Well my brother Pat is moving 700 miles away to Rock Springs, Wyoming on Thursday with his girlfriend. My mom called and woke me up to tell me this this morning. I didn’t actually get up to answer the phone, but it woke me up. Rock Springs looks ok I guess, it looks like there’s some mountainous terrain there. I don’t know what he’s going to do there though. He’s more of a tattooed pierced skater type and Rock Springs has about 18,000 people and the nearest city is Salt Lake City which is 180 miles away. I told him he’ll be wearing shit kicking boots and big belt buckles and going to the big barn dance in no time. He said that if he does so I should shoot him. It’s all good though, it’s good to live in and see some other places instead of staying in one place your whole life. Even if he’s moving the one of the only states more boring than Nebraska (Yellowstone Park kicks ass though). I might be living not that far from him if Duncan ever gets their new facility opened in Provo and I land a better position there. Only 200 miles away. Anyway, good luck guys!

I’m sitting at work doing some overtime doing the exact same thing I would be doing at home. Watching TV, listening to sports talk podcasts, and messing around on the internet. I’m just getting paid time and a half for it and have a less comfortable chair to sit in. I’m filling out the paperwork to go take the motorcycle safety course so I can get the motorcycle endorsement on my license. $150 bucks for that, but after I take it I can just take the waivers in to the DMV and get the new license without taking the written or practical exams. Plus it’s cheaper insurance. I’ve had a motorcycle before but I never bothered to make it legal. I suppose I should do that if I plan on getting a new bike next year and taking some trips on it.

I don’t have all that much to say tonight. I bought my books online for my classes for just over $100 total. If everything works out I should be able to sell them and get the majority of that money back again… Hopefully. There has been plenty of times that I have had to pay $130 for one book and then go to sell it and they aren’t buying it back because of a new edition. What a racket. I’ve been reading that people are posting whole books online in PDF form so you can just download them. I’m going to have to look around for some of those. Dammit I hate school so much. Now I’m going to be spending the next 3 and a half years off and on messing with that shit.

I paid for my entry into the Omaha Half Marathon. I haven’t lifted a finger to run or bike for exactly one month now. I’ve got 9 weeks to train, less time than last time, but I should be fine. I ran a couple miles yesterday and it hurt more than it normally does but I’ll get back into it soon enough. It needs to get cool outside again though, because I hate trying to run in the heat.

Other than that I don’t have much. I am incredibly boring. The only thing I am looking forward to is football and beard season. Hoop and his lady are moving to Ames, it sucks to see them go. Hopefully they will come back in a year when she finishes her internship but if not I’m sure they will do well wherever they land. Good luck guys!

Went to a free Saltdogs game this evening. It was some kind of employee get together morale booster type of thing for work. It was pretty fun I suppose, I caught a foul ball. Well I didn’t really catch it, it was more like I wasn’t paying attention to the game and everyone yelled heads up and it was like 6 feet away from me flying at 120 miles an hour for the split second that I saw it before it slammed into the empty seat beside me and then fell to the ground. Last time I got a ball during a game it was at a Husker game when I got an extra point ball. I was then promptly thrown out and almost got arrested for not returning said ball. Hey if they wanted the ball back then they need to raise the net up instead of kicking it into the crowd. Anyway the Saltdogs won the game, I don’t recall by how much.

I don’t really have a whole lot else to talk about for today. I’ll just do the stream of consciousness thing for this last paragraph. I redid the new computer for the final time and have got it all dialed in the way I want it. I like it quite a bit, it just takes some getting used to is all, you know, all that “making the switch” bullcrap. I need to get on the ball and start running again, it’s almost been a month. I lost the willpower when it started getting hot outside. I hate the heat with a passion, but I do have a treadmill so I have no excuse. Football season is starting up soon. My classes at Peru St. start late next month. Beard season starts at the end of next month as well. Everything happening at the same time… neato! What the hell is beard season? Well some guys at work are all going to grow some huge winter beards this year starting on September 1st and running until April 1st. I doubt everyone will make it that long but it is just something to do for stupid fun. Maybe I will try taking a picture of it every day since the new computer has a good built in camera. That’ll make it easy. I’m pretty sure I will be one of the last ones standing since everyone else has wives that will nag them into submission. Lloyd will probably make it too, he did a good one last year but he started it too late in the season. Hmm what else? I’m in an adventure mood. I think I’m going to get a motorcycle and do some traveling on it. Not this year though. I think I’ll get a brand new Kawasaki KLR650 next year and load it up and go on a road trip across the country with it. Then maybe the “epic” journey up to Alaska or something the year after that if I still know anyone that is still living there. I doubt any of it will happen but it’s nice to think about when I’m in the mood for adventure. I’ve been watching the series Long Way Round, Long Way Down, and Race to Dakar to see some of the adventure that I’ve not been experiencing in my own life. Ooh if Duncan ever gets around to building in Provo I can go ride Moab too. That would be fun. Well that’s all I’ve got for today, I need to get to bed so I can go to work at 2 tomorrow for Ed. He went to Vegas this weekend so I traded some hours with him so he could have it off. I hate being there in the daytime, it’s too hot. Oh well, I’ll throw on my Walter Matthau grumpy old men hat and hope it isn’t too busy.