Possible Roadtrip in the Making

Over the weekend, my brother and SIL came up and brought an interesting idea with them. The idea of the four of us (my 2 brothers, my SIL, and myself) doing a planned out, site seeing, unforgettable roadtrip was proposed.

As a family, we never really went on any vacations while growing up. There was a couple of trips to Florida that we made, but they were only for a few days each. I sometimes get onto my parents for it. Not that I don’t understand that having 3 kids can sometimes be a headache, and sometimes money was tight. But in all honesty, we all missed out on alot of fun and all of those family vacation memories that could have been made. I really don’t understand it at all Read the rest of this entry »

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My Blog According to Wordle

Wordle is a site that makes word clouds from the text on your site and allows you to customize how it all appears.  It’s a pretty neat idea IMO and some of the images that it creates are interesting; especially since everyone’s will always be different.  I learned about Wordle from Muse.

Anyways, here’s mine!

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Nice To Be Back Home

My trip over the weekend and up through Wednesday was a busy one.  I thought that we were going to be traveling ~1100 miles, but I think it ended up being 1200-1300.  It went very well though.  I was technically on the clock for 65hrs throughout the 5 days, so I was feeling pretty tired when yesterday night came around.  We worked from job til job until it was closing time and had to stop, only stopping to hit a quick drive thru for lunch, so that we could get everything done on time.  It was a success!

Last night felt sooo good getting to sleep in my own bed.  Some of the hotel beds aren’t bad, but there is nothing like sleeping at home.

I love the trips away from home like this because it is neat to see different towns and cities and what other places are like other than home.  Hendersonville, North Carolina had probably one of the nicest looking towns I have seen.  It reminded me of some of the ones you see on TV shows.  At one of the hotels one night I saw on some brochures that we were a few miles from Chimney Rock, North Carolina.  I grabbed this pic online, but that looks like it would be an awesome site to see.  There is supposed to be a park there with it, so that would definately be a neat trip one weekend to check out.

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Out For 5 Days

I’m just about all packed up and ready to get out of here in the morning.  I’ve taken Monday-Wednesday off from work next week; not for a vacation (that would be nice btw), but to give my brother a hand again in catching up his work.  We’re going to be spread from Atlanta to Chapel Hill, NC covering about 1100 miles roundtrip between the jobsites and 31 different jobs.  The tasks will be just adding in a few new devices to their current security setups, so they should go rather quickly once we get familiar w/ the setup.

On another note, I’ve been looking at some of the photos I’ve taken here recently, and have decided that it’s about time to upgrade cameras.  I’ve got my mind set on a new Nikon

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Over Analyzing

Alot of nights I stay up past midnight even when nothing is happening just because I usually have alot on my mind.  Unless I am just dead tired, I usually cannot go to sleep very easily because of thinking too deeply.  I’m beginning to think that it is because I have a tendancy to look at certain situations at every angle possible.  I simply cannot take things as they happen without wondering ‘why’.  And then wondering ‘what if’ when something needs deciding one way or another.  It’s often said that everything happens for a reason, but does that mean we should not question why or wonder what if we had done something differently?  Maybe these types of questions only set us up to experience regrets or heartache, especially when you gain hindsight after something has passed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Working Like a Madman!

This week has been a work week and a half!  Yesterday, combining my regular job and working for my brother up in Knoxville, I was on the clock for 19 hours.  Last night we made it home at 4AM.  I thought about just not even going to sleep and just waiting until time to go to work because I know how hard it is to wake up after just a little bit of sleep.  But I ultimately decided that a few hours of sleep would be better for me than none.  7AM rolled around way too quick.  So today I’m running off of 3hrs sleep last night, a full night the night before, and just 5hrs on Tuesday night after working 17hrs that day.  Needless to say though, I had no problem whatsoever going to sleep on Tuesday :lol:  I think I made it to bed at 9:45 that night, which has been the earliest in a very very long time, and was out like a lightbulb.

I don’t really feel too bad right now, but I’m sure that will change as the end of the day comes.  I’m going to try not to push myself too hard, but I’ve got to decide before the end of the day if I feel good enough to take a 5hr drive tonight to Indian Springs, NC to do another job tomorrow.

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Jeff Dunham & Melvin

I saw this on Comedy Central the other night and thought it was hilarious

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Busy Busy Week

I’ve had this entire week off to help try to catch my brother up on his work, and we have been running on little sleep but knocking stuff out.

On Monday, we started the day by driving down to Suwanee, Georgia.  I had never been there before, but from the little bit that we got to see, it was a neat clean city.  Of course being down towards where it was, Atlanta, traffic was pretty heavy thoroughout the whole time we were there.  What I liked about it, they had the Zoning Ordinances that restricted new buildings to all look similiar to the existing buildings rather than all being different with loud colors and such.  It also limited where the signs for businesses could go.  All of the buildings down there were a modern clean looking brown and tan brick and they all blended in nicely with each other.  So no eyesore looking businesses.

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