The Return

I’m back again. I’ve been away for a very long time. Oi.

Well, since the last time I posted: I have become an Americorps member who is working with a trails conservation and advocacy organization. It pays around four dollars an hour, but I love the work.

Jessica and I took a trip to San Francisco this summer with some friends. We drove the whole way and it was great fun. I think I will always leave some of my heart in that city. We then camped our way up the Oregon Coast. The mist was amazing. We are going to head back next year.

Gonna try to work on this blog again…

Whats with this weather?

Weather seems to be a priority one subject of mine lately. I am really starting to realize how influential the weather is on my mood and motivation. Today its acting like late-March, and I’m feeling exactly how I do then: down.

I’m going to make some more coffee and see if I can get going on some cleanup upstairs in our house. Perhaps then I can feel like I actually got anything done today.

Did it again

Forgot that my blog really even existed.

Updates updates

yeah yeah…

So…

As I mentioned in my last entry, I royally screwed up thinking the Riverfront Park Earth Day stuff was going to be happening on…Earth Day. Now I’ve got a whole day to do stuff, yet no plans. WHAT TO DO?

I still plan on riding my bike most places today, should I leave the house.

Earth Day is tomorrow!

I’m going down to Riverfront Park to check out what is going on. Also, I’ll be taking my bike, if the weather is okay. Evidently there is going to be a BIKE RODEO!

Tonight we have a board meeting of the Westminster House, then I have two days off to get some things done and having some rest time. Perhaps more blogging will result!

EDIT: So after looking at the schedule again, I realize that the Riverfront Park thing happened on the 19th, not tomorrow. Gigantic dolt, I am.

Sunday!

Got to hang out with a good selection of the high-school friends last night. We were out until 2am, which I have not done for almost a year. I managed to stay awake the entire time. It did help that we were playing video games. Today Jessica and I are doing the lazy Sunday thing around the house.  I enjoy the Lazy Sunday.

Twitter is all-consuming. I really like using it, though so far I only have two followers.

Anyways, on with the being lazy.

Work, all consuming…

Its hard to look for future employment when your current is working you a lot. As such, I haven’t been writing as often.

Spring came to Spokane, for about a weekend. Ever since, we’ve been back into the same mid-50’s windy crap that we’ve had for the whole month. Spokane is flirting with Spring, and Spring so far isn’t giving any play. I have to be honest, its starting to wear on me. I really need some of the sunshine and fresh air. The early mornings are beautiful (such as todays), but they just degenerate into mostly-cloudy kinda windy afternoons. Of course, this is right when I get out of work. Leaves me in a funk for the rest of the day.

The city has been looking to update the bike plan. This makes me happy. I’m even thinking of getting off my ass and going to one of the meetings that is happening later this month. Sounds like fun. I’ve been meaning to become more active in society.

Well, back to looking for jobs. Also, I’ve joined twitter. To all one (1) persons who read this blog, I kinda like it. It would be great to get some more Spokane area people on board!

I’ve done it.

I got Super Smash Brothers Brawl today. So far, I’ve played about fifteen minutes. Keeping it to that much has been a monumental task. In fact, I’m pretty impressed with myself in the fact that I didn’t get it the day it came out.

Updates may be a little less frequent…

Crazy WordPress and the 6th Legislative District Caucuses

I logged in to write a post, and they changed the layout. Looks nice! It sort of reminds me of the Pownce UI.

The weekend went by really quickly. I went to the Legislative District Caucuses on Saturday. What a mess! I really feel sorry for the volunteers who had to work under the elected secretary of the caucus. Why? Because he is a first class bag of butts. From the moment of check-in (at 9:30AM), to the end of the meeting (6PM- over two hours late), we were mired in rules and regulations.

There simply has to be a better way of running a meeting like that. Most of our time was taken up by having to wait for “reports” to be compiled. I’m talking over four hours of our time was spent being placated by the local secretary while they got the reports ready. Could we skip ahead to items farther down the agenda to make things more efficient? NO! Of course not! In all, three of the reports had to be made before we could get down to the real business of electing new delegates from our number to go to the county caucus. Proposals to streamline the process were ruled out as being “out of order” by the Parliamentarian and the Secretary.  I had to leave at 4:20 to get to work on time. At that point they had still not elected the alternates for the county convention.

Now, I know there has to be rules. If there aren’t any, then we run into regularity problems when it comes to actually tallying delegates. What I don’t understand is the apparent total lack of leeway given to the groups running the caucuses. Good, pragmatic, solutions to making the process easier were just thrown to the side. Needless to say, I view the Primary method in a much more positive light.

After that craziness, I went to work until close. After that: VIKING PARTY. It was fun: low key, with spiced mead. I also had some good cheese and nice onions and turkey.

Sunday was a bit slower. We went to church, then did things around the house for the remainder of the afternoon. The evening was spent dining with the ‘rents. Now I’m here, tip-typing away until I feel tired.