But I can’t tell you because we are going to take balloons to the members of the court tomorrow morning and surprise them. I don’t recall ever being so nervous about an “election” before. I can’t even find the words to explain what I was feeling… I wanted Sarah to make it, but she didn’t… . . . Anyways, the rest of the court really doesn’t matter to me as I don’t know any of them.

Sarah did an excellent job getting the cake and everything else together today for Norma’s birthday. Thank you Sarah! The day went fairly well without B around. I got everything tackled that needed to be taken care of and even had some time to start working on putting some “older” pictures online, but man this laptop is freaking slow when it comes to iPhoto!

I went out to Vista tonight and met up with pyro at Chili’s for dinner. Then we went to Wal*mart as I had to get some contact lens cleaner and decided that while I was there I would see what other stuff I could get. $100 later, after self checkout, we were finally on our way home. Can’t think of much else to report other than Sarah’s away message says, “don’t talk to me. ever ever again. never. ever.” but supposedly it isn’t aimed completely at me for not getting her the extra votes she needed… Anyways, time to get some sleep so I can be back at the school at 7:15! (Yeah right!)

One day to go till we get the homecoming court… Why am I so nervous about this? Anyways, a nice long day at the high school today – 12 hours or so! The normal stuff today, except that it was a minimum day so the kiddies disappeared at noon which was kind of nice. Travis, Chad, Richie, Norma, Norma’s girls and I went out to lunch at Greek Style. I can’t remember the last time that I was there, but it was pretty good. This evening was back to school night so I spent the afternoon making “ask me” badges and other stuff preparing.

I started to run the homecoming court ballots, at least those that were returned so far – which was only Oder’s class. It was 125 ballots out of 570 or something so it could have been a fairly decent sample, but looks can still be deceiving at this stage. … I guess we’ll find out tomorrow for real. The scantron machine was really getting on my nerves today. It kept rejecting perfectly good scantrons, so I don’t know what’s its problem is, but I hope that someone gets the damn thing fixed soon so that I don’t have to keep dealing with this.

I sent Sarah to Baskin Robbins tonight to get a cake for Norma for her birthday tomorrow. Travis won’t be there tomorrow, but hopefully it will all work out. I finally made it over to the Peterman’s to give Ashley the CDs that she asked me for like three weeks ago! Lauren, Ashley and I talked for almost an hour and their mom was there for a bit too. I miss the girls and need to hang out over there more often. On the ride home I found out from Sarah that I get to meet her at the school at 7:25 tomorrow morning… The things I do… . . . Oh well, time for bed!

Really quick so that I can go to bed because it is like 11:15 already! It is way past my bedtime!

Anyways, spent most of the day at the school working on homecoming stuff. Went to lunch with Chad at the Firehouse. I made it to sophomore float this afternoon and even took some pictures. I had fun teasing Sarah more today about homecoming court. I even gave her a letter saying that she had been selected – but that was just for her to proofread. I don’t think that she is going to be able to make it through till Wednesday afternoon, or even worse, Thursday!

Ryan came over tonight and we complained about life and people for a while… That was fun! We both need to figure out what it is that we’re going to do with our lives and fast. In honor of Ryan coming over, I had to replace the cyan cartridge in my printer this evening… Why did he have to come over? (And he didn’t even print anything!)

I guess that’s about it. Back to school night tomorrow and I’ve still got all the ask me badges to make, so you’ll know where to find me tomorrow!

Like Batch, I didn’t accomplish much today, but I guess I got done the things that I needed to. Dad has been bugging me to blow off the driveway for over a week now and I got that done this morning before working some more on the homecoming court ballot. I think we might actually be ready to go with it now which would be great. The sooner the better!

I went to singles ward today. It still feels weird. I miss my ward from Idaho. I felt at home there, this ward just feels awkward, but I guess I need to give it some more time and see how things work. I guess I also need to figure out what is going on with Idaho! Ahh! I don’t know what to do with myself!

