POST 2(IN NOT QUITE AS LONG A TIME AS THE PREVIOUS POST)

Apparently I am not the only one who has lagged on the Blogging duties. After very recent research on the subject I have discovered that there are several other people who are close to me who have not posted but one or two, if that many, posts since the ppost before the post that which i posted last. most notably, MOM and KAREN, plus also my WIFE. I see how it is. I am off the internet for just a little bit and the universe stops. Come on guys, I know I am important, but surely my vacancy cannont have that much of an effect on you. surely there have been worthwhile things to post and chat and share with the world, come on guys, this is important, you are just letting your blogs become stale and moldy, aging out in interspace. It isnt too late, your BLOGS can be revitalized, reenergized, Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country!! Stand up for what you believe in! Live free or die!! I regret that I have but one life to give to my blog!! Give me Blogging or give me death, or perhaps just a sharp poke!! Well anyhow, there is no time to blog like the present so, people, get blogging!!

POST 1 (IN A LONG TIME)

In my bathroom there is a toilet paper dispenser. There are also three rolls of toilet paper sitting on the tub beside the toilet. These three rolls are of the same brand and each has a different width, due to use. One is almost gone, one is halfway gone, and one has just been started. None of these rolls are actually on the dispenser, which has an empty roll on it. I do not understand this system of toilet paper usage, but I have come to accept it.

now the randomness:

Japanese cartoons have good themes, my favorite being the opening to Cowboy Bebop. Also in the mix, Trigun, and Gundam Wing. Spirited away also has excellent music, especially the the music for the credits. I have to say I am a little dissapointed in the Gundam and Trigun series; in that the romance/love aspects are never completed, they tend to leave it hanging. Hiro was supposed to at least tell Reylena that he loved her, Vash should have hooked up with whats her face, after all Mille hooked up with wolfwood. I hope Bebop will be a little more solid with where it ends. Big O, now that was confusing, I'm still not sure exactly what happened with that one.

My honey let me rent a couple PS2 games, cuz we have one now. One of them was Shadow of the Colossus. Excelent game, awesome gameplay, not too easy, but not too difficult...yet. Truly awe inspiring meeting the first colossus, played for hmm several hours, Alfred came over and played for a long time too, actually he was way ahead of me, but I played this morning and beat another two ahead of him.

I really like our friends, C and A, and R and A, we really need to spend much more time with them, plus they have kids, so my daughter can play with they whenever we get together.

I have finished all of the work for my credential, paperwork, left
England soon
will be fun

what else whate else

oh yeah, sorry this has been so long...the school district blocks this domain and I only do computer stuff there, email and such, so yeah, thats why

