i have been driving without a license for about 8 months now. it took a few months to realize it at first cause i never got anything in the mail and never needed to no when it expired. but after that it was pure laziness that kept me from going to the DMV. every week i would set out to make an appointment and then something would always come up. well today was the day i broke down and went. i tell you the DMV sux! stay away from the place if at all possible. the dumbest, rudest people are there and those are just the people in line. the workers are even worse!! not friendly at all and not respectful of time. i waited an hour to get up to have my license renewed then was told to go wait in another line to have my picture taken. so another 20 minutes, finally when i got up to the front of the line the guy said hold on i will be right back. he went to a different window, sat down and started working??? WTF was that, i waited another 10 minutes before somebody else came back from their lunch break to take my picture. finally got my picture taken and ran out of there, hopefully will not have to go back for another 6 years!

never would i have thought the differences between verizon and sbc global would be that signifigant. i have had a dsl line for about 4 years now at my house, and for the longest time it was 1.5Mb down and 384 up which was the norm. i did some research and found out that sbc was offering speeds up to 6Mb for roughly the same charge i had been paying for the 1.5, $49.95. when i noticed this i called sbc asked if i could be upgraded they said sure no problem it will take up to 10 days, you will notice when the service is running cause your downloads will be a lot faster. after about 3 days i noticted a tremendous difference, i was downloading at blazing speeds. i thought wow that was easy lets get other people the same offer.

i talked to rich and said hey we need to do this for your house. since he has 5 kids and each of them have their own computer the network has been running really slow. right now they are at 768 down. unfortunetly they have verizon, which i have never dealt with before. i talked to somebody yesterday and they said the best they could do was upgrade it to 1.5 but your connection would be down for up to 10 days. i couldn't believe this, when i changed mine at sbc it was just a matter of them making a few connections on their end never interupting my service. so i finally got ahold of rich and he said ok go for it. so i called back and have been on hold for literally 72 minutes being switched back and for from person to person. i swear its like they have no idea what is going on. finally got a hold of somebody that knows what they are doing and finally got it upgraded. from what she tells me that there should be no interuption so that is good, but just so bizarre how the two companies work...

if you ever decide to have three kids never, i repeat never bring all of them grocery shopping. at least one is going to throw themselves on the floor because he didn't get m&m's.

for christmas the kids got a jar full of change and now wherever we go my son grabs a handful of change and while we are driving in the car he counts it out to see how much he has. by the time we get to the store he is already asking "what can i buy for 95 cents" this goes on the entire time we are shopping. finally he finds something so i tell him to put it in the basket, i will pay for it and he can give me his money. but this will NEVER do, he does not think he is paying for it if he doesn't hand the checker his money.

so when we get to the checkout after we pay for all the groceries, he has to give his candy bar to the checker, when she says its 84 cents he then pulls out a handful of change, to the horror of the people behind us he starts counting "10, 15, 16, dad whats 16 + 25" and so on. it is highly embarrassing!!

Today we are just hanging out now, Chris has his management meetingso he won't be home till 5 or 6. :( Guess I'll take a nap.

today was our annual management meeting where the top managers get together to go over and set goals for the coming year. this year it was held at the beautiful balboa bay club. the meeting went surprisingly good, very long and boring at times but we got through it and came out with some great ideas for the coming year.

yesterday heather and i took the kids to wattles park in the hollywood hills. it is where heather used to go with her dad when she was younger to go hiking. it was a lot of fun, just kinda scary with the little ones. the trails were really steep and going up was a challenge but coming down was VERY scary we got up to see the budda and went to the tree heather used to play in but after that we decided we weren't prepared to go much further with the kids.

we came home and turned on the spa when we got in, we all smelled something that didn't smell right so we decided that it wasn't such a good idea to stay in, we are having many problems with our pool and our pool guy isn't exactly the best guy around, we can never get ahold of him when we need him and whenever we want to use the pool there is always a reason we can't. getting very frustrated.

this weekend went by way to fast, i can't believe its already 7pm sunday night. i was supposed to meet my friend nick after my meeting but never could get ahold of him, hopefully we can hook up sometime this week.

heather's birthday is in a week and i have no idea what we are gonna do. we usually go to vegas but this year cameron has a parade that he is gonna be in so that kinda ruin's those plans. i guess we will see what happens.