Donna and I leave for Alabama tomorrow to surprise my Dad for his retirement party, and to visit Doug M. for his big THREE-OH! All us folks turnin' thirty.. How weird. Was hoping to get to meet Deb, but I fear there will not be enough time for that this trip. Selling my iBook to Katie and her husband Judson, and hopefully get to see Candy and Christian..
Not very exciting.. More later.. I've got an X-Serve Dual G-5 at home.. Yummmm..
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
More No Smoking Stats
With finding my birth mom recently (see post below).. I wanted to quote Airplane, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!".. But I have prevailed.. Total I've had since I quit... 7
Your Quit Date is: 4/25/2004 3:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 17 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 54 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 525
Lifetime Saved: 4 days
Money Saved: $89.25
Your Quit Date is: 4/25/2004 3:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 17 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 54 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 525
Lifetime Saved: 4 days
Money Saved: $89.25
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
New Feeling Continuted
I talked to my birth mother for an hour and a half today. What a surreal day. I absolutely have no words for it. Hopefully some will come to me soon. She married a David. Now she has two!
Monday, May 10, 2004
Completely New Feeling.
Oh. Wow. What an afternoon.
I ordered a copy of my birth certificate the other day from the State of Alabama website. I have no idea where mine is, but it's probably with my passport, which is also incognito from my stint in England. And I need a birth certificate to get another passport -- you get the issue..Anyway So at the bottom of the State of Alabama site it has, "Adoptees, click here."
So there I clicks.
A $20 check mailed with a form last last Thursday later, I find my original birth certificate in my mailbox. That was today.
Are you ready?
Justin Galen Krueger
In addition to my original name, it has my birth mother's name on this photocopy as well. I'll leave that off because of how searchable the internet is. Anyway, I search for my Birthmother's name.. Not much, until I use her middle name.
One entry.
On an adoption database website.
From her.
From about a year ago.
From where she has been looking for me.
This is when I lost it.
So Around 8:30 PM I email this wonderful lady who runs this website from Tucson, AZ. Her name is JoAnne. I give her the reference number from her site's database, and my name(s!) and her name. I write that I'm very nervous, but here are my phone numbers and umm what do I do now and....
About 10:55 EDT JoAnne calls me from Tucson.
"This is David"
"David, this is JoAnne from the Adoption Database."
"Wow." David sits down.
"I talked to your birth mother a moment ago" JoAnne continues.
"Wow." David sits down more.
"It was hard to get through because I think her husband is a doctor now. Her last name is now ----. I told her who I was and said, 'I have wonderful news!' and she said, 'Should I sit down?' and I told her 'yes.' I read her your e-mail to me and she started crying. She was going to call but said it was too late there where you are. But she has your numbers and is going to call tomorrow. I told her she should go ahead and call because I knew neither of you would be sleeping tonight.
This is where I lost it again.
So Donna and my parents know.. And there is no way I can type the rest of this tonight. Suffice to say I'm not getting much done on homework or Blue Cross Blue Shield
I ordered a copy of my birth certificate the other day from the State of Alabama website. I have no idea where mine is, but it's probably with my passport, which is also incognito from my stint in England. And I need a birth certificate to get another passport -- you get the issue..Anyway So at the bottom of the State of Alabama site it has, "Adoptees, click here."
So there I clicks.
A $20 check mailed with a form last last Thursday later, I find my original birth certificate in my mailbox. That was today.
Are you ready?
Justin Galen Krueger
In addition to my original name, it has my birth mother's name on this photocopy as well. I'll leave that off because of how searchable the internet is. Anyway, I search for my Birthmother's name.. Not much, until I use her middle name.
One entry.
On an adoption database website.
From her.
From about a year ago.
From where she has been looking for me.
This is when I lost it.
So Around 8:30 PM I email this wonderful lady who runs this website from Tucson, AZ. Her name is JoAnne. I give her the reference number from her site's database, and my name(s!) and her name. I write that I'm very nervous, but here are my phone numbers and umm what do I do now and....
About 10:55 EDT JoAnne calls me from Tucson.
"This is David"
"David, this is JoAnne from the Adoption Database."
"Wow." David sits down.
"I talked to your birth mother a moment ago" JoAnne continues.
"Wow." David sits down more.
"It was hard to get through because I think her husband is a doctor now. Her last name is now ----. I told her who I was and said, 'I have wonderful news!' and she said, 'Should I sit down?' and I told her 'yes.' I read her your e-mail to me and she started crying. She was going to call but said it was too late there where you are. But she has your numbers and is going to call tomorrow. I told her she should go ahead and call because I knew neither of you would be sleeping tonight.
This is where I lost it again.
