Last week, there was a game night with my college friends, Matt and Cassandra, which included Ian and his kin. As I mentioned in a previous entry, Cassandra was laid off a month ago after only five months at her new job. In fact, as I write this, that same company is submitting paperwork for Chapter 11 bankruptcy right now. For the job, they had to ( Read more... )

Jaci's been in South Dakota for about four weeks now. From what I hear, it's been quite a harrowing adventure. To sum up, it sounds as if her sacrifice of giving up her job, house and friends in Boise is going unappreciated by her family even though it was their idea to have her move home to the midwest. It seems Jaci has become some kind of nanny ( Read more... )

I've locked in this coming Thursday, May 27th, as my journey day. I'll be on the road from Portland to Boise in what'll probably be a 10-hour drive. A lot needs to be done between now and then, namely work on my car. I may need a new tire or two, so I'm researching some local mom-and-pop operations to see if I can do better than $60-$80/tire. Plus ( 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... )

Not a whole lot has been going on lately. Well, at least, nothing horribly newsworthy. Ryan and I continue our near-daily raids of local second-hand thrift stores looking for dirt-cheap electronics that need a little TLC and can then be sold online for big profits. A few days ago, we made a major purchase of a $90 Macintosh computer made only a few ( Read more... )

After a weekend on pins and needles, I found out last night that I didn't get the job I interviewed for back on Friday. They decided to go with a candidate who had been a previous intern of theirs from almost a decade ago. Who can compete with that? During the weekend, however, I slowly awoke to a gut feeling that I didn't really want the job ( Read more... )

Today, I feel like a different person somehow. It's been one of those transformational weeks where it seems like everything has changed. One week ago, my life was one way: I had a girlfriend and my brother (Ryan), my father and I were unemployed. Within the last 5 days, I've become single again and Ryan, my father and I are all now legitimately ( Read more... )

So I've been back from Boise for two weeks now, and it's been near mayhem. My dad cooled his jets while I was gone but now that I'm back, the home improvement projects are gearing up yet again. My brother tells me that while I was gone they didn't do a whole lot. He says, "But isn't it ironic how now that you're back and there's two extra pairs of ( Read more... )

So quickly, it seems, has my time with Jaci here in Boise reached its inevitable end. On Tuesday morning of this week, I'm loading up my trusty Geo Metro and hitting the highway for the 450-mile trip back home to Portland. There were plans on the table for me to stay longer--perhaps indefinitely--but there were several events over the last week ( Read more... )

Two weeks without an entry? Bad Rabbit!

Once again, I've made the perilous 450-mile journey east to Boise, Idaho, to spend some time with Jacalyn and celebrate her weight-loss by helping out around her place and keeping her company. The trip was kind of perfectly timed as I was to rendezvous with my college buddy, Stephanie (whom I haven't seen in ( Read more... )