Alrighty, it's New Year's Day and I've got a moment so I'm gonna push out my yearly "Year in Review" entry. Let's do this thing!

In January I was notified that I would become the information technology support person on my shift at work. In February, I officially began being the shift's IT person after a week of training. In March, I got my first ( Read more... )

The two-week shutdown my workplace has imposed upon us is already nearly over. It's already Friday of the second week and I'll be due back into work Wednesday night. I was hoping to get so much stuff done, but in reality, I haven't really accomplished much of anything. I tried to switch to being awake during the day, but that only worked for one ( Read more... )

So, after two days of trying to find the time, I finally sat down to watch the first of three televised presidential debates for this coming 2008 election here in the US of A. All weekend, I've been reading opinions from lots of people online and I've come to the consensus that the majority of people are already polarized and decided on who they're ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, Val and Franko took off on a 10-day winter-vacation to Orlando. They're gonna try to hit all the major theme parks and even hopefully attend a Space Shuttle launch on Sunday (Unless they delay the launch again). Franko gave Val a serious, professional digital camera as an early Christmas gift so that they could get great shots of the ( Read more... )

So in my last entry, I talked about how I had spent last Tuesday and Wednesday out in the summer sun tinkering unsuccessfully with my Geo Metro (AKA Penguin). Well things seemed fine with the car on Thursday but that evening I noticed that the dashboard backlights were slowly fading out. Driving at night without dash-lights is pretty spooky. By the ( Read more... )

It's been a rather quiet week. With my dad being home from Alabama and his father's funeral, things are completely back to normal and the anxiety caused by my grandmother almost visiting is gone. My dad took some time off work to get some things done around here while I spent the weekend at Val's house-sitting while her and Franko went to Seattle. ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I decided to go to my sister, Val's, place to hang out and see if her boyfriend of almost a decade, Franko, had any anti-static computer component bags I could nab from him. For a few weeks, I'd warned her that I was toying with the idea of bringing one of the family cats, Tucker, with me for a few hours to be with Ashley, my sister' ( Read more... )