Hanging On

Posted on 11/30/2007 by Trev at 11:30 pm

This past week has been pure hell.

First, we lost our new house — for the 2nd time. To be honest, right now I have given up on that house. We’re still going to be moving in the next 12 months, just not into the house that we wanted to. We’re not sure exactly we’re we’re going, but we plan on starting the search after the new year. The one thing we are pretty sure of is that we will be heading south.

This whole house thing has caused a lot of problems around here. Let’s just say there has been a lot of fighting, depression, frustration, and crying. I do believe Jess and I have finally smoothed things out. That’s good since I really didn’t want to see my marriage end after only 1 year.

I will have to say that through all this, the outpouring of support from all of our friends has been very encouraging. It’s times like these when you really know who your friends are.

The one bad side-effect from all of this is that I will most likely be staying at Lowe’s for the time being. As much as I crave a new job, it’s very easy to transfer to another location with a large company. However, if we finally figure out where we want to go and there are no positions available there, then a new job will be in order.

In other news, we got Loki fixed today. He’s been groggy since he got home. It’s actually quite nice to have him like this since all he wants to do is cuddle and sleep. In fact, he’s sleeping on my leg under the covers as I am writing this. He goes back to the doggy doctor in 10 days to get his stitches taken out. Hopefully, this will not only calm him down, but help in house breaking since he still can’t understand that he can’t poop inside the house when we’re not looking.

Jess and I both have work tomorrow, and then tomorrow night, her family is coming up and we’re taking her out to dinner for her birthday. We’re not quite sure where we’re going, but I’m sure it’ll be good.

For now though, it’s time for some sleep. I’m going to work until around 2pm tomorrow, and then come home and straighten up since we had to bring everything we took over to the new house back here. Plus, we still haven’t finished putting up the tree, so all the tree stuff is in the living room. Right now, we have about 10 ornaments on the tree. Me thinks we’ll need a few more then that.

My Current Desktop — Laptop Edition

Posted on 11/25/2007 by Trev at 10:20 pm

The Hunt Begins

Posted on 11/25/2007 by Trev at 8:50 pm

Tomorrow is the first day of deer season. Normally this is something my father and I are very excited about. With everything going on in our lives right now, we almost forgot about it. That’s really sad since this is the only thing my father and I do together anymore. We used to go fishing all the time, but somehow along the way, our trips got less and less frequent. We also used to fish in a bass tournament at our favorite lake every summer, but we haven’t done that in close to 13 years. It’s not that we lost interest, but somehow, somewhere, we both got too busy. The only thing we have made time for every year is the first day of deer. Even that has been shaved down. We used to hunt the first 2 days together, but since I have left high school, I have only been able to get away for the first day. But, one day together in the woods is still better then no time together.

The funny thing is that we really don’t even hunt together. Sure, we’re hunting the same 68 acres, but we’re about 1/3 mile apart from each other. We talk on the ride down,and we talk and plan while we put our gear on. We then shake hands, wish each other good luck, and set off. This is at about 6am, and we won’t see each other until about noon when we all meet up for lunch. We take about a 30-45 minute lunch, and then go out hunting the afternoon. After the day is over around 3:30pm, we hop on the quad and pick up any deer we shot and load them up. All in all, we hunt for about 10 hours, and of that, I’m with my dad for maybe 90 minutes, not counting the drive there and back. You’re probably wondering how I consider this spending time together. Not to sound cliche, but it’s a guy thing. Just being out there, knowing here’s out there in those woods with me, and we’re both hunting the same animals, creates a unique connection. When I see a deer step out of the thick woods and start to graze, I wonder if this might be the same deer my dad was just watching for the past 20 minutes. With every close shot, I wonder with anticipation if that was him and what he got. For someone who has never experienced this, it’s really difficult to understand. There is a very deep kinship involved.

Not to sound too gushy, but If I hated hunting, I would still go to be with my dad. This is the one day of the year that it’s just about me and him.

Re-Arranged

Posted on 11/24/2007 by Trev at 8:10 am

Jess and I have been in a depressive funk for the past 2-3 weeks or so. I can’t really go into why, but right now, we’re at that breaking point.

