November 21, 2002
Time to update the ol' blog.
I think this has been the longest gap between posts since the beginning of my blog. Here's a briefing of thing goin' down.
My friend Amy has told me that she reads my blog.. She read the whole thing and has been wondering when I'll post again. Patients is a virtue ;) For those of you who read this and may be new to it: This is a blog. I update it whenever I feel like it (and have time) and as I post new entries old ones get dropped off the bottom. All of the posts, since the beginning of writing this blog, are being stored, but I have decided that I like it this way. If you really want to see every post, just come back about once a week or so. I try to update this thing once a week some times more and as you all can see sometimes less. Some of you may ask why I do this. I have found that putting my thoughts down is healthy. I think everyone should have a journal of some kind. I'm using this less as a diary, and more as a log book. This blog allows people to get into my head, and it keeps me from boring people with the same stories over and over. This blog is my way of documenting my progress as a human being in this crazy society.
Over this past week I've been feeling much more like myself. For a few weeks I was really feeling bad. Loosing my job was only part of it. I can't begin to describe what was going on in my head. I may have a real problem, but It's gone for now. I have about one month of the semester left. Life is going to be heck.
Next Thursday is Turkey Day. I'm looking forward to the extra long weekend. I'll be spending the holiday with my immediate family in Beemer. My aunt from OKC is driving up, so I'll see her as well. I don't know what my family has planed exactly but I'm sure I'll spend some time with my grandparent's this weekend. What a difference a year makes. One year ago my grandparents celebrated Thanksgiving with my family in Beemer. It was only my immediate family, my aunt, and my grandparents. My mom's other siblings were too busy to spend time with us. It's their loss. This may very well be the last Thanksgiving for my grandparents. Last year was certainly the last Thanksgiving my grandmother had living in her own home, and it was also the last time the family will sit down for any kind of formal Thanksgiving dinner, a custom that is becoming less common as the years go by.
I don't know what my Dad's side of the family will be doing for Thanksgiving. In years past some one always hosted the rest of the family in their home. Over the last 20 some years the family has grown considerably. It also has become more and more difficult for all of us to schedule a weekend that works for every one.
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from my dad. My cousin Jeremy was badly burned. He's two months younger than me to the day, he's done with college... he has been working full time as a mechanic.. I don't remember the details but that's relevant to his injury. About 26 percent of his body has had some damage. Luckily for him he had no 3rd degree burns on his face. However his injury is still quite serious. He'll be healing from this for a long time. As far as I know he's still in the burn center of a hospital in Omaha. When my dad called, he mentioned that he couldn't have any visitors, and said something about calling him or something.... I replied by saying that I'm concerned about his well being but I haven't spoken to him in over a year, let alone have any kind of conversation with him. I wouldn't know what to say to him.
We grew up in the same small town, went to the same school.. we were in the same class... yet we've grown to be quite different. He, like many others in the family has gone on to be an auto mechanic. This is probably the smallest of our differences. We live completely different lives.
I renewed WhatsWrongWithThatBoy.com early this month. I can't belive it's been a whole year. I also purchased a new domain name. I'm not gonna mention what it is but it's a .org one. For now I'm just going to use it for e-mail. I made the mistake of using godaddy.com as my registrar this time. It was all about the money. I was low on cash and wanted to grab the domain name while it was still available. I had been waiting for this domain in .org or .net to become available for some time. Do not use godaddy.com to register domain names. You will get spam. The amount of spam I get to my main e-mail account has skyrocketed. I should have used my hotmail account when I registered. I used my primary e-mail address the last two times I registered a domain name, and did not have this problem. So, learn from my mistakes. resister your domain name with Devnic.com do not use register.com or godaddy.com For those of you who are counting, this makes 3 domain names. As Merc will tell you, once you start it's hard to stop. Only money (or lack thereof) has been holding me back.
I think this has been the longest gap between posts since the beginning of my blog. Here's a briefing of thing goin' down.
My friend Amy has told me that she reads my blog.. She read the whole thing and has been wondering when I'll post again. Patients is a virtue ;) For those of you who read this and may be new to it: This is a blog. I update it whenever I feel like it (and have time) and as I post new entries old ones get dropped off the bottom. All of the posts, since the beginning of writing this blog, are being stored, but I have decided that I like it this way. If you really want to see every post, just come back about once a week or so. I try to update this thing once a week some times more and as you all can see sometimes less. Some of you may ask why I do this. I have found that putting my thoughts down is healthy. I think everyone should have a journal of some kind. I'm using this less as a diary, and more as a log book. This blog allows people to get into my head, and it keeps me from boring people with the same stories over and over. This blog is my way of documenting my progress as a human being in this crazy society.
Over this past week I've been feeling much more like myself. For a few weeks I was really feeling bad. Loosing my job was only part of it. I can't begin to describe what was going on in my head. I may have a real problem, but It's gone for now. I have about one month of the semester left. Life is going to be heck.
Next Thursday is Turkey Day. I'm looking forward to the extra long weekend. I'll be spending the holiday with my immediate family in Beemer. My aunt from OKC is driving up, so I'll see her as well. I don't know what my family has planed exactly but I'm sure I'll spend some time with my grandparent's this weekend. What a difference a year makes. One year ago my grandparents celebrated Thanksgiving with my family in Beemer. It was only my immediate family, my aunt, and my grandparents. My mom's other siblings were too busy to spend time with us. It's their loss. This may very well be the last Thanksgiving for my grandparents. Last year was certainly the last Thanksgiving my grandmother had living in her own home, and it was also the last time the family will sit down for any kind of formal Thanksgiving dinner, a custom that is becoming less common as the years go by.
I don't know what my Dad's side of the family will be doing for Thanksgiving. In years past some one always hosted the rest of the family in their home. Over the last 20 some years the family has grown considerably. It also has become more and more difficult for all of us to schedule a weekend that works for every one.
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from my dad. My cousin Jeremy was badly burned. He's two months younger than me to the day, he's done with college... he has been working full time as a mechanic.. I don't remember the details but that's relevant to his injury. About 26 percent of his body has had some damage. Luckily for him he had no 3rd degree burns on his face. However his injury is still quite serious. He'll be healing from this for a long time. As far as I know he's still in the burn center of a hospital in Omaha. When my dad called, he mentioned that he couldn't have any visitors, and said something about calling him or something.... I replied by saying that I'm concerned about his well being but I haven't spoken to him in over a year, let alone have any kind of conversation with him. I wouldn't know what to say to him.
We grew up in the same small town, went to the same school.. we were in the same class... yet we've grown to be quite different. He, like many others in the family has gone on to be an auto mechanic. This is probably the smallest of our differences. We live completely different lives.
I renewed WhatsWrongWithThatBoy.com early this month. I can't belive it's been a whole year. I also purchased a new domain name. I'm not gonna mention what it is but it's a .org one. For now I'm just going to use it for e-mail. I made the mistake of using godaddy.com as my registrar this time. It was all about the money. I was low on cash and wanted to grab the domain name while it was still available. I had been waiting for this domain in .org or .net to become available for some time. Do not use godaddy.com to register domain names. You will get spam. The amount of spam I get to my main e-mail account has skyrocketed. I should have used my hotmail account when I registered. I used my primary e-mail address the last two times I registered a domain name, and did not have this problem. So, learn from my mistakes. resister your domain name with Devnic.com do not use register.com or godaddy.com For those of you who are counting, this makes 3 domain names. As Merc will tell you, once you start it's hard to stop. Only money (or lack thereof) has been holding me back.
