On Friday, Josh emailed me and said “hey dude, mind if we come up and visit this weekend?”. I’d been bugging him about coming up since they’re now living in Temple, which is much closer than Austin is. We really didn’t have anything planned, so I called Christine and she was okay with it, so they came up.

On Saturday, Christine and I were volunteering for the Monticello Mad Dash benefitting Kids Who Care, a local thespian training group for kids. Christine was on the planning committee for the race. We showed up at 5am, helped them with set up and the event… and then stuck around to tear it down. We were done by noon, and we really had a lot of fun.

After driving home, we both cleaned up and rested for a couple of hours. Josh and Elise arrived at about 1:45pm or so.

We hung out around the house, talking and what-not. I helped Josh with some php/MySQL and we played a little PS2. Then we all went down to the Fort Worth Stock Yards for the afternoon. We visited all of the little shops, Christine and Elise tasted Texas wines, and then we ate at Riscky’s Barbeque. Afterwards, we bought some beer, came home and played PS2 into the wee hours of the morning.

We woke up on Sunday, played a little more PS2 and then headed to the Mayfest being held at the Trinity River. We took Wesley with us, but they wouldn’t let him in, so we decided to head back home… Josh and Elise needed to get back to Temple anyways. We stopped at a garage sale on the way home, but no one bought anything. The poor old ladies selling their stuff really didn’t have much and wanted way too much for it.

Josh and Elise left for Temple at 3, and Christine and I are watching Moulin Rouge this afternoon. We might even watch Bridget Jones’s Diary tonight if we’re up to it.

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I recommend anyone that knows me needs to read up on what my buddy Josh has been up to in the last week… Seems like I’m just as excited that he’s moving to Temple as he is…

I just hope Elise finds a job in Temple soon, and she can just move up there with him, while the lease runs on empty in Austin…

Christine and I had our apartment lease open for a full month after we moved into our house… sure we wasted a month’s worth of rent, but it was worth it to be together (I was planning on working out of the apartment for a few weeks, but we figured “screw that” pretty quickly).

Jump on over to Janicek.com to see what Josh’s bladder has been up to.

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Woohoo!!!! I just have to tell everyone how excited that I am that Josh, my best friend since highschool, is going to soon join the world of the employed. For those of you that don’t know, Josh has shown amazing loyalty, sticking it out with a company that he knew was going down last year (Vidbook) and was eventually fired, when the owner decided to close the doors.

He’s been leaching off the government on unemployment, while looking for something new since then, and thankfully this week, he received a formal job offer from a company in Temple, TX, for a job as a Webmaster/Developer (or something close). I’m so excited that he has a job, cause now I know that I won’t have to listen to him when he’s depressed, and he can pick me up when I am… (Josh, I’m just kidding about the leaching and the ‘i won’t have to listen to you bit’).

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Thanks to my buddy Josh, I’m now a qualified hand model. Josh’s wedding photographers, Bill Kennedy and Jennie Lindberg, have decided to use a picture of my hands, holding Josh and Elise’s rings on their website. That’s pretty cool, IMO. (click into their flash enabled site, and you’ll see my hands at the bottom of their navigation bar)

So, I’ll add that to my resume here shortly, and I’ll see if I can turn up any new work for my hands…

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