hmmm

okay, well thats all good, see you later

BEEP

GOOD AFTERNOON AT THE TONE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME WILL BE 2 28 EXACTLY, BEEP, OOH IT I\DEID IT JUST EXACTLY . ARE YOU JUST.. HONEY YOU'RE TYPING CRAPPYY...YOUR' NOT GONNA POST THAT...YOU SPELLED CRAPPY WRONG, YOUR DUNB, IM NOT GONNA TALK ANY MORE...IM DUNMBA DUMBA...DID YOU POST IT JUST LIKE THAT, YOU CANT EVEN READ IT. UNGH..NOW YOUR GONNA GO BACK AND EDIT IT, AND YOUR HAS AN APOSTROPHE IN IT, AND YOU JUST DID IT AGAIN , HAHA, AND YOU CANT DEEP UP WITH ME, CAND DEEP UP WITH ME HUH? CANNED? HEHEHEH, HUHUHUH, HUH, EHU, EHHHHHHHAA STOP HE HEH E H HEHE HUH YOUR JUST MAKING ME DO IT MORE, AHHH, YOU SPELLED YOUR WRONG AGAIN, HEEH *SIGH, NHNNN EHA HAHAHAHAH HEHEHE HUHUHUHU HUUUUUUH HHHHHUUU HUUYH STOOOOOP, HAHAHA MNA WHATS MNA, HEHE HUH UIHAH AHUEHUAH WEEHAA YOU SAID HAHHAHA, ...............WHATD HE SAY, SO THE FOUNDATION THING WASNT A PROBLEM, YOUR NOT REALLY GONNA POST THIS ARE YOU. YOU DONT EVEN YSE CORRECT PUNCTUALTION, I LIKE TOTALLY SAID A COMMA AND YOU TOTALLY DID A PERIOD, THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE, AND NOW YOU CANT KEEPP UP, ...(SKIP)...HUHUHU, KAY POST THE DAMN THING. DANG, EHUDH ...HONEY HUDEHUH HUHU, IS THAT WHAT I SOUND LIKE, HUHUH, ITS HOT IN HERE, IM GOING TO GO BACK TO MY ROOOM......BACK TO MY OFFICE. ...SORRY I BENT YOUR PENIS LAST NIGHT..HEHEHEHE, YOU WILL NOT EVEN POST THAT YOU KNOW YOU WONT. YOUR MOM READS THIS. SHE DOESNT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR PENIS BABY, WHATEVER YOU'RE WASTING TIME...GIVE ME A KISS. YOU KNOW YOUR NOT GOING TO POST IT, WHY DO YOU KEEP TYPING YOUR...Y O U APOSTROPHE R E, THATS BOTHERING ME, U APOSTROPHE R E , YOUR TYPING IT AHAHA, YOUR MAKING ME SOUND LIKE A NEANDRATHAL, I DIDNT SAY THAT, I DIDNT SAY THAT, HUUUUU, KAY ARE YOU DONE YET GIVE ME A KISS, ....YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING TO POST THAT.

-NATALIE

CHU-CHU-CHU-CHU-CHANGES.....

So, these are all the changes currently taking place:
1. Quit my job
2. Began secondary student teaching (full time)
3. Taking out my first student loan
4. bought a used car, a couple months back,
5. Gonna get married
6. Gonna have a wife
7. Gonna have a daugher (Bonus progeny)
8. Gonna have two parakeets
9. have to get rid of some of my stuff
10. have to get her stuff to fit in my little house
11. going to finish student teaching this semester and look for teaching job
12. going to the Pines for a short honeymoon, then later to England for an Extended Honeymoon.
13. Have to take out an extra loan to help with the wedding stuff...
14. need to get a pedicure
15. have decided that I like two percent milk better than nonfat
16. have also decided that soy milk is pretty good, at least with vanill flavoring
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MERRY THANKSGIVING

I'd like to wish all of you my best for your holiday season, hoping that you will get to spend quality time full of love and filled with blessings with your families, or for others of you that you will at least get along with your family for ONE day, that you would not get on each others nerves coming away with a feeling of resentment and anger, that your thanksgiving dinner will not end up eaten by a wild pack of dogs, or be pulled to the ground by a toddler pulling on the table cloth. That your Uncle bob would not get crazy drunk this year, and decide to do a little Thanksgiving day streak. That little Billy would not break his arm playing thanksgiving day football, or smash his face against the bed post and have to go to the emergency room for a cast or stitches. That the turkey (or turducken) is thouroughtly cooked and that your family doesn't contract Salmonilla, or if they do, that you have four bathrooms to take the added load. But mostly just that you have a good time and that you make sure to count your many blessings

gobble gobble

ENGAGED

So, I got engaged a couple of weeks ago sorry that I have not posted about it here, but you know, I am kind of busy with other things, student teaching, work, planning a wedding and stuff like that.

From what I ahve heard it sounds like most guys just say, "honey, I don't care what the details are, just plan it and let's be done with it." but that's just not me, well sort of, but I at least want a hand in some things...mainly in saving money and getting good deals on the reception. It turns out that the only thing we are going to have to pay for is the food, we are getting the facility fee waived, and any other little fees waived too, which is nice, the only bump we ran into was the fact that they aren't allowed to have kegs on the premise which means that we are going to have to bottle the beer, oh well, oh, and the wedding is on April fools day too, but oh well.

So what is with this weather, it is mid november and it is still hot enough to wear shorts outside during the daytime...what gives?

SEPTEMBER

Greetings everyone, my apologies for not blogging for quite some time, but I have been pretty busy, and have had little time to do such things as keep up on my posting.

