Well I haven't forgotten about this place, though I haven't had much time to write.. Quite a bit has happened so let's see if I can catch you all up.

The first thing I want to write about is probably on of the most interesting. A Taco Bell I was working at the front counter, as usual, when a man staggered into the dining room. The guy was clearly intoxicated. He tried to order something, but I couldn't understand him. He mentioned that he knew a co-worker of mine. Then he started calling me a racist, —apparently because she was black but for no other reason than that. The man became unreasonable. He had convinced himself that I was a racist and began threatening me. I, not wanting to make things worse, left the counter and the man.

I went back and told my boss “Um, Dean,—we might have a problem. There's a guy up front, I don't know if he's drunk or high or whatever. You might have to call the cops." My boss went up front and tried to reason with the guy, while the assistant manager was in the back office prepared to call the police. I watched as my manager told the drunk to leave his store. The drunk guy obviously resisted. “I'm a customer,"” he insisted.

The police showed up soon and at that time the drunk was trying to get behind the counter to where the food is made. My boss wouldn't let him and the drunk wound up on the floor. The police then told him to stay on the floor, but when he wouldn't the police used pepper spray on him to keep him down.

In the end the police hand-cuffed him, and took him away. According to the local newspaper the drunk man faced charges of “disorderly conduct",“resisting a police officer," and "trespassing." But from my co-worker I heard he was bailed out. I also heard he didn't remember anything...

To be honest, it sounds worse than it was. Because the man was drunk, he was easy for the police to deal with, and during most of the time I was at the counter taking other orders--directing people's attention away from the action that was going on behind them.

Well, that's the most eventful thing I've had happen at work. I wasn't in any serious danger
or anything, but it was interesting.

The next thing happened just over a week ago. I got a phone call at 7:30 AM Thursday from a Grad. student at Northland. Apparently he was in line for the PS3 at our local Wal-Mart. He asked me if I wanted to earn some money by taking the last spot in line for them, I agreed, got dressed, packed up my school books and went to Wal-Mart. I arrived around 8:30 AM.

The reason we were all in line was because the PS3 was being sold for $600 at Wal-Mart
(An insane amount of money for just a game-- especially one that's not very good quality.) but on eBay they were going for $3,000. So they were in this for the profit.

So, from 8:30 AM to 12:00 AM I waited in line for this PS3. Finishing up my school work and doing various other activities to pass the time. Every now an then we'd see an eBay report of what the current prices were. We had an interesting time.

Unfortunately, there weren't as many PS3s as Wal-mart was promised. Wal-Mart was supposed to get 10 of the best version PS3s but instead they only got 2 and 2 lesser quality versions of the PS3. The good thing is that we got rainchecks. So as soon as the PS3s do come in Wal-Mart will call us and we can buy one.

Two days after the PS3 was released, Nintendo released their new system, the Nintendo Wii. Guess where I was. You bet, the same deal was on. I got payed to stand in line again. Wal-mart was able to have 20 of these new systems so the line was about twice the size of the other one, and this time it was a completely different group. There were true gamers. They wanted this for themselves. In the PS3 line everyone was there to buy it then sell it. The Wii people, commonly called "The 20", were quite fun. Everyone was generous. We banded together and because Wal-Mart wasn't doing anything we made a list of who got there and when, that way we didn't actually have to physically stand in line and had proof of an actual line.

Again I brought my school work and Jessie let me bring her Nintendo DS along as well. It was fun.

Around 12:00 PM there were a few spots still open, so we decided to call up Jessica, my sister, and see if she wanted to join us, for pay of course. So, she agreed and we added another friend to our group and another Nintendo Wii to our selling list.

12:00 AM came around and the line had been filled a long long time ago. We all went to the Technology department and stood in line for the Wii. All of us got 1, Jessie and I were paid and we were taken home.

That was a fun week, to say the least. I certainly enjoyed my 33+ hours at Wal-Mart... Honestly.

Thanksgiving was great. We had our ol' fashion Turkey meal (complete with Cranberry sauce). We had a few guests join us as well. We had two of our Kampus Kids, and an elderly man from the church. It was a great meal and we had fun with our friends.

Friday after Thanksgiving we had a "movie night" at the church, where we watched Unusual Films' famous movie, Sheffey. We had great fellowship and lots of Pizza-- 20 boxes to be exact, more than enough for everyone. It was a great day.

Well that pretty much catches you all up on everything for the past month or so. Other than these things it's pretty much been work, school and church for other activities.

Well thanks for reading my incredibly huge post.

//. Joey