I got some chocolate tonite. Mmmmm … I feel better now.

Mood: chillin

I’ve been wearing this pair of contacts for way too long. They’re my last pair. I haven’t had the money to go in since I was out of work. Now that I’m working again, I figured I’d better go. That, and I think wearing old contacts is giving me headaches from time to time.

I pulled out my last bill. The last time I went was the end of September 2002. 2 years … wow. Guess I SHOULD go again. I looked in the phone book for the phone number, but it wasn’t listed in there. Crap! I looked in the online phonebook, and it wasn’t there either. Shit! I did find a listing for the doctor who I had seen at Vista Optical, but he’s got his own practice now … at least that’s what it looks like.

You’d think that they would have notified all their patients that they were closing. I’m still at the same address as the last time I went. But I got NO notice of this. Now I need to look for a new eye doctor. And they aren’t gonna have my records. I’m not sure what to do about this. There isn’t another Vista Optical in town either.

I’m gonna have to ask around work for recommendations. I want to find an affordable eye doctor. Maybe I should just go to the Walmart Vision Center. Has anyone had any experience with them?

Mood: hungry

For some reason lately, I have SOOOO been craving chocolate. And I have NO form of chocolate in my apartment. If it wasn’t so late and I didn’t look like shit, I’d run out to CashWise and get some chocolate. I WANT CHOCOLATE!!!

Mood: empty

I haven’t been on the net all that much today, and it sucks. My favorite message board has been down most of the day. I’m starting to go through withdrawls. I’ve ran into some of the people from there at another message board. But it’s not the same. I miss Harold and the rest of the crew.

At least the race was on tonite, so I wasn’t online except during cautions. And then I was checking all the Dale Jr message boards. [By the way … Dale Jr won!! ]

I hope things get straightened out over at Harold’s soon. I think the trouble was all those googlebots eating up his bandwidth. That sucks. Thank goodness I don’t have that problem at my message boards. But then again, I don’t have many people visiting them anyways. … nobody loves me … … LOL.

I think I’ll go check the Dale Jr and other racing message boards to see what’s being said about tonite’s race. Then I’ll probably head to bed. I hope Harold’s back up soon. I said that already didn’t I? LOL Well … I miss the place.

Mood: ecstatic

As you may know … I’m a major NASCAR freak (mainly Dale Jr). When I first saw Cledus T. Judd’s video “I Love NASCAR”, I freaked. That song is PERFECT for me. I ran across a link to the full video online once but lost it. I just found it again. If you’re a NASCAR freak like me and haven’t seen it (or even if you have … it’s great) … check it out …

“I Love NASCAR” by Cledus T. Judd

Perfect timing for Happy Hour at Bristol and then the Busch Series race. Woohoo!

[P.S. It doesn’t wanna work in Firefox 0.9.1, so you’ll probably have to use IE … grrrr]

Mood: excited

Traffic on the way to work in the morning isn’t too bad. It gets a bit bottled up at 13th and University and in a couple spots on 10th Street, but overall, it’s not too bad.

On the way home … it’s a different story. It’s crazy trying to get onto University from 2nd Ave N. Once I get south of Main Ave., traffic flows faster, but it’s still a pain in the ass. And then back to 13th Ave. Grrr …

Today I got passed by the same guy on a bike (pedal powered bike) 3 and a half times. I say 3 and a half because just as he was gonna overtake me one time, traffic started moving again. That’s just crazy. And this was a span from around 8th Ave S on University down to 13th Ave and then on 13th Ave. to almost 25th St. It’s just crazy.

I wish I lived close enough to walk to work. That would be much less of a hassle.

Mood: hungry

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Mood: silly

When I first entered the blogging world, it was via LiveJournal. I had deleted that journal when I got my domain and started using MT.

I’ve still got some online friends who use LiveJournal. I’ve posted comments a few times, but since I had deleted my LJ journal, I could only post anonomously. I was still able to log in with my username and password, but since I had deleted my journal, I couldn’t post as logged in.

Well, I had been wondering if I could start up my journal there again. I finally tried earlier this afternoon. I found the spot where I could ‘activate’ my journal again. And lo and behold, my old entries were still there. Cool … I know know that I joined the blogging world on June 5, 2002. I couldn’t remember exactly when I had started. Having my LJ back, now I know. And I had a record of my trip to Kansas the summer of 2002 again. I read through all of my old entries. One thing I discovered … I was unhappy at my old job for a LONG time. I was bitching about it back in 2002. And I stayed there for over another year. Wow! But it was fun to read some of that stuff again.

If anyone is curious to read my LJ (beware of the bitching … LOL), you can find it here.

Mood: amused

I guess I didn’t have to worry about work. I’ve been worried (or scared or nervous) that I’m not living up to the expectations of the company. That I don’t know enough to be profitable and keep around. I guess I didn’t have to feel that way. 2 of my bosses were out today through the end of the week. I got an email from one (the lead programmer) saying that he was very impressed with my work so far (he had put *VERY* in his email). That I’ve made quick work on some complex admin backend stuff. That made me feel really good. Maybe I am earning my keep … LOL.

Mood: hungry

I gave Lisa (my sis) my old camera since I finally got my new one. I guess she’s been taking pics of the cat (his name is Stubby). She sent me this one earlier tonite, and it’s now set as my wallpaper … LOL. What a goober (the cat, not my sister )…

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Lisa said that Dad’s a bad influence on him … LOL.

Mood: blah