1:15pm Lunch was good. NOt much going on aside form hiding from my mother cause she's stressed and its a recipe for getting yelled at to be around. Good news jsut before I left that the repairs to my newers cars AC are gonna be about a third of what the former owners said. The dealership lied to their faces and told them that the compressor and hose was bad for a total of 1200 dollars. But the guy from my church that I go to for car repairs says its a control rod in the dash and when they switched it with a temp it cooled down jsut fine. so 400 dollars for total repair. Tricking poor people like that makes me really pissed. I mean how could you run a business where you lie to the customers face to screw them over. Pisses me off......anyways since the car will be in for 4 or 5 days it means that almsot 100% for certain I willl be taking the pickup truck to Amarillo and San Antonio which means 3 good sized people in a small truck for about 750 miles.....at least I'll get to sit next to the cute girl...but man alive its gonna be cramped. Maybe I should think of that as a benefit. Anywho thats about all that I'm thinking right now. See ya'll around an hour. -God Bless, Ferris :D
2:45 pm Yo slow afternoon although the drafting is going well I've almost got the foundation laid out the way I want it but I have to figure out how to cut a large chunk out of this concrete and its giving me fits. Just now bossman came in and gave me another project I ahve to buy two pumps for this tank project gotta go hunting through the catalogs for the right pumps.....its rather satisfying cause I'm actually using something I learned in college...crazy thought....I was thinking for a bit about posting some things I'd been thinking about women in my life, but I think they'd cause too much of a stir for the moment....I'll talk about my story and my QT habits later. Gotta get back to slogging through the jobs. -God Bless, Ferris :D (mocking you for no good reason since 1983)
3:35pm Allright last post and much to speak of. Talking to my boss about pumps. He's looking at pumps on ebay and floored by the sheer number of them. So I'm back here continuing to do design work. Allright so I said I'd tlak about my story and quiet time habits. Story first....I go running every morning at 5:45 am or so and during the run I've been working on a story in my head. It ain't much right now since none of it is on paper, but I'm thinking I could probably activate my computers voice software and talktype it for a few minutes everyday during school and have a manuscript by the end of the year. It's a good story too...its set post apocaplypse and is more or less a "Christian" story. I make no claims of being a good writer or anything but I'm pretty good at crafting stories. I think most people would enjoy it....but then again I could jsut be being arrogant and pridefully blinded....but maybe not. The quiet time is a better story right now anyways, since if I told you too much about the story you may never go buy it if it gets published :wink: So anyways I've never been a big fan of preachers and teachers who tlaked aobut "needing" a quiet time....it always seemed very legalistic and while I didn't debate the value of a quiet time I debated the idea that everyone needed them. I jsut studied and prayed when I felt like it, but not on any schedule. Well I went to visit A&A in amarillo(friends, married, small apartment) and one morning I woke up and sleeping on the floor in the living room I was too sleepy still to go running yet and didn't want to go back to sleep and I couldn't move around much because Ana(the wife)'s best friend was sleeping on the couch bed across the room and she's an incredibly light sleeper and I didn't want to wake her. So I sat there crosslegged and didn't know what else to do so I started to pray and about 20 minutes later when I felt done and ready to move I grabbed my Bible and did the "daily proverb" study and then a psalm and then a story from the gospels....it was the birth of a habit.....every day since then I ahven't missed or forgotten I look forward to it and I get to pray for all my friends and things to boot. Not only that but I've seen no less than 3 prayers answered in ways that let me know that God wanted me to know aobut them...its been incredible. I know some people out there will say things like I couldn't remember to do it every morning or its not for me or how do you do it....and its pretty simple I force myself to realize that if I can get up every morning early early to go run, then surely I can get up early early early and start my day off right....the discipline is the same just towards a different subject. Its been a great thing I'm glad I've passed the point of habit forming so I can continue to do it even as school starts. Its gonna be a good school year I think. Well I think thats all for now. I can't think any more....my brain is overloading after this day of work. Soon it will be tiem to go home and face my mother and an evening of party stuff.....wonderful.....but I'll face it with a smile! WOO! this weekend is gonna rock!!! :D :D :D God Bless you and keep you may his face shine upon you until our next meeting. - Ferris (coming from another ordinary day) :D 8)
:D Short update to be typed inbetween working thorughout today. There's a lot I want to tlak about. Tons going on. Tons not going on.
