Well here it is, another New Year's Eve while working. I'm not sure how many I have worked over the last five years, it very well might be all of them, but I honestly can not recall.
Work was fun this last round. We were understaffed by half the amount of people that we should have had, but we weren't overwhelmed too badly actually.
I'm pretty exhausted right now. Those of you that have been reading my blog can probably guess a few reasons as to why I might be tired. Actually, I've been pretty tired this entire break, and prior to it. My energy level is just way down I guess, though I've mentioned that before. Maybe if I wasn't so tired I'd do a few more things that I want to do.
Well, another year is about to come to pass, another series of months were people write the wrong year on checks and papers, and another year of resolutions. This year I resolve to make a resolution. That's at least one resolution you know that will have come to pass ^_^
Well, I need to get back to work.
TUMEO.
Got back from Arkansas about an hour ago. The funeral was very nice. The visitation was strange, but there were lots of very beautiful flowers and plants that were sent. I will talk more about it later. I work the next 2 days, and most likely the next 5 days really, so not sure when I might get a chance to really write about it.
TUMEO.
Today, around Eight Thirty in the AM Central Standard Time, my Grandfather Smith passed on. I am sad to no longer have him with us, but happy that he is in a better place where he can hear, see, and walk without a limp. I will greatly miss him, going to the farm and feeding the cattle with him, hearing him tell his stories. The funeral is going to be held on Tuesday, either in the morning or afternoon. It appears like I will be a ball bearer, which I consider a great honor, one that I will be glad to do for such a great man whom I loved. My prayers are now for my Grandmother Smith mainly, and all my relatives secondly.
My sisters, over the course of the time from Grandfather Smith being hospitalized until today have written a few poems. I have thought of a few lines of a poem as well, but have not, at this time, completed it. Perhaps later today, or tommorrow I will have something worth while to post.
My sisters are at Kohl's right now, when they get back I'm sure we'll go out and do some things, try and have some fun, shoot some pool, or maybe just stay at home a play a card game or watch a movie.
All my love I send to you,
Grandpa I bid you adieu.
Welp, I'm here at my sister's house in McKinney, Texas. Kyle seems to like the additional gifts that he got, though he has a bit o' overload going on with so many new toys. The sisters and I ran around outside for awhile, after getting down here, with Kyle and the dog, Melody. Kyle is playing with the gift I got him right now, it's a good noise maker, a noise maker that shakes and doesn't have an off button, gotta love that. All three of my sisters went shopping breifly with Kyle being dragged along, they were looking at shoes. My grandpa Potter and I took a nap on the couch. John should be home from work shortly, and so should the food from Jason's Deli that Jennifer and my Grandpa went to pick up. I got another movie from my sister and bro-in-law, Good Will Hunting. Maybe when John gets here I'll play a bit o' pool with him, have to move the pool table first though.
Stopping my typing every now and then to go chase Kyle around the room. I've got some ideas for website redesign, but I'm going to have to work on my family website first. Gotta get a link to the photo gallery up and running, as well as organize the gallery and setup the users for it. Going to have to look at the code for the gallery page and figure out how to manipulate it so it looks a tiny bit different.
John just pulled up, so time to hug and sign off of this.
TUMEO.
I'm really tired right now. Just got done from work, kinda busy but not too bad. Going to watch some Trigun after I finish typing this post.
There's still not much change in my Grandfather's condition. We (my two sisters and Grandpa Potter) are traveling down to Texas tommorrow to see my other sister, Laura, so that will be good, get to see her, her husband and my nephew.
I've been having a lot of fun with the Mexican Bullwhip my sister and brother-in-law Jen and Rene got for me. I haven't opened all of my presents yet, so I'll post what all I got later.
Contacts out, Trigun, sleep.
TUMEO.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!
I hope that everyone has a wonderful day today. Remember the reason for the season. I hope all find happiness today, hug your friends and family, smile, dance a little dance, sing a little song.
TUEMO.
Came home late last night, around 4:30 am, after hanging out with my friends over at teh (teh is a purposeful "typo" John =P) LAN. Made a quick little banner for the site. Got a few gifts too.
So, I came home and was picking up a few presents that the cats had made fly while playing with each other when my sister, Emily came downstairs thinking the cats were messing up the presents even more. After we walked upstairs she informed me that my Grandpa Smith, who lives in Arkansas, had had a massive stroke and was at the hospital were he was currently unresponsive but had a heart beat and was breathing on his own. Not always the nicest thing to come home to. Well, I went to bed. His status now is that there is still swelling in his head, and the doctors aren't sure if he will last the day or not. So, for those of you reading this, if you'd pray for my Grandpa, that God would do what He will, whether it be to take him home or have him stay on earth longer. I know he has lived a long and happy life so far.
