Who decided to make all cellphones geigh flip-phones now? I hate flip phones. All I want is a cool looking NON-flip phone with a camera & bluetooth. But nooooooOOOOooooo, everything has been ‘bling-ized’ beyond recognition into some honestly ugly-ass beast.
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Put my 3 weeks notice in at my job today – supervisor was cool about it and honestly was kind of expecting it. He’ll be announcing it at our staff meeting tomorrow so it will be interesting to see the reaction that gets.
Spent the evening scanning some old photos I had from a few years ago and reminiscing.
My kitty has been sad I’ve been gone so much so I played with his feather toy for 20mins or so. He always looks so happy to get his picture taken (don’t let him fool you – he hates it!).
I was supposed to study this evening and haven’t done any. Dammit!
I just checked my voicemail after I shut my phone off last night and had a fun message. Apparently my phone called a friend of mine while it was in my pocket last night. Mike then had a 30 second conversation with my pants pocket. Hopefully it didnt say anything too embarassing…
In the week since I’ve blogged I applied for a job, interviewed for said job, was offered the job, and accepted. It’s pretty whacky how fast this happened. The new company I’ll be working for is Becker Orthopedic in Troy (<4mi from where my fiance` works, yay =D ). It looks to be a good place for me to get some real experiance in from the bottom up in redesigning their network infrastructure. They have an NT4 domain, and all of their satellite offices are stand alone. I’ll get busy with some 2003 AD up in that shiz.
After 6 or 7 years now of the I-have-no-dental-insurance-so-I-hope-by-brushing-my teeth-sporadically-I-won’t-get-any-cavities dental plan, I think it’s about damn time I start abusing the benefits I do have with my government job. I’m paying all this $ in I might as well try to get some of it back.
I was sent this article this morning and I’m upset. With the frequency i make the drive down the I-96 corridor I should have seen these before a reporter from the Detroit Free Press. And now the Michigan Department of Transportation has taken all of these art pieces down. =(
Is it bad I want to download the entire internet? Obscure B-side limited release remix mp3 of a track I already have 4 copies of? Link me up! I know I have a problem but I can’t stop. Is this a product of the digital age and my desire to backup a history of electronic music for when I am older and it’s considered “oldies”, or is it simply a case of obcessive compulsive disorder to the extreme?
Who cares I just found another torrent for a previously unreleased version of a song that is totally different from the album version but not even as good. Time to fire up Azureus!
One of my New Years resolutions this year was to cut down my intake of pop. I probably drink a little too much to be healthy; usually a Cherry Coke for lunch, and a Mountain Dew or SoBe No Fear energy drink in the afternoon, and a lot of times some pop with dinner. Heck I drink Jack & Cokes at the bar even. So after not doing anything whatsoever so far this year, I cut myself off cold turkey Wednesday. After braving cold sweats, jitteriness, mood swings, and panic attacks for these two days I thought the worst was behind me. Suffice it to say I succombed today while eating at Mongolian BBQ. I’ve gone a full 2 days; go me! 2/90 days is a great ratio so far this year. Now that I’ve fallen off the wagon I wonder how long it will take for me to try this agin…
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I was at the store the other day and picked up a couple of the new Campbell’s Soup At Hand microwavable portable soup thingies thinking they would be great for lunch. I had one yesterday and it worked out perfect; quick cup of soup for lunch. I started making another one today (mmmmm…Tomato) and had a thought. The can of soup itself is is sealed from contamination, but the lid which you put your lips on to drink the soup has NO protection whatsoever. Gross! I feel like going to the store and whiping my dick over the lids of a bunch of these to prove a point, but instead I think I’ll just soak my lid in some anti-bacterial soap for a few minutes and never buy another can of Soup At Hand again…
I don’t know why but I expected air travel to be more glamorous. For only the second time in my life I’m taking a plane this morning on my way to a ‘vacation’ of sorts to toronto and Ottawa for a week. I suppose maybe it’s just the fact I’m flying out of Detroit and it’s got to be one of the most UN-glamorous cities in the world, but there is nothing exciting or cool about it, and most of the people around have either been old, lame, or ghetto oddly enough. I was told to get to the terminal early (ie. 2hrs) since this is technically an international flight. The actual e-ticket process (no physical ticket) which initially weirded me out has so far been the least stressful part of travel. After taking only 10mins to check in and get thru security and realizing I had another 1hr 50mins, I bought a magazine (blender) which I promptly read. They ask you take laptops out of your carry on bag but then don’t tell you what to do with it, so I tried to walk thru with it and the metal detectors promptly went ape-shit. I then had to take my shoes off, belt, coat, laptop etc off in a bin thru the screening machine and got thru fine despite the metal in my ears & mouth (the chick supervising had a giggle about my fear of it going off). Now I sit staring out the window and writing this log since there’s no fucking wireless to waste time on the net. I hear there’s free wireless in Pittsburg where I have a 40min layover so we’ll see how that goes.
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Once they told me to turn my cell phone off on the plane it was like I was in limbo w/ no idea what time it was etc. The flight from Detroit to Pittsburg was fast. About the time we leveled off it was time to go back down again. I made it a point to grab window seats on all my flights, but so far it’s been cloudy and didn’t get much scenery. We landed in Pittsburg at 11:50 and my connector flight left at 12:00. They took their sweet ass time docking the plane and shit, so by the time I took off running across the terminal I showed up just in time to watch my plane leaving the gate. Cool! It actually wasn’t that unpleasant of an experience. As soon as I got to the gate I asked someone and they had already booked me on a new flight leaving at 4:15. They also tried to get me a meal ticket but the airline claimed that de-icing delays are not their fault so no freebie meal for me. Other than the “rescheduling” it’s really not too bad and I can’t complain. Pittsburg does in fact have FREE WIRELESS and that’s just beyond cool. I’m currently listening to my favorite online trance music station with my feet up at a window seat charging my laptop & cellphone while IRCing. Only thing missing at this point is a la-z-boy to lounge on.