9:05 am Coffee Time. Little Sister Laura is engaged now. Her fiance is Josh, good guy but a bit under motivated. I like him though he is good for her and vice versa. I've got tons of things going on outside of work and its hard to concentrate. School is coming up quick, I still have no money, I have a car but it don't work right yet, I haven't sold my old car yet. My friend Adam's surgery went well, he'll be laid up for a few weeks at least,so I'm praying for him cause he and his wife are expecting in January and don't qualify for medicare for baby costs. I'm gonna go visit them this ocming week and I'm pretty excited. Work is fun stuff again instead of sweltering in the August heat.....always nice.....thats it for right now....I'm gonna try and do this little "stream of conciousness" thing for the rest of the day.....maybe every hour or so....we'll see :D - God Bless...Ferris :D
10:15 am Back again. Work picked up for a little bit and then backed off again. Finished a draft for a tank layout......8000 gallons of vegetable oil......I'm sleepy stayed up too late playing video games and avoiding doing my correspondence work. It so stupid....my parents figured that I had all this free time in the evenings for doing a correspondence class and instead it turned out like I said I have no time in the evenings because I come home from work brain dead and can't think of my name much less an obscure court decision from 1823. Now some may sya that if I focused I could get it done. I tried this for 2 weeks in that two weeks of focusing and really working I ALMOST finished one lesson. So now instead of jsut finishing a summer out without incident I get to go back to my horrible class schedule with a 1/6th finished political science class to do before december.....bleh. I wont' complain to much it ain't worth it cause now I can't change anything it jsut has to happen. Yeah for those of you who know me I'm selling my little beetle. I'm gonna miss her. She was a good car. Victoria Celas was her name (its a long story) she earned it and deserved it, but her mileage was too high and I needed a car that is sure to get me back and forth from Tech for a few more years. I took the MCAT in april waited till june and got my scores. I didn't study for this one...I wanted to see how I could do with no practice just going in completely blind. I scored a 33Q which puts me in the 89-92 percentile. Extremely cool for not studying which means now I have all of my advisors and family asking me about med school....not really what I was shooting for....but maybe it means I can get some extra loan money or something....I dunno....back to work for now....this blogging style is not bad....I'm getting more of whats on my mind down than usual.....we'll see where it takes us later -God Bless, Ferris :D
11:25 am Back to busy for a bit. My boss keeps changing his mind about how the tank layout should look. He's got this thing where no matter what the design it needs to look exaclty like how he sees it in his head. NO big deal really I mean he is the boss and I get paid no matter what I'm doing....but good grief 4 revisions in an hour? Total revisions too not jsut little changes....its like he's sacraficing red pens over my drafts...Anyways not important to.....Crap...boss jsut walked in and triple complicated the project.....well there goes the rest of my summer....now he needs full P&I's, plu foundation drawings, the layout, pipe racks, controls and the set up for the day tank....darn it....I was enjoying my biodiesel work too...Ah well sundays coming and with it a long road trip, a cute girl, one of my best friends, then the other one of my best friends and his wife....man its gonna be great....boy I'm hungry.....I wish lunch came faster...only since my mother is stressed right now theres been no bread for two days....so its leftovers if there are any....but tonight since my British missionary friends family is leaving thursday mom is cooking them a traditional thanksgiving dinner which means stuffing. I LOVE STUFFING. Then at 7 my little sisters engagement party starts....that'll be come and go till 9.....which is allright cause I'll jsut go hide in my upstairs apartment thing....but that'd be antisocial....so I'll jsut eat all of the hordeuveuvres and call it a night. Well I'm not thinking aobut much except for lunch right now and this load of project that just got dumped on me.....but I'll end this for now and start a new post after lunch.....this update thing didn't work so well for this entry....but really well for the first two.....I guess I jsut can't type what I'm thinking fast enough....remind me to mention my quiet time habits and my story in my head habits this afternoon God Bless ahve some good lunch! - Ferris :D
