Hello!

Just had to stop and say hello since I had a few minutes to enjoy some internet time before going back to my apt. Not sure what I want to do for internet now, cable was what I was going to go with, but Im not sure I want to drag network cable from the living room to the bedroom, and I dont want my computer in the living room.

Moving went well, the couch and chair are in. I have a radio, so that's cool. The entertainment center is sitting in pieces in the corner and no tv currently. Moving is expensive... *sigh*

mmm.. oreos..

Got the key this morning, moved some stuff in... going to have sporatic internet access for awhile..

C-Bob gave me oreos, which was nice.. mmm..

The mattress came and it fits, going to go get food and pack more and move more.

packing sucks..

but it has to be done.. i am finding cool stuff though... which is nice...

mmm... broadban

im so glad i have dsl.. so I can sit here and do stuff while waiting on the phone with Alltel to get my new number... *sings to hold music* la la la laalalal.... (it sux)

Home

I like being at home... even if this isnt going to be my home much longer... hehe... yay.. moving is cool... except the packing part...

*yawn*

Why is morning so early?

Saturday Morning...

I get my key.. woo... and I got a new mattress, which will be nice... it is being delivered Saturday. I just realized that I basically have the next month pretty much booked up... it's like cramming a years worth of stuff into, oh.. 3 weeks... should be interesting...

With the exception of April 12th (AKA: GUSTER!), I'm taking April off... lol..... (I wish)

AIRHEADS RULE!! (candy)

ACK!

WORK!
ACK!

Sad

American TV Icon Mr Rogers has passed away.

Mattress Shopping...

ugh... shopping sometimes really sucks... let's just say this, Denver Mattress is not getting my business..... Went there first to check out the mattresses cuz they are relatively cheap and a friend said to go there.... first they complete ignored that we were in there, then the sales guy started to talk to me and then as soon as another customer came in, he went and helped her without helping me at all.. what's up with that? We sat in there for 10 mins and then left. I was going to buy a mattress too, so they lost $300+ due to poor customer service. I am very critical of service.

Then we went to slumberland, where this great guy showed me the different mattresses, talked about quality etc. Showed me all ranges of models, etc. I didn't buy one because, well, they are kind of expensive, really nice, but pricey, and two I feel I owe it to the local place Lincoln Mattress to at least go look at what they have. They seem like a nice place and they have free in town delivery. Slumberland charges for delivery.

Went to Sam's Club after that and got some rutaga (I think that's it), its these little yummy pastry things. Yum. Got other stuff too, nothing impressive.

Random Bleeding

So I was up installing a printer and felt something on my finger, I look down and it's bleeding all over. I don't know what I cut my finger on, it didn't really hurt or anything, but it was bleeding none the less. So here I am trying to finish installing the printer without getting blood on the guys desk, and wouldn't you know it, not a kleenex anywhere.

It's an incredibly minor injury that just seemed to bleed a lot, which is odd. Luckily we have a first aid kit with band-aids and etc, so it's all good now. :)

Coffee

is good... and I have a printer to fix, yay!

Morning

It's yet again another startlingly early and cold morning here in the middle of the middle of nowhere. I had a strange thing happen this morning, I woke up to my alarm clock, or so I thought, this morning. I sat up and thought, man I need more sleep. I start to go over to the alarm clock and low and behold, it was 3:50 AM, no wonder I thought it was early. I don't know why I thought the alarm had gone off, because it hadn't, I use a radio alarm clock and thought it was static. I really don't know, but I went back to bed for awhile. I should really go to bed earlier than I do.

So yesterday driving home I saw that same guy with the bumpersticker in the same place. The sticker actually says "Pardon Me F__k Head" (it's not edited btw) so at least it starts out polite. *shrug*

Picked up a bunch of boxes from my brother last night, he recently moved into a house so he had lots of boxes avalible. I should probably start packing soon. C-Bob said they were working on my apartment yesterday, so that is good to hear, at least they are trying to fix it.

I think today I am going spend the morning working on inventory, but first I need to visit my good friends at The Daily Drip and get me some coffee. I am going to become a coffee junkie. Well, it's just so cold right now it seems right.

Peace.

Cool story...

