March 2, 2006

Stopped over at Wade's to check out his new house. Wade wanted to send a message to anyone reading this blog....over there on the right.

February 26, 2006

Randon Picture

Here's a picture of Ziegler doing some sign langauge Friday night. I'll leave it open for interpretation.

Saturday

Woke up early this morning and made some eggs. At 12:15 I headed over to the PAC to work the show RENT. People were lined up outside that had been camping there for a whole day in hopes of buying the few student rush tickets they release an hour before show time. The show was pretty good and I was glad that I didn't cancel.

I wasted a lot of time working on Tony and Clarissa's computer. Their CD burner doesn't work half of the time. This was making me mad because it makes it impossible to get their 5 million songs off the computer.

Around 10 I went out and hung out with Jill, Jenny and Jason. Ran into Eric Wulterkens as well. I talked to Tom on the phone for about 10 minutes on the drive home.

Friday Night

Late Friday night I had a couple glasses of Bailey 's with Adam while we played Bond on the PS2. After that I headed down to Fond du Lac for a little get together for Julie's birthday. When I got to Fox Hut Julie and Joel were already there. Jason showed up towards the tail end. We went to a couple other bars. We got to catch a little bit of Red Fish's show. They're two guys that play guitar and sing along to a drum and bass machine. They're pretty good but it was fun laughing at the little grins the guy with the mustach was giving to the other buy playing guitar. The night ended at McCarthey's. It was fun seeing Joel, Jason, and Julie again. I listened to Michael Savage on the way home.

Feb 24, 2006

Todays pictures come via Tony in Ohio. He's been away for almost two months now. These pictures are of the place he works, his hotel, and some of the people he's working with.

February 23, 2006

The cold got even worse today. I spent a lot of time at work today debating whether or not I would leave earlier. I didn't. Tina (my cube neighbor and work idol) attacked the Elvis thing that I keep on my desk. There's a picture of both Tina and Elvis after the vandalism.

Adam had his parents over to the house tonight for supper.

Feb. 22, 2006

Feb. 21, 2006

Ok, look at the top picture. I wake up in the morning to this. Clarissa parked her car right behind mine. Can you see all of the other places she could have parked? In the garage, um...anywhere on the left side of the driveway. I thought that she must have been smashed the night before. She denies this. Instead of waking her up I spent about 5 minutes going in reverse and drive. After clipping a snowbank I managed to get around it.

Work, enough said.

Clarissa and I went to Copperrock tonight. Clarissa got me a capuchino. Thanks Clarissa. And I know I probably spelled that wrong.

Jim, I'll do something more exciting soon. I understand that these pictures haven't been the most exciting lately.

Monday, February 20, 2006

A pretty typical Monday. Work and school. I'm not feeling so well tonight. I just got done running some stuff back to the library and dropped a package off at the post office. Both places were closed for Presidents Day but I dropped the CD's into the media return box and I used the automated postage purchaser at the post office. Ah technology. To mix stuff up a bit I wore out my big ugly jacket. It has a big fluffy hood. It's pretty pimp.

Sunday February 19, 2006

On Sunday I tried in vain to get my car started. It was a no go. Tony did a little shoveling while Clarissa took some photo's. The two of them proceeded to go to the store and purchase the long awaited washer and drier. While they were away, Adam busied himself preparing a supper for everyone.

I worked away at a wedding video that I'm doing for someone at work. Eventually, Tony scrambled off to the airport and Adam went out to the bars in Green Bay. I worked on the video until about midnight and then went to bed. Unfortunetly I'm having trouble burning the finished product to DVD. My computer has been making some loud sounds lately and I'm fearing another hard drive crash.

Saturday

Tom and Amanda came over Saturday afternoon. We ordered Chinese food and played a little bit of Trivial Pursuit. We started to watch a movie and Amanda and Tom decided to leave. Adam eventually decided the movie was dumb and went to bed. After the movie, I called Jim up and we went out for a while. You can view a bigger picture by clicking on the thumbnail.

Friday Night

Tony flew in from Ohio last night. In the picture with Clarissa he is imitating his picture with Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister that was taken the night before. Jill came over and the four of us talked for a while. Jill and I ended up going out to Dr Jeckles for a bit. She's pictured above with Squishy.

Friday

It's finally Friday and I finally remembered to bring my digital camera home from work. Instead of typing a bunch of boring stuff I posted a few pictures. They are my calendar from work, my computer screen (you can see me in my spy mirror) and Tony and Clarissa's house after I busted my ass shoveling out the driveway. Enoy!

Can You Hear the Snow Coming

Today was good. I got out of class early and was able to get a good workout in. In the car, my iPod was doing an above and beyond job of shuffling my songs. I couldn't have done it better myself. I couldn't wait to get home from the gym so I could play with my new alarm clock. It's one of those that uses radio signals to set itself. It also has readings for the outdoor and indoor temperatures. It's all set up now and I keep turning around to see how cold it is outside. I know, I'm kind of a nerd.

