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May 02 Good Day at Edward JonesSo, my old boss finally got around to getting my
merit review done today. Good news, I got a 2% raise which brings me over
another 10K marker. Hard to believe that since I have started with
them 9 years ago, I have doubled my salary. Gotta think
though that this won't always be so. They will only pay some guy to mow
your lawn for so much, you know. Well, that is the analogy they
give.
Had some good luck with some work things
too. I was given a problem with the MAP reporting system on Friday,
which I had no idea on what it was even. It's in a new technology that i
don't understand, so I'm stumbling through it, but I got it working okay today,
and was able to make some valuable updates.
HOpefully tomorrow, I'll have it complete so I can start moving it into
production.
Well, not much else to say. Nate is getting
pretty funny nowadays. He's learned to shake his head now. I'll have
to get it on video for you all.
Later,
April 20 Go to http://buckyworld2.blogspot.comI don't think I will be posting much more to MSN
anymore. Been having some problems with them and so I'll continue over at http:// buckyworld2.blogspot.com/.
seems I can post pics over there and do a little more custamizing.
Maybe I'll still post here, but for now, I'll be
trying to stay at blogspot.
Later, April 14 Day offWell, yesterday was my last day of unofficially
being on the I.S. Product, Quotes and Research support Team. I had a
relatively easy support day. Next week I'll be focusing more on the trades
items. Already have three things to be working on, calculating APY for CD's,
showing estate features and fixing a bug with a program regarding 30 day
treasuries.
nate's being a real buger right now. doesn't want
to let me type.
I have the day off. Good Friday. we're getting
our pic taken at church today also. Nate will look cute in his
pastels...
Well, I'll have to write more later, Nate is ready
to squirm out of my arms.
Later, April 11 Interesting things to see in S. IllinoisOkay, what is really THAT interesting in Illinois
anyways. Lynn and I visited the following places for our
anniversary. Check out her blog for
all the commentary.
April 05 Why do I find it so funny?So, yesterday, we had a huge thunderstorm blow
through St. Louis. Maple tree fell on my sister's truck, but
we at the Starbuck household got through unscathed. power
was out from 6PM to 3:30 AM. not too long
So, last night I saw a portapotty that had blown
over because of the storm and another here in MH near our beloved construction
that was tipped over. I just think that is funny for some
reason.
well, I have Nate on my lap now and he insists on
grabbing my fingers with every type. oh to be a chiild. I'll
write more tonight.
later,
What's with all the Old Folks?No disrespect to my mom, but sheesh, I think the
St. Louis County Election board recruits from the nursing homes when the run an
election. sheesh.
Mainly had school board positions and town mayor
stuff going on here. I voted no on an increased tax for the community
college. Maybe if Nate should go there.
Tomorrow is our anniversary. I'm going to
have to go shopping tonight to
see if I can find something for her.
NOthing much else new.
Maybe I'll post later,
Later, March 30 Cardinal NationSo, I got my son a Cards Jersey back in Sept. and he can wear it
now. He's like 19 lbs.
Had quite the scare at work today. I've been
working on my UK dividend stuff a lot more and found a website to describe how
to do a Rights issue and all. There was a phrase in there I didn't
quite understand, so I thought, I'll google it and see what comes up.
Well, I did, and automatically, the Ed Jones Green Screen of death popped
up. I thought, "They've blocked Google...". I
asked another guy to check it out and he got to do it just fine. And
then I looked at what I typed in.
Oh.... I guess that word could mean something
else....
I was embarassed.
So, now I have no Idea what that is.
Thankfully I am at home now and can search it okay. Hope that nothing
comes up that I wouldn't want to see....
Later,
March 28 Crazy WorldSo, Springfield has a
Transgender person running for the congress. pretty weird. Midge Potts. Looking at her/his
website, she/he has some pretty good ideas fiscally, just the social issues are
a little out of wack. Well, good luck trying to win the primary
against the $3 milllion Roy Blunt machine..
In other news, nothing
much new for me. I do have a career change coming up, but I can't really
talk about it much until it becomes official. probably this Friday.
Did a cardio workout
tonight. I've been sooooo bad about going to the Y lately. I got
sick back in mid-Feb and that just threw my whole schedule off.
Also, Nate has been staying up a little later and it is so cool to interact with
him and by the time he's down at 8:30, not much incentive on my part to get out
and do something. Toying with the idea of running with Jackson in
the morning or trying some cardio at the Y around 6. My clock has changed
and I am able to get up at 6 now, but then I just realized that we are
"springing forward" this weekend, so there won't be much sunlight to do walking
at that time. can't really let that stop me.
