Dangerman's mumblings

This morning when I was headed to go to work, I started my car. Now, you have to know that my car is a 1993, Ford Escort. This is a car that Jay Leno has made fun of and I must agree with some of his joking around. To say the least, the car is nickel and diming me, needs more repairs and is quite temper mental, and has more than just a personality of its own. It used to be that when it was severely cold after starting, it would engage the automatic locks. Well, now it seems to be doing that almost all the time. I didn't notice this in time, as I closed the door as I notice the shed door was open, and went to close the shed door, and then was locked out of my car with it running. Well, I had the back windows down a bit, but not quite far enough for me to reach in and unlock, but enough for a young child who could, so I thought of my neighbors kids who may not have gone to school yet, so I knocked. Then I remembered, they don't hear me when I knock or ring the door bell. So, I th...

my kids and I stay up until about 1 am playing the game of Life - Twists & turns. We set the amount of turns to 50 and started playing about 9 Pm. By the time we had watche the New Year come in on Channel 5, the boys were pretty much ready to wrap it up, by 1 am they were really tired. I think we only got to about a 37 turn/year game... I won with over 500 thousand life points. getting a luxury car and any kind of house as soon as possible in the game really helps I think. I started a contract job on the 29th of December. I am contracted to a company in Texas called Pinnacle to work for EDS (an HP company) to do local hardware/software Helpdesk support for Symantec in South Lindon. It pays about $4/hour less than what I was getting at TNI, but I guess it is a job and gets me out of the house and earning money and some insurance. I wish every one a glorious New Year.

Those of you who are in warmer climates and are wishing for a white Christmas will just have to grin and bare it. We have it here! Idaho and Utah have the White Christmas. Come here if you can. Of course, you will have to take the driving conditions along with it, tee hee. Yes, it is beautiful to look at and nice to know that we will have the moisture in the mountains come spring thaw. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We went to Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving and stayed at my wife's brother's house for thanksgiving. It was an enjoyable trip. Unfortunately, it is over and now Christmas is on its way very quickly. It's going to be a tight Christmas, all dreaming aside. Best holiday wishes to all.

Last night we went to the Daily Herald news paper and along with several other students from her school, my daughter, Grace, read a news story that was given to her randomly. It so happened that it was about the new Cinemark theater in Orem that we went to for the BSA movie night. Thus she had been there and was familiar with the building the story was talking about. If you would like to see the results of the news story at News Kids for Tuesday, November 11. Her Story is Cinemark.

it has been a crazy day. had to get the care repaired so it can hopefully pass safety and emissions now - about $400 later. Yeah, happy b-day to me. Tonight was a local BSA fund raiser night; a new Cinemark theater is doing its grand opening tomorrow night, and they decided to do a fund raiser for the BSA, all the concessions went to the BSA. It was crowded. We saw the movie Egor. It was different. Not something I would have picked to see-the kids picked it. It was PG. Other choices were PG-13 and we had not previewed them and with the crowd as it was it may have been tough to get into much else either. If my scanner was not dead, I would scan the program and show all the movies they showed, but I cannot, oh well. Still no job yet, but I do have a phone interview tomorrow and an in person interview on Monday, two different companies. I hope and pray for something soon because things are really getting tight.

It is amazing who you can meet when just out and about... My wife and I were out shopping for my B-day present, and while at the Distribution Center we bumped into Aunt Beth and her daughter Connie. I went up and said, "Hey, I think we are related. What was your name again?" and aunt Beth asked what our names were, and we answered and Connie and Aunt Beth asked where we lived and we found that we all live withing a few blocks of each other, and see each other not very often. It is amazing who we can run into when out and about.

first if getting laid off isn't bad enough, then my laptop hard drive crashed, and I lost at least a years worth of my yahoo accounts email. Still no sure job offers. I interviewed with SOS temp yesterday and a job - mozy.com - through SOS technical, that would be on a contractual basis. I was told that I should find out about that one by late afternoon on Friday.

I went on some errands and during that time I stopped at the post office and while there asked if they were hiring, mentioned that I had been laid off. The woman mentioned that she had read about TNI laying off 85 people in the news paper. So for those who have not seen that article - here it is- Heraldextra article I think that it is rather enlightening, myself, for a public release. and then the SLC Tribune had some similar ones: SLC_Trib1

just in case any one wanted to know, getting laid off is not fun to do. Wednesday, the 1st of October, the first phone call I received on my cell phone was from my manager. He asked me to come back to the legal counsel's office. Just before that, my co-worker was bring me up to spead on what had been rumored or discussed the day before about lay-offs. She figured that if anyone in our helpdesk would get let go, she probably would since was low person on the totem pole. Well, I guess I should have been listening to myself, because I just got through saying something like it doesn't matter, it could be any of us. I walked back to the legal counsels office, and there was my manager standing behind the head legal counsels desk with a pink/burgundy folder with my name on it. It was explained to me that contained in the folder was a check for my pay up till 5 pm that day and the rest of my vacation days. I would be given time to back up my data if I wished, since I knew how to do tha...

Nathaniel and I went to SEUSSICAL: THE MUSICAL Nathaniel needed to go to a musical thing for a requirement for his choir class. It was an enjoyable show; a lot of energy up on the stage for those actors and actresses to dance around and sing, especially for the two main parts, the Cat in the hat and JoJo.

Gagets and gizmos and the ability to edit html and place things in different spots on the blog makes things more interesting to me. Maybe I will post and play around more often, hmm? gotta go to bed now.

I sure wish that house hunting was easier. No one told me it would be this hard. Of course when it doesn't help that we don't qualify for much and that the market is really weird and that any house we qualify for is old and that townhomes are hard to get into because of HOA fees. STRESS! All I can do is take one day at a time and keep praying that something will come of it.

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There is a lot happening right now, or has been. My wife was pregenant, but no longer, because it turns out the pregancy was ectopic. She had to have surgery and one of her tubes had to be taken out to remove it. She is remaining as positive as she can be. She is in a lot of pain. She is walking more each day and hoping to be able to be able to do enough for me to go back to work on Monday. Tonight is Pack meeting, but I don't think I will be going. I have already let the other Bear leader know that I am needed at home, because of the surgery. We will see what tomorrow brings. The kids have a day off of school, teacher work day, I guess.

Agency -=-=-= And they are out of the blocks on the race of life. Day by day they attempt to make a good mark. Hour by hour to test their stamina. No one knows from day to day the outcome of the time spent in deeds or remark. Only minute by minute decisions are made that inherit the trueness to deed from thought. No one knows the content of the mind until actions and words spell out true the intent derived.