larger news

hey all, not much going on right now. im still working on the damn website. a little trouble linking the IP address with the name joestown.com. apparently this is harder than origionally digured. nothing new here so i will let you go. FYI: PA is spelled wrong on the Liberty Bell. talk to you later joe

Big news

sorry didnt get to post anything yesterday, for some reason i decided that i needed to sleep till 1115 and had to leave for work by 1215 so i had enough time to wake up and get ready for work. nothing too new here, just thought that i would update everyone about the nothingness that is going on here. talk to you later joe

news

There will be a lot of news forthcoming as of next friday. just be patient. You will also understand why i havent been so on target with my postings. sorry for that. Cooperstown was very nice. Kate and i had a very good day out there. fun too. finally got back to the Hall of Fame, which was very nice. They are in the middle of renovations aswell, but still very informative and fun. we walked around main street for a few hours visiting shops. Kate found a place with a bunch of Coke stuff, mostly tin lunchboxes, and pill boxes and such. really nice stuff. Then we ended up eating at TJ's. good food decent prices and the best part for kate was that it was all decked out in coke. every where. couldnt fit another thing with coke on it in there. Next saturday we are going to the Rennaissance festival in Sterling. This ought to be fun neither of us has been there and we both want to go. Then at the end of July i took vacation so we are going to go camping up in the adirondacks. maybe at limekiln but probably at another place that was across the road. should be fun either way. her brother and sister and the kids are supposed to go with us too. well, i think that is all. talk to you later joe

Cooperstown

Hey gang, i finally get to go to Cooperstown tomorrow. unfortunatley it has to wait till we go to the dentist in the morning. darnit. stupid dentist crap anyways. either way i cant wait. and unfortunately it seems that i will have yet another sleepless night on my hands. why sleep a few hours and be more tired when i wake up than not sleep and nap a few times tomorrow. or just go to bed early tomorrow night. we shall see what happens. anyways. There was an interesting happening news story, im sure you all heard about it if you watched the news or read the paper. The First Privataly financed manned space flight This link is brought to you from Leoville. But honestly you can look it up almost anywhere, big news. and in my opinion really cool. talk to you later joe

Website

Well, i am fianlly getting the hang of programming for the internet. finally figuring out how to get everything to work together. unfortunatley for the time being i am only having a very basic website. it will improve as my skills do and as i can figure them out on my own or find sources where i can figure them out for free. but hey i have finally taken the plunge. yipee. I finally got a new badge at work that says line cook yesterday. now its official, raise and new badge. finally getting somewhere. Im thinking about going into the brazillian steakhouse they are going to have in the new tower, but i dont know. i already know one of the other cooks is going to do that so i dont know. i think that all of us in the Forrest are thinking about it. After the shitty night we had on saturday i think we all might just try anf go. who knows. FYI: Only about 8% of humans own a car. talk to you later joe

Sunday again

hello again. looks like another bright day out there. well, we got our arses kicked last night at work. only two people on to run a three person line, yipee. good times though good times. on the bright side of things i finally got my raise and am now officially a gourmet line cook in the Forest Grill. yeah for me. good timing on that raise too, now i can get stuff paid down and move out. yeah again. so it seems that there is more good news than bad today. well, i think that is all the new and exciting stuff. talk to you later joe

long morning

well, this morning i finally got my buttocks in gear and got a domain name for myself and a hosting plan. so hopefully sometime inthe near future you will be able to go to JoesTown.com and see something. for some reason right now it doesnt seem to exist. ill have to look into it tonight as soon as i can log onto the page and put stuff there. a little trouble with passwords and such. hopefully it will be resolved later. anyways, it was a nice quiet weekend spent up north. got to clean my truck out totally and completly. looked really good for about one day then i went and got kate at work at 10 pm and well, all the bugs are back on it. damn things. talk to you later joe

Nuttin

nothing new today, only that its my friday. just thought i would let you know. also i finally got around to starting my own website. right now its just prelim, one of those projects you always here me talking about doing you can finally view it. The front page will change though and it will be less star trekish. so for now enjoy,i have added the link to my profile too, but here it is none the less. JoesTown Hopefully in the near future i will be able to have my own domain name and hosting so that i dont have to deal with the free crap. Its cheap i know but getting that little bit together and not being used on the other things that i want is always trouble. :) talk to you later. joe

News Tidbits

Yesterday was one of those days that you wished would just curl up and wither away so you wouldnt have to go through it again days. The work day started off fine but then that is where all the goodness ended. I had 5 steaks come back that were under cooked. good that they were undercooked and not over, we can fix undercooked steak a lot cheaper than over cooked. There was a big uproar about the trimming of fat from the ribeye steaks. Anywhere you go you get all the fat, here we are supposed to trim it so that they get more steak than fat. well, co-worker rose a stink about it so i dont argue with him, and i just trimmed the front of the steak and cut the two ends off and threw it in the cooler for the wait staff. As i could forsee happening there was "too much fat" on the steak. I think everyone had a bad night servers, cooks, dining attendants, all bad. But thank god today is a new day and we can start over. Ive got a few news items that i thought were interesting so i figured i would send them along to you. 1. Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof. Very interesting to say the least. you dont see that everyday, hell every year. 2. Mayor Pushes for a Quieter New York Yeah because that will be possible. I found that first one at slashdot and the second one was reported all over the place but i took it report from the Washington Post. FYI: The longest living creature was a tortuise that was 154 years old. talk to you later joe