After church I talked with pyro for a while on the phone – man it’s been a while since we’ve done that. I’m glad to see that he is working on getting back to school and that he has higher hopes than the shop at Power Plus. I also talked with Larilyn briefly today for the first time in like two weeks. I also seemed to spent a lot of time today responding to emails. I’m back to the good old days of emailing all day long, although I can’t manage to keep up – which means that getting into the backlog is even harder! 253 messages in the inbox and counting. This next week looks like it might be a little bit quieter than the past week so hopefully I’ll have some time to work on getting through them.

I talked with Sarah a lot about homecoming today. She found the dress she wants to wear if she makes court. She called herself a princess today, so this could be the start of something interesting. It would be good if she did make court. She seems like a good girl that has worked hard and would just have a blast if she made it to court. …

Lupe needs music cut – what else is new? I miss that girl though… Kind of crazy, but she was fun. We need some more Lupe airbands!

I didn’t get the ask me badges done today, but I guess I still have one day left to do them. I can’t think of anything else to report so I guess I should turn in and get some sleep.

Got up this morning and watched a really bad recording of Joan of Arcadia from last night. I don’t know why it was so bad, but I was thinking about just giving up on it because the audio was so bad and the picture was barely recognizable. After that it was off to a wedding at GT. Ben did pretty good. I threw some problems at him and he was able to figure them out. I think there is potential there. He also did a good job with the wedding… so I think we could have a keeper!

After the wedding it was off to Island’s Temecula to meet Taugher, Norma, Teresa and Pyro. We were there for a while and had fun catching up. I miss the good old days, but we’re still trying to have some fun these days. Things are just so different. The spirit has gone downhill and it seems like we are just always fighting some battle or another.

I stopped by the school on the way home to call the kids that hadn’t yet turned in bios and pictures for homecoming court. I only got through to one of them who got me a bio via email today. I guess the others just weren’t interested. Their choice, not mine, but that’s why I like giving them the choice unlike we do for so many of the other dances. I then decided to go check on floats and made it to frosh and junior floats before I ended up at Baskin Robbins…

Today brought back memories… I was just standing around carrying on a conversation with Sarah between the customers. I used to do that everynight, now it’s just once a week when Sarah is there. Anyways, she inspired me to get home and work on the ballot for court which I got done today and is available online for those of you who would like to see it (see my other entry for the link).

I’ve been thinking in the back of my mind about what to do about Idaho today… I just don’t know… I’m so confused! It’s going to be hard to leave for real this time if I do, but I think that it could be good for me.

Speaking of Idaho, I called Allison today, but she didn’t answer. I know I’ve got at least one email to return to her from before the webserver problems. I also have an email from Christine that I need to take care of, now that I finally got the Big Jud’s pictures online. I did talk to Amanda today though and got the scoop on what happened with her and the drive back to Rexbuurg. To make the long story short, her car no work no more, and she now has a 92 exploder that she seems to like.

Today must have been a popular Peterman day because I was thinking earlier about needing to take those CDs over to Ashley that she asked me for, Lauren and I have been kind of talking on and off online for a while now, I talked with Amanda on the phone and Sarah asked me about how I knew Ashley today at BR.

Well, I can tell that I’m starting to get sidetracked easily, so I think it is time for me to try and get as much beauty rest as possible cause we all know I need all that I can possibly get!

Well, it’s been about a week since I’ve been on here, I wonder if I can even remember what all has happened. Last weekend I was kind of out of touch because the web server was down and this weekend wasn’t looking much better when I got home and found that my internet was down!

Friday we finally started to announce who was nominated for homecoming court (the top 15 or whatever you want to call it). I didn’t get the lists back from Deavers until almost the end of 6th though, so it was pretty much just whoever I could find after-school. Sarah was going crazy. I remember her saying something to the effect of “this isn’t supposed to happen.” I’m glad that she was so happy. Some of the other girls I kind of know from cheer or dance, but Sarah is the one that I know the most on there.

I ended up staying for the game Friday night and wasn’t going to take the system up there until Griener called and I decided that I should be a good boy and take the system up there for her. We had fun playing music for the cheerleaders, it was almost like old times, well without the Chumbawamba!

