Pictures De Sam

These are my dog Sam. Or as we have renamed him, Samson. He's chillin with his playmate Cloe, or however the crap you spell that. Enjoy!

Boogers

Fall has come to Idaho.

Its been rather nice, cool breezes, chilly nights that require blankets and pjs, that sort of thing. I rather like the change in weather (though from what I hear we are supposed to get into the 90s again today).

My dog got fixed. Hopefully he stops roaming around Mel's neighborhood when out of the kennel. Cuz he like to run about, which is understandable, so I feel bad that he is stuck in a kennel most of the day.

I should post pictures of my dog.

Me and Mel have been dating for 18 months! Holy poop! Good times, but they sure flew by it seems.

Still nothing on jobs, a few more apps in and a few more to write. So it goes.

cheers

Resume' Resume' why are you so annoying.

There are few things in life I loath more than applying for jobs. The forms to fill out, the fact that you end up memorizing the address of the grocery store you worked at in high school so you don't have to look it up anymore, and most of all filling out job histories. I hate that so much.

I borrowed a resume' layout from my sister... who got it from my sister in law. I looked it over and started plugging in my info and, upon reaching the education section, realized I have no idea what my GPA at Dordt was. 3.5ish... I guess... I don't even know where I can find that kind of information now that I have been out of school for a while.

Also, its irritating that I can't make a very good catch all resume. I mean, no library cares that I can weld. No contractor cares that I was part of student council and a research assistant. No grocery store cares that I can do basic guitar setup and electronic repair. Etc etc. I almost have too many little skills... so much so that I don't think most of them belong on a resume to an awful lot of places. *sigh* If only I could go to some shop or something and be like "hey, you sell guitars, I play guitars, heck I can fix guitars, wanna hire me!?" and they would be all like "yup" and I'd be set.

Recessions are stupid. I am gonna punch John Locke in the nose.

Another long hiatus and out of the blue post

Hey anyone left reading the ol blog. It has been too long, and if anyone felt like they were missing out or something, sorry and you need more interesting hobbies than following my life by way of the internet.

Things have changed a lot. I moved to Idaho at the end of June/begining of July with plans for grad school in the future (hopefully next year) and to continue developing my relationship with my fantastic girlfriend. So, that is really the big new is my life, I am not in Iowa any longer.

There have been some fun trips to various Idaho sights already. Also, a jaunt out to Ontario for Melissa to meet a chunk of my extended family. So thats been good.

Being out of work and watching my savings dwindle away has been pretty stressful. Thankfully I am helping a friend (who I am staying with until I have the money to get a place of my own) with a project which has lasted a little while. Plus I have learned some new skills, which is always fun.

So, I randomly felt inspired to write again, not sure if I will keep it up or if anyone pays attention enough to read it even, but if so cheers, if not, whatever. Blogging seems 90% the joy of writing nothings to the anonymous internet.

Ku Ku Ka Chu

Another video

So, I have been hoping for a good live performance of this song essentially since the album came out. Those Thieving Birds Part 1/ Strange Behavior/ Those Thieving Birds Part 2 off of Young Modern. Silverchair, naturally.

Also, life is good. I got into a car accident with the work truck. Wasn't my fault, and seems that its being figured out. Still, stressful. Anyhow, here is the video. Cheers

I feel so lost sometimes

I have been addicted to this song ever since I heard it a few days ago at work. Peter Gabriel is a stallion. It seems to encompass so much of what of what I feel at the moment, not just the well known "in your eyes" chorus. The lyrics strike me of exhaustion and hope in the same breath. Its pretty impressive that someone could capture that in song. Plus I am a sucker for some African riffing.

Happy new year and the like, lets hope its at least as good as the past one. Cheers.

ONE BILLION YEARS LATER

Hey loyal readers... if you are still alive. Sorry for the complete lack of content in the last several months... frankly there is not all that much blog worthy stuff in my life right now. But here are some tidbits.

I am once again figuring out how to play music. I actually wrote a fun guitar riff for the band Walhof and I are hoping to start performing as. At the moment it is just us two, under the moniker "Run Rabbit Run". Drum and down-tuned guitar. I have no idea if people would like whatever we end up producing (we are still working on that practice thing) but I sure miss performing.

It is Christmas and as with every Christmas I use half my brain to be glad that long lost friends and far away relatives are around again. The other have is busy missing the people who aren't around, for whatever reason. I am terrible at not finding special occasions bittersweet. But there always seems to be someone missing at some point.

I have thought a lot about life in the last months, especially while trying to support friends in their struggles. I have determined that, for whatever reason (I credit the fallenness of creation usually) life can be great, but there is something always missing. Right now, life is grand for me. I am with a wonderful girl, I have enough friends around that I don't feel alone. But work is work. It isn't what I want to be doing, it is what I am able to do to provide for myself. And that sense of my inability to fulfill what I feel God has called me to be pursuing has been draining on me at times. So even when life is stable and drama free, it remains imperfect. Just what has been on my mind off and on.

Well, I hope some folks notice I wrote again, and hope to update this ol' blog a little more regularly, though it may be with less drama and soul baring that I have previously done... because there isn't much to bare my soul about right now.

cheers, Merry Christmas