now on this blog, but around 60 of them got screwed up dates. I am working on fixing that, along with deleting incorrect line breaks that were carried over somehow. Want to have it all fixed over the weekend, but probably not. My goal is at least the mis-dated ones.

I made mussels for dinner. It was OK. The pasta and sauce were real good, the mussels were just scary. Like I told Jenn, worst case scenario is we die.

Notice that now, under (or over, I forget) the counter in the blog sidebar is a word counter. I will of course have a special entry for my 100,000 word, but that’s a ways off.

I think that’s it. Enjoy the now-official new blog, and have a good weekend.

Poll’s will return when I get all the old posts straightened out. I have enough to work on for now.

The End

Goodbye, Sick, School, and some Misc.

For the second time in 2 years, I present my final blog of a particular address. Two years ago it was the final at blogger (which is actually still up) (and oddly, I was sick then too), and now I present my final blog with iblog on .Mac. This blog will not stay up, and will disappear on October 1st, 2005.

So, I am almost better, just a stuffed up nose mostly. My mom now has whatever I had though, so it is most definitely not an allergy.

I returned to school today after 486 days off. It sucked, but wasn’t that bad. They still only had the 1 book, that I don’t need until tomorrow anyway, so I didn’t get that. Went to CAD, and that seems like it will go fine. Pre-Calc was odd, because I have gone up through Calc 2, so should be easy as everything goes by, but since I haven’t had a math class in 2 and a half years, I needless to say am having trouble remembering some “should be easy” stuff. So after that, I went back to the bookstore and wow! They now had a second book! The line was long as hell though, so I walked out anyway. Maybe tomorrow.

So, I came home and took a nap cause I only slept like 4 or 5 hours last night, and made some steaks for dinner (which were awesome).

They just showed the Jeopardy that was the first with Ken Jennings. Yeah, he kicked some ass, huh?

What else…

You see that new Triple Whopper? Talk about a heart attack waiting to happen.

I guess that’s it. Wish it were a little more interesting, for being the last here, but then again it will just continue in 3 days anyway.

OK, so long, and see you Thursday at the new blog. I may or may not have all these posts up there by then, we will see.

nick

Sick

Sick, Stuff, and School.

Yup, late August and I’m sick again. Today I’m not too bad, not now anyway. At least I can breathe. Wish I knew what the hell caused it.

So, this and one more. Scary stuff man. It seemed so far away when I announced the move, and now it’s creeping right up.

Due to being sick, I haven’t accomplished much outside, or with the website, or anywhere really. Mostly just slept on the couch, or in my bed, or anywhere I can curl up in a decently comfortable ball.

School starts Monday, just 3ish days away (being 11:40, its 2 full days, plus 10 hours in the morning). So that’s something to not look forward to.

OK, goodnight all, I tired.

nick

I Want to Play the Bagpipes

Bagpipes, Move, BDay, Job (Maybe), School, Camping, Site, Fishing, and Yard.

I do, sadly, I really do. I think it would be cool. Nobody would like me while I learned, especially my family and neighbors and anyone else I practiced around, but who cares, in the end I would be able to play the bagpipes! I mean, how hard could it be, really?

Also, in researching all this, I found a band called Enter the Haggis. Seriously, a scottish bagpipe rock band. Some of their songs are actually really good, to me anyway, but I want to play the bagpipes, so what do I know.

So, to get started I need to get a practice chanter, which is basically the part of the bagpipe that goes from your mouth to the bag, looks kinda like a flute. This is what your supposed to learn on when your first starting out, and to practice new songs even when your an old vet. I have seen them on eBay and the sorts for $35ish. Also, I am going to ask some people at the river of time for suggestions. I have no intention of jumping right in after all, since I am poor, and I am afraid of the horrible sounds I will make.

In other news, There is this post, the 26th, and the 29th, thats it, in case I haven’t warned you enough.

Thursday is 2 weeks to my birthday.

Two weeks from today I have an interview for RadioShack. Hopefully I get an interview this time, instead of just standing around waiting then being told to go home, after being told 3 times that the store I am applying for isn’t hiring despite me having talked to the store’s manager just 2 days earlier and being told they were.

I still don’t have books for school, they weren’t in yesterday when we went to look. I will try Thursday, and if not go early for call Monday. Is scary I have only like 5 days left, especially after 481 days off (as of today).

Tomorrow will be a year since Jenn and i went to Mackinaw. We are trying to work in a camping trip the week after Labor Day, and I would like another one during fall colors. We will see.

I have the gallery up , as well as an online status indicator on the new site. Gallery is pretty much as it was on this site. I will be making modifications to it over tonight though.

Today Jenn and I went fishing at State Park, and I caught the biggest weed I ever have. Really, this was a big weed, like 4 foot long, and weighed a metric shitload too!

Also today, I installed our back screen door, and yesterday we finished the fence.

OK, I think that is it.

Till
Friday,

nick

Darkmatter, each pound of which weighs more than 10000 pounds!

3 Entries Left

The End, Dinner, Pasties, and Pics.

Yes, just 3 blogs remain after this one. It is coming upon us. I am antsy to get the switch over, but I still have some stuff to do on the new site before it’s ready.

We just had dinner, grilled lemon chicken and pirogies. Yum. Jenn is gone tonight at work, then off with some friends from work, so I’m all alone. Too bad Saturday TV sucks.

It felt like fall almost the last few days, which makes me want pasties. I like pasties. I either need to try making some, or just go to Yooperville.

I finally got all the pics from Mackinaw scanned. Will put them on the new site soon. They had good pasties in Mackinaw.

