photos are up:
Me and Olivia’s trip to the zoo
CIT camping Trip
random objects and places
Last chance camp is going well… I’m sort of an co-director of camp all morning and the ropes guy all afternoon. Still trying to figure out just how much I want to work next week. Put out some more Chicago feelers, still no stellar replies, but got some more leads.
So much has happened since this stupid site got moved. It is officially on a new server now, and so far, things seem ok. We’re on newer versions of WordPress and Gallery and I’ve reinstalled most of the plugins that were on here before… so we should be back in business.
So, to fill in:
I did a fairly good job cleaning up, but a few weeks of general living has cluttered the place up again… so, some more cleaning is in order. So I’ll get on that this week, between work and stuff. This week is the last week of camp. Technically, it’s called “Last Chance Camp” since some of the schools are already going back. So, we have a smaller staff and less options, usually, but we’ll see how it is when I get there tomorrow.
Olivia came to visit. She stayed an entire weekend… came to work with me a couple times. We played some scrabble. We went to the zoo. Olivia learned more about her camera. It was fun. I’ll get the pictures from the weekend up soon. As you may have guessed, from the last blog, I’ve gotten a zooomr account, to try it out. I like it quite a bit. I’ve only dabbled with flickr, but I like it better, so far. I still like using my own gallery better than storing elsewhere, but I’ll probably do a bit of both for a while.
Sarah is coming to visit soon! It was gonna be just a weekend, but we just extended it to a whole week. We’ll have to work around some of my work schedule stuff, but a longer visit is awesome! My grandmother’s sister’s 100th birthday bash is definitely on the schedule, and some touring of my old haunts in the Dudley and Worcester areas, as well as western Mass, if time allows. If you’d like to meet the lovely Sarah, and experience the awesomeness that I fell in love with, let me know, and maybe we can work something in.
My three part plan of action isn’t going quite as smoothly as I’d hoped. Andy’s old position is now being combined with some sort of full-time, all-year camp director position… which makes it too much job for one person… but I put in a resume, anyway. But I didn’t even get an interview. So apparently, that’s not gonna happen. While I could just stay where I am and continue doing what I have been for the past few years, I don’t think it’s gonna get any better with a boss that’s overwhelmed with camp stuff. The ropes department already loses a few bookings and days of work each year, now we won’t have anyone who’s main concern is getting us more work. So my old step 2 was to contact Charlie about working for him or finding another program that works as much as the one I’m in now… but that may get bumped down by trying to find some work in the Chicago area (yes, where Sarah lives 
). I’ve already got some feelers out to a couple Y people out there… nothing looks amazing yet, but I’ll update here.
I think that’s enough for now. I’ll post again when I get pictures from the weekend with Olivia up.
I’m not into fixing this blog just yet… but I am into free stuff, and Zooomr is giving me a free Pro account for posting this:
P7210264_2 Hosted on Zooomr
Hey, since my webhost is a douchebag who doesn’t update his server with the latest security updates, the server this was hosted on was hacked and all my index.phps were lost… the customizations in those files made a a lot of this site work and look the way it did. Since Steve the Douchebag doesn’t do regular backups, like a quality host does, I had to use the unaltered, original versions of these files. I will probably move this site to another server… hopefully I can recover the images from the image gallery, since that seems to completely not work, at this point… which seems a little weird, since it was just the index files that were affected…
Anyway, to sum up… things are broken and look weird because Steve Gunnels is the biggest douchebag in the entire universe… snatching the title from John Edward, the guy who talks to people who have crossed over.
As incentive to finish cleaning the apartment, I’ve purchased … it’s Scrabble, with twice the letter tiles, a bigger board and Quadruple Word and Letter spaces. I’m excited, and I’ve brought it to the Teen Center today, and will probably play, later on…. BUT I want to extend an invitation to all those who have come over to play Scrabble in the past, or who I have visited to play Scrabble, to come over and play Super Scrabble (once I finish cleaning).
I’m hoping to add to the temptation for Olivia to make the trek up here while she’s visiting her parents in PA for two weeks. That means I should get crackin’ on the cleaning. I’ll start as soon as I get home, I guess. There are already tentative plans to go see Mark play some music up in Maine… How quickly plans come together! Sarah B, our other hostess/food guide in San Francisco is coming out this way next week, too… I doubt that she’d be into Scrabble, but I told her that if she needed a break from kicking her Dad’s ass, that she should call me. I might be really busy next week! Sweet!
Pictures from San Francisco are up, by the way. If I find my discs, I might take some screenshots of the video games I was talking about… but, probably not for a while, cause that would distract me from cleaning. It was such an amazing trip. Sarah is coming out this way in about a month and I can’t wait! The month will fly by, I think; Hopefully all the cleaning and other people visiting and work will keep me busy and distracted.
look never back, move forwards.
(by soap & water)
I want to ask you, how am I supposed to hurt you?
one of my best friends, i love you forever
woot