Micah and Gaby: the people whom people wanna be

2008-01-18T17:10:00.000-08:00

Well Gaby is back to school again, which means I don't see that much of her. She sure does study a lot; I really admire her for how much work she puts into her schooling.

This is Djembe, our dog. We've had her since some time in September and she almost got a way last Sunday. We had to go looking all this way and that for her. little punk... As far as I go, work is pretty much normal. Over Christmas, I got a little bit more of the ol' devil's ink installed in my arm, completing the quarter sleeve, so that puts a sad end to that saga, but I've convinced Gaby to let me get a couple of safe travel swallows.

I better get that done before she changes her mind...

2007-05-31T09:25:00.000-07:00

We're all moved in to our new apartment in Omaha, so if I sound like a Nebraskan, that's why. I started my new job yesterday, which should be pretty cool after a week or so, but for now I'm just doing paperwork and going through hours and hours of safety training. So other than pretty much everything in my life changing in the last week or so, things are pretty much normal.

Gradjatation

2007-05-17T12:47:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm about to gradjatate from NCC tomorrow, and I'm nearly twice as excited as a school girl. The only problem is that gradjatating also involves moving, which is a pain. I'm ready to be moved, but the whole idea of actually doing the moving doesn't particularly excite me. Oh well, a small price to pay for the American Dream (if that dream includes Chinese food and Italian sausage.

A couple of weeks ago I went to a instrumentation and control competition in the Wisconsin dells, which was a pretty good time, and my team ended up taking home first place in districts, so that means we get to compete in the national competition in Houston in October. So that should be a good time. here are some pictures from the competition.

This was our project for the digital circuit construction portion. You can't really see the circuit very well, but it was a basic world wide self-destruct sequence.

This is my team, which consisted of Brandon Espey, Myself, Karl DeKievers, and Jared Zupp (from left to right.)

I've also had some more work done to my tattoo, but I'll post about that later.

When the grass is greener on my side of the fence

2007-04-01T20:08:00.000-07:00

Well Gaby and I are getting pretty excited to get moving to Omaha. She is ready to get back to school, the Physical Therapy Program at Creighton that is, and I'm ready to be done with school and get working in Blair. Lately I think I've been looking forward too much though. The more I look forward, the less I enjoy what I'm doing right now. So this week I've decided to try to enjoy work and school here 'cause who knows, this week could be some day's good ol days.
This week I was laying awake in bed one night thinking of funny words and the funniest one I could come up with was manhole. hehe..... Who would name the entrance to the sewer a manhole? Then I got to thinking that in our world which puts so much emphasis on politically correct terms and equal representation and so fourth, the term manhole probably won't last much longer. Soon manholes will all become person holes, and eventually they will all become sewer access points.
What is our world coming to....

3/4 Fake

2007-03-19T12:33:00.000-07:00

Well it was really nice to see Ol' Reub (the beastmaster) and Elliot (frozen pizza) again. Man, it seems like a long time since we've been together. I was worried that things might be kinda weird getting back together, mostly because of the messy band breakup we went through (fully detailed in the documentary "The real fakers: looks and personality?") But we picked up right where we left off. I only wish dirty Jeff could have made it. Without him, we were only 3/4 fake. So to make the memory even happier, I have taken the picture of us outside of the Casey's deli and superimposed a picture of Jeff. He is the good looking one on the left. Man we had fun, (I also like to pretend we performed in 60 cities on a reunion tour) now that is a memory I won't be forgetting...

Back to it

2006-08-13T21:18:00.000-07:00

I reckon I better get to bloggin or I'll fall way behind with people.
Well, the summer has been pretty basic. I finished with my summer semester at school, so I've got a couple of weeks off before I start back up again. Since I've had free time during the morning before work, I've been working for Adam Bonnema's dad grouting showers at Northwestern. Ah... good times...
The most exciting thing is that I have recently purchased my dream car. That's right, I am now the owner of a brand new 1988 Cavalier station wagon. I've been working on it the last few weekends, and so far I've taken off all of the plastic on the outside and taken out all of the glass and taken off the gas take and hooked it up where the back seat used to be. If all goes according to plan, I'll be crashing it into a bunch of other cars in a couple of weeks at the Hawarden demolition derby. I figured if Gaby and I move out of the area in the next year or so, I will have robbed myself of the full redneck experience if I haven't participated in at least one demolition derby. Ah... I feel good about myself.
Other than that, pretty standard here. Gaby got a job at Hope Haven in Orange City where she will work while I finish out my last year.
mmmm... crashing cars into eachother...

Here we go

2006-05-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

waaal, i spose i better jump on this whole blogger form of goodness if i'm gonna keep in touch with any a yous.
i'm officially finished with this semester of school, so i have about two weeks off until i start my summer semester. on this coming friday we will move into our new apartment in sheldon (i got the position as the apartment manager) so that will be pretty cool. we took a look at it on friday, and it looks to be about the size of a cardboard box, only without all the standard features that come with most cardboard boxes. oh well, we'll just down size a little, plus we can't complain 'cause its free.

yesterday we went to the zoo in omaha with gaby's mom and my parents, so that was a good time. all that walking around costed me quite a few valuable calories, so i better get going on fattening up some more.

on friday we went to the tulip festival over there in the ol' city of orange. i decided that i better show her how the dutch do it. as dutch people there are only two things that we can't stand: people who are intolerant of other people's culture, and anybody who's not dutch.