Saturday was the morp dance which went pretty good. I was supposed to DJ and sell tickets to the dance, which I didn’t think would be much of a problem. I figured that we might have 5 or so tickets purchased at the door and that I would just leave my computer running while I went and dealt with the ticket situation. Well, we ended up selling about $700 worth of tickets at the door! Now, the nightmare with the situation was that I was selling them to everyone for $10/ticket and I wasn’t selling them to anyone that had debt. Deavers decided to waive the debt requirement and then he met with Travis and they lowered the ticket price as they thought that $10 was too much for a $3 dance. So we reduced the tickets to $6 and $8. I’m just happy that the word didn’t seem to get out too far so that nobody has come wanting their money back. We could always say that they got in for cheaper because they missed more of the dance or something… Anyways, it was interesting. I’m glad that Chad stopped by and brought the lights and that he hung out with me in Norma’s office for the evening.

Because I wasn’t going to be with my computer, I locked the screen as usual, but unfortunately that meant that they couldn’t control the music very well. Sarah dragged me over there at one time because she thought the music was so bad. We lined up the next hour and then I went back to work in ASB. An hour later I did the same thing until finally for the last hour we closed up shop and then I actually went and played DJ. I actually had fun doing it, but I think that was just because it was mainly old music and not new stuff that I don’t know as well. In any event, I had a good time and I think the about 400 kids had a good time too. It also happened to be Sarah’s birthday and they got her car good with toilet paper and saran wrap. I guess that Mrs. Hellams even gave the kids toilet paper to do it with! How awesome is that? I didn’t get to see it, but we have pictures of it now in ASB because we got the pictures back from the photographers from the dance.

Sunday I didn’t make it at all to church. As I was getting ready to leave, John came over to work on the weather station and I got trapped into dealing with that. I knew I was going to have to leave early so I didn’t worry about it and just showed up to work (GT) earlier than expected. (After I went to Baskin Robbins, of course!) I basically had Ben do the wedding, but I helped him out with the calls on the radio. Tomorrow I’m going to try and put him all on his own and see how things work out. He did pretty good, I’m just worried about his confidence level and how well he will troubleshoot, but I think that he can make it with some more work. I think he did good for his 4th time or something.

After the wedding I went out to Chili’s with Batch, Pryo and Flaote. That was fun, although I think that my food budget just got cut in a quarter or so… We’ll have to see.

Monday it was back to school working on homecoming stuff, dance music and breaking down the walls. Pretty much the same stuff all week long. Tuesday morning I was there bright and early for our first all school assembly in probably 30 years. I got the bright idea to do the breaking down the walls assembly in the stadium and B actually went for it. I think it went fairly well for our first attempt. We had requested 500 chairs and they only brought us 200. We were about 200 seats short I think. We also learned that we couldn’t put chairs on the asphalt in front of the bleachers because it makes it take too long to get in, but just something we’ve now learned for the next time.

After school on Wednesday I was going to go to floats to take pictures and see how things were going, but Chad said he was having a problem with his powerbook. He was getting noise out of his speakers (you can debate over if it was pink or white noise, I’m not going to). We decided that sounded like a good excuse to go to Fashion Valley so off we were. We hit up Cheesecake while his computer was copying files from the old one and then went back to deal with the computer before going back for dessert.

Our webserver went down on Friday afternoon and I couldn’t get in touch with the hosting company at all until I finally signed up for a new account on Monday evening. I found out that Netmondo had been purchased by another company and that they didn’t know about the problem and didn’t have access to the support systems or anything yet because they couldn’t get in touch with the old owner. The new owner finally called me back Tuesday morning and told me the problem was that the datacenter unplugged the machine because of abuse. Someone was sending out spam, so they just unplugged the machine. So finally on Wednesday things started coming back online. I’m still working on getting things setup with another site for when things go bad again or for whenever we decide to give up on Netmondo. I do however have to admit that the price from Netmondo is amazing!

Thursday Chad, ASB and I went down to the Padre’s game. As usual, they lost, but that was expected. They played the Dodgers, so I just said that I was rooting for the Dodgers and didn’t really care about the Padre’s. I was really just there to build the bonds with the kids… who cares about a stupid baseball game. I can’t imagine anyone actually going to one of those games to watch the game. Riding the bus down there had its plusses and minuses. It was nice to not have to drive, but the bus ride down was crazy! The kids started a game where they hung out of the windows and tried to get people to wave at them or honk their horns or whatever… Anyways, it was crazy… I’m sure that Anthony, the bus driver, was about ready to shoot them, but he wasn’t complaining so I just let them have fun…

Today it was back to school and then off to GT for a wedding. I have to go back there again tomorrow morning. We’ll just have to see how that all goes… I’m not sure what to say, so I’m going to just hold off on commenting for now.

