I think we are getting there

Well it seems that live is moving on!

Crome is out (at lest in Bata) and so is IE8.
Both seem to be nice browsers. But they have the Bata feel...

We are in a new home. A house! lots of room way more than we have had and it has a back yard! YAY. Zoe and Rashie (and the cats) are loving it. It makes me happy to see my little girl and dog running and playing in the back yard. They have a blast!

I am kind of looking for a new job. need more $$. I hate this. I hate having a job I like and in a good place. but I need something that pays more!

~L is looking for a job to. needs to be something after my work (no one would be happy with that. but might need to be done. and if it was no more than 3 or 4 days a week Zoe and I would be ok. I think..) but she would like something that is in the day but pays enough for Zoes care and we have $$ left over. hard to find.
No one whats to pay anything.

Well. that is about it. I think things will be better next month! get a pay check or 2 were half of it is not going into something else. like truck rental or deposits or the like.
~thewildword.

Agan been Awhile Sorry

What can I say. have had lots to do.
thans have been going well.
Job good. Doing some cool work. the Zozety site is getting there. I am redoing it for the 3rd time. was driving me up the wall.
this weekend I am in CA for my brothers wedding. Zoe is having a good time and I am to.. kind of. I dont like san diago. I just dont. I like LA.

but the trip is nice.

Next week we need to find a house to live in. it is cosing me more stress that I can ever tell you.

I feel really bad most of the time. like I am doing somthing wrong because I can get Zoe a yard. I am always on the verge of tear. I think I will stop now because if not I will have them. anyway. need to work. get zoe a yard.
~d

Dont know why I even try

I dont!

Ugggg. Hate being sick

Have been so sick. Not happy about it. for the most part it has not been the type of sickness that drives me to bead, but it dose suck all my energy. Witch really sucks. I did get a new computer witch is nice, but have been to sick to really to anything with it. We also got the car fixed. we were going to get a new one. but have disided to wait till the end of the summer.

For the most part things are going well. but I need to feel well again. I really do. and I need to get some stuff done so I can make soem $$ with the new computer. just need a little more $$ per month. and I need to need to sleep all the time.

On other news. ~Z is turning 3. we had her birthday party on saterday. she had a blast. she is such a good girl.

the things she gets this year are.
to learn to fish.
swiming leasons.
to learn to sky.
to go to school.
She is looking forward to them all.

I am looking forward to her getting to do them all.
:)
~thewildword, ~d

It is 2008. Another year gone.

It is 2008. Another year gone.
A new year here.

I look back over the last year and I guess it was good. Kept Zoe alive for another year.

She is doing so well. she is so smart and just a love.

Had a couple nice trips. CA, AZ and moved back to Boulder. I am vary happy about being back to Boulder.

I have had 3 jobs over the last year. Making more than 10k than I did last year.

Playing game again and have my 360 and a new TV.

So I guess it has been a good year.

Still, maybe it is just because it is new years. I am feeling down.
and you know what it is about.

I am making more then 10k than last year at this time and I am paying less in rent. you would think we would be saving $$. but that dose not seem to be the case. We need a new car and I am sure I can get a lone but what is that. more $$ a moth we will spend. I thought I was going to be saving $$ with the new phone. but I scored up and cost us $30 more last month. I am kicking myself for that. Hate myself for it. been eating at me.

We are getting a different computer. but I fear I will not be able to work on it because it is kind of old. I just don't get it. How do I get to the point where if I need to get something I don't have to worry about how I do it! I am worried that Zoe is going to get into the school that we really want her in and that I wont be able to afford it. I am worried that I am never going to get Zoe a yard!

I don't know what I am going to do.

I guess it will be ok.

I do have Laura and Zoe. They make me so happy. and Maybe if I get to working Out I will worry less. It would also help if work and any direction.

~d

Perfect Day Meme

From the New Frontiers.

Ok. My Perfect day.
1st off I would only need about 4 hours sleep. So I could wake up early. I would wake from a nice dream.

The morning would be nice and crisp as I walked the dog and my coffee would be perfect.
I would get back and ~Z and ~L would still be asleep so I would get in a little gaming before ~Z got up and came in to give me a hug.

