The Post of Destiny

Ah the magic of the cinema...
Yesterday, after work, I received a phone call from a buddy of mine. He asked me if I was interested in seeing a free movie. Someone that works with my friend gave him 4 passes to a sneak preview screening of "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny". He asked my wife and I to go. So I said "sure, why not, it's free". The movie stars Jack Black and Kyle Gass and tells the story of their attempt at rising to fame. Now, I went in to this movie expecting something terrible. And in the end, I was amused by the movie. Would I be willing to pay $8 to see it, probably not, but for free, I was not dissappointed. There was stupid, crude humor, a lot of language (as in naughty words like shit and fuck), and drug use. So if any of that bothers you, don't see it. So, all in all, I would say rent it, or wait for it to come out on a movie channel and see it.

Life at the office...
Well, not much new here, I'm meeting with my mentor for the first time today, I'm anxious to see how it goes. I'm looking forward to it.

Let's hit 1.21 gigawatts at 88 mph...



The next point in my list of things to catch up on is my brother going off to college. Now this is cool for several reasons. First off, he is at the University of Missouri - Columbia, or Mizzou for those who are in the loop. He is majoring in business finance, and Mizzou's business school is one of the tops in the nation. Second, he joined Sigma Pi Fraternity. Guess what, I am a Sigma Pi. So now when I go back and visit, I get to see the house, and hang out with my brother. Very nice. Lastly, he was just recently elected to serve on the house Executive Board as Treasurer. Congratulations to him. (BTW, I was also Treasurer). Now I have to admit, it's kind of weird knowing that my brother is in a Fraternity at college. I was just there, and he is 7 years younger than I am. That is quite a gap. I mean he's always been my little brother. Now he's off on his own at college, and having a great time and doing well. So kudos to you brother man.

Picture time...
One of my all time favorites

166 days...

That's how long it's been since my last post. And let me tell you, A LOT has happened. I won't be writing about everything in this post, but I will be making a list of things that have happened, and then over time writing about them. So here we go...

I will put these in chronological order, starting with the oldest and working to the newest...

1. I started a new job
2. Got accepted to grad school
3. My brother started college
4. We went to Las Vegas
5. I started guitar lessons
6. We went to Chicago
7. I went dove hunting in Mexico
8. THE CARDINALS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!
9. Mid-term elections/Britney files for divorce from K-fed (happened on the same day, i know, what a day)

Those are the major things, I'm sure there are things in between those that are worthy of my mentioning, but I can't think that far back right now.

I'll start with my new job for today. June 9th was my first day at The Boeing Company. I was hired on as an Engineer/Scientist. Ooooh, fancy. For the record, I am now a Systems Engineer due to the recent reorganization of the company structure. Man was I excited to get on at Boeing. I had been trying for 2 and a half years to get on there. I finally did. Coming from a company of 4 people to a company of 15,000+ (that's just in St. Louis. Worldwide, Boeing has 150,000+ employees) took a little adjusting, but I am doing just fine. And just so you know, I won't be talking about my job much because I'm not supposed to do that, I don't want to divulge company secrets :). They have nice benefits, which brings me to my next point, my acceptance to grad school.

Boeing pays for 100% of tuition if you choose to go back to school, so I took the GMAT and applied to Washington University for the Professional MBA program. It starts in January and lasts for 3 years. I will graduate with an MBA and an MIM (Master's of Information Management, it's with the Engineering School). I am pretty excited for all of this, it's quite a change.

I think that is good for today. Speaking of today, I tried to give blood and was defered because of my hunting trip to Mexico, I guess I could be carrying Malaria. Yeesh. It's possible that I won't be able to give blood for the next year. That's a long time, thanks alot Mexico.

I will be headed out this weekend to kill me a deer. It's very Neaderthal of me, killing a deer to provide for my family. Heck, it's so easy a caveman could do it.



Hopefully I get one, because the meat lasts us for a very long time.

Ok, that is all for now. I'm going to stop posting a link at the end of every post. Instead, I'll post a picture. Enjoy.