Friday, January 30th, 2009
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5:43 am
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The awesome thing about Friday's is it's "Pizza Fridays" at work. We all pitch in to get the lovely meal. Kyndra was going crazy because of my pizza cravings, so this helps her keep her sanity.
Goals for this weekend is to get more familiar with the development side of a CMS called Joomla! and then write up some articles on it. I am also suppose to meet up with a client, but they haven't gotten back on some important information, so that will probably need to be rescheduled.
Oh ya.... then there is getting Ubuntu setup on my virtual machine (ya ya.. more geek stuff). Download is taking forever.
So besides that... just taking a breath before the next week starts.
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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9:45 pm - Start of a Routine
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The most difficult part of a routine is keeping to it the first few weeks. Technically this would be day one of a routine I'm trying to keep. I meant to start it on Monday, but I didn't get everything done.
My routine:
Family time (T.V. goes off)
Dishes on certain days of the week
Laundry on certain days of the week
Living room duty
Most important thing would be starting the evening in a positive mood and keep it that way.
current mood:  tired
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5:34 am - Long Time No Post
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From the date on my last post here, it's been a little over 3 years since I've made a post here. About time I started jotting stuff down again. Looking through the other journals I've subscribed to, I see that some people have moved on while some others are still about. HELLO to those still around =D
Heather is now in Second Grade. She's doing very well, her strong points being math and socializing. Unfortunately, the later isn't part of her studies, and gets her in trouble.
This weekend she went to a Monster Truck show(Sunday Sunday Sunday!) with her cousins. She enjoyed herself. Considering the recent news on Monster Truck shows, I was a little nervous. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482747,00.html)
Braeden is now in Preschool, which he is enjoying. It's only a few hours, but it gives Kyndra some time to relax or take care of things she couldn't otherwise with the little man around.
Kyndra is doing well. We watched "Children of Men" on Sunday. We need to rent Narnia 2 again (last time we ran out of time and had to return it). She's still doing her art, using her tablet, and making some awesome pictures.
I'm now working at a company that does magazines and events doing what I love, web development. It's been quite a trek, doing web development as freelance/home business for years. Working for another business reduces a lot of stress, and has allowed me to invest my time in other things.
So there is a quick catch up.
current mood:  awake
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
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9:40 am - It's Monday!
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Well its Monday. I thought its best I collect my thoughts before I start this work day.
Sadly, beside my parents and siblings I really have no reason to live in Grass Valley anymore. Family is a powerful thing, so I'll probably stay here because of that, but I found out some news yesterday that was a bummer.
An old friend of mine, who I went to school with and lived up the street for most of my life moved down to the bay area for college. His family stilled lived up the street though so at least he would come up during the holidays.
I found out yesterday that even though his parents still own the home up the street, they are going to start renting it out and they have moved down to Roseville. So its going to be harder to see this friend.
I told him what matters right now is that we just keep in contact. I'm going to be sending him some games so that we can play online.
It seems like a lot of people are moving away from this little town. At this point I think there are really only two people left here that I consider friends. (Of course there is Kyndra as well, loving wife and my best friend for life.)
I hardly talk to them and haven't really seen in a while.
I think it may be time to use this as a good thing though. I need to start visiting my family and spend time with them before too much time goes by.
Anyway, another thing that is going on is some small changes I made in how I handle work/handle my schedule which seem to have caused a big change. Made breakfast, washed some dishes, and vacuumed the living room. I also helped Heather clean up her room, which looked like a tornado had hit it. She did really good at cleaning it, although she gave a little grief towards the beginning.
I actually took Sunday off as well. Normally I work. I feel better after the rest. Anyway, I have a lot of work to do. I"ll have to reflect a little more later, because there were something other things I wanted to note.
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
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8:45 am - Morning Again
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My t.v. knows my name. In its own way it says 'Good morning Justin'... or more accurately I turn it on and on the left hand corner it will says 'Just In'. (If I'm sleepy it makes me double take every time).
Tomorrow I'll see if it will play a game of go fish with me.
Well got my work cut out for me today. Have a project to finish up and some other misc. stuffs to attend to.
Right now I am trying to be nonexistent in this room since baby is sleeping. Kyndra needed to pick up some items at the store and baby was asleep so I volunteered to watch him.
I turned on the t.v. this morning (who must have been upset at me, because it didn't have my name on screen), and there was just more political crap. Apparently Americans have not and do not torture people. Ironic it came up again in such short time since I was mentioning it last night, and the reason I was mentioning it was kind of out of the blue.
These people drive me nuts. I want to move to Canadia.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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8:22 pm
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11:57 am
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oh man. This morning was painful. I had a phone meeting at 11:00. Baby was to be picked up at 10:00 and Braeden was so hyper this morning I wasn't able to get anything done for the 11:00 meeting. Luckily that client and I have a good relationship and he was more excited to hear how good things were going.
