So the past couple weeks have been a bit of a blur. Tomorrow is my last day at Identix. It’s been a fun 2.5 year run but everything needs to end. I’ve been offered a pretty decent career move (along with a decent pay bump) and I’ll soon be picking up the reigns of web developer. It’s been a while since I’ve been a code monkey and I honestly can’t wait. My life is so busy these days it seems like I haven’t had the time I need to give the coder side of my brain. Hopefully my social life won’t suffer too much but I’m sure djing will keep that going.

I also recently made the decision to buy Robbie’s 99 Jeep Wrangler. Last year this time I never would have dreamed I’d own a Jeep. It’s weird, the statement “It’s a jeep thing, you wouldn’t understand” makes sense now. At least until the Focus runs again but thats a whole different story.

Lots of people spend their whole life looking for that right person for them. I’m happy to say that over the weekend I attended the wedding of two of my close friends Jay and Carla. Jay and I became close friends over the summer after our graduation and I give him credit for my love of cars. Carla and I originally met in the grill area at McDonalds where we both worked. When I found out the two of them were dating, they always seemed different together than other couples, almost as if they had a connection you rarely see in couples. It’s even more evident after last weekend.

On the personal aspect of things, it was great to get away and live life like it was before Justin Styles was created. Three and a half days of being with old friends and family made me awful nostalgic. I met some new people, a few I’d like to get to know better, and a few I’m glad I will never know better. Thankfully the latter can serve as a reason why I’m glad I left Superior so it wasn’t for nothing.

I could type out the whole trip, and maybe I’ll do this in the future. But it’s late and I felt it necessary I say something because this past weekend had a huge impact on my life (and partially because Dave said I need to update). I did lots of thinking about things that were and where I’m going with my life. I definitely see myself aging, watching friends get married and separate. Soon my friends will be having kids, all the meanwhile my mom will be asking me when she gets grandchildren. The answer is still the same though, when I have my 911.

There was once a time I had a glimmer of an idea to create a website. On this website I would tell tales of my exploits as a web programmer. Give bits and pieces of information of what I was working on, perhaps suggestions, little algorithmic nuances in my life. Then I bought a car. Once that began to get old, I dove headlong into djing. Somehow djing has taken me back into writing code again, in JSP of all things. Along with writing code for my added employer, Vital Vinyl I’ve come to experience 60+ hour work weeks regularly.

Ever since I turned 16 (this is the part where I tell a story of my past in an attempt to give the reader insight into my life) I’ve been a bit of a workaholic. 1 job has just never seemed like enough. At 17 I was working at the Board of Education in Superior and Mcdonalds. My record is 4 jobs, working at 2 McDonalds restaurants, the Board of Education, and also djing schools and weddings. What was I thinking? I was slightly depressed at the time, probably for about a month or so. When I wasn’t working, I was unleashing my zerglings and hydralisks upon unsuspecting foes.

Fast forward to today, I’m tired of working. For a while I worked 1 job, just here in my cubical, helping fix the fingerprints of the world. At some point I decided to start djing weekly in a club again, then decided to help out at the record store. Oh wait, I already had 2 online radio shows I was doing. For added spice, I’ve now added 2 more nights at a local lounge. Holy schnikes, I’m working over 60 hours a week now. Granted, lots of this time I enjoy and I’m not entirely commited to being at the new place twice a week, but still, it adds up. I have to admit that there’s a bit of comfort going from one work place to the next. On the other hand, sometimes you just want to sleep. We’ll all be dead in the blink of an eye anyways right? Well it’s a blink of an eye if you consider how long the earth has been around.

I’d like to say I’ll get this website going some day. Perhaps if I buy a digital camera I’ll have more things to post. Maybe bits of code? I’ve decided eventually I’ll shed this Nucleus CMS and go to wordpress. Things have changed so much, in the past I’d only use something I had written. It’s funny how so many things change, yet a few stay the exact same. Perhaps you’re one of the people that checks this website once a week, only to not be surprised there is no updated post. There’s the chance you haven’t checked this page for months (and I don’t blame you), or perhaps you just stopped by because I told you my email address and you wanted to see what was here. Either way, thanks for stopping by. and say something in the shoutbox.