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This is Justin saying, welcome to the new server. Hope everyone transitions smoothly!

Another 4 or 5 day period without an update… Man.. Can you tell I’ve been doing a lot of traveling? So let’s give the 411 on the life that is known as Justin and maybe we will come to some insights. Maybe not big ones, but ones non the less. Ok, posting time.

Thursday afternoon my new computer arrived. I was supposed to be mowing the lawn so I could go out with friends before having to leave for Amber’s cabin on friday. To make the long story short, I stopped mowing the lawn to put my computer together. I think I already posted the specks in a previous post, but yeah. I get the whole thing all together and hit the magical on button, only to find it not even make it to POST. This of course frustrates me and costs me more time. I finally gave up and then rushed to finish everything else I needed to get done that day.

Thursday night was spent watching a movie at my house with Nikki, another John, John, Kristina, and Nathan. Nikki has been spending a lot of time with Kristina and Nate lately, which is cool, but different. Perhaps our group of 3 with the occasional pickup of one or two has turned into a group of 5 with an occasional pickup of like 10. It’s cool non the less.
Friday morning I gave up on the computer and said I would deal with it when I got back. I then took off on a Journey to go find my girl in Wisconsin. I ended up making a wrong turn somewhere though and turned my 160 mile journey into a 240 mile journey. I arrived slightly later than I wanted to see my girl standing in the road waiting for me :-). I love her :-). We greeted each other and then took the time to look at the Sonshine pictures we got back. I’m a little upset that I left them there because I wanted to upload and post them today with this post, but eh, its again going to have to wait till Amber gets back on Wednesday or Thursday.
Now this is where my weekend starts becoming a slight blur, but I’ll try to keep things in order anyway. We wake boarded and went out to dinner that night. To my surprise I got up on my second try and was up for like 15 seconds… which, in my world, is a long time. So that made me happy. At dinner we played some video games and ate cheese burgers. Amber’s mom played me in a game of pinball, and was winning until the final ball. I would have played her again, but we were out of quarters at that point. We then headed back.
Every night at the cabin we watched at least one movie if not two. The movies watched this weekend included Independance Day, Sleepless in Seatle, The Sixth Sense, 10 Things I Hate About you, and parts of Tomorrow Never Dies and US Marshals. It was a good way to end our days, just relaxing and enjoying the movies.
Saturday, Amber and I spent most of our time playing Super Mario 3 for the NES. We were on a mission to beat the game the LONG way. No whistles. Every level beat. To make the long story short, we made it to World 7 when her mom sat down in a chair causing the power cable to come out and our game to come to a screeching halt. No big deal, it got us to go outside. We also spent some time in town getting Ice Cream and other various things. Hayward is one of those nice small towns where everything feels like it has a history. Very cool if you ask me. We also spent some time Canoeing around the lake.
Sunday we went to a church that I think I am going to see about helping get a (better) website for. I don’t have their information with me, but we’ll see how it all works out. Let’s see, what else… We drove around a lot. We spent some time in town again. Oh, I went fishing for like the 3rd time in my life and for the first time in my life, caught something. It came later in the day when we were just getting back to dock. A large mouth bass. Amber has a picture that hopefully I can post after she gets the film developed. I caught more fish later too off the dock, and the next morning with her dad.
Monday ws the day I left. We spent most of the day together playing scrabble with the family and just enjoying each others company. Also spent some time in town again. I left around 4 and said my goodbyes :-(. It kind of sucks not being able to spend your whole 2 month aniversay with someone, but you know… There will be more 3 month, 4 month… 42 month :-).
So get this: Right around the Wisconsin/Minnesota border I had to go to the bathroom. I decided to hold it as long as I could so I could find a good place to stop. It then suddenly decided I really really needed to go right around Grand Casino. So I ran into the arcade *which is where one of the restrooms are* and went. I didn’t feel too hot afterwards, so I played a little DDR and that made me feel all better. I then walked outside and said, ok, I’m only going to play a dollar, than I’ll leave. So I put a dollar in and got 10 back. I then said.. ok.. I uh don’t really want to carry 10 dollar coins, so lets get rid of them. They turned into about 30 dollar coins then. I said, ok, I will stop when I hit an even number *IE: 20, 40, 60*. I then worked it back down to 20 and said ok, gotta go. So I turned yet another 1 dollar into 20 dollars with the thanks of the Indians and maybe some help from God? :-). I think that makes me plus 62 for overall at the casinos.

