• Tune Up Jacinda's Car
• Finish Websites
• Complete Trim
• Work on Landscaping

These need to get done and I absolutely need the time and clear mind to complete them.

5 MINUTE UPDATE:

I would like to complete these for three reasons:

• Jacinda would be pleased.
• Summer's running out of oil.
• So I can develop my extra curricular activities: Tae Kwon Do, reading, graphic designing, coffee roasting and perhaps pick up guitar again.

O' Fall, how I love thee~

• Summer 07 has been really, really, really good for me. Summer 06 I did not care as much for as there was a lot of weird stuff going on. '06 contained New Job, Loss of roommates, buttloads of side work, engagement, no summer events, etc. Munnnndane. '07 is pretty happening and we are taking advantage of every part of it.
• Duluth was a great "Second Honeymoon". I wish we had stayed up there four days instead of three. We took it for what it was, however, and really enjoyed it. Watched enormous tugs come in under the raising bridge, Swam (more waded as it was intensely cold) in beautiful lake superior, ate a ton, shopped, watched a sunrise, laughed and enjoyed each other's company.
• Landscaping is still going on. I still need to take out some rock and we are waiting for a few loads of dirt to fill the sides of the house with.
• Wood trim and painting is also a never-ending project at our place. This year, it seems I lack the panache to get the jobs done. The weeks go by so awfully fast, it's ridiculous.
• Sidework is coming in at a perfect pace. Just enough to get me a little extra cash on the side. I don't need sidework only to survive like I did the last few years, which is a great feeling. I'll display my most recent works once they are complete.
• Jacinda is still the best person to have ever entered my life.
• I think Mafesta finally bit the bullet.
• Fav. Bands are He Is Legend, Drive-By Truckers, Black Keys, Weezer.
• I am still into Coffee, Pictures, Nintendo DS, Smash Bros, Cooking, Gardening, Internetz and Walking.

So there it be. The Summer of 2007 events list.

North Side from the back.

Jacinda, Aaron and I have been throwing the idea around of taking a road trip Colorado. So far, out of the three of us, Jacinda is the only one who has been further West than 50 miles into South Dakota. Pretty sad? Maybe. We will be planning on visiting the usual National Park or two and the presidents in SD. We are also going to stop by small-town cafes, roadside oddities and do some classic American camping.

'Myspace is free so if you can't tolerate the advertising
leave.' TRUTH: If you believe this you have no backbone! You are like a
piece of rubber in the water. You are like a wave tossed in the sea. Don't be
a loser and run away from indecency! - Jesse Connors

Genesis 39
6a Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
7 and after a while his master's wife took notice
of Joseph and said, "Come to bed with me!" 10 And
though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her
or even be with her.

11 One day he went into the house to
attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.
12 She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come
to bed with me!" But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the
house.

[Tom Change The Advertising] *does not* indorse the use of ad
blocking software or browsers. Why? Well, advertisers pay big money to sites
like MySpace to reach their users. If everyone blocks the ads, advertisers
will stop paying that big money and sites like MySpace (which cost big money
to run) will have to charge users or simply shut down.

Hot diggity! Maybe I'll upload the bit of Chicago video we took while we were there sometime later. I wish we would have taken more, but hey, I was too busy experiencing it. Over and out.

dude doing a double front-kick

Wednesday: I get a message over MSN from Jacinda stating that her laptop, car keys and cell phone were stolen. This happened when she got up for three minutes to go to the bathroom. I was frustrated with the fact that someone would do that, and felt really bad for Jacinda and her predicament. So I went to save her from St. Cloud. Spent $40 to get her car unlocked and get a few things out and headed back to Willmar.

Thursday: Thanksgiving on the Doll's side in the morning - early afternoon. Good time. Went out to my Parents house, got a cell phone from them for Jacinda to use, played Nintendo Wii and ate pie. We decided we would try and get an HP laptop for $380 at Best Buy's Black Friday sale. We waited in line from 9:00pm to about 5:30am. Yikes. We got it, however! I slept all morning and half the afternoon.

