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So I will be starting a new job tomorrow.  I must say that I am very much looking forward to returning to the working world.  This job will be similar to my previous job, however it will deal more with security and safety devices, then it will with audio and radio devices.  At least that is what I gather.

Similar to my previous job, this job will not be a desk job, and will include a lot of inspections and repairs in the field, which will keep things interesting.  The position requires working on equipment spread throughout the city, on roof tops, and in underground utility tunnels.  So it is diverse.

I do not believe I get a desk with this position, as it will mostly be field work, or work in the shop I imagine, but that is fine by me I suppose.  It keeps me active which is good.

So I am very happy, and I hope my 4 year gap in employment doesn’t set me behind too much.  I want to do well, and EARN a living once again.

I wasn’t sure I would be able to land a decent job such as this.  I had begun to loose hope that a married white male (especially one who is an immigrant) could land a decent job.  But with this position, I look forward to perhaps owning my own home within the next 2 years.

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My birthday is fast approaching, and I just wanted to take the time to go over some of the things I have been up to lately.  For one,  my best friend here in Buffalo lost his house last month, so it has been tough for him to try to cope.  Damn foreclosures…   So I have tried to be there for him and keep him company.  On that note, he got me into a pharmacy delivery job, where we work as a driver under a contract to deliver medications to nursing homes and such.  I rode along with my friend on several runs, even heading down to the Southern Tier and the Pennsylvania border.  It was alright work, however there is a catch.  For one, it only pays .39 cents a mile, and about 1.50 or so per stop.  Usually you get about 10 stops, so that really doesn’t amount to much.

It ended up costing as much as you make at the place, per day.  The surcharges on your ‘rental’ of your scanning device, plus your uniform fee, plus a number of other things you must pay for weekly…  Not to mention the gas money, which comes out of your own pocket, and is not reinversed.  So all in all you do not make much doing this job, and in the end it will cost you more on maintnance of your vehicle then you are making.  A pizza delivery job would be much much better then this.

So I never went through with that.  Which is likely a good thing.  I must say that my wife is pleased, as she thought it was a scam right off the bat.

I have a major interview coming up with a major local company, so I hope that goes well.  Otherwise I am still looking.

Team Fortress 2 update:

My Team Fortress 2 server is moving along nicely.  As a clan, we are continuing back to the basics.  Applications and interest had gone through the roof, and we were not really prepared for that.  In order to retain the family feel of the clan, we have decided to revert to a invite only policy again.  At the same time, we plan on making the server more entertaining and including more theme nights.

I am still working on the bylaws for the clan…  That is work in progress for me.

The servers are running great, and I have nothing negative to report.

Social / Family Life:

I ended up going to Fort Erie to watch my sister skate over the weekend.  It was fun, and surprisingly quite interesting.  I basically grew up in an arena when I was younger, as her skating was a serious thing when she was younger.  Her team did alright, and I am proud of her for sticking with her interests, even when it demands so much from her.

I ended up also meeting my mother there, and it was very nice to see her.  My grandmother is not doing very well, and my mothers side of the family have been taking turns being with her to keep her company.

New Project

I am working on a new project, Railsexy.com – Yes I know it is a copy of hamsexy in a way, but my intentions are similar;  To get the younger generation interested in rail fanning.  I am currently looking for any input and assistance in running that website.  I want it to be a community project.  It is indeed a wiki, as well as a photo gallery.  Please check it out and offer some feedback, if your interested in trains at all.  www.railsexy.com

Dawn of Discovery / ANNO 1404: Venice

I have pre-ordered ANNO 1404: Venice (Dawn of Discovery: Venice), and hope to write a detailed article about it to enforce my other articles regarding the game.  Venice edition is an expansion which will offer multiplayer capability and co-op modes.  As well as a new playstyle, and many new objects, and missions.  I am looking forward to it.

I do plan to write a single page which will link all my ANNO 1404 articles together.

Scajaquada Rails

Scajaquada Rails is a new Trainz 2009 route I am working on.  The work is going quickly, and I should have the basic scenery done on the first phase of this route within the week.  You can read more about this route here:  http://www.railsexy.com/tiki-index.php?page=Scajaquada+Railways

All in all, that is about all that is about all that is really going on.  Fun stuff I know

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I had a rather interesting dream just now.  I was some kind of driver.  Either delivering long haul cross country items in my own car, or just the fact that I liked driving and seemed to have an unlimited amount of gas money.  Either way the dream starts off with myself driving along a country road during a storm.  Up ahead I see a tornado which crosses the road infront of me.  I was climbing a hill, and the fields were perfectly green fields on either side of me.  I could see for miles.

Upon reaching the intersection where the tornado crossed (it was a small tornado) I stopped to see if there was anyone I needed to help.  I didn’t see any damage on the various buildings, so I continued onward.  My destination was a place I could not recognize on a map, but lets just say it was in the middle of nowhere , and kinda northern.

