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[Aug. 19th, 2007|09:55 am] |
We visited Mount Pilchuck again yesterday, this time we were victorious! It wasn't one of those perfect clear days where you can see forever. Instead it was one of those really foggy and cloudy days where the world is silent and you feel like it is silent. Personally I find great value in both. There was a great feeling of tranquility up there in the fog. Plus, at the top it looks like you are on the side of a cliff that goes down forever since you can't see 200 ft. Much like when I was up there in January 2 years ago with Todd, Katie, and Seth.
I am happy it is fall and our lives are much less busy. maybe we will get to do more of this hiking stuff. In two weeks we are going to Oregon, Forest Grove just west of Portland for our 1 year anniversary (which was actually August 12th), for Labor day weekend. We will be staying at one of the McMenimens places. Maybe try and see Katie and Jeff while we are there too. |
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[Jul. 23rd, 2007|05:27 pm] |
Work has been good lately. I am the designated "survey engineer". It turns out that all the horrible days surveying in spokane were actually training, not wasting my time as I thought. This isn't so bad though.
We use this special survey gun made by Leica, the TDM 5005, made in Switzerland. It is a sort of 3D gun, different from standard equipment used for land surveying. It does not require gravity to position itself and is therefore good for marine work, such as our floating pontoons. |
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| Bested |
[May. 20th, 2007|09:13 am] |
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Yesterday I was bested by Mount Pilchuck of all things! Not physically fortunately, but there was a lot more snow than we expected. (This was Brianna, her friend Sally, and I) The snow started about 100 feet from the parking lot and was intermittent for the first mile, which is where we turned around because there were several downed trees too. Part of it was that we didn't get there until noon as well, expecting a clear trail. I will give it a couple more weeks I guess. |
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| The Winds of Change |
[Apr. 11th, 2007|09:19 am] |
The new day has dawned. We are moving to Seattle Saturday. We spend last week finding a place and this week packing up the old one. The week before that was spent in Ohio visiting family. Not exactly a three week vacation, but a break none the less.
I am very excited to start my new job this coming Monday, working on a project down at the Todd Shipyard on Harbor Island near the Port of Seattle. With each day that goes by I feel like this was a good decision, only time will allow me to confirm this.
We are going to live in West Seattle in this lady's basement apartment. She seems really nice and its a nice place. Not nearly as big as our place in Spokane, but thats life I guess. Love my apartment, hate my job...anyways, enough of that for a while. This place is a block from Alki Beach, down but the Tully's and a place called Jake's (that's all I know), almost the end of the beach (off 60th).
We will be packing up the truck Friday and driving over Saturday to move in. I look forward to seeing more of Seattle friends, including those I haven't kept up with whatsoever (bad Lee). |
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| The Big News - Westward Bound |
[Mar. 12th, 2007|08:46 am] |
I got a job. It's with a construction company, oddly enough called General Construction Company. I division of a larger company called Kiewit. As mentioned before, I interviewed with them late last month. I got a letter Saturday confirming their job offer to me and I am very happy about it.
Today, I quit my job in Spokane. The office manager here took it very well, which is actually no surprise, he's a really good guy. He jokingly called me a "dog" as in "you dog you", because I will be missed and they have enjoyed my presence and appreciated my work. Good to hear.
My last day will be March 22nd, next week on Thursday. Bri and I will be going to Ohio to visit family for a week and then coming back, going to seattle to find an apartment, then moving, and starting work the middle of April. I, am very excited!
There is a lot in Spokane that will be missed and that will miss us. There is a lot in Seattle to look forward too and people looking forward to us. People who love us in both places and things to love in both places.
As of yet, we do not know where we will be living or what location I will be at for work, depending on the later. All in good time, or not, I think it will happen very quickly actually... |
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[Mar. 7th, 2007|04:20 pm] |
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I will have extra special news to announce in several days. But first it must become officially official, not simply word of the mouth, but on tangible paper as well... |
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| crazy neighbors? |
[Aug. 28th, 2006|08:25 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | They Might be Giants - Particle Man | ] |
In my apartment building there are several people who are crazy, I am pretty sure they are for real crazy too, messed up in the head a little...loopy...etc. Fortunately they are old too and women. But its a little scary sometimes. This morning the apartment next door had two notes taped to the door. One said something about expelling the evil and demons...amen. The other said this:
Rene:
Just because you "fucked" a mobster doesn't give you the RIGHT to enter my apt. I know your hollow kid - Jennifer is in APT. "K".
(unsigned)
Now that in and of it's self is an odd pair of notes. What makes it disturbing is that apartment "K" is MY apartment! I have lived there for 12 months and my wifes name is Bri. Who is Jennifer? And who thinks she lives there and what do they want with her? Would they mistake Bri for Jennifer?
Information: I am pretty sure the lady next door is one of those forementioned crazy older women. I have seen strange notes on the door before (none referencing my apartment). The handwriting looks like something one would expect from an older person, pencil, big letters, script (curseph sp.?), methodically written. There are a couple of these types of women in the building, who know each other and converse, some weirder than others, one other one is quite "baty" in fact.
At this point I think there is no danger. I tried to pray about it a bit, getting distracted at work and all. I actually took the second note off the door, it was impulsive, seeing my home refered to and all, brought it to work and photocopied it. What I plan to do it confront the neighbor. I haven't ever actually formally met her. Our building is a little introverted. She is most likely Rene and I will ask her who wrote the note and who is Jennifer. If she breaks and tells me what I want to know, I will then pursue the note writer, whom I presume is another odd women in the building.