We would let ~L sleep in as I changed ~Z's but then got a BB show on for her. I would start Breakfast for Myself, ~L and ~Z. the Smell would wake up ~L and I would give her her coffee.

Then we would all have breakfast then head up in the mountains for a walk (or play of some kind). There would not be to much sun. We would make it back down town for a late lunch. A storm would come in. but just light rain to start. give us time to walk the mall. Check out how ~L's art was moving. I would buy some game stuff and candy

We would make it home before the Storm really broke. There would be thunder and lighting and a little flooding. This would last for a little while and there would be football on TV. my team would be winning. ~Z would play and watch the game with me and ~L would do art.

After the storm died down and the game was over we would go out to eat. Maybe with some Friends. after that we might get in an hour of card games or something. then we would but ~Z down and I would do some video games while ~L did art or we could both watch a movie (maybe with our friends) as the storm picks up again.

Then we would go to bead and read a little (maybe other things...) as we hear the rain coming down above us. (on a sky light)

this is just one perfect day. There is one or two with snow. more with rain and even a few with sun and the sea. also Kung-fu, more reading and and RPG planning would be in there. kayak or music lesson as well.

thewildword.~d

Not so much awake

Yes playing Halo and other games. But I had Halo dreams again last night. After staying up to late playing the game. This dream was more about the Flood. It might have given me a story idea.

I have also down loaded a game called Blazing Angels. A WWII air combat game. Love it. I might need to get the whole game.

~L and I had a nice hike last weekend. Would love some more walks.
Some friends watched ~Z. it was nice to get out. After the hike we had a nice dinner with the friends.

We also had my parents in last week. It was vary nice to see them. But I think we need to get ~Z out of the habit of asking for presents. She is 2 and everything she sees she wants. And She has no tact. It is not like her grand parents are not going to spool her. She just should not ask for it. Just need to make sure she grows out of it.

~Z is a love. She is looking forward to Halloween. So am I. She will have so much fun.

Well that is it for now. It is Fall. Vary Fall. Love it.
~thewildword
~d

To much HALO

Maybe!
so the last 2 nights I have had HALO dreams. I dont remenber what the one was tonights ago. but last nights dream picked up right were I left off playing.

Kind of freeked me out having to fight thought the Flood. and when I awoke from the dream I swore I would give myself a day off from it. But now that I am half way though the day. -- I am looking forward to playing again. :)

I am so close to fininshing the game. I need to play.

I am playing on normal right now. (with scoring turned off. Somthing I did not find out about till 1/2 thought the game.) When I am done I will move on to hard. See if I can do that with no help. Make sure I have scoring on for that. and I will start playing with other.

I think that is what I really like most about the 360. playing with others.

~thewildword
~d

To much HALO

Hate!

I use the word just about every day. I don't even think about it. "I hate getting up in the morning." "I hate the sound of the train at night." I hate this and I hate that. The problem is I never really thought about the word. I have always used it in place of "I don't like." But I came to a stunning reveltion about the word today when I heard it come out of my 2 year olds moth. 1 I realized I say it way to much. and 2 I realized it meaning. Disliking something happens when you have experiences with something and it dose not work for you or you have found it wanting in some way.

Hate though is born of fear and ignorance. Dislike you can face and change your mind about. But not hate. You hate because you fear. Hate is irrational. Hate is stupid. You may try to rationalise your hate. But in the end it is something that lives inside of you.

I don't want my child learning hate. I do what her to learn to judge things and decide that some things are bad. Bad for her and the world. but that is not hate. there is no feeling to that, that cant be justified and or changed.

I fear that I am not making myself clear. But all I can tell you is that when I heard "I hate that" come out of her moth. I felt like the worst dad ever. I guess really need to watch what I am teaching my little girl.

~thewildword
~d

Hello world

Got it.

So I got my 360 finely.

And yes it is vary fun.

But more about that in a second.

Some updates.

