What's This? Could It Be...?

Yes! Look! It's actually a new blog post! (some of the crowds gasps in amazement while the rest just shake their heads pathetically.)

Yeah, I know it's been a while. It seems like all the times that I do feel inspired to write a blog I don't have time, and when I do have time I don't feel inspired. Such is the way of 'the blog'.

What's new? Well, to start with, today makes it 30 days until I will be a married man once again. Am I looking forward to it? You bet! I've even almost got my new address memorized. Almost. I'm not going to lie--Suzie has done almost everything wedding related up to this point. It's partly due to the fact that she is, by nature, so much of a do-er, partly because she has the time to do it because she's unemployed (I'm so jealous), and partly because she is the one with the ideas for all that is taking place. She is truly a woman of action! We just hope that the weather will smile upon us on June 6th--That's all we ask.

Sarah just played her final tennis match the day before yesterday. There are a couple more this week, but due to other obligations (the busy life of a graduating senior!) she won't be able to make them. Among other things, she's been going gangbusters getting her art portfolio gathered together. She's even added several things to it in the last couple weeks.

It's hard to believe it's May--Partly because our weather here has been so weird. I remarked to Suzie last night that it was like we are about a month and a half off our usual pattern, and have been since the first of the year. Our snow lasted a month and a half longer than usual, and our usual springtime wind and rain has been hitting us about a month and a half later than usual. I hope our summer keeps the pattern and lasts well into October this year then!

I've been letting my mustache grow with wild abandon with the intent of adding some length for my wedding day. Why? I have this idea that involves mustache wax... Will it pan out? I really have no idea. The nature of my hair is curly, and that translates to my 'stache as well. The ends of it are doing anything they want to at this point. I'm getting kinda tired of it curling into my mouth all the time. It wouldn't be so bad if it was symmetrically bad, but it's really wonky on one side and not so much on the other. It's like a cow lick on my mustache!

I threw a "wrench" in Suzie's productivity the other day when I gave her an iPod Touch like I have. She kept feigning disinterest when I would have mine out and offer it to her to mess with, but I could see a spark of interest in her eyes from time to time. Does she like it? Sure! Whether it's practical or not remains to be seen because they can (and do) do so many things, but I'm certain she'll have fun with it. I had the back engraved with "Ricky and Suzie June 6th, 2009".

Work has been going very well. The new computer system our company has installed has been going smoothly. It's nice having a computer and printer at my disposal. Now when the notion hits me I can print off a mailing label, make a sign, make a spreadsheet--Whatever. I have been learning our dedicated manufacturing software pretty well too. It's quite involved, and of course requires a lot of steps to do seeming simple tasks, but it's working out so far. There are a lot of problems here and there, but like people at work have said from time to time, a year from now we'll probably look back and say, "Eh, that wasn't so bad."

I started going through boxes of crap in my closets recently, and it was an eye opener. I have computer parts that will never be used, stuff that should have never been kept to begin with, and most of it pretty much worthless in today's world. I'll be offering most of it up for free on Craigslist I'm sure. I don't have a problem taking stuff to the Goodwill, but I'd rather offer it to someone who actually has the knowledge of something first. Things that go to the Goodwill often don't even end up staying together when they need to. I customer might know about something, but the employee that divvies the stuff up might not.

I haven't even started going through my clothes yet... Time to get busy!