well part of my time if not most of it has been spent at my new job at TEH GOOGLES. I am a contract worker but its better than nothing and MUCH better than tech support. I am making more money, plus not doing tech support plus getting a free bus pass and free meal. I want to get some new pictures up. I have kinda been playing WoW but will most likely cancel my account for now till I get a new mac hopefully within the next few months. By dec. for sure. Also trying to get my ps3 fixed, which should be done soon.

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I never knew how tired of a bus route I could get. the 230 going home is just getting on my nerves because every time I ride it means I am still working at Innuity. Still no word and still no indication of a start date or a anything about bus passes. I think part of why today is worse is that my kitty of 8 years is gone. It still kinda hurts but not as much, I think when bobbie stops looking for him it will be easier. I think the start of next month will ease a lot of stress since then I know I have at least 18 days left at Innuity as at the latest I will be starting June 21st. Then most likely a month after that I will be moving into whatever new place I find which is most likely going to be in with paul, then sometime getting an iPhone and getting in with AT&T. I think I should then have a new mac by tax time of next year depending on job situations. It will be nice working in downtown kirckland so it will be a change of pace. I just hope they let us have laptops/cell phones there, I havnt asked yet. I also havnt asked about MP3 players, I have a feeling that if it is with a QA position for google maps we dont need to hear anything so it should be alright. I wonder how many people there will want to take the PAX friday off, I can assume most of us. PAX, now there is a thing that has changed, dont know if I want to stay in a hotel with jon or not.

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well I havnt posted anything in a while mainly because I havnt had too much to post. I have pics from the trip that I need to get onto my computer sooner rather than later. The trip down to cali was…interesting and an eye opener in many ways. Found some things about my brother that I wish I hadnt, saw a side of my sister that I havnt. Bad then good. Some new things for the good, I got a new job at google with Randstad. Got my drivers license.

Today has been bitter sweet. The bitter part is that I didnt get paid and the morons forgot to send my check so I couldnt even deposit it. They are supposed to fedex one to me though and it should be here tomorrow. The good.. I did find out that I have one of 3 start dates-June 7th, 14th or 21st at 8:00am-4:30pm, 5:45am-2:15pm, and 2:45pm-11:15pm shifts. I am hoping I get either the 8am start of 2:45pm start. The 2:45 would mean I am most likely sharing a desk which isnt that big of a deal since it would only be for 1-3 months till the building is complete. As with the shifts. To add even more craziness to it our lease is up at the end of July. So IF I do start June 21 I will have a few weeks of the job then stiring things up again. I also get to drive home since mum and dad are going to be dropping the car off for me today.

My relationship situation has kinda stayed the same. I was supposed to have to have a few dates but 2 of the people didnt get back to me and Emma forgot to wake up. She is a woman I can see being a fun date. Course there is also Breanna, but A) I dont think she is on the rebound and B) she is almost graduated and looking at a military career.

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So I have been getting a lot of spam comments, so I am disabling them. Not that anybody is really commenting at all, course I havnt been posting anything so I guess that does make a difference. If you want to comment just e-mail me.

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Here is the list my sister re-created a few weeks ago.

The list started a long time ago, had it’s day in the spotlight, then ended up in the trash. It started again on a sunny day, just like the day it started the first time eight years earlier. I vow to have no repeats, and otherwise to always accept whatever anyone sends my way. I also vow to give them due credit. The ones without a name were mine and thus-need no name. Here it is as of February 18, 2010!

