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Just sittin’ around watching Shanghai Knights that Casey downloaded. It’s pretty lame so far, not very many laughs. I think the first one was a lot better. Good thing we didn’t have to pay for it. Earlier we watched The Mask, which we purchased on DVD yesterday along with Never Been Kissed, and the Young Guns Special Edition. Nothing else is on sale this week so other than the 2 DVDs that I have in the mail (Jawbreaker and Pilates for Dummies (not a movie)) we probably won’t be buying any others. Earlier today we went to the commissary to pick up some supplemental groceries. We still have a lot of meat left from the last time we went so we didn’t need to buy a whole lot.

I was looking into Governor’s State University in Illinois because they have an online AA degree program. I saw it advertised on a flyer at PPCC and found out it is accredited. The only thing is they have responded to my e-mail so I have a lot of unanswered questions and you have to take tests with an outside proctor such as an instructor. Well if you’re going to THEIR college, how do you expect an outside instructor to be like ok, I’ll facilitate your test. That doesn’t sound right. Oh, and you can only take 2 classes a semester. That would take you FOREVER to finish at that rate. I’ll keep looking into it but for now am just going to go to UCCS.

For those of you Real World fans that didn’t know this…The Real World in Paris premiers on Tuesday night at 8pm on MTV! I’m hoping for another good season. I think the 3rd season of the Osbournes begins on the 10th, check your local guide for exact times and dates.

We went over to my parents’ house last night for a tasty dinner. Casey grilled blackened red snapper (yummy) that was very spicy and Mom made home fries. Mom and Jim went to the liquor store yesterday and picked up the ingredients for Jimmy Buffet’s Ultimate Margarita. It was SO good. The tequila was very smooth and we didn’t realize how much we had drank for awhile. I didn’t wake up with a hangover this morning so that’s a relief. Lots of water, pirin tablets, and chips before bed. Happy 1st Birthday to Carlee Suzann Kearse!!!Randi, Chris, and Carlee get here on Tuesday (hopefully early)!!! I am SO excited. I haven’t seen Randi in like 6 months. We are going to have SO much fun. She wants to go shopping since she doesn’t have any decent stores in her podunk town. I can always go shopping! Not much else going on this week. I think Jim may start joining us for workouts too. That’s it for now….

I have been slacking off on posting again. But then again so is everyone else, so I don’t feel so bad.

Lets see what have we done since Wednesday?

Kelly, Jim, Marvin and I went and saw Matrix Reloaded yesterday. What a great movie. From the moment the movie started there was action. I could have done without the sappy love scene or any of the scenes from inside Zion cause they really didn’t add that much to the movie, except to remind the viewer that Zion was a real city and in danger of being destroyed. Now I don’t want to ruin anything for the fools who haven’t seen it yet, so I’m not going to go on.

Deb has been going to the gym with us the last couple of days. On Thursday we did Chest and Triceps, then yesterday Kelly and Deb did a leg workout. I one the otherhand just got on the bike. I have been slacking on my cardio latley. We used to do an hour on the bike everyday, but for the last week or two I have only been getting on the bike for 20 minutes if at all. So I was trying to make up for it yesterday.

Later today Kelly and I are going over to her folks house. I’m going to make Blackened Cajun Fish on the Grill and Margaritas. Hopefully the fish will turn out OK, but if not we can always just drink more alcohol.

I had an Air Force investigator come to the apartment yesterday, he was doing a reinvestigation for Kevin’s security clearance. He asked all the usual questions boreing questions.
Investigator: “Has Kevin ever killed any puppies to your knowlegde?”
Me: “Ummmmm Yeah I don’t think so!”
It makes me wonder when people are going to start getting calls about my reinvestigation for my clearance. I hope it is sometime soon, because if that crap isn’t done by the time I this job is over I will be screwed.

I just read that Matrix Reloaded brought in $42,508,303 opening day (that includes Wednesday night showings), but the movie industry doesn’t think that it will beat Spiderman’s $114 million dollar opening weekend totals. Grrrrrrr.

That is all I know.

I was looking over to Slick Deals this morning and saw that there where coupon codes for the 70-210 and 70-215 alternate tests (76-210 & 76-215) so I signed up for the 76-210 course. Unfortunatley I have to drive to Denver next Friday (23rd), but for a free 125 dollar test you can’t beat it. I also called Kevin and Justin to tell them about it, I think I convinced Kevin to go with me. Now I’m not to concerned about passing it, but I bought a Microsoft Exam cram book today at Barnes & Noble, so if I somehow manage to pass it I will be a MCP, which will look real good on a resume. If not, it didn’t cost me anything except the price of the book, which I can still use. For those who aren’t familiar with MCSE tests they are pretty difficult, on a lot of the questions there is more then one correct answer, I’m not certain if you get partail credit for each question if you don’t mark all the choices that are applicable but that is what I am hoping. I suck at tests, hell I’m scared to go take my PPCC placement tests, its been 6 years since I was in skool, and I know I’m getting dumber by the minute

I finally got to play Ultimate yesterday, but my damn cleats are so small for my gargantuan foot that now I have a couple of blistes on my feet. Everyone is playing again tomorrow and I was told that if I show up I can probably get in on the game, even though it is only supposed to be the unit PT day. I will show up and see if I can play if not I will just go work-out.

