Sometimes...

I should just keep my mouth shut or sit on my hands cause most people don't have my sense of humour or understand it. In other news today wasn't as amazingly random as yesterday but I guess I am ok with that for now at least.

Went back to work today officially i.e. I wasn't called in to cover someone else's shift and it was a a nice eight hours shift at the Skogfjorden which is always nice espeically when it's for a Norsk programmer and I get to eat Jarlsberg and Gjetost cheese both of which I haven't had in month. I really love family programme at work there is nothing like hearing the language of the village being spoken by young and old over good food and stories, it's really a great way to learn any language I think. Now if Tove was there that would just make my weekend but I get to see her enough in the summer.

 I am on second two of Doogie Howser M.D. and I have around ten hours left of Mass Effect and then I'll be ready for Mass Effect 2... Ah yes I love my nerdyness at times, cause really the trailers for Mass Effect 2 just look ridiculous and I need something to escape to every now and again even though I really should but whatever that's just old hat by now in my life.

Oh I am trying to fund raise for R.T. Rybak
http://www.rtrybak.com/page/outreach/view/sample/Udo

It's kind of hard to fund raise when there are so many great people running that and 7% unemployment in the state make it hard for people who are hard core political addicts like myself to care at this point. I also think there is a bit of fatigue in most Americans in politics right now since nothing seems to be getting done on anything and no one is really coming together on any thing. It's able about the now and never about the future it seems and though that might work for living ones life I am not so sure about governing a people. That said I am still ever hopefully that some day everyone will realize that when there is a common goal for everyone to work for real change can happen. I voted for Obama and I am very proud of that vote! So far he's been a pretty great president compared to Bush and I wish him the best of luck on his next three years in office.

One last thought, if no one mocked Rush Limbaugh for saying obvious stupid and phoney bull shit would he go away? At times I wonder if he just saying things to get the press to listen to him for a while. It's like a child that wants the attention of it's parents and therefore does something it shouldn't just to get a seconds of attention.

Nighto

Random day

So I never really plan my days, I have a rough plan but it's mostly like buy food today or deal with bills today but never anything super real unless I am travelling then almost everything is super planned out.

Today was supposed to be my last day off before going back to work tomorrow but Jason was sick this morning so I went in for him. Six hours and two cleaner kitchen later I am done and instead of going home I head to the DC to talk to my boss and the rest of the crew that I haven't seen in a month!! Salome wants me back at Mar e which is great news!! Now I am just waiting to hear back from Karl about second half of the summer, maybe I'll be back at the Mar... Salome also said she'd try and look for some money to spend me to Portugal this spring if possible which would be very cool considering I have never been there and just a week there would improve the food at Mar e Floresta by one hundred percent if not more. I'll send Karl an email this weekend and hopefully hear back from him otherwise I am going to start planning a trip to Portugal.

Anyway... I was chatting with Martin about the state of things at work and life in general when I mention something about R.T. Rybak who I am supporting for Governor and turns out R.T was going to be in town at a forum that started at 5:30 and it was 5:00 so I got in my car and head towards BSU. The event was great fun I loved watching the people at it! The DFL candidates pretty much speed dated nine groups of people changing spots after eight minutes though it took them longer to move around because it was hard for some of them to stop talking. Out of the nine candidates present Matt Entenza and R.T. Rybak really impressed me, I'd happily vote for either one of them and even Mark Dayton was pretty impressive to me though to be rather honest I could support anyone of the candidates I met tonight. The highlight of the night though was when R.T. Rybak sat next to me while I was eating my Indian taco he said I should get involved in local politics and try to get on the school board and work my way up from there! R.T. just seems crazy energetic and that is what I like about him I feel like he could just make things happen better and faster then anyone else running. Did you know he meets every single high school freshman in Minneapolis? Who does that? 

Time to pass out.

Went to work on Monday that was fun. No... really I enjoyed being back at work since I am not a fan of being unemployed or taking unemployment. Speak of which from what I have heard about other states unemployment systems I would like to thank Minnesota's for not being a total cluster. There is one thing that could be improved that being the amount of mail sent to me, even though  I gave the unemployment people my email address and so far everything I have gotten would be fine via email. It costs the state 35 cents every time the send me a piece of mail and with 7% of Minnesotan unemployment the cost could really add up. It wouldn't be a huge savings but it would help the state budget which isn't the best right now nor has it been doing all that well over the last few years but that's another story.



I know this video is all over the web but man, what the fuck? Who the hell is this guy think he is? He built his bloody post-mayoral career on 9/11 and now he just forgets the past? What a joke.

Anyway...

Monsters: 081 Ronny Market from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

Girlfriend!!!

I've been dancing to this song in my head all day!

School?

I've finally realized that I have to go back to school for what? I am not really sure but what is swirling around my head right now is something to do with being a financial advisor or something along those lines. Though I really have no idea how to go about it but I guess that is something I should be figuring out right about nowish? Eh I'll get it done before the summer and I have everything figured out by then and we'll see what happens when it happens.

I go back to work on Friday and I am looking forward to it. If this furlough has taught me anything is that I need an education and can no longer  just sit around and hope that the fortunes of CLV will change to where they once were and I can go back being complacent in my life as I have been over the years. That said I do love working at CLV and have for the last nine years it has only been the last year or so that has soured my opinion of the organization as of late. In the next year I see good things happening to CLV or at least increase in our enrollment to a bit over last summer so that we can stabilize and grow instead of shrink and die which would be a very horrible thing indeed and a great loss to Minnesota and Bemidji.


Not to even on a sad note.

Can I tell you something...

I am finally home!!! It's nice being in Rochester with the family but man there is nothing better coming home to my small and cleanish house. I mean sure the house was sort of in a wreck but no one had been here since the 22nd of December and I really couldn't ask Leiny or Barb to clean after the cats who cause all the mess in the first place like cats do.  I think my mail is being held at the post office cause the sidewalk wasn't shoveled at all either so I guess we'll see what happens on Monday? I have a few things of house keeping to do in the morning but after that the house will be clean!

Who watched Doogie Howser as a kid? Oh me! Right here! I loved the show and I think NPH was one of my first crushes as a kid...Ah youth! Anyway, Doogie Howser is on Hulu.com! Yes! When I am not listening to MPR or doing other awesome things it's now Doogie Howser and Mass Effect! How nerdy and awesome is that?


In closing... Dig a little deeper friends!

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