I think I'll take a moment, celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it's time to focus in on where I go from here
Lord, have mercy on my next thirty years
Hey my next thirty years, I'm gonna have some fun
Try to forget about all the crazy things I've done
Maybe now I've conquered all my adolescent fears
I'll do it better in my next thirty years
My next thirty years I'm gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I'm doin' here
In my next thirty years
Oh my next thirty years, I'm gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers, huh
Maybe I'll remember my next thirty years
My next thirty years will be the best years of my life
Raise a little family and hang out with my wife
Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear
Make up for lost time here, in my next thirty years....tm
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Just a short post as I am fast approaching "lastday" and I have much to do. Tomorrow, among other things is Gage's first day of trick-or-treating. I know that he'll flirt with any girl that he gets a chance too, so I'll probably have a lot of candy at the house.
I was out this evening buying a couple of gifts to send to my cousin and his fiancee and I was in Best Buy (I know...bad idea) and I thought that I would see how much Logan's Run was selling for. Turns out, I picked it up for $5.99. So, on the eve of my 30th birthday I watched an entire movie about a society that eliminates you on your 30th birthday. If I had a crystal embedded in my hand, it would be blinking red like crazy right now. My palm would look like Rudolph's nose on acid.
Although there were certainly parts of the society that I liked. The women were dressed nice and scantily and there seemed to be no marriage type arrangements. Along with that seemed to be no family responsibilities. So, if I was only living to thirty, that would certainly be the society to do it in. However, I think my life is going along fairly well right now. I just need to nail down that new job with the better paycheck and everything should fall right into place for several years to come.
I think that's enough for tonight. I need to get to sleep since I have to wake up early, so that I can go into work early, so that I can get out early to watch Gage collect candy he can't eat from people we don't know. Maybe they are right when they say I'm crazy.
I was out this evening buying a couple of gifts to send to my cousin and his fiancee and I was in Best Buy (I know...bad idea) and I thought that I would see how much Logan's Run was selling for. Turns out, I picked it up for $5.99. So, on the eve of my 30th birthday I watched an entire movie about a society that eliminates you on your 30th birthday. If I had a crystal embedded in my hand, it would be blinking red like crazy right now. My palm would look like Rudolph's nose on acid.
Although there were certainly parts of the society that I liked. The women were dressed nice and scantily and there seemed to be no marriage type arrangements. Along with that seemed to be no family responsibilities. So, if I was only living to thirty, that would certainly be the society to do it in. However, I think my life is going along fairly well right now. I just need to nail down that new job with the better paycheck and everything should fall right into place for several years to come.
I think that's enough for tonight. I need to get to sleep since I have to wake up early, so that I can go into work early, so that I can get out early to watch Gage collect candy he can't eat from people we don't know. Maybe they are right when they say I'm crazy.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Hi,
I'm bill and I approve this message.
Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, I don't even know where to begin. We've done a ton of stuff since the last time that I actually made it to updating this page. Concerts, theater in the round, birthday parties, work, more work, a whirlwind house cleaning the likes of which have never been seen in my house before, and probably a lot of other stuff that I'm forgetting. Unlike the political advertising which I'm not forgetting, but trying to block out completely.
I'm sure that I'll go back and give my little spin on most of the events of the past twenty days or so, but for now I just wanted to get something up on the page so that it didn't feel as though I've fallen off the face of the earth.
Gage is doing well. He's getting bigger and still attempting to push through a tooth or two. My uncles finally brought him a high chair so now it's up to us to set an adequate feeding schedule so he can enjoy something besides milk (though you can't beat the bottle it comes in).
I also wanted to extend condolences to the family over at Hendrick's motorsports. You'll never hear me say a good word about the number 24 driver, but Rick is a good influence in and around Nascar and didn't deserve (not that anyone does) the tragedy that happened on Sunday. So, here's to a quick healing for all involved.
Not much else is going on today. We're kind of preparing for Gage's first halloween a little. We have his costume, but we're not decorating the house since we don't plan on being there. We're headed up to Mark and Robyn's house to trick or treat with Jacob. I have to finish a test for my on-line computer class by 11:59 tonight and I haven't really even started yet. Hopefully it's not overly difficult. Although nothing I've taken there has been. I guess that's enough for now. Possibly more tomorrow or even later tonight if the test is overly easy.
I'm bill and I approve this message.
Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, I don't even know where to begin. We've done a ton of stuff since the last time that I actually made it to updating this page. Concerts, theater in the round, birthday parties, work, more work, a whirlwind house cleaning the likes of which have never been seen in my house before, and probably a lot of other stuff that I'm forgetting. Unlike the political advertising which I'm not forgetting, but trying to block out completely.
I'm sure that I'll go back and give my little spin on most of the events of the past twenty days or so, but for now I just wanted to get something up on the page so that it didn't feel as though I've fallen off the face of the earth.
Gage is doing well. He's getting bigger and still attempting to push through a tooth or two. My uncles finally brought him a high chair so now it's up to us to set an adequate feeding schedule so he can enjoy something besides milk (though you can't beat the bottle it comes in).
I also wanted to extend condolences to the family over at Hendrick's motorsports. You'll never hear me say a good word about the number 24 driver, but Rick is a good influence in and around Nascar and didn't deserve (not that anyone does) the tragedy that happened on Sunday. So, here's to a quick healing for all involved.
Not much else is going on today. We're kind of preparing for Gage's first halloween a little. We have his costume, but we're not decorating the house since we don't plan on being there. We're headed up to Mark and Robyn's house to trick or treat with Jacob. I have to finish a test for my on-line computer class by 11:59 tonight and I haven't really even started yet. Hopefully it's not overly difficult. Although nothing I've taken there has been. I guess that's enough for now. Possibly more tomorrow or even later tonight if the test is overly easy.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Free at last, free at last...huh? Wonderful! After completing my nightmare project only moments ago (14 to be exact) I found out that after successfully avoiding the 30 days in the hole of customer service for almost a year...I've been drafted. So, I basically move from one nightmare into another. And people wonder why I don't like my job.
Well Gage has started to eat cereal. At least what the pediatrician calls cereal. I call it...well...you don't want to know that, but it's nasty.
After reading Dek's latest post, all I can say is, I have an alibi. I was, um, somewhere else at that point.
Not much else exciting is going on in my world. I have an accounting test next week that I should put some study time on. However, the main compenents of the test are stocks and bonds. Should be fairly easy material as long as I can remember the difference between par and common stock.
One more hour to kill and I can get out of here. I've filed away everything from the project, sent out the required project summaries to the required people, arranged my desk back into it's proper configuration. And I found a site called blogthings. Not a whole lot, but the lists of where you're from are pretty interesting and accurate for the most part. Oddly enough they had one for Lancaster Pa. where my Aunt and Uncle have lived for a long time. I've seen the Pittsburgh ones before, they made their way around in e-mail forwards and I don't even see the need to post it here, but there were two that really made me laugh. You know you're from Pittsburgh when you walk carefully when it's "slippy" outside. And, you know you're from Pittsburgh when you've ever gotten hurt falling into a "jaggerbush". Those two really reminded me of childhood. I was on a sled that found the snow too slippy and ended up riding right through a jaggerbush into a ditch. Hurt like hell.
Anyway, not much else is going on around here so I think I'm done for today. Hopefully I'll have something more intelligent to say tomorrow (I know, I can already hear the jokes in the background). So, I'll just say, "Have a good day today and a better one tomorrow."
Well Gage has started to eat cereal. At least what the pediatrician calls cereal. I call it...well...you don't want to know that, but it's nasty.
After reading Dek's latest post, all I can say is, I have an alibi. I was, um, somewhere else at that point.
Not much else exciting is going on in my world. I have an accounting test next week that I should put some study time on. However, the main compenents of the test are stocks and bonds. Should be fairly easy material as long as I can remember the difference between par and common stock.
One more hour to kill and I can get out of here. I've filed away everything from the project, sent out the required project summaries to the required people, arranged my desk back into it's proper configuration. And I found a site called blogthings. Not a whole lot, but the lists of where you're from are pretty interesting and accurate for the most part. Oddly enough they had one for Lancaster Pa. where my Aunt and Uncle have lived for a long time. I've seen the Pittsburgh ones before, they made their way around in e-mail forwards and I don't even see the need to post it here, but there were two that really made me laugh. You know you're from Pittsburgh when you walk carefully when it's "slippy" outside. And, you know you're from Pittsburgh when you've ever gotten hurt falling into a "jaggerbush". Those two really reminded me of childhood. I was on a sled that found the snow too slippy and ended up riding right through a jaggerbush into a ditch. Hurt like hell.
Anyway, not much else is going on around here so I think I'm done for today. Hopefully I'll have something more intelligent to say tomorrow (I know, I can already hear the jokes in the background). So, I'll just say, "Have a good day today and a better one tomorrow."
