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!!!!!!!!!! 200th !!!!!!!!!!

200, Jobs, and Game.

Yeay! Two hundred posts. That’s freaking insane. That means it’s been 600 days? Wow. I can’t believe I’ve written that much crap.

I don’t think I mentioned it, but Nextel never happened. They were only interviewing on the 1 day. Oh well, I will find something. I would of course prefer sooner than later. I did see a cool job on Michigan Works today, as a rail car mechanic and inspector. I have no mechanics experience though. I will look into it a little more though, as it sounds like it could be cool.

So yeah, as I said last time, I’ve been playing MGS3, hence the last 2 posts being made today. I am almost done with it though. The Metal Gear series is awesome, if you like that kind of game. It’s like a movie that lasts a week.

All right, I think that wraps it up. Back Friday I guess.

nick

Playing the blues isn’t supposed to make you feel better,
It’s supposed to make everyone else feel worse.
– Bleeding Gums Murphy, the Simpsons

Happy Birthday iBook

Anniversary/Birthday, 200th, Shopping, Gift, Somerset, and Chinese.

Wow, it’s been 2 years now since I got the iBook. Makes it seem sad that I am already looking into replacing it. Honestly though, I was looking at replacing it with a 12″ PowerBook when it was barely a month old.

This post, 2 more, and then I am on number 200. Thats Tuesday the 14th by my count.

Jenn and I went shopping today in Saginaw. First we went to Olive Garden for lunch, but after 14 minutes and fully realizing the price, we left without even ordering drinks. We ended up at Bennigan’s next, and after eating we were so stuffed we never even shopped.

I bought Jenn’s gift yesterday. She knows where it is and it’s driving her crazy. I, on the other hand, am loving it. No, I shouldn’t enjoy torturing her, but I do anyway.

We might be going to Somerset in Troy later in the week, I think Thursday. I love that mall.

On December 20th Scott, Sarah, Jenn and I are going to Old Great Wall for lunch. I am excited. I liked it.

OK, that’s all for today.

Nick

8 out of 10 women use sex to get what they want.
The other 2 are ugly.

Happy Thanksgiving (well, yesterday)

Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

So, Nextel never called back, I will call them Monday morning.

I went with Jenn on Wednesday to Alpena. We left about 12 and were back around 6 or 7 Thursday.

Wednesday we ate at Burger King in Standish, arrived in Alpena just in time for her appointment at 3, though she didn’t get in till almost 4. We then went to Staples to see her old workmates. Following that, we went to her house and set up the airbed and settled in. About 11 that night we got bored and went to Wal-Mart (I hate walmart, but it’s all they have) and Applebee’s, despite the rather poor conditions including slush, snow, and ice.

Thursday Jenn was up early helping her mom, and when I got up I helped out with the string bean casserole and sweet potatoes. We then had classic Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc… dinner with Jenn, her mom and dad, and sister, brother-in-law, niece, step niece, and nephew.

After dinner we sat around for a few hours, and about 3:30ish we packed up and headed home.

While we were gone Wednesday night, my brother went to see my cousin on Delta Rd. On his way back at the corner of Delta and Bay Rd., he started sliding just before the intersection. He slid into a concrete island in the intersection, snapped the front left axle leaving his tire, then slid across the street stopping in a field. In all, he broke the front axle, lost both left tires, broke a brake rotor, and who knows what else. He and Alley are fine, except being crushed over his now very injured truck. So now he is driving my mom’s truck and I am left with the Grand Prix that has no insurance.

OK, I am going to bed.

nick

:) From Jenn

Ebay, Cold, Election, Desperate Houswives

I’m bored cause Nick is watching CSI and I didn’t pay attention to the first half, so I am blogging for him. He got one of his ebay payments today, so that was exciting, but then the one item didn’t sell again, so that was sucky.