I think that's all I have to say about that for now. Not sure when I might be going to teh LAN again with this happening. My parents left this morning around 9:20 for Arkansas, they just arrived at their about 5-10 minutes ago (or at least called that long ago). He is currently still in the same condition.
Alright, well, I think I'll wrap the last of my Christmas presents and then maybe play a few card games/board games with my siblings and Grandpa Potter.
TUMEO.
I'm not really sure what to type, I had something thought up about an hour or two hours ago, but I can't seem to think of what it was, so I'll just type random things and see what comes out.
I just trimmed my face down to the skin a little while ago, actually, I did that just before I started typing this. I still need to shave it since the bread trimmer only gets so close to the face, need to make it baby smooth ~_^. Now, there are several "rumors" out there about when I shave my face and when I don't. Several members of my family seem to think I shave my face whenever there is a girl I am after, this is seldom the case as I am seldom ever attempting to go after a girl. Nor do I just let my hair grow out just to make my mother go insane. It is quite simple, really. I'm lazy, and I don't want to shave my face every day. After awhile I get tired of having hair on my face, so I shave it off, it's that simple.
Got a tiny bit more Christmas shopping done today, I think I've got all my friends taken care of now, though there are still about four people I think that I would like to get something for, but not really sure what to get for them. I think I might get a nice Christmas card and write a poem or just something nice.
I am amazed that my family actually seems interested in updating their weblogs, and it makes me happy. Maybe it won't just be something they get into when they first have it and then after a month they barely use it at all.
I think I am going to head up to my dorm room tommorrow, I need to pick up one or two items I forgot, so that will be a three to three and a half hours of time taken up tommorrow.
I'm also thinking of heading back to the LAN tonight, but this time no FFXI like last night, I really want to work on some website stuff, whether it be my site, my family site or the Linkshell site.
Well, the rest of my family should be back from the movie they went to go watch soon, so we will see what the rest of the night has in store for me.
TUMEO.
Well, I worked today, got to unload the shipment, which got me a bit o' exercise. Then I went home and took a nice nap (not long enough because of people with loud projecting voices [everyone in my family]). Shortly after the nap I got called by work yet again (happened yesterday too). The computers up there were doing weird things, I think we need to do an overhaul on the system or something... . I got to eat at a nice place though, and with my food I got one of those little tiny plastic swords, so I went around stabbing everyone at work.
Well, I'm about to head over to teh LAN house (most likely), and, once I'm there, I plan on doing a small bit of webwork. Hopefully post 2 pictures and then do some organizing. Might even try and work on Big American Party a little bit with Jayjay.
Time to drive, or do something with siblings and then drive.
TUMEO.
I sit here, typing this out at work as I wait for the 2300 (11 pm) showing of LOTR: Return of the King to get out at 0235 (2:35 am). I love having to wait on 20 people who chose to come and watch that one showing. I missed yesterday, and nearly missed today as well, but I'm working a lot, so there.
My sister, Jennifer, has started to post on her AND her husband's weblog now in addition to my other sister, Laura. Jennifer and Rene seem to be requesting a different blog for each of them, I'll wait to see how frequently they post before even remotely thinking of doing that though.
I've been steadily improving my record for Acno's Energizer whenever I find myself getting board sitting at home, or during the small intervals of break time at the theatre. Of course, when I am the closing manager I have about 3 hours of time that I am just waiting... waiting... and waiting.
I think I'll go keep the usher that is stuck here company, or maybe send him home.
TUMEO.
Well, thanks to the good ol people at Addicting Games.com I have another game, besides helicopter to keep me busy when away from my gaming machine.
My cousin and her husband just left a little while ago, so the house is a little bit more empty once again, though that will not last long as my sister and her husband will be arriving tommorrow. I at least get my own bed for ONE night during this holiday season.
Got my sister hooked on Book Worm it seems, I do what I can ^_^. I work untill 11pm tonight, I'm very much hoping that I can get off early, but I doubt it very much, as I think I'm working with just Steve and Rob tonight... ::sigh:: and we have 11pm showings of LOTR every day until Christmas, so I'll actually be working till midnight or past. Thanks so much Home Office.
I work at 4pm today, so I think I will go and take a nap after I finish this up, which is now, so ZzZzZ.
TUMEO.
My beautiful and lovely sister, Laura, turns another year older today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!
I would have posted earlier, but I have been busy since I woke up. I woke up so I could hurry and get ready for work, which I would have to attend to immeaditly following a movie to be watched with several of my family members. We watched the 11am showing of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Yes, let's talk about a movie with a horrible plot, poor direction, horrible computer graphics, bad acting, makes-you-walk-out-half-way-through, I mean shesh.... actually, let's not talk about that, and instead a movie that is the complete opposite, LOTR. It was great, awesome and amazing. I imagine I'll see it several more times.
