I don't know how the nomadic tribes of yesteryear did it, I really hate moving. Those guys spent most of their lives walking around moving their shit to follow the food. Of course the didn't have anything that plugs in, so naturally I could probably carry everything I own that doesn't have a cord. Accutally no, I am quite blessed to have more clothes than I know what to do with. In fact, I gave two trash bags full to goodwill, still tons.
Anyway, I'm overdue for an update. Also, did you know that anywaySSSS is not a word, it secretly kills me inside when I hear people say it, i will start point out errors in this word shortly.
I have moved in with my parents officially, after I walked in the door I gave my mom a hug and promptly said i was so sure I would never move in with you guys down here, after I graduated. Hmm.
Never say never was her reply. Got me there
My job is going well, I realized I didn't really learn that much in college about the software out there. I can think of a couple of classes I wouldn't have minded replacing with learning Photoshop/Illustrator. Fuck you UMD.
I myself am a full time Graphic Designer with some nice benefits to keep me healthy, pretty smile and working eyes. Even some extra for retirement, whenever that will be. Thus far I've figured out that I will be doing some jobs with some good old fashioned creativity and others that are very much not creative. The people I work with are really nice and friendly and a bit loopy at times, I think I fit in well. I've already golfed with one guy who is cool too.
Laura will be heading down to this neck of the woods at the end of July and with a bit of luck we will be moving into a house(maybe and apartment) and all will be great. We even started house hunting with a Realtor this weekend, houses here are cheap. so cheap in fact I bet if i buy one I will be able to compare it very closely with any northerners rent. I'm excited for this next step.
So that's about it so far I'm liking life and anxious for the next bits of it to come.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Hows my little end of an era?
I have graduated from college, I got my letter saying I have managed to satisfy all of my requirements. Good.
That said, I have moved from Duluth as of Sunday Evening. It is a town through all of my love and hate for it, I will greatly miss. There are a lot of good things that the city has going for it that many other cities don't have. Despite how dirty Duluth is, its still very pretty. I always said that I loved the city because no matter where you drove you were guaranteed a pretty view of the lake and/or city. Now that I have moved I realized how much I will miss little bars that play anything but country music. I am going to miss greatly how often I saw hippies and how liberal most people's views were. I believe that I have moved to the edge of a choiceless segregated America loving right-winged society, I could be wrong, I've only been here for a day.
I have decided to put together a list of things I did while in Duluth that other people should consider crossing off themselves. Check it out:
*Go to Enger park during a thunderstorm.
*Dangle your bare feet off the edge of Enger Tower.
*See at least three very different concerts at Pizza Luce.
*Bike from wherever you live to the Park Point Beach.
*Walk to the end of Park Point.
*Visit Gooseberry falls and walk to the Lake from the falls.
*Use twinportsnightlife.com to drink around the area for cheap.
*Eat a Scone from the great Harvest Bread Company, in the morning.
*Boulder at the hidden Spot in Lief Erickson Park.
*Skip at least 100 rocks.
*Visit the graffiti graveyard with a camera, or a backpack full of paint.
*Learn about Duluth's History at The Depot.
*Have a fire on Wisconsin Point.
*Visit Sir Ben's on Celtic Night.
*Geocache in one of Duluth's 100+ parks.
*Try to find and explore at least one abandoned warehouse/building.
*Enjoy the Lakewalk in and out of sobriety.
*Walk into the middle of Heartly Nature Reserve and really enjoy it.
*Have a drink at every bar on Superior St. between 8th E. and 4th W.
*As a resident go on a Vista Fleet Cruise.
*Dive off the sunken building by canal park.
*Watch the sunrise over the lake in the winter and summer.
*Do your homework at Amazing grace every day.
*Drink Fitger's Apricot Wheat Beer.
*Make a late night adventure to Black Bear or Fond-Du-Luth Casinos.
*Eat at the Scenic Cafe.
*Sled Down 21st Ave. East.
*Tour Glensheen Mansion and grounds.
*Have a hot chocolate from Beaners on Centeral.
*Enjoy a caramel apple from Rocky Mountain Shop on the Lake.
*Walk on Lake Superior, even if it scares you.
*Swim in Lake Superior.
*Attend a Movie in the Park.
*Swim naked in Lake Superior.
*Watch a huge ore ship go under the lift bridge.
*Enjoy the Haunted Ship once.
*Complain frequently about the condition of the city's streets.
*Vote.
Thanks for the memories!
That said, I have moved from Duluth as of Sunday Evening. It is a town through all of my love and hate for it, I will greatly miss. There are a lot of good things that the city has going for it that many other cities don't have. Despite how dirty Duluth is, its still very pretty. I always said that I loved the city because no matter where you drove you were guaranteed a pretty view of the lake and/or city. Now that I have moved I realized how much I will miss little bars that play anything but country music. I am going to miss greatly how often I saw hippies and how liberal most people's views were. I believe that I have moved to the edge of a choiceless segregated America loving right-winged society, I could be wrong, I've only been here for a day.
I have decided to put together a list of things I did while in Duluth that other people should consider crossing off themselves. Check it out:
*Go to Enger park during a thunderstorm.
