August 16, 2002
Good morning everyone. Well I got up this morning at 8:20 and turned on the news. I sat in bed listening to all the news. I have been waking up to the KTLA morning news now for about 3 years. I’m going to miss my morning team. I logged on and answered about 12 new ads in the Washington Blade and Craigslist.org. While perusing thru a few ads, I ran across an ad for a room for rent in Sterling VA. The name on the email was August Jackson. Now…I said to myself, “how many August Jackson’s can there be in the Washington DC area”. I used to know this guy named August when I lived in Washington DC. August was just one of these overall nice guys who was quite likable, smart and damn cute! Looks like he’s been living out in Sterling now for several years after buying a house with his partner Barry. I wrote to August and he did remember me!
I called into the store today to try and reach Robin. I wanted to check in with her about the Winter 2002 catalog. I needed to find out how much programming had already taken place. Unfortunately, she wasn’t in. I talked to Mike and apparently Sally (the last coordinator) had started some of it. I’ll need to meet with Sally soon. Mike asked how I was doing and I told him things were good, considering.
After that I headed down to Irvine to talk to my parents and to see the kids. Dallas and ToniLyn were at Disneyland and Lyn’s kids were with here shopping at WalMart. They said they would meet me at dad’s house. ON the way down there I called into TNSOC to find out what the cryptic voicemail was about. Eileen answered. We talked for about 30 seconds and she had to answer the phone. Needless to say she left me on hold for 5 minutes and I had to log off. I wanted to see if the disk was ready yet. Eileen called me back and told me she had already started to convert the document to PDF format. What she asked me to do is the cover of the web version of the catalog. I told her I would get it done by tomorrow.
When I got to Irvine I parked and walked into the house. It was quiet and all I could here were kids yelling in the front family room. I snuck up into the family room and wanted to scare my nephews. As I crept up to the sofa, I peeked over and saw two blond kids sitting there playing on the XBox. Then it hit me that these two kids were Damian and Jason. WHATS WITH THE BLOND HAIR??? I scared them and they jumped. I then asked them what was up with the hair and they said it was cuz they wanted to. They looked like little Tony Hawks and little Dave Mirras. It was funny.
Dad came down and I said hello. We talked about my situation and that went on for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, Lyn showed up with Sade. Guess they went shopping. Leslie and Laura were over from across the street. We were all getting hungry and they wanted me to cook. Dad gave me some money and I took Damian and Jason with me shopping.
We had dinner then I got really sleepy and wanted to go home. Mom, of course, said to just stay the nite. When I got home I talked to Mario. A guy named Justin came by to look at the room. Guess he moved here form Aspen Colorado and was in computers. He also didn’t have any furniture and was staying on a friends couch. He made an offer for the bed and I got $50 for it. Mario offered to keep the boxes in his house and would ship them to me as needed. It was a gracious offer.
Anyways…I’m very sleepy…time for bed. Nite.