Well, I really just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my sister, now I need to get back to work.
TUMEO.
It's Nick Huber's B-day today, I think he is finally no longer a little 15 year old... though not completely sure on that one ^_^ , so Happy Birthday Nick.
The battle ended yesterday with victory once more. Saw 829 enemy troops, though in actuality, due to "friends" and "employees" that number is somewhere above 850. The enemy even got a bit clever, they strung some sort of device across a walkway in attempts to trip us, however, the only ones they would have ended up tripping would have been themselves, so maybe it wasn't so clever.
Got all the Christmas shopping out of the way for my family now, all that is left is friends. I'll have to try and figure out what little nick-nack to get everyone... maybe a 9800 XT ... naw, no one would like that.
Alrighty, food is almost here.
TUMEO.
I can see clearly the mission before me now, and as I adorne myself with the neccessary armor, I wonder if my mission is pure. Upon my legs I pull on gear that safely exposes naught an inch of skin. My feet, I clad with boots of steel, protection for my toes secured. For my body, a simpler piece of armor I wear. It leaves my arms bare, enabling my greater freedom and better ventaltion for quick movements during my battle. I wear a belt with two weapons attached, one to pentrate the evils of darkness, the other to swiftly cut through restrictive containers and quickly put back together the weapons neccassary for victory today. The battle will be fought against a vicous opponent who as repeatedly shown up for battle at the same time for the last two years. It is rumored that this will be the third and final battle, and thus far, we have been successful in holding of the horde. I hope and pray that we will not fail this battle, and I now summon all my strength and prays as I prepare to go forth and setup the battlements against this strange and hard to understand foe. They attempt to weaken our defenses at destroy our spirits at first by lining up there superior numbers where we can see and slowly trickling a few of their numbers towards our ranks, attacking our wall, forcing us to quickly deflect their weapons into your special containment areas and then shot back towards them weapons of our own. This trickle, however, is simply a tease though. Shortly after midnight, the send forth the full amount of their horde towards us, so many are their numbers that they quickly form lines behind one other, unable to all attack at once. I must go now, and prepare the great cauldrons so that they may issue forth our most potent weapon, pray for me, as I go forth to battle.
TUMEO.
Joe, who is my Hero, has gotten a cell phone. It was crazy, he called me and was like, yeah, I'm talking on a cell phone, and it's mine. I was amazed for like... a long time, my mind couldn't grasp that he was talking on a cell phone that was actually his. Now Joe needs to get a license.
Work was fun today. I got to go and unload the truck shipment. It arrived late, though I doubt that is any big suprise to those who have been around for it for the last... 6 months? I got lots of time on the clock though, and a very slight workout, which is always good. LOTR: Return of the king in 29 hours and 15'ish minutes.
Well, I think I shall go and do "family stuff" now, that or run off to teh LAN.
TUMEO.
This movie is good, if you haven't seen it, go and see it. If you have seen it, go and see it again. That is more than enough said.
Not bad, fifth (5th) day in a row I've managed to post, even if one of them was via Erik's deceptive ways. I'm very tired right now, and have a lot on my mind. Sometimes I allow myself to think too much, I think. Sometimes I allow myself to think too little. I was looking back through the things which I have posted on my site in the past. It's amazing the way I have been able to write in the past, and this method of creating such an end result feels as if it eludes me now. At times I feel like I'm reaching into the depths and manage to pull out bits and pieces of it, but then it all crumbles, falls apart, and I just can't complete, or more often, begin. I think I need to read more often, begin to read a book every night before I go to sleep. It is, after all, in books and on the computer that I have learned most of what I know because School and now College have only, it seems, robbed me of so much.
I have more I wish to partake in telling, but I feel, and fear, that I can not adaquetely preform that function at the moment.
TUMEO.
It's amazing... well, not amazing, but it's.... ummm... stinky? It's now "vacation time" from school, but for me, that just means "work time all the time", at least that's about what it seems. Back to working 4~5+ days a week, doing more work during the week then I did college. Less time for family, for fun, for computer games, and for friends, though not neccassarily in that order, but yeah. This will give some people time to catch up to me in FFXI that I passed awhile ago ^^
LOTR: Return of the King, yeah, all my friends... and pretty much everyone I know will be wanting to go and see this movie. It opens on Tuesday night (technically Wednesday morning) at ONE minute past midnight. I will, of course, be working for it. I get to work from 2200 to 0400 CST starting Tuesday evening. Movie is 3 hours and 30 minutes long (or thereabouts), so that's why the 0400 is there. It's doubtful I'll get to watch any of it in that time period as well, I mean, theoritically I could jump in and catch part of it, but why in the world would I want to watch it not in its entirety, from start to end. Oh well, maybe I'll catch the first showing on Wednesday... though since I'll be going to bed AFTER 0400 that would require waking up without getting much sleep, though I'd probably be willing to do it. And then there's the family factor, who all want to see it together, though I seriously doubt I'd be upset about seeing it more than once. One of my lovely sisters wants us to wait to see it until after she gets here from Lubbock, Texas. That would mean not seeing it until after the 20th most likely.... so yeah, I laugh at that.