I did decide to finally go get my mail today. I got two things from BYUI. One said that they had received my application and were processing it. The other one said that I had been admitted for fall/winter. Now I guess this just means that I have to make a final decision and start saving like crazy! I was getting ready to think it wasn’t going to happen, and I’ve been having fun down here in CA recently, so I wasn’t nearly as happy to get the news as I would have expected me to be. I guess this just means that God wants me there, and I think I should follow that hint. I think in the end it will be good for me to get out of Fallbrook and get done with school. The only thing that I worry about is the finances. I’ve got some debts to take care of each month and I’m worried about making enough out there to stay alive. I guess I’ll have to look at the budget and start looking for a job now along with saving everything I can while I’m here. I’ll probably end up staying out there year round so I probably won’t be coming home to make money, but we’ll just have to see how things go. I can always come home for the summers, but I think that is going to be more of a pain than it would be worth.

Well, I could keep writing for the entire night, but I really need to work on getting to bed I think. Tomorrow I’ve got a wedding, then lunch with Taugher, Norma, Teresa and Pyro at Islands, and then I have to go visit my favorite shake maker at Baskin Robbins! This weekend I also have to get the ask me badges done and the ballot for homecoming court so I’m going to be busy! Happy birthday to Officer Bouse and those with birthday’s coming up… Good night all!

I’m watching 7th Heaven right now, so this could be kind of interesting. I made the executive decision this morning that I didn’t need to be there for the senate meeting so I didn’t show up until about 9 this morning. I finished up the homecoming court nominations and have given the list to Deavers for approval. Hopefully I’ll get the names back tomorrow morning and we can go from there. I want to notify the kids before the week ends so that they have the weekend to deal with writing their bio and finding a picture. I also did the schedule for the breaking down the walls assembly on Tuesday. We’re going to do our first assembly at the stadium. It will be interesting to see how things go. I spent some more time dealing with tissue paper today and I am still lost as to what has happened with a bunch of the inventory. I’ve got more of some stuff and not enough of some other stuff. Maybe I’ll figure it out eventually. For now I’m just worried about weather or not the kids have actually paid for all the paper they got last year.

Alana invited me over to the de Jong’s tonight for dinner. I can’t remember the last time I was over there, but I have a feeling with float being there this year I’ll be back there a lot.

Football game tomorrow night, but I’m not sure if I’m going to go or what I’m going to do. Georgie wants me to play music for her girls. I kind of want to take the sound up there, but at the same time I really don’t want to deal with lugging it all up there to only play music for 2 minutes. Maybe Griener wants music too… I’ll have to figure it out tomorrow.

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Anyways, time for bed now… Good night all…

I’ve had a couple long days lately. Monday I was at the school to work on homecoming stuff and just whatever else I did all day. Travis said he wanted to get some new speakers for the stadium so I started looking into that. I spent some time talking with Fritz about it, so I finally got to see him and tell him my amazement at his office. (Granted, my room is almost starting to look at bad as his office was!) Well, after talking it over with others later and really looking at prices it looks like it would cost $8-10k to do it, so I don’t think it is going to be on anyones priority list anytime soon. We can drag our sound system up there many times before that system would pay for itself.

Monday night I went to see The Bourne Supremacy with Bouse, Batch & Pryo in San Marcos. It was pretty good, and I’m glad that I rented Bourne Identity just a couple weeks ago so the previous movie was fairly fresh in my mind. We were out late after that – it was a 10:15 showing which didn’t get out until 12:30 or something. Then Tuesday I was up and started working on quotes and stuff for the school before going down for club rush. That of course went through till the float meeting that evening at 7. Bouse informed me that he forgot his vest in Fallbrook (he took it out to clean it) and instead of driving all the way back down here to get it, he offered to take me out to dinner if I met him half way. So, Tuesday night, Batch and I met him at The Cheesecake Factory, Irvine. As usual it was good, not much else to say about that. On the way home, I decided to try one of the toll roads, the 241/261 to see what that could cut off of the drive time. Well, it looks like that cut about 10 minutes off of the drive, but I’m not sure exactly how much it cost, probably $3-4.