I spent the rest of yesterday taking care of Amber’s cats and chatting online. I need to mail back my processor and all that fun jazz so that I can get a new one by friday. We’ll see how that goes. So I’m going to go now and get a start on today. Who knows what all I will be doing besides going into MSA etc.
Oh, ever wonder about animals and why they don’t talk? I mean you think after hearing humans talk for like what, 100s of generations, that some animal would have figured out how to talk to us. Better question: why don’t we know how to talk to them? Has anyone ever really tried? I wonder what would happen if you let a baby get raised only hearing the sounds of a dog. Hmm.. Very curious if you ask me.
Lack of understanding
Lack of communication

I’ve been trying not to post so that when I get the pictures for Sonshine, I can make a really long post. The dilemma is, I don’t get to look at them till I get back from the Cabin, so that would mean like a week without a post, and I’m not to into that. Sonshine stories still coming then.
Amber has left me for the last 48 hours, and she will continue to be gone the next 7 days as well. I get to see her this weekend though *tomorrow to monday actually*. I’m heading up to her cabin to hang with the family. Maybe borrow Sim’s wakeboard and see if I can’t actually get going more than 5 feet. As much as I hate to admit it, I do miss her. I miss her when we do the group activities we’ve done the last 2 nights. It’s amazing how quickly you miss that other person to hold. It’s almost hard to believe that I have gone 18 years of my life not being touched. You’d think I’d be ok with this. I get to see her within like 24 hours so I’ll surrive.
Reuben, what is he dipity doin’?
Reuben, what is he dipity doin’?
So I’ve been downloading the music from John Reuben’s official website. It’s christen rap which either sounds like an oxymoron or a complete turn off for most people. But really, take the time to listen to some of this stuff. Doin, and Do Not are the two songs currently playing in my deck. Most of his songs have what I generally consider the 3 requirements for rap. Weird noises in the baseline, understandable language, and a slower catchy chorus. Good stuff, that and Grits.. but we’ll talk about them another day :-).
Do Not tell me what I can can I do when I rock
Do Not tell me what I can can I do when I rock
So to counter Amber not being around, I’ve done a little more work and spent some time with friends. On tuesday, Richard, Nikki, Mel, Eric, and later joined by John and Nathan went to Damon’s and had movie night here. All in all a pretty good day. I also ordered my computer which is coming in less than 6 hours. WOOT!!!! You have no clue how excited I am.. well maybe Sim does because he’s also waiting for his.. But seriosly. This is my first computer in like 5 years. Lets compare my current computer with my new one:

Overall? Kick’n!

Yesterday was basically spent at home and working. Last night I drove around with Nate and Nikki. That was fun. I can remember driving around with just Sim and Nikki from time to time. Not to much because Rich would get frustrated but yeah. Lots of fun.

I should go mow the lawn. My dad would be proud of me then. Anyway, it looks like its going to rain so if I can get it done before that then I don’t have to worry about it. So let’s go take a look at the lawn shall we?

I’m back and I’m almost ready to post… Almost is the key word. I’m in the wrong location and I don’t have the pictures to go with SO… For now, I’m just going to say Sonshine was good.

This swich with MSA that we are doing is a nightmare. The domain name transfer stuff has finally been received but the switch will probably take 2 days to go into affect. Not to mention: the mailserver will go haywire on us *more than likely*. Right now, I’m just hoping we don’t lose any emails. That’s a nice wish right :-).
I have a weird feeling in my tummy right now. I don’t like it, and I don’t think it has to do with food. Oh well. I think I will get back to work. Laterz people.

I will be at Sonshine the next 5 days. Cya all when I get back.

*BEEP* *buuzzzz* *buuzzzz* *buzzz*
“Hello?”
“Hey smiley, still in bed?”
“Yeah, oh shoot, but I’m supposed to be there. My battery is dying, so if my cell dies, I’ll call ya back.”
“How about you just get your butt over here”
“Ok, cya shortly”
“laters”

That was my wake up this morning. I had forgotten I needed to be at MSA and erg. So I was late getting here… not that it made a difference. It’s 1230 now and Canon still isn’t here or returning our phone calls.
So MSA is kind of in summer transition right now. Both physically and digitally. The floors are all clean, but drying. There are deskes upon desks stacked in some rooms, while others are basically empty. The server room is a mess, but thats not new. I’m still waiting on word about whether or not I can move JR Corps. We’ll see.
There are a few things I need to do today and a few things I would like to do today. I don’t know how any of it will work out for I can’t quite seem to get the time management theories I’m used to applying to my life to quite work. Ok, so let’s try anyway.
Things I have to do:

1:00pm??? — Go home and put away stuff from Nebraska

1:30pmish — Go to Nikki’s and remove car stereo

Sometime — Call Voth’s back again

Sometime — Send Dirk an email

Things I want to do:

Go to the beach with Amber

Get tank set up for fishy’s, and perhaps, buy fishy’s upon return from Sonshine?

Get all of Sonshine stuff together.

Get the stuff done for John’s site that he wants.

Get some SMRC stuff done.

Water the plants in UO.

Test the batery life of my cell phone.

Nice list huh? I think I’m forgetting something, but I’ll worry about it later.

What am I forgetting.. Who knows. I’m out now, laterz.