so most of you may know at this point, Jen and I have sold our house. Closing is actually 2 weeks from today. We’ll probably miss the place, since it is our first house, but after our new house is built, I’m sure all those feelings will go away. Our new house won’t be ready for a few months, so some temporary livin’ is in order, but we’ll just suck it up and do it, knowing in a few months we’ll have a brand new house that was built to our specs. It’s going to be awesome, 3 bed, 2 1/2 baths, fireplace, hardwood EVERYWHERE, and a big eat in kitchen w/ all the fancy stainless appliances. Its quite the upgrade for us, but not having to make the weekly trip to Menards or Home Depot for weekend home improvement 101 will be nice. All we’ll have to do to the house in the next year is install window treatments and maybe a nice deck next year. Other than that, we’ll just get to ENJOY it. The peace and quiet of the new neighborhood should be amazing. Good school district for when we have kids. Its all we were looking for in a new place, minus the extra commute time, but that we’ll have to deal with.

Sammy & Falco should love it too. They’ll have over 2000 sq. feet to run around in, and I’m sure they’ll find new spots to hide.

We’re just busy packing now. I ordered a POD, and that should be coming Monday for us to fill. Other than that, all we’ll be doing for the next two weeks is packin’

More info to come later!

it’s 2:45am, and i’m at work. i’ve been here since 7:00am yesterday. and i was here for 12 hours the day before that. anybody see a pattern?

i don’t at this point, its all a blur.

So here’s the deal

about 4-5 years ago I opened up an E-Trade account w/ $1000, buying approx $900 of QQQ, and another $100 worth of Webvan. So over time, Webvan was de-listed, and QQQ (now QQQQ) devalued to $40/share. So I sold those shares last week, at about a cash out of $400, so I thought.

I called E-trade today to see if my funds had been liquidated and a check cut. Here’s E-trade’s customer service agents response "Sir over those years you’ve been getting a $25 ‘account service fee’ PER QUARTER for inactivity. So by the time I liquidated this, over $375 in fees had been accrued, as well as the $13 trading fee, and another fee for selling off Webvan devalued shares, leaving me with an account balance of…… $0, zero f-ing dollars. That’s such a kick in the nuts

So instead of getting a $400 check, the sale of my funds payed for service fees.

That will be my LAST time I do anything in the stock market. Lesson learned.

The much anticipated Socom3 for PS2 comes out tomorrow. After 2 months of the release date being pushed back, it’s finally ready.

One word of warning. I hear grenade launchers are in play in every map in the demolition rooms. Prepare to die n00bs.

Jen and I made it back from our honeymoon. It was exhausting w/ all the air travel, and it’s tough getting caught up on sleep. Hawaii was 5 hours behind Central time, and Vegas was 2 hours behind. Our bodies are taking a while adjusting back to Central time. For instance, I was up till past 6:30am this morning from Saturday night! Work should be interesting w/ this lack of sleep.

I thought we were gonna enjoy some cooler weather when we got home too. It’s actually as hot here as it was in Vegas and Hawaii.

Back to editing all the honeymoon pictures. I think we took close to 300 photos, and probably another 30 mins of video or so. Sooner or later I’ll get around to try and get the video off DV tape and into digital format.

Jen and I are still in Hawaii. So warm here every day. I have no internet access, cept for this blackberry. One more day in paradise, then off to Vegas baby!!! Keep me a seat open in the casino

Well my final day as a single guy has arrived
Tomorrow is my wedding to the most wonderful, beautiful woman I have ever met.
Jen means everything to me, and I can’t wait for her to be my wife.

Love you baby

[Listening to: Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind]

All Jen and I have been doing over the past few weeks was wedding planning, wedding planning, and oh yeah, wedding planning. It’s really beginning to take it’s toll on the both of us. Jen’s been feeling like crap, and my brain is so mushy right now, I had my cell phone on my desk at work and just tried using it as a mouse to my computer. Yeah, it’s time to go home.

I think maybe we’ll go watch some racing this weekend. We havent had any time away from the wedding details in quite a while now. I guess sitting in the stands at a race inhaling 103 octane gas fumes and burning rubber should be able to clear our heads.

Oh yeah, have a safe Memorial Day weekend!

[Listening to: Granny - Dave Matthews Band & Tim Reynolds]

My cousin Jim and his wife Joan live in Germany while Jim’s in the military
So from time to time they send me photos of their European travels.
They sent this one yesterday of a trip they took. It’s their son Caeden
Apparantly he’s off milk now…

[Listening to: Get My Party On ft Chaka Khan - Shaggy]