I found this story written by some kid.... so I'm posting it here... it has pictures..
Stick Figure and Friends

Impatient

Have I ever mentioned that I am impatient? I am extremely impatient when it comes to doing things I want to do, esp. when forced to wait. I want to move now.... *sigh*

Too much

It's official... I own way too much stuff.... *looks around*... preparing to move sucks...

Weird

So I am sitting in the staff meeting today and these red spots appear all over my hand and start itching... they are still there.... very odd little rash thing going on

Office Space

At today's offical "Committees are Dumb Comittee" meeting we watched office space while eating pizza.. it was cool.

I made it..

I got here without falling asleep or freezing to death, so today should be a good day.... I checked my yahoo mail just a minute ago, I get so much junk mail... So today's odd email title is.. "Carefuly Increase Your Bust Size"... darn it.. I wanted to do it carelessly....

Erm

-3 degrees...... that's so wrong... so very wrong... *goes back to bed* (I wish)

There should really be a law about not playing Kid Rock on the radio before 6:00 AM, if not anytime during the day. My nammmmmeeeee issss Gopher...... not the song I want to wake up to.

Wow.. it's 6:30... how strange.... I should go get ready and stuff...

Some Stuff...

I was driving home from work and things just kept appearing that just made me want to comment on them here. I really wish there was a way to record my brain waves so that i could just dump them off later for everyone, or just myself, to read. I don't do well with speaking, so dication is out. It seems that sometimes I can have the greatest thoughts or comments I want to make but when my brain has to kick into turning those into spoken words, it freaks out. This is why IM and blogger is cool to me.

So a few observations on driving home...

1. The bumpersticker - I was driving down 13th, around Q street, and this beat-up Blazer (by beat-up I'm talking the bottom half of the back door was rusted off) pulled in front of me. On the back of his car was the sticker "Back Off F__k Head" There was a second sticker that refered to something about the finger but it was mostly gone away with the rusting. I think it was the blatentness that I enjoyed, more than the sentiment. Probably the most interesting bumper sticker I have seen in awhile.

2. Gravel - There was freaking gravel everywhere on the roads, my poor windsheild is even more chipped up now. I was all ready for the whole thing to just shatter.

3. Lane switching - I saw this same person switch lanes about 8 times, back and forth, apparently in an attempt to go faster. I think it's funny when these people fail at trying to "beat the system" of driving. I have nothing against going around a slower driver, I do it myself, but I still like to watch people fail at trying to get from point A to point B 4 secs faster than someone else.

There was something else I wanted to comment on, but I have already forgot what it was. If it comes to me I will comment on it later.

So I got a package today and a little slip of paper saying I had another package (not sure what that is). The little package came to me all the way from Britsh Columbia. It's a game called "Amaze-A-Tron" made by Coleco. It's from the late 70s and is actually kind of fun. The best part is that it is the Canadian version of the game. Stuff from Canada is always cool because it is in French and English. Also, it has this wonderful musty smell, a lot like my basement. I found it strange that an item came to me all the way from Canada and yet it smells like my basement.

So far it has been a ripping great Gopher's Day.

I am planning on writing up a Quarkstar Glossary to explain what certain terms mean and who certain people are. I will be posting that in the near future, so keep your eyes open (do that anyway, prevents walking into walls).

What's a quarkstar?

So I will finally answer this question.... if anyone cares....
from dictionary.com :
"quark star
n.
A hypothetical celestial object that is the remnant of a massive star that has collapsed with a force sufficient to reduce all particles to strange quarks. Also called strange star. "

this is the definition of quark star.... did I know this before making the website? you decide........

*yawn*

I am so unmotivated at work today... probably because it is cold and I'm tired. I may just sneak out of here "early" It's not really early if you don't take a lunch, which I only sort of did, but then again I haven't really done much today, so I should make it even out somehow. I made a shopping list online for shopko, it's cool.. you look at their weekly ad and then click the stuff you want on your shopping list and then print it. I like that... I need a ton of stuff and they have a lot of it on sale. It's great.

Matt called in sick again, he is sick a lot, poor guy. I just hope nothing comes my way again! I have had my fair share of sickness lately and don't want anymore....

HAPPY GOPHER DAY!!!

Cccccooolllllddd

It's sooo friggen cold outside this morning.. I swear my lungs froze... *shiver*

The current temp is..... *builds suspense*..... 3! with a windchill of........... -15!! WOO HOO!!! High today of a balmy 9 degrees with an overnight low around -9 degrees. Weather is fun. On Friday it was in the 50s.

