And the gavel drops…

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This breaking news tops the weather this morning. I am even having a problem steadying my hand to write this legibly. It always happens this way to me when I find out my life is going to change drastically.

My parents have expressed that I have no more chances. I am going to be moving to my dad’s PDQ. This change is both good and bad in different ways. It is “good” in that I will be able to do what I want to do; and it is “bad” in that I won’t have the structured and rigid rules that I have grown up with, but lost while at college.

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Needing someone to talk to…

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“Ice, Ice, Baby…too cold, too cold.” That’s right. It’s sleeting/snowing/icing outside. It’s been pretty cold all day today, so I had to reschedule my first lawn mowing job.

Work was steady today. For the majority of the day it was Justin and I, and Amanda worked in the middle of it. Since it iced tonight, maybe we will be really slow tomorrow. Perhaps I can just run the day shift by myself. Although Justin will come in to cook. I guess Amanda can take the day off…or Justin. I don’t know. (more…)

Fines for driving, and reading my mail…

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Well, in Church today, I realized how I could have written the code on my websites using popup technology to load another page in a frame. If I had only thought of that before!

It’s no matter now, I’m working on a new design for my website, but I can’t quite picture it.

I did write Sarah H.’s letter today, as well as watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It reminded me of some of the things I could have done, but couldn’t really have done, in high school. I know it’s just a movie, but some things can be done in real life.

I didn’t do much today. My stepdad proposed and set into place (more…)

The Employee Meeting

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We had our meeting today at DQ, and I Finally got some things cleared up that I have been wanting to make known to people. However, I Still don’t know how to sound nice about telling people how ot do their jobs better. I tried though. Steve read the points off my list, and I filled in the specifics. We’ll see what happens in the next week or two.

I also left a note for Zadra about counting the registers properly. She left me with (more…)

A letter from Sarah…

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I got a letter from Sarah H. this morning, so I was pretty excited. I didn’t read it though, until I got home so I would have something forward to. However, I forgot about it until I got home. It was pretty vague and general, but none-the-less it was a letter, and I enjoyed it all the same. I’ll write her back tomorrow. I did notice one thing in particular…both her and Robin wrote me on Valentine’s Day, but Sarah didn’t mail hers until the 19th. Does it say something about Robin or Sarah? They thought of me on Valentine’s Day? I wouldn’t mind if Robin thought something along those lines, because she was the girl I (more…)

The History of etbustudents.cc…

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Today marks two months exactly for being at home. It’s a moot point.

It’s been raining all day. That didn’t do much for business. Just as well though; we finally got our new soda machines in…a month later. They’re pretty nice, but it will disrupt the routine of how we fill orders. We had no sodas until about 1:00 and we are running out of a number of foods. It had to do with our specials. They all came with French Fries. However, our truck comes in tomorrow morning, and this one is the most expensive shipment I have placed.

Well, Survivor came on tonight. I wished it could have been another 30 minute one. I had mixed emotions about the whole thing though. For some reason I was distracted about everything. Dah well.

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The Creation of Dungan

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I went to work today a little early, so I could get out of the house early. I did go by the post office to get a certified mail set up for my tax stuff.

I worked with Justin while I was there, but I feel unfulfilled about it. I had to place the grocery order and take care of some other things, so I couldn’t focus all my attention on training him. I did, however, get a list printed up of all the foods we make in the kitchen and how they are made to give him to study. I got that idea from Amy as she learned what all Outback makes and how to describe each one. (more…)

A letter from Robin

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Tonight’s journal entry has to be brief, I only have 7 minutes.

I got to interview a girl today…it was unprepared and informal. But that was because I already knew I wanted to hire her. I also trained Justin for an hour, but his wife had an emergency so he had to leave. (She’s pregnant)

I got a letter from Robin Billings today. I was so excited! Perhaps tomorrow I will go into the storey between her and I. So, I wrote her back today and will mail it tomorrow or the next day. (more…)

Cartoon Jedi’s, and a couple new hires

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Last night, I got to thinking, inspired by my Chilly Chan’Oobi drawing. I developed designs for two new characters: Benji Chan and Julie Chan. Benji Chan, of course, is based on my friend Benji “BDep” Deptula. (Interesting…I was just thinking of all the nicknames Benji has given himself: BDep, Ijneb Alutped, Punix-GT, etc.) and realized I can do a couple variations on the same basic character to create a group of people. (more…)

Before the past, there was the present

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Well a number of miscellaneous things happened to me today.

I started my drawing of Chilly Chan’Oobi before church, and got a good portion of it done. I was surprised at how well I was able to draw the human-like character. I am normally unable to get features into a figure that allow it to resemble a person. I finished it up after church, and put color to it, as well as wrote a name in another language for it using symbolic symbols. It looks pretty close to how I had imagined. It also makes me want to create another character or more. I would have to base them on my friends at ETBU though.

Anyway, church was today. So, I got at least two things out of it: a direction for my novel, and the memory of Sarah G & the Bible studies I went to.

The pastor mentioned something about what an intelligent being’s perspective would be on the people of this planet, as positioned as a third-party observer…the observation: (more…)