I was thinking about this a couple of days ago, but I didn’t get around to posting. I must say that I am getting worried about the job that I interviewed for the first part of January. He said that he would call either way, and that it would be about two weeks. Well, this past Wednesday was three weeks, and of course, this coming Wednesday will be four. So, this is disturbing. I did, though, apply for another job. Drew pointed this one out to me on Wednesday night, if I remember correctly. It’s with Brazos County as an Assistant Network Administrator. I filled out the application and redid my resume somewhat on Thursday night. Cole said that I should probably go ahead and submit a cover letter with the app and resume as well, so I took the better part of my Friday to get that all done. I finally got it mailed, or I should say that Nancy mailed it, Friday before 5pm. Hopefully they’ll give me a call next week.

I would hope that sending out an application alone might make me feel like I’ve been productive, but it really hasn’t. And, on top of that, I ran out of West Wing to see, so I can’t watch any more West Wing until NetFlix sends me more, which will be like Tuesday or Wednesday…

Plus, Marc and I really need to get on the CT Promo video for next year, plus I need to work on the brochure and maybe touch up the postcard, but board meeting is next Saturday, so I doubt that Carol will have those things as a high priority. Plus, I’ve got the computer for A&M UMC to build when it gets here, so that I can have some more money. Plus Cole needs me to look at his network, and Liz needs me to look at her computer as it’s not connecting to Resnet. And, since I figured out how to do DVD menus, I need to finish up the menus for “A Day in the Life of Thomas”, and maybe sell them to some peeps. Which would also make me some money, if only a little. But before I finish it, I still need to do the director’s commentary, which I think that I’ll ask Drew to co-comment on with me, if I can. And, I’m trying to write an open-source photo blog/gallery web application in JSP (because the guy who wrote Folderblog is a butt and didn’t open source his code…). I didn’t think that it would take very long, but it’s taking longer than I expected, and my interest is sloping downward in an exponention fashion. And I’m running out of disk space! I really need to procure me some more… which costs more money… and I’ll really be screwed if we need to capture too much more video, because I just don’t have the space to put it. And, I need to put more memory in both of the servers at Wesley… since I finally figured out a good place to put the two sticks that Drew gave me a long time ago…

Alas!

I finally caught up on my reading. I had probably something on the order of 3000 posts to go through, so I had been putting it off. I did also last night finish hacking together a photoblog for Adan. Hopefully he’ll be able to post some pictures that he’s taking in Spain and show them in a nice photoblog/gallery looking format.

Different from the Chinese, I decree that at Wesley, it is the Year of the Stealth Relationship.

Let the dating begin… and then let the breakups begin…

Since I generally despise these little quizzes, I’ll selectively answer some questions…

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i think new year’s resolutions are stupid

23. How many one-night stands?
Counting last night?… um, err… um, I lost count after twenty

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I’m a lover not a hater.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Kellie and Liz and Frankie and Chad and Wayne and Justin and all those other cool new kiddos at the Wesley (i stole marc’s answer, it’s just so perfect) (I agree)

Since I made neither an obligatory Turkey Day post, nor an obligatory Christmas Day post, it would probably be more fitting that I not make this post, but alas, I suppose that I’ll just have to be inconsistent.

So, for what it’s worth… here it is.

Here’s to 2005 being better than 2004.

On second thought, I think that I like this one better.

Ok, well, I guess that I’m not going to figure out how to get this image’s text to wrap around it. Score one for CSS and score zero for Thomas. Anyway, this picture isn’t too bad, I guess, not horrible, but not great, either. Since I haven’t yet convinced myself to drop $1300 on a Canon Digital Rebel, I shot this using a Sony Digital8 camcorder, which doesn’t create the best snapshots in the world. In fact, the original picture came out so dark that it was unintelligible and required auto levels in photoshop. Yeah, yeah, I know, auto levels aren’t always the best, but I don’t think that it would turn out significantly better if I took the time to actually do it by hand.

I like the fact that it doesn’t look so much like Baxter is a dog, and more like a little kid sleeping with his blanket, mostly from the fact that normally he would sleep curled up or otherwise with his legs tucked in. As Baxter doesn’t consider himself to be a dog, and rather just another human in the family, this really does seem to capture his role in our family.

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Nerd Christmas, originally uploaded by thomas536.

I figured that I should blog what all I got… It really was a Nerd Christmas. 4 power supplies, 1 UPS, the extended edition of the trilogy (LOTR), the silmarillion, and an albert einstein bookmark. I also got (not so nerdy…) some robogrips (the pair that I had disdapeared), a tool belt & speed square & paint (from a gift card from KB and Clay, thansk!) and an edison coin from the us mint. I also got some money, but technically some of it was a “gift card to best buy” (which is totally cool). I figure that it was a pretty good haul, if I say so myself. I’m surely pretty happy.

Yeah, so I had to pickup a gift for my sister today (Monday). We’re having Christmas on Tuesday, I think, because my bro-in-law had to work on Saturday. Or Friday, I guess, because that’s when we usually do Christmas. Anyway… I digress. So, I went to Best Buy and picked out what I was looking for like in 5 minutes. Then, for the rest of the night, my mother and sister (Laurie) went shopping. We hit Kirklands, Target, Ross, Bed Bath & Beyond, etc. I was in the car for most of it, but oh well. I remember hearing my sister say, “No, I don’t need anything.” Hey, wait, this trip was for me, but I bought like one thing (save the double sided tape at Office Max). I’m not upset or anything, I just have a short shopping span. Yeah for presents!

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