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Joshua

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About Me

I'm the kind of guy who likes to stay busy. Whether it's working, gaming, or getting stuff done that's me. I graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology specializing in Manufacturing in June of '06. I got married a week before that. My wife is Laura and she does a good job keeping me in line.I work at a Steel Foundry in the Spokane Valley as a Foundry Engineer. I do project management and estimating for our engineering department. It's exactly the kind of job I wanted out of college, and I think it will set me up nicely to get my Professional Engineering License in a few years. Eventually I hope to go to graduate school for a master's degree probably in business or investing. I really like some of the programs that the Chicago School of Business offers.

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My Interests

FISH! I gave the ol' bastard pleco away. Now I have 6 platy's 6 Black skirt tetras a rubber lipped pleco and a pictus catfish. The platy's are great... they spawn like rabbits.Other interests are baseball, gaming, building stuff, growing kitchen herbs like basil, sage, rosemary, etc.Ghetto engineering.Sci-Fi kind of stuff really interests me. I really hope before I die someone will come up with an ingenious bio-hardware interface so that I can plug my head into my computer (or directly into the net). If someone offered me the chance to put an Ethernet jack into my skull I don't think they would have to ask twice.

I'd like to meet:

Definitely my heros listed below. (Tho I'd want to meet howard hughes before he went kind of looney). It would be interesting to meet my Dad's father since he died long before I was born.

Music:

Oh rock, classic rock, alternative. Some of my favorite bands are Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Old Metallica, Foo Fighters, Foreigner, and No Use for a Name.A few others I started listening to in college are Weezer, Chevelle, Trapt, Evanesence, System of a Down, and the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack.

Movies:

I'm a big fan of Sci-Fi and Sci-Fi action. The Sci-Fi horror doesn't really interest me. Bad movies anger me. Bad movies with obviously wrong information really anger me.

Television:

Adult swim on cartoon network is always fun. I need to get a TIVO or something because it's on so late I only get to watch Futurama nowadays

Books:

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind. Trent the Uncatchable (and to a lesser extent Emerald Eyes and the Last Dancer) Jinx on a Terran Inheritance Trilogy.

Heroes:

Indiana Jones and Han Solo were my role models growing up. Now that's expanded to include people such as Dr. Wernher von Braun, and Howard Hughes, anyone who is part inventor, innovator, and dreamer.

My Blog

Blood Work

Shit... everytime I think I have these health issues licked something else crops up. I went in for blood work a little over a week ago because the doc wanted to make sure I'd normalized. Aft...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:11:00 PST

Boo

Hello from Madison, WI!
Posted by Joshua on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:52:00 PST

Garage Opening Up

I was totally stoked yesterday to find out that a garage is opening up in January :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D. No more scraping windows for me!
Posted by Joshua on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:26:00 PST

Investing Sense

Read this young grasshopper and learn. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/business/retirement/23INDE X.html?em&ex=1193803200&en=9024c244ef1bdc16&ei=5 087%0A...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:15:00 PST

Moving Day - Tomorrow

They're playing musical chairs at work and I'm moving to an office above the maint dept out in the plant. Last week andy and I put in a new subfloor and Andy had carpet installed (not my first choice ...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:19:00 PST

@ the gym again

I finally started gaining weight again, now I'm only 20 pounds lighter since my surgery. Yesterday I went to the gym for the first time in about 3 months, ugh it always hurts worse when you get off sc...
Posted by Joshua on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:29:00 PST

Dept of Ecology

This lady is showing up for a follow up inspection in about 10 minutes... I've been freaking for a few days now. Wish me luck.
Posted by Joshua on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:51:00 PST

Pocket Knife

I've been dreading posting this blog for about a month or so now because I was hoping I wouldn't have to. When I got sick and went to the hospital somewhere along the line I lost my beretta pocke...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:51:00 PST

Rover Stereo

So second on my list of things to do before taking the rover to eburg is fixing the stereo. Today I had a thought "what if the previous owners just left it unscrewed/plugged/whatever". My manual talks...
Posted by Joshua on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:04:00 PST

ick

Someone got me sick... ugh.
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:26:00 PST