Wow. I start working full-time and then my posts stop for several days. Especially notable as I’ve tried to update every day since I decided to try writing in this crazy thing.

Sunday, May 2, 2004

We went to church, then went to my parents’ house. I cleaned out 4 large trash bags of junk from my old room so that it can be an office for my mom. Saw my parents’ new computer. It runs Windows XP Home Edition, which is just different enough from Professional for me to not be able to figure anything out quickly.

Monday, May 3, 2004

I started my first full-day at Checkerboard. Thanks to all those who wished me well. Nothing extremely unusual. After work, we had my brother Ben over. We went to Tech Pizza for supper and then had our Purpose-Driven Life Bible study.

Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Another day at work. After work, I went to WSC for the CA dinner and their parody of American Idol. See, to demonstrate that idols are bad, they ran a contest to see who could be the worst performer. The performances were truly brutal. My very own wife took home 3rd place (that is, 3rd worst). She sang I will live my life amazingly poorly, reading the lyrics that she had written on her arms, hands, and bottom of her feet. Her lack of talent won us 2 free movie tickets, which we may get to use at some point.

If they do the same thing next year, I think I’m going to have to give the world’s worst PowerPoint presentation.

When we got home, there was a message on the machine from our landlord saying that we had to park in the street for three weeks while the roof on the apartment next door was redone. Annoying, but with people clearing out for summer it shouldn’t be too bad.

We then watched Star Wars: Return of the Jedi late into the night as is writing a term paper on looking at Star Wars through the lens of pastoral literature. Whatever that is.

Today, May 5, 2004

Well, I started with work again. Funny how that occurs every day now that I’m full time. I’m on my own for supper as still had that 15-page term paper to write for her 6:00 class tonight, so she’s been at school all day. I plan to catch up on the usenet that I’ve been missing for the past few days, maybe go to the Octo-Wedge in the Campus Center, watch tonight’s episode of Enterprise, pick up Jessi, and go to bed.

Short-term Future Plans

Well, more work for the rest of the work week. On Friday, we may head out to a Friday Night Magic draft at TJ’s Collectibles. On Saturday, we get to go help at the PIP Shelter with the Costa Rica team. Sunday, we’ll either be doing something with my dad and his mom or something with my mom and her mom. The in-law parents are heading out to Camden, New York to be with their moms, so we won’t be joining them.

I’m still annoyed that the timestamp on journal entries defaults to the time you start writing it, not the time you finish. They can take a long time to write sometimes, especially if I’m working on other things at the same time, have a lot to write about, and are looking up things to link to. This particular post was started at 5:11 P.M. and is now being posted at 6:04.