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I am now officially employed as a Jr. Web Data Engineer, working at a company called Aculus.

I started earlier this week (Monday June 8th, 2009) and it's starting to feel like I actually work here.

So I've been thinking about my position as a Varsity Team Coach and I was thinking about how I could get all the information for my scouts into one place where I can see where each scout is and how to get them advanced as they should.

I finally decided to put up a website that will eventually house a Drupal module that I will create to do that and provide other tools to add to the scouting experience, like scouting parent blogs, troop activity journal entries, trail and camp ground information and similar tools.

So today I gave-in to "The Puppy Thing." Jen now has a 1 and a 1/2 month old Australian Shepard / Blue Heeler mix. (It was born April 1st of all things and I think the prank just took a little time to get to me.) Granted he's pretty cute but aren't all most puppies cute?

Well, it's official! Last Thursday and Friday I walked in the formal Spring graduation at BYU and today my grades where posted and I passed all of my classes this semester so I don't have to retake any of them! ☆\(^_^)/☆ Yes, I was worried that I would have to retake at least one.

Now if I only had a job secured ... I'd be really happy. The market is really hard right now especially since I'm trying to get a programming / IT job with a Japanese major. Yes, I do have a computer science minor but employers could care less about minors.

I don't think there is any sane person who likes being sick. And yes, I do count myself as sane!

I recently caught something or another that has been going around and I think I now have bronchitis. I'm not absolutely sure but I'm fairly positive that it is bronchitis (I was coughing up a little blood yesterday) but tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment to find out.

I also lost my voice to it. (>_<)

No it's not football! It's scouting! This last Sunday I officially became the Varsity Scouts coach. I like that! I've not been camping for quite a while now and this will give me an excuse to go camping, hiking, biking, etc regardless of having school, work or other excuses.

I know that I just restructured my work to be able to study more but I think that this will add a layer to my life that's been missing, socializing and doing something fun for a change. But none the less I still need to focus on graduating this April and securing a full-time job.

It's really hard right now. I'm just not very motivated to do my homework right now. I'm often wondering if I'd jumped the gun switching to Japanese. I know that I only have this last semester with only three Japanese classes but it seems overwhelming.

Well, I've started my last semester at BYU (hopefully) and am really loaded with homework. It might not have been so bad but my Japanese is quite rusty and I don't know as much vocabulary as I should at this point. I'm working at it real hard but sometimes I really wonder if I'm going to make it this semester. But hopefully with lots of study and diligence I'll pull it off.

Normally I would have gone to La Grande for Christmas this year, but because Jen and I moved we stayed in Salt Lake (Sandy) for Christmas. It turns out that had we gone we might not have made it there as I84 closed. I'm not too sure where it closed but between Ladd Canyon and Cabbage Hill I think that it might have been one of those. But Jessica flew into Portland and couldn't get to La Grande because I84 was closed so I don't know, the Boise side might have been clear.