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Well not as nerdy as my apprentice brother but at least I managed High Nerd!
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You know I have this thing I should prob. update it on occasion. Lately, well since New Years, life has seemed to revolve around getting well. Being sick sucks :) Here lately it has been overtime at work trying to get a bit of extra funds coming in. I really need to get out and do some fishing. However World of Warcraft has helped cover some of the need to create violence that used to be filled with fighting. Ok will try to update more often. And hopefully actually put something people might want to read in here.
Oh side question. Anyone other than Random and myself play poker online? If so we need to figure out when we can get online and play together.
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Dec. 6th, 2005 @ 03:45 pm
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Well I have a house....Now I just have to move. Have I mentioned to everyone who might care that I hate moving? Oh by the way I HATE! moving. Even my own stuff. We are about 1/2 done and getting a few more of the big things tonight. And before some of you ask yes I know I haven't asked for help. I don't like to ask people to help when I don't have stuff packed and truthfully most of what we have packed is moved and I just load the truck as Steph packs the boxes. I appreciate all the offers to help move and if I actually create a state where some help would be useful I will let people know. The cats are beginning to finally figure out that I am not Satan. They did not appreciate the move very much at all. After 2 days one of them still basically finds a big pile of something and burrows into it. He lets us know in no uncertain terms that he hates everything right now.
I am trying to adjust to a new bed, new place, and diff. schedule myself. So very tired right now. Hopefully will start sleeping better soon. However I do have to say I still love being in my own place. Looking forward to actually doing some of the stuff I have always wanted to do with my own house. We may have our first problem, yippee. Thank goodness for the home warranty. I think I have a plumbing problem, but the same with about everything else I do I will try to fix it first and fail before I will call the professionals in.
Got a lot of things going on but think I may try to sneak off on Friday night and play poker. We shall see. I suppose I can sleep when I am 90.Current Mood:  tired Current Music: Bush was right - The Right Band |
Well got the final word. I close on the new house tom. at 2:30. Don't know if I should be excited or terrified :) The first time I have ever owned a house. Looking forward to being able to make the changes I want to make it my own. Also looking forward to the investment potential as the house appreciates. Not looking forward to the inevitable repairs that I will have to make. But it will be mine all mine :) Both the wife and I managed to pretty much forget our aniversery was this past Sunday. We remembered the date, no really I did, but for some reason neither one of us actually associated it with this past Sunday. We spent most of the day on the road driving back from the Bordermarch event. Fun huh? We decided we would wait till the house closed then maybe next week do something fun to celebrate 6 years. Amazing how 6 years can seem so short when you are with someone you love. I would recomend it to all my single friends out there. We will be having a house warming party around springtime this coming year sometime. We think we want to wait till the weather is nicer then have a big cookout at some point. So stay tuned an invite will most likely be coming your way in a few months to join us for some charred meat of some sort.Current Mood: tired Current Music: 80's music on winamp |
Ok I am confused. When did the news become so completely biased? Why is it that we don't hear things from Iraq that are good? Why don't we hear about how electric production is way up over pre-war levels. All we hear is about shortages in electricity. But we don't hear that those shortages are caused by a MASSIVE increase in demand due to Iraqis actually being able to buy things like air conditioners and satellite receivers for tv. Why is it that we don't hear about the large numbers of Iraqis signing up for the police and the army even though they are being targeted by "Insurgents". Why don't we call insurgents terrorists like they are. Why don't we hear about finding nerve agents and enriched uranium and 1500 gallons of chemicals stored together that when combined make nerve agent? Why don't we hear about all the positive reactions that the Iraqis are having to the US military that is there. Why do we only hear about the bad stuff?
I have friends that are going to Iraq, I have friends that have come back from Iraq. I would really like to hear about the good stuff that is going on over there in the news. Am I the only one with these questions out there? Surely not.
Ok all done now. Back to our regularly scheduled program.Current Mood:  confused |
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Well the notes upgrade continues to generate huge volumes of trouble tickets. This compounded by the fact that our help desk is completely incompetent, I know by definition they are all incompetent, is resulting in a long day of large numbers of trouble tickets. So that being said I am completely swamped here at work. Wish some of my co-workers could do more than one thing at once.
Heard good news yesterday. Got the appraisal back from the VA on our potential new home. Seems that everything passed but the heater which needs a service call. Much easier than having to replace the roof. So it seems that we are back on-line for potentially closing before Thanksgiving. I do hope the headache over the house is done soon. The realtor keeps telling me that things actually aren't going that badly at all. Wow I hope I never have to try one that doesn't go well.
