Another New Picture!

I added another new picture to the to banner. That gets us up to 30! Here’s a list of the pics:

1 – Snow in Palm Springs

2 – Lifegaurd Jeep in San Clemente

3 – San Clemente Pier (Sunset)

4 – NB Office View (Sunrise)

5 – Lake Elsinor (Sunrise)

6 – Sequoia National Park (Sunrise)

7 – Fog in Sequoia

8 – NB Office View (Sunrise)

9 – San Clemente Pier (Sunset)

10 – Iowa State University Howe Hall (Sunset)

11 – Iowa State Fair Midway

12 – Court Ave Des Moines (Winter)

13 – Sunflower at Jave Joes Des Moines

14 – Yucatan Ruins

15 – Yucatan Observatory Ruins

16 – Yucatan Springs

17 – Frog at Rieman Gardens Ames

18 – Orange County Fair

19 – Mighty Blue Grass Shows – Iowa State Fair

20 – Saylorville Lake Polk City (Sunset)

21 – 5th Street Ames (Sunset)

22 – Clouds over Backyard

23 – Roasting Corn Orange County Fair

24 – Rainbow Umbrella Laguna Beach

25 – Homeless Man Ames

26 – Coffee! Java Joes Des Moines

27 – Deer In Backyard

28 – Central Park New York

29 – New York

30 – Museum in Orange

And just remember that all those are original pictures that I’ve taken! 😀 I’ve got a few mor I want to add, but I’ll do that over time.

As you can tell, I’m really trying to avoid doing work right now. I’m just so burned out. This project that I’ve been working on for over a month now has grown to 13,987 lines of code. About 3,000 of that is copied from an OSS project and adapted to work with what I’m doing. The rest is all original code that I’ve written. As you can tell, it’s getting to be HUGE, the biggest project I’ve ever worked on. And considering that it’s not near done, it’s just going to keep growing. I’m estimating 17,000 line by the time we’re through.

I am getting enough done now though that the PM for this project is starting to come back with little nit-picky changes. And they are so annoying. Like some of them, even though they are SMALL changes to him, require lots of added logic in the middle of things.

Another annoyance I’m having right now is that when I graph Responsibility vs Status, I get incorrect numbers, but when I do Status vs Responsibility, I get correct numbers. In theory you should get the same numbers either way! So I’m not too sure why that is! It’s really frustrating me.

It’s also frustrating me because the CEO has thrown one of his projects into the middle of this one, so I’ve been splitting my time between these two very demanding projects. Thankfully the one for the CEO is done, I’ve just got some random JavaScript errors that I can put off for a while to fix.

The cutie sent me a txt message last night that made me smile… I had been planning on sending him one when I went to bed, if not calling him to say goodnight, but I wasn’t too sure if that was being a bit too forward for only being out on one date so far. So I’m glad that he initiated it. Like I said, we’ve got a date for tomorrow. I’m kinda stressing on what to do! I’m thinking Sushi and then hanging out at the pier or checking out the downtownish area around here.

I got the invoice for my deposit on the old apartment today. They didn’t add in the $200 cat deposit that I made, they charged me for a bill they claim I didn’t pay and they charged me $115 for cleaning! When I left the place it was pretty damn spotless, so I’m a bit annoyed about that. The bill they say I didn’t pay is understandable as well because I paid it the day after I moved out. So perhaps the company just hadn’t registered it yet. So I have to call and figure out where I can get that $30 back from. In all I should end up getting $200 back. Which is nice, because I owe a ton on my credit card and I still haven’t got the re-imbursement check from my company yet for the moving costs.

I don’t remember if I mentioned it a while back, but I switched to Camino. I really love it as a browser over all. However A) it still has the memory leak issue of Firefox/Safari, B) It doesn’t have tab-memory after a crash, C) the most annoying one, it doesn’t allow you to save more then one password per-site/page. Very annoying for places where I have two or three logins.

Anyone want to buy a Powerbook G4 1.33ghz, 1Gig RAM, 100Gig HD…for $1,000? PLEASE!

I should get to work, adios!

All Moved In

Well I’m all moved in… I’m officially an LA boy now.

The day went well. Andrew and I were up early and I went and picked up the truck. We got an early start packing that up and then Robert was 30 minutes late. So by the time he got there all that was left was the big stuff. So we packed that up and then we all went to lunch. Drove up to RB and unpacked.

Everyone up there was SO NICE! People actually went out of thier way to come knock on my door and introduce themselves to me! The guy upstairs even invited me up to give me tips on how to get to/from my office! It was so crazy!

After that they stayed and helped me unpack which was a HUGE help! It was so great.

About 6ish we headed back to the OC. Andrew and I went to dinner, and then back to my old place to pick up the cats. As we were leaving I started to cry a bit… As much as I hated it, I’m going to miss it.