So once again, home late and then I had to be at school early this morning to do homecoming court nominations. We unfortunately didn’t get everyone to show up to cast their votes so I think we are going to pull people out of class tomorrow to do it so that we can get a better diversity. The problem with the girls right now is that we don’t have a very big spread in votes like we do in most years. Hopefully we can get some more guys in there to pick the voting up. We also did the morP fashion show today which went fairly well, but there is always room for improvement. I would have liked it if we had better coordinated the music with the show, but I did what I could for picking out music an hour before the event. After lunch I went back into homecoming mode, dealing with tissue paper and counting votes for court. I finally decided to come home to get lunch at about 3:45. I guess I never had a chance to eat earlier today. Of course, after I had lunch, it was back to work again dealing with paper. Things are so confusing with the switch in paper vendors. Germain went from Crystal tissues back to SatinWrap. I just hope the colors will match up so that we don’t have problems this year. I’m also having a big problem balancing out what should be in inventory with what we have in inventory. I think that people returned stuff last year that I wasn’t aware of – and it looks like stuff has disappeared too, or people said they returned things when they never did. It also looks like we have some bills left over from last year to collect on from the classes. I’m going to have to try and find some time with Norma to figure out what exactly happened finance wise.

Tonight I’ve been pretty lazy as I am really tired. I watched What I Like About You before dinner and after dinner did the marquee and then watched “Welcome to Moosport.” The movie was OK, although I still have the funniest feeling that I have already seen the movie. Now I need to get to bed so that I can be at the school by 7:30 tomorrow morning for a senate meeting and to get these kids to vote! Hope all is going well with the rest of you… Let me know that you’re still alive if you aren’t one of the few I’ve heard from in a while.

OK, I need to go to bed, but I want to get the basics down… I cut church short today after sacrament to take off for a wedding at GT. When I got there – early mind you – I noticed that there seemed to be a large number of people there already, and Pat seemed overly stressed about the keyboard not being setup. Well, I came to find out that the wedding was an hour earlier than I had thought. Oops! I guess that’s what I get for just taking what Richie told me last night and going with it. Ben and I were able to get everything setup though in time and the wedding went off without a hitch, although people kept asking me why I didn’t do things – like take out the balloons or this or that… Why is it that everyone seems to think that all these things have become my job. Just because I do them when I have nothing else to do, and I want to help out, that doesn’t mean that it should become my permanent job! Oh well, such is life I guess. I’m actually starting to get frustrated with that place… I love it at times, but sometimes they seem to worry too much about the little things. Like today I asked Don about a padlock that was on a cabinet and he asked me to bring it to him in his office as it wasn’t needed anymore. Well I took him the entire collection of locks from the mill-house and he asked why they weren’t being used anymore. They had all come off at various times as we determined they weren’t needed anymore. Like why lock up a $50 CD player when you have $15,000 worth of other equipment sitting there on wheels ready to go? Why put the locks on the gazebo gates when people just forget to open them? He says that kids swing on them and break them, which I believe is a valid excuse, but it hasn’t been a problem since the locks have been gone which has been more than six months I think. OK, enough griping for the day. I really shouldn’t be… There are many positives of the place, and that’s why I’m still there today. I do enjoy working there and I enjoy the people, sometimes just the little things start to bug me.

Anyways, Bouse came down tonight so we all (Chad, Batch, Floate, Nate & Stephanie) went to Friday’s with him. I think we all had a good time. It was nice to hear some of his new stories and just have the group together for a while. I finally got to see Donna! Things can now go “back to normal.”

Not much else to report other than I need to get to sleep so that I can get up in 6 1/2 hours for work!