John kerry kept saying, “I HAVE A PLAN, I HAVE A PLAN!” but never actually said what the plan was. Well, Nick found the “plan” on his website but it was really vague. Only two weeks and one day till the election, do you know who you are voting for? I can’t vote cause I’m from out of town and registered in a township two and half hours a way, but you better vote damn it.

Nick has an apple car that went on ebay for $160.00, three times what he paid. But hes gonna keep it, cause frankly the apple car ROCKS!

Oh yeah by the way, in case you haven’t noticed, it is freaking cold out.

If you are bored on Sunday nights, you have to watch Desperate Housewives on ABC. I don’t really know what it is about the show but it is really good. Its a new series that started three weeks ago, and its about all the twistedness of suburbean life. Its good, trust me, watch it.

TTYL……..Jenn……..
till nick posts on Thursday

Happy Birthday to Me! (Belated)

Birthday, and other less significant crap.

So Wednesday was my birthday. Jenn got me a night at Fairfield, Dinner, and 3 gifts, winning her the best gift award. We went to the Fairfield in Saginaw on Tuesday night, and after checking in we went in the whirlpool and pool for a while. After changing we went to Bennigan’s for dinner. I had a burger of some type, and she some shrimp. We also stopped at the Sprint Store to look at phones since hers has been dead for a while.

After getting back to our room (with a King size bed, ooh) we watched TV for a while, and went to Kroger for goodies. We also ordered cheese bread and pop from Papa-John’s. Wednesday morning I got my gifts, a binder clip pack, Penguin caffinated mints, and the ThinkGeek Binary People tee. Very awesome gifts. We had our free continental breakfast (ehh) and went back to bed till just before check-out.

After getting back, I went home and my mom took me to Mr. Hot Dogs for dinner. I then proceeded to go see my Dad. Somehow my grandma Connie forgot it was my birthday (sad) but gave me $25 anyhow. Jenn came over about 9:30 after her class, and we watched TV and made egg sandwiches.

Thursday I went with my mom to her Social Security hearing. I don’t really know how it went, but it seams like it might turn out well. I then spent the rest of the day with Jenn.

Thats most of it. None of you got me gifts, because none of you read this. Scott wished me a happy birthday, and I thank him for that. Is better than my grandma who forgot and gave me $25 only as an afterthought (would think would make it more, to correct the travesty) , and way better than John, Nick, Jason, Erica, Lauren, other Erica, Jim, Rach, Danielle, or Brandon, who didn’t do anything. Oh well, that’s life.

Well, I will be back on Sunday, so have fun with your lives till then.

nick

I don’t need sex, just as long as I’m with you,
but as long as I’m with you…

2000th!

2000th, Ecto Cooler, Vacation, Broadway, Obsessions, Fair, Site, TechTV, and Jealousy.

Well, that came up faster than I thought. Then again, I didn’t realize I was averaging 25 visits a day. Seems a pair of words I had used earlier were drawing alot of traffic, and even setting me at the #2 google result for the words. So, it has been changed so they are now u^^pa lu^^pa, where the ^^ were once Ms. Anyway though, I have had over 2000th visitors now, and thats a big deal, especially since 1000 was only on April 7th. Thats 1000 visits in four and a half months, while the first 1000 took almost a year. Had I not changed those certain words, I may have hit 3000 within just 2 months.

So anyway, congratulations go out to our winner, whoever it is. I dont recognize the IP address, but suspect that it is Scott.

I have not yet gone to try and get “Ecto Cooler”. I haven’t really done much at all in the going away area. Oh well, that will change…

Since this is Jenn’s “Vacation” week from school, and she had Wednesday and Thursday of from work, I though it could be fun to go do something fun. After looking online I decided on going to Wilderness State Park for the 2 days and camping, fishing, mountain biking, and whatever else. Of course, then I thought to look at the weather for up there and realized its going to be raining both days. Nice, real nice. So right now I am unsure of what were doing, but there might not be a Wednesday update, just so you all know.