Not much else going on right now, I guess. I wish I had more to post about right now, but I just don’t have any ideas. Its strange like that, I can be doing anything but sitting in front of the computer and I have all these ideas about things I want to post, but when it comes down to it my mind is a complete blank.

I’m finally done. I finished the last two classes to get my associate’s degree. It’s about time. I should have had it last semester but over the course of going to college, I’ve had to take a whole extra semester of math classes I didn’t get credit for. 🙁 I did really good in both of my classes and am relieved this semester is over. It’s sorta sad I won’t be going to PPCC anymore because I’ve gotten used to the system and being able to take online classes. I filled out my online application for UCCS last night. I need to request that my high school and college transcipts be sent over and mail my check. Then the estimated wait time is 2 weeks. I have to go to the PPCC campus tomorrow to return my lab kit and get my loan transferred over to UCCS. I’m gonna ask while I’m there if I can get some extra money taken out on my loan so that I can attend the summer semester at UCCS. I might as well get a start on my classes. The way UCCS has their classes set up, you go everyday at your scheduled time (usually for 3 hours) for 2 weeks. At the end of that time you have completed a 3 credit hour class. Not too bad. Just sucks if you had a lot of papers to write or something. We’ll see how that goes…

Casey went and played ultimate today while I was at the gym. It was leg-day today so I kept really busy making the rounds to all the machines and then getting on the bike. I was sweating like crazy (might have also been that it was in the 70s today). My legs aren’t hurting yet. I’m hoping there won’t be a repeat of last week’s dibilitating episode. My biceps are a little sore today from yesterday’s workout but it’s bearable. We went tanning today and they are doing referrals now. I could have gotten Casey’s referral and we both could have gotten some good stuff, like extra minutes for mega beds, etc. That sucks!

Grandma and Grandpa leave tomorrow for 7 weeks in Florida. My aunt Dina is having surgery on her back so they’re gonna help out with the kids so Kenny doesn’t have to take off work. While they’re down there, Grandpa’s gonna try to get some fishing time in with John and bring some yummy seafood back. Mom and Jim are taking them to the airport tomorrow so we’ll probably go over there tomorrow to say our goodbye’s. Hmmm. That’s it for now…

Happy Mothers Day.

Got up pretty late this morning, Matt called at 9:04 in the morning he was in Lawrence, KS with a buch of his buddies and they were on their way to Las Vegas. They have some convention their. Apparently they were driving from MO straight to Las Vegas in one day. Yikes! That is probably a 22 hour trip in a big ole’ van.

We went over to Kelly’s folks house today and BBQed some chicken breasts. Then we sat down and watched Catch Me if You Can (again). After that we shot over to Barnes & Noble, I picked up Salem’s Lot for 8.50 cause I never got a chance to read it before. After that we came home and watched The Hot Chick (what a piece of shit) and now we are watching Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

Hopefully we can make it to the gym at a decent time tomorrow, we are going to work back and biceps tomorrow.

I can not wait to see Matrix this week. Its going to be a very spiritual moment.

Not much going on here. We didn’t make it to the gym today, nor did I go and play Ultimate. We are still all bent out of shape from going to the gym on Thursday. Yes Yes we suck, we are pussies. I don’t know what I did that made my legs seize up like they did. The last time we worked legs was on Wednesday, and I wasn’t hurting on Thursday. But after we did a half hour of cardio on the bikes…. then I was hurting in a bad way. Once again I was walking around like an old man. I gotta start paying more attention to my workouts, so this doesn’t happen again.

elly and I went over to Kevin and Rachel’s this evening and grilled some T-Bones, and watched Catch Me If You Can. I really dig that movie. We are going over to Eric’s house tomorrow for Athena’s first birthday party. Since Kelly and I are on the Care Bears kick latley we scored Athena a couple of them.

Once again I was looking at the Roll-your-own Mac combo kit. Then I was checking out the DIY .Mac server. I found this link at O’Reilly Mac DevCenter talking about a few mods you can do to OS X to enable basic .Mac funtions.

