Here's a shout out to my cousin Adam, who's graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical engineering. Yet another loved one gets a degree...but for the first time I don't really feel bad about myself anymore. I think I'm finally getting to the point where I no longer feel like a failure for not finishing college. I'm not quite there, but I'm ( Read more... )

The Eagles are so good ( Read more... )

Just got back from my first ever business trip. It was very enlightening and a lot of fun. I met four of my colleagues, each a cafe supervisor from a different store, and it was amazing to be in the same room as a bunch of people who all do the same thing that I do! We were able to share so much about our respective stores and how we do things ( Read more... )

I've got some serious psychological problems. I can be so indecisive, sometimes to the serious detriment of myself and others. It's like my mind gets locked in a state of conflict and then, rather than one side prevailing, it stays so for years. My mind is like the Middle East.

Then again, perhaps the right side has been prevailing all this ( Read more... )

We went for a drive to Soldotna yesterday, and while Soldotna was perhaps the most boring town on the face of the earth, most of the drive was gorgeous. To think that the awe-inspiring Kenai peninsula is but a small portion of such a vast state! Were I an aspiring mountain man, I think I'd want to live here forever. As it stands, though, I don't ( Read more... )

I encountered a very generous, kind gentleman today. Here's the story: I stopped by Sportsman's Warehouse to pick up a couple fishing lures in anticipation for fishing this spring. Since I have to wait for my dad to send up my gear, I've been biding my time by looking at fishing gear and reading about bears and all this fun stuff, eagerly ( Read more... )

It's difficult to fight instinct. How is it, then, that so often our instincts are wrong? The human mind is quite a miraculous piece of machinary.

A few days ago I found out something cool. I get to go to training! This is exciting news, because just before I found that out Grant told me it probably wasn't gonna happen--they're phasing out field training for the supervisor level. So this means that I'm one of the last supervisors in the company who get to travel using Borders' wallet! I'm ( Read more... )

I've come to the not so shocking realization that I'm just not good at online journals. Some have journals that are so clever, interesting, and funny! Mine, frankly, is quite a bore. No wonder I have such a very small readership! Well, not that I'd consider you small, Bob...you're of course larger than life. However, even if I count you as ( Read more... )

Imagine coming home from work with a sense of satisfaction. It's a sensation I'm only now beginning to enjoy, and wow, is it foreign! For the first time in my life I have the sort of job where the results of my work are easily seen, thereby reflecting well on me but also giving me something more in return for my work than just money. It's been ( Read more... )