Ben Goals and Updates

1. I received a 4% raise today at work. Yea!

2. I've decided that I will go back to the drawing board with the story "Crunch the Wonder Dog" and finish it as a novel by the end of the year. It will be set in New Orleans instead of the original Florida location, and the drunken character Ben will be renamed something appropriate. Also I will make sure that whatever science is mentioned is plausible.

3. I've decided to go back to school. The goal is that I will be sitting in a Graduate School Classroom by the end of the year. There is much involved financially here, thus the somewhat easy sounding goal. (University of New Orleans - Public Administration w/ a concentration in Nonprofit Organizations)

4. I've decided that I will finish one song that I feel is good enough to permanently add to my repertoire of songs. This one sounds easy too, but accomplishing this easy task would really mean alot to me since I haven't been able to do this for about 5 years.

5. I am going to Belize for my Vacation this year in March. San Pedro to be exact. Jim, Clay, Stinger and I have a killer free Condo deal. It will be hard to think of anything else until I actually go.

6. I'm about 99% sure my rent will go up in April. I will either need to find a new place or get a roommate. Anyone interested in moving to New Orleans? My cousin is moving here around then, I'll ask her.

7. My exhaust system fell off my car two days ago. That's what happens when I have to commute two hours to work everyday. I bolted it back on and used Scotch tape to keep the nuts on until I could get it to a shop.

8. It looks as if my work will be moving from beautiful downtown Hammond back to New Orleans around May or June. It appears as if my work has chosen the Texaco Building as its new residence.

9. I am going to Sicily Island to play video games with my Uncle for this 3 day weekend. Oh what fun. Sicily Island is a very small town in BFE Northern Louisiana where my family owns a camp on the bayou. This is where I stayed after Katrina. A very lovely place.

10. My brother Matt received an extremely cool telescope from Kevin for Christmas. He lives right around the corner from me. Aaaaaaaiiieeeee!!!! Can't wait to play with that.