Insurance

State Farm.

D'Arcy Marentette.

D'Arcy Marentette's staff.

They're about to need to health insurance.

P.S. Saw the trailer for HP5 (against my wishes) I am checking every day to see when I can get my advance tickets.

10 of the best days ever

So ten days have passed, I apologize to the inter web. I have been so busy, so wonderfully busy, that I have been too tired at night to blog, so now that I've just had a nice sleep-in, I think I can take a minute to update this, on the off chance that some lone wanderer stumbles across my blog and becomes morally offended that I have not been updating in a timely fashion. I know that this is indeed a likely circumstance, and I must therefore anticipate it.
I started my job last Tuesday, and I must say that I believe myself to be one of the luckiest people ever. Not only did I find a job before I had even finished school, but I found a job I absolutely love and enjoy, and where I am appreciated. Paul, the senior tech, told me that he told his wife that they would most likely be able to vacation within the next 12 months, as I will be able to cover. That made me incredibly happy, as you can surely imagine.
Another thing which only helps to add to my excitement for the future, is that Mal and I picked up our new car yesterday! Hurrah for the Buick Rendezvous. Again, I apologize, because I know that that same wanderer might be jealous, as my car is surely better than theirs. It is truly a king among car kings. Indeed.

Harry potter soon, I guess. This also serves to bolster me for the coming storm of incredulity. I have been stressed and destitute for so long, I am unable to cope with being successful and happy! I only hope that I will survive to enjoy it more.

Bad news/Good news

So, after the worst sleep ever on Tuesday night, due mainly to my incredibly awesome panic attack at 2am, I failed my first cert. Very, very upsetting, because I only failed by about 2 questions. Just goes to show that sometimes studying doesn't help, if you don't study the right book, wink wink, nudge nudge. Anyways, I came home after that and was, obviously in a terribly pissy mood. I was throwing things and kicking things and then I threw myself into my chair and checked me email and got a message that greatly improved my mood: I got the job! Hurrah! Gainful employment! I am crazy excited, I get to wear a tie to work, and make money, and get a new car, et cetera.

All this on the heels of more bad news, about a certain application, of a certain lovely girl, to a certain type of school. That's all I'm going to say, lest the spirit of the internet whisk the information to eyes and ears everywhere. But it's not the worst news ever, at least now we get to have a DINK family for a while. That stands for Double Income, No Kids, by the way (Hurrah for grade 9 geography class!).

So Friday looks fun, write 294, and re-write 293. Then I get a nice peaceful weekend of insane study, before writing 298 and 299 on Monday. This is going to be a rough couple of days. I hope I make it through.

And so, I sleep.

With tired eyes, and tired mind, and tired soul, I sleep.

And lo, the weary traveller returns

Went out to Morpeth tonight, for dinner and computer fixin'. Also, I did laundry (Hurrah for clean clothes!). I'm nervous about the job interview tomorrow. I don't know why I get so nervous, especially when I know I can do the job, and do it well. How I long to be a sysadmin...(sigh).

Anyways, on the way home, Mal and I decided to take our honeymoon in the Maritimes. Which is a great idea, obviously. We plan to fly out, rent a car, and drive around staying at B&Bs. I love the Maritimes, something about clean air and the ocean makes me tingle inside. I'm so excited!

WEll, I better get some sleep, so I'm well rested for my daunting Job interview tomorrow! Which me luck, O nonexisting readers!

Harumph, harumph

Well, I've missed a day now. Officially it will look like two, but, I assure you, due to an error in time, it is only one. Today was a very standard day, I went to the crazy landscape place (aircraft hangar) and performed some security updates, as well as a program install. Mostly I was just there making sure Cloudy didn't commit suicide/homicide. After that it was off to Holly's to watch the dogs. I fell asleep, woke up, then studied. It was a miracle that I didn't fall asleep studying. I managed to make it through a chapter and a half in about 2 hours. Whoever wrote the MOAC book for 70-298 needs to be dragged into the street and beaten with a large tube, then shot. Seriously, you may be writing about security design, but it doesn't have to be murderously boring. Also, repetitive.
My new mystery snail, Sir Bahnahtusn Snailington, is getting along well. He hides in the substrate all day, then romps about the walls at night. The algae appears to be thinning, only time will tell.

Not much else to say. Maybe I'll play SimCity4 and go to bed.

Nighty night.

P.S. They're there, we agree they're there. They're there, alive and well.

Mooooooooonbabies!

Hey everyone who doesn't read this. I'm listening to Moonbabies, and I am heartily enjoying them. They've got a jangly but surreal environmental feel about them, similar to Explosions in the Sky, but with lyrics. I can't say much about the lyrics, except that they go really well with the music, you can tell that the singer(s) are really into it. Which is good.

To sum this up, I highly recommend Moonbabies!

Ok, time for a free writing experiment, today's lesson: Poetry.

BEGIN
O Spark that bleeds and forms a fire high above the earth
That cuts the air with screams and pitches tears about the world
they cut the hills, and stain the streams
they eat the children, but leave the dreams
the dreams wriggle about, as soulless worms
they injure stock and burn the sane
the duchess in the same lake drains
o dreams that bleed, and find my fire
I sparked it there for you
and sun that swallows earth and swallows sky
and slowly lets the live dreams die
and slowly lets the children cry
END

Well, that was exciting, wasn't it?
Have fun, be well.

The Very First Page of a Very First Day (VFD)

Here starts an experiment. I will write here, I will emote here. I will attempt to make frequent updates, and hopefully this will relieve some of my stress. As I write I can already feel my eye stop twitching. It hasn't done that recently.

I think mostly my posts will be experimental short writing, or maybe chapters of a book that I am always writing in my head. If you know me, you know that no matter what I do, I'll always want to be a writer. Fiscally, it's not a great plan, that's why I will administrate networks, but in my heart, I'll always be a writer. Also, an English Major.

Speaking of English Majors, I miss University. I miss the creativity of being able to write papers and short stories and opinion projects and discussions. Don't get me wrong, I love Active Directory, but there isn't much room for creativity in a domain environment.

For those of you who don't know me, here is a crash course: I was born in Ingersoll, I grew up in multiple houses, the two most prominent of which would be York St, where I lived with my sisters Holly and Kate, my brother Tony and my Mum and Dad; and Janette Ave, where I lived with no siblings and my Dad and step mom, Anne. Both houses were wonderful, though there were tribulations in both, as can be expected form any household. other highlights include living in New Brunswick, where I attended Atlantic Baptist University, and lived on a street called Woodstone Crescent before I went crazy and had to come home. Of course, one highlight stands above all else, and that is the meeting of my wonderful fiancee Malini, to whom I am to be wed this summer (we met in high school, standard fare). Many details have been exempt, you may learn them as time goes on, and if I keep this up.

That is all I shall force you to endure for now.

Perhaps later, pictures.