Work on Broadway is proceeding, as the road is now graded, and the sand and stonemix laid. Even the expansion joints and mesh are going down. Concreting should be some time this week it seems, followed by asphalt surfacing and then they will be done. They are making ALOT of noise today though, grinding or hammer drilling or something.

I have been searching mad online lately. Remember my online obsessions I discussed? Well I’m in a history phase now. Looking up info on Bay City and Local Highways.

Jenn and I did not go to the Midland Fair. Well, we did, but we didn’t go in. It was decided that $10 each plus $4 parking was too much. We did shop the Midland Mall for a bit though, and went to a little driving range on Wheeler Rd. in Auburn.

No real site work, or baseball, or room, or anything else. I’ll be honest, I am either sleeping, with jenn, or being really lazy about all day. Sorry.

I haven’t watch the Screen Savers in a few months now. When G4 merged with the network and they ditched Leo and all this gaming crap started getting thrown in, I just got turned off. Also, I haven’t watched wrestling in a long time either.

I was in staples yesterday and realized something. I am sad. I love buying back-to-school supplies, but I’m not going back to school. I am actually kinda jealous. If anyone needs to go school shopping, please let me know.

OK, I am done. I was kinda waiting for Scott to respond with his IP address so I could be sure, but I guess it will need to stand as a hypothisis.

bye all.

nick

Lisa: (explaining the Indians worship of certain animals)
Bart: Thank goodness we have all come to our senses and worship a carpenter that lived 2000 years ago.

UPDATE!

Ok, it wasn’t Scott. It wasn’t any of you. It was me. Oops! It would seem I am the 2000th visitor, as Charter changed my IP address without me realizing it from 66.188.1.# to 66.188.61.#. So, I will be changing the counter to ignore me henceforth. Therefore, the honor shall go to the 1998th visitor, whoever that person is. I will let you know by next update, or just keep for myself if I can’t figure it out.

100th General!

100th, Bday, Work, Room, BBCards, AmericInn, and Brother.

Yeay! Ok, not THAT big a deal. Next big posts by my figuring will be probably 2000th visitor, or maybe 200th post.

My birthday, as of right now (12:38 A.M. 08/05/04) is a mere 34 days away. Wow, 22, scary.

What have I done…

We worked at Burger King on Tittibawassee Tuesday, no work Monday or Wednesday, and will be at BK on Holland Thursday. I hate Burger Kings. They all have identical landscaping, the beds are spread apart so is seems like forever, and there is always alot of traffic.

Still no room cleaning. I did find a TV stand though, I think. I am strongly considering the one at Staples, as it is one of the few I can find for decently cheap, has adjustable shelves, and has a base large enough for my TV but not excessively so.

Also, no BBDB work, as the dogs messed all my cards around. Ok, I could easily have sorted them within a few minutes, Im just too lazy, there, happy? I said it.

Jenn and I went to AmericInn on Monday. You can use their pool, spa, and sauna for $4 a person. I presume it’s for all day use, but you don’t get a card of anything, so probably need to re-pay if you left and tried to come back.

My brother might be moving out again. He has an interview in Livonia for a job doing car detailing. Mom is crushed of course, and I am unsure. Yeah, it might be a great opportunity for him, but Labadie is a great place too. I don’t know.

OK folks, thats all for today. See you Saturday.

nick

If you build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.

More Photos

Photos, MBNA, Apple, Delta, Last summer, and Poll.

I have finally posted the photos of the dogs, as well as photos of some people. I want to work on getting better scans now, I didn’t realize how lousy some of them looked. Comment and ask, and I am sure I will work harder. Honestly, I slack because I feel you people don’t give a rats ass.

My MBNA loan is over. They are apparently not charging me the $.38 in interest I thought I owed. I am just glad to have one more debt out of the way.