I installed the new venice 160 at GT today. I guess I never thought about the fact that the console is a little bit bigger – deeper and taller than the mackie was. It doesn’t exactly fit in the hole where the Mackie was very well. I’m going to have to talk to Sandy about maybe modifying the rack a little bit for the new console. I don’t know if he’ll be able to do it as I don’t think he has his wood shop setup and he probably doesn’t have the time. Maybe I’ll have to make this another Mark project…

When I got home from the GT, Hanna called me and read me a list of songs for the morp dance. For those of you that don’t know, I get to DJ the dance next Saturday, so let me know what music you want to hear before the dance starts… And for those of you that aren’t planning on coming… do you really have something better to do on a Saturday night that costs less than $3? We now have a bunch of songs, and I bought a bunch more from the music store today – I love buying music and ITMS has made my life so much easier, but of course, they are still missing songs that I may have to go out and buy.

My shopping was interrupted when Richie & Ben showed up and wanted to go to Friday’s. Jeremy was there, but still no Donna. I’m starting to think she doesn’t like me anymore! I’m about ready to give up on her, but I don’t know if I could handle life without Donna! :’( Jeremy did good though, and he even “sat” with us, if you know what I mean…

Lauren wanted to go bowling tonight, but she couldn’t get a team together. I don’t know what everyone else was up to, but it was getting fairly late when I got home from Friday’s and seeing that I’m trying to stick to a semi normal bedtime, I didn’t want to go out again and stay up way too late. Plus, I’ve been up long enough already without even going out to do anything. I’ve got some work to get done tomorrow morning and then it is off to church – going to Fallbrook 5th ward this week – and then I get to go do a wedding at GT at 3. At least Richie is getting smart and handing off the weddings that look hard. I get to deal with a violinist and two singers tomorrow in addition to all the normal stuff.

I can already feel the pressures of homecoming… Things are getting busy at the high school. I’m already starting to feel like I’m running around like a chicken with my head cut off… I spent most of the day at the school dealing with frosh elections and getting ready for homecoming. Travis forgot to get the list of freshmen for the elections today, so I called to get a report run, but it wasn’t going to happen in time. I ended up running the report myself in about 30 seconds on Norma’s computer. If they would just give Travis Aeries, it would solve so many problems!

I cut dance music today for the first time in many months, but fortunately I remember how to do it. I couldn’t bring myself to tell anyone that I might not be here for the show, or even to finish cutting the music. I don’t know what they’re going to do. Hopefully Ryan can pick it up or maybe Bouse can somehow schedule it around his days off.

I used my airport express in ASB today. I think I’ve got it setup fairly well. It doesn’t broadcast the SSID, and I couldn’t even find it in KisMAC, so I doubt they’ll be able to find it. The key is just knowing the ssid to type in, so hopefully I won’t forget it! (I’m hoping the computer will remember it.)

I got my replaytv back today. I can’t wait for it to be full of shows so that I can sit here and waste away in front of the television like I used to. I’m actually starting to wonder if I shouldn’t just get used to not watching live TV and wait for the season to end and get the shows on DVD from netflix. I guess that limits some of my options for shows, but I should be able to get all the good ones at least. I’m still very interested to see what came of season 3 of 24 and I’m also waiting for Alias to come back on…

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Surprisingly enough, I have practically nothing on my calendar for this weekend which I’m looking forward to. I think I may need to go down to the school to get some work done tomorrow – like inventorying tissue paper and that stuff, along with maybe working on court stuff, but we’ll have to see. I really want to go for a ride in the morning, but I don’t think I have enough faith in myself that it will happen. I also have to go to GT to install the Midas board, but that won’t take long. I guess what I’m trying to get at… Is if you have an idea for something to do this weekend, let me know… I’ve got some free time before the hassles of homecoming really take over!

Or at least that has been my excuse. Let’s see if I can remember what it is I’ve been up to.

Monday I worked on myfhs.org for a while and then went to Fudd’s with Richie where we met Batch, Pryo and Dave(?) after they did the strike on Mt. Helix for CYT. I missed Fudds! After that I went to Fry’s to get another toner for my printer – Cyan this time, and believe it or not I’m not actually completely out of it yet, but I figured with the printer back up now it will probably go fast. I also had to go and get video tapes so that I could dupe airbands onto a t160 tape. Then it was off to family dinner at grandma’s. We got Domino’s! Oh boy! Couldn’t tell you what else I did after that.

On Tuesday we started prepping the stage at the Bob for painting. After mopping it, we decided to patch the holes. Well, we decided to patch all the screw holes so that the surface would be a little smoother and the glitter and crap wouldn’t get into them. Unfortunately, it looks like we got so mixed up into patching them that we missed some of the bigger holes that needed to be patched! Oh well!

Tuesday night Batch, Pyro and I went out to Claim Jumper. Pyro also brought me his big box of CDs that Sony sent him. That was cool. My library is just getting bigger and bigger. Thanks! (I should mention that I ran out of hard drive space over the night when I was trying to convert the songs from apple lossless to aac.)

Then we came in on Wednesday and actually painted the stage. Not only did we do one coat, but we came back after lunch and did a second coat. Aren’t you impressed?

Today I don’t know that I got anything done, but I sure was trying. It seemed like I kept running around going somewhere at the school. Travis and I did start to talk about homecoming and I’ve got quite a bit of work that I need to get done now. Things are going to get crazy in the next couple weeks!

I also went to the field hockey game today and took a bunch of pictures. I didn’t get them burned to a CD for Kathy before Chad showed up and we left for Cheesecake Factory! Chad decided that he wanted to get himself a powerbook – smart move dude, so Batch and I joined him and Kelly on the excursion down there. The most amazing part… We just walked right into cheesecake. I didn’t think that was possible! Chad got himself a 17″ powerbook, 40 gig ipod, office 04, fcp express and apple care. Batch got himself another battery for his 15″ powerbook and I couldn’t leave empty handed so I decided stupidly to get an airport express. It will probably be nice to have, I just hope that I actually use it unlike so many of the other apple products I’ve purchased.

Jay told me about a job at the county that I’m debating about. It’s something in the IT department that I guess I would be qualified for. I guess it isn’t tier 1 support, so I don’t have to deal with end users like a help desk, but it could be a good place for me to start. The only problem is that if I’m going to Idaho in January, I don’t want to go applying for a job here… I hope that I find out soon what the deal is with Idaho.

Speaking of Idaho, Allison called me Tuesday night and we got to talk for a couple minutes before I knew I was about to drop her call as we crossed into Temecula. I’ve really done a bad job keeping in touch with the people from Idaho which I regret. I still haven’t put the pictures online or anything… So much work to do, but now it is past my bedtime, so it is time to go to sleep so I can go back to work in the morning!

Well, I was 18 making mimimum wage
with a Letterman jacket and a Chevrolet
I thought I was cool
Yeah, I ruled the school
You were cum laude with the strawberry lips, you had the whole world dangling at your fingertips, your senior year
And I was your daddy’s worst fear
We ran off on graduation night
Thought a couple left hand rings would make everything alright

With a little bitta live,
little bitta learn,
little bitta watching a few more candles burn, and finding out what life was
Ooh, with a little bitta fuss,
little bitta fight,
little bitta kiss and making up all night,
And one day waking up,
In a real love, yeah that’s right.

Well, I was 22 working double overtime
I was spending dollars and making dimes
We were overdrawn and barely hanging on
And then one night you came to me
With tears in your eyes and an EPT
And said “Guess what.
Yeah, baby ready or not.”
I just smiled but I was scared to death
How am i gonna have a kid when I’m still a kid myself.

With a little bitta live,
little bitta learn,
little bitta watching a few more candles burn, and finding out what life was
Ooh, with a little bitta fuss,
little bitta fight,
little bitta kiss and making up all night,
And one day waking up,
In a real love

Whoa, in a real love
Yeah, it’s a real love

Ooh, with a little bitta live,
little bitta learn,
little bitta watching a few more candle burn, and finding out what life was
Ooh, with a little bitta fuss,
little bitta fight,
little bitta kiss and making up all night,
And one day waking up,
In a real love

Yeah, baby, it’s a real love
Yeah it’s a real love, baby
Ooh, it’s a real, real, real, real, real, real, real love
Yeah, that’s right baby

Bid on this auction that Chad found!