Happy Sunday to all

Hello all and hope you are enjoying your sunday as much as i did, seeing as i just slept through the entire morning. apparently i needed the rest. well, i was just wondering today of anyone knows of anyother sites where you can get free website stuff other than bravenet? as you can see thats where i got all my other stuff from. thats my only question today. Another FYI: Did you know that one eye wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns. Now how in the world do you suppose they verify that study? Talk to you later joe

Stupid Awards

Yesterday the Stupid Award was given out at work. This lady walks into our restaurant and the Lobster tank is right next to the entrnce so that the peoplecan see it and pickout their lobster with ease. So shes looking into the tank and exclames so that everyone can here her, "Wow! These shrimp are huge" If you have any stories of just such stupidity feel free to pass them along. FYI: Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. talk to you later. joe

Love the 80's

On Wednesday the cable went out down here due to the weather so that night we didnt really have anything to do and were kinda bored so we went though the DVD'x that kates mom and dad have and i decided to watch "The Death of the Incredible Hulk." Now i remember this being on TV and thinking it was pretty neat. Well, i found when i watched this one that it was pretty lame. I enjoyed the movie but you could definatley tell that it was from the 80's. The actual death scene in the last part of the movie was extremely funny. Pure 80's is all i gotta say for the movie. So if you decide to watch it for nostaqlgic reasons i hope you have as much fun as i did. Talk to you later. joe

Birthdays

Well, yesterday we went up to moms so that we could celebrate marks birthday. It was very enjoyable, we got to eat outside on the patio that i put down, cooked on the grill. Oh and he got a new toy. his mother bought him a power washer. yeah now we can really clean our cars, yeah again. such excitement, good lord am i that bored? ;) I decided yesterday that i was going to get him a bedliner for his birthday, but it will have to wait a little while so that i can get the money together for it. he liked the idea. Kate and i decided that either this week or next we are going down to cooperstown to the national baseball hall of fame. she and i both want to go, and again i really cant wait. Nothing else new so... talk to you later joe

Another Weekend

another weekend is upon me and damn its hot. finally, hot and sweltering. gotta love it. Last night i was reading emails andlooking through websites and ifound this really neat program. it makes the sounds of nature, as if you were outside in them. its really really cool and unfortunatley its 9MB. Quite the download on dialup, took me about an hour to download it myself. but persoanlly i think its worth it. its called Atmosphere Lite. This one if free but they have a paid version available. Mightly worth it though. well, nothing else new. talk to you later joe

Hola Seniors

Nothing much going on here at all. Just the usual weekly stuff so far. Gorgeous weather we are having huh? Oh i did find something amusing in one of the blogs i read. Apparently Bookies Offer 3−1 Odds on Quick End to J−Lo Marriage. Obviously they dont think this will last either. Sorry its a slow news day for me hopefully ill remember stuff tonight while im sleeping. talk to you later. joe

Batmaaaaaan

Just an FYI, they got the origional Batmobile and Batcycle at the casino right now. i dont know how long it lasts but they are in the lobby and then near the Garden Buffet. talk to you later. joe

Im Baaaaaaaaaaack

Sorry about the long delay between entries. As you know i had my weekend and didnt get the chance to get back on here to write anything about what was going on and then i planned on doing just that when i got home thursday, but come to find out we had no power. so we just got our power back yesterday after i went to work so this is the first time ive had the chance. There really isnt much new going on here right now jsut waiting to go to work this afternoon. although we did find out that two people are leaving us in the kitchen. one already has by being fired, which was long overdue, didnt come to work very often and all. the other put her two week in and is going back to florida so that means we are a man down after that. hopefully we will have someone else to take her place. my raise and position change to gourmet line cook will take longer than expected. they have to post for the job even though the job is mine and go through all that shit. lucky me. but in another month i may have the job if im lucky. other than that there isnt anything else new. oh, and todays trivia is that in Oregon i believe there is an underground mushroom that has a diameter of 3.5 miles. just thought you'd like to know. talk to you later. joe

Friday, Friday, Friday

Yeah its finally my friday. i get the next two days off, and damn do i need it. this six day week just killed me. and of course its supposed to rain. well, news from the work front, they are going to change the menu again. Mind you this is the third time in about 2 months that they have changed the menu. last night the first 4 people, two seperate tables bills were 160 and then 130 for two people to eat. they really didnt buy all that much either. so they are starting to think that maybe the prices are a bit too high for most people. but we will see what happens. and another bit of trivia, did you know that the penguin has an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water? well it does. thats all for now talk to you later joe