Why life is great
1. Game faces
2. Tattoos
3. Pizza
4. Going “green”
5. Mac
6. Puppies
7. Contests
8. Crayola
9. Post-its
10. Sunrises
11. The beach
12. Random smiles
13. MLIA
14. Camp friends
15. Family resemblance
16. AP Style
17. Naps
18. Pushing the elevator buttons (Andrea Norman)
19. Scratch cat tongues (Andrea Norman)
20. Stable relationships (Andrea Norman)
21. LASER shows (Peter Corwin)
22. Waterproof socks (Peter Corwin)
23. Hookah (Peter Corwin)
24. Going to the same hookah bar so much that they know you by name AND give you a discount because of it (Peter Corwin)
25. Being a regular (Katie Westlake)
26. Long drives on sunny days (Katie Westlake)
27. Getting acceptance letters (Katie Westlake)
28. Beer (Katie Westlake)
29. Being with you (Nick Ingerslev)
30. Cuddling
31. Teddy bears
32. Scented candles
33. Fire
34. Bear hugs
35. Lion kisses
36. Finding joy in the little things (Jeremiah Dickenson)
37. Enough people to laugh at and make the day go by faster (Jeremiah Dickenson)
38. Amazing websites (Jeremiah Dickenson)
39. Extreme crosswalk dancing (Erin Dodge)
40. Friends (Jeremy Clark)
41. Loved ones (Jeremy Clark)
42. Great food (Jeremy Clark)
43. Exploring (Jeremy Clark)
44. A crazy fast internet connection (Jeremy Clark)
45. Cute boys (Katie Westlake)
46. Snuggling (Katie Westlake)
47. Nerdery (Katie Westlake)
48. Web comics (Katie Westlake)
49. Thunderstorms (Katie Westlake)
50. Stars (Katie Westlake)
51. Fart jokes (Katie Westlake)
52. Going for long walks (Katie Westlake)
53. Photography (Katie Westlake)
54. Days off with pay (Katie Westlake)
55. Christmas (Katie Westlake)
56. Refrigeration (Katie Westlake)
57. Reconnecting with old friends (because it’s like making new ones that just happen to have all the same memories) (Katie Westlake)
58. Travel (Katie Westlake)
59. Getting lost (Katie Westlake)
60. Boogers
61. Sunshine through the window
62. Cute clothes on sale
63. Kittens
64. Coloring
65. The Simpsons
66. Getting dirty
67. Giant coffee mugs
68. Boobs (Peter Corwin)
69. Inside jokes
70. Jeans that fit just right
71. HGTV
72. Games on your cell phone
73. Brits
74. Porn (Peter Corwin)
75. Wind blown hair
76. Skylights
77. One track minds (Katie Westlake)
78. Maps
79. Conan the Barbarian (Nick Ingerslev)
80. Alton Brown
81. Sean Connery
82. Accents (Peter Corwin)
83. Cheese (Peter Corwin)
84. Your mom jokes (Peter Corwin)
85. Your mom (Peter Corwin)
86. Twirling your hair
87. Grilled cheese
88. Puppy love
89. Camping
90. Polka dots
91. Real love (Chet Dickenson)
92. Giving yourself totally to another (Chet Dickenson)
93. Hugging (Chet Dickenson)
94. Kissing (Chet Dickenson)
95. Ventriloquism (Chet Dickenson)
96. Really good magicians who can help us escape reality for just enough of that moment that you need to (Chet Dickenson)
97. Cars (Chet Dickenson)
98. Muscle cars (Chet Dickenson)
99. Hot rods (Chet Dickenson)
100. Harley Davidsons (Chet Dickenson)
101. Triumphs (Chet Dickenson)
102. Art… not that unitellectual slop: real art, Renaissance to modern, cubism to dada, art deco! Van Gogh to Da Vinci to Rockwell… (Chet Dickenson)
103. Hostels
104. Men’s manly facial hair (Chet Dickenson)
105. The Bible (Chet Dickenson)
106. People of other faiths, beliefs and culture (Chet Dickenson)
107. Taylor Mason (Chet Dickenson)
108. James Taylor (Chet Dickenson)
109. Jeff Dunham (Chet Dickenson)
110. Comedy (Chet Dickenson)
111. Really cool and fun sisters (Chet Dickenson)
112. Bikinis (Chet Dickenson)
113. Demetri Martin (Peter Corwin)
114. Mitch Hedberg (Peter Corwin)
115. Lewis Black (Peter Corwin)
116. The Daily Show (Peter Corwin)
117. It’s Always Sunny in Philedelphia (Peter Corwin)
118. Day Man (Peter Corwin)
119. Night Man (Peter Corwin)
120. The Night Man Cometh (Peter Corwin)
121. Pay Day (Peter Corwin)
122. Netflix (Peter Corwin)
123. Death Star (Peter Corwin)
124. Soft jeans
125. Docks (Anthony Keiper)
126. Coffee
127. Unexpected visits
128. Coincidence
129. Serendipity
130. Coupling
131. Roller skates
132. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
133. Wine
134. Mason
135. Chucks
136. Goofy socks
137. Goofy smiles
138. Basalt
139. Head (Anthony Keiper)
140. Twin things
141. Laughing at those who deserve it (Jeremiah Dickenson)
142. Sisters who create silly lists (Jeremiah Dickenson)
143. Magnets
144. Making developers cry (because it’s your job) (Peter Corwin)
145. Spooning
146. Golden retrievers (Scott Willson)
147. Rain (Scott Willson)
148. The space program (Scott Willson)
149. Keyboard cat
150. Cool sheets
151. Beerphanies
152. Silliness
153. Wanda Sykes
154. Sitcoms
155. Frank Sinatra (Chet Dickenson)
156. Dean Martin (Chat Dickenson)
157. Bobby Darrin, Bobby Darrin, Bobby Darrin! (Chet Dickenson)
158. Reba McEntire (Chet Dickenson)
159. Fender and Gibson guitars (Chet Dickenson)
160. Seagull acoustic guitars (Chet Dickenson)
