Vroom Vroom!

So, I sat down with the wife last night and started discussing motorcycles. I have been wanting one for years, but I have just never gotten around to it. In light of the recent gas shortage I believe that the time has come. We still have some credit cards we need to get paid off but sometime after the beginning of 2009 I think I might be getting something. Conservatively speaking, if I had a payment of $120/month I would break even since I would be saving so much gas. Now of course I have in mind the bike that I should probably try and get and I also have in mind the bike I would really like to have. Only time will tell which one actually ends up in the garage. I am really hoping it is the Ducati though.

I think Dewayne and I might take a riding course together. He hasn't been on a motorcycle in about 25 years and I have only been on the back of one. I am really looking forward to learning though!

Ahhh, payday..... gotta love it. The bank account will look good for a couple of days at least.

No dam way

It is shaping up to be a decent day. I told the lead geologist at Chickamauga Dam that I wasn't interested in working for them right now. It was an internship position and I really want to pursue graduate school. It would be a really sweet opportunity to learn all about engineering geology and whoever gets the job will certainly get some experience that isn't easy to come by. I really did think about the opportunity a lot and I finally decided that it just was not the direction that I want to take right now. Maybe someday a job like that will seem like a good fit.

It was almost like there was a weight lifted off of my shoulders when I sent the email asking to be taken out of the pool of applicants. On one hand I felt a little like I was letting go of something I shouldn't have, but I also felt a bit of relief. Now I feel like I can really focus on graduate school, the GRE, etc.

One of the cutest pictures ever

So, I was at my parents house a few weeks ago and I came across this one. Me at 8 years old with the Jolly Green on my lap. Too damn cute.....

Back to the grind

As I said in my post yesterday I am not too thrilled about being back from vacation. However, this week is really the first full one since May that I have been around in the office. I am trying my best to get up at a decent hour and get into the office. I hate working until 5:00 PM. Also, I talked to the boss yesterday and he was cool with me taking a late lunch around 2:00 and going to the gym to work out. I haven't been able to have a decent workout schedule for the last three or four months, so I am looking forward to getting back to that as well.

The weekend was exactly what I needed though. It was like I got to turn my brain off for three days. I have to say, that was a pretty nice feeling.

On the to-do list today, getting that voter registration card sent off. I am not sitting it out this election.

Well, time to get things packed up, grab a coffee, and take the scenic route to work.

Ahhh the Monday after a vacation.....is there any worse way to start a week. I have a decent sized report to get started on. I am sort of looking forward to getting started on it since it will essentially wrap up the project I have been working on all summer. Speaking of which, I think I will add some pictures from that project from a later post.

I really need to get my ass in gear and start studying for the GRE as well. I told myself that I would start studying in earnest after my little vacation.

Oh, totally purchased a SWEET Boba Fett keychain last night. I have to act like an 8 year old on occasion. I think it keeps me young. :)

The last vacation

So, apparently this weekend is it. This will be the very last time that I get to go on vacation by myself without feeling guilty. I had better make it count. I should not miss this opportunity. I had better enjoy it.

Personally, I think that is a bunch of bullshit. :)

Those are the sorts of things that I have been hearing about this upcoming weekend. All of my friends and coworkers have been telling me that taking a trip by myself to hang out with my best friend this weekend is about to be a novelty. Apparently, once you have a child these things are nigh impossible. Even if I did get to go I would have to deal with an extremely pissed off wife who thinks that I have abandoned her, and that I would not be pulling my weight if I leave.

I am not officially a father yet. In a few weeks I will be though. I really do believe that my marriage is different. These predictions about how my life is about to change are not all that different than those I heard when I got married. I was not going to be able to go and do the things I enjoyed anymore. After hearing all of these comments I have come to the conclusion that there must be a whole hell of a lot of angry people out there. I am not sure if I simply lucked out and ended up with a wife that is especially cool or if the fact that she and I have great communication is responsible. I do know that things have definitely not turned out like all of my friends predicted. I am very happily married. My wife and I do things together all the time (which is sort of why we got married....we like each other), but I also do plenty of things on my own with my buddies.

I am not complain about the advice. I appreciate everyone trying to give me a heads up. Unfortunately, all of that advice just makes me feel sorry for all of those people out there. I don't think things have to be that way. That is just no way to live.

1st

So, this is the first post where I suppose I am supposed to go on and on about why I started this blog, who I am, what I am doing, and where I am going. Well I figure that I can get to that soon enough. Plus, I should probably get back to work. More later.....