A lot of time and miles went by as green rolling hills of crops turned into boreal forests…

I remember a female sometimes rode with me, but she often had her own routes too.  For some reason, this female and myself were together in this northern town.  I remember being in a crown vic, with lights of course.  But no interior.  I remember sitting in a wooded parking lot, for no particular reason, watching a train pass.  For some odd reason, the road we needed to use was also a railroad, and thus we needed the line to be clear to continue driving up the road.   It was snowy, and the only path on this strange road were narrow tire tracks in the snow, alongside the rails for the train.  The line cleared and we advanced northward.

We got up to a small settlement of a few houses nestled away in a forest up the line a bit…  Just in time to clear yet another train.  We rang the doorbell of one house and were welcomed inside.  Inside I was greeted by the owners, and some sort of bionic or seriously genetically modified dog, which looked kinda like a giant crab.  There was another giant crab thing which had just died.   Its corpse was visible from the hallway.  The inside of the cabin was dark and candle lit.

We talked about the dog, and about how it was dying.  Then we left.  The two of us split ways, The female had to go back to another town about 200 miles away for something and I had to head in another direction.  We were sad because we knew we wouldn’t see each other for some time.  We said our goodbyes, and each departed in separate vehicles, which was strange seeming as we arrived in one.

These were just fragments of the main story that I remembered, but the dream ended right then.

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My dream lastnight was rather interesting.  The part I remember started off on a bridge or causeway over the water.  Myself and a female were both standing on the causeway for some reason, and we both had weapons.  This seemed to be a semi post apolocalyptic world where there was no order.  Anyhow, the causeway started to collapse and the girl and myself were able to save ourselves by running towards land, and eventually diving into the water and swimming.  Regrouping on shore, the condominiums and other buildings along the shore posed collapse hazards as well.  While it looked like some of them were still occupied, as a wind picked up, and dust rose, the situation semed to become more serious and threatening.  The girl and myself navigated inland, in such a way as to avoid going near the taller buildings.  The ground was covered with what I thought was snow, but could of also been dust or sand of some sort.

Inland we met up with some others like us,  Some sort of survivalist resistance movement.  We moved together into the countryside.  Following a dirt road, with small plankboard huts build on stilts a foot or two above the ground on either side.   They were unoccupied.  Eventually we heard a vehicle coming down the road.  We hid under one of the huts.  We hid because apparently the only people using vehicles now, was a military regime, which was kind of a makeshift security force.  And they have a reputation of killing people like us.

The convoy passes by, but people are looking under the huts.  Most of my team is able to scurry out from under the hut undetected and run to cover when they aren’t looking, except i hesitate and am eventually found.  They pull me out and bring over a scanner.  At this time, everyone has implanted ID tags in their forearm.  They scan mine, and see I have no record.  So they ask if I wanted to join them…   I agreed and picked up a rocket launcher, and followed.

At their command post I was shown a lot of secrets about how they are able to track people, and whatnot.  I remember becoming a double agent from there on out, however the dream becomes fuzzy and that is when I began to wake up…    This is a reoccuring dream I think, as I do kinda remember this one from the past as well.

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I rarely remember dreams, but I do have them often.  I find I am able to somewhat control my dreams as well.  Although they often prohibit me from doing what I want…   Sure my dreams can be a bit strange, but they are dreams and they are basically rides we usually just go with the flow with.  Here are some examples of my dreams.   There will also be follow ups with other dreams as I remember them.  There is a new category called Dreams. 

December 29th 2009

This dream took place primarily in my basement at Roman Road.  I was a teenager, and most of the time the dream consisted of a classroom environment where I was in a sort of class.  Mainly an art class.   I remember drawing maps and schematics, when I should of been drawing art, however it was okay since it was what I enjoyed to do.  I also remember planning and working on a model railroad layout.  I also remember 2 teachers, one was my french teacher from grade school, and another was another teacher from grade school who I can’t place.  I would flirt with both of them in the back rooms of the class, and their responses were hesitant reluctance.  There was also a fragment of the dream where one of these teachers was a paramedic or doctor, and she had to examine me in her office after I falsely complained of having an injury.  I could tell she knew I was lying, but she continued and seemed to enjoy it.

December 30th 2009

Tonights dream was about a IRL capture the flag game which takes place on the shores of a lake near a downtown core of a city.  However this was a natural shoreline, not a man made shoreline.  Regardless, there were 2 teams, and some of the players were actually also players on TF2*.  I remember having semi-perminant bases (read: blue tarps, set up as makeshift tents) set up in groves of bushes and long grass on the shore of a lake, and in some cases we left some semi valuable gods down in the bases overnight (i.e. a tablet PC for some sort of editing purpose).  As for weapons,  weapons similat to TF2 were used…  Unsure how that translated to real life.  I remember personally being a battle engie and setting up a turrent quickly in the other teams base…

*Apparently I lived in a apartment building near the shore, and so did a few players.  One of them was a female – we lived on the same floor…  I remember preparing for a big game, and she had a bunch of people for her team over.   Sadly that is all I remember.

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