My apartment is finally truly coming together! I've collected just about everything I need to really properly function here. I've got all the furniture I need and all the little gizmos that make it work. Several of the rooms are also what I consider complete and furnished. My independence is becoming more and more permanent by the day. For those of ( Read more... )

Time for another 3 AM entry! It's Friday night / Saturday morning, so I'm trying to stay up as late as possible as the work-weekend begins Saturday night. My brother and I have another weekend ahead of us assembling 3D goggles for the theater viewing public. A cool aspect of this job is that we get cut a check every single week. It's nice to get ( Read more... )

A full week ago, last Friday night, I visited my friends-from-college, Matt and Cassandra. For around half a year or longer, every few weeks we'll get together for a game night at their place. Typically, we play Settlers of Catan, which is a highly addictive board game that involves strategy, rolling 7's a lot, and sheep. To understand more, I ( Read more... )

Well, the saga appears to be coming to an end. Over the last month or so, my sister, Val, and her fiancé have been going through a rather odd breakup. Franko and her have been together for twelve years and it seems like Val woke up one morning 5 weeks ago and just decided that was the day she was going to just start over with her life from scratch ( Read more... )

Saturday was Garhan and Torri's wedding here in Hillsboro, Oregon. Garhan was my first college roommate back in 2000 and he met Torri at EOU around our Junior year. The ironic thing is that Torri and I went to the same high school at the same time but I don't think either of us knew about the other. Her family lives here so they decided to have the ( Read more... )

Tuesday was my grandfather's funeral in America's deep south. I heard it was very touching and beautiful as he was given a full military burial with a 21-gun salute and taps. In my last entry, I mentioned how my newly-widowed grandmother was coming back with my father from Alabama and how it was throwing everyone off. My parents began fighting over ( Read more... )

It's been an entertaining Christmas. With my brother, Ryan, in town for the holiday, you could say that I've spent more time than normal goofing off and relaxing. On Saturday night, I broke myself away and went out for a night of board games with Matt & Cassandra. More surprisingly, the newly engaged Garhan and Tori were there! Garhan was my first ( Read more... )