Where is my air conditioning?

Who ever thought that the north nest was cool enough that you don't need air conditioning needs to be shot. I mean seriously, when it is 85+ degress in my house at 11pm something is screwed up....

What's that you say? Open a window? Yea they are all open and I'm not noticing anything different.

Every hear of something called Global Warming? Well it's here.

If it was only one or two days out of the summer it wouldn't be a big deal, but we are consistently having days > 80 and there is just no relief.

It's not like I would have the air conditioner on every day even if it's 68 outside, it's only for when you can't stand it inside. What's wrong with that?

Ah well, time to get back to enjoying my hot sweaty house in the great cool north west.

Lizzy

 

I don't think so..

Still Kicking

Yes I am still alive, somewhere. Posting just hasn't been a priority for the last year or so. Still, I look at my wife and see how she keeps a journal for every day of our kids lives (at least till their 2 anyway), and it makes me want to have some record of myself to leave behind.

Not that anyone would find this to be a particularly useful resource in the future, but it would provide insight into what kind of person I am. Maybe I'll start posting a bit more (typing it doesn't mean it will come true, but hey you never know).

I'm trying to get my self more productive in all aspects of my life and I'm just not finding the tools to do it the way I want. I have long had ideas of building my own, but due to the lack of productivity which I am trying to solve, I never seem to find the time to build the tools. I think I'll start using some half rate app for the time being until I can build my super app.

This isn't what I planned

Well, nothing works out like you think, that's for sure. I had intended to change out the blogging engine to wordpress or some such, but I never got around to it. Now after a couple of months of no progress towards that end, and with the improvements to blogger, I just can't find the motivation. I guess I'll just stay with blogger and call it good. I do intended on getting more posts out; now that I am working full time instead of doing homework all the time I should have more time, but I haven't quite gotten into the rhythm of things yet.

Thanksgiving

Finally a break! The way my school schedule works out, the last time we got school off was in Sept. It's been nothing but school projects and work since. The good part is that now I only have a few weeks left of school and after this semester only a few months left of school at all as I graduate in April!

Things have been fairly exciting these last couple of months. I received and accepted a full time offer from Amazon.com which will start next May. I can't disclose how much their giving me, but when I compare it to those salary services that take in your experience location etc and give you a base salary for you, it is a good deal better than the high end, and that's only with my regular salary not counting any bonus etc which are quite nice.

I also finalized my graduation. I realized that in order to graduate, I only have to take two more classes. This is going to make for a really easy semester next year. I am filling in the spaces as I need enough classes to keep my federal aid, but even if I were to fail these other classes outright I would still be able to graduate. That and the job I have lined up are giving me a nice warm fuzzy feeling for next year.

Speaking of which, we are planning on spending Christmas and New Years in Japan with Mako's family. We have never been back to Japan in the winter or any holiday, so it should be a fun time. If we get a nice cash present from here parents, we are also considering getting a Wii. I might actually have time to play it next year. That is if our two year old will let us. He is getting really into computers and what not. If we leave the computer on, he will start up firefox, click on his bookmark, and start playing his online toddler games that we set up for him. It astounds me how quickly he picks these things up. Was I this quick? I don't, but it gets really fun to see your kids grow intellectually as well as physically.

Well, I'm writing this in class, and the bell is about to ring so I'll have to call it good, but stay tuned for an amazing story about the durability of the Nintendo DS. It's not pretty, but as astounding me.