Sleepless nights, baggy eyes, and a whole lot of nothing

Its been about over a month now where I have fought what is symptoms of insomnia, not sure exactly that’s what it is, however, I am almost convinced I am losing my mind due to lack of sleep.

There has been a lot of my mind for the past few months now, obviously, but I try to find stuff to do that will relax me at night or tire me out so I can at least go to bed. Lets just say, nothing has worked. I haven’t been drinking, I am taking the medicine I need to and things are going fairly well, other than not sleeping, so probably if I find a job I can relax a bit more and not worry so much about things. School is really the only thing that keeps me going, if not, Id be a zombie walking around doing nothing.

Any other time I would agree that finding a job would be a lot easier if I have my degree finished now, I can tell you not even a degree is helping people now in this day an age.  I think that is the number #1 cause of why I am uneasy at night and not able to sleep. We will see how things go in the near future I have applied at a few places to do some office work, hopefully I get phone calls, if it doesn’t happen, its back to phase 1, again.

My parents have been VERY supportive and I would not be surviving at all if it weren’t for them, mind you, I will owe them for the rest of my life, or their lives. I don’t think I will be able to thank them enough.

That’s it for now, I have to babysit today. This will be interesting on no hours of sleep; no worries, Brenden keeps me going he wont let me sit down, which is a good thing.

Welcome to the day of liquor and noodles

Well today, I finally enjoyed doing something; woke up at 5pm, clipped my toe nails, ate ramen, and its now 12:27pm. Oh watching tv was in there somewhere. Now I may go to bed or, go find the rest of the sandwich I ate earlier in my bed.

Whisky or Whiskey ?

I ended up taking a nice camping trip (this years vacation) to Kentucky from July 30 – August 2nd. I had to say it was the most fun I have had in a long time, it was a nice change of scenery, and a nice change of pace for me. I went with 6 other guys including 3 hempfield guys, two of which were my former teachers, and 3 others I have just met but were friends of the others. Terry and and his friends are big Indy car racing fans; so we had a camp ground 4 minutes away from Kentucky Speedway.

I have to say; I do not think I have been drunk, let alone hungover so much in my life. It was hardcore camping from thursday night to sunday morning with no electricity, and no water.

Friday was spent all day traveling to 4 of the 8 whisky/whiskey distilleries; we ended up traveling to  Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve, Wild Turkey, and Makers Mark). All tours and tastings were wonderful, tasted what is the equivalent to moonshine at Buffalo Trace, wow, I must that burnt going down.

I had my Wild Turkey bottle signed by their Master Distiller, I dont think I will ever open that bottle; Then I got to hand dip the two bottles of Makers Mark I bought. Friday was a long day, left at 8:30am got back to the camp ground around 8ish. I passed on buying bottles of Buffalo Trace and Woodford Reserve, just because they were a little more expensive and I was on a budget, however there is one liquor store here in PA that has Buffalo Trace; or so the website says, however they are both delicious.

Buffalo Trace has a few other names of whiskey/whisky which I am gonna have to try and that I can get in PA. Woodford Reserve I had before because Doug got me a bottle of it either as a gift for house sitting or a gift for my birthday; I will be getting about bottle of that, I can tell you.

Saturday was a relaxing day at the campsite just, sitting, talking, games, and lots of drinking. We started drinking about 9am like everyone else in the camp ground. It was a nice day out since we had been running around all day on friday. We played redneck gold, redneck washer, and we played some cards.

Saturday night we ended up tailgating in the parking lot of Kentucky Speedway. The race started at 8:45 and we got there around 6pm. That was a fun time drinking in the parking lot meeting other people and having conversations. I ended up not feeling well after the race started. They got around about 100 or so laps before I got sick and ended up going back to the camp site to relax.

Sunday morning we packed up and left. All and all it was a fun filled weekend with the guys in Kentucky, away from technology, away from work, away from school. It was fun to relax and have fun with some friends, and get to enjoy some nice smooth whisky; or is it Whiskey?

Winning poker and retirement keg

Tonight was great !!!! I won just about 30$ at poker tonight and we all enjoyed a keg of beer to celebrate John Smiths retirement from Hempfield School District as 12th grade principal at the HS. It was a great time with some great people, and great beer !

Busy week…many projects

It had been a very busy week with not being able to take the time to make a new post.

I have started another web project this week for Chiques United Methodist Church at the request of a friend and former co-worker. That was on tuesday night and since then I have had the site pretty much built and ironing out some design modifications.

I spent most of the week getting everything in order for college in the fall. I am going for another semester at HACC and going to apply for E-Town College in the Spring and finish my bachelors in Communication with an emphasis Public Relations. I am very excited to finally have a plan on what I want to do. After realizing I would rather do web design as more of a hobby or “on the side” projects for clients, or friends instead of a career choice.

Friday was busy all around. I met Jeff K. and Arlette for lunch on friday afternoon, it’s always great to see Jeff and Arlette outside of work now (since I dont work with them anymore). Friday afternoon I was stopping in to see everyone at the admin building to see everyone and to stop in to see Rich. Rich wanted  to talk about some logo designs as well as a company website that he may wanna start. I have many ideas that I am still finishing up on paper before I send it to him.

Over all it was a busy week, the weekend has been just as busy but enjoyable. Other than working on some website projects, I had Brenden (nephew) over night on friday. Normally he does fine when he sleeps over at anyone others house other than his but once and a while he may wake up around 2 or 3 in the morning and notice he is not in his crib and doesnt know where he is at, its at that point he freaks out. On saturday morning I was trying to figure out some issues with the the church’s website and on saturday afternoon I went to hang out with Doug until we went to a game on saturday night.

Today I got a chance to hang out with John who I really haven’t had a chance to catch up with for a while so it was a fun day, got some drinks, had lunch, had more drinks, had dinner, and more drinks. It was fun.

Website for Derrick

The past few months I have been guiding my friend Derrick on the path of web development and design with a joomla based website for his section of scouts. http://ne6b.org. The last few days I have been demanded to learn flash and edit CSS and the HTML of the template on his site.

I have to say after fighting and with Flash CS3 and using many, Many colorful metaphors to get this looking right and to make the flash banner look like derrick wanted it to, its finally done.

Editing te CSS and HTML wasn’t that hard, thanks to the web developer extension in Firefox as well as the Safari 4  beta tools I found what i needed to edit within the template. It seemed easy, I think that’s because the CSS file was “neatly” laid out. Not sure all CSS files look that nice, but what do I know.

Over all I am happy with the way this site has turned out. It still has some content to be posted but the over all look is done (for now).

Next thing…. I need make it easier to update the flash banner so anyone can just upload photos to the server and then it just updates the banners automatically. (Mike clear your schedule …other than moving and the g/f) I’ll have questions with XML

Thanks again for the consult of Mike Graham, he gave me tips for the CSS and HTML as usual. I will be owing him many happy hour beverages by the time I get a degree in Web Development and Design.

The next thing on the list of things to do is teach Derrick how to do this himself so he can learn Flash, editing CSS, and HTML.

One thing to always remember…. BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE !!!! It will safe your life someday….. but I didn’t tell Derrick that, however Mike knows what I mean he had to fix some mistakes I made with website templates before…..

Tequila …. Nectar of the gods

So I just did something….I guess most of you would appreciate… I was told by the someone you know that she was a whore when on tequila…… wow hahaha used the “quote fingers” and everything…..