Happy Turkey Day!!

O such much has happened since the last post. So read carefully to catch up. :)

Good gravy I hadn’t realized it’s been two months since my last posting. Dang!

September: Ok so I took some days off in the middle and towards the end of September. I was supposed to go to Utah – Sundance – but due to unemployment being extended past my personal deadline, I was financially unable to attend the fun. Not a huge problem. I had a good time here.

Hit Chicago to check out MicroSoft’s Vista (Aero). That was pretty cool. To have everything that the new OS offers, you have to have a pretty loaded system to take advantage of all the OS features. This demo didn’t crash or anything that seems to happen to Bill Gates. However, the power did go out in the movie theatre a couple of times. I thought it was pretty cool. It would have been more fun if I got a free movie pass but hey a cd with Vista on it is good too.

So I had a 20 year High School reunion. I was nervous and excited at the same time. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of those folks. I tried to keep up with some others but I lost touch somehow. I still stay in contact with my best friend. We don’t see each other that often anymore but we email or call now and again. Friday night was all you can eat pizza at Trysting Place. I’m not a big fan of the place since the food there is just ok bar food. They try to be a restaurant with a bar but it’s so not. I went early to have a drink or two before the festivities began. Good thing I did. It helped calm my anxious nerves.

Met up with folks that have truly changed. Some go by different names now and some have completely changed their personalities from when I knew them. I know we all change but not to say a happy hearty Hello when you see a friend again? Very odd on my planet. That’s ok; I’ll be nice and courteous. :D Some of the folks were actually apologizing for the way they were in HS. Hey we all were tards at some point. It turned out to be a little clicky but I was able to catch up with some of the folks that I did want to see again.

Saturday night was much more fun. It was a sit-down catered dinner at Davians. When people dress up they have a different way of acting. Not to mention some folks that didn’t show up Friday night showed up tonight. It was great. Good food and some dancing. After dinner was to be karaoke and dancing but not many did the karaoke part. Being the fun person that I can be, I was ready for dancing right after dinner. And yes, I was dancing to the “background” music while reacquainting myself with some of my old friends. They didn’t think it odd of me at all. Find that a bit strange since I wasn’t that outgoing back in high school or maybe I was and I didn’t see it that way. Hehe

Now the drinkers back in the day were drinking like it was back in the day. But this time, they couldn’t hold their liquor. A few ended up being completely trashed. It was pretty sad actually. Most of them have a spouse and kids and gave up that life several years ago. I enjoyed the new entertainment but I can be quite sadistic. :D Around midnight the party was over. The drinkers wanted to go to Pistol Petes for more drinking but most of us (my reacquainted friends) were tired from either working earlier that day or had kids to deal with in the morning. We opted for staying in touch and hopefully getting together again soon. We exchanged email addresses and phone numbers before leaving and genuinely hope to see each other again soon. Ah the memories of adolescence….some days I wish to do things differently and other days I’m so glad it’s over. May you all have fun at your High School reunions.

The following week I had three days off. I really was going to get some actual studying done. That was the plan anyway. I believe I spent one of those days actually on the computer reading about Active Directory and how it all gets started. I was thinking of doing the OS cert but remembered that it’s usually the hardest of all the certs. I love AD and can’t wait for the court house to get to windows so I can use it again. I might into the world of security but maybe just an AD administrator if that’s a job. I did learn quite a bit from the online training course and maybe over the holidays I can study a bit more.

October: This month was something else. I was able to pay my car off. Finally after six years of getting my financial act together I can pay this bird off. I can hardly wait!

I was having a ton of fun at work too. Learning how to create automatic installs of software for the Novell way of networking. I’ve never had the chance do that before so it was a blast to learn something new. They even brought in someone to teach us how to use and abuse the applications we’ll need. I was already playing with some of the applications and learning on my own since I didn’t have much to do in the way of support for my departments. I did learn during our training classes and wrote up some documentation so I wouldn’t forget too much.

I was and wasn’t looking forward to Halloween. I didn’t have a costume, I kinda wanted to wear something but then again I didn’t. I possibly had to work at Planet but it wasn’t in stone either. It all depended on how busy the club would get. I ended up working a little towards the end of the night. Emily, the regular glass girl, was getting swamped and needed help. Around midnight it was nearing capacity and stayed that way until the end. It was fun to see all the different costumes and how creative some folks can get.

The next day was Derby day. One of Jen’s friends, she’s mine to but I met her thru Jen, takes part of the Roller Derby that started up in Milwaukee. A few of her friends, started up a “fan club” and we cheer her on while she’s getting smashed around. It’s very similar to the movie Roller Derby but they don’t use an actual roller rink. The girls get darn violent at times. Still fun to watch. The groups of girls and the different fan clubs are all on My Space. Gosh just saying that I feel I need to put a condom on my computer. I know a lot of folks are on there and so are some bands, movie stars and whatevers but isn’t it just a free for all version of Friendster?

November: Now we all pretty much caught up on what was happening. Here’s the latest news. This last Thursday I was in a small accident. I’m ok but the car is not. I wasn’t too thrilled but not worried all that much either. Yeah it was paid off and I’m just waiting for the clear title so I normally would have killed whoever damaged my car. Unfortunately I could see the accident about to happen. Slowly watching it unfold before my very eyes. The best part is, the guy I rear-ended took off. Yep. He left the scene of an accident. It’s not like he didn’t know I hit him.

Ok here’s how it all happened. I was leaving work a bit late (it was after 6p) and was planning on going over to met the derby fan club girls near Bayshore Mall. I was on I-94 heading Eastbound and by the Zoo interchange when the guy in front of me stopped cold. My little car didn’t stop so suddenly like his truck so into the back of the truck I went. Boy did I stop suddenly then. I checked the rear-view mirror to find out if the car behind me will be hitting me. He was back a little farther than I was from the truck. So he was able to stop and not hit me.

The really best part of the accident; the jerk I hit, took off. No I didn’t get his plate but can tell you that it was a truck like a Ford Ranger, it was tan, it has a hitch and gold paint all over the tailgate. So the car got towed to the nearest Hyundai dealership’s body shop – Brookfield Buick Pontiac. The estimate is pretty high for repairs. Now I’m just waiting to see if they total out the car or decide to repair it. Either way, I’ll be getting a new car. There’s no way I’ll be driving a car that’s had two front end accidents.

Well that’s it for now and hope you all have a tummy stuffing Thanksgiving! Drive carefully!!