Sitting in Morgan's Class

I decided to take a break from poker today in Shipman's class and celebrate having OSU wireless internet again by making a blog entry. I hate having to go to the wireless help people and asking for help...especially since I did not figure it out by watching her today (she turned the screen away from me). Oh well at least I have internet, and I'll try to not eff up the computer again.

This weekend was interesting. You know how I said I hope Patrice my old landlord doesn't give us a bill because I cannot afford it...well it got worse. Kelley got into a car accident on Friday afternoon, busting up her precious Cavalier (the Cavie...) by rear-ending another very old Cavalier. Nobody was hurt. The guy had no insurance, suspended driver's license, and open beer containe rin the car, so they wrote Kelley up for following too closely because they could not let him go scot free with all that. That's $85 dollars. Her car damage appears to be all cosmetic, but the hood is bent at a 70-90 degree angle and her bumper is messed up and her headlights work but one is knocked out of its casing. no engine or side panel damage at all, so the repairs will be expensive but all cosmetic. Thank God she has full insurance, but she found out she has a $500 deductible. Just another showing of why insurance is one of the biggest ripoffs ever, but we all have to have it and it comes in handy sometimes. Add in a new set of tires her car needs badly and we are looking at $800 easy before it is fully drivable again. Patrice better not charge me, stupid b%&#@ of a landlord.

I put 52 cover letters, resumes, and transcripts in the mail Monday morning after spending a significant portion of my weekend putting those together. All to Texas and Chicago IP firms, all the ones I have not interviewed with already. Kind of a back up plan since I've already got 3 callbacks, but I started putting them together a couple weeks ago before moving and getting busy and forgetting all about these letters. I figure I have a better chance of landing a job with Fish and Richardson Dallas or Brinks Hofer Chicago (my first callbacks) than get a second interview with any of these 52, but it's the game we play. I still have no callbacks from OCI, which makes the patent program such a good deal. Got my $100 check from career services paying me back for that Chicago trip, so that's good. With firms paying all expenses for callback interviews and the suits freshly dry-cleaned, I think I have incurred the majority of expenses I will have to for interviewing season.

Kelley's chain has been yanked again by St. Luke's where she plays organ on the weekends. Her contract runs out 9/1/06, so they had not found anybody to replace her and were going to sign a new contract on Sunday. I go with her since she doesn't want to drive after her wreck and we have to go get a replacement car for her for now (Zach's tracker lol). We get to church on Sunday and are told the people who want Kelley fired had a huge stink because they found out one of the candidates that was turned away was not interviewed after finding out about his rough reputation wth other churches in the area. So now they have to interview him this week to calm this egotistical church-running family who spreads dissent to other church members tog et their way. Churches are scary my friends, not religion. I trust in Jesus and all and I love my pastor, but I refuse to attend that church unless I have to because of what this family has done to turn the congregation against my wife. Funny how when they need her she becomes great but when they think they've found someone else they find all her shortcomings (AKA not being an organ performance major). So there is Worship and Music committee meeting tonight Kelley is attending and she plans on forcing the issue since they have put her around the ringer. I'm pulling my hair out wanting to set up a budget for us so we know what we can spend and we know just how bad the car wreck hurts us financially, but I cannot because I have no idea what her income is. Frustrating!

The cincinnati reds, you write about how well they are doing and then since that entry, the Cardinals swept the Cubs and Cincy loses 4 in a row (3 to San Fran and last night to LA). It's so frustrating watching them play awful defense and give up tons of runs with 2 outs while never scoring with 2 outs themselves. The last 3 games against SF were a joke, as they got outscored 16-2 over 3 games and never made it close. This roadtrip has turned into a nightmare, but somehow they still have the wild card lead since the teams behind them are just bunching up close behind the Reds. 3.5 game deficit to the Caridnals now, and if they do not turn around this roadtrip soon we can forget about the division title...and probably the Wild Card too since I think the Cardinals will be easier to catch than whoever gets hot in the 6 teams behind us in the wild card race. So I keep watching, praying they will finally win again.

So I was planning on staying in Marietta till Monday this weekend to meet with Mom and get the truck in my name and get a new registration. Well Monday is Labor Day, so I called Mom and she told me to send her the title to the truck so she could go get a new title in my name this week so I can have it this weekend and get a new registration early next week. Well I couldn't find the title. Not in the glove compartment (but I did find everything else in there such as the odometer statement which is a part of the title, all my registrations and insurance cards since we've had the truck, and the sale order and receipt for the truck). Not in the tax paperwork box. Not in my lockbox where I keep important things. Not in my file cabinet. Hmmm. Where did the title go? Well I call her and she is all angry about something I can tell and she is upset she has to go on Wednesday and get a replacement title (at a big cost of 5 dollars, lol). She was pissed at her computer for messing up she said, and then she finally broke the real irritation. I told her and Steve I might sell them OSU tickets this season to help pay for my tickets. I sold my Cincinnati tickets for $105 apiece, so I offered her BGSU or Indiana tickets for $100 apiece. She accused me of gouging her and was asking how much they cost me ($30 apiece, but non-student tickets are $65) and why I was not giving her a better deal. Well I'm not going out of town and quite frankly I want to go to those games, so she is not buying my extra tickets...she is buying my tickets. I bet she feels like I'm screwing her since Kelley has a ticket with me now, but honestly the 2 tickets together are worth way more than when I had one ticket and got her into games on the cheap since one ticket is exponentially easier to get than 2. I pulled so many strings last year to get her into the Iowa game (crappy end zone seats top of the stadium) for $50-60 and her and Steve into the Northwestern game with my tickets while Kelley and I found tickets in the top row of the stadium (for about $100). So I do not think it is unreasonable to ask for $200 for the two tickets...and she disagrees. Well if she wants me to pull some strings and get them terrible law student tickets from my friends I could do it probably a little cheaper but she's going to have to ask. Sorry the free ride is over and my football tickets are paying for themselves. Is that unfair? I don't think so.

Well I've now blown off Morgan's class almost completely, so I better get off here so that my blogging buddy in here gets an update "before 250." Probably will not be on here again till the weekend, so look for 3 things.

1. OSU hosts Northern Illinois Saturday, GO BUCKS!
2. My first southerncollegesports.com article will go up Thursday.
3. My first callback interview Friday in Dallas. Wish me luck!