Brando's Blog

I had a phone interview for an internship with Penn National Insurance where Linda Leo works. I pretty much know that I won't be hired because Linda told me that they are looking for someone who can stay on part time in the fall. Oh well. Interviewing skills are good to develope and when they call me back I'll have them keep me on file anyway. Given my summer plans I didn't have that much time to work anyway. I don't know what I'll do for work while at home. Maybe work in Duncannon or downtown at a restaurant or something. Who knows. I've got money saved up and I have the rest of my life to work, so whatever I can find is good enough for me. Go to go to class now. Bye!

I'm going to go to the Frasers' tomorrow morning to hang out with them until Lindsay's flight comes in. She is scheduled to arrive at midnight. I'm not sure what time that means we'll actually get out of the airport but it will probably be pretty late. That's okay. I'm going to get plenty of sleep tonight. I can't wait. Yay!

Here's the first revision. I knew Pam and Dan were getting married this summer I just didn't know when.

• May 23 - Pam and Dan's wedding (very close friends of both Lindsay and I,Lindsay is a bridesmaid)

Now here's the whole thing all over:

• May 6 - End of classes, I go to Linday's
  
• May 7 - Kelly and Kym's wedding (friends of Lindsay's)
  
• May 14 - Lindsay's Aunt Sue's 50th birthday party
  
• May 15 - I return home (YAY!)
  
• May 20 - I go to Pittsburgh for a meeting with some SRU friends on the 21st
  
• May 21 - Meeting then home in the evening
  
• May 22 - The Family May Holiday Bash in Duncannon
  
• May 23 - Pam and Dan's wedding (very close friends of both Lindsay and I,Lindsay is a bridesmaid)
  
• May 27-30 - Cruise
  
• June 3-5 - To Pittsburgh for Lindsay's birthday (I can't say what we're doing because she might read it here)
  
• June 11-18 - Beach
  
• July 1 - I go to Natrona Heights for the remainder of the summer
  
• August 6-13 Beach
  
• August (somewhere after the 15 before the 22) - I go back to SRU to develop a training program for the new network assistants
  
• August 22 - Training for new RNAs begins
  
• August 29 - Classes begin

I've got one last paper to write, then I've gotta take my finals, then I'm outta here!

This is a rough draft so please let me know if there is anything that I need to change:

• May 6 - End of classes, I go to Linday's
  
• May 7 - Kelly and Kym's wedding (friends of Lindsay's)
  
• May 14 - Lindsay's Aunt Sue's 50th birthday party
  
• May 15 - I return home (YAY!)
  
• May 20 - I go to Pittsburgh for a meeting with some SRU friends on the 21st
  
• May 21 - Meeting then home in the evening
  
• May 22 - The Family May Holiday Bash in Duncannon
  
• May 27-30 - Cruise
  
• June 3-5 - To Pittsburgh for Lindsay's birthday (I can't say what we're doing because she might read it here)
  
• June 11-18 - Beach
  
• July 1 - I go to Natrona Heights for the remainder of the summer
  
• August 6-13 Beach
  
• August (somewhere after the 15 before the 22) - I go back to SRU to develop a training program for the new network assistants
  
• August 22 - Training for new RNAs begins
  
• August 29 - Classes begin

I know.. that's crazy isn't it. There isn't much I can do about it though. C'est la Vie. I'm planning on working both while I'm at home and living with the Frasers, so money shouldn't be too much of an issue. Let me know if I need to put anything else in there for anyone. I'm sure this can't be everything :(

The show was sweet. Trace Adkins was okay. His songs aren't my favorite though. Chris Cagle and the Povertyneck Hillbillies played great shows though. Especially the Hillbillies. Quite a few people showed up. Many were from the community and not students. There were some people in crazy cowboy gear and the like. It was a good show and lots of fun.

I'm going to a country concert tonight at SRU. I'll be seeing Trace Adkins and the Povertyneck Hillbillies. I've not seen Trace Adkins before but I like his song "Songs about me". I have seen the Povertyneck Hillbillies before. They actually came to SRU last year. They are small but quickly up and coming band. The last time they were here they played in the MPR (a small room for presentations) and now they are playing the ARC (the entire gym complex) and accompanying Trace Adkins who is a huge name. I'm going with Joshie and my friend Mu (his last name is Mudrak). It should be fun!

I haven't posted this info before out of disappointment. Relay for Life was cancelled part way through. It rained the whole time. I started my shift walking at 3am in the pouring rain. At about 4:30 the lightening started. Everyone was moved inside a university building that had a track and so I finished out my shift until 7am there. At about 9am the event was called. It was still raining. People's tents had collapsed in because of all of the water. Quite terrible.

They're lucky they cancelled when they did actually. It snowed Saturday and was still going during some of my classes this morning. :( I have a growing distain for this weather thing. It's almost May for goodness sakes.

Relay was still good regardless. I didn't get a final count on donations but I'm sure we did well. Thanks to everyone who donated. It was for a good cause, so I suppose ending early wasn't so bad.