Lynn and I's
anniversary is coming up. can you believe it has been 3
years. I love you girl.
WEll, I need to get
ready for bed. I have a lot of work to get ready for Friday so I can
wrap up this UK dividend project I am working on. seems like this thing
will never end. Good news is that I will be taking some training classes
in mid April so I can learn some Java Server Pages (JSP) technology.
That will be Sooo cool. will be quite an improvement over the
Servlet coding I do now.
Later, March 25 Gone to the Dogs....Well, today we all went down to Queeny Park to
attend the St. Louis Pet
Expo. wondering, when exactly does siding on your house have anything
to do with a pet? Unless, sometimes I hear that dogs chew up siding, but
not our Jackson. Met some folks there that are fighting for
more Dog Parks in West
County. We should be getting one in Maryland Heights soon, over by
the water park.
That would make Jackson soo happy.
We went to Sam's club afterwards, and $100 later,
we left. Bought some much needed new pillows, and I got some Kashi brand cereal and cereal bars. Made
sure that they didn't have any High Fructose Corn Syrup in them. They
don't. I think Kashi is actually one of those companies that started out
Organically minded and all, but I then got bought out by one of the big mean
corporate giants. Funny, cause their website doesn't say anything about
them being bought out? Oh well.
Nate's been recovering great from his
surgery. His swelling has gone down considerably and he's back to his
normal self. I think we are still supposed to keep him out of certain
positions for a while, but he's doing great!
Not much else to say now. I may be heading
out of here soon to just get out of the house.
Later,
March 22 Way to go Missouri!Well, got the following message regarding the MO tax return! Can't wait!!!!!! Your tax return has been processed. Refund issue date: 03/23/2006. fish wednesdayWell, tonight we went to Vesta's Church for a fish
dinner. it was only $5 a person and Lynn and I got to eat with Vesta and
her grand kids, Brian and Judith.
It was pretty good, not the best.
But Lynn liked the price and that we didn't have to cook at home.
Nothing much new today. Thought I might let
you all know that I will be interviewing for a new position at Jones
tomorrow. Pretty much I will be going back to my old job again if I
get it. Talked to the New boss and she wants me, and turns out
one of my better friends Scott will be interviewing me for the technical
part. At least on the COBOL side. Gotta think of what the
questions will be???
What are the four divisions of a COBOL
program?
What is the difference between a COMP and a
COMP-3?
Also, this job will encompass some new Java tech
stuff which I have done for the past 2.5 years.
Probably will ask what the 4 principles of Object
Oriented programming are. Beats me. Encapsulation, Inheritance, and
something else.....
Oh yeah, Abstraction and Polymorphism..
Don't think I will remember all those.
We'll have to see how it goes I guess.
Nate is crying now. Not really wanting to go
down for bed just yet. He's been doing great after his
surgery.
Nothing much else new.
Later, March 20 Sugery DayNate had his surgery today. Got through it
with no real problems, although me and mom were a little frazzeled. But
all is well. It will take him about 5 to 6 weeks to fully heal but sounds
like the prognosis is going to be good.
My parents came down from NEMO this weekend and saw
Nate, It was a good visit.
right now, Lynn and I are just trying to recover
from the day.
Later, Day 4 .... Declined...Well, it is day number 4 of the waiting for the old
tax return. Once again, status has
not changed.
Tonight is the Big Bundle 6.2 implementation at
Jones. I have a small piece that I need to implement. Hope all goes
well. It should.
I may have some big news for you all soon.
Lynn and I have talked about a decision I may be making and it will be pretty
cool, for me at least. Details will follow later.
Nate's surgery is going to be on Monday the
20th. should be okay. I hope. Thanks for all your
thoughts and prayers.
Congrats to Josh and Tifanni for getting an offer
on the house. That is such a fun process, I am
sure. Nerver racking, to say the least. Hope all goes
well to you both.
Lot of hoping in this entry
today. Well, leave you all on that note,
Later,
March 15 Day 3... Negative!well, no Tax return information today.
Heard that we won't be having Nate's Surgery on
Friday like we planned. Perhaps we'll go see Jerry instead and get Nate
his own Ed Account. Open Lynn a Roth also.
work was uneventful today.
we did lunch at Happy
China It's growing on me.
Nate is really messing up my typing so I'll need to
post again later,
Later, March 14 Day 2.... Denied!Well, today is the second day that I got online and
checked the status of my Missouri and Federal Tax
Forms. No Luck. Missouri has received the form and have started
processing, Federal nothing. Eager to get some of that money
back. Don't know what we will do with it though?