I recently started student teaching at one of the local high schools in the area, and it is a blast. Though I am still a little nervous in front of the classes, I am getting more used to being in charge and teaching.

I also have been working part time, as well as enduring two other classes that I have to take to obtain my credential, But school has always been fun, and even classes that don't seem relevant, or pertinent can still be valuable later on.

I have been having pretty bad indigestion as of late...it started when I ate an entire large pepperoni pizza, and from there out, whever I eat anything fried, spicy, or acidic, it just makes my esophagus and stomach not feel very good. Luckily I keep the Pepcid AC Chewables on hand to correct this.

Well, yes, that was all very lovely for you I guess, reading about my stomach problems and such...

Oh, I bought a car...It is a Dark blue Saturn s-1, and it gets really good gas milage, and it lowers my insurance $50 which is Absolutely Fabulous.

Ok, aure vois, thank you for stopping by

*bing* You are now free to move about the Internet

My truck in our shop on one of those rainy days.

MOM'S NEW CAR

I know you are probably expecting me to write about my mom's new car, but I'm not. You can go see what she wrote about her new car on her blog. I am writing about my truck, however I am writing about my truck because my mom is writing about her SUV, and I realized I never made any mention of my truck, probably because I owned it before I started blogging. Anyhow, I bought my truck last August for $14999.00 which was $500 under blue book, and just a little over factory invoice. It was a good deal so I got funded through my bank and bought it. A few months later I refinanced my house and used some of the equity to flat out but the truck. So it is completely mine, and only a year old...who would have thunk it?

From left to righ (also birth order)t: Logic (Tail being the object furthest left in the picture), Junior, August, and Friday

KITTENS

The kittens have opened their eyes
and begun exploring the living room
Miako (the eldest cat of the house)
hates them and hisses at them, but
the kittens don't flinch about it
and waddle straight for her anyways
which makes her scatter off in the
other direction. It is pretty funny.

GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS

So I have been playing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds as of late. It is based on the Age of Empires II game engine, and for most of the people who actually read this, that won't mean much to you. Anyhow, I have been playing way too much, but its my prerogotive, so thats that.

I am headed to Livermore to go to N's family reunion this weekend. There should be lots of food, it should be fun.

Just about ready to start school, having registration/admission problems as is the norm, but hopefully it will all be squared away by the first day of school (Monday)

thats all for now, enjoy your day.

Black Monarchs Castle, one of the best presents I ever recieved as a kid, Thanks mom :)

LEGO MANIAC

The other day N came to me to ask me to help her buy four lego sets for her boss' son A from ebay. A had given her $280 to fund this buying. This combined a couple of my favorite things, EBAYING and LEGOS, so I took no time in siezing the opportunity and in no time was bidding on one of each of the sets. Then I saw it, the motherlode, 29 Lego sets, all castle and pirate, in one huge lot. Initially the lot was at $120, but after some calculations, I decided that this lot was worth $340 on the conservative low end. This lot included 3 out of the four sets that A wanted and a whole lot more, I figured I could buy it, give him the ones he wanted, then sell the rest and buy the final set and then keep whatever profit was made. I was willing to put $50 on top of A's money so that we would have a grand total of $330 to work with. Then I waited. With a minute and thirty seconds I put in my bid of $333.33 hit the verify button and immediately was out bid...I reacted quickly and put in a desperation bid of $350.00, but to no avail. I was out bid again and the auction was over, sold for $355 and no cents. But i was glad that I had not won, my desperation bidding could have gotten me in over my head. I emailed the winning bidder, who used the same last minute tactics that I had but bid higher, and asked him what his highest bid was. He emailed me back, suprisingly, and told me that he didn't really want to pay more than $350, but that he had bid $375 just to make sure. I don't feel so bad about losing it :)

Anyhow, I did find and win one of the large castles on German Ebay, and am currently trying to land the other three.

All this Legoing got me to unpack my own collection. I found a site that has a list of all the lego sets there are and also inventories each brick from each set. Counting only my complete sets, the site tells me, my collection is worth $180, but I have not entered all of my complete sets yet. The site also provides instructions for sets. I cycled through several of them finding various sets that I know that I have or finding sets that I didn't know I had. One of the spaceships I have is near complete, but is missing a wing and sveral 1x1x3 blue pieces. I built it excluding the missing parts...it is near complete, but looks like it flew through a meteor shower, or was in a severe firefight.

