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February 19, 2002 Another day, another dollar. Spent, that is. Lately I've been trying to save my money as much as possible, but I am finding it much more difficult than I had expected. Still, my income is exceeding my expenses, and that is a good thing. With this summer quickly approaching, I am anticipating several important and significant decisions to be made on my part in the next several months. As of today's date, being the 19th of February, there are 85 days left until Pine Lake opens. Doesn't seem like that long, does it? And with the weather warming the way it has been, I've almost brought my bike out on more than one occasion. My friend Tanya had her baby, a girl who they have named "Katelyn Lauren", but I have yet to see. I would imagine they both have their hands full these days... My friend James got married a few weeks ago, the pictures are available in the photo album if you care to see (or click here.) Many other people whom I went to school with are married, some already starting families... (As last I've heard: Angie Acheson - Married, Carly - Engaged, Dylan Grondan - Has Twins, Jenn Fitger - Has a Daughter, Kim Janzen - Married, Melissa Acheson - Married, Melissa Nelson - Engaged, -- Even Bo's little brother Clayton is engaged... I still remember him being a little punk!) Its hard to believe, at least from my point of view, that all these people are already going down that road in their lives. I guess there is just too much I want to do on my own first, before I think about starting a family. Even though Shauntelle and I have been together over a year now, (Feb 11, 2001 we started dating) the thought of marriage is still long off. With the use of the internet now, I've been able to contact several other lost friends of mine, and its interesting seeing what they're up to now... I went and saw Marshall the other day for the first time in over 4 years... Though I wasn't surprised to see that he hadn't changed much at all... February 12, 2002 Life has a funny way of slapping you in the face sometimes... I have been undergoing a fairly interesting and quite revealing project lately, and I have to say that the results were not quite what I had expected. Since my installation and use of MSN Messenger, I thought it would be interesting to look up some old friends of mine and see what everyone is up to. I'm sure I must have sent messages to over 50 people I've known in the past 21 years, friends and acquantances from every place I've been almost. And while probably 18 times out of 20 I was able to sucessfully locate the person I sought, of the people who actually replied to my messages, I can count on one hand the number of people who actually wanted to talk to me. Now one or more conclusions can be reasonably drawn from these results. First of all, there were a large number of people to whom I sent messages that have yet recieved no reply whatsoever. I would like to be optomistic in my approach to their silence and assume that they just never got the message. (IE: The account is out of date, they don't check that email address anymore, etc.) As for the handful of people who replied once, but ceased once they found out who I was, I can safely make two assumptions: 1. They don't like me. So logically, 2: They don't want to talk to me. Now try to take this in the most humblest of contexts possible, for I can see how it could be viewed as a hint of conceit, but I don't know why these people don't want to talk to me. This group of people wrote back after reading my origional message, usually to ask who I was, and once I replied I've heard nothing from any of them. If nothing else, they could have said something to the effect of, "I don't want to talk to you..." as one person actually did respond with... But that was all I needed to know, and it leaves no doubt in my mind now. With all these others, I don't know what to expect. I don't know what to think, I don't even know if I should write back to them a second time to ask what's going on. As for the final group, as I have saved the best for last, there were a few old friends who were glad for the notice and invitation to reinstate contact with them. This exercise has shed some unbeforeseen light on several persons I'de lost contact with, some even years ago, yet who have remained friends still. To those of you who fall into this category, and you know who you are, I thank you. February 4, 2002 Seven more days until Telle and I reach our 1 year anniversary! Looking back now, its hard to believe that almost a year ago, I got down on one knee, took her hand in mine, looked up at the most beaming, smiling face, and asked if she would go out with me. So much has happened in the past year. As for what happened today, that's a little less far reaching, but significant still, none the less. As you might have noticed, the Journal section here is quite a bit different. Perl is slowly crawling all over my web page, and making my life a LOT easier. Part of the reason I haven't been updating this journal, apart from the crazy business of recent days, has been the fact that the way the journal system used to be on here made it quite difficult to add entries to it. Usually 4 separate files would have to be modified for every new month I wanted to add. Now, thanks to Perl, all I have to do is just type. It takes care of the rest and updates the Journal Index every time you click on it. Hopefully this means that you will see more entries from me, I know several people have been asking.  Yesterday evening I went over to Ed's house and
watched several Monty Python movies with them. Although Barb had several
outbursts of laughter, they were few and far between and I don't think she
enjoyed it much at all. What was kind of funny though, was that the kids would
often laugh at things they didn't even understand... I guess that's part of
humour. It kind of reminds me of a time I was a little kid, hanging out with
about 3 older kids at the Old Pine Lake. They told this one joke, and to this
day, I'm sure the whole point of the joke was to see if I would laugh at
anything... And yes, I did.
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