All the time I see things that I want to get, new bikes for Kelly and I, a motorcycle, a Powerbook for me, a new Desktop computer. I’m such a geek. If I bought everything that I wanted all the time I would need three jobs just to pay the bills. I’m really glad that our toys don’t put us in to debt. I mean we have a nice TV, and a DVD collection that could rival Blockbuster (I wish), but I’m always seeing new toys that I want to get. I guess that is why I leave all the bill paying up to Kelly. We would be without power and food. But damn we would have some nice computers. 🙂

I am SO worn out. We got back from 3 hours at the gym. Casey seems to be under the impression that I can do just as much as he can…I can’t, but his motivation keeps me going. After eating lunch, I’ve just been laying on the couch because it hurts so much to move my legs (from yesterday). I probably won’t be able to move by tomorrow. We still need to go tan before it gets too late and there’s a long line. There’s a new Friends on tonight so I’m looking forward to seeing that. I’m hoping that Joey and Rachel actually do hook up. That’s all I have to say right now…

I’m about to finish up Neuromancer by William Gibson for about the 5th or 6th time. I really think Gibson was a big influence on the Wachowski brothers. There are many, many similarities between Neuromancer and the Matrix Universe. For those that don’t do books but know movies he wrote Jonny Mnemonic (trust me the book is WAY better then the movie). I think someone should write an adapted screenplay from the book (cough Justin).

Another good thing I saw today was the DIY (do-it-yourself) PowerMac. You can order anywhere from a single 800MHz 2MB G4 up to Dual 1.2GHz G4s. Check out the site here. Now these are barebones systems, you have to include a harddrive, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and OS, possibly RAM too, but they are starting at $679. Now if you are looking for an all-in-one machine you can get an eMac for about that price, but for someone like me who has a pantload of extra hardware laying around it is a good cheap option.

Tomorrow we are going to do chest and triceps at the gym tomorrow, I think I may actually get Kelly into the free weight room to work out with me. I was looking at some protein supplements tonight while we were waiting to go tanning and that shit is expensive. It would cost about 100 dollars a month just for protein powerder. I should just eat a nice bloody steak everyday for that kind of money. Mmmmmm bloody steak. Mike also mentioned to me that there may be an Ultimate game tomorrow afternoon. I think Kevin should get off early tomorrow and come out and play (hint hint). I also bought some lifting gloves this evening when we were at Wal-Mart. I’m getting creepy callouses on my hands so hopefully the gloves will reduce them. A computer geek can’t have rough hands, its un-geek like. People may actually get the impression that we work out, instead of sitting in the basement with cases of coffee and smokes.

Kelly and I also picked up Friends Season Two from Wal-Mart. They had it on-sale for 30 dollars, which is only $1 more expensive then it is online right now. We did manage to finish watching Friends First Season this evening. According to the list Kelly keeps on her Powerbook we have 11 DVDs to watch not including the entire Friends Season Two set.

This afternoon I had to go to my medical exam for my life insurance that I just picked up through USAA. Why is it that when I have to piss into a cup, either I can’t squeeze a drop or can only get enough to fill a shot glass. It was even worse in the Air Force when you have some guy standing close enough to you that you can feel his breath on the back of your neck, and the full length mirror in front of the toilet so he can watch every move. I used to dread coming into work in the mornings and seeing the First Shirt in the office. I just knew that he was looking for me to send me over to the clinic. I had more piss tests then anyone I knew. It drove me crazy.

OK thats enough, perhaps it is time to go to bed, so I can get up in the morning and go work out. I really don’t want to do an hour and some change of cardio, then go out and play Ultimate for another 2 hours or whatever. I best just get it out of the way in the morning, so I can rest until the afternoon.

Put up a new album from John’s visit, and Deb’s graduation. Check it out here Also there are a couple of essential downloads for today. Get the new Animatrix episode here, and download the new 10.2.6 for OS X from software updates.

Well we had to take John back to the airport today. He has a 14 hour fishing trip he has to do tomorrow. He gave me some great pointers for working out. We didn’t end up going to the gym today, I’m still pretty sore. But we are gonna go tomorrow. I really think we may have to do more cardio, no wait I need to do more cardio, if Kelly loses anymore weight she will be invisible. I was reading in this months FHM where they were doing a weight loss competition and whoever lost the most weight won $5,000. The got to use unlimited time with a personal trainer at Bally’s and this one guy who was about my size and build was doing 1 and a half hours of cardio a day, and he lost 30 pounds, from 205 to 175. It would be great if I could lose 30 pounds.

We bought some new DVDs today. We bought Liar Liar and when we where on our way home from Best Buy I saw that it was a Fullscreen version. So we went back to the Best Buy near us, and tried to exchange it for the Widescreen but they either don’t carry it our are out of it. But we did manage to pick up Fasttimes at Ridgemount High, Road to Perdition, Catch me if You Can, and Fletch.

Smallville wasn’t that good tonight, but the previews for next week look pretty bitchin.

I filled up my PVR drive so I have been thinning out some of my old shows. We have about 6 episodes of Howard Stern to watch, including the newest episodes from Las Vegas from two weeks ago.