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Before I went on my break from blogging that one time, I used a service called Blog Snob. Well, that site was taken over and still offers ads but it’s not the same as it was. This new site, popk.net, has everything that Blog Snob had and it seems to be quite snappy.

I look forward to the new traffic and I recommend that if you blog and aren’t a member, join the network.

I’m going to try and blog here more often. I’m paying to have this site here and I have the domain for 2 years so I might as well exercise what it is for. It was odd to look back at the Internet Wayback Machine and see that I had almost 2 years of postings once.

That was back when I was new to blogging and had the time and enthusiam to do so. I think I am ready to start doing it again, but I don’t know what that is going to work out with my schedule. Sometimes I need an outlet and this can be a valuable resource for me.

At work, I was suppose to be promoted up to Customer Service and that deal fell through and me quite upset. Now that I look at it, it’s not all that bad. It would have been a $0.20/hr raise which is not that much in the big scheme of things. I now have my focus on getting into Management.

I took the test that qualifies you for a Management position and I passed. I am hoping that a CSM position comes open soon and I can get in to that program. I would really like the experience. Working for Wal-Mart has been an experience like no other. It’s not near as bad as most make it out to be.

School is driving me crazy. I really can tell that I have no desire to be there. I know that I need to pass my classes to get a degree to earn more and get out of the bottom of the bucket but it just feels like I’m stretching myself too thin. I guess 12 hours of school and 34 hours of work is more than 40 hours a week. It’s crazy with me never having the days where I can just sleep anymore.

Since I work in retail, I never have the weekends off. My days off are always during the week when I have classes in the morning. So that basically means I never have a day where I am able to just sleep and do nothing all day. The first day that is going to happen is on Thanksgiving this year. However, I’ll be doing all the festive things so I will be too busy to sleep.

It’s all good though. I am having a hard time with this entry. I was trying to clean my return key yesterday and when I snapped it off, I broke the little plastic hook so I have to go all the way across town to the Apple Store to see if they can get me a new key or if the whole keyboard has to be replaced. That’s not what I want to happen. I really enjoy the way this keyboard types. The other iBooks I’ve used click too much.

Rudy is still great though. He keeps me going to school even when I don’t want to. My life revolves around 3 things lately and it’s rough. I have to balance him, work and school together and still have time to sleep. Haha. I’m excited though that since I have this tuesday off and he has to work, I kinda have the day to myself.

Since it’s going to be the week of Thanksgiving, Dad has the whole week off. He and I are going to spend my tuesday off together. It’s difficult living 30 minutes away and working all the weekends to really get a chance to spend time with him. I really enjoy the time we have together but it sucks that it has to be so few and far between.

It makes me happy to hang out with him. We’re gonna put down some flooring in the house. He teaches me all the little things that I may need to know one day to save a boat load of money. It should be fun to do some repairs.

But that’s all I have for you right now. That really touches up on everything that’s been going on. There’s not much more for me to say these days. I can already feel the fullness from Thanksgiving dinner and it’s still about a week away.

Til Next Time, Ryan

So, I have finally decided to give up on changing the name of this blog to stupid things and go back to the name I started with in 2003. That’s right, I have been writing this blog since 2003. What I would give to have the original posts from way back then. I was just looking on the Internet Archive and some of them are on there. One page of my blog shows that I had over a year worth of posting.

I wish I wouldn’t have deleted everything. I should have stood my ground then and never caved but I was too afraid of consequences that couldn’t really have happened. What I’d give to have 3 years of posts on here.

Alas though, there’s no way that is going to happen. I’m having to start from scratch. And it’s true, I have lost my blogging touch. I used to blog more than once a day. That was before I had full time school and almost full time work. Now I’m lucky to be able to sit down and think anymore.

I am really going to attempt to go back to my roots and see if I can’t get this thing running again. I had an amazing blog with a marvelous fan base, most of the blogs aren’t even online anymore, and I’d like to take myself back to that place.

There will probably be a lot of crap that you won’t want to hear about, but hey, just listen to it. If you don’t like it, you can always leave a comment saying that was a waste of your life. But remember to come back because you never know when I might make a message about something that can benefit your life.

-Ryan