OK, I’m off to scan more.

nick

no quote today

17 Days to Go

Uncle, Yard, Lunch, and Site.

So, My Uncle Steve and his family went home today. He did a lot of work on the back entrance, and I thank him much.

We finished the neighbors fence, and should have ours done within 2 days. I also need to do the wiring for the shed and back entrance, finish insulating, and help my Uncle Mike with dry walling the inside of the back entrance. We are moving though.

Jenn and I went to Red Lobster today. They have an unlimited salad and soup lunch which is awesome because 1) the soup is WAY better than Olive Garden’s and 2) it’s the cheapest thing on the menu and definitely fills you up. The clam chowder was good, the bayou gumbo was also, I didn’t find out what the soup of the day was.

The new site is still moving along. I have a new main page up, have the counter fully working, and found out what the problem was that kept most of my site down for the last 24 hours.

OK, I guess that’s it. Back to working on the site.

nick

On the good side, it no longer causes anal leakage!

Backyard Blues

Backyard, Oddly popular, Reformat, Wikipedia, and Move.

Well, my Uncle is back, arrived this morning, and he isn’t happy. The back entrance has not gone as well as it should, so today we tore off the week old roof and are fixing all the problems we have had. Scott, Todd G, Tim, My Uncle, and I were all on it, then my Dad came and we got ready to do fencing tomorrow. Oh, it will be fun.

For whatever reason, over the past few weeks one of my pages has become WAY too popular. It is titled “I am Bored”, and has moved up to #4 on a Yahoo search for that phrase, out of over 37,500,000 pages. The strangest thing is, it’s a post from January 2004, but wasn’t popular at all till about a month ago. I am considering changing the name, but maybe not.

I reformatted and reinstalled OS X Thursday night. It had bugs in it from some things I had been doing, so I felt it needed it. I was backing up everything to CDs anyway, so I had most of the hard part done (I backup less often than I should, but more than I used to, before my 7600 died).

Check out this Wikipedia article on .coms, including the list of 75 oldest still operating ones. I really like Wikipedia, you should browse around.

So, after contemplation, I have come up with September 1st as a likely moving date, for 3 reasons:

1) It is over 3 weeks away, plenty of time to work stuff out, and let everyone know.

2) It means 300th entry goes in new blog, presuming my normal schedule and 1 new poll before then.

3) You may remember my last move, 2 years ago Sept 3rd, hence repeating the saga of moving at the onset of September (hopefully I not moving again in 2 more years).

Also, yes, I have decided, and the new site is already on it’s way. Link will be in next post.

nick

You don’t have any mail! Our servers are feeling unloved.

Grrrr, Bastards

Job (for the last time for a while, sadly), Uncle, and Alpena.

So after applying for a position listed as “Permanent Part-Time”, and having it changed to “Temporary Part-Time”, I was disappointed, but was willing to live with it. The, it was changed to “May no longer be available”. What? Either it was filled, or it’s still open, right? Now, today, I got the final kick in the shin. It is NOT available. From what I have heard here and there, MBS and Minneapolis just had a communication issue, that lead to the hiring of a new person to replace a person that never left. Hence, I got boned. I have no choice but to look at the good side though. I got a free trip to Minneapolis, I will be first to know when the next spot opens up, and I am already half through the interview process when it does.

My Uncle Steve was in over the weekend. He had just left last blog, but I was too rushed to mention. He arrived Thursday night, and left early Saturday morning, 1:30am ish. DJ and Pat were with him too. Since they weren’t here long, I didn’t get to see them much, too bad.

Alpena was OK. We ate, left, arrived, ate, slept, ate, ate, came home. Yeah, that’s about it. We delivered Jenn’s parents their new computer, which is quite a bit nicer than their old one. They should enjoy it, much faster and the price was good too.

OK, I believe that is all.

See you Friday.

nick

I’m gonna hit you so hard, it’ll knock your name out’ta the phone book.
Then, I’m gonna call Ma Bell and have her put you back so I can do it again.

Hmmm…

Job, and thats all.

Well, I still don’t know. I was finally called on Friday, and told that they were unsure if the position is still available, and to “sit tight till Monday”. Grrrr. We went and saw an acquaintance that works from NorthWest at MBS, and they were unaware that any hiring was being done. If nothing else, I have most of the application done, short of FAA history check, and if something new opens up later maybe I will get first dibs. I would rather be hired soon though.

I am leaving for Alpena in about an hour though, so that’s all you get. Will tell you about Alpena, and what I find out about job on Tuesday.

nick

When life gives you lemons, squirt them in your enemy’s eyes.

If I Knew, I Would Tell You

Job, Pics, Bike, Weather, and Couch.

OK, so I don’t know yet. I was supposed to find out about the job today, but I didn’t. Apparently, “She’ll be back Wednesday” does not mean “she will be back in the office on Wednesday”, but only that “she will be back, not necessarily anywhere useful, on Wednesday, and when she will be in the office is anyone’s guess”. Yeah, exactly.

I have more pics up, and have changed large images to 800×600. I will begin scanning in some pics soon I think. If you have any problems with the 800×600 thing, say so.

I need to go for a bike ride while it’s cool out. Granted, today was almost too cool, having not reached the 70s till around noon. This weather is freaking nuts.

Jenn got a new couch. After me sitting and sleeping on it for like 7 years, Jenn using as a couch for a year, and being moved 3x, the futon gave up. She bought a new couch at Value City yesterday, and we picked it up today.

OK, that’s all I got.

nick