Live is going well I think. Job vary good. Have my own office witch is nice but I do feel vary alone sometimes. That is good and bad I guess. I have been given an opportunity here to really build (with one other person) our own department. I think that will happen. The only thing that I don't like is that right now I am doing more documentation than anything else. I had about 3 weeks of being able to do what ever I thought was needed. not this week.

One of the things I love about being here is that I can bike or walk to work and home. It is also right by the creek and ~Z and ~L can come up for lunch sometimes. Also there are lots of bunny's around. ~Z loves that.

I counted 10 bunny's on my walk home the other day.

I still need to start going to class more. or at all. I went once about 3 weeks ago. But then I started doing some contract work and it always seemed that they wanted stuff on nights that I had class. I think the job is done now. but I have though that before and it keeps coming back. I keep getting payed for it though. So that is good. Will help paying off parents for the move, put some $$ back to catch up on things. That makes me happy. (and it did help me get the 360)


On the up side we have been hiking/Walking allot. ~Z is just amazing on them. She sees things (like dear and other animals) before we do. It is vary fun to go on hikes with her. I just wish she would not so easily get distracted by sticks and rocks. Also it seems we really need to be on the look out when we are out. ~Z and ~L saw a mountain lion the other day and there have been lots of sightings of mountain lions and bears down near or in town.

~Z BTW is going nuts. She is always moving, Learning and playing. As close as she gets to staying still is when she is watching Disney videos. We are now going though them all. (Thank goodness we have video games and pitcher in pitcher.

She also sets with me while I play video games sometimes. she will get a old controller from the xbox and set next me telling me she is helping. She hits the buttons and watches the TV. She loves Frogger and Sonic the Hedge Hog (I can down load old 80's and 90's games.) But I kind of worry a little when she is "playing" Gears of War with me. Chainsaws cutting though aliens and all. Still she seems happy.

~L's art is looking vary good. It always dose. but it looks better and better all the time and she is happy doing it. She is going to start taking violin lessons this week and I am going to do guitar sometime. ~Z is taking music lessons. Ask her what she likes best. "the shakers" she says holding out her arms to her side and shaking!

RPG. going well.

Ok. the 360. I do love it. Right out of the box though the 1st one I got gave the the "Red Ring Of Death" I took it right back and got a new one. No one gave me any problems about that. People know it happens. I got a ping pong game that came with it. have not played it yet. I have been playing Gears of War. I did not really think I was going to like GOW much besides playing with my friends. but I am really getting into it.

As for the rest of the system. I love it that it connects me to people on the IM chat as well as other people on the xbox. It really makes me feel like I am part of the community. I also like the downloads. the classic video games and Demos are fun. I would also like to connect it to the computer. but have not gotten that to work yet. Really want to do XNA.

As for games I want. guitar heroes I really need BioShock! . and HALO 3 is coming. (I am almost shaking!)


Well that is it for now.
later
~d
~thewildword.

Chomping at the bit.

So ready to start the new job. I am trying not to be a short timer where I am. But I really am looking forward to my new job. Did the drug test today. I have no worry there. Now I just need it is just time....

I am also looking forward to getting out stuff from Seattle this weekend. It is going to be a long drive, but worth it. It will be over. Also I will be seeing some friends up there. I am looking forward to that to.

I think one of the things I am looking forward to most is getting back my music. Need my music bad. One thing I hate about where I am is that I keep finding good places to get streaming music and then they block it here. I hate that. HATE it. I also can’t get to my Gmail. Not a good way to keep web developers. Well this one will not be here much longer.

On other news. I have started jogging in the morning with the dog. The dog is not at all happy about this. Needs to be done though.

I way too much and I need to get in a little shape the kung-fu. Witch I start again soon. Need to go back. and get in shape for outdoor.

O the pain.

Kind of nice to do though, even if I have to almost drag the dog.

Well that is it for now.

Thewildword~d

Another update.

Well it looks (again) like I have a new job. Just need to pee in a cup. I will be sad to leave this company. Really good people in it. But I think I will look forward to the new one. It is a company in Boulder and I will be moving a classic asp(js) app into .net(c#). It looks like there well be 2 other people on the team. One is a DB person that is already there. The other they are hiring. I am not sure where I will fall in the system. But I think there is a good chance I will be the team lead.