Friday: When I woke up, I went to pick up Jacinda to get some legal stuff done for her car, etc. but nothing seemed to be going right. We did manage to get her a new car key which was REALLY nice. They were telling us we would have to tow he car in from st cloud otherwise. WTF? No thanks.

Saturday: we picked up her car, filed a police report and headed back to Willmar. It was also Jacinda's birthday! Happy Birthday!

It sucks that so much time and money had to be lost over someone's greed. In the end, however, God is good and despite the crappy circumstance, it couldn't have been a better time for it to happen.

Web design is kind of like the whole wheel thing. You can't reinvent wheels, but you can slap some spinners on them and make them awesome and exciting again.

-Nick Davis, 2006

Here are my responsibilities:

- Jacinda Doll
She is going to be my wife. With that in mind, Of course I am going to spend time (and a lot of it, at that) with her. It is my duty to make sure she is protected and taken care of.

- My Family
This is one I commonly take for granted, but wish I didn't. My family is amazing. They understand me and will always love me regardless.

- My Work
I work a lot. So what? I'm also going to be set for life. Besides house and school, I have virtually no chance of being in debt. That's important to me. The people who respect and love me realise that it is important to me and will let me accomplish this. Also, I do not want to be a financial burden to anyone. Including businesses and services.

- My House
It's where I live. It's also my most expensive purchase. My time is going to be invested in that, naturally. It's an investment and I must keep up with it. I haven't been doing a good job as is, but that will change soon in the future.

If you have a problem with those, then that is your problem. I like my priorities.

Over the weekend, Jacinda and I were able to start painting our living room. That was really exciting since we haven't really had the time to make much progress on it for the past month. I think it's going to look pretty sweet once we are done with it.

Unfortunately, Jacinda and I must have ate something over the weekend that didn't sit well with either of us. We felt really gross yesterday. Bleh. Great way to have a day off! ha. I'd rather be sick on a day off than a day I could be at work, though. We did get to watch Pride and Prejiduce, however. It's a pretty good movie!

1. After Two years and Five months, I am out a Jordan.
2. I am now getting married in January. Four months to go!
3. I am the brother of new child number eleven.
4. I have like twenty more blogs.
5. The pre-release of ASP.Net Atlas changed my view of web development.
6. I am a way better developer.
7. Something keeps beeping, but I can't find it (right now, it's just annoying me. Doesn't pertain to the actual list, just an FYI)
8. I learned Photoshop, it's bitchin'.
9. I started developing in Visual Studio 2005 using C#.
10. SQL 2000 to 2005 transition. I'm skeptical about 2005 right now. It's a beast.
11. I can buy liquor.
12. I am a brown belt
13. I interact with my neighbors way more.
14. I get a lot better sleep than before.
15. I listen to way more prog rock and southern rock than indie and hardcore.
16. My hair is four inches longer.
17. My living room looks worse than ever.

Oh yeah.

16. I got a raise at my job!!!!

Six months! Wow! That went fast! I feel like I just started here. I had my six month review yesterday and they said they were really pleased with my work and gave me some more stuff I'll be doing in the next six months. I almost appreciate the appreciation more than the raise itself. But the raise is nice, too. :-) It came at the perfect time, too, since I lost my roommates. It almost compensates for the loss. Another testament of God's blessing and desire to care after his children.

Other news, I wouldn't mind this shopping cart I'm working on magically finished itself. It's almost there, but I can't seem to get over the hump with it. I have another whole weekend, so hopefully that will get me done with it. I would like to catch up on my other work, I would like to go back to TKD and I would like to finish my living room. Oi!

Also, I love my fiance so much. She got me presents last night. Jacinda is so amazing and such a wonderful supporter and companion. I can't believe I get to marry her! It makes me really happy! I can't wait until we are living with eachother and develop our awesomeness with what we plan to do with our lives.