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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.

Only Prostitutes Have Two Glasses of Wine at Lunch

“Well then I’m open for business”

So, in the last 2 weeks or so I’ve been going on a downloading spree. I’ve downloaded the Discographies of “The Clash”, “The Street”, “T. Rex” and a few others.

I’ve always heard such good things about “The Clash” and I’ve just never got around to downloading anything by them before. So now I’ve got 173 songs by them, and well. Honestly, I haven’t found more then 2 songs that I’ve really enjoyed. I just don’t get why they are suppposed to be so great.

Someone suggested that I download “The Street”, and now I wish I remembered who, because I really don’t like them either. And lastly, I downloaded “T. Rex” because of the song. “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”. And that’s the only song so far of thiers that I’ve liked. I just find it strange that of the 7,346 song in my library, 4,101 of them are only rated at 1 star. Perhaps I should start deleting some.

Now that I’ve been moved into my office, I get to talk to the delivery people a lot more. There’s this one FedEx Lady, who is really wierd and creepy though. She’s short and has this really poofy hair and she always talks about the most random things. Kinda like this post, very random.

Tidy Cat sucks! My cats ran out of litter a week or so ago, so I went to Wal-Mart to get more, they didn’t have the stuff I usually get, so I got Tidy Cat litter… It really does NOT clump the way they claim it does and it stinks. Gross. I’ve been having to empty it every day lately.

I called to find out about insurance on the Audi A3 yesterday, it’s going to be $1,800 a year, more then twice what I’m paying now. I have a feeling it’s going to come down to my Cheap Gene when I do finially buy the car and I’ll just get something cheap.

Last night was good, even though I had a horrible headache. Went out with Jon, Joel and the Imaginary Ryan.. who’s not so imaginary. We all went down to Laguna to this place for food, it was so loud that I couldn’t hear anything, as most people know when I get into a place with lots of background noise, it’s very hard for me to hear. Plus there was this lady right behind me with an extremely annoying voice that just made my head hurt more. The food was good though. After that we went to Woody’s and had a few drinks. That part of the evening was much more entertaining, mostly because I could hear what the hell was going on.

“Bump another Baptist”

Work is going well. I’ve completed all the tutorials for the ETL tool and have actually started creating ETL tasks for the data. It’s kinda nice because I’m automating the dataflow between the clients and the database, