The Chronicles of John Trammell

For the past year, I have been a student worker hired out of UC Davis to work for Operation: Military Kids....Working with a pay of $11.00 a hour and my title was Computer Technical Specialist/Web Master.  As of Dec. 31st, that job ended, and as of Jan 7th, i was hired at UC Riverside, still for Operation: Military Kids.  I took over my old co-workers job.  My new title is: Computer Resource Specialist.  I run and maintain the websites still, and a 15 laptop computer mobile lab.  I also plan trainings at different military bases and even go to events on bases.  I now make $16.50 an hour....woot...the sad thing is, this only goes till September 1....so we will see what happens after that.  I work at the office in Riverside every Tuesday and Thursdays...and of course, i might have work trips on the weekends.

From December 26th till January 2nd, I was up in Beaverton, Oregon (next to Portland, Oregon) to visit my oldest cuz amanda along with her family who was visiting her as well.  I flew up on the 26th with amanda's sister Krystal's fiancee John.  Once we got up there, Amanda, my aunt maria, and krystal picked us up at the airport.  Over the next week we went to cool places around Oregon, and had some fun.  It rained for all but one day while i was up there, and the hottest it got was 42 degress and the coldest where in the low 30's.  And went to the mountain where it was in the high 20's. Since my cuz amanda is a hockey player, we went to see 2 of her practices, and Krystal learned a few hockey tricks before one of the practices.  During the practices,  I would play video games with John to warm up, since it is very cold in the ice hockey rink.  It was fun seeing my cuz try to kick the other peoples asses in her practices.  While Amanda and Krystal where working on some