I noticed that the U's answer to any snow storm is to dump 800lbs of gravel all over the place and call it good. So all the buildings get coated in a layer of gravel from people bringing it in from the outside. And have I mentioned that we do not have a day custodian? That means no one cleans during the day and the building fills up with student crap (newspapers, etc) and stays that way until evening. Also, as a budget saving idea, the garbage is only emptied once a week (if yer lucky), so we tend to get a lot of unhealthy garbage build up down here. Imagine 7-8 ppl all sharing three small trash cans, it gets full fast. I think we are going to have to start empting our own trash. We did that on Friday and they still have not emptied the trash down here (stuff generated after we dumped it). This is particularly bad in the computer lab, where garbage just piles up, it looks terrible.

Ugh.. looks like I have work to do today.. (lol)... if I can wing it, I'm going to take some time off this week and work on cleaning for my move. I have a 12:30 to 1:30 training thing, I think I will leave after that, I mean I do have the flextime avalible.

Randomness

I have nothing really to say but I really wanted to type into this.. I guess it would be better to have something to say, but I don't.

Thanks to C-Bob I am now reading Wil Wheaton's website.. He has some cool stuff to say and what-not...

TV has become so inane... I don't know why they even bother making shows any more... blah

I had pizza for dinner, it was good... now I want some ice cream.

Party.. and snow..

It's snowing today, a lot... I got to drive in it, which I always find fun. Slid around a bit but didn't hit anything, which is always good.

Went to Susan's bridal shower today, it was fun. We played a little game, name the product based on the slogan, and I won. I won a spactula for Susan, that was cool. Then she opened her super mass of presents, she really hauled it in today. Then the best part, we had cake and punch, it was homemade yummy lemon and carrot cake, it was good. Mmmmm.

Now I am debating what to do for dinner. I think DaVinci's would be good mainly because I am mean and want to make them deliver in the snow.

On another note, I think C-Bob died.... which would be bad.... for the most part.. (lol)... (I could have a double apartment,.... hmmm... )

Stange past lives..

It is weird to go back in time and realize what a strange little world you used to live in. I went back and read some journals of people I used to talk to all the time. It was strange to see that people don't change much even though I feel like I have changed a lot. I guess it doesn't matter that much. It is nice to get the occasional update about people, but I have learned that it's the real life relationships that seem to count the most. I mean, it's all well and good to have fun talking to people from all over the place but in the end, it's the people around you that will be there. I think online relationships are just too easy to end and move away from. It is a lot harder to do that in real life, plus it seems in real life the people you know are much more ready to adjust to your changes etc. Online is kind of odd that way. Oh well, I guess you learn to never invest too much in online relationships.

Bobber head doll thingys..

What is up with all these bobber head dolls everywhere?? I mean you can even get them in cereal boxes.... I don't understand.. they are wrong and evil... (well... maybe not, but they are everywhere)... is it this generation's beanie baby??... .I swear you can get a bobber head doll of any famous person or political ppl or cartoon... its wrong... i'm forming a group.. People Against the Proliferation of Bobberhead Dolls.. (PAPBD)....

Kmart..

So the Kmarts in town are going belly-up and leaving.. so we will not have a Kmart in Lincoln anymore... so I went there today to scope out discounts or whatever only to find that a. not much was discounted (10% off most things) and anything worth getting was gone. I never really liked Kmart in the last years so it didn't surprise me. The liquidators are bringing in more crap all the time, according to the signs, and they have completely thrown the concept of customer service out the window (although I never felt they had much of a customer service oriented store to start with).

I did buy a set of silverware so I can eat cereal and stuff, so that was helpful, but nothing else seemed worth spending money on. The video games had been picked over and I didn't find anything there worth buying either. Pretty much a waste of time. Went to ShopKo after that and realized how much more I like that store. I may go to walmart at some point, there is an entertainment center there I want, but I equate going to walmart on the same level as stabbing myself.

Oh and on the lighter side, at ShopKo we learned they sold out of their stock on those Pasta Pots for Idiots on the first day... it was strange... someone really wanted one apparently, it was like they were on a quest to find one, they got a raincheck... it was odd.