So a question to those of you that deal with customers. How do you manage to not go completely berserk at times and beat them to a bloody pulp? I have managed to avoid it so far but some days it is really tough :) I have to many people that will not use the correct procedures to get their computers fixed here at work and call me directly instead of going through the help-desk. Yes I know the help-desk sucks but our headcount here at work is based on the number of tickets that we do. Those have to come from the help-desk. I can enter a ticket after the fix but it doesn't count the same. I have told people and told people this and they just don't seem to get it. I just don't get how people can be so inconsiderate as to potentially put my job in peril for their own convenience.....Oh wait these are people I work with of course their convenience matters overall.
Ok rant off :)
Sometimes you just need to vent. I guess that is what keeps me from bringing my axe to work one of these days :)
Nov. 8th, 2005 @ 10:56 am
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Well major upgrade of the email application here at work and it is proving to be problematic. Who would have ever thought that something planned by a group in an isolated lab would have not worked right in the field.... :) Haven't posted much here lately mainly due to the workload here. For some reason when I get home at night I just don't think about livejournal, go figure. Not going anywhere this weekend for a change and really looking forward to it. May take the opportunity to go to the laundry and do a mass cleaning of stuff to prep for the move. Easier to spend a few hours there than several days doing it one load at a time. Mostly blankets and camping stuff. Amazing how easy it is to just not do those and leave them in the bucket until you need them again.
Well got an update on the house. The insurance is good with the roof and the VA appraisal is done but we don't have the report yet. We are hoping with the positive feedback from the insurance that the VA will not require roof work before closing. I keep hoping that we will be able to hear something soon. Keep your fingers crossed. Oh and everyone will most likely be invited to the housewarming party but we will delay it until spring sometime. Then we can fire up the grill and have a good time.
Got to get my A&S projects going again. I have a desire to work toward the Laurel, if you aren't in the SCA ask me, but I find myself procrastinating getting things done. I am hoping that getting into my own house will help that since I will have more incentive to complete the setup of the forge. Then I just need to actually hammer something out :)
Lord I am rambling way way to much so will quit typing for now. Who knows may update later.
Nov. 3rd, 2005 @ 10:38 am
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Just a note....my sleep schedule is screwed up enough without outside help. The fact that I am complete worn out today can have nothing to do with me finally getting of World of Warcraft at about 11:45 last night....Nope not at all. Really got to get a clock in my office/computer room. This topped off a long weekend. Went to Eldern's Samhain event this weekend. That was a long drive. Then followed by a long night of listening to everyone get up to go to the bathroom Sat. night. Maybe I should have drank more gin then I might have slept through the night :) Had someone tell me I was funny this weekend and that they had never seen me being that funny before. Have I become that depressing? I thought I was pretty funny to be around most of the time. If not I really need to work harder. Bringing humor into peoples lives is one of best things I can do. Everyone was sitting around the Samhain fire and being depressed. I didn't drive all that way to be depressed so I tried to do something about it. Seems I was successful somewhat. :) Next time those of you who know Artorius from Eldren see him just break out into "this is the dawning of the age of Artorius". Kind of amusing.
Wow so tired I am rambling badly. So time to get up and walk around. May post more later....may not. OHHH I can steal Jenni's line.....I need a nap.
Ainar
Oct. 31st, 2005 @ 10:19 am
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Well since the statement was made that this is a good forum for religious discussion, here we go. As some may know and some may not, I am licensed to preach by the Southern Baptist Church. I grew up in the church and still hold to my faith and beliefs. Some of them have been brought into question not only now but in the past. I do not hold to everything the church says or believes but I do maintain what I feel to be the most important thing. And that is a personal relationship with Jesus. I also differ in my desire to proselytize. I do not tend to press my beliefs on my friends but try to live a life that if they have questions they feel free to ask. I know I don't live a perfect example by any means but hope that I don't bring to much dishonor to Christianity. I feel that to much of Christianity has been taken over by formal religion. I feel that God created faith and then men messed it all up by formalizing it. I see way to many people in churches today forgetting Jesus' message of faith and love. I feel that God looks down on many of his churches with dismay today, seeing hypocrisy, lying, cheating and so much more going on. People have forgotten how to be an example of love, to not condemn but to show by example. Jesus went and ate with the tax collectors and prostitutes. He didn't stand on the corner and preach how they were all going to hell. To much of todays church message is geared toward increasing the churches power and profit. Where is should be directed toward taking care of its flock, which is all of mankind.
I also look in the Bible and have so many questions that I am still studying. Why do things change so much? Why don't the churches acknowledge that there are problems with the scripture? Why is it that Bible scholors today don't question how much influence was exercised by the Medieval attitudes that were present when so much of what we call the Bible was determined to be Canonical. I also question at times why current Christians fail to see, or refuse to see how much of our faith seems to be based on "Pagan" practices.
