Author: Cj B

I Want Pie!

Hmm, so yesterday was really excellent.

I’ve decided that instead of always saying “Hola”, etc. I’m going to start saying “bonjour” and “bonsoir”. Maybe. Perhaps I should go German, though that’s a lot harder to spell.

Either way. Got off work last night and wasn’t really going to do my bike ride, but ended up doing it anyways. I carried my bike for like a mile up this really steap hill and my back hurts now. 🙁

After that came home and just lounged around. Met up with Robert and Jon and we all went out to Chili’s for dinner. It was very entertaining. Talked about lots of random stuff.

Once we were done there we dropped Jon off at his house again so he could go get Joel and then come back to my place. Robert and I ran a few errands and then met up with Jon and Joel at my place… I was very embarrassed about that though, A) because I haven’t cleaned in forever and my place is a pig sty and B) because there were condoms and lube sitting out in plain site that I had completely forgotten about!

I’m never going to live that one down!

Headed out to the Boom and just had a really great time there. At some point I said that if I had a dollar I’d tip the dancer, so Joel pulls out a dollar and starts shoving it down my pants… And then I took it and shoved it back in his pocket cause I really wasn’t going to tip the waiter and then he shoved it down my pants again and it got lost.. Eventually it fell out and I shoved it back down Joel’s pants… I think the dollar eventually ended up down Jon’s pants… That’s one SLUTTY dollar! lol

I also ended up in the middle of Joel and Jon’s dancing crazyness for about 2 seconds and then I skidaddled out of there. I had a lot to drink, but I wasn’t really that drunk. I’ve been holding my alcohol pretty well lately.

The wet underwear contest REALLY was NOT that good.. It was sad to tell you the truth. But whatever. The company made up for it. Oh, and green shirt boy was there again.. in the SAME outfit as he was last weekend! Um, hello!? You don’t do that shit!

blah blah blah… 😛

Anyways, Robert, Than, Mike and I are all off to go hiking. So bonsoir!

Private: It’s Just a Candy Bar

So lets see, I haven’t SEEN Austin in almost 2 weeks now. We had another huge fight on wed about shit. He blocked me on AIm saying it’s not Condusive to our friendship. So then I called him to talk about what the fuck was going on. He says he wants to be friends with me and all this shit, but when I try to talk to him about anything he’s always just like. “I don’t want to talk about that right now” blah blah blah. It’s so annoying.

During the call he tried to tell me that I was obsessing about this and etc. I told him off on that. I mean in the last like 2 weeks, I haven’t ONCE dialed his number, I haven’t ONCE called him to say, “Do you want to do something” and I haven’t ONCE started a converstation with him on AIM. It’s all been him. And hello, who calls me every day, sometimes WAY more then once a day. That’s right, it’s HIM! He’s the one being obsessive about this whole thing. Whatever.

So the called ended with, “Well I’ll call you when I want to hang out again”. He called me this morning asking if I wanted to go out with him and some Bako Friend. I told him NO. Looks like I probably won’t get to see him at all for his birthday. Good thing too, cause I just ordered his present online today.

There’s something about March too, even though I have a VERY small group of friends, there’s been at least 2 birthdays a week!

I’ve sent in my application to be a Campmaster for the Los Flores and Lost Forest camps here in the OC. The programs they have look amazing and it’s totally what I would want to do. I’d be able to help out nearly every weekend, so that’d be sweet. I was also looking online and there’s a position open in the District for a Webelos-To-Scout commisioner. Based on the job description they had up, it looks like this person is basically in charge of getting kids to stay in between the Weblos to Scouts transition. As that is where most of the lose happens.

I think I would LOVE that job. I have tons of ideas about things to do, and being a former Eagle Bound Director it’s right up the alley of what I’ve done in the past.

After sending those in I went and read up on all the posts from when I was working at camp… God it makes me miss it so much!

So yeah, hopefully something will come of that. the first thing they have is in early May though. Then there’s a training in the last part of June that I have to go to. I’m really excited for this.

It seems as though in the last two-three weeks though my “friends” here have just kinda popped up. I’ve now got Joel, Jon, Patrick, Robert, Perry, and Tony… Though they are all very new, I’m hoping that things will not get all fucked up again. Perry and I already have a date for Lunch on Monday (not a date date, but just a hang out date). Tonight I’m going out with Jon, Joel and Robert. I kind of want to invite Patrick again, but I’m not sure he would fit with this group of people. Perhaps I shall call Michael since I haven’t talked to him in forever.

So life over all isn’t looking too bad, of course I’m still pissed about this whole Austin thing turning out so crappy. But I’m getting over that shit.

