Hi there. It's been over a week since I've updated...and so much has happened since then! Let's see...I guess I'll start with last Thursday. That was an interesting day.

Ok, so I go to work on Thursday morning and they put me in really, really old file. Ok, let me explain some...when the client gives the company a long list of phone numbers, they are placed in files. For example, aol4lk (that happened to be the one I was in). You then open that file from your computer and it starts making calls for you. When a file has been in use for a long time, it becomes basically worthless. For example, in about three hours of being in that file, I only was able to talk to 1.3% of the calls I made (the rest were answering machines or not available.

So the long short of it is that I'm getting rather annoyed by the time I come back from lunch. After lunch that put me in a CBSI file (selling a product to CitiBank cardmembers). It wasn't the best of files, but it wasn't that bad. But then they tell us that unless it's a sale, we are to put down every call for a callback in one or two hours. So if John Doe says "I don't want it, you've called me before, I don't want it!!!!!!!" I say "goodbye" and then call him back in an hour. Not exactly a nice thing to do. And pretty soon after that I start getting a lot of people complaining of being called six or more times already that day. Which is illegal. So I logged off my computer and quit. Didn't figure it was worth it to stick around for another week.

So Friday morning we left for Archer City, TX. We got there about 2 pm. I had hurt my foot Thursday night, so I went running to get some blood flowing through it and then we played dutch blizt until Aunt Von and her grand daughter Misty and her three kids showed up. Then Catherine showed up. And then Jack and Maria and Craig and Jacob showed up and we had a hoot! Not too much to say: we just talked about what all the family was up to.

Saturday morning we drove to Bowie for the ABKA black belt testing. That was a blast. Other than plurral fights and quick kill, I only got to fight two fights. One was a fellow going for his black belt. It was a really fun fight, even though I got my lip cut in the process. My other fight was against Jane S. who was going for her first degree brown. She's always a hoot to fight, because she's one of the few girls who will take and give hard hits without making a big deal out of it. Mr. Henderson, one of our black belt, got his second degree black belt. He did a jump three sixty back kick that was awesome.

So after the testing we drove home and not too much interesting has happened since then. I got my purple belt on Monday, as did Anna and Ethan. That was cool.