161. Long hikes in the forest (Chet Dickenson)
162. Rock climbing (Chet Dickenson)
163. Peter Corwin (Chet Dickenson)
164. Shaun White: Snowboard Superstar (Chet Dickenson)
165. Flo from Progressive
166. Teeny plastic lizards
167. Set
168. Text smiley faces
169. Toast
170. Mother-in-laws
171. Family
172. Belly rubs
173. Camp fires
174. Pez
175. Birthday cards
176. Chap stick
177. Build-a-Bear
178. Sharing
179. Movie posters
180. Live music
181. That look my dog gives me when he is totally happy
182. Far away friends
183. Making people laugh
184. Up (Lissie Monicatti)
185. My cat (Lissie Monicatti)
186. My job (Lissie Monicatti)
187. Reading in the park
188. Newspapers
189. Candy
190. Stickers
191. Indonesians
192. Nasi goreng
193. Buying recycled
194. Hemp
195. Hot showers
196. Going for a walk with your dog
197. Horn-rimmed glasses
198. White guy afros
199. Good cologne
200. Street performers
201. Bullshit (the show hosted by Penn and Teller) (Peter Corwin)
202. Bullshit (Katie Westlake)
203. Karma (Katie Westlake)
204. Sunsets (Katie Westlake)
205. The Venture Brothers (Katie Westlake)
206. The IT Crowd (Katie Westlake)
207. Diet Coke (Katie Westlake)
208. Playing pool (Katie Westlake)
209. Lake days (Katie Westlake)
210. Punch cards (Katie Westlake)
211. Mechanical pencils (Katie Westlake)
212. Writing (Katie Westlake)
213. Stamps
214. Matches
215. Homemade things
216. Toys
217. Romance novels
218. The Olympics
219. The smell of just-blown-out matches
220. Potential
221. Originality
222. Good questions
223. Good stories
224. Smooth legs
225. Mission trips (Jeremiah Dickenson)
226. Graffiti
227. Lazaga
228. Cookies (Chet Dickenson)
229. Fudge (Chet Dickenson)
230. Hot chocolate on a cold winter day (Chet Dickenson)
231. Flying (Chet Dickenson)
232. Being a pilot (in command) (Chet Dickenson)
233. Surfing (with a surfboard) (Chet Dickenson)
234. Hawaii (Chet Dickenson)
235. California (Chet Dickenson)
236. Going fast (Chet Dickenson)
237. The Beatles (Chet Dickenson)
238. Larry Norman (Chet Dickenson)
239. Wildwall (Chet Dickenson)
240. 2nd Chapter of Acts (Chet Dickenson)
241. Archeology (Chet Dickenson)
242. Exercising (Chet Dickenson)
243. Being dizzy (Chet Dickenson)
244. A good wine shared (Chet Dickenson)
245. Westerns (Chet Dickenson)
246. John Wayne (Chet Dickenson)
247. King fu (Chet Dickenson)
248. Karate (Chet Dickenson)
249. Martial arts movies (Chet Dickenson)
250. Chuck Norris (Chet Dickenson)
251. Bruce Lee (Chet Dickenson)
252. Live theater (Chet Dickenson)
253. Swimming (Chet Dickenson)
254. Diving (Chet Dickenson)
255. Canoes (Chet Dickenson)
256. Kayaks (Chet Dickenson)
257. Sailing (Chet Dickenson)
258. Doing when you can, watching when you can’t (Chet Dickenson)
259. Great books (Chet Dickenson)
260. John Grisham (Chet Dickenson)
261. Charles Dickens (Chet Dickenson)
262. Mark Twain (Chet Dickenson)
263. Tom Clancy (Chet Dickenson)
264. C.S. Lewis (Chet Dickenson)
265. Great people (Chet Dickenson)
266. Billy Graham (Chet Dickenson)
267. Martin Luther (Chet Dickenson)
268. Martin Luther King (Chet Dickenson)
269. Sexy curling players (Katie Westlake)
270. Cheetoes
271. Eating things you shouldn’t
272. Toys from vending machines
273. Evaporation
274. Elmo socks
275. New music
276. Fever dog277. Red Horse Diner
278. Pancakes
279. Seagull feet
280. Peeling paint
281. Doorways
282. Crashing waves
283. The park
284. Warm laundry
285. CMND (CTRL)+ F
286. Birthday parties
287. Rubber bands
288. Polaroid
289. Sun-bleached hair
290. Hot tea
291. Empty spaces
292. Photo quests
293. Nicholas Kristof
294. Cheesecake
295. Snorting
296. Personalization
297. Puppy cam
298. Lavender
299. Iron Horse Brewery
300. Duct tape
301. Fortune cookies
302. Cruise food
303. Water slides
304. Graduation
305. Food fights
306. Tweed
307. Turquoise
308. Brothers
309. Claw foot tubs
310. Tapestries
311. The French
312. Weed, CA
313. Sharpies
314. No smoking signs
315. Yummy leftovers
316. Getting published
317. Skype
318. The arrivals gate
319. Pretty pictures
320. Old music
321. Hyphenated first names
322. Abbreviations
323. Deviant Art
324. Updating your resume
325. Strong quotes
326. Embarrassing stories
327. Ears that stick out
328. Polyester
329. Foreign money
330. Nerd albums
331. Almost Famous
332. Journaling
333. “He was never a person. He was a journalist.”
334. Hair that smells good
335. Cows
336. Baby animals
337. Dishwashers
338. Lamps
339. Movies that change you
340. People that change you
341. Having an impact
342. Soft t-shirts
343. Voices that resonate
344. Good soundtracks
345. Bylines
346. Nicholas Sparks
347. Real-life fairy tales
348. Love at first sight
349. Blankies
350. Painted toenails (Andrea Norman)
351. Jackie Chan (Chet Dickenson)
352. Hockey (Chet Dickenson)
353. Huge messy hamburgers (Chet Dickenson)
354. Mom and pop-owned great hamburger joints (Chet Dickenson)

