Day 15: 9/12/2011

Question: What are the important things in life? A couple of things today really made me think of how much I am enjoying my life and how great it actually is.

First, I started my new job at BrightPlanet. I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity to use my skills, learn new ones and further myself in my career. A career that I really love. Computers are something that have not been around for long but I am glad I've gotten into them. I'm glad that I like my career choice now and I feel good knowing that I'm going to enjoy the rest of my working life.

The second thing that I did was played some Dance Dance Revolution! I try to exercise to make myself a little healthier, and DDR is something that I enjoy doing. Hopefully I keep it up every once and a while.

Last but probably the most important. I love being reminded that someone else loves me so much, that I know I'm never going to be alone again. Katie makes me feel like I'm actually wanted and I just get butterflies anytime I think about her. But more importantly, this is how I know she's a keeper: She made me a rage comic!

I really do have the best girlfriend in the world! :'D

Day 14: 9/11/2011

Two weeks. Fourteen days straight of writing on this blog (with the exception of one day I wrote the next morning because I completely spaced it...). But non-the-less, I'm proud of myself. I've stuck to it for two weeks and I plan on keeping it going. I have been doing some thinking though and I'm going to be switching this up a little bit to hopefully keep it more interesting for me and for everyone else.

As of right now, I've just been doing a recap of the day. I did this, then this, then I went here, then this happened. It's really boring. So instead of doing a recap, I'm going to pick one thing from the day and write a little bit more in-depth about that thing. Something I see, something I do, something I thought of or something that happens. I think this will be much more entertaining and helpful to everyone involved.

Some examples that I was thinking I could have used for the blog today: The fact that it's the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the season opener for the Vikings today that they lost..., going to the Humane Society today, something a little bit more important that I can talk about for a while. This also leaves the blog open to more than one post/important thing a day as long as I keep to the guideline of at least once a day.

So there you have it, the one thing I talked about today is the plan for the new way I'm going to utilize this blog and try to make myself better. Chances are it will be pretty easy to figure out tomorrow's topic, I start work at BrightPlanet tomorrow. That is also the reason I should get to bed....

Day 12: 9/9/2011

Another era in the life of Devon Schreiner has ended today. I am no longer an employee at the Minnehaha County Court House. Today was the last day of my internship. I learned a lot while I was there but it's time to move on.

In other news, Monday starts my new job at BrightPlanet as an IT Specialist. Even though I'm not really sure what to expect yet, I know that it is going to be a lot of fun and an amazing learning experience. But more on this on Monday after I go in for my first day.

Tonight after work, I came home, cleaned a little bit, washed my motorcycle and then Katie and John showed up for the weekend. We went to eat at Krav'n tonight. It was pretty good. I think the cotton candy was a little over the top though.

We made it home and ended up playing some Dance Dance Revolution. Sorry Caity! She's right below us in my apartment building. In other good DDR news, we unlocked one of my favorite songs from when I first bought the game, Kind Lady (Interlude). And with that, I'll leave you with a video of the song. Enjoy!

Day 10: 9/7/2011

Dang it! Day 10 comes around and I just completely forget about it. Didn't even cross my mind. So I'm going to try to make up for it. I think that getting it done sometime is just as important as doing it the actual day, I just don't want to get a couple weeks behind, because then it's just lame. And I don't want to be lame...

So work was good today. Second to the last day at the court house. I'm pretty excited for the last day, it will be a lot of cleaning and stuff. I'm going to try to get done with the Windows 7 upgrades I was assigned but I'm kind of doubting that's going to happen.

After work, it was time for Wednesday night Brother Suppers, and it was my turn to host! Of course, Jeff couldn't make it, but I still made some amazing burgers! Along with the burgers, I fried up some potatoes and make some of those pickle and cream cheese roll things. I have to say, I was happy with the meal. I like home cooked, simple, good meals like that. Give me burgers over fancy shmancy, expensive restaurant food any day.

After that I stayed up and got some of my Windows Administration lab done. It's taking forever because we are setting up our servers right now so it takes figuratively, a million years to do all the updates and installs that we need.

Then I stayed up late and Skyped with Katie! I didn't have to get up early because my 8am class was canceled!

Day 9: 9/6/2011

Tuesday means it's a school day. First day back after Labor Day weekend. I was up at 6am and in Wireless Communications by 7:30am. During my break before choir at noon, I ended up flashing CyanogenMod 7 onto my phone, throwing on an updated radio and playing with my newly flashed Thunderbolt. The GPS wasn't working quite right but many people commented that it could easily be fixed by flashing a different ROM and then restoring back. It didn't work and was way too long of a process. Flash forward to now and for some reason it magically works, I'm not complaining.

Tonight I played a couple of League games, I really love Teemo and we had a couple fun games. Then I remembered I'm hosting the Brother's Supper tomorrow so I figured I should do a little prep. I'm making these amazing burgers and fried potatoes tomorrow. Tonight I put together a couple of those pickle wrapped ham and cream cheese things. They are really good. I ate a few. But it should make for a good meal tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to my second to last day of work at the Courthouse tomorrow, there will be a lot of cleanup and general housekeeping stuff so it will be fun. That and I can't wait for this weekend. I'm not 100% sure what Katie has planned but I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun! :D

Day 3: 8/31/2011

Today is already the last day of August, that's just crazy. School has started, work at the court house is almost done and that means bills are due...

I started today off by stopping at my ISP and canceling my internet service. NooOo! My wonderful 50Mbps download speeds are gone!! Oh well. I'm just going to start using and paying for Caity's because we'll be moving in together soon enough anyways. But then I went to the court house and put in my eight hours.

Luckily, after a long day, I got to go and have supper with my brothers. Chicago style pizza from Papa Murphy's and beer is a pretty well balanced meal. After some Phi Kap talking, Jeff and I started brainstorming personal website ideas for him. He ended up just going with an About.me website also. It's the easiest and would be really easy to forward a domain to that page later.

And now I get to go to bed. I'll be up at 6am again tomorrow to drive to Madison for another round of classes. Wish me luck!