I updated my main website's front page so it no longer contains a copy of what I'm posting here, but rather a link to here. There's still so much I need to do to clean up stuff... ::sigh::
Well, hopefully, I'll have my family starting to update there weblogs as well. I still need to do a lot of work with it though, mostly just work that makes it so it is easier for others to do work and thus me to not do work. So, if I get this work done, it means practically no future work for me, which would be very nice.
Alright, time to either do some webwork or play some FFXI.
TUMEO
. . . I miss my enthusiasm the most. I've just been turning lazier and lazier as time goes by it seems. It's like I've lost that spark that ignites the fuel of . . . energy? Maybe my flint stone 1 needs to be replaced, who knows.
In all actuality, I think my main problem stems from the fact that I am just not physically active as of late. I don't exercise what-so-ever anymore. When I did, I had more energy then, to the dismay of those around me, I knew what to do with. The problem is, well, a catch 22 in a way. I've become lazy, and in order to not be lazy I need to "workout" or just be active, however, I am too lazy to in fact "workout", so now that I am lazy, I can not be "unlazy".
A lot of people I know are starting to, or are already sick with something or another. I hope all get better. Crazy thing happened too. One of my friends and associate at work got robbed and stabbed and they took his car. He is alright, and doing fine, wasn't even in the hospital long, so I'm glad he is alright. It's crazy that this happened though. They have a lot of evidence though, and the guys who did it might be caught, which would be a good thing. Important thing though, he is alright and doing fine.
I'd like to talk about the OSU ..... it's barely even worthy of being called this, but, network, however, I'm tired, so not now. Sleep I think will be now.
TUMEO.
-=0044 CST=-
p.s.> Thanks to Erik for help with the text that is a different color on this page.
Well, I'm currently going through and changing the style of my weblog, I think it's starting to look good, still need to fix it where it doesn't stretch .... "badly" when the webpage is "full screened", and I think I'll change it to the "blog" area isn't having a white background, though maybe I should get some of you less color-vision imparied people's opinion on that one.
Next step will be making my main website, http://One-EyedFred.com no longer contain the "blog" at that location... not completely certain what I'm going to do about all my past posts... it will take a long long time to transfer them all over to here, so... I'll probably just make a link to "old entries" or something. And Erik, you should be happy now!! Hope you are feeling better too.
Well, I think that's all for now, more editing time.
TUMEO.
My weblog has moved location slightly, my next step, besides this update, is to make it look... not so... white. I *could* just put up a different template... but, I kinda want to create my own design.... though... I think I will *temporarily* throw up a different style for the meantime.
I have my Managerial accounting exam in 2 hours, oh joy. I think I'll do fine on it, as I have been doing fine in the class so far, so unless I have the biggest brain fart in history, I should ace it.
Only one more exam on Friday, and easy one... should be. Then, it's back home to homeness and LAN, both of which will be nice. I would take the time to write a few more items of interest, mainly concerning the internet here, or as I like to call it, OSU GAYnet, since I'm always so..... happy..... with it.. yeah......
More studying before exam time.
TUMEO.
The following entry is way past due, but I did write it out on paper, so I'm going to go ahead and post it now in it's original form, so, upon reading it, keep in mind that I wrote it prior to Thanksgiving, yes, I wrote an update that long ago and never got my lazy butt around to posting it.
TITLE: Bleh, not Blah
I've been feeling kinda yuck lately; College... it just seems to drag me further and farther into the... darkness.. yeah.. At least I have my friends to talk to, though rarely get to see >.< Just 4 to 6 semesters left though, that's what I keep telling myself. Of course, the question is, what's after that? Well, I don't know, hopefully I'll get an internship this summer, which I'll start calling for after Thanksgiving Break, and that in turn will maybe get me a feel of what I might be doing for the majority of my life....
What do I want to do? Make LEGO films. Why don't I go into a field like that, such as film making? I don't want to make films under pressure, I just want to make them, and I really just want to mess with LEGO's mainly, a few random objects here and there. Oh well, yay for hobbies . . . .
So, still playing lots of FFXI, still enjoying. It's a good way to see my friends, even if not every single one of them play it.
Thanksgiving LAN is coming, I probably won't be part of it, though I'll drop in. Most likely I'll be at home, spending time with the fam, my sister, brother-in-law and nephew will be visiting after all (^-^).
TUMEO.