As I was driving up the 405 to my new place the sunset was amazing with a huge bright orange sun setting just over the horizon on the 405… As I drove off on my last time as an OC boy… I had tears most of the way back, but no where near as bad as the Iowa -> Cali trip 2 years ago…

I slept ok, but woke up a few times throughout the night.. at one point I caught Tux climbing the window screen! Damn cat… I can already tell they are NOT happy about not having anywhere to sit and look out the window.

Adios!

It’s a Love/Hate thing…

Ugh.

Resons I hate Windows:

Had to re-install my old Dell laptop today to get linux off it… After an hour of installation, I went to run windows update… “ERROR: NO NETWORK CARD”! So I look, no drivers… So then I go searching for a damn CD that’s long since lost.. Finially find it (Hiding under a desk somewhere). Pop it in, and there’s this wonderful list of 16 Drivers i have to MANUALLY install!

Hello people? Why not have ONE PROCESS that just installs them all automatically.. For each fucking one, I had to unzip (4 clicks), then install (4-10 clicks). Ugh!

And then, once I got that done… A wonderful HOUR of fucking windows update and 4 reboots later, it’s finially working… With zero software. :'(

Reasons I love Iowa:

I had to call Allied today to update a bunch of things and do other stuff… Everyone was so friendly! And chatty and they asked me about the weather here, and this girl told me the story bout how she was just here from Iowa and depressed about the June Gloom… It was so funny, and we chatted about the move and how scary it is… People were just WAY more friendly then ANY OTHER help desk line I’VE EVER CALLED. I thank Allied, and the midwest for that! 🙂

Reasons I hate the Post Office:

I need to change some stuff and fix things at my new place… So I look around.. The post office DOES NOT list ANY of the local branch phone numbers! VERY ANNOYING. Because the 800 number puts you into this continus loop of automatted shit!

Reasons I love my MacBook:

It’s so sexy. 🙂

It all about the Cheese!

Ok, so I LOVE flavored cheese… You know, like Roasted Tomato and Garlic chesse, stuff like that. I usually don’t eat much of it though, because well, it’s bad for you and expensive.

But today I went out looking for some. I bypassed my normal places, Vons and Ralphs because I knew they didn’t have what I wanted.

So I go to three other grocery stores and NONE of them have the cheeses I like! 5 stores, not a one good cheese!?! WTF? This is supposed to be the place where you can get ANYTHING! Right?

So why is it that I can go to my mom&pop grocery store in Iowa and have a HUGE selection of flavored cheese and NOT HERE IN CALI!??!

Grrr.

Anyone know a specialty cheese store in the area?

Today I’ve done 649 lines of code and 21594 chars… I think it’s time to go home! 🙂

I’m so excited for tonight!

I want to get a shotgun rack for my car. Yesterday it took me an hour to get from SM to LB @2pm! People were being SO STUPID!

Long Long Week

Ok, so it’s been a long long week, and it’s been a while since I last updated. Sorry normal readers!

Lets see, highlights…

Last Tuesday was good, sushi and all that.

Wed was lots of proof-of-concept work for both the consulting and for my real job. Speaking of, OG and the guys at the office are starting up a consulting business. Very exciting stuff. I’ve already got two potential projects for me. After work I went over to Andrew’s and got the charger for the iPod and hung out for a short bit. Went home, biked for a while and then went out and played tennis with Jon. We both sucked. Me more so. It was good to get one-on-one time hanging out with him. He’s a nice guy. 🙂

Also ran into Ty there, apparently he lives in the apartments RIGHT next to the tennis courts. It was random. After we were done with that we went back to our own places, showered and then met back up at Joel’s place. We all went out to dinner and then hung out the rest of the night.

Thursday, was a long day at work. Meetings in Santa Monica, and driving there and back. Though I did get to drive the boss’ 530i BMW. That was hot! We also went to this place to eat where a freaking salad was $15! Thank god the boss paid! Then meetings later in the day for the consulting stuff, and the boy there was uber hot!. Then packing and all that. Ugh, crazyness. Is this what it felt like to be popular in HS, constantly busy? lol. I left my fucking apartment at 5:30 that morning and didn’t get home till 8pm. Ugh.

There was also LOTS of talk of me moving up to Santa Monica during that meeting and just in general from the VP himself. I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Friday was just work and then the flight, LONG fucking day. My Scope for that day said: “For now, writing in your journal or blog could be the best answer.”… 😀

The plane ride on friday was fine. I got moved from seat 33, all the way up to 11 and had the whole row to myself, so that was really nice. we left about 30 minutes late, but got in on time. ORD was a mess though, they were doing all this construction in the baggage claim. I honestly don’t know why I bothered with that. Ugh. Got out of there and went to the Car rental place.

Got there and they were like, “well we’re out of Kia Rio’s so we’ll have to give you a PT Cruiser”. So I was just like, “whatever, i just want a fucking car to go home”. So she pulls it up and it’s a freaking PT Convertable! How fun. I left there and traffic was fine. I drove for like an hour with the top down, but then it got too cold. It was kinda cool, you would really tell when you were going through the cold front, cause it went from 80 in Chicago, down to 50 about an hour outside of ORD, and then a few hours later it went back tup to 66.

