Word on the street is...

The word on the street is that the Angels beat the Red Sox, and that's all that matters! I must say it was an absolutely awesome game, and I'be been to some rather interesting ones in the past. This game had so many good plays, and equally good mistakes on both sides, and it really did come down to the wire with K Rod ending it with some beautiful last minute pitching! I wont bore you with the details, but Orlando Cabrera impressed me immensely with his ball handling skills and concetration!

Besides that, today was rather uneventful, I didn't really do much, as there was really nothing to do! The game was the highlight of today and that is alright with me! Derek's back from Chicago, which means that SHE is back, and I really can't stand HER. I've locked the door twice on her, ignored her every time I saw her, and basically talked to Derek like she wasn't even in the room. I really hope she knows I strongly dislike her, otherwise I will be forced to conclude she is literally the dumbest person on the planet! This hostility is really starting to drag on me, I mean I don't like being mean and it really goes against everything I believe in. The saddest part of this whole thing though, is that I feel some of the anger towards her from Charlie and myself, is spilling over onto Derek, and that is really not what any of us want in this. She basically needs to leave, or things will become worse between all of us.

I have work tomorrow for the first time since Sunday, and I am really looking forward to it. I really want to get some things done tomorrow, that I hope an average Wednesday crowd will allow me to accomplish. Besides that, nothing is realy happening tomorrow, so I will be taking it easy and not really stressing about much, which is what I need to be doing as I have just been getting more tightly wound up since the break up (yes it was two months ago, and yes I really am glad it's over with, but it still wears on you). After school is out for the short summer vacation I will be relaxing, drinking with some old friends and basically being myself. Heck we might even go to the Primm 300, so I am really excited for some down time, I think I've earned it over these past months. Good night everyone, I need to get to sleep and think some more about secret things....

Today... was a good day!

I got to sleep in way late today, I didn't have to go to work, I got to watch 4 hours of 24 season 4, and I cleaned my room (finally, it was a major mess). Today was one of those days you don't appreciate, but I am going to try and appreciate this day. I am alive, doing well and in good spirits!

Now back from my rant on today, I am very excited for the near future! I have a meeting next week with some CCity people and I think it could be very good for me, my new manager is fairly impressed with my ability and my ideas, but he is most of all impressed with my innitiative. While others in the department help customers and then go back to doing nothing I get on people's asses, and I get things done in good time. I am one of the newest employees in my department, but everyone listens to my input and basically does what I point out (though I do it myself if I'm not busy with my own problems, the life of a tech is a hectic one) in a timely manner, almost as if they think I am management.

As for the meeting, my gamble paid off, I basically wrote an open letter to my management that stated I had some ideas that I wanted discussed. We have a lot of problems in our department and if we are going to ever become a top tech department, especially before our new branding, we need to adjust our behaviors to be successful. So I have a meeting with my manager sometime next week, and hopefully I don't f*ck things up, because this could get me in good graces with the brand new store director. At this point in time, I have no idea what life holds for me, so I am merely leaving every door as wide open as I can, and taking the initiative that will set me apart when it comes time for raises, and for picking new team members!

I think if I really wanted to, I could pursuse management in CCity, but that is not what I want in life, at least I don't think so, so I will just be using this to built repor with my management, so if I ever do need to fall back on something like this, I will already have a foot in the door. I really am excited for this new oppurtunity, I don't know if you can tell, but my grammar and writing style is all messed up because I am thinking so much about the possibilities. I have been having ideas running through my head again! I haven't had ideas like this since I was single before the Ex!

I feel so relieved to finally be able to think about things and think about my future in a format less than linear. I am able to see clearly what I want in the end, and I am piecing together the middle parts that I need to fall in place before I can enjoy my life the way I've always wanted. The launch of my newest business will be the first step of this new process, and I am hoping, I am praying, that it will take off in the way I am visualizing in my mind. This next launch is not a far fetched scheme, or even a radical idea, but I believe that it is something that hasn't been done, and if successful here, I will hope to spread our influence and model to other ambitious minds! I am sorry for being so vague on the idea, but I don't want anything set in stone before launch!

Well I feel it's time for a gin and tonic after a nice long good day, so I will bid you farewell, and stay tuned for more updates!

Yay, another day at work!!!

You would not believe the stuff I have been through at work since I have started at the City, but I must say it has been a deilghtul, if not interesting journey. I am on my third manager, and my second store director. But that is not the worst of it, in October, I will be undergoing a name change (my specific department is getting a complete overhaul, and with that comes new colours and names). All you have to do is follow that link and you might be able to figure out what our new name will be, but you will never guess that new colours, so you all will just have to wait for the new commercials to roll out!

Besides that, nothing really important happened today, got most of my work done so I only have a few things to do tomorrow, and I keep getting in good with my new manager, so things are looking up, but you never know with large retail corporations. But I'm exhausted, and my feet hurt, so I will bid you goodnight!

Are there snakes in my pants, or am I just happy to see you?

Now I am going to start off by saying that I really didn't know what to expect when I decided to go see Snakes on a Plane, but I will be the first to admit that what I did end up seeing was ridiculous. Not the kind of ridiculous that makes you mad, or upset, or even the kind that makes you wonder why you spent 10 dollars. This movie was so.... unique in that the only reason it had even a semblance of a plot, was to give some sort of justification for putting snakes on a plane! Do we know if Eddie Kim was ever convicted of anything? What happens to all those families of the people who died on the plane, do they sue the airline, the government, or Eddie Kim? Does just bringing the anti-venom for all these snakes really help when the people are on the verge of death? A good movie answers these questions so that the audience has a sense of closure, but not this movie, oh no, you get nothing but some snakes on a plane, and an attempt at romance.

Because of all this and the whole setup of the movie, I am forced to conclude that Snakes on a Plane is only the first in a series of films to discuss the serious issue of snake security. I believe we will see Snakes on a Boat, Snakes on a Bus, and finally, Snakes in the White House in the coming years. People need to be aware of the serious threat these lovable creatures can pose.

All jokes aside, there are more pressing matters at hand that must be dealt with. The girl has overstayed her welcome! I will not name names, but a certain girl, lets call her Ashley, has taken over one of my roommates rooms, and basically the whole place in an effort to be as annoying and rude as possible. I'm generally not a mean guy, in fact I hate it when people are mean to me, or others, but this girl is certainly a special case. I do not know how someone could be so... boring, stupid, attached, and whorish, all in one package. I guess they are even boy friend and girl friend (I don't know how she tricked the poor bastard into that one). But I have only a few more weeks of this to deal with (hopefully much much sooner), because she will be moving out of our room and into an apartment of her own (what a novel concept, getting her own place to live). With that move I am hoping the last bonds of their relationship will be severed, and that I, will never have to lay eyes upon that woman.

I know that I am being really harsh, and well, a dick, but I raelly don't care, this girl is worth throwing those things out the window (at least until the end of this blog).

So I've covered movie news, annoying girl news, I think I still need to go over the work situation, but as I do have to go to work in the morning, I must cut this short. I will keep y'all posted tomorrow or the next day about that whole mess.

It's been a while...

I just have a few updates to make and some comments on a few subjects that have been bothering me for the last couple of months (it's also been a long time since my last entry, so I might as well just go all out and have some fun with this one.)

I want to touch briefly first, upon an observation I made a while back while on the way back from Wendy's (best nuggets ever), and that is what I call, Average Joeism. Average Joeism is my technical name for what others may call blind ignorance, or ignorant assesment. This stems from a couple of things, but I will only go into the main one for now. Because I do work for a large electronics retailer, I have seen many things that have either irked me, or solidified my confidence in mankind. Today was a day for the former.

Now I know most of you have no idea who I am, but lets get one thing straight, the Mac commercials are the worst commercials I have ever seen, and I will explain why. They just don't work. That's it, they simply do not do an adequate job of explaing exactly why I (the target demographic mind you) would want or need to get a Mac. What the commercials have done is create a large number of Average Joes (hence average joeism) who then think they know a lot about computers and problems that seem to only plague PCs. Lets get one thing straight, the Mac does nothing for you that you can't do freely with the applications built into Windows, or one of a million applications written by someone out there to help you out.

People come into the store touting names like Intel, and HP, and never think that maybe the other brand, AMD, might have a product that is better suited for their needs. They ask if AMD is a different type of Pentium, they think that because they saw a commercial that said Intel inside, that the correct product for them is that one. Well let me put it this way, most people who go to a store to buy a computer shoud probably stick with the AMD, it's cheaper and for most if not all tasks it will match or beat the current generation Intels. These are the type of people that will not listen to a shred of sense that you give them. The type of people that want to talk to the tech because they think they have a clue about anything inside their computers, the people that ask "technical" questions and have no idea how to digest the clearly stated answer. These people are the Average Joes, they live among us, they could be our friends, neighbors, or family, and they are coming to take you with them into their world of ignorance. It is up to you to be the judge of what information to follow and who to trust, but let me give you a word of advice. Anyone who speaks with great confidence about a field they are not employed in, or haev not studied in great detail, is lying to you straight and narrow, so you must be aware of peopel willing and wanting to take advantage of your ignorance.

That's all I have to say about that!

Deniers

Well I got back from another viewing of V for Vendetta, and I am still as impressed as I was the first time around. Anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet is in for a treat, and anyone who doesn't want to see the movie is missing something big. The movie plays so nicely on the administration of Margaret Thatcher, and even on the current US administration. It is amazing how movies draw so closely on connections that people refuse to see otherwise.

We have been making great progress with the car, but we have come across people who think we are scammers. This simply isn't true. We are not requiring anyone to donate, and only ask those willing to support the project to donate. If that sounds like a scam, then don't donate, it's as simple as that, we can draw funding from other sources, and would actually prefer at this juncture in time just the increased readership of a readerbase.

Wow

I never knew a math class could be so boring as the one I had tonight. The teacher had no idea what she was talking about, read directly from the book, and proceeded to tell us that she doesn't have time to check her slides for accuracy. Well I don't have time to listen to some lady drone on and on about improper integrals, and then change the subject completely (luckily I have already taken the course, and this professor seems to like me).

The car dilemna has moved one step further, in that I will probably be driving a new Sentra, or Yaris by early 2007 at the latest. This may seem like a long time to the people that know me, and it could spell disaster for some things, but we shall only find out when it happens, and when I get reactions for this latest decision. I have basically decided on those two models for their performance/fuel economy/price. They offer the best of all three worlds, and the hatch Yaris isn't too shabby of a looker, and definately not shabby on interior room.

Nothing done with the car on my end tonight, I have been really busy this week, and super tired, in fact, I am basically going to fold my clothes, and hop into my bed for a well earned rest, and then get up around 7 tomorrow and work on some homework as to not rush myself at the last moment.

The Hx2

This is going to be the official blog for the major project I posted earlier today. Basically its a project my friend Derek and I are working on, which we are hoping to have finished sometime in mid to late 2007. If you want more details about the car and its goals you can visit the blog linked above.

The project isn't really just about the car though, it's a good way for both of us to stay focused on something we both enjoy doing, and to escape the trials and tribulations that come with being at school all the time. I think that in the end of the whole thing, even if the project is a complete dud, and nothing ever works (odds are strongly against this), the experience from working even in a small team like this one where problems are addressed constantly, and deadlines are non existant is good experience.

I think along the way we will discover some things about business and the aspects of designing a major project that will help later in life. We may even acquire new friends during this project, as our aims are not to merely make a car for ourselves, but to make a car that delivers, to those wanting the ultimate experience, the ultimate dream.

Ah the grind

Second day back at school, and the first post in the new blog. Both going very well I would think. School like normal is a drag, but when you at least get good teachers and a good schedule it makes it a little better. I haven't really decided as to a direction for this blog yet, but I will come up with one eventually, as I have several things going on, including a major project, and a job that shows me the best of people ;-). I think I might do a matter of both, but I may also include random observations that may be deemed politically incorrect, but I don't really care. Politically incorrect or not, people set themselves up for ridicule most of the time, so I think I should just point that out.

I guess I could even make my first observation about women. I call the financial services desk today asking for a hold on my account to be removed, the lady on the phone is courteous and removes one of my holds, but leaving the second one. I call back maybe 5 minutes later, and explain myself to the exact same lady, who proceeds to yell at me and tell me she already fixed it. I didn't even accuse her of lying, she just thought she should start yelling and pissin on the floor about it, so I just hung up. Basically this is how everyone should handle women on the phone, if they start getting all pissy and riled up, just hang up the phone. Odds are you didn't do anything that you should be ashamed of, or even apologize for, and odds are the woman on the other end will think you slept with her sister. Lifes to short to get bitched at.