I thought I'd have more to say about becoming thirty once I had actually become thirty, but that last entry of mine captured completely the emotions and feelings I have. I don't think there's more to say than here I am, I'm thirty, I'm confident my best years are ahead of me, so let's do this thing ( Read more... )

I am turning thirty years of age tomorrow, the 17th. These are my last few moments of being able to call myself a twenty-something and I'm trying to enjoy these last moments of "youth". However, the question of what it means to be thirty is inescapably gnawing at my mind. How will that age make me feel? Should I begin doing what society says thirty ( Read more... )

Training at work continues. As I said before, my trainer is usually too busy to properly train me. My final test is this Thursday. Am I ready? Maybe. Just in case, I've got all my notes here and I'll be studying until then. Once I'm certified, I'm hoping I'll go back to my original machines and only act as a backup for my new area in case people ( Read more... )

Nearly two weeks ago, my new health insurance kicked in and I saw a primary care doctor for the first time in years. We did some blood work and when the results came in the mail, I freaked out a little. Everything appears to be okay with what they measured except for my thyroid hormone levels. A normal person has a thyroid level of between 0.5 and ( Read more... )

In my last journal entry written last Thursday, I was only hours away from the second half of certifying at my new job. This second half, a live demonstration of what I've learned so far, was scheduled for Thursday-night. Sure enough, a trainer manager showed up and the "demo" began. He didn't ask any difficult questions and all he seemed to be ( Read more... )

This'll be a real quick entry before I call it a night as I'm between work days at this moment and I need to be up to do it all again in a mere eight hours. Last week, I took the first step in certifying at my new job by taking a written test on the equipment I'll be using. You really can't call it a test as it was a take-home open-book multiple- ( Read more... )

Last Thursday to Saturday was my third week at Maxim, and one of my short weeks as the Wednesday shift alternates every other week. It was my best week so far. Thankfully, most of our machines were finally working again and we were able to get to work. The backlog of work from my second week when those machines were down kept piling up but during ( Read more... )

I'm a pack rat when it comes to things associated with my education. When I graduated high school ten whole years ago, I had a fifty-pound pile of papers stuffed into a two-foot-long black plastic box. When I graduated college four years later, all that paperwork got stuffed into a black plastic box similar in size and weight. That bin was a foot ( Read more... )

It's been about a week and a half since my last entry, and it's been one of those weeks that really just has been uniquely horrible.

On Monday the 26th, my brother and I both went in for separate interviews (Foreshadowed at the end of my last entry) at this major one-of-a-kind electronics store south of Portland. The guy I talked to did not make ( Read more... )

I don't know how to write this so I'm just gonna get it out and we'll see how it comes out. Around 9 PM last night, Saturday, December 12th, Blu passed away here at home after a short fight with a tragic blood disease ( Read more... )