So 9:45 rolls by and I start looking for the car seat. ...no car seat to be found. Kyndra forgot it in her car. So I had to have grandma go get it.
My (step-)mother is probably were I get my 'hard to read' personality from. She can be scary because its way to easy to read her as annoyed with something, because she's very reserved. So when I told her that Kyndra had the car seat she fell silent for a few moments and just stared at the ground and then said 'ok. I'll go pick it up'.
And then I waited for about 30 mins. Called Kyndra, who said the car seat had already been picked up a while ago. So I was thinking 'great. I pissed her off'. >.<
So while I waited I got little man dressed. I had him in this 6 month outfit and it was just way too snug, so I put on a shirt and some jeans. Must have took ten minutes to complete, because he was being such a squiggle worm.
So I get the shirt on, chane his diaper, and almost instantly after getting his pants on he spits up on his shirt. That was the point in which I gave up on this day being perfect.
Luckily grandma was in a happy mood when she returned. She made a stop by JC Penny. If she did that just to prove a point she proved it.
Ack! And now I can't spell check this entry... why?! XD *bangs head against desk*
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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10:48 pm - Evening Observations
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5:23 pm
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Damn it why was I thinking it was Tuesday? I just looked at the day and it just sent me into a state of vertigo. First 'well where did Tuesday go' and then 'oh ya. Yesterday did exist HAH!'.
Anyway, making a cup of coffee to keep me up so I can make this site ready by tomorrow. I'm cleaning up 3 year old php, css and html code. Let me tell you, it is no pretty.
I keep looking through the html and for some reason 3 years ago I had to put a class EVERYWHERE. I bet I can cut down the size of this template by about 75%. It's riddled with redundant coding.
The php stuff is a nightmare too, but not as annoying as the html. Mainly because I've added a bunch of new code that makes the old code obsolete. So I don't really need to worry about the old code.
Regardless of how much work I have ahead of me tonight I'm trying something new. As soon as the family gets home I have to step away for a bit and spend family time.
I've been wrapped up in work for so long we kind of lost that. I resorted to having Heather draw pictures on my back with washable marker while I worked. It was creative, but not quality time. (and yes very odd).
Well besides that I want to start witting music again. Unfortunately my old synth met its demise last year at the hands of my little girl and her need to flip switches on and off.
When we get the money I need to just get one of those cheap gadgets that is just the keys and I can plug it in and use my programs for the sound.
I've been trying to write songs in a program called 'Buzz'. Its nice to play with, but its got its limits. I tried another program a while back... but it was more geared towards techno music. I don't know what you would put my music under... 'weird crap'
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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9:51 am - Salmon Flavored Soda
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
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6:32 am
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Oh ya. I had a really weird dream last night. Basically I was giving a speech and Pres. Bush was on stage with me. He kept interrupting me with just .... I can't remember what he kept saying but he kept commenting. I eventually god fed up and said "You know. The one thing that just irritates the hell out of me are people that thinks it's ok to talk over others". Crowd cheers! Bush looks dumbfounded ^^
Really weird because I'm not really againt Bush and I can't think of why I would have a dream like that with him in it. O.o
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6:30 am - Silly rabbit
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Well I'm up early. Woke up at 5:00. Apparently little man is an early bird too. But he's still in his crib making his dinosaur noises.
This has given me a little time to think. Recently I've been waking up with everyone else so I haven't really had that much alone time.
I wish I wasn't so stubborn when it came to giving in to some forces. For some reason I try running straight through a problem rather then taking a simple step to the side and easily avoid it. And because I'm facing it head on I basically get knocked on my ass and have to go around it anyway.
I'm not talking about those problems where it is best to face it head on like you would do with a fear or something you just don't want to do. I'm talking about trying to go up against what is 'reality'. Like jumping off a bridge to defy gravity and discover 'oh ya I can't fly'.
Instead of climbing over the wall I setup camp and waited until this 'wall' aged and fell apart. I think its time to go get the rope and hooks because this 'wall' will not be falling anytime soon.
In other news...
Finally got a copy of the first disc of Starcraft. In high school I played that a lot with friends. Since I was the only one that really knew anything about networking I ended up setting up a lot of miniature lan parties. Those were fun. Amazing how many computers you could scrape together.
I think I'm already burnt out on it. Actually I don't think it is that. I think work has just gotten overwhelming again and I automatically set stuff like that on the wayside until things calm down. Eventually I want to try beating "American McGee's Alice", a game I got pretty far in years and years ago but never completed (lost the data too so I have to start over again).