The weather was terrible earlier but is better now. I am walking the 3-7am shift. I hope it is nicer tomorrow!

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Relay for life is about to start and it is pouring. I forsee a lot of time spent inside the tent in my future. I heard it might even snow tomorrow. That would be just awesome. I'm gonna be walking around in the rain AND SNOW. Great. I suppose there isn't much else to expect from SRU.

On an up note, I think it'll be fun and it is for a good cause. I'll keep updating on how it's going. Maybe even from my cell phone ;)

It rained like crazy on my head today. I got soaked. :( That's Slippery Rock for ya. We've got two seasons: rain and snow. Statistically we have less sunny days and more rainy days than Seattle. I'm certainly not proud of that.

Does anyone want to donate to Relay 4 Life? It benefits the American Cancer Society. I'll be relaying for 24 hours straight from 5 pm this Friday until 5 pm Saturday. I'm on a team with fellow Blue Key members. I'll take lots of pictures. Relay is a big event here at SRU. There are some pictures of the 2004 Blue Key relay team on the Blue Key website. I'll be sure to take some more and post them.

Well here are some pictures of the new science building they've been promising. I don't think I'll get to have a class there before I graduate though :(

Here's what I think I'll be doing this summer as of now.

• May 6 - semester end, I will go home with Lindsay and spend some time there getting her ready to take her drivers test.
  
• June - I'll be living at Ma's and working as a farmhand(heh) and hopefully working at PennDOT. I'll have time to do south beach and bike through the woods every day as well as spending plenty of time with the Fam.
  
• July - I'll be living at Lindsay's house. Hopefully I'll be working. I might be working at a local restaurant or maybe even doing construction(Adam thinks he can get me a job where he'll be working for $8/hr).
  
• August - I'll be back to school roughly 2 weeks early. The first week I'll be working with my boss here at SRU developing a training program for new Residental Network Assistants. The second week we'll be administering the program to the new and old RNAs alike.
  
• School.

So those are my plans as of now. They're subject to change though. I think they'll work out just fine though.

Sorry everyone. I get busy, ya know?

Well I'm done with my recent episode of business now, at least I hope. I turned in my research paper on "information warfare" on Friday. It was my next-to-last big project of the semester. I've got a bunch of work to do for my system administration class, but that isn't too time consuming by nature owing to the hours that the lab is open.

I spent the weekend relaxing. I needed a little time to wind down. On Friday there was a Blue Key campout at the ski lodge. That went really well. It was a lot of fun. 15 members came to eat dinner (hot dogs and hamburgers grilled by yours truly) and 6 of those spent the night in the ski lodge, myself included.

Saturday I was tired so I didn't do a whole heck of a lot. I went to lunch, then for a bike ride, then dinner, then a walk. Saturday night I hung out with the guys and then went to The Hot Dog Shop.

Sunday I did the lunch thing and then hung out in my room a bit. Adam and I went fishing at Hereford Manor Lake. We didn't catch anything though. We were fishing with power bait. I don't think the trout liked it too much. Oh well. The lake was nice and it was good to get out.

All in all I had a very relaxing, outdoor-sy weekend. I feel ready for the week to begin. Soon the semester will be over. I'll be glad. LINDSAY WILL BE HOME EVEN SOONER! I can't wait!

Talk to everyone soon. I miss everyone. Bye.

Congratulations, Uncle Buck. George is now a CAPTAIN! Congrats on making your dreams come true, George. Good for you.

Here's the type of plane George will be flying (this one belongs to an italian airline but is a good picture):

I had a rather interesting weekend. Friday night I went to a cookout with some friends who live off campus. We played horseshoes and watched people try to ride the unicycle they have at their house. It was pretty funny. Then later Brandon and I came back and watched "Rosemary's Baby". If you haven't seen it, it's a horror movie from the 60's. I didn't think it would be that good but MAN WAS IT FREAKY! It was pretty weird, but effective.

Saturday morning I got up at 6 A.M. (Trust me I was not a happy camper) to go do a community service project with members of Blue Key and Lambda Sigma (an organization that Blue Key recruits many members from. We went to Canton Ohio,



where there is a huge habitat for humanity center. We stayed there from 8 until 3. While there we (there were about 30-40 people) spent most of our time shoveling gravel and raking it into a hole where the foundation of a house was going to be. It was good hard labor. It was raining too so that made conditions pretty bad. Later on we went in for lunch and then helped to build sheds at the warehouse that would go in the yards of some new houses. Some people painted, loaded trucks, and helped build a little office in the warehouse too. All in all a good days work.

Then when I got back from habitat Saturday Brandon and I went to see "Mariachi Madness" in the student union. It was pretty neat. There was a mariachi band playing and some mexican culture items on display (including some pictures and things I had actually seen in Oaxaca). There was also some free food donated by a local mexican restaurant. It was a lot of fun.

Today I'm just hanging out. I might watch a movie later. I'm doing laundry now. I plan to clean my room a little later. Typical Sunday stuff. Talk to everyone soon.

So much for rain today, huh Aunt Les?