travis' brain dump

well another one down and another one to look forward to on the horizon…

this one didn’t go too bad at all… it started pretty good. I snagged Arwen and hit up Old Chicago to meet Kate and Andy for a little Friday unwind – hey, i got a minute to be social so I took advantage of it. It was great to just hang out for even an hour or so, so i’m not complaining one bit. It was good to just get out and Arwen and Kate had a blast coloring the whole time we were there. Andy and I just whined about our week so overall it turned out to be a good starter for the weekend. We finished up there with Arwen, Andy and I headed back up to my place to enjoy our usual Friday night routine… Sci-Fi Friday… which I might add had one of the best episodes of SG-1 I’ve seen in a very long time. (so sue us, we all get a kick outta the show) It was a calm and quiet evening for the most part as it was only myself and Andy once the kiddo was down for the night. Mark was off in Oregon enjoying the beaches in the Pacific Northwest, Mike was somewhere and all was otherwise quiet… Needless to say it ended up being an early night for me, which was nice all in all despite the fact I was hoping to score a babysitter to sneak out for the night for at least a couple hours… rumor had it something fun was going on and I wouldn’t have minded hitting it up, oh well maybe next time. I crashed out at about 10:30/11:00 which is a first for me in a long time on Fridays.

Saturday wasn’t too bad… aside from getting some work done to get started on the upgrade of this webserver that is hosting this wonderful blog site of mine, I successfully knocked out weed treating my yard, grocery shopping and misc errands and such… pretty productive. I also ended up watching Dylan (neighbor kid) who is 9 days older than Arwen. Those two are funny together… good thing they keep each other entertained pretty well, it made time to finish up a HUGE chunk of house work. It actually appears as though civilized people, albeit its just the two of us, live here. After Dylan left and Arwen was down for the night, I proceeded to play Final Fantasy XI until I nearly passed out at the keyboard… Mike can attest to that one… almost got the whole party killed in one battle due to lack of attention… haha called it at night at about 2-3am.

Today consisted of my usual routine, oddly i still got up by 10am, except I additionally ended up going over to Arwen’s grandparents (mother’s side) so that she could see the family over there. Got dinner as well, so thats a bonus. Although my stomach now churns at the thought that I ate Eggplant Parmesan it wasn’t bad at all… Finished up there and came home at about 9pm… Arwen in bed immediately! lol — I then proceeded to change my oil which was 1500 miles overdue… (4,000 miles) I felt so bad. I’m super religious about changing every 2500 miles due to my turbo, but I’m pleased to find that the oil was just dirty and was still quite good (despite being dirty) when I drained it. I know my car is QUITE grateful. I don’t usually do stuff like that on Sunday’s but this time I had to make an exception… it was the only free moment I’ve actually gotten to get it done. Everything else just crowded my schedule. Also Jesse came over and was working on his car, so why not knock out my stuff too while I’m out there with him… heh It worked out well. Ended up having a really good conversation with him about how relationships can be retarded but yet serve a very good purpose at times, or something to that effect. Back half of that was me giving him the lowdown on failures of my life and to run while he still can… haha jk…

eh, anyway its late and i’m a lil tired so i’m out. Gotta go check out another school in the morning before work.

later