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From 2007 and into 2008.

2007 will always remain the year that presented new ways of thinking and challenges. If there was ever a year that was consistent in change, this would be it for me. The year started out with my parents moving to York, PA. I remained in Columbus for three months. In late March, I ended a 5 year career with UPS and packed up everything I could fit in my car and traveled to New York City to live with my sister. That proved to be a rough yet fun 5 months. In September, I once again packed everything in the car and returned to Columbus. The 8 months prior to this helped me find out who I was and what I wanted to do. My intention by returning to Ohio was to finish school. This is my only objective now. I began the process of returning to Ohio State and began exploring my career field more deeply. As the year came to a close, I changed into a more responsible and humble person. I now have motivating goals and dreams. I know have the courage to finish what I started. I met loads of new friends, experienced things I could never experience living in one city, and learned valuable lessons that will remain with me for ever. As I move into  2008, I know my goals and know what needs to be done to meet these goals. 2008 will now be the year of rebuilding and hard work. Come 2009, I will be almost half way to my goals.

Christmas and Weddings

December is proving to be a month full of activities. I don’t mind this, but I do miss how slow it seemed that Christmas came. As a child, it always took too long. As an adult, it comes and goes quicker then a passing car.

This past weekend, my good friend and past rommate, Karl, got married. I had the honor of being his best man. This entailed not only a speech, but ensuring that everything is taken care of while they enjoy a nice week in Jamacia.

I can not wait to see my family in a few days. I am planning a trip to Pittsburgh for Christmas. It will be short since I have work to do back here, but it will be worth every sparing minute.

I inherited a laptop this week. It sports a pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor and ATI graphics. The WXGA screen is nice and is just as good as my monitors on the desktop machine. Ubuntu installs smoothly and detects the ATI card just fine. The only thing that needed down was to install the bcm43xx firmware. That too 2 seconds once plugged into the internet. So far I am happy.

One More Year

Welp, I turned 26 today. I think this calls for a review of the last year of my life.

At the age of 25, I can only call this the year of change. I quit UPS, my parents and sister moved out of Ohio, and I moved to NYC. 25 was the age that I learned who I was and who I wanted to be. I went on a mission to find out what I wanted to do with my life.  I wanted to know where I would be in 10 years. To help aid my search, I moved to New York City in March. There I learned that life has a lot more then just college and drinking. I learned that I have potential and talents that society needs. Because of this, I decided to move back to Ohio to complete my education and increase my experience in the field I felt I was good at. I also used my experience and lessons learned to keep in mind that NYC was where I wanted to live. That is the fuel I am using to get through school. I know from the bottom of my soul that I want to go back to NYC after college. That is the lifestyle I want to live. I love the bustle of city life. Ya it is nice living in the suburbs and having cars to go anywhere, but being able to meet so many different kinds of people in a square block is more important to me. The bottom line for me is that I want to prove not only to myself, but to my friends and family that I am someone great. This is important to me. Why? Because I want them to be proud of me in every aspect. They know that I have a kind heart, but they don’t know that I am capable of great things. I never seem to follow through with what I say. Times have changed. I _have_ to follow thorough with everything. The move back to Ohio was good and bad at the same time. My friends are awesome. They have expressed nothing but gratitude for my return. They know my potential. They know that I am capable of great things. They also know that they now have the chance to see my evolve to that. I am thankful for it. I am thankful I have family that cares for me. If not for them, I would be some junkie on the streets. I know this.

That’s all I have for now. Its a bunch of rambling, but it is all true. Thank God for everything. Thank God for me and my family and friends. I would do anything for them.

Working Again

So I am working again. This is nothing noteworthy in any way. What is noteworthy is that I am in the planning and implementation stages of starting my own company. I just finished up one proposal with a company and will have to begin to draw up others in the coming weeks. I have not settled on a company name or anything like that…it will come in time.

Sitting and Waiting

Back in Ohio for some weeks now. Not much going down as usual. Just trying to get things put back in order with jobs and school. Feeling optimistic about everything, just missing New York already. Ready to push hard the next few years and get this whole school idea done.

Under the Sun

Vacation was nice! Perhaps it was just the fact of being somewhere 600 miles away from anywhere I lived. Perhaps it was the beach that I could actually swim in. To any effect, it was needed.

So the move from New York back to Ohio for school is almost here. The move will be simple. This desicion was made in order to work solely on school.

Vacations, Life, and Goals

So today starts my first real vacation in a very long time. It seems odd to me that at the most simple and poorest time of my life, I get a real vacation. Any trips taken in the last 5 years was a trip with a purpose other then to relax. This week is different. The only goal _is_ to relax. The family and I are heading down to Hilton Head, SC to tour, golf, and swim.

A descison  has been made about my life and it’s future. I am moving out of New York and headed right back to Columbus. I decided this because I really want to return to Ohio State in the next year. It makes sense from a financial standpoint to return while I am still a legal resident of Ohio. Does this mean I hate New York? No. I can tell you that I will miss it very much and plan to return after I am done with college. Going to the city and working a job that just pays the bills was a big buzz killer and made it very hard to do more fun things in my free time. I did accomplish what I set out to do and that is important. I figured out who I am and how much harder life really can be. I know what I want and I know what I have to do. Now it is time to use this knowledge.

Websites, Football, and Trips

Been waiting for what seems like the better part of a week while the phoenixpb.com domain was being updated. It has been down since mid-July and has cut off email for a few players. Today, the domain allowed me to reset it to the server, so things should be ok once the DNS servers re-populate in the next few hours.

Joined a fantasy football league with the boys back in Ohio. We shall see how I fair in this game of pretend football.

Spent the better part of this week driving from the City to Ohio to try and retrieve the last of my personal items. Managed to get everything in the car except the TV and nightstand. I have a truck reserved for October to go and get the last of those items. I am also planning a trip to Hilton Head with the family next week in attempt to have somewhat of a summer.

Other then those items, not much else going on in Harshyland.

MTA Woes

Welp, what an interesting night it became. A friend from work had an underwear party at a bar just down from Times Square. Not too much going on there except the mass amount of buldge and a few good looking girls. I jus had a few beers. We go to the subway and my metrocard is expired. So I jump over the turnstile. That cost me a $60 fine. Word of advise here…don’t jump turnstiles even when no cops are around.

Still on the hunt for a good job in the city. Refining my resume has become hard, but I think I can find the right place for me to begin my career.

Updates and Plans

OK, so I finally finished moving all my blogs over to a central location. This ment conversion of over 150 entries over the last 4 years. Also, now I just post in this one location and everything else gets updated as well.

Planning on a trip to C-Bus at the end of the month to retrieve the last of my stuff and get it to the city. The lease at the old place is up on the 31st and I need that stuff moved by then. I also got word that the old car is sold. Now we just have to finalize the details on pick-up.