The pay at the job is what I am making now. But without the over head of 1200 a year of bus passes. Also there is insurance and vacation with this job. Vary nice. And I can bike to work.

In theory I start in two weeks. But I will talk to my boss tomorrow here. It might be that he will let me to sooner than 2 weeks. If so. I will start as soon as I can.

On other news. I am going back to get our stuff from Seattle this coming weekend. So ready to go. After that. Get an x-box 360. I hope. Hate to say that, because you know that something will come up to keep me from getting it. Still I am going to really try to be positive. I really want one before Halo 3 comes out. I know I would be happy with one after that. But I think I will feel really let down if I don’t get one before. Stupid. Yes. But….

~Z is doing really well. Need to get more pics up. I don’t have time to tell you all the cool stuff she is doing. But she has started telling us she loves us without us saying it 1^st. she has also decided that our bead is way better than hers. ~L is doing well as well. Hates the heat but then so do it. She is going to take a class next month. YAY

It is hot here again. In the high 90’s. but the clouds keep coming over in the afternoon. So that helps. Still wish it was cooler.

Well that is it for now.

Thewildword~d

Life now

Well things seem to be going good. I do like my job. Still upset about the travel. But it is all good.

It has turned off cool again. Well 80s right now. Was up to almost 100 this last week. So way to hot.

I have gotten done with the last Harry Potter book. It was very good. I don’t know if I would say it was supper. But it was good. And a good ending to the story. There are thing that I would like to know about what happened after the end. But I am guess did better than most stories.

So now I am going to read something else. I wish I had a printer. I have a friend that has send me something she did. But the only time I can read it is in front of the computer. And that sucks. I am not a big fan reading stuff off the computer.

I guess this is not going to be a big entry. I just though I would say hi to everyone. My gaming is going well. Well it is going fun anyway. In D&D my Ranger got an arrow in the eye. Then on the week I could not play instead of getting my eye fixed the party took off across the country. The Vampire game is going well. I look forward to running again. It will be so nice. Well nice for me.

Still have not got our stuff for Seattle yet.

But it does seem. Life is good.

Thewildword~d

So a quick update.

Things seem to be going ok sense we have been back.

Job is good. A little bit of a pine because insurance has not come though like the contract company told me it would and I did not get a bus pass. But I like the person I am working for and it pays well. Still you never know what might come up.

Living is good to. Hot though most of the time here. Senses we have moved in we have spend almost $600 on AC units for the place. Got 2 of them and on the 90+ days they just hold there own. Hate to see what the bill is going to be for the electricity. Not to mention there is $600 gone we could have used for other things.

Class. Love it. When I get to it. But I have been going more then when I was in Seattle. Still cost $$. Hate to go when I can’t pay. So will start going again next week.

Friends. Seeing lots of them and gaming. Playing D&D (Second game and my CH got an arrow in the eye) and running Vampire. (let’s just see what happens to the CH of the D&D games eye!)

Car. Runs good now. But I just had to drop in $820 on it. Hate that.

Hate it hate it hate it. That makes 1420 on stuff we need but … dame it. We were going to get a computer with that $$, and get our stuff from Seattle and…. Well. Maybe something else.

Just pisses me off.

It also makes us live like we have no $$. I hate that. We should not have this problem with as much as I make. But every time it looks like we might have something left over. Bam! I am trying not to be negative. But still….

We did get a nice mattress though. We both sleep so well on it.

For the most part all is good. I am still doing some work with Saltmine. Got paid for the gadgets I did.

Have friends.

Thewildword~d

It has been a long time, or so it seems.
Well we made it back to Boulder. We left most of our stuff back in Kirkland though. Just could not aford the truck at the time. So at the end of this month I am going back and getting it all. IT is going to be a long trip. but I hope to find someone to go witht me. help with the trip back.

We are happy to be back. I have 2 games in the works and have a good job. The job is in denver and the bos likes VB. still it is good. and I can keep my eyes open for somthing in Boulder. But I am in no ruch. and this might work out well for me. Even with the drive.