*Dangle your bare feet off the edge of Enger Tower.
*See at least three very different concerts at Pizza Luce.
*Bike from wherever you live to the Park Point Beach.
*Walk to the end of Park Point.
*Visit Gooseberry falls and walk to the Lake from the falls.
*Use twinportsnightlife.com to drink around the area for cheap.
*Eat a Scone from the great Harvest Bread Company, in the morning.
*Boulder at the hidden Spot in Lief Erickson Park.
*Skip at least 100 rocks.
*Visit the graffiti graveyard with a camera, or a backpack full of paint.
*Learn about Duluth's History at The Depot.
*Have a fire on Wisconsin Point.
*Visit Sir Ben's on Celtic Night.
*Geocache in one of Duluth's 100+ parks.
*Try to find and explore at least one abandoned warehouse/building.
*Enjoy the Lakewalk in and out of sobriety.
*Walk into the middle of Heartly Nature Reserve and really enjoy it.
*Have a drink at every bar on Superior St. between 8th E. and 4th W.
*As a resident go on a Vista Fleet Cruise.
*Dive off the sunken building by canal park.
*Watch the sunrise over the lake in the winter and summer.
*Do your homework at Amazing grace every day.
*Drink Fitger's Apricot Wheat Beer.
*Make a late night adventure to Black Bear or Fond-Du-Luth Casinos.
*Eat at the Scenic Cafe.
*Sled Down 21st Ave. East.
*Tour Glensheen Mansion and grounds.
*Have a hot chocolate from Beaners on Centeral.
*Enjoy a caramel apple from Rocky Mountain Shop on the Lake.
*Walk on Lake Superior, even if it scares you.
*Swim in Lake Superior.
*Attend a Movie in the Park.
*Swim naked in Lake Superior.
*Watch a huge ore ship go under the lift bridge.
*Enjoy the Haunted Ship once.
*Complain frequently about the condition of the city's streets.
*Vote.
Thanks for the memories!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Hows my little fillin?
Aside from my Chicago story I've been keeping all five of my blogger fans in the dark lately. Time to remedy that.
Two weeks ago I decided to go visit my parents in Indiana to hang and stuff, my dad pointed me to an interview which we thought would be a practice interview for other jobs, turns out the place was really interesting and sounded like a cool job that I couldn't turn it down. By next Tuesday I will no longer be a Minnesota resident. Cool?
Backtracking a bit I've had some fun with Laura lately: We helped her brother's family move in a torrential downpour and against all odds they managed to squeeze all their possessions into a very tiny UHaul.
We also did some geocaches in flooded parks
We went to the New Glarus Brewery which was pretty sweet.
We also went to this supercool/bizzare place called the house on the rock. If you are in the madison area looking for a rainy afternoon to kill, this is the place. It was full of really weird collections of things and stuff (not very technical but still very accurate, believe me.)
This creepy doll was one thing, but not everything was creepy.
The infinity room for example was really really cool.
I'm moving in with Laura to Indiana/Illinois Sunday, crazy.
Hanging out with the people I've hung out with have been great and I can't wait to see everyone and anyone again. I'm moving to the boonies of Illinois to become FIB I really want a guest to come visit and will always host anyone to the best I can. I can't wait!
Stay Gold.
Two weeks ago I decided to go visit my parents in Indiana to hang and stuff, my dad pointed me to an interview which we thought would be a practice interview for other jobs, turns out the place was really interesting and sounded like a cool job that I couldn't turn it down. By next Tuesday I will no longer be a Minnesota resident. Cool?
Backtracking a bit I've had some fun with Laura lately: We helped her brother's family move in a torrential downpour and against all odds they managed to squeeze all their possessions into a very tiny UHaul.
We also did some geocaches in flooded parks
We went to the New Glarus Brewery which was pretty sweet.
We also went to this supercool/bizzare place called the house on the rock. If you are in the madison area looking for a rainy afternoon to kill, this is the place. It was full of really weird collections of things and stuff (not very technical but still very accurate, believe me.)
This creepy doll was one thing, but not everything was creepy.
The infinity room for example was really really cool.
I'm moving in with Laura to Indiana/Illinois Sunday, crazy.
Hanging out with the people I've hung out with have been great and I can't wait to see everyone and anyone again. I'm moving to the boonies of Illinois to become FIB I really want a guest to come visit and will always host anyone to the best I can. I can't wait!
Stay Gold.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Hows my little driver?
Today I left Laura in Madison to head on down to Indiana to visit my parents for a few days while continuing my job hunt online. While driving I ran into a bit of road construction with tight-fitting traffic narrowed lanes and a semi ahead of me, in the rain.
Somehow under those conditions I missed my exit and ended up in Chicago. Only because I have personally enjoyed the city and have had several people exclaim their love for Chi-town have I not developed a brutal hatred for it.
After donating all of my spare change and then some to this damn city... I tacked on an extra hour and a half to my stupid drive. Thank heavens for the Global Positioning system and Google maps.
Moral is short and simple:
Don't accidentally drive through Chicago.
Somehow under those conditions I missed my exit and ended up in Chicago. Only because I have personally enjoyed the city and have had several people exclaim their love for Chi-town have I not developed a brutal hatred for it.
