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I just found out that Steve Swor, one of my friends from the radio station, killed himself last week. They found him in his truck in a closed garage on May 15th. He was 38 years old. I haven’t seen Steve since Annie and I left Ellensburg a few years ago, but we’d been keeping [...]
Some of you may have seen the story in the news about the four firefighters who died fighting a forest fire in Washington. I saw the story on the news this morning, and then opened my email to find this note from the general manager of the radio station Annie and I volunteered at in [...]
Annie and I just got back from the radio station awards banquet. It was a semi-formal kind of thing, and they had pretty good food. When they started giving out awards, I got one for being the News Director, and Annie and I both got one for being in Troup O’ Monkeys (the acting group [...]
Progress is being made! The path is being paved for my triumphant return to Portland! Wednesday is my last day at ShirtWorks. Last Wednesday was my last day at the radio station. Friday, Annie’s folks show up and we spend the day loading the truck. Today I got us a bunch of boxes. Aw Yeah. [...]
Jill has asked me to watch Gavin (her 1-year old son) a couple days a week, for which she will pay me. This is cool, because we already watch Gavin frequently, so it doesn’t really feel like extra work. Also, Jill is the News Director at the radio station, and her News Producer recently graduated, [...]
Lately I haven’t been posting as frequently as I used to, because it doesn’t feel like much happens around here. I go to work every day, I hang out with Eric and Jill a lot, and that’s about it. I’ve been rereading MicroSerfs, though, and I’m filled with the desire to post short, humorous stories [...]
We might be moving back to Portland this summer, instead of next summer, as we had originally planned. The situation here is a lot rougher than either of us had thought it would be. The job market is terrible. Annie’s still unemployed, and my boss has cut my hours back so much that we’re barely [...]
HOORJ. I am frustrated. I got in trouble at work today. Not bad trouble, but my boss has warned me twice (once kinda sneakily) that I’m spending too much time on the Net at work, and today he announced that he’s disconnecting my computer from the network. I’ve got no grounds to argue with him, [...]
Hmmm… I’m not sure how to feel lately. I’ve had one great thing happen and one potentially horrible thing happen. Bad News First: I came into work the other day and my bosses asked me to talk to them. They told me that money was tight, and business was slow, and would I mind going [...]
Yarr, that’s right, I’ve returned! Christmas was a blast. Annie and I went to Tacoma, and hung out with her family for awhile, then I went to Portland with my family for awhile, and then back to Tacoma for a week of network gaming fun with Annie’s brothers and cousins! Hooray! While in Portland, Steve [...]
The shift from Portland to Ellensburg is pretty radical. Portland’s temperature ranges from 30 to 80, with both of the extremes being fairly rare. The average temperature is probably around 60. Ellensburg on the other hand is around 100 in the summer, and around 10 in the winter. It’s rarely a moderate temperature, we tend [...]
Working this job has made me realize something. I used to think that the work I was doing would be the most important thing, and that I could deal with any workplace situation given that I was doing what I loved. I have since realize that is inherently wrong. While doing what I love can [...]
I got to test my new bike stuff this morning. It’s been snowing over the weekend, and last night it was really cold, so there’s snow and ICE all over everything, and I have a 30+ block bike ride to work. I only crashed once, at the first intersection, as I tried to brake too [...]
Well kids, let us begin today’s lesson: Today was my refresher, and I’m sure Scott began his first lesson without the benefit of a primer. For those of us that don’t know… Go slow – If you’re in a hurry, stay slow. Nothing makes you late to work or class like an open head wound. [...]
So Urn and I officially have a radio show! It’s called Off-Topic, and it’s a weekly talk show. It’s going to start Winter term, and it will be on Monday nights from 10pm to Midnight. Yes, it is kind of an odd time-slot for a talk show, but seeing as how we didn’t have any [...]
Yesterday was kick-ass! We decided to have a local thanksgiving dinner with friends, and the whole thing just kept getting bigger. I guess everyone thought it was a good idea, because everyone came! We had two turkeys, like three bowls of stuffing, and a ton of other food. Annie and I were there, of course, [...]
I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately. I love movies, and now that I have money again, it makes sense I would start seeing them again. Urn and I watched Pitch Black (again for me) and it was still really really cool. I’m amped about Red Planet. Can’t beat Val Kilmer, Trinity and a [...]
Well, it was snowing the morning, which was cool right up until the point where I had to bike to work. In addition to being cold and wet, I had snow blowing in my eyes, so that I couldn’t see. However, the end result of this is that I bought some cool sunglasses at Bi-Mart. [...]
So my new job is pretty cool. It’s computer stuff, and graphics stuff, and after two months with no hope of a job, it’s about 100 times cooler than I was expecting any job I got to be. My coworkers seem a little strange, but overall pretty cool. Once we’re all more comfortable together, I’m [...]
Hooray! I had an interview yesterday at ShirtWorks, a local t-shirt printing shop. They’ve been trying to hire a graphics production person for a couple months now, and somehow their ad in the paper never made it to the classified ads on the website at the same time I was checking it out. So last [...]
Job Update: When Annie called back the deli today, they said they were calling people later in the day. Sure enough, later on, they called her back for an interview tomorrow. No mention of me. I’m going to call them tomorrow. Then when Annie called Thunderbird Motel, a confused looking person said "What? No, we’re [...]
Okay… Annie went out to get the mail today, and came back with two packages, instead of the bills we were expecting! One of the packages was from my Uncle Bruce and Aunt Michelle in Alaska, who sent us a post for no particular reason. Cool. The other package was from Jay and Silent Bob. [...]
I’ve been staying up later and getting up later every night. It’s nearly 5am now, and I’m sure I won’t get up until noon at least. I’m not tired at all. In fact, I’m feeling rather productive, so I might not go to sleep for awhile yet. Annie finds it terribly disturbing that I’m staying [...]
Not Very Scrawny
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not as skinny as I was in high school. I am no longer a 98 pound weakling. No, now I’m a 170 pound weakling. Sadly, all of this weight has gone on right around my middle giving me a bit of a gut. Naturally, I’m not terribly [...]
31 Comments. Posted by Scott on Friday, February 9, 2001 at 10:27 am.
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