Author: Cj B

Got it!

Yay! I got my issue fixed from yesterday. I’ve even got it now using the properties file to get the needed variables instead of them being hard coded.

Then I was having a column number issue. Damn this ETL tool! I ended up working 14 hours yesterday, everytime I told myself I wa going to stop, I’d go and sit on the couch for like 5 minutes and then come up with a new way to do something… It now works fully!

That’s exciting! Sorry, I’m a geek.

My plans for last night got cancelled, they wanted to do dinner too late. Sorry, but I eat early. And I go to bed early. I’m uncool like that, but I love having my two hours in the morning at work to myself.

Tonight’s plans have also been changed. The date has been moved up to an early afternoon date, and then going out with “The Boys”(?). Haha, Strip poker!

I’ve been having some really fucked up dreams lately. The other night I had one about Jenks, where he grew a beard and got fat. It also reminded me somehow that he still has a pair of my underwear from when he stayed over last summer in Iowa. Then last night I had this dream that I was laying in bed talking on the phone with someone and this guy just lets himself into my apartment and climbs into bed and starts making out with me and I had NO IDEA who it was! Very random.

I was thinking about moving a lot yesterday as well.. And talking it over with some people it seems like a really good idea. I would be saving about $250 a month. I’d be ON THE BEACH. And I wouldn’t be stuck in a lease incase I ended up wanting to move… I just dunno. Maybe this weekend I’ll go up there and look at it.

I’ve been talking to this guy online for a couple days now as just friends, he’s… 35. He seems really cool and from all the pics he’s sent me so far, he’s really hot. But um, he asked me on a date! I dunno if I should accept or not. I’ve been saying I need to look for older people, but I was thinking more like 25-27ish! Not 11 years older then me!

My new Samsung a950 is really pissing me off… This phone sucks.

Umm, nothing else. Adios.

Good Things.

Lately, I’ve been waking up at 3:10 am and then haven’t been able to get back to sleep after that. It’s very frustrating. I’ve even started going to bed later to try and help it.

And this morning it was raining so hard core, I just wanted to lay in bed all morning listening to it.

Another e-mail I enjoy getting are ones like this:

I *really* appreciate this – it’s amazing when you can write a software developer and your wishes come true the next day. Thanks SO much.

Glad to know that I can help people. 🙂

Going out Friday with Andrew, so far Mike, Robert and Patrick have all expressed interest in coming as well. And hopefully Joel, Jon and Ryan will be around to hang out with too.

The lights in my office are all burned out. It’s nice and yet frustrating at the same time.

I’ve been debating moving the last few days… With them raising rent and all that. This guy here has a place up in Huntington, right on the beach. But it’s a “big” loft, I might go check it out, but now that I’ve made so many friends down in Aliso area, I’m not sure I want to move even up to Huntington, as that seems so far away. Blah.

I’m going out on a Movie date on Thursday. So we all know how I feel about that one already. haha.

I’m still working on this ETL project at work, I’ve got it loading the information from the files, however when it goes to insert a row to fire off the importer task it inserts the wrong instance id. Thus meaning the importer task is trying to run against the wrong client.

I’m not sure WHY this is either, because I’m telling the importer to use the following:

var sqli = “begin icbo.addQueueEntry(25, 1, ‘” + stagingId + “‘, ‘_STG_STD’, 1, ‘” + transformerTaskutil.getMyInputParam( “ICIECMD” ) + “‘,null,null); commit; end;”;

The first value is the one that’s important, and clearly it’s set to 25, yet for some reason it’s being set to 14 somewhere and I can’t figure out where!

I’ve stopped going to the Docs… We both agreed that things have been a million times better in the last month. I’ve been very happy and making some friends and meeting nice people and hopefully things will continue to get better. I’d still like to get Jenks or Angel to come visit for a long weekend or something. It’d be nice to see either or both of them.

The mountians out my office window are really pretty right now, they are all green and stuff.

Ya know, it’s nice being able to say… “The only night I’m free this week is Wed.” And then having that night get filled up too… Having a life is good. 🙂

I love the rain.

Adios.

Private: A Bitchy Entry

Ok, this post is all about bitching about work…

So here goes! First, our Project manager is an idiot. He gets paid 100k+ per year, and doesn’t do shit. He sits in his damn office and tasks come in, he doesn’t assign them right, he doesn’t date them right. He doesn’t do shit! I could freaking do his job a ton better then he does.

Second, there are people here who complain that they are so busy and blah blah blah, but yet they don’t really seemt to do anything. Everytime I see them they are playing games or sitting around talking or something stupid like that. Now, I know we have down time while waiting for other people. But comon this guy has freaking tasks that have been sitting around for months where all he has to do is click the “resolved” button. Or tasks that have been sitting there and all he has to do is something that’ll take 10 minutes.

It’s so frustrating, specially when I’m stuck sitting here WAITING for these people to do something.

Grrr. Then we’ve got people who doesn’t fill out thier timesheets liket hey are supposed to. It’s like, comon people that takes 10 minutes a WEEK to do. It’s not that hard.

I think I’m going to stop going to the Doc. I really don’t feel like it’s needed any more. Who knows.

I’ve been working on this ETL task all freaking day. For some reason it doesn’t seem to know what toInitCaps() is. Even though it’s IN THE FUNCTION LIST. And secondly I’m telling it to insert a row where one of the values is 25, but it keeps inserting 14! And I can’t find out where it’s doing that at! Very very annoying.

Granted I copied and pasted it from another ETL task that IS inserting 14… But, I changed it to insert 25 in the only place I can find it doing that at. Grrr. I just don’t know any more.

I’m out yall.