After donating all of my spare change and then some to this damn city... I tacked on an extra hour and a half to my stupid drive. Thank heavens for the Global Positioning system and Google maps.
Moral is short and simple:
Don't accidentally drive through Chicago.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Hows my litte ear?
I was futzing with my phone today and stumbled across an interesting fact.
I have spent over 194 hours on my phone. Thats about 8 and a half DAYS. Crazy.
I have spent over 194 hours on my phone. Thats about 8 and a half DAYS. Crazy.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Hows my little geonerd?
Alright, I am a bit obsessed with geocaching, but at least it is a healthy obsession. This weekend I got to prove that I am in fact only mildly obsessed with this nerdy sport as I attended my first Geocaching Event.
There are geocaching events? you might be asking yourself?
Yeah, and I went. By myself.
A geocaching event is a group of cachers show up for a gathering to chat about caching as well as find some nearby ones, sometimes there are contests, others its just to clean up a local park.
This one was put on by the Minnesota Geocachers Association. Yes there is such a thing. They call themselves the MnGCA and they were founded to try to get geocaches allowed to be placed in state parks (geocaching is not allowed in national parks). Since they succeeded they managed to found a statewide game currently they are working on opening up picky cities, counties and local parks to geocachers. bla bla...
Back to me, on Friday I decided I would go since I had nothing better to do on Saturday. I posted a need for a ride and someone graciously provided me with one, and at SIX IN THE DAMN MORNING I woke up to geocache in Gooseberry Falls. I haven't woke up that early in I don't know how long.
The morning was pretty slow I yawned a lot and chit chatted to people about this and that, and let me tell you, introducing myself as "fat"Tony"TCL" was the nerdiest thing I have ever done, EVER. One guy was like hi I'm first bass and I was like, "Hi, I'm Tony...er FatTony.." ugh. But when people post online no one uses their real name so it made sense, but not when you are a beanpole named FatTony. I should have chosen to be Mighty Thor or GeoTony ugh...next time...
I was able end this awkwardness with the beginning of the day's main event, the Solo Caching challenge. The Idea was to find as many caches as possible within two hours if you were late you lost a cache for every 5 minutes you were late. So after running to the far end of gooseberry (about a mile uphill) I began my hunt and found 9 caches and made it back right on time. Nine caches got me third place and a trophy! My first trophy I received since middle school I think!
The dude handing me myaward was named "cooky" he was a really nice funny guy, of course his overalls brightened up my day every time I saw them.
The little guy in front kept making fun of me for always eating sweets, that means we were friends.
After the race was a free lunch where I tried a moose burger, which was pretty good. As well as lots of other tasty desserts. mmm. There were also some other fun things to do too that kept me busy. Overall I probably ended up walking/running 5 or 6 miles and for not moving that much in one day in recent memory I got home and sat on the couch my body was 'cached' HA!
This is a shot of the whole group gathered, quite the bunch!
There are geocaching events? you might be asking yourself?
Yeah, and I went. By myself.
A geocaching event is a group of cachers show up for a gathering to chat about caching as well as find some nearby ones, sometimes there are contests, others its just to clean up a local park.
This one was put on by the Minnesota Geocachers Association. Yes there is such a thing. They call themselves the MnGCA and they were founded to try to get geocaches allowed to be placed in state parks (geocaching is not allowed in national parks). Since they succeeded they managed to found a statewide game currently they are working on opening up picky cities, counties and local parks to geocachers. bla bla...
Back to me, on Friday I decided I would go since I had nothing better to do on Saturday. I posted a need for a ride and someone graciously provided me with one, and at SIX IN THE DAMN MORNING I woke up to geocache in Gooseberry Falls. I haven't woke up that early in I don't know how long.
The morning was pretty slow I yawned a lot and chit chatted to people about this and that, and let me tell you, introducing myself as "fat"Tony"TCL" was the nerdiest thing I have ever done, EVER. One guy was like hi I'm first bass and I was like, "Hi, I'm Tony...er FatTony.." ugh. But when people post online no one uses their real name so it made sense, but not when you are a beanpole named FatTony. I should have chosen to be Mighty Thor or GeoTony ugh...next time...
I was able end this awkwardness with the beginning of the day's main event, the Solo Caching challenge. The Idea was to find as many caches as possible within two hours if you were late you lost a cache for every 5 minutes you were late. So after running to the far end of gooseberry (about a mile uphill) I began my hunt and found 9 caches and made it back right on time. Nine caches got me third place and a trophy! My first trophy I received since middle school I think!
The dude handing me myaward was named "cooky" he was a really nice funny guy, of course his overalls brightened up my day every time I saw them.
The little guy in front kept making fun of me for always eating sweets, that means we were friends.
After the race was a free lunch where I tried a moose burger, which was pretty good. As well as lots of other tasty desserts. mmm. There were also some other fun things to do too that kept me busy. Overall I probably ended up walking/running 5 or 6 miles and for not moving that much in one day in recent memory I got home and sat on the couch my body was 'cached' HA!
This is a shot of the whole group gathered, quite the bunch!
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