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June 24, 2004
One Cold Jump
After my six hours of work at Marketplace on Tuesday, I've not had any work! Woohoo! So guess what I've been doing with my spare time? Having fun hanging out with friends? Well, not so much. Getting stuff ready for Australia, seeing as how I leave in 9 days? Again, not really. Working endless hours on getting the other pages on my website looking better and using the same design as the main page? Bingo! I've had lots of little picky problems with my Photos page, but it's up and running now after a very major redesign. Not only does it look nicer (in my opinion anyway), but I also think it's easier to use now. There are still a couple little details I need to fix on it, but it's done for the most part. And my Links page, which is also undergoing a very major redesign, should hopefully be up before I go to bed tonight. I'll get to the Schedule and Contact pages either tomorrow morning or early next week. I won't bother with the Media or Writings pages that I used to have until I'm actually ready to put something on those pages. It'll be nice to have everything using the same design, it'll help give my site some continuity. And if you have any comments about the new look for my website, good or bad, leave me a comment.
On Tuesday after work I got a haircut with Kimm at The Hair Company in Cumberland. My hair was getting a bit shaggy, and although I've had a couple of people tell me that I look good with longer curly hair, I just wanted it nice, short and easily manageable for at least the first part of my time down under. That evening I went back into town to hang out on the pontoon with Mike, Kevin and a few other people. Mike &I even jumped in the lake once that evening, even though it was only in the 50s. And let me tell you, Beaver Dam Lake is damn cold! It wasn't quite as cold as I was fearing it was gonna be, but once was definitely enough for both of us, hehe. We had to give up the pontoon for the night and dock it when a squall came up though.
Last night my parents and I went to a meeting for CART (mentioned in my previous post) down in Almena. It's kind of interesting getting involved in a group like this, that's just a bunch of citizens banding together to try to get something accomplished, especially when it's lower taxes and smaller government. Now the group is trying to shift their focus from the recent petition drive to a longer-term focus, one of continuing to put pressure on the county board and get people elected to the county board who share CART's views.
Today I went in to Rice Lake to stop by the radio station and say goodbye to some people there, and also to get some suggestions for improvement from my bosses. And get this: the "lovely and talented Arnie Wheeler," the morning guy on Fox and one of my bosses, is actually interested in possibly flying down to Melbourne this fall if I can get him a ticket to the AFL (Aussie Football League) Grand Final! Arnie's crazy about Aussie Rules Football, he watches it all the time on his satellite dish. When September or October roll around he might no longer be interested, but I was kinda surprised to see that he was even the slightest bit serious about it. After that I went shopping for most of the rest of the stuff that I needed for Australia, such as a travel alarm clock, a voltage adapter, sunscreen, bug spray, etc. I even got a nice pair of hiking boots at Sports Unlimited in Cedar Mall, so now all I have left to get is a pair of running shoes at Scheels in Mankato or Galyan's in Bloomington tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, I'm gonna have a ton of fun this weekend! I'm driving down to Mankato with Mike & Kevin, and we're gonna have a little get-together with Andrew tomorrow night! And then on Saturday afternoon we'll make our way back up to Gustavus to visit some people there for a couple hours, and then we're going to the Twins-Brewers game at the Metrodome on Saturday night! If you're watching the game on TV, watch for us along the first base side, near the Milwaukee bullpen, that's where we're hoping to get seats. Let's just say that I've been really looking forward to this weekend ever since we started planning it over a month ago. :-) I'm glad that I'll get to spend my last full weekend in the States hanging out with those two cool dudes.
Posted by Jared at June 24, 2004 11:54 PM