Liad Back Weekend

Well, this weekend has been really laid back. Which is exactly what I’ve kinda been wanting. I mean, I haven’t had a whole weekend to just do nothing since before Christmas. And sometimes you just need a weekend to do nothing…

And here, I’m using nothing in a very liberal term….

Because, Friday night I went out with Joel and Ryan to see V for Vendetta. It was an AMAZING movie. It had everything! Sex, drugs, death, blowing things up, love story, gay and lesbian themes, sci-fi. It was just great. Everyone should go see this movie.

It was also April fools, one of the best days of the year for the internet: April Fools everyone!

I also love it when people send out wonderful e-mails that say things like… “and kudos to Cj B for the…”. An e-mail with that got sent to the CEO, VP and some really high up people at our clients. Glad to know I’m doing something good at work.

Want to make a boy scout happy?

Give him a hot brownie

Hahaha

Saturday I got up late and lounged around the house, did some fun programming projects, and then went shopping. I went to the store to get food for the week…

1) A pound of lunch meat

2) Loaf of bread

3) Milk

(Yes that really is my grocery list for a week’s worth of food)

And I ended up walking out of there spending $50 after adding a toothbrush, some leatuce, and mouth wash to the list. How annoying.

After that I went up to Santa Ana and saw Nunsense. It was mildly amusing. There was this really hot gay boy in the audience though. Yum yum. They were all about audience participation too, which was a bit annoying.

Saturday night I hung out with this guy Jason. We went to Blockbuster to rent a movie and you would never guess who I ran into there……

The hookup boy! _AND_ his bf! Omg. He walked right past me twice and never even looked at me.. Damn he’s got one fine ass though. haha.

Anyways, we came back to my place and just hung out and watched a movie. He left here about 1 and I went to bed.

On Sunday, Robert, Mike and I all went on a hike on the Holy Jim Falls Trail. OMG, it was a mess.. First you’ve got to drive back on this dirt road with HUGE pot holes and shit. We were affriad our truck was going to get stuck, so we parked about half way and walked the rest. It was so crayz. There were rivers flowing over the road and all these people back in there 4 wheeling. It looked like SO MUCH Fun. And the boys were SO HOT.

Anyways, we hiked for like 3 hours, but never got to the falls. I think we missed it somewhere, who knows. On the way back home though we passed this Biker bar, and there was this REALLY hot blond boy riding a harley. Yum yum. God I’ve been so horny lately. haha.

Got back to my place and we all went out to eat at this place and picked a spot to go camping at the end of this month. I also sent out invites for the first Gamping Brunch so that way everyone can get to know each other and we can plan out the first trip. God it’s going to be so much fun! I really hope people actually come.

Sarah called me in there and we’re going to take a trip out to Las Vegas sometime. That’ll be really exciting for me cause I haven’t seen her in like a year! My aunt called to tell me about the Bank issue I had a while back, apparently there were only 20 people that got notified, but she still wasn’t able to track down what retailer it was that had the issue. So that’s sad. Who knows.

Spent the rest of the night just lounging around my place doing nothing. It was nice. I really enjoyed myself this weekend.

I got a random e-mail the other day from this place advertising a new site “like” myspace. It’s called. DickSpace. God. Why is there ANOTHER hookup site? Of course I signed up. haha.

Remember how I complained about The Streets a few days ago? Well I have found one song by them that I really love… It’s called “Dry your eyes”. You should all go to my myspace profile and listen to it.

In one single moment your whole life can turn ’round

I stand there for a minute starin’ straight into the ground

Lookin’ to the left slightly, then lookin’ back down

World feels like it’s caved in proper sorry frown

Please let me show you where we could only just be, for us

I can change and I can grow or we could adjust

The wicked thing about us is we always have trust

We can even have an open relationship, if you must

I look at her she stares almost straight back at me

But her eyes glaze over like she’s lookin’ straight through me

Then her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity

When they open up she’s lookin’ down at her feet

Dry your eyes mate

I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up

There’s plenty more fish in the sea

Dry your eyes mate

I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts

But you’ve got to walk away now

It’s over

So then I move my hand up from down by my side

It’s shakin’, my life is crashin’ before my eyes

Turn the palm of my hand up to face the skies

Touch the bottom of her chin and let out a sigh

Cause I can’t imagine my life without you and me

There’s things I can’t imagine doin’, things I can’t imagine seein’

It weren’t supposed to be easy, surely

Please, please, I beg you please

She brings her hands up towards where my hands rested

She wraps her fingers round mine with the softness she’s blessed with

She peels away my fingers, looks at me and then gestures

By pushin’ my hand away to my chest, from hers

Dry your eyes mate

I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up

There’s plenty more fish in the sea

Dry your eyes mate

I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts

But you’ve got to walk away now

It’s over

And I’m just standin’ there, I can’t say a word

Cause everythin’s just gone

I’ve got nothin’

Absolutely nothin’

Tryin’ to pull her close out of bare desperation

Put my arms around her tryin’ to change what she’s sayin’

Pull my head level with hers so she might engage in

Look into her eyes to make her listen again

I’m not gonna fuckin’, just fuckin’ leave it all now

Cause you said it’d be forever and that was your vow

And you’re gonna let our things simply crash and fall down

You’re well out of order now, this is well out of town

She pulls away, my arms are tightly clamped round her waist

Gently pushes me back and she looks at me straight

Turns around so she’s now got her back to my face

Takes one step forward, looks back, and then walks away

Dry your eyes mate

I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up

There’s plenty more fish in the sea

Dry your eyes mate

I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts

But you’ve got to walk away now

It’s over

I know in the past I’ve found it hard to say

Tellin’ you things, but not tellin’ straight

But the more I pull on your hand and say

The more you pull away

Dry your eyes mate

I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up

There’s plenty more fish in the sea

Dry your eyes mate

I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts

But you’ve got to walk away now.