Opy and Melissa got married yesterday. Opy said that everything went great and it feels good to be married.

Education

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Tuesday

On February 10, 2006 I met Odell. Sunday we went to Sebastions in Fond du Lac and got some steaks. The food was alright. Not quite what we were hoping for though. Afterwards we went to visit Kelly, Troy and then over to visit Grandma Lee.

Tonight I was at school until 9:30. I'm trying to get caught up in all of my classes. I'm hoping that I can get out early tomorrow so that I can make it to the gym.

The guy that sits next to me in my Tuesday class was driving me nuts today. He forgot his lab book so he asked if he could share mine. That was fine. I was getting annoyed after a little while because I felt that I couldn't write in the book because he was reading. I think that I started to actually look annoyed. His drive ended up failing on him so he got mad and left. I guess he was having an all around bad day.

Here's a view of the school as I walked out tonight. It was snowing lightly.

Moved In

I'm finally moved into Clarissa and Tony's house. It's nice to have all of my stuff put away properly. Lot's of stuff boxed up in the attic.

The drive to work hasn't really been extended by that much. A few minutes if anything. It gives my car enough time to warm up.

Tony flew back from Ohio for the weekend. Tony Clarissa and I went to the parents yesterday for lunch with the Grandparents, Parents, Kelly, Troy, Amanda and Tom. We rushed back to the house so that we wouldn't miss Time Warner. They were installing the cable modem. Now the house is all wired and ready to go.

I'm always trying to update this page more often. I'll make a better attempt. Hopefully I'll be buying a digital camera soon. That'll make it more interesting for me to write about things.

Take care.

Christmas

Christmas was pretty good this year. On Christmas Eve I picked up Tony and Clarissa and headed to the parents house in Stockbridge. We lounged around for a little over an hour and then headed to my Uncle Mike's in Fond du Lac.

It was good seeing all of my cousins again. I haven't seen Laura, Matt or Shawn in a while. I got to talk to Grandpa Mac for a little while. I asked him a few things about WW2. He said that his unit was supposed to go to Japan but the war ended right before they were to go there. He said that he was relieved. He also talked about how he was an old man. He said that he's lucky that his heart is strong or he might not be a live right now.

That night my family returned to Stockbridge with Grandma Lee in tow. We were up until 3:30am opening gifts. I was surprised towards the end of the night when Troy gave me a new Ephiphone SG model. I was so stunned I didn't know what to say. Tom got a lot of books. Kelly got to play Santa for the first time this year. I nick named her TrixiClause. Clarissa complained about that though because she said that was her nickname. Really, I only remember her using it a couple times during video games. I guess it was such a big deal that Tony talked to Kelly later and Kelly decided to go with a different nickname. Really, I'm at odds to see what the big deal was. Anyways, Kelly's tag line was "blow, blow, blow". It was funny and I think we'll be hearing it next year.

Christmas day we communicated with Sarah Horne over the quickcam. Since we were on dial-up the connection was somewhat choppy. She e-mailed a few pictures taken that day (one of them is posted at the right of this). Tony spent alot of time ripping songs to the hard drive for Mom's new iPod.

Around 2pm we headed to Clarissa's Mom's. The night ended with a Christmas party at Tony and Clarissa's house. All in all, a pretty good couple days.

The day after Christmas Kelly came up to Appleton and we spent about five hours shopping for bargins. We spent hundreds of dollars on Christmas crap. Really nothing useful. I bought a couple pairs of black dress pants.

Tomorrow I have to go back to work. It really feels like time slipped away again.

Computer

My computer is finally fixed. Now I can upload photos and actually use a CD drive. It's been a while.

Here's a picture of my roommate Adam. He just got an iPod Nano. So of course, he's quite happy that the computer is fixed as well.

Well, I couldn't go into work on Monday because my car wouldn't start. Yesterday I took the day off because someone was coming over to fix my computer. Today we had a QBR at work. It's an awards day for meeting our numbers. It was a very easy day. A meeting in the morning and then games in the afternoon. I drank way to much and am feeling the on start of a hangover. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.

I hope to get the video editing software up soon so that I can get those two wedding videos done. It's going to be nice not worrying about those anymore.

A week from now my last class of the semester will be over!

The Beat

Not to much going on. The semester is winding down and I've been paying the price for procrastination. Everything should be done on time.

My car wouldn't start today. I think and hope that it was the cold weather. Tony and Clarissa brought me some Heet after they finished work. Tony and I even tried jumping it. No success. Hopefully it will start tomorrow morning. I might try it once more yet tonight.