Speak friend and enter.

I'm leaving for milwaukie tomorrow, it should be fun, but I'm kinda nervous, as I've only flown twice.. and that was two years ago. Anyway, a fitting song (kinda (ok, not that much, but I like it)). And, at the bottom, proof that the world is screwed, click the link, read the third link down.

All my bags are packed. I'm ready to go.
I'm standing here outside your door,
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.
But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn.
The taxi's waiting, he's blowing his horn,
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry.

So kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh Babe, I hate to go.

There's so many times I've let you down,
So many times I've played around,
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing.
Every place I go, I'll think of you,
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you,
When I come back, I'll wear your wedding ring.

Now the time has come to leave you,
One more time let me kiss you,
Then close your eyes, I'll be on my way.
Dream about the days to come.
When I won't have to leave alone,
About the times I won't have to say ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22I+hate+to+wake+you+up+to+say+goodbye%22&btnG=Google+Search

Cary Grant marathon... huzzah!

Kitten
So, stuff, that has happened, to me (mostly)
Work is still going well, I'm getting more into the swing of things and it seems that each day there is more to learn :-) and more to be responsible for :-( But its all good, I consider myself very blessed.
Finding a church isn't going so well... why is a good church so hard to find? This past sunday I got the extremes. First I went to 1st Pres. with my family, and it hurt. Or rather, didn't hurt. I almost fell asleep, and the sermon seemed more designed to pacify rich people's conciences about not doing anything than anything to do with christianity... via one of those "when you get to heaven will anyone speak up for you" type things. Anyway it hurt my brain. Then that night I went to another church that was its polar opposite, extremely loud music, lots of moving around, on guy jumping around up front and the music leader lady speaking in tounges and saying "if you haven't spokein in tounges in the past week you need to get up here and talk to one of us" And just in case you wondered, there wasn't anyone interpreting. The whole thing makes me really sad, because otherwise the church was very biblically based and the minister was fairly good and the sermon was good. I can deal with loud music for a good sermon, but endorsing something thats directly contrary to scripture kinda causes me problems. (by "kinda causes me problems" I mean "will prevent me from attending the church") I thought about emailing them and asking about it, what do ya'll think?
Hmm... other than that, I still miss my friends, but seeing them every other week has helped a lot, I really need to find something to invest my time in. I've been thinking about trying golf, it seems to be the thing around here and I really like it on N64 :-p
Oh, and the other thing, humanity is rapidly losing my faith. So my co-worker's wife recently had a baby, and they're going to the hospital to visit/feed her (she's a premi, but doing well) and this lady is walking up the hill towards him (her car is at the bottom) and says she can't get her car started, the battery is dead, and she was trying to roll start it but it didn't work. (At this point I assumed she was trying to roll start an automatic, but apparently she was *slightly* smarter than that) So anyway, what had actually happened is that she had taken it out of gear at the top of the hill, and let it roll the whole way down leaving it in neutral the whole time, then didn't know why it wouldn't start. At this point he offered to jump her off, figuring it would take much longer to explain :-p

Is this what "having a job" is like? A guy who works as a metalurgist in the plant quit (he's moving to canadia) and I magically ended up taking over part of his job (a part which involves using computer software to simulate the solidification of iron in its mold, quite nifty if you ask me). Because of this I'm 98% likely to be going to Milwaukie for training on using this software (which I can pretty much run already) for three days. My boss guy might or might not be going with me, and while I'm not overly fond of flying I think it should be fun/interesting. Just very odd to me, thats a long way to go and a decent amount of money for me to "learn" some program we're not going to be using a whole lot after they plant hires someone to replace the guy moving to canadia. On the other side it has the potential to be useful, and I think its ver shiny, so who am I to complain? Life is profoundly bizzare.

Such a long week, work has been very... long, and I'm trying to get my loans consolidated with citi bank, and their site makes my brain want to explode, and just for more fun, a crack suddenly appeared in my windshield, not like it was hit by a rock, there is no impact point, it just magically appeared and its growing. Such is life I guess. I'm not liking this "adult" thing too much.
That is all.

So, today, using only some basic directions from a co-worker and my un-guy-like ability to ask directions as often as I wish I made a wonderfully wonderful discovery. There is a store in augusta which rents anime. They had a wonderfully large selection, reasonable prices and shady looking exterior/interior. In a word, it was perfect. Yay for anime.