Friday night is poker night tonight!

Yes that's right. It's poker night and I was ready to win some money. Well, sometimes life isn't what what you would have it be. It was poker night at my friends house. Well, it didn't quite turn out the way I wanted, but I only lost minimal dollars, and it was to friends, so I say money well spent....or money well wasted. However you wanna say it, I had fun and that was that.

At work today I was the crew leader. It was pretty cool because I was in charge and didn't have to worry about getting bothered by people I don't work well with.

I am going to bed now.

it's August right?

Today I mowed some grass. It is very green and lucious grass too. I keep thinking that it is July because it is raining all the time, and the grass is growing like crazy. I think our months got mixed up or something. August feels more like July, and July felt more like August. @ 11:15PM it rained again. I did good at work today.

I am totally exhausted, I have to go to bed PRONTO or else I will pass out right here at the computer.

I did a lot better today.

I did a lot better working today with my "issue." I didn't get upset about the stupid things, and just didn't let things bother me in general.

I am lucky to have good adult role models in my life. One specifically is Bill; co-worker, friend, and positive influence. I was really taken today when he asked my opinion on a serious matter in his life. He was giving me a ride home after work and asked more specifically about something he mentioned earlier in the day. I felt really honered that he wanted my opinion on the subject.

I had my first ~RaNdOm~ check in today. Now, I am making the bunny ears with my fingers when I say "random check in." It is a part of my unsupervised probation, but there is absloutly nothing random about it. In fact, my next ~RaNdOm~ check in is schedueled for November 16th. They are telling me 3 months in advance! Pretty random huh?

wet and icky

I woke up this morning, and it was wet outside. I can't believe how much rain we have gotten in the past 48 hours. I know it sure has made the grass green. But, with wet grass comes mowers that get clogged up, and clumps of saturated grass that just tends to make a mess.

I have an issue at work. There is someone I don't work with too well. It's not even that I don't work with well with him, I just always work with a chip on my shoulder. It is not my personality to act like this either. I can adapt to all different types of personalities when I am working. But this one person....it's like I have a personal vendetta with him. I try to break they way I view him, and in all reality, there is no good reason why I treat him the way I do; which is finding fault in everything he does. I do know that there is a huge personality difference, this person is far more mature than me also. I don't mean age mature either. This person is much more stable and in a lot of aspects, especially spiritually. It's like.....he is slow, I am go. Why do I have such a problem with that? Mark Nolot (Boss) is happy with this worker, I just take it all personally. I am being a baby, but this is what is going on. I am going to keep working on it.

I have my first "CHECK UP" tomorrow. It is part of the rules to my probation. Because of the OWI back in Sept. '06.

I wonder if it is going to keep raining.

Monday night madness

Today was all the bowling you can handle after 9:00P.M. for $6.50 Now, it was intense! Check these shot's out.

I totally shot a strike after this picture was taken. Just goes to show you don't have to have pretty form to throw a good strike. ;-)

josh did pretty good tonight, there was a point during the course of the night that he had like 4 strikes in a row. You can tell who is actually good a bowling when they can bowl with consistancy. None of us could do that. Here is a picture of Chris after he threw a gutter ball. He threw a lot of those during the evening. But, I think he had a really good time.

I didn't work today because of the massive amount of rain we have been getting. It's weird. If we get no rain at all, I don't work because there is no grass to cut. If we get non-stop rain forever, I also don't mow(work) because the ground is too wet to work on.

I also realized today how much I miss my friends in China. How much I miss the environment, the culture, and the general way of life. Does that make me an odd ball? Maybe, I don't care though.

Every night for like the past 2 weeks, I have these crazy vivid dreams. I can only remember what I dream for like 1/2 hour after I wake up. I never take the time to write it down. But it's weird because when I am dreaming, I can't tell I am dreaming untill I wake up.

HAPPY 59th B-Day DAD!

