Monday night, im finishing up my computer room in my new house. All I had left to do was install the new over head light…wait, no electrical over head, the wall switch controls a single socket. The celling light didnt have a cord, it was ment to be hardwired to overhead electrical. I decided that the best and only solution was to tap into the electrical socket that is controlled by the switch. It was a long night. computers are easier to work with then houshold electrical. I shocked myself 3 times. My fingers are kind of numb still. The light looks good though!

wow, I need to write in this more frequently.

Friday I didn’t have to go to work, I went to my great grandmas funeral. It was a nice Christian service. Traffic sucked on the way home from Whittier. That night Amy painted the guest bedroom while I laid the wood flooring in the computer room. Both rooms are looking awesome. I had to buy a table saw, and use it to cut the flooring panels. Power tools kick ass. Much more manly then a keyboard.

Saturday was my birthday, I slept in and decided to not work on my house. My party was at a roller rink in Grand Terrace. We hit up the thrift stores and got
the worst 80's gear that we could. It was amazing, we looked like total asses.
The 14 year old kids at the skating rink were embarrassed and bummed. It ruled.
The girl working the counter at the roller rink let me in for free because it
was my birthday. Through out the night she would come up to me and tell me that
my friends and I needed to come more often, and how everyone there is usually
serious and not goofy like us. She gave me a bunch of free passes, I thought
that was cool of her. The music could have been better instead of hip hop ghetto
hump music. I wish they would of played some credence or some skynard. There was
a lot of mu friends there it was amazing. Such a good time. When we were leaving
the girl at the counter pulled me aside and gave me more passes and told me when
she usually works… I think she was hitting on me. Lame. Yenny has a bunch of pictures of the party

posted on her site. My feet have blisters.

Sunday was a trip to IKEA to return some things. I dropped a box on my feet and I think i broke/fractured some of my toes. Band practice was short this week. Church was good. Amy and I tried to go to the movies after church, but we got there to late, Sky Captain had already started. I still want to see it though.

I got the keys on Monday, shopped more at Ikea. I bought some stuff but didn’t realize that a fort lift had stick its forks through the box destroying the bookshelf inside. I have another trip to Ikea to return stuff I guess.

Since Monday I go to work, get off work, go to my house, work my butt off, go to my old house, sleep, repeat. I’m so tired, and I have soooo much more work to do. It’s the most rewarding work I have ever done though. I love the fact that its mine and I can do what I want with it!

Friday I stayed home and finished up BrianSeghers.com. Its nothing that special, basically just a mirror of his sections on the Tattoo Revolution website I made a few months ago. Afterwards a bunch of us all went bowling in Muriettta again. Its becoming tradition. Saturday was an Native Foods / IKEA run. Later that night I went and saw "HERO". I wasnt that into the movie. I liked all of the action and the bright colors, but the story line sucked. The ending was the worse thing about it, and the fact it was subtitled. Im over movies with lame endings.

Sunday was a massive IKEA run. My little car was loaded down with "tundra click flooring". I thought the tires in the back were going to rub, it was so low. Band practice is good. We are starting on new material already. Church was good also. Thommy has found his calling. The room was packed. I didnt know a lot of the people that showed up.

I came home after church to a phone call. It was the nurses from the retirement home that my great grandma was at. They said that it was important that the get a hold of my mom. I knew at that moment she had died. She was 94+, and in a lot of pain. She is in a better place now.

I went over to my moms. The entire family was there. My aunt was flipping out. Soon everyone was screaming. It sucked. I jumped in and broke everything up. I ended up talking to my grandma most of the night. I realized that Amy reminds me a lot of my grandma. I wonder how much longer my family will hold together. Lately, every time we all get together someone flips out.

My Grandpa was dying in the hospital with leukemia. He would get scared a lot, who wouldn’t though. I had just got laid off from my last job, so I would stay with him at night. 9pm – 9am. It was really taxing on me, watching my grandpa slowly die. One day before my shift of watching him, I decided to go to market night in Redlands. I hadn’t done anything social in a month; it was time to get out.

I went down there alone, just for something to do. I was getting Chinese food when I noticed a tall guy behind me with big plugs and a tattooed neck. We gave each other the "what’s up" nod. When I started to walk away with my food he stopped me. "Hey do you listen to hardcore?" pointing to my death by stereo shirt. "Yeah", I told him. "You just ordered your food vegetarian right? "Yeah I'm vegetarian". "What about straight edge? my reply was "I have been sober from day one, and straight edge since i was 16".

Guy: Holy crap! When did you move here? what’s your name? Where do you live? Are you here with anyone else?

Me: I've always been here, I live in Highland, My name is Josh, and I came down here alone

Guy: Hey Josh, I’m Eric. Check this out; let me get my food, and then your going to come hang out with friends and my cool, me?

So I waited for him. We walked over to a big set of steps in front of a bank building. There was a bunch of kids all hanging out.

Eric got all of their attention and made an announcement. "Everyone, check it out. This is Josh, he is from Highland. He’s hanging out with us now. Make friends with him"

Eventually, "Josh from Highland" became "Josh Highland", and it stuck. I’m not opposed to it at all. I’m also stoked that I made some new fiend out of the deal.