Waiting for Christmas Morning

Today was like waiting for Christmas morning for me. I am so stoked about getting back on the Pullman Fire Department. I cannot wait to sign the paperwork and get started on the things I need to go through before I can respond. I am so excited.

I spent the day at work with my thumb firmly planted. I did get to go to lunch with Peter. We went to Spud’s in Kirkland. We talked about our idea from last week. We were talking about the possible issues we would run into. It is like the old days with Peter in many ways. But I still have a hard time looking him in the eye.

After lunch I talked to Shawn, who is in town for a few days, about video editing. It has lit another fire under me to get my stuff going. I have been wanting to do it for a long time. I found some tutorials for using Adobe Premiere. They are all video files. I watched one and it was good. I downloaded everyone I could find. I was also informed that I would be getting a dev box, which I knew, but my old box was supposed to stay, but I was told they are going to blow it away. So I spent the evening going through the box, deleting stuff and moving other things to the server so I could put it back on my box when it was done being reimaged. I hate going through it. I hate to change my box once I have it set up.

I left work around four-fifty, because there was nothing more to do. On my way home I had to get some gas. I was there and this weird guy was washing the widows of his old van with two squeegees at once. We was wearing a military BDU jacket with a bunch of what looked like misplaced ribbons and metals. He came over and asked if I could spare some money so he could get to North Bend. The guy who was in the driver seat seemed like a zombie. He did not move. It was like he was not animated at all. Really strange.

I got back on the road, and the total trip time from work to home was an hour. I hate this commute so much. It will be nice to not have to do it everyday.

I carried the TV I won on the short bus upstairs by myself. It was super heavy. I set it up in my room and took my VCR, DVD, and TV set out to the shop to hook up to the computer I have out there for video editing. I turned on the computer and found Windows ninety-Eight was in the middle of an install. That was the last state of the computer when Jon turned it off before he gave it to me. It could use a gig of RAM. Right now it has half of that. The biggest problem is the small ten gig HD. I am going to need to buy another one. I should get at least eighty to one hundred gig, if not more. I was not able to get anything going on the computer because it did not have the correct OS. I will have to install a new OS with some other upgrades.

But I hope next week I can start with my video editing. I went to my room and watched some TV on my new TV set before drifting off to sleep.