sheesh, i wish i had a good excuse for taking so long to update the blog lately. but i don’t. hopefully i’ll be upgrading to the latest version of MT soon, and that in itself may spark me to get more active.

lots of semi exciting stuff going on at work, i’m doing a lot of sample roasting, and still trying to get the rengeade up and where we like it.

things with corey are going really well, but the house situation is not. there was potential for one of the owners of my work to buy it, but he rejected my first offer. i’ve dropped the price on it, but i have yet to hear back from him.

last night tracy and sara and i went to dinner, and i found out that sara is going to start business school at UNC.

well, i apologize for not being more blogactive, but i’ve been pretty busy. i was in grand rapids, mn for the 5th annual roaster’s guild retreat. there was a lot of educational stuff, as well as the regular drunken degeneracy that is known worldwide as a trait of coffee roasters.

i have yet to finish my questions for trivia night, which always makes me nervous…

or at least this link would seem to suggest it.

normally i feel like i handle social situations pretty well, even when things could be a little weird. last night was a situation that did not go smoothly at all, and it unnerved me a good bit.

last night, corey and i went to poole’s for dinner. this is a place that we’ve been many times and always liked it. really cool vibe to the place and the food is pretty good, and not terribly expensive.

a few weeks ago, we went there to meet our friend robin, who was hanging out with some people there for one of her friend’s birthday. our server was named leah, and was a friend of my old girlfriend megan that i always really liked. she and her husband jake were always really awesome. later that night, jake came in and the three of us sort of caught up on what was going on with leah’s teaching, jake’s writing, etc. no mention of megan was made.

last night, however, as we had sat down to dinner i heard a familiar voice behind me and turned to realize that megan was now working as a server at poole’s as well. something happened, and i just wasn’t able to figure out how to handle the situation properly. corey said that i should talk to her, but she seemed pretty busy with work, and i didn’t want to bother her…of course, i was also pretty chickenshit about that whole idea as well.

at one point corey ordered a cup of soup to go along with her food, and megan actually brought the soup over. she sort of looked at me and i said “hey…” and she turned away. now then, i’m not terribly sure if she just didn’t hear me…i definitely said it in sort of a sheepish tone, or if she just didn’t want to have to deal with me right then. it felt to me more like the latter.

so anyway, it was just a wierd crazy tense situation just awkward, and then as corey and i were leaving, one of the employees said goodnight to us, and then from way back in the restaurant (or so it seemed, it was more like at the serving station, probably) i hear megan saying very loudly, “thanks for coming in, have a good night”, in a very sweet, yet venom-filled voice.

it was just awkward all the way around, and i’m still not sure what (if anything) i should have done differently. i’ve always maintained that our breakup wasn’t particularly nasty, like with fights and vengeance and what not, it was more of a break-up and then just no contact at all for forever.

any advice is welcome, leave a comment or shoot me an email.

for whatever reason, i get a lot of spam to my comments. i don’t know what these people think about my website, but i sincerely doubt that people who read my site are super interested in trying out their stupid poker websites.

heck, i usually doubt anyone reads this stuff at all. but apparently i have a cult following of people interested in playing online texas hold’em.

a little bit of the old time music that you love.

so i’m staying home today, because i’m not feeling well.

i looked at a bunch of houses this weekend, and none of them really felt like “the one”. most of them were nice, but nothing that really made me say, “i’m ready to put down some serious dough.” and the search continues.

had a great dinner at nana’s on saturday, a really nice vegetable plate of grilled asparagus, creamed silver queen corn, blackeyed peas, and green beans, and mashed potatoes. for an appetizer i had a really nice tomato salad with fried okra. the okra stole the show for me…it was a super delicious garnish.

corey kicked my ass at trivia last night…

one of the nice things about my work’s new internal network is that now, even being sick and home, can still handle the green coffee ordering portion of my duties. hopefully i think that’s just about all i should be needed for.

truth in advertising, from swapatorium:

i still have boatloads of gmail accounts. if anyone wants one, feel free to email me and i’ll be happy to set up you, your mom, your dad, your drug dealer, your cat, your local union representative…whoever.