Pretty normal day at work.
Nothing new. Thursday night is the bundle implementation, so i will be
pretty busy that night working to be sure that it goes in okay.
should be fun.
The fix I applied to the ole Sega didn't work as
well as I had thought. Tried to play it last night and it kept
reseting. Did the procedure again just now so I will see how that
affects things.
May need to investigate actually bucking up the $25
for a new used console at Slackers. Will need to check the
budget on that one.
Oh wait, we don't budget.....
Well, I did get our Jones accounts transfered over
to Jerry
Zuckerman today. CAn't wait to meet with him and open up a Roth
IRA for Lynn and get an educational thing started for Nate. Maybe that is
where we can put the ole tax returns....
Nothing much else happening today. I got a
David Ramsey book from the library. One of those ask a question and
answer it on one page dealies. pretty straight forward guy and makes
sense. Reserved the Total money makeover book from the library
also. on the wait list. #64... Maybe
I'll bet it by July... we'll see. IN the process, we can
make a few changes financially around here..
Well, I've bored you all enough.
Later, March 12 BirthDay Money spentWell, yesterday went with Lynn down to S. County so
she could get her massage. I had Nate for 1/2 hour so we went to see where
we could spend some of my birthday money.
First stop was Slackers. Bought a
used game, Star Wars:
Demolition. Then we went to a store called Comics Headquarters
off Telegraph and I got 6 short boxes for comics storage and some bags.
All part of Project Basement Reclamation.
Of course when I got home, I realized that the Sega
DC wasn't working so great, so today I applied this fix to the Sega
Dreamcast. It seems to have worked, cause I played my other Star Wars
Game for about 50 minutes and it never reset like it used too.
Gives me renewed hope in the ole Dreamcast. Maybe Lynn won't be able to
tear me away from it.
Maybe tonight I'll have to challenger her to the
Trucker Game again....
Well, I need to get the house straightened up from
when Lynn comes home from her Candle
Creations party.
later, March 11 a poke in the eyeSo, like today Nate found out that he can "pet"
Jackson. "Petting" seems to involve poking poor Jackson in the
eye. Poor guy.
Things on the slate for today are go accompany Lynn
to S. County so she get her massage at Illussions.I'm going to run by the
comic shop down there and see if I can get some comics supplies with the money I
got for B-day and Christmas. Also, we'll drop my Taurus off at Roy's auto repair for an oil
change. Also, we may stop by J. C.
Penny's at the South County
Mall.
Nothing much else planned. Will be eating
out. Don't know what we'll do, can pretty much rule out McDonald's, Wendy's, Hardee's, or any other fast food
restaraunt. Maybe some place nice like O'Charley's or something like
that. I don't know. I'm just trying to see how many hyperlinks
I can put in this posting.
Well, I finally got back to the Y after a week of not doing
anything. Being sick really got me out of my
routine. Also, it's been a little different with Nate lately
so it has been a little harder to go at night. I'll need to
get back in that routine. This afternoon, I'll have to work out downstairs
on the bench for about an hour. That should make up for all the lost time,
right?
My grandfather is in the hospital with pnemonia.
We're probably going to have to see a change in his care soon since it will need
to be stepped up a notch, either nursing home or hiring someone to sit with him
all day.
Nothing much else to say. I need to clean
up.
Later, March 07 With an Oink, Oink here, Oink Oink There.Maybe it is just me, but last night and today, I
have seen a LOT of people pulled over by the highway patrol.
Guess it may be that I only drive 3 miles to work and don't really go by too
much traffic on the way.
Oh well, I need to get back to help Lynn clean the
kitchen.
Later,
March 04 That's two off the listWell, today Lynn and I got the closet door removed
out of Nate's room and also I hung up the swing arm curtain rods in the
kitchen. That's two off the list for now. Will need to
hang the new rod in Nate's room for hiding the closet contents.
Lynn went out to have her hair done today so Nate
and I went out to do some stuff. I wanted to stock by the comic shop and
see if I could get some boxes so I could "professionally" store
everything. Nate's education is riding on this, so I need to keep them in
pristine condition. seems all the Beanies we got aren't worth much
so gotta count on something else, right?
Watched "Monster-in-law" tonight. pretty good
movie, funny in parts but I wish there was a little more stuff going on between
J. Lo and J. Fonda. Wanda Sykes was hilarious in
this. I really like her straight talk. Gotta see if she
is in any other movies.
We are making Grandma Hughson's Cinammon(sp?) rolls
right now. unfortunately, we are at teh "double" stage, so It will take a
while before we get to bed tonight.
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