Apple has, over the last week or so, released a new liquid cooled G5 to be shipped in July, and the Airport Express router which supports 802.11g 54MB/s wireless, wireless USB printing, and wireless audio. The 802.11g router and printing were available on the Airport Extreme, but audio is a new feature, and allows you to connect the router to any stereo and wirelessly sent audio from itunes to the stereo, very cool. Just $129 and is quite portable too.

I made Dean’s List at Delta. I am not too enthused, since I only had 6 credits, but still.

I miss last summer. Sleeping on the couch downstairs, watching “7 Days” at 2 am, new “This Old House” every Thursday at 3 am. I had a dry time from 12 when Family Guy ended till 2 though. I always found something though. I can’t remember why I didn’t work. I think I was on my “VERY part time” thing.

Notice that there is still no new poll. I can’t think of one right now, and you people don’t vote in them anyway. Maybe next time, or maybe they will just disappear.

Anyway, I am going to bed.
Good night.

nick

Why are restroom toilets horseshoe shaped?
And if they are better, why can’t we buy them like that?

It's Freaking Hot Out

Hot, Weekend, and that’s it.

It’s too freaking hot right now. Is 12:40 at night and just dropped under 80 degrees, not cool at all (pun intended).

So, I basically just spent last few days with Jenn. We drove to Midland today, mostly because car has air conditioning. Yesterday we went for a bike ride along the river walk. Sunday night my Mom and Suchyta showed up at Jenn’s and we all talked for a while.

OK, it’s too hot up here to stay, so I am going to sleep downstairs. All you with central air can go die.

I WILL have dog’s photos up soon, honest.

Friday,
nick

Supplies!

One Year!!!

First Post!, History, Changes, Plans, Failures, Update, and Notes.

Woohoo, I have a blog! I feel so special now, everyone else had a blog and I was feeling so left out. Now though, now I am somebody, now I am a Blogger!

Thats how it all started, 1 year ago today, at 2:21am. Now a year has passed, and I sit here writing my 130th post, with over 1320 visits to my site, and still have nothing useful to say.

I’ve moved from a web form on blogger, to using Kung-Log to post to blogger, to iblog on my .Mac account, and from a few pics hosted on .Mac to a full website.

A lot has changed in my life to, outside my blog. I’ve moved upstairs, finally gotten settled into grandma’s house, received an associates degree, applied for several jobs, gotten a wonderful girlfriend, and so much more.

Future changes I hope will include moving more from the website to the blog (notice there is now a stories category), moving back to a single counter, and adding a search. Also, I hope to move away from my “3 day rule” and become more spontaneous in my updates, posting whenever I feel the urge.

Outside the poll, I hope the next year will finally bring me back to GM, maybe another degree, and who knows what else.

What hasn’t happened? Well, v3b4 is still beta, and v3b5 will probably be around soon. It will surely be different, and will be based on my moving things from the website right into the blog.

OK, so the normal stuff…

Monday after the blog, I went to Jenn’s, as did I Tuesday and Wednesday, and will tonight. Tuesday was a rain day, but yesterday and today we worked. Tuesday night Jenn and I went to Van Oghtingham’s (I know that’s spelled wrong) for some flowers for her house, then Meijer and over here to make tacos. Last night she wasn’t home till 9:30, so we didn’t do much.

So that’s it, all I have done.

Mac users, 10.3.4 is out.

BC State park is flooded, so don’t expect to go camping this weekend.

Water, Juice and Tea bottles may have deposit soon.

And that is it for me tonight.

If you are leaving for Memorial Day weekend, have a safe trip and enjoy yourself, and Happy Memorial Day. If not, I will see you on Sunday with my 131st update, unless I get bored before then.

nick

Proof old habits die hard: “Telephone Poles” haven’t carried telephone lines in several years. Most telephone lines are buried. Power Poles, or Cable Poles, would be a better choice. Actually, “Power Lines”, is bad too, since they really carry energy, power isn’t produced until we do something with that energy.