Yes, today is my dad's official B-Day. We celebrated it yesterday though. I would show some pictures of him blowing out his cake....BUT I can't upload them onto my parents computer. I took those pictures with my digital camera, and I have to plug it directly into my lap top in order to have access to them. Why am I not on my own computer? It is not currently working to it's fullest capacity. It happened like this. I wanted to create a b-day card for my dad. Well, I was looking and looking and all the generic sites I found didn't have anything I liked. SO, I found this "free" software that I could download and create a unique card just the way I wanted. HA! Stupid me, ohh, I downloaded the program alright, but for those of you who know about Spyware, well, that was what I really downloaded. My computer is not even functional. Every time I turn it on the screen fills up with so many pop up's that I can't even concentrate. I tried running my Ad-Aware program, and my AVG Anti-virus program, but it was fruitless. My poor compy is not feeling too good, and I am not going to mess with it until my friend comes over and takes a look at it. AHHHHHH!!! I was so frustrated yesterday. I was yelling, and pounding trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. My back ground image actually fillled up with a new image. It was an all red screen, and a bio-hazard symbol was right in the middle. It said that spy-ware was on my computer, and that hackers were attempting to gain control of my computer. lol. Then it said I had to download this software to protect my system. It cost lots of money of course. ohhh jeeze. I just shut off my computer. Happy ~"Birty"~ dad. I love you so much, and I am positive God made you my father for a very specific reason. Thanks for being there to show me how a man is suppose to act.

Yesterday in the morning I worked. Did some up keep around the shop, and then cleaned off some of the mowers. When I called for a ride home....No one was available. Instead of doing the rational thing and waiting for someone to pick up their phone, I walked home. It was exactly a 4 mile walk. It was a nice one too. I just couldn't believe how many beer bottles I saw on the walk home. I saw all kinds of things actually. Female razers, carpet, lego's, a Samsung cell phone, pornography, uncountable amounts of trash, and other things. It was crazy. I saw a lot of people interacting with their environment, and it was pretty cool. Check this live action shot.

Ya see, even though I can't plug my phone directly into my computer; because of it's current state, I can still utilize my technology. Ya see, I can take a picture with my phone, and instead of sending that picture to another phone, I can send it directly to my E-Mail. BAM! Now I got pictures from my phone on my parents computer.

The night ended up with some cool information I got from my "half brother" Troy. I found out why I have always been so susceptible to bloody noses. I don't understand it completely, but when it told me it did make sense. I also got to hang out with my buddy Jason Burdick and Adam Eichel. It was good stuff.

Perfection Bakeries

Yes, today was the big interview. Which I showed up for an hour early. BUT, it wasn't my fault. Jeff Foster, the general manager told me on the phone to be there at 9. Well, I guess he told everyone else to be there at 10. It was a group interview, 3 people who were currently working there through an employment agency, and me and one other guy not currently working there.

SO, I had an hour to kill before the interview. I couldn't get in my car because 1. I don't have a car, and 2. I don't have a license. I started walking around down town Fort Wayne. I found a place to sit and saw something crazy!I posted up next to a 1 WAY street. As you can see, there are 2 lanes of traffic flowing in one direction. All of a sudden, I see a white Fort Taurus come racing down the street. There was a crazy lady driving, and a male passenger. I wish I would have had my phone ready when it was speeding past me, because she looked crazy. Right to the left of this picture, there is a stop light. She didn't see a street light I guess, because there isn't one facing traffic that isn't suppose to be there. She went right into the middle of the intersection before coming to a screeching hault! Then took off again driving the way. It was very random and pretty entertaining, just glad no one got hurt. OK, so now to the interview. Everything went alright, and even though I was pretty nervous, I trust that all is well. Here is the reason I was fretting. Upon acceptance, you have to submit a hair analysis drug screen. Now, if I had to take a urine test, there would be no worrying, and all would be well in the world. BUT, hair analysis drug screen's can look back far into your substance history. And although I have been clean for quite some time, I do not know how far back they will be looking. It worries me. I did however, get some killer advice from my dad while he was driving me to the interview. He told me, "Mike, I know your worrying about the interview and test, BUT, you can't control your past. You can only control your future. Keep doing what your doing, and everything will work out. If you are meant to get this job, you will pass the test." I am going to have to be ok with that. Plus, Jeff the general manager who interviewed me told me it would be 1 to 2 weeks before I heard back with their decision.

I got a bloody nose today as you can see. It wasn’t your normal bloody nose either. It has been really humid out, so you can’t say it is because of the dry weather. This is my 2nd bloody nose this week, and it was a pretty ferocious one. I do know that I was pretty stressed out today, but I can’t equate being really stressed out to a bloody nose. Also, I have never heard of M/S causing a bloody nose. I just don’t know. I need to take a deep breath, and just chill.

Then, at the end of the day, I managed to sell my old pick up truck to a group in Fort Wayne that post's signs all over the city called "CASH FOR JUNK CAR'S"

Yes, that's right, no more Mr. Truck. She is over and done with. She served me good, although even for a short while. Got my monies worty out of her. Big friggin 302 Mustang engine, and squealing tires made her fun to drive. Wonder what the next car will be.....