I had a long talk about this with my therapist on Wed. We talked and talked and talked, and actually worked this issue back to something that happened when I was like 6 or 7 years old… (Well not JUST this issue, but my issue with wanting people to like me so much). Basically want I do is find someone who’s going to be a challenge to get to like me and work my ass off to make them like me. He says it stems from working with my dad who never really said “Good Job”. Must more complicated then that. But yea.

I actually broke down crying at his office, we did this thing where I just relaxed and we talked and it came up to this time when I stole a candy bar from the store and my parents FLIPPED out! So yeah.

I guess that’s it, adios!

Scary Calls

So… I was sitting in my office minding my own business today.. When all of a sudden I get this phone call from an unknown 515 number. So I quick like googled it and found that it was coming from my bank. So I answered it.

Long story short, apparently Visa notified them of suspicious activity on my credit card and they are cancelling it and sending me a new one effective today. Umm, HELLO? How am I supposed to get money then? I won’t have my new card for a week they said. How annoying. Thankfully I have other bank accounts I can draw from, but this is my spending account.

And WTF? I still have my card, and I haven’t seen anything wierd on my statements lately and I check them daily. They wouldn’t really give any specifics either. Very strange. I wonder how many other people Principal called?

Anyways, then on my way home from work I got a call from this company in Lawrence, KS with an Systems Integration Specialist position, it sounded pretty cool. You travel the US for 3 weeks a month and then get a week off. She decided to just do the first interview right there, I think I mighta blew it cause I so wasn’t prepared. But whatever. We’ll see what happens.

I’m thinking of going to a subscriber’s only format for my blog.. Sadly all the plugins I’ve found of that require Database changes, and I like to keep a virgin DB, after the hell I went through upgrading from b2 to wp with my fucked up DB. So I might have to write my own plugin for that.

Have I been a bit too geeky here lately?

Adios.

Dayish Off

So yesterday I basically took the day off, even though I ended up working for a full 8 hours. Slept in a little late and laid in bed working on some stuff, which was nice. Got up and went to the doctors and then went over to the Audi dealer to test drive the A3. They had the exact car I wanted only in grey. So I drove that. It was SO NICE. The only thing I hated was that the C-pillar was a little too big and created a nice big blind spot on the driver side, but I think the mirrors were more then able to make up for that issue.

The other thing was that the back seat on the OpenSky system has less headroom then on the regular one. So I hit my head, but it wasn’t too bad. There was plenty of room in the back though and tons of room for gear.

After that I was going to go to the beach but no one wanted too. So I just rode my bike to this special little place I have and laid out sun bathing for like an hour and a half. Read and listened to music and just relaxed. It was really nice. Going to try and get out there again today. My face is a little red though.

Came home and did some more work. Had a really funny convo with MH. I broke this script on Monday when I updated something and I kept trying to blame him. It was hilarios. At least for me.

I’ve been getting some really good feed back from my latest plugin which also makes me happy. And this time so far no enhancement requests. So that’s even better! Someone did ask if I could modify it to work with the AmazonAPI, but it will already do that really. Just using the GoogleAPI. I was thinking though that maybe I will just go and modify it to use the AmazonAPI natively. It would be fun.

I’m trying to get a few people together to do a day hike this weekend. On Saturday or something. So far Robert, Than, Mike and Joel are all interested, but no one has actually commited to it… I meant to ask Jon about it last night, but forgot. I have no idea where to go. I’m trying to get in touch with Mike to figure something out since he says he knows good places around here.

Anyways, after working and lounging I went out with Jon, Joel and this other guy, Perry or Peter or something. Damn my horrible memory! I’m pretty sure it’s Perry. He works in the building right next to mine. Either way, I had a ton of fun, we all went to H Marys and just talked. It was nice being around people who had things besides thier school to talk about. It looks like we’re all going to the Boom for the wet underwear contest on Friday.

Off to learn ETL. Adios!

Second Plugin! (Auto_Link)

Yay! I just finished my second plugin for WordPress! 😀

This plugin takes a set of delimiters which are user specified and will do a google lookup and replace them with links.

IE: You’ve probably all noticed that I’ve been linking to the imdb.com site whenever I talk about a movie, etc. Well up till now I’ve been doing a manual lookup on all those things.

Well now.. All I have to do is [movie]She’s The Man[/movie].. And it will replace it with: She’s the man.

And since these are user definable, you can add more then that to it if you want, IE. I’ve added “Wiki” to mine, so I can do: [wiki]Newport Beach[/wiki] and it will do: Newport Beach

Fun, no?

You can download Auto_Link here.