Video test.

Just a test of my cellphone video camera.

The man who sold the world.

I'm back after what seems to be too long of a time. It's around 9:00 am here in Arlington, and I have had not one bit of sleep at all. I'm sitting here, at my desk at the NSF, listening to the Nirvana Unplugged album. So sit, drink pennyroyal tea, and let me tell you about the man who sold the world.

So the job is going fine on my end. I have no complaints, except for one that I can't mention here. I have been promised that this month I should be getting a raise, and then another one in January. Plus, in November, I should be getting a decent bonus as well. I

t's September 12th, the day after 9/11. It's already been five years since that awful day. I was in University 101 class at West Virginia University. My dad was working close to the Pentagon when it happened. I was so glad to hear to his voice that day.

The Redskins lost against the Vikings in their seasonal opener last night. It was disappointing , but there is still the rest of the season for Joe Gibbs to pull them together. All hail the great and almighty Gibbs. After week 1 of the fantasy football season, my team leads our league at 96 points. I know it's only the start of season, but I'm feeling good about this one. Well, that is enough for right now, but I'll post again later.

Wha..wha..what is this?

Is it bird, is it plane, ... is it Superman?

Hell, no its your friendly blogger, Joel. After beating the warpath back home from Pittsburgh, I lived back at home for awhile. But now I live in the D.C. Metro area.

It's been almost a year since my last post. Well, whats new with my life? You might have noticed the new site. Let me explain. I did like my old site, and it was good to me for a while. But I tried going back to it, and updating it. That was just too hard to do. I don't know whats up with the Bravenet coding, but anytime I tried to modify it; it would just start to act up. I just decided to start up on a new more simple site. I hope you like it. I don't know if will do any more tech posts considering I work all day long with computers. But if I find something really interesting I might just give you all a heads up.

So on with the news. I'm not dating anybody, still single. I did date someone for about two weeks, but I just didn't feel that we had any emotion connection between us. My grandpa keeps asking when I am going to meet someone, and start having kids. Oh, about my grandparents, they moved to live out west with one of my aunts. This really sucks, because the center home of our family was West Virginia. But that will just have to change now.

I have a great job working for the National Science Foundation. I am one of their tech support people at the NSF's helpdesk. Living in the D.C. Metro area has really been a blessing. To tell you the truth I really wanted to live close to D.C. all my life, and now I have that. Score one for me. I share an apartment with three other people, but I have pretty decent room by myself. The only thing that sucks is that I still don't have a clothes washer/dryer in the apartment.

Anyway, I hope you all like the new site. Please feel free to post comments.

Next: What I've done and where I've been thats interesting in the D.C. Metro area.