So Donna and my parents know.. And there is no way I can type the rest of this tonight. Suffice to say I'm not getting much done on homework or Blue Cross Blue Shield
Friday, May 07, 2004
Smoke Free Stats
OH.. The smoke free thing.. Well. I quit at roughly 3AM on the Sunday morning of/after the party.. Let's check quitnet.net to see.. Can't link to it, so I'll relay the stats.. A of 5:06 PM EDT on 5/7/2004.
Your Quit Date is: 4/25/2004 3:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 12 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes and 5 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 378
Lifetime Saved: 2 days, 21 hours
Money Saved: $63.00
This is almost true. I've had five since I quit. These are 'slips' understand, not (what do they call them, uhh) Relapses.. Most of them were after Donna and I went to Villiage Tavern and I had two Red Oaks and the Meatloaf.. Yummm.. It was all over after that. Anyway, that was the Thursday after I quit. And it's been much easier to know that I 'can' have one, but choose not to. I will smoke one of the Cuban cigars I have with Jeremy to celebrate Nora's birth whenever we can get together for that purpose.
Concerning that 2 days 21 hours thing.. like Dennis Leary said, this is the last two days and 21 hours, though.. when I'll be in a diaper (again), so...
Your Quit Date is: 4/25/2004 3:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 12 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes and 5 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 378
Lifetime Saved: 2 days, 21 hours
Money Saved: $63.00
This is almost true. I've had five since I quit. These are 'slips' understand, not (what do they call them, uhh) Relapses.. Most of them were after Donna and I went to Villiage Tavern and I had two Red Oaks and the Meatloaf.. Yummm.. It was all over after that. Anyway, that was the Thursday after I quit. And it's been much easier to know that I 'can' have one, but choose not to. I will smoke one of the Cuban cigars I have with Jeremy to celebrate Nora's birth whenever we can get together for that purpose.
Concerning that 2 days 21 hours thing.. like Dennis Leary said, this is the last two days and 21 hours, though.. when I'll be in a diaper (again), so...
DaVinci's Notebook... Not the Band
OH how cool. Leonardo da Vinci's notebook. ONline.. with audio commentary. what wil those Brits think of next?
Here.
Here.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Great Party
What a great party. It's taken me forever to post something about it, and I don't really have much to say except a very heartfelt thank you to Jamie and Ali for making the trip down, and to Doug and Kriste for making the trip up. We had a blast, and even though Will and Meghan couldn't make it, it was a great time.
Jamei and Ali gave me Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins, his latest book. I can't wait to be done with this irritating Windows 2000 class so that I can start reading it.
Doug and Kriste gave me a really cool card that Kriste made of a tiny dart board with three darts, and 512MB of RAM from a Compaq Doug had. How appropriate I get RAM.. What goes around comes around! I wonder if Doug got the video game he went to auction for... I'll have to find out.
Donna and I are going to try to make it to their place for Doug's 30th. And then maybe over to Anniston for my Dad's retirement party. Holy cow. He's going to be retired!
We played okay the night of the party. Just okay. We have definately played better. Couldn't really get it together. I think part of it was us, and the other part was that everybody else was just sitting and watching.. not reallly excited or mingling or anything. Anyone in theatre or who has played live knows how important audience reaction can be to feed from. Since I was playing, I regrettably don't have many picures. We finally move the equipment back to my basement tonight. And another rehersal tomorrow night.
Donna and I were going to try to make it to Jamie and Ali's this weekend, but both of our trips got changed. Maybe at the end of the month. I do want to visit, though.. especially now to see the bear!
HGTV will have to be in the Fall as they can't find their Home Inspector in Greensboro! Hah!
More later. I miss you all.
Jamei and Ali gave me Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins, his latest book. I can't wait to be done with this irritating Windows 2000 class so that I can start reading it.
Doug and Kriste gave me a really cool card that Kriste made of a tiny dart board with three darts, and 512MB of RAM from a Compaq Doug had. How appropriate I get RAM.. What goes around comes around! I wonder if Doug got the video game he went to auction for... I'll have to find out.
Donna and I are going to try to make it to their place for Doug's 30th. And then maybe over to Anniston for my Dad's retirement party. Holy cow. He's going to be retired!
We played okay the night of the party. Just okay. We have definately played better. Couldn't really get it together. I think part of it was us, and the other part was that everybody else was just sitting and watching.. not reallly excited or mingling or anything. Anyone in theatre or who has played live knows how important audience reaction can be to feed from. Since I was playing, I regrettably don't have many picures. We finally move the equipment back to my basement tonight. And another rehersal tomorrow night.
Donna and I were going to try to make it to Jamie and Ali's this weekend, but both of our trips got changed. Maybe at the end of the month. I do want to visit, though.. especially now to see the bear!
HGTV will have to be in the Fall as they can't find their Home Inspector in Greensboro! Hah!
More later. I miss you all.
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