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I am in my second day alone.  Everyone else is off to Lillies.  I didn’t go because really, I don’t think John really wanted me there.  I get the same feeling about VisionCon.  Why you ask?  Well, mostly because John will allow me to follow him around and then he will go off to a party and get totally wasted and I won’t be invited to come.  You would think that I would just follow him, but he finds ways to sneak off.  I just figured that the same thing would happen at Lillies and I didn’t want to be stuck hanging around a bunch of naked fat guys who wish they were in the Middle Ages.  Granted, I do WWII reenacting, but that’s different, that’s not a haven for nake fat guys.  WWII reenacting is a haven for old guys who either never entered the military or were in the military and are too old to fight in a war.  Oh, yeah, and there’s a few racist old guys who wish they were in the military.  I steer away from them.  I figured I wouldn’t have fun at Lillies and nobody would care if I was there or not.  John and Holly complained to Lexy and I about how they usually just sit around alone with nobody to hang out with.  However, over the next few weeks, they kept telling us about all these friends they were going to hang out with there.  Huh?  Do they hang out with people or not?  Oh well, too late for me to continue bitching about this as I am alone today and tomorrow.  Then I have to go to this BBQ this weekend for Lexy’s family.  I, however, don’t really want to go since I have to work next weekend Saturday and Sunday.  Then, after the shoot on Sunday morning, I have to go to the studio and do some editing work.  That Sunday’s going to be a long day.  Well, wish me luck as I attempt to avoid boredom.

So far this week I’ve been working on a lot of stats for a WWII airplane game.  I have 29 pages of aircraft from Germany, Britain, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., and France.  It was a lot of hard work, but I finally got it done.  I have to finish the army book I was working on, but that shouldn’t be too hard.  Other than those things I’ve been watching the FIFA World Cup.  Pretty much, I’m rooting for England, but I would like to see a Germany / England final, that would be exciting.  Germany has always been a strong World Cup contender, but so has England.  I’d like to see Japan do well, but I can’t really expect them to win against Australia.  In case you guys are curious, the US had their first game today and lost 0-3 to the Czech Republic.  The US, by the way, it rated at 80 to 1 to win the world cup in one English pub.  I also found out that one of Manchester United’s greatest players, midfielder Roy Keane (even though he signed onto the Celtic team in December), is retiring from football.  At least Man U’s striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy and goal keeper Edwin Van der Sar are still there.  Even though they both are playing for the Netherlands in the World Cup.  Oh well, my wish to watch the games when I want has made me realize that I can’t really avoid knowing the score before I watch the game.  Oh well.  I’m out.

I realized I haven’t really updated this in a while, so here you go.  Let’s see.  I was in Jeff City over the last weekend.  I had to help out on a Tying Bench shoot on Sunday.  I rode up to JC with John on Friday, so he had to take to me to the shoot at around 8:15am.  Then we had to wait around for 15 minutes before anyone else showed up.  John and Holly were gonna stick around because Shaun was supposed to be there (at least I thought) and John is a really good friend of Shaun’s.  Well he wasn’t there, so John and Holly left.  The shoot was relatively boring as I don’t really connect well with anyone there.  Then as we were packing up, John and Holly came back to pick me up.  Damn fine timing if you ask me.  The rest of that day, we just hung around.  John and Holly napped a little.  Well, Holly took a nap, John dozed off occasionally when we were watching some TV.  We headed home around 7pm that night, I got Holly and John some gas in Sedalia  (as well as myself a soda, eating only jerky for a day makes you thirsty) for driving me around all weekend.  Since then, I haven’t really been doing much over this week.  We did get a new digital thermostat for the apartment and I already notice how much more efficient it is.  It actually turns off when the apartment reaches the desired temperature.  The apartment manager actually got some of our broken stuff fixed after a long while.  The bedroom bathroom now has a toilet handle that is not jury-rigged (yeah, that was me) and our sink has an actual sprayer that works.  So, yeah, like I said, not a whole lot going on.  John and I have been working on some things for some games he’s designing and I’m typing up the army book for the side I play in his WWII table top game.  It’s long and tedious, but worth it and I’m done with the super long vehicle section, so another day or two of work and I’ll be done.  I also wrote a program that will make certain conversions for a aircraft-based game John has a lot easier.

Oh, on an unrelated note.  I do a lot of websurfing while I write up these long entries, which is why I take so long writing them.  Anyway, open up Google Earth and go to coordinates:
    53°21′51.77″N
    1°20′2.97″W
You might be amused by what you find there.  I know I was.  Ok, I’m out on that note.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ml-tJuQ3o