I also bought a couple lots of various bricks on ebay...AND I am going yardsailing this weekend to go see what I can find :) I want to start selling stuff on Ebay too. N laughs at me but understands, thanks honey, I love you.

BUT NOW I'M BACK

And I can really shake em down. Anyways, so I have been unable to access the internet for a week or so because my office changed from AOL DSL to SBC since AOL dropped their DSL service. It was inconvenient, but what can you do?

I am glad that I don't watch TV, I am hearing there are all kinds of new and crappy reality shows that I am glad I won't be subjected to. I have been watching a steady stream of Movies though, and some of them, namely THE LIFE AQUATIC & DOLEMITE, which both made me wish for the 2 hours of my life back.

The highlight has been the GUNDAM WING series that I have been watching, 5 episodes at a time. Last night I got to the point that I had seen on cartoon network when it was aired there, so from here out I haven't seen anything. I was glad to see that Quatre(who is my favorite character)was able to beat Hiro (who was supposed to be the best gundam pilot) in a 1 on 1 fight, but luckily Quatre came to his senses before he killed Hiro, thinks he killed Troa though (but troa is still alive floating about in space) anyhow thats all for now

The five Gundams

ZUMA

So I just spent the last couple hours playing Zuma, from Popcap Games and now it is 2:00 a.m. in the morning (as opposed to 2:00 a.m. in the afternoon). Apparently my mom has become somewhat of a Zuma Master, and I have become like a padawan. The object of zuma is to spit colored balls out of the mouth of a small stone frog idol as other balls are rolling in in order to blow up the rolling balls. Extra points can be earned by making combos or by shooting through a gap made by already exploded balls.

But now I am practicing my HTML, which I just learned today, and I am getting HUNGRY and tired. So I will leave you with that.

I think I will edit this post at another time, i dont know why that one link changed color?
ciao

LLAMA SONG LLYRICS

Here are the llyrics to the llama song, thanks mom.

I STOLE THIS FROM KRISTIN

CLICK BELOW

The Llama Song

EBAY SNIPER

I am an Ebay sniper. Like an invisble eagle, circling around a fisherman only to steal away the fish at the last moment. Like a ninja in a darkroom on the night of a new moon, who swipes the negatives before they can be developed. Or, like two white rabbits in a snow storm driving a white truck full of white butcher paper listening to The Great White on the radio, is my Ebay auction skill!

My technique is thus:
1. THE SEARCH - I peruse the listings, searching for items i may be interested in. Once I find something, I determine the going price for the item, and decide how much I will pay for it.

2. THE WAIT - Once I set my heart on a particular item I take a look at when the auction ends and make a note of it. Then I calculate what time I need to come back to steal the item away from the unlucky bidder (aka the adversary)

3. THE SNIPE - Generally I start paying close attention at about 10 minutes til the end of the auction. I refresh my screen once a minute until about the three minute mark. I then begin to listen for the ticks of the clock behind me and synchronize it with the seconds left on the auctiontimer. At the two minute mark I place my bid and go to the bid confirmation screen...the key to the bid is that it must be the absolute highest that I am willing to pay, that way, if I lose, I don't feel as bad about it. I count in my head w/ the help of the clock, until about 25 seconds left and confirm the bid. Then I go back to the Item description page and refresh the screen, and either see a few seconds remaining, or that I have won the auction.

Sniping actually has good aspects for the buyer. It prevents impulsive price wars. On one occasion I got into a bidding war with an adversary and ended up paying more than I would have just because I wanted to win...I guess I'm too competitive. The other thing sniping does is prevents a devious seller from running the proxy bid up to your max bid. It also gives other bidders a very little window to bid against you, which is why they should have bid their max to begin with. Sniping also provides a little bit of a rush and feeling of accomplishment when you manage to steal something away at the last minute. So I hope you have all learned a valuable lesson, and will use these methods as your own. Happy Sniping!!