Sometime I really need to take a road trip out to Chicago when I’m not in a hurry. There’s so much random stuff along I-80 that I want to take pictures of.. Such as “What Cheer, IA” and The worlds largest truck stop and some other really random stuff.

I was able to talk to people for like the first three hours of the trip. Talked to Andrew for like an hour, and then talked to Robert for like 2 hours. It was pretty entertaining. Finially got into my house at 4am and everyone in the house was up. It was so random. Went to bed and got up at about 8 that morning.

Hung around the house talking to the Parents and playing in the pond and stuff like that. We all went out to lunch and got Sushi then came back to the house. Where I realized I had forgotten a belt and my mom hated the way my shirt fit. So her and I went back out to the Mall and bought two new shirts and a new belt. The boys in the mid-west are so yummy!

Got back home and it was time to head out to see Angel so I drove over to Ankeny and picked her up. We went to chili’s and I SWORE the guy hosting was Adam, it was really creepy. But then once he turned and looked at us, it was clearly not him. But it was still really creepy.

From dinner we went back to my house and waited for everyone else to show up. It ended up being, Vero, Zach, Mandy, Angel, Ginny, Oksana, Nic and this random guy that Ginny brought who was pretty cute, but sadly straight. We all hung out there for a while and then headed downtown. Hung out at the Royal Mile and then hit up The Lift ! Yay for $5 martinis! 😀 Had a really great night. Sadly Jenks couldn’t make it. :'(

At the lift there was this REALLY hot boy in a purple shirt. They kept trying to get me to go talk to him. JJ said that I should go put a dollor down his pants and say, “This is for later when you are stripping for me” haha. As we were leaving Ginny went up to him and gave him my number. He never called. 🙁

Ginny was also wearing the most adorable jacket! I stole it for the night. Pictures will be posted as soon as I get them from her! 😀

OH, I also watched the two episodes of Penn & Teller: Bullshit. That show is GREAT. Everyone should go watch it. Specially the Boy Scout one (Here’s the torrent).. Steven Cozza, I love you!

Got home about midnight and just crashed hard core.

Sunday was easter. It was really good to see everyone there, the best part was my grandma’s face when she saw me get out of the car. 🙂

Left there about 1 and headed out to Chicago. The drive was fine till I got 40 miles from Chicago… When traffic STOPPED. It took 2.5 hours to go 40 miles! I was so stressed out and just started crying in the car. Ugh. I finially got to the hotel, which was very easy to find. It’s so adorable too. There’s wall paper with GIANT blueberries, and a purple wall and I’m on the 12th floor with a pretty good view of the city. There’s also all these cute Haiju’s on all the lit stuff in the room. It’s ADORABLE!

I weighed myself on my mom’s scale, I’m at the lowest I’ve been in like a year, but yet for some reason I feel the fattest I’ve been in a long time. I dunno why!

On the drive here I saw a sign that said “6-6-06 The signs are all around you” and the -‘s were all upside down crosses… it was REALLY wierd!

My scope for Sunday was this: “You are at the very front edge of an intellectual storm that may have your nerves standing up at attention. This is a highly interactive phase and you are mentally up for whatever challenge come your way. You can be clever, even brilliant over the next month, but it will be wasted if you don’t finish what you start.” Kinda creepy.

I had the most random dreams about my job interview on Sunday night. But I slept SO well in this amazing bed! Got up at 8:30 and walked up to the school to see where it was, and then came back to the hotel and got ready for my interview….. I was SOOOOO NERVOUS!

BUT! The interview itself went GREAT! I asked a ton of questions about the place, and what’s going ond all that. You could tell that he was VERY surprised about how old I was. But I think I impressed them anywyas. The interview itself lasted a full 2 hours and we did lunch as well… And oh, the boys at the school… Yum yum! 😀 I guess I’m one of 7 people interviewing for the job, and I’m the ONLY person they offered to fly out! So that must be good news at least.

While we were eating lunch though, I was sitting there and BOTH of my legs cramped up so badly. I wanted to jump up and scream, but I sat there and just smiled… I’m so good like that. haha.

One possible issue though is that the boss man had a picture of the Pope in his office? Random! Also.. There was a nun sitting next to me on the plane. Random again?!

There were TONS of hot boys on the plane too… Made me so horny. :'(

But now that the stress of the interview is gone, I’ve got even more stress of just living and working currently. With the talk of moving to Santa Monica, comes the fact that I’ll have to dress more business casual, instead of street bum, like I currently do. Also comes the stress of moving, friends, etc etc etc. So no matter what happens with the Chicago job, there’s still lots of stress in my life.

Being back in So Cal Is kinda nice though, because at least here it takes more then 2 idiots to cause atraffic problem, and drviing 80 is the norm, instead of this shit about driving the speed limit. But alas, we shall see what all happens.

Beat Disney FastPass