Useless Blogging

Asked via email, response via blog. Bam.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

• “Specialist” at Verizon
• “Service Assistant” at Denny’s
• “Tech Crew Member” at Juniata College
• “Light Crew” at Loyola High School (I got paid for setting up lights for a visiting show, so it counts)

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

• Hudson Hawk
• The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane
• Undercover Blues
• Dodgeball

C) Four places I have lived:

• Baltimore, MD
• Middle River, MD
• Mapleton Depot, PA
• Marburg, Germany

D) Four TV shows I love to watch

• 24
• The Daily Show
• The Colbert Report
• Scrubs

E) Four places I have been on vacation:

• DisneyWorld
• Ocean City, MD
• Lake Raystown, PA
• Freeport, Bahamas

F) Websites I visit often:

• You Are Here
• Tactical Gamer
• The Hollow City boards
• Woot

G) Four of my favorite foods:

• Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
• Cajun Chicken Sandwich from the Double T Diner
• Reese’s Cups
• and a big shoutout to the Crab Pretzel from The Island View Cafe, literally the best thing I’ve ever eaten.

H) Four places I would like to be right now:

• Bed
• Ikea, with someone else’s credit card
• The Bahamas
• On the deck of my very own boat, out on the Chesapeake Bay

I often find myself wanting to fill this space more often than I do.

I don’t know exactly what I want to write about. Family sometimes, “deep thoughts” during others, or maybe why I do the things I do. Maybe just stuff I like, such as Sara dancing an Irish Jig, or Jodi’s Jodi’s picture of the girls.

It’s a theme for life, really: wanting more for the effort you’re putting in. Maybe once I get a chip implanted in my brain, posting to this will be easier (and a far more entertaining read).

As Posted on the Tactical Gamer fora (and apparently taken from the Columbia Dispatch).

Amazing what can happen when people’s jobs are at stake.

“Elephant”
“Zero”
“Plato”
“Thank you Daddy”

And my favorite: “Debtor’s Prison”.

Last night, a call came in. A man who had been on my mind a fair amount recently was calling me up. My best man, my best friend, called me up to tell me that he was now engaged to a beautiful, charming, and overall great woman with whom he’d been living in St. Louis for no small amount of time. And honestly, to my surprise, he asked me to be his (sorta) best man.

Why (sorta)? Because his brother will be filling the appointed role. I totally understand the move; had I a brother, I’d probably have done the same thing for my wedding. I’m still likely to fill most of the ‘Head Groomsman’ type roles, but much remains to be seen, as his phone call was to tell me merely that on the previous night, he asked, and she said yes.

He’s been in my head a fair amount lately. I’ve been reading up on his internet-published works recently, trying to follow his life despite distance and a years-long lull in communication. I’ve gotten some glimpses, but mostly, it’s been me reflecting back and wondering what the future holds.

I was honestly, truly surprised to have been called to serve in an offical capacity at this future nuptual. I mean, he and I go WAY back, and while our friendship runs quite deep, it’s also been somewhere around four or five years (maybe more?) since we’ve seen each other. There’s a LOT that can change, even in shorter amounts of time than that. Expecting that I would be his best man was a foolish hope, but in thinking about it, it was about the only hope I had. I’ve no small number of friends, but I’m not the top of the heap for any of them. He was my best chance, but with the winnowing power of time, it wasn’t something I could count on.

Until last night, at least.

Oh, and if you’re reading this: I know a little girl who’s DYING to be a flower girl in a wedding.

Working on a sharable calendar for the Eastern Entertaining stuff. Whatchoo think?
EDIT:Moved below the cut to make things prettier.
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Starting now-ish, Julie is doing some marketing work for Eastern Entertaining, a fine locally-focused publication. As their schedule is not aggressive and their work not full time, she’s able to do this at her own pace and in her own time.

This rocks a great deal, and there is much rejoicing.

Awesome DVD purchase.

Go me.

Cleaned out the camera, and dumped some of the choice shots for your perusal. Note the filename of the second one.

The girls playing on the web:

  
Sara at her first soccer game:

  

  
Sara the #1 Fan:

  

  
Emma loses her first tooth:

  

  
The girls on the first day of school:

  

  
Two “before” pictures of the basement: