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This Morning
I stayed up for a bit after getting home and watched the end of Star Trek – Nemesis thanks to video on demand so this morning I really wanted to stay in bed longer. Today shall be interesting.
First off, running 70 mph (112 km/h) through the mountains on a 25 mph (40 km/h) road is exhilarating and I can understand why I used to do that in college. However, I don’t need that thrill again any time soon. Thank goodness a deer, bear or ranger didn’t jump out and get me.
Seeing the vulture was definitely a highlight of the evening!
The mock casino went well and although I had to throw back to my thespian vocal training and spend the whole night talking “from the diaphragm” to overcome the noise I managed to maintain my voice. Turns out the mock casino was for some cemetary organization (I joked that the party would be dead). And I about died when their fearless leader gets up on the microphone and says “if you run out of money, you can buy $25,000 more fake dollars for $25 real dollars.” Every so often one of these fake casinos has the misfortune of becoming a “real” illegal casino when handled in such a way. The leader of the company that puts on the casinos was very quick to jump to the microphone and make some corrections to the rhetoric to make our casino legal again. They haven’t done an auction in sometime. I miss those. It was fun cracking jokes with the audience and pretending to be an auctioneer.
On the way back I pulled over at one of the lookouts to observe the mountains, the near full moon, the fire flies and the somewhat distinct smell of bear. When the area around you resembles the aroma of a petting zoo, tis best to get back into the car.
The drive home was leisurely. I resisted the urge to do more white noise (audio blogging).
Time to whisper appliance descriptions into my wife’s ear.
It’s a shame the radio didn’t come through.. It really sounded like “the station Billy Crystal uses for all his movie sound tracks.” Later it became some real good bluesy rock.
On the road. Trying to make an hour and a half trip in 40 minutes.
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I just applied for this ColdFusion Developer contract job. 3-6 months. They’ll have to front some travel money if they want me.
I just spent an enormous amount of time retyping my resume into a “text only” version for a company that doesn’t like the word format. However, now that it is done, it will be easy to maintain.
Time for snack break and to rest my eyes from this monitor. When I come back, quickly copy a cover letter and shoot it off along with this text only resume.
Today’s listening for productivity is “The Very Best Of Todd Rundgren.” When I was gandering the CDs I saw “Al Green Greatest Hits” and could not hold back a chuckle because I read it as “Al Greenspan’s Greatest Hits” and parody and music titles like “Easy Money” “Money for Nothing” “The Rates Are Going Up” “Under Wallstreet (to the tune of Under the Boardwalk)” etc came to mind.
Usually my good friend and I are exceptional at predicting trends in technology. I completely missed this one! Your retail stores like Home Depot, Target etc go through such turnover that they are now require applicants to sit a terminal to apply. The interesting thing is this terminal simply goes to an Internet job site so you no longer have to get dressed to apply for minimum wage jobs because you can do it from the convenience of your house!
1 successful business meeting set for July 12th. So how do I live until the money starts coming?
This picture better shows the depth of the trench. I should have taken a picture of the stuck Jeep but my mind was a little focused on wenching it out. Ropes can be seen on the hood of the green car in the first picture. Click on the pictures for a larger view. 
You might be a redneck post sorta implied that I got the Jeep stuck in my own backyard. Well… I might have been driving it through a spot that I’ve planned to put a gray water discharge so there is an L shaped trench and two deep holes. The arrows show the intended path of the Jeep. The circles show the 4 axle deep holes that the 4 cooresponding wheels of the Jeep ended up in. Ooops. (really 2 holes and a trench)
FISHER, DAVID CLARK — age 37, of Knoxville, passed away Sunday, June 27, 2004 at UT Medical Center. He was a member of All Saints Catholic Church and a Network Engineer for Freightliner of Knoxville. Mr. Fisher is survived by: his wife, Michelle Fisher; son, Benjamin; and daughter, Carley Fisher; parents, Jack and Carolyn Fisher all of Knoxville; brother, Jeff Fisher of San Antonio, Texas; sister, Amy Blizzard of Alcoa, TN; and several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at Highland Memorial Park, Funerals and Cremation, 5315 Kingston Pike. A Funeral Mass will be said at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 1, 2004 at All Saints Catholic Church with Father Chris Michaelson officiating. Interment will be in Highland Memorial Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made for the children to the David C. Fisher Fund: AmSouth Bank, 8921 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37923. Arrangements by Highland Memorial Park, Funerals and Cremation, 588-0567.