So what’s new in 2010? My wife left me, my daughter lives with her, I barely see them anymore.. but I guess that is in part to something that is actually good in my life.. I was just hired by a company called Stonecrop Technologies that recently took up the WiMAX project set out by Clearwire, so my best friend Cory and I are the ones.. literally the ones that will be getting your 4G (WiMAX) setup for 2011.

WiMAX is 4th Generation Mobile Internet, using Wireless Microwave Technology you’ll be able to use your mobile device to do things you could only do in the comfort of your own home or at your local Wi-Fi, this is possible due to the fact that WiMAX is 4 times faster than 3G, so if you thought 3G was fast wait until you see 4G. To put it in perspective 3G internet speeds vary from 700kbit/s – 1.5MBit/s, where 4G (WiMAX) will offer speeds anywhere from 3MBit/s – 6MBit/s, I have seen faster connection speeds with WiMAX but I’ll just give you the average speeds so I don’t excite you too much.

One thing to note is that Clearwire has some pretty cool partners such as; Intel, Sprint, Google, and Cisco. I believe Google actually made an investment into Clearwire of 3.2 Billion dollars which is the largest investment Google has put into a company other than itself, I would say that’s pretty cool!

So I have this really awesome job, I like what I’m doing, I get great pay with even better benefits so I’m doing good in that area, now as far as free time goes.. not so much. I work M-F from 8a-5p, the job includes a lot of lifting, not very heavy things but just a lot of lifting, so I am pretty exhausted by the end of my work day, so it’s hard to spend time with the people I want to spend time with, but that will change after I get into the swing of things, my body is in physical shock, I mean it’s been a while since I had a job like this that I have to do so much physical work. I mean it’s great I don’t mind the hard work, it’s definitely worth it, and it’s a great job so I’ll just leave it at that.

Even though somethings in my life aren’t so good I’m going to stay positive, live my life to the fullest, keep my head held up high and be as nice as I can be to the people that matter in my life.

-b3ck

So I slumped out of bed into some jeans and a t-shirt, dropped the kids of at the pool, watered the lawn, and brushed my teeth, I made my way out to the kitchen, I was thirsty so I poured myself a large glass of 2% milk, I LOVE MILK, drank it all like in 1 minute… ahhh so good.

I arrived at my computer, checking my e-mail while still listening for my daughter Aurora to wake up, my wife emerged from the bathroom looking pretty hot for a business woman I might add, and continued to put on her coat, we said our goodbyes and she shuffled out to the garage.

Next thing I hear is “Sean!” I’m like now what? she yells “they did a real shitty job plowing this morning!”, she also asked me if I would shovel later and I said ok… a few minutes later she calls me and says “I’m stuck” I’m like wtfgrrbbqsauce, I tell her I’ll be right down, so I grabbed my jacket, threw on some boots, and made my way into the garage, lo and behold pure poop was a way to sum up their plowing job, so I get outside the snow is so deep she can’t even open the drivers side door hence the reason she called me.

Here I am freezing my butt off, shoveling thru several feet of snow to get this damn car out so she could go to work, I get enough snow out of the way for my wife to get out just in case I need to get in and do some abrasive maneuvers, to get the car out.

My neighbor opens her garage door and she was smart and had her car facing outwards, which is something I should have done the night before but I was lucky to even get in the garage as it was, anyways so she starts to shovel her way out as well because not only did they not do their job right they didn’t even plow our driveways, after she is done with her side she lends me a hand and starts to shovel from the front of my tire while I shovel from the back, we finally give enough leeway to free the tire from the hard packed snow.

So here we go, I get in and start my Minnesota heritage “getting the car out of snow” maneuvers, I get it in a position to make a long run threw the snow, no go I jammed the car into more snow I didn’t even see before… another neighbor stopped by and helped us make a nice rut to have the car slide threw and finally I was able to get it out, signaled the wife to get in and our job was done.

I thanked my neighbors for helping us and went back inside and started to get Aurora up and ready for the day, so that is what happened so far, I’ll post a little slide show of all the snow that was in my way, so look at these and while my day progresses I’ll add more to today’s blog.