Blog of Josh Hall

well, in an unexpected and rather quick and easy process, I have been offered a promotion at work. I’ll be moving off my european hours of 4am to noon, to twilight hours of 4pm to midnight, monday through friday. I’ll be the level 2 for the group, which means I’ll be on the phone less, but doing a lot more work with reporting, escallations, processing, documentation, etc. Should prove to be a challenging position and I’m looking forward to it. I really am going to miss the guys I work with now though, and certainly my UK colleagues. I actually plan to VPN in the mornings from home every once in a while just to chat it up.

Car show tonight, maybe go car shopping in the morning too. Just got my tuition reimbursement check, so i have some money for a downpayment on whatever i decide to do. and actually, with the shift move, i’ll be able to take the bus from my door to work’s door, so i’ll be needing a car even less. I might put off the car decision until I know what’s going on with my job moving to the new building 20 minutes north.

i saw this random fact…

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is ‘shake’ and the 46th word from the last word is ‘spear’

and it actually checks out…
with things like that and syncing up pink floyd’s dark side of the moon with the 2nd lion roar of the beginning to the wizard of oz, they are just too random for me to believe them to be random. Certainly someone had to find out that there were similarities between the audio and video of the two, so who was that person? What were they doing? …what were they SMOKING? if it truly was unplanned, certainly there must be some sort of documented report of the first time this was attempted.



back to the Bible, I know people spend so much time reading the Bible and looking for patterns. Can we draw any conclusions from this rarity? Does it mean the translation has “easter eggs” placed their for some humor or self-satisfaction of the translator? do we then assume that the historical value and credit of translations have been comprimised?

1  God is our refuge and strength,
         a very present help in trouble. 
 
 
2  Therefore will not we fear,
         though the earth be removed, 
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 
 
 
3  though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
         though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. 
Selah. 
 
 
4  There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
         the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. 
 
 
5  God is in the midst of her;
         she shall not be moved: 
God shall help her, and that right early. 
 
 
6  The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:
         he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 
 
 
7  The LORD of hosts is with us;
         the God of Jacob is our refuge. 
Selah. 
 
 
8  Come, behold the works of the LORD,
         what desolations he hath made in the earth. 
 
 
9  He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
         he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; 
he burneth the chariot in the fire. 
 
 
10  Be still, and know that I am God:
         I will be exalted among the heathen, 
I will be exalted in the earth. 
 
 
11  The LORD of hosts is with us;
         the God of Jacob is our refuge 

yeah….so remember that house that i wanted to buy a year ago? I put a bid in on it yesterday. I’ll hear monday if i get it or not. It just came back up on the market at the begining of the month. I saw it, and the water damage was not that bad at all, one small pipe cracked in the basement rafters and sprayed water all over the drywall there. looks like it just needs replaced, nothing wrong structurally. I wanted to be able to lowball the bank with an offer and have them counter, but there apparently is another bidder, so the bank most likely will just take the highest bid. I ended up bidding 5k above what i wanted to bid…kinda feeling a little taken and a little regret on that…but we’ll see. It’s going to be a tight tight tight tight budget for a while if i get the house. There’s lots of pros and cons and unknowns and hoops and loops and this and that involved and still to go through, but, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

school isn’t too bad so far. online class is just busy work for a few hours on sundays, the class that meets on thursday is the same professor that i had last semester for the class where I/we had class 3/8 weeks, so i am hoping for an easy A again.

going back home this weekend to work at the estate and the park. I gotta get some kind of sign up for the park so people start calling and making reservations for the season. J’aime and Keren went over to the estate last week, and they said the roof is leaking really bad. I am hoping to get some tarps this weekend and get up on the roof to fix it. Hopefully it won’t be too cold and hopefully we’re able to do everything that we want to.

So, I’ve had lots of dreams where my dad is in them, sometimes he’s fine and nothing ever happened, and sometimes he actually survived the surgery, but last night was one of the first dreams that I remember having where he wasn’t actually there…sort of. I say sort of, because J’aime was talking to him on her cell phone, and i saw emails between her and him. My dad was giving J’aime a hard time over the cell phone, in his typical fashioin. We were all over at the estate in the dining room talking about what we are going to with the house and robbie and her girls were there too. after we were done, everyone left, and i was walking around turning off lights in the estate and my cell phone rang, and it was my dad’s voice asking violently “WHERE’S J’AIME?”…so i guess you can kinda consider this a haunting/nightmare thing. It was all dark in the house and i’m walking around upstairs turning off lights and such, and in every room, i’m scared i’m going to open a door and he’s going to be there. most of the house was empty, except my old room, it was just how i left it when i was a kid, instead of the piles of boxes it is currently. After Ieft the house, i headed over to my mom’s with 2 cats from my dad’s house. It was as if it was the first time we were closing up the estate. When i got to my moms, the 3 cats from my dad’s were already there, but i remember thinking there were 5 now that i added the other 2, again.
next, i ‘woke up’ in my old room in the basement at my moms. It was something like 6:45 am in the dream, and for some reason it was the time we normally go to school…highschool. I went up stairs to where deirdre’s, keren’s, and serah’s rooms were, and keren and deirdre were still sleeping and serah was in the bathroom. I was asking keren why everyone was still sleeping, we had to go to school. She just said they slept in. Serah came out of the bathroom, and went for the phone, which was off the hook, with J’aime apparently waiting on the other end. They starting talking, and Deirdre came out, and I started having this deja vu and telling her about remember serah picking up the phone and j’aime being on the other end, and waking up late for school. Then, I started realizing that I was repeating things that already happened, like bringing the cats over. And i’m telling deirdre this, and then i ask her when it was that i hit my head snowboarding, and she said 2 weeks ago. I was really freaked out.

The fact that i was repeating things in dreams didnt set well with me, and i woke up really freaked out and it was hard to shake that feeling. I want to say that it’s progress i’m not seeing my dad alive in my dreams, but now he’s haunting me, and the fact that the stuff at my mom’s house took place with the assumption that we were all going to highschool, even serah, scares me. That was 6 years ago. So it’s like my dreams are retro-progressive. I don’t like that.

as modern medicine improves, along the lines of tissue regrowth, prosthetics, and nerve reconnecting, I think we’ll have some gruesome tv shows. Right now, we have fear factor, they do gross things for sure. I think the only thing that prevents people from going further though, is the chance of permanent damage to their bodies. What I see, is a show where people will get their left hand smashed by a sledge hammer, and the show will front the bill for a replacment hand. maybe the finale could be straight from scarface, chained to the shower curtain rod, and chainsaw to the legs. Are you able to handle pain?

Gratitude – This is the part
this song has been running through my head for the past few days. I woke up this morning and it’s blasting in my head, i can’t turn it off. They’re a great band. THIS IS THE PART!