The problem with the speakers did turn out to be from the fact that I needed 8 wire cables and was only using 6 wires — even Ryan couldn’t figure out why he had done that, but I am sure that it was to save money on the cable. Hindsight is 20/20, right?

Friday morning went well, although I ran sound for all of the assemblies, which I wasn’t expecting to do. I offered to run sound for the first one and then the techs seemed to not want to deal with it after that. I noticed that they somehow managed to break the legs on the video screen, so I guess it is time to order a new screen, or at least new legs. I took some pictures of the assemblies while I was running sound, and I got them online within an hour or so of the last assembly finishing! I’m going to try and be better with the pictures this year – with organizing them, distributing the copies and getting them online faster. I’m also going to try tomorrow to get an index page up of all the pictures so that the kids can actually access them all and not just the highlighted ones. I can’t remember what I did for the rest of the day at the school, but I know I was there until about 2 when I came home to not find the Midas board and to get ready to go to GT for a wedding. The wedding went fine, and the Midas should be here soon hopefully as it was delayed on a train, but is at least in the state of CA.

Alison came home Thursday, but I haven’t seen her yet. I’m not sure if I will because I’m sure that she leaves some time tomorrow.

On Saturday, I finally got the driveway blown off and my haircut. I’ve been dying for the haircut for a while now so it was great to finally get it done. I worked on duplicating videos and tried to make airbands fit on a T120 tape, but it isn’t going to happen… I also finally got an eye exam done and should have new contacts in about two weeks. I can’t believe how long I’ve been wearing this pair, but I think this just goes to show me that these contacts really do work for longer than they say. I think I’m going to add a month or so to each of my contacts next time so that instead of lasting me a year, four of them will last me a year and four months. I could probably push it longer if I wanted to, but I don’t know how much it is worth it. I also think I should try shopping around for a better deal, or maybe trying to find some dailies cause I could save quite a bit of money on cleaning supplies if I didn’t have to wash them.

After the eye exam, I went to Fry’s and got black toner for my printer, although now it only has 10% left of the cyan! I can’t keep up! After that it was off to Taugher’s where I met Dean, his wife & kids and Promack. We were there for a while, talking, eating and then watching a slew of old videos. It was nice to hang out with her and to talk with Hauser for a bit. I’m glad that he’s got a good program going at Chaparral. It sounds like things are going much better for him up there than they are for us here in Fallbrook, but it’s probably one of those grass is always greener on the other side thing. I’m out in a couple months anyway, so I really don’t think it matters. I need to stop worrying about these schools and get on with my life.

Speaking of getting on with my life, I finally got to speak with Bishop Parker on Friday night and he is submitting an endorsement for me which hopefully will get me an answer (hopefully a positive one) on my admission the BYU-I. I really miss being there. I miss the people, I miss the life, but most importantly, I miss who I was there. I just can’t get myself to the same place I was when I was out there. Hopefully it will come with time.

Today I spent some time working on the website and going through emails for the school. I actually think I accomplished quite a bit in just an hour and a half. I didn’t go out to Vista today, but I went to Fallbrook 5th Ward. I can’t figure out where I should be… I guess I need to give the singles ward at least another chance to see how things go out there, it just feels awkward.

After church today I went to Baskin Robbins to see Sarah. Why did she have to tell me that she worked there? So much for loosing weight! Let’s just hope that she doesn’t continue to give me her schedule so that I don’t have to keep going to visit her. She did make one mean mint chocolate chip shake though. Then I went and got her computer bag and brought it back to her (she left it in ASB on Friday). After that it was off to the Irvine’s for dinner and to hang out for a while.

And now, I think it is bedtime, even though it sounds like everyone else is at Friday’s! The original plan was to go to Promack’s spa, but that just didn’t sound like something I needed to go do. I guess plans changed because Batch just called me to let me know that he is on his way to join everyone at Friday’s. I’m glad to see that I even got invited! Actually, I’m glad I’m not going, cause I’m completely ready for bed, contacts out, PJs, etc. I don’t have any plans for tomorrow other than just trying to get some more stuff done with the website for the high school. I guess the guys are going to Fudds when they get done with strike for CCT, so maybe I’ll have to go join them and find my T160 tape for the airbands video – and maybe a Cyan cartridge for my printer too.