My step-mother started watching Braeden on Thursdays. Started a week ago and its helped out so much. Saturday I was actually trying to find stuff to do and suddenly realized there was project that just recently freed up so I got to that and it actually turned out to be a lot more work because I'm recoding the website basically. So I'm overwhelmed again.
The code is about 3 years old. What a mess.
current mood: awake
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
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5:16 pm
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1:03 am
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For some reason I'm feeling really nostalgic tonight... and its... well its morning and nobody to be nostalgic with. Kinda sucks.
Anyway, the last month has been pretty rough. I took the risk of taken on projects that would have a delay in payment in return of a chance of getting out of the hole I'm currently in and even though I came very close to failure, and am still too close to comfort to not making bills I think the worst is over.
My step-mother is watching Braeden on Thursdays so I have an extra day for work, and I still need more time so I'll need to talk to Kyndra pretty soon about somehow freeing up more time.
Braeden got his first tooth. And within days got his second. He's doing very well considering the discomfort he must be in.
Heather started preschool and she is doing well too.
Anyway, would like to know how people are doing here since I've been gone for a while. When I get a chance I'll try reading up.
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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7:36 am
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Just thought I would pop in. It's been nuts over here, but things have been going generally well.
Braeden is now crawling (well close enough. He is moving all over the place, which makes him a much happier baby).
Heather is starting preschool next week.
Kyndra is getting really good at her chibi's and other drawings.
:)
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
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5:30 pm
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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6:15 pm
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Well I'm still alive. Hello everyone!
Its been a pretty hectic month. Was living very tight. Still suffering from the fact, but pulling out. Kyndras now working part time, so am I. Focusing on my business again. I'm probably going to be leaving Space Control shortly, and will be depending on income from my business.
Web development work itself doesn't seem to be very scarce. Time seems to have grown thin though. I'm currently watching Braeden on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Still trying to figure out a routine for that. Parenting and working from home at the same time? I am seriously wondering how some people do it.
The week before last was ok. Last week was hell. I had both Heather and baby and it just wasn't pretty. A baby is ok, but a baby and a very talkative 4 year old = no work.
I'm focusing on speed this time. Started out well. Made $600 in basically 5 days. Doesn't sound impressive, but that is extra money. I did 42 extra hours on top of a full time job (at the time). Unfortunetly I got burned out and need to write documentation for everything I did. O.o So now its been two weeks and I haven't gotten the money yet due to not being able to wrap up the project yet.
Part of it was waiting for the client. Part of it was Thursday, Friday and Saturday being hell and part of it was me getting distracted with another project.
Anyway, I'm sure things will work out. Just trying to sand everything out. O.o
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
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9:52 am - Yet another snake dream. :\
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Yet another snake dream. Although I'm not sure if this would be classified as the other ones I have.
I was walked Heather down a desert road where there was a bunch of sleeping bags. The sleeping bags were rocks though. O.o Don't know about that. But there were rattle snakes. They were being distracted for the most part by eating white mice. It was almost like a cat toy though because they would just play with it. As we walked up the road my concern was with Heather getting bit so I kept reminding her to stay away from the snakes and to walk slowly so she wouldn't startle them.
Shortly I brought her to her destination and for some reason I had to walk back. Didn't get bit but the presence of the snakes was always there.
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
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8:18 am - It's Tuesday!
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Braeden will be 2 weeks old in a few hours (2:06 PM). He's doing well. Kyndra's doing well. Heather's very sassy but doing well and I'm doing good. Trying to get through the week and trying to make an important decession career wise.
The snake dreams have increased which now is just annoying. I mean ok! I get the point!
I think the dreams from these messages is to face my fears and weaknesses and try to overcome them. Unfortunetly I have a short period of time and the road is narrow, so I've adapted the outlook on life right now as I just have to do my best, don't freeze up and I should be fine. } else { learn from my mistakes and move on.
Hell... I'm even thinking of buying a snake. Even though in the dreams I'm getting attacked by a snake I don't think its me being afraid of snakes. Getting one will be symbolic of what I am trying to do.
We'll see. I don't know if cat or baby or spaz child will conflict with having a snake. I know Kyndra won't mind.
Anyway... back to work.
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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4:38 pm - It's a boy!
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Braeden William Osterholt
Very healthy, beautiful boy
21 inches
7lbs 14 1/2 ounces
Born: 3/29/05 @ 2:06PM :)
If anyone wants to congrats the mommy or visit please e-mail me: [e-mail removed] (I'll check e-mails throughout the day when I can)
Mommy is doing very well. Quick recovery. Doctors are keeping her at least till tommorrow maybe Saturday because of the operation. She's ready to go home though. Hospital enviroment is driving her nuts.
I'll post pictures when I can.
Heather is a proud, very happy big sister. Many many questions.
^_^
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