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A Day In SM

Well, today isn’t starting off that great. So I get up at 5 this morning and dress and all that, drive my ass up here to SM and get here at 6:10. Ring the door bell, and no one answers. Last time I was here, there was this woman who said, “I’m here at 5:30 every morning, so no worries”. So I ring it again and then again. Nothing… So I walk across the street and get some breakfast and then come back. Ring it again, and then again! STILL NOTHING. So I sit and wait….. 7 rolls around and this woman finially comes and opens the door, she lets me in… We’re walking back and in the SECOND FUCKING office back is this guy just sitting there working… HELLO! He could have heard the damn door bell from where he was at, why didn’t he just fucking come open the damn door. God how annoying.

Last night I went and played tennis with Ryan at 3:30. We played for like an hour, then I came home and ironed my shirts and then fell asleep…. Woke up about 9:10ish and txted Dustin and then crawled in bed and slept till 5 this morning. I did wake up a few time sin there. Ugh.

For some reason I don’t have access to a printer up here.. Very annoying.

Tonight is the BBQ with everyone, that’ll be fun. Hopefully I’ll find some good apartments today as well! Wish me luck everyone.

Adios!

Where are my KEYS?!

Ugh, so you want to know how my day yesterday was? And so far how my day today is going?… Well here’s a story for you:

So yesterday, I spent the day up in Santa Monica, nothing major it was a good day, just stressful.

Drive back to Orange with JP, get out of his truck and go to get out my keys to get into my car.. They aren’t in my pocket… OMG?! Where are they. I start freaking out. We look all over his truck, they aren’t there. We call the people in Santa Monica and they look around the office there. Nothing… I tear EVERYTHING out of my backpack and there is NOTHING there either.

So at this point, I call Andrew to come get me and drive me back to my apartment in Aliso. He does that, and as I’m getting my extra set of keys, I remember…..

I ALWAYS carry an extra key in my wallet. So anyways, we drive back to Orange, I get in my car AND….

THERE ARE MY KEYS hanging from the fucking ignition!!!! OMG, Shoot me!

So we drive back to Chapman and then Andrew and I went out to dinner. I go home and then just go to bed.

Today has been proving so far to be just as bad.

DNS is being a fucking whore scum somewhere. People are still being directed to my OLD site even though I’ve updated DNS like 4 days ago. I’m really not sure why either, the longest people should have TTL should be like 1 day at most! And then the damn comments aren’t working on the new site either. Something about my damn htaccess file being wrong I guess. Grrrrrrrrrr.

In good news though, second date with Dustin on Sunday! Andrew’s trying to steal him from me. 🙁

I also wanted to say… Do you ever get an e-mail from a Co-Worker and want to just reply with: “You’re a fucking idiot, shut the fuck up”. Haha, because I do right now.

I’m out.

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

Wet Undies!

Wow this has been another crazy weekend.

Ok, back to Friday… Got home from work and cleaned my apartment up. It’s nice looking now. Andrew showed up about 4 and we went suit shopping for me. I dropped $500 on a suit, it’s nice and I think I’ll be happy with the suit itself. But the sales guy was just a little too pushy for me, and plus, how often do I wear a suit. I guess now I shall have to FIND things to wear suits too.

The internet at my place has been HORRIBLY slow all fucking weekend. It’s driving me nuts!

After buying the suit we came back to my place and hung out, I made dinner and we ate and then watched this horrible cheerleader nation show.

Joel and Ryan showed up about 10ish and we headed down to the boom. Had an AMAZING time there… It was nice to have a group of people. I think we were probably the hottest boys in there! 😀 It ended up being Joel, Ryan, Andrew, Robert, Patrick, Perry and of course me! And I ran into Michael for a bit while we were there too. Andrew did the wet underwear contest and won second place. He totally should have won first place, but some ugly kid had a chearing gang that out cheered us. Oh well.

Just spent the night hanging out and drinking and having a really great time. My goal of drinking less is not happening very easily. Everyone keeps putting drinks in my hands.

Also, does everyone remember the first time I went to meet Joel at the Boom? With the hot guy that tried hitting on me/making out with me? Well he was there again last night… And! Andrew made out with him.. I’ll have to say that I am now _GLAD_ I did NOT make out with him. He’s 29, and basically just wanted a fuck in the bathroom. Thankfully Andrew got out of there before he got it…. Or at least that’s Andrew’s story. He was gone for a while. lol

My money was on Andrew making out with Perry, but sadly this other homo came up to us and started talking to Perry…

Left the bar at 1:45 when they were kicking everyone out and went down to the beach. It was a mess. Came back to my place and Joel and Ryan came in and hung out here till 3:15, 3:30ish? I dunno. Those two boys are adorable. 😛

Went to bed and I woke up at 6:30 and couldn’t really get back to sleep, but laid there till like 10 when I got up and made Andrew and I breakfast. After that we headed up to Huntington to look at that apartment. It was a nice place, small, but nice. I’m really thinking that I won’t take it though. I told him I’d let him know by the 20th though.

So much stuff going on in my life right now that I’m really stressing about.

Anyhow, got back from Huntington and Andrew left. I changed and took my car into TLE then went on a bike ride. They said it would take 2 hours, so I rode and then laid out in the sun and was gone for about 3 hours total. Came back and my car STILL wasn’t done. So I wondered around and it was done after 4 hours! Bastards. Then the guy running the register was SO SLOW! I wanted to punch him. He reminded me of this jerk I used to work with at K&G.

I meant to talk about this last month, but I was walking throught the greeting card section at Wal-Mart today and it reminded me. Anyways, last month I seemed to have 2 birthdays a week, and I tried and tried to go find cards that I thought were good, but they were all just so stupid. I dunno. I ended up only getting 1 person a card… Blah.

Saturday night I was just really tired so I cancelled my plans and I spent the night home alone. It was really nice to just relax there. Went to the hot tub and just chilled, cleared my head alot. Ended up going to bed at like 10 and didn’t wake up till my alarm went off at 9.

Sunday morning was the Gamping Brunch. Total bust. I was pretty pissed. Of the 4 people that did RSVP only 1 showed up. 2 other people I knew wanted to come, but weren’t able too and 9 people didn’t even RSVP at all, which was just annoying. The one person and I did however decide on the menu. So the other people get no input. Grr.

Went out to dinner with Joel and Ryan. Had a really good time. We went and got pizza, which I’ve been having way too much of lately. They’ve been having a meeting every monday for the last couple weeks at the office and I usually grab a peice from there after they are done… I need to get back on my hard core dieting! lol. We also went to Wal-Mart and Target. Left after that. Like I’ve said before, those boys!

The rest of the day I spent stressing over my life and what’s going on, went to bed at like 8.

I got a notice on my door the other day that says it’s now ILLEGAL to wash your cars in the parking lots, etc. You can only do it in approved business car washes… Umm, WTF?! So today they went around and put these little locks on all the outside water faucets.

I think today I’m going to try going up to hang out with that older guy again. Since I cancelled on him Saturday, I feel bad about that. Then Tuesday I’m going out to sushi with Michael. Sometime this week I’m also playing tennis with Jon. Then thursday/friday are going to be long days at work because both the HD guys are out, so I’m helping to cover that and Friday I fly out. This week is going to be so busy.

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.