So, I’m taking matters in to my own a making some changes. The first of these is turning our upstairs into an office. Yes friends, that means that within the next week my gaming box will be upstairs. I’m cool with that tough. The only thing right now stopping me is that I need to make room up there to run some CAT-5 so I can have the internets up there. I could just buy another wireless card for my machine, but I really prefer a nice, wired connection.

Right now though, I am headed up there to setup a new system for storing out clothes, and start figuring out how to drop the cables down through the wall.

Have geek will travel my friends. Later…

The Modern Bard

Posted on 11/22/2007 by Trev at 10:11 pm

I did something today that I honestly haven’t done in years. I read a book in one day.

When we got to Brandi’s house today, Jenn gave me my belated birthday presents. She got me a book by Sting, and a book about/by Genesis. After dinner, I sat down and started reading the Sting book.

I just got done reading it.

The book is "Lyrics By Sting".

The book is excellent. The book covers every album/song from the very first Police album, to his latest CD, ‘Sacred Love’. At the beginning of each album, he talks about what the album was about, what he life was like then, where it was recorded, and any other cool information. Then, he goes song by song, talking about the meaning of each song, and then printing all the lyrics to said song. A most excellent book for any fan of Sting or The Police.

Turkey Day — Part Deux

Posted on 11/22/2007 by Trev at 10:40 am

Well, I ended up staying up until a after 3am watching TiVo since I couldn’t sleep. I came home exhausted, and ended up falling asleep on the couch after dinner. Jess was kind enough to let me sleep as she was baking pies for today, and I ended up waking up around 11pm. It was great to take a nap, but I hate it when I sleep that late because I know I will be up half the night.

I did end up waking up around 9:30am this morning, wile be lagter then I wanted to get up, still was pretty early in the grand scheme of things.

Right now, Jess is making some breakfast, and finishing her last pie.

In fact, it’s just about time for me to jump in the shower, and get ready to head out. I’ve got to clean out the car to fit me, Jess, Loki, and pies. Then once we’re all packed up, it’s an hour and a half drive to Brandi’s house and glorious Thanksgiving Day dinner.

Let the gorging begin!!

Turkey Day

Posted on 11/22/2007 by Trev at 12:17 am

This is going to be the first Thanksgiving that I will not be eating with my family. Well, my natural family that is.

Since Jess’s mom is re-doing her house, my sister-in-law Brandi has offered to host Thanksgiving Dinner. That’s great, but she decided to have it the same time as my parent’s dinner.

Since the gas prices have been outrageous, we have not had the same opportunities we have had in the past to see Jess’s family, so we decided to go to their dinner this year instead.

The plus side is seeing her family which is awesome. The downside is that I only get 1 dinner this year rather then my usual 2.

Somehow I think I will survive though.

Long Day

Posted on 11/20/2007 by Trev at 11:06 pm

A fulle day of work, then dinner with Jess, and then some Christmas shopping. We didn’t get home until about 10:30 tonight. In fact, we were so tired we left my car at Target and Jess is taking me tomorrow morning to pick it up.

On the plus side, I did finish up shopping for Gavin and Kyla. Plus my parents are 1/2 done.

Changes

Posted on 11/19/2007 by Trev at 12:02 am

I’ve been thinking all day that I want to re-do my computer room. What I am thinking about doing is something I have always wanted to do, but never got around to. I want to line the walls with shelves, and then put all my old childhood toys on there. That’s right, all my He-Man figures (what I have left anyway), my Voltron, and all my old, original G1 Transformers. Plus, as a promise I made to Jess, I want to move all my Star Trek props from the living room to the computer room.

On top of all of that, I really want to re-do how all the computers are setup in here. Right now, there’s basically at least 1 computer on each wall. I’d like to condense that, and maybe put all the servers and workstations on one side of the room, and then my desk with my gaming rig on the other side.

This is all of course most likely going to take place post-Holiday Season, but it’s something nonetheless that has been swirling around in my head all day.

Well, that and boobs.