By the way, I woke up with the Particle Man song in my head from They Might Be Giants, whistling it all morning...I am weird to I think. |
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| Church |
[Apr. 17th, 2006|09:45 am] |
Does anybody know of a good church to go to in Spokane? Or within a reasonable drive. I really miss going to Dwights, or wherever Quest may be and seeing all the Questers. Occationally I do go to church at Brianna's church (my fiance') but it is not that great. Its a really big souther baptist church. But she works there, and you have to be a member and attend if you are employed there, and she needs a job until we get married in August and she starts school at EWU in the fall after moving to Spokane with me...you got all that! But finding something else is hard and grates on us both periodically. We want to be in fellowship with other people and make those relationships, but it is hard not to get turned off with "church".
So, all you people of my network, tap your networks and so forth. I need a hand.
On another note, some things that I have found enjoyment from can be found at these two sites:
http://www.bonjour-america.com watch the episodes to the left of the screen.
http://www.myspace.com/notoriousmsg there are a couple of songs on the right, the third one is pretty funny |
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| I Mean Business |
[Mar. 9th, 2006|03:34 pm] |
I was thinking yesterday, I really might like to run my own business. Of course life really isn't that simple. Unfortunatly, my skills aren't so much in creativity...translation: I would have a hard time coming up with an equitable idea. In fact, as long as I liked the idea I don't know how much I would care. Its really the business part of it that I think I would enjoy, the structure, the finances, etc.
It would end up being a place for people to come who are tired of a regular job. One of my key ideas involves paying people less but giving them 2 months vacation a year, Euro-style structure. Shelly, I am looking in your direction, I know you have similar feelings toward your career.
On another note, I was thinking recently about the idea of fairness. What does it mean to be fair?...The idea of "Thats not fair!"...etc. It seems as though so much of society is focused on equalness and being fair. My thought process was this: If someone else has such and such good fortune, wins the Lotto or gets a promotion, etc. it is all to easy to say "well that's not fair, I work hard, I suffer, why am I stuck with this".
Well, then I thought how that very same person may also contract cancer and die in 5 years or get hit by a bus tomorrow. Yeah, who wants their life now, sounds like shit doesn't it. So that means I was picking and choosing, I want all the good stuff and they can keep the rest. Its not realistic, its not life, its the American way!
Ultimately I concluded that fairness in the sense that it is used most is selfishness. If you have 45% you want 50%, but if you have 55% you want 60%. Nobody complains about having too much, all you here is bitching about not having enough. So in the end I guess this just reiterates to me that I need to just be happy with what I have, which may not be fair it may be 45% instead of half, but it is still seems infinitely more than a billion other people on this planet. |
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[Feb. 16th, 2006|10:49 am] |
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Do you ever have those days at work where you try to look busy...leave a random AutoCAD drawing open on your screen so you can quick click it and look like you are really working and not really just fartin around? It is snowing in Spokane today, tomorrow I am slated to go to Bozeman to visit a buddy for the weekend. Visiting Dr. Avalanche.
Does anyone have any creative descriptions to put on a timesheet to account for "not working"? Things that go in the admin. column, like "miscellaneous" or "filling out timesheet", instead of things like "livejournal" or "internet"!
The other day I finished listening to the book Treasure Island, the classic. It one of several free audio books you can get online, that I recently discovered and make a nice supplement to NPR-online, of the various audio entertainment options I frequent at work. Man, I love NPR, it is the greatest thing ever. |
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| Guess What |
[Feb. 9th, 2006|04:40 pm] |
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Well the day has finally dawned. This is the day I announce I am engaged! Yes, Lee, he who didn't have a girlfriend for nearly 24 years, has asked she who broke the spell. "Bachelors For Life" is a club to which I must let my subscribtion slide. Those that do no know, her name is Brianna, I know only a select few have met her on the westside. Naturally she said yes.
I had this idea that I would really like to do it before Valentines Day, seeing as how that seemed so very cliche and predictable. And it paid off, yesterday we were downtown shopping a bit and on the walk back I steered to the lobby of the historic Davenport Hotel of Spokane, just happens to be where our first date was. Where we sat and got to know each other better over a cup of coffee....Well, in the end, I pulled out a ring and asked her. At this point we are looking at the July/August timeline. |
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| boredom? |
[Jan. 24th, 2006|01:42 pm] |
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Today is the day that I enter your LJ world. Kind of a hip name isn't, LJ. Today I have done precisely 2.5 hours of work, according to my timesheet. However, you may wonder, it is nearly 2PM and the work day is not over. Indeed you are correct. I have reached the end of the internet for today, and am uninterested in reading a book at the moment. However, it is my duty to sit at my desk for 40 hours a week, so here I am.
Days like today are both good and bad. On the one hand, I have one of the easiest jobs I know of and am satisfied with the pay. On the other, my marketable are skills level is holding steady at best and I cann't help but imagine a thousand things I'd rather be doing, putting away laundry and cleaning the toilet are even on the list. But 2-3 hours from now, I can go home.
I have even started walking to work last week. It's a quick 30 minutes for the 1.8 mile trek, perhaps 50 feet of elevation gain over the course of Spokane's finest 22 blocks or so.
Good Day |
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