One more day, that is all it is, just another day. but then again it is closing one door to finially open another.

Well, with life and how it goes, when your up, your up and when your down, eventually things will look up again. Sometimes good things take longer to accomplish, but I am proud to say I have finally reached a milestone within my life. Yes getting engaged was huge, and definitely a milestone, but what I am referring to is that almost 2 years ago, unemployed and broke, I walked into ITT Tech with a goal in mind. That goal was to accomplishment a degree and find a job with an advancement opportunity. So fast forward now, and I have just less then 3 months left until graduation, and already the best advance opportunity of my life is in front of me.

Starting September 29th, 2008 I will be working down In Austin Texas. Why this change is going to be hard and me and my family, It will go along ways towards my overall goals and career path in life. Look for allot more to come off this trip, being this website here will most likely be my forms of communication for whats going on in my life.

Finially, a Friday I can looked forward to, and not just because its the weekend.

I am FREE, free as one can be.

So after watching tid bits of the democratic convention, and the little bit of the republication convention I have came to a conclusion. We as the people of the United States of America are so blindly ignorant in our politicians and to who actually is running for president. First and foremost our political system with the Electoral College is just a joke. When someone can win the presidency and yet loose the majority vote that really says something about who is running. When an election is as close as they have been the past 8 years, that doesn’t mean that we have 2 very well qualified people who can do just as equally good in office, but that we have 2 people that no one really likes but they hate A worse than B so they run out to vote for B to prevent A from winning. I though in an election you were to vote for someone who you want to win, not because you don’t want the other guy to win??? 

Again political ignorance within this country. The fact that our election is more important to people who live over sees then it is to those who live here. This is why our politicians think they can get away with whatever they want. I would like to now play a little clip from my favorite musical.

Yes thats right, one day more to go and then I am on my own… One day more and I will be a free man. Tomorrow I will finially be off this horrid house arrest and will be able to step outside for a breath of fresh air, be able to go for a walk, and even better, drink a beer! All in all, i have learned my lesson, and that is DRINK @ HOME! its cheaper, and best of all, there is no driving involved. for everyone else out there who chooses to drink at bars, call a cab or walk but DONT DRIVE.

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So, for a personal issue, I was forced to go out and get a home phone for a few weeks. While I hate having a home land line, I needed to get it for house arrest. I just received my new phone and phone # 2 weeks ago today. Only a very select few people have this number and they are:

• ME, and my girl
• My Best Friend
• Cox
• House Arrest People

Thats it. So I’m thinking this phone will never go off, NEVER since none of these people have any reason to call me on my house phone.

The night was Wednesday the 20th, and I am sitting on my computer paying some bills when the phone rings. Ecstatic that I am getting a phone call, though perplexed on who was calling, I quickly rushed to the phone and answered. To my amazement I heard this:

“Is this Mr *****?” – Said the Gentleman.

“Yes it is, Sir, and you are?” Replied myself.

“This is Tim, So do you live out close to Elkhorn Crossing? Thats a nice place to camp. I use to live out in Fremont myself.” says Tim.

“No Tim I dont live by Elkhorn Crossing, What can I do for you?” I rebuttal annoyed by now.

“Well you have just Won 6 months worth of free. . . .” CLICK!.

My first call on my home line and it was a Telemarketer. Since then I have had another 7 calls, 6 more of which were telemarketers and the last and only call that was for me was from my Best Friend who felt like fucking around and calling AS a telemarketer.

All I can say is the day I got my phone turned on was the day Cox sold that # to the fucking telemarketers.

When I’m off house arrest, I’m getting ride of this land line FOREVER!

The day was Tuesday and it started out like every other with us running late to work. Right away I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that maybe I should have just stayed in bed, but I tried to shrug it off and get on my marry way.

While driving to work I noticed instantly that my truck was making this bad, consistent knocking noise as we drove on the way to work. This pinging noise was very loud and very annoying. My initial though was that my shocks have finally busted and the internal metal was griding on every bump. This reasoning was due to the fact that my ex-mechanic told me the original noise was coming from my shocks and we were good for probably another 6 months if needed.

While making it to work, I told the fiancée that I would call and schedule an appointment that day for a repair of the truck’s shocks. As I was walking into work I realized I still had her cell in my pocket from this A.M. Now freaking out a little bit because knowing the condition of the truck and her not having a phone I begun to get paranoid. Started calling her office at 8:15, no answer, 8:23, no answer, then again at 8:30 no answer. Finally entering freak out mode I called one last time at 8:35 and she just walked in the door. Relieved I asked if the truck made it ok, she said yes but it was smoking. NOT GOOD.

Scheduling an appointment I found out the shocks were only gonna run me under 400 total for the repair. Thank god I can afford that. well I received this phone call at 12:15 from the auto shop with not so good news. They knew for sure it was not my shocks being my front tire was leaning 30 degrees out. FUCK. Right away I knew the bill would increase by at least double. Sitting and freaking out for 2 hours I reciever another call and this time they had the finial estimate and the problem.

When ever you mechanic calls and ask if your sitting down, you know thats not a good sign. I simply replied to him, “Nope, smoking a cig, shoot” . Well the real damage came out, and the cost for repair did too. I only wish it was double. instead it was gonna run me almost $1300 just to make the vehicle drivable again. This does not include the front and back breaks that need to be done as well, but I can do those a whole lot cheaper. Now in official panic mode, as we now have no working car, I live 10 miles from work, and shes 15 miles, no public transportation out my way and no money to pay this repair bill.

Thank goodness we arrived alive from our trip, being how bad the condition of the truck. Thank god for good friends in life who will help you out in a time of need. Without these people I would be up shits creak with no paddle.

Oh and to top off my “great” day, when I arrived home Tuesday night, I arrived with the surprise of being locked out. Since I needed to be inside my house no later then 6pm, I resorted to breaking my back window to enter they house. Lucky enough I have, well now had, extra replacement windows to replace those that I broke.

All in all, never again do I want to hear the phrase

“When it Rains, It Pours”

drank away the rest of the day
wonder what my liver’d say
drink, thats all you can
blackened days with their bigger gales
blow in your parlor to discuss the day
listen, that’s all you can

chorus:
ah but don’t, no don’t sink the boat
that you built, you built to keep afloat

sick and tired of what to say
no one listens anyway
sing, that’s all you can
ramblin’ years of lousy luck
you miss the smell of burnin’ turf
dream, that’s all you can

chorus

singled out for who you are
it takes all types to judge a man
feel, that’s all you can
filthy suits with bigot ears
hide behind their own worst fears
live, that’s all you can
it’s all you can
it’s all you can…do

no matter where i put my head
i’ll wake up feeling sound again
breathe, it’s all you can
tomorrow smells of less decay
the flowers greet this bloomin’ fray
be thankful, that’s all you can

chorus

a ripe old age
that’s what i am
a ripe old age
just doin’ the best i can