If you want to add more just leave a comment. I think last time we had the list to over 2000. I will also update it with the comments from here as well as the one from my sisters FaceBook account

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Here are the images in the scattered way that it is.

http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc98/purpledevilduck/Vacation%202010/ are the photo’s from my brothers photo-bucket account. I plan to upload them all to my site as well, might be some duplicates in there.

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I know what you are thinking, how are the women in combat and my new years resolutions related and the answer is they are not. This should be 2 blogs but because I am feeling lazy and tired this monday morning I will make them into one. First is my new years resolutions since its 4 days later than I promised.

1. Get in shape, I need to get in shape and loose more of my gut. I have been saying I will do this for so long now but I just dont seem to do it. This year my brother wants to get into the Police Accadamy so he needs to get into shape for that so more motivation for both of us.

2. Move out of my folks place, ok so this one is going to happen one of 2 ways. The first is my brother and I will be moving out of state which is clearly out of our folks’ apartment. The 2nd way would be still moving in with Jon but just moving into a house and getting either a car together or 2 motorcycles.

3. Get a better job. This one is going to be the first and easyiest one out of all if our fearless leader is right about the economy and job situation. This is part about the money and part of where I work right now. I hate both. This one should also be done by mid Feb. I wont quit my current job till I have a new one secured.

3. Get back to school. I want to get back to school to get my degree. I know it wont happen till the previous 2 get done since I flat out dont make enough. I want to get my degree since it would help me with jobs and knowledge. It would also help with me growing up myself as a man.

Now women in combat. I never understood why they didnt allow this till a few days ago. Its not that they dont make effective fighters, they sometimes make better fighters than men. Its not that they are weaker which they can be. Its the men. Men are protective creatures. Men in the military have that beaten into them harder than women because they do the fighting. I never realized this till I because super protective of my sister making the biggest mistake of her life and I am powerless to do anything about it. As a guy this feeling sucks.

Ok so there is another part as to why they dont allow women in combat which in a way is silly. Sex. Men like it and want it most of the time. The military is already fighting agaist this type of stuff. The biggest reason this is so bad is that sex leads to love. Sex also leads to affection which messes with emotions. In the heat of battle if you have to make a call that could end some of your buddies lives but save more important or just plain more lives you are gong to be hard pressed to do that with your buddies but so much more hard pressed to do that if they are your lover as well. As a side not that I dont know if its true or not, but the Spartans had a group of gay soldiers. They thought you would fight harder for your lover than your buddie. Its most likely true, however with modern day combat that just doesnt apply anymore.

This should be an interesting year. I hope yall have a good one. Feel free to comment or make suggestions.

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YAY Macs now have google chrome. So far it is decent, a bit faster and easier to use that safari. I want to know about security as well as we will see how reliable it is. I am going to start using it as soon as I re-start which will be tomorrow/tonightish. I am trying to get it to not download the way it does. We will also see if it picks up some of the goodies that FF has like the search bar in the top right. This weekend and payday also cant come soon enough. This weekend for rest, payday well for that reason. I want sleep, want to be able to sleep with out having to worry about over sleeping for work.

Next week I turn 23. That means that there is also 8 days till christmas then, and then 2 weeks 5 days till we fly out for our cruise.

More later after I restart

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A nice essay I wrote for a college english class. It pissed my prof off to no end which was funny since in a way that was what it was meant to do. It is a .pdf so everybody should be able to read it.

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