Yeah... its been a while but I have been busy as all getout with life and such.. mainly the big anouncment is the fact that I am now a home owner. I have myself a big ole place out in rural north dakota.. a 100 year old rural country house 4 bedrooms 2 full baths a full basement and 2 garages parking for 3. Its something.. If upload photos of the place i would at the moment.

Its definatly a North dakota winter though already sinking into the negitive Teens at night and some days bearly reaching -5 degrees for a daytime high.. not to mention thoes 40 below windchills. its at times like this i wish my fireplace worked.. the flue is stuck and needs to be cleaned out. oh well. summer project.

and as for projects curently parked in my garage is a freind 1952 plymoth 2 door hard top.

asides from that my trucks master cylender crapped out on me.. sight oh well 500 dollar vhicles have 500 dollar problems i knew it would be the case but it happens atleast the truck is paid for.

I still need to get down to St Louis to pick up my other car to. That aught to be a trip.

so i still need to get all my stuff moved in and theres now the joys of owning a house. also need to get computer and phone. something to do for this week..

on a plus note. got myself a ipod touch for a early christmass present.

oh yeah address for stuff.

Buying a house is stressfull.. and all that.. and paperwork and this and that.. and living in a hotell room trying to work and do everything else.. man i'll be so happy once im settled in. Im soo tired of living in one room hell holes.

as for halloween.. it was.. blah sat around watched tv had a beer went to a bar played the part of a wallflower got bored left there were costumes this and that and.. well it was .. i just wasn't in the mood for it i tried and failed..

so right now im tired trying to do some work and sitting in a library.

yeay.

will post more as things start to hammer themselves out.

im tired.

Well things are still going forward. Got myself a truck friday.. Beggars cant be chosers and as much of a GM fan as i am Well i bought a Ford F-150 straight 6  4.9 lt engine Now i will give credit to ford for making a good tuck i just was never a ford person but .. desprate times call for desprate measures and well you got to hand it to a company that didn't go bankrupt. its a older farm truck ford to dented faded paint and been abused but it will get me around so i cant complain at all. and at $500 for a fullsized 1995 ford you cant complain at all. saved it from the crusher and junker.. and its a manual 5 speed.. that makes me happy seeing that all i have been driving now for some time is manuals.

Still working on the whole house thing.. stressfull to say the least but I did finaly find a place.. hopefully now i can get to the whole purchasing part of it.

well thats all there is for now.. paws crossed on gettin my own pad.

get off the plane wednesday get to work later that morning start improcessing start calling around for home and car loan stuff start looking at houses Saturday.. yeah full throttle and wide open still need to find a vhicle and get a phone.

but right now seeing that im by no means rich i dont have alot of houses to choose from but i have found 3 that are in contention..

one is huge old victorian farm house 4 bedrooms built in 1907 and has hardwood floors and all that neet ole stuff and its big as in 2000+ plus footage.. downside is no yard small garage a comute to work and next to a school .. but its great for having people over. room for anything and everything 1 and a half bathroom hard wood floors and just a very cool house.. ie the perfect place for a halloween party. its outside of town in a rural small town with a store bank and basic nesesites but its 45 minute drive and such..  Here i would have all the house to divi up between office studio and gaming guest room and room to put in a bar. i could actualy have freinds family and if i had to rent rooms out.

2 is well a house down near the rivers and such ie flood plane but is in town has a decent sized house big enough to have people over 2 car garage and full sized back yard but the property is in a blah location right next to a apartment and right next to the industrial agriculter part of town. but Its has a nice yard that borders a creek. a 2 car garage big enough for me to work on my vhicles in and has a open floor plan for entertaining people and a back patio for bbq's and the like. that and i might not get a stove if i buy this house. this one with work could be a great place for a private back yard get together around a bbq and a fire pit. also has jet tub.

3 is in a wonderfull neigborhood in town above flood plane good sized back yard but its tiny.. small 1200 if your streaching it sqare foot house ie converted attic and unfinished basment.. its a one bedroom 1 bath house.. small garage and well everything is just small.
the pluss side is the lot alows for expansion up and out it has a grage that can be used for some projects and the yard has acess from the rear. quiet area of town and the backyard does allow for some privacy.  not alot of room for guest at this house untill summer bbq times and most of that would be out side only due to such a small living place.

so yeah thats it for the first batch of houses .. but in the market around here sadly beggers cant be chosers and there aint nothing to rent so will see what happens.

Yep North dakota weather greeting in true style when i got here .. Cold windy and just yeck weather can't complain just glad to be back in the states. now to start on all that house hunting and base inprocessing and all the other things i need to do.. and i just got off the plane yesterday. anyway  will post more in detail about my trip back when i can actualy sit down and sort it all out in my head.

The Room has been packed Phone disconected and car Shiped.. yeah I managed to get my Viva sent out today...
tommarow finish getting paperwork done to get out of here.. clean room then into the lodging for a few days. This will more than likely be my last post from the uk. It's been something man all the memories this that and everything else. The goodbys the furmeets and the going aways. Ive had a blast over here. And now as i sit in a library typing this reflecting over the past 2 years in england and the past 3 years of being overseas.. i think to myself. Dam its been a great run. I may of not seen all the glitzy touristy things there was to see.. but i saw what realy matterd and that was the people thoes of you that showed me the real parts of the UK not the jazzed up touristy crap.

But i cant complain i'll be taking some of the uk back with me to confuse the hell out of the people stateside.. like my car and the two Beer engines i got from a closed pup.. Yeah im planning on having my own lil privite pub in my house when i get it. What can i say england the Uk and what ever left a mark on me.. in someways quite literaly to.. Finaly got a Tattoo done to. so im inked.. will post pics of that when i finish it.

man too much to think about.

Its been a wild crazy adventure thats for shure though.

and to think this time next week i'll be back to a place that stared it all my fist taste of living away from home and being out on my own.. 10  years later. what a 10 years thoes have been

Coming full circle i guess.

Yes tomarrow  The first real thing that signals that my time overseas is well.. to be blunt Over. Its been a good 3 years over here 2 in good ole England and 1 in the Azores I can't complain. Met alot of cool people made alot of great freinds and well im happy about it. But i will miss them. So tomarrow comes and the packers come to haul all the crap ive acumulated over my life to another location so i can start the whole process over again of setting up shop someplace else.. Hopefully this time its my own place my own lil chunk of the world that i Own .. my own lil house Heres for hopein.

9/11 you never forget a day like that.

stunning clear day of morbid silence
no contrails in the air
and everybody mortified as we were bent over.

i remember that crisp september day

simple
MFF 2002
AC 2003

thats it just the 2 .. life has had other plans that have put my con attendance on hiatus.. but Im back in the states in a month so we will change this.

well things have been quite for me laitely but thats becuase I am winding things down there and getting all my stuff ready to move out at the end of the month.. 3 years overseas.. sheesh. its going to be diffrent going back to the states. But I am looking forward to it.

Onto other things been working on my Viva alot laitly well the ole lil uk car is now in running shape but still needs the go end worked on all the things that need to get done just to get it to shiping order.. but that hopefully will be finished by the end of this week.. much to my wallets disgust but hell its something im looking forward to having.