Now don't get me wrong. I believe strongly in God. I see his presence in every living thing out there. I don't understand how someone can understand entropy and chemistry and believe that random processes could have created life. Entropy increases over time. Things do not randomly tend to become more ordered over time, usually the opposite. So how can this thing we call life managed to happen without intervention from someone. I do however question why a being of such power and capability needs to be viewed in such a childish fashion by us here on Earth. Why does someone with that capacity need our worship? Is He so bored that he needs to intervene in our lives? I feel that there is a child/parent relationship there and that God would prefer the best for us. But do I wonder why such a powerful being would be so petty as to banish his creations to burn for eternity for not choosing his way? Yes. I also wonder if many of the other religions really do worship the same God but under a different name.
Well enough for now. I should really try to do some work today. To all my friends and others that read this, realize I enjoy discussing religion, both Christian and not. And try to study enough to make a clear and concise argument. Well argument in the discussion sense and not the fighting sense. So if any of you wish to have a debate with me, or just talk about religion please feel free. I am always trying to improve my own knowledge.
Ainar/Rick
All opinions stated here are my own and all spelling or grammer errors. Just deal with it :)
Oct. 28th, 2005 @ 12:49 pm
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But not quite. Well isn't it a slow afternoon here at work. Sitting here eating my popcorn and listening to music. Not many tickets coming in and pretty much done with the lifecycle I was working on. Tonight I go home and pack for Samhain at Eldern Hills. Should be fun. Actually managed a cabin so we don't have to take the tent this time. May take the Ford on its first long trip. This would double my gas mileage but just still not 100% confident in the car yet.
Had a decent but short visit with dad last night. Had dinner over at my Step Brother's, sorta, house. He is the son of my Dad's 3rd wife. He is on #4 right now so no direct relationship anymore but hey. Went pretty well right up to the point where Dad went into his sermon mode. Love my father dearly and understand how improtant his faith is to him but really don't need a sermon every time I am with him. I think he feels that my hair and earring somehow negates my salvation. Nah he doesn't think that he just wishes I would get back into church. I understand his feelings. He just loves us and wants what he thinks is best for us. It used to be what was best for me but things have changed. My faith is still very important to me I just exercise it a bit differently from him now. Well don't want to decend into a religious discussion here. Much better to have those face to face.
Who knows may get some time to play World of Warcraft tonight.....Should have avoided that one like I originally planned :) It however is enjoyable to get together with friends online and kill things. Guess it is kind of becoming my aggression outlet since fighting isn't an option anymore.
I think there must be something wrong with me :) I enjoy the half popped kernels of popcorn much more than the fully popped kind. Now if I could just figure out how to maximize that proportion. Me and my weird food things. Food.....Hmmm reminds me I am having a sushi craving. Just made a little extra on a side job. May have to go get some sushi :)
Well rambled enough for the moment. One of these days will really figure out something interesting to write. Especially for those that want to know "more about the man behind the baron :)"
Oct. 27th, 2005 @ 03:51 pm
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Well today we decided to go ahead and commit to the VA appraisal on the house. I hope this doesn't bite us in the butt with the roof issue on the house but we shall see. I hope everything goes well. Today hasn't been to bad at work. I have again made it an issue and put in the effort to not be so unhappy at work. I keep coming back to the conclusion that being pissed doesn't change anything so why waste the effort in being unhappy. Doesn't accomplish much and irritates my ulcer :)
Still waiting on Dad to call me to make plans for dinner tonight but again that doesn't surprise me. I think he will most likely be late to his own funeral. But that is Dad and I love him anyway. Who knows maybe I will get to go hunting in January this year. That would be nice.
Well if anyone is actually reading this I hope I don't bore you to much with my rambling. Still not sure of why I write other than it passes a few min. when it is slow at work. Who knows maybe someday I will write something interesting like my friends :)
Rick
Oct. 26th, 2005 @ 02:51 pm
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Well the house inspection yesterday went about how we figured. The roof is at the end of its life term and needs replacing. Other than that everything went pretty well. Wow, I hope this all works out ok. Knew purchasing a house was a pain but dang didn't know it was this much of a pain. Anyway it turns out still commited to buying a house somewhere so we shall see what happens with this one. Another day here at work where we shall see if anyone other than myself gets much done. However so far I myself and not getting much done. Really have to work on my attitude here at work.
Oct. 25th, 2005 @ 09:18 am
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| » New thing~~~~hmmmm |
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Well created this mainly to get updates from other friends on here. Don't know if I will post anything in this or not. However on the off chance that I do post and someone from work does read it I don't think I will post anything secret or that I don't expect you to read unlike others.
For other friends, if you read this I hope I don't bore you to tears.
Rick
Oct. 24th, 2005 @ 11:06 am
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