I think I have seen enough dead stuff for a while.

We, as in my mom, dad, Ben, his dad and cousin, spent the holiday weekend in Aberdeen, SD pheasant hunting. Well the guys were hunting, my mom and I were visiting our cousins. I guess the hunting was good as the birds were everywhere. I walked with them a few times, even picked a couple of the birds up. It wasn't so bad walking, the weather was nice, but I think I my tolerance for death is gone until at least the end of the year. No more Ben, no more will I help you find things to shoot.

We got new pets.....

both of us! I now have 10,000 sugar ants by my desk at work and Ben has a new tomkat in his basement. What a deal! Check out the photos, Smoky on the left is one freaking huge cat, yeah I think he might be part lynx or something. Ben got him for free in hopes that he would solve the rodent problem he has in his garage and shed. My ants on the right, oh they weren't free, I had to spill a bunch of peanut butter oil to get them in these kind of numbers. They are not such good pets though, I felt like I had ants in my pants with them crawling all over my feet, so I sprayed them with Windex and vacuumed them up. Unfortunately, their friends did not get the hint because they keep coming back. Jeez, the exterminator isn't coming until Monday, this could be a rough week.

Oh Fiddle Sticks

For the life of me I can not get the fax machine to work. I have been trying for like an hour. Earlier today the ATM ate my card, literally ate it. The card got stuck in the machine and then as a safety precaution it shredded the card to protect me from theft. Cool, that is so cool.

How Cool, a Fuel Cell Truck

So this thing goes up to 93 mph and never needs anything more than hydrogen to fuel up. Hmm what is the catch? Oh it costs about a half a million bucks but someday maybe we will all be driving one of these.

What a nifty idea

AOL is offering a new service where you can download old tv shows for free. They are free because they include 2 minutes of ads per half hour show and you can't fast forward them but anyways it still sounds cool. I hope they include shows like Alf and Punky Brewster, ya know stuff that people my age can appreciate. Or how about that one where the girl's dad was an alien and she could freeze time, yeah that was a sweet show.

Oh that is a sad

A maintenance guy was killed in a turbine fire down by Chandler MN, see attached article. We were hoping it wasn't one of our guys, which it wasn't, but it was a company that we have done business with in the past. Apparently the guy was in the nacelle working on the generator or parts near the generator with a blow torch and something caught fire. He fell from the hub about 200 feet, not good.

Yeah I have a new Little Sister

Last night I met my new Little, Zikella. Zikella is 10 and the oldest of 4 kids. When we showed up at her house Zikella was babysitting the kids, Daquain, 9, was only wearing pants, DJ, 2, was wearing a shirt and nothing else and Shaniqua, 7, was fully clothed but was wearing a shirt that said "spoiled". Man I wish these kids were spoiled but they are cute and sweet. The kids were just dying for attention and were pretty much hanging on myself and our match coordinator Carol. We played slapjack and war with a deck of about 30 cards until their Mom got home from work. She seemed like a real nice lady but she has 4 kids, there is no dad and she works part-time at Cub Foods, I don't know how she does it. Please cross your fingers that this match works for us, I would really like to be a part of Zikella's life.

So I woke up to this outside my window.

How could this be safe? Plus the crane is balanced on a set of railroad tracks. Hmm...when I left for work there were 2 guys in the bucket and it looked like they were trying to get on the roof of our building. Good gosh OSHA must not work on Veteran's Day.

It feels like Monday again?

This is where I work, today I am the only one back here and it sucks. If this is what it feels like to work out of your home I don't think I ever want to do that. Plus my work day would start at like 1 pm, that would be pretty lame and would probably be the start of the downfall of my well being and self worth. Yeah I definitely think the walls would come tumbling down. Somebody keeps walking all the way back here to use a stapler, that is what kind of a day it is here. Hey you can keep a stapler at your desk.

Oh how nice, a weekend at home

I was in town this weekend, all weekend, for the first time since May. It was pretty nice just chilling. My mom and sister came to visit on Saturday. We had a nice time, hung out by the river and ran to IKEA. Even though I didn't really even wanna go, I ended up buying the most stuff. My sister took like an hour to pick out a picture frame but I didn't care, my nephew Wyatt was in tow and we hung out. He is a fun kid and cute, man he is cute.
Later that night we had a nice fresh salmon dinner and then I headed out to the Liffey for a bit. I tried unsuccessfully to hook one of the Moriatory twins up with this meathead football player that wouldn't leave our table but it didn't work out, darnit.
Sunday I went to Al's with Amber for breakfast. My first time and it was good greasy breakfast. Later I met some friends at O'Donovans to get ready for the Jeff Tweedy show at First Ave. It was an entertaining show minus the 5 encores. How about one long encore and be done with it? But it was good, he played a couple of my personal favorites, California Stars and I'm the Man who Loves You. Thank you Jeff!

Uhhm yeah it really looks like that

The pictures don't lie people, Kodiak Alaska is gorgeous. We saw alot of the island in our 5 day stay, thankfully the alot did not include any Kodiak bears.