APPLEBEE'S

I trained a double today (10:30am-3:30pm and then 5:00pm-9:30pm). I work tomorrow and then another double on Friday. Back to being really busy, but this place is way better for me and I don't have to wear that apron.

OSCAR PARTY!

This will be my first year attending and I can't wait! I'll be driving down with Maria. I'm not very creative so I won't be dressing up.

Oscar Meyer

I don't know what to wear for the Oscar party, I guess I was hoping the writers would be greedier. I do have a package of Depends, but usually the baby's not at the shower. Awfully nice to see Nicki blogging. Why do so many clothesmakers insist on itchy tags; I feel like I just got a haircut + can't get rid of the stragglers! I was glad to hear the Juno theme song again. On my way to a wedding I saw Matt's keeping Pete company while Mom's in VA. Jim's been back in contact with us + seems reasonably well. I get along with him very well when we talk. I'll be traveling with the invaribly best costumed Tony tomorrow + don't HAVE to get up Mon. AM.

FOR AUNT NICKI...

I LOVE postsecret. That guy is a genius for coming up with that.

A Rare Appearance by Nicki

Hi to Everyone! I don't have time to check in very often, but the last time I checked in I enjoyed the Paul McCartney video Matt sent and this time I just LOVED the secret postcards. I hope you'll include that every week, Matt, so we can see it again. Nicki

OBAMA

I'm just back from Obama's 9:45 pm rally at Beloit College's fieldhouse, where Michael Jordan used to practice. It was fun to have him here as his last appearance before our vote. First they said our whole line would get in, then they said I was the very last, then they said they miscounted + the guy before me was the absolute last, but they changed their mind cuz I was told I'd made it. I felt guilty, so I was delighted when they later relented + let another 50 in, but it had been a good story + I didn't have to wait long + was plenty close. But I couldn't have got mom there cuz Nic just dropped me on our way back from dancing; you know it's mom's type of event.
Chelsea Clinton also spoke in a lesser rally there earlier.
He's very articulate + has an excellent voice, which was nice even if you don't like him, plus he has my ears + haircut. It makes it more interesting to see tomorrow's vote.
There is a serial rapist-killer in Reno who's had his third attack, once each month, all co-eds. Just after I watched Dexter, the story of the cop/serial killer. I hope my tastes don't inspire killers cuz I do enjoy the genre.
You know the city will be lauding itself for putting everything together last minute, but it is interesting. It was still frigid + snowing, but at least it was something besides the miserable weather to talk about. The massive rain days have been the worst of all; snow at least impresses people.

BIG NEWS:)

Day one of the nicotine patch. Wish me luck:(

Massacre

Many will recall that in the first 5 minutes of the first Twin Towers report I said they were trying to make a special statement by coordinating (somewhat ineffectively) strikes at 9:11 of 9/11 to take advantage of our universal emergency code. Cllever bastards. Yet despite our grandparents connection to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre + being keenly ware of the day last night, it never occured to me that the latest mass-murderer at local NIU was guaranteeing that he would be remembered annually. Who'd have thought that schools would become riskier places to be than courthouses?!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

I had fun hanging around while everyone played cards. The blog was created in Las Vegas so it's gonna go with that time. Always click on "Post Options" to make sure the date is correct, because it's been sticking on 2/5/08.

ps

You're right Stephen, I published at 10:26 and it posted at 8:21. Note that the minutes are also incorrect. It's Pacific Standard Time, I think.

celebrities

I would enjoy seeing any of the presidential candidates. Barack is in Janesville on my day off, but I have other plans and will miss him. The election seems much more interesting this year.

WORK SCHEDULE

2/11/08
OFF

2/12/08
5:00pm-9:15pm

2/13/08
OFF

2/14/08
5:00pm-9:00pm

2/15/08
7:00pm-6:00am

2/16/08
5:00pm-4:00am

2/17/08
3:00pm-12:15am

Hey!!!!

Not sure if I'll make it for cards or not because I haven't been getting much sleep. This video is from one of my addictions. http://www.postsecret.com/
They update every Sunday. People send in their secrets on a homemade postcard. I love the idea and LOVE reading their secrets.

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I see now that my postings are being listed as 2 hours earlier than actuality. Perhaps I've found a unique form of time travel.

Go Figure

I read Matt's blog, then wrote mine. But when I went back to the blogspot, my blog appeared earlier in the chain. That happened once with Dom when I'd started earlier but didn't finish, but this is mysterious.

Happy Valentine's Day

I wonder if they read my daily postcards. That's kinda the fun, that somebody could. I'll be doing a stack of weddings for that day. One Vietnamese girl has to give us her "birthdate" in 1964. That's all they had for her there, but supposedly the U.S. assigns one an arbitrary date for our purposes. Difficult to explain that to her with the language barrier. Anyhow, Happy Valentines everybody. Barack Obama speaks here in Janesville tomorrow at the GM plant.

Belay on!

I just wanted to say that again. I saw 3 ropes courses that looked pretty inviting in yesterday's face-freezing weather. 6 inches more snow tonite?

To Matt

I don't know why my comment didn't post, but it was Whitewater, the east end of downtown, north side of the street, in the old movie theater. I believe it's still there. Janesville Y's is also nice. Let me know.

UNCLE STEPHEN...

Where is that place you used to take us rock climbing? I want to say that it was indoors. Whitewater?

Snowbound

Beloit got 21" according to the National Weather folks, + I went in to find the courthouse closed for the first time since I've been here. It was fun to see so few cars on the road. But today it wasn't the1,000 cars stranded on I-90 but the sleeping drivers who jammed it for 19 miles northbound, southbound was flying. Laura went very well, but I'm quite happy to be done with it. There was a teenager in the play who is one of the few cryptic crossworders I know. He was ecstatic to get a ton of puzzles from me. I believe Em + James continue to enjoy theirs. Dom + I meet up in the Dells tomorrow for a church retreat, so I'm pigging out at on the whole hog sausage at the annual Turtle Township pancake breakfast early. Hopefully it will cause me to sleep on the bus. I'll be glad somebody else is driving in all this crap!

WINTER

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE WEATHER!!!!

SCHEDULE...

2/4/08
OFF

2/5/08
5:00pm-7:30pm

2/6/08
OFF

2/7/08
OFF

2/8/08
6:00pm-6:00am

2/9/08
6:00pm-6:00am

2/10/08
9:30pm-6:00am

Space travel is in my blood, and there aint nothing I can do about it.