I am also still doing some other work for saltmine as well, and soem for a difrent company. I hope soon though to get my own thing going. have some idea.

Well in short. We are back and we are happy
thewildword ~d

It is gone. Or at least going.

My home lab top is on its last leg. Maybe even past its last leg. For a while now it has been having problems but last week I took a CD out of it and it stopped working. It seems not to be able to find the hard drive now.

Oooo the pain. I can get it to work some. But have to tilt it at an angel to the left. It will boot up that way and run for about 15 minutes before it just locks up. Just about enough time for me to check email.

We are going to get a new computer. But we might wait till we get back to Boulder. Not sure we want to buy a new piece of hardware then move it half way across the U.S.

I don’t know if I can make it that long without a computer though. It is not the games or the web that I really need I find. It is developing. I need to Develop!

I am such a nerd.

Thewildword~d

Moving back to Boulder.

Thought I would update this really fast.

Fast is the key word. Things have been moving fast. Sense I have last blogged (one of the reasons I have not put anything on the new blog at all!). ~L and I have decided to move back to Boulder. We have been talking about it for awhile now and were going to stay here till then end of summer, but something’s came up, so I put my resume out just so see what hits I would get. And BAB. Lots of hits.

So we are off. Should be in on the 2^nd on June.

I am going back this coming weekend to interview for a job. I have 3 interviews lined up. 2 of the 3 sound like nice places and I am sure I would enjoy working at ether. But the 3^rd is the place I think I would like the most.

me.dium.

It is a company that builds a plug-in that lets you see were people are at on the web “near you”. They have come up with a way of creating web spheres. Groupings of web pages that are related in some way. You can also see were you friends are and the like. Everyone that I have gotten to sign up loves it. All think it could be the next big thing. Really makes you feel not so alone on the web. I have already made some new friends. (at lets I hope they are friends.. I was chatting with one person that was on there and found out he was the CEO part of the way though. J)

I have also discovered new sited though it. I see were people go and or group. When I see lots of people on a site, I just have to go check it out.

Well besides interviews for next weekend I need to find a place to live as well. And some time in there to say hi to some of my friends.

I am so looking forward to seeing them all. I have already been asked to play in a D&D game and run a Vampire game.

~L and I are also looking forward to letting ~Z play in the creek. And I can get back to Kung-fu more.

How fun.

Well now back to seeing if I can fix a 175px content box into 160px div.

I will try to keep everyone one updated.

~thewildword. ~d

new Blog

so I have Started a new blog.
http://thebridgecoder.blogspot.com/
it is going to be my coding blog. I was going to put some thought I have on coding up here.

but this site is more about me complaining about things.

so new site.

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thewildword~d

And we are going backwards. No Shock.

So we are now thinking of moving to West Seattle. We are going to go over this weekend and look at the area. But we really want to move. Kirkland is ok, but boring and expense. And I have little dought that our rent will go up. And for what we are getting. That just is not right. In West Seattle we can get more for less and the commute would not be so bad. I think I would like that. We also may do Magnolia. I might even like Magnolia more. It is to the north instead of the south. And north would be closer to Kung-fu. Either way. We need to move. I am sure if we stay where we are. By the end of summer. We will be moving back to Boulder. And I do love Boulder. But I would like to give it at least one more year here.

And maybe, just maybe if we can get a place that cost a little less. We can save some $$. Maybe.

On the down side. 25 days (would be 24 today) till xbox is shot!

I know it would be. Just knew it. I should not be depressed about this. But I am. I am a lot. And I do not think it is really the xbox (but I would love to have one) it is the fact that I have to make choices like this. I don’t get how it is that I make as much as I do and can’t just go get the xbox when I want and still have $$ to move. I don’t get it. We don’t waste that much $$. Is it were we live? Maybe. Still. It is depressing. so F#$King depressing!

Here lest depress myself some more.
So it was 25 days.
Lest add at least 2 months because of moving.
So 85 days.
Any # of things that are needed come up.
...

And that is how it is going to go.
No way around it.
But on the up side. We will have a nice place to live. And that means a lot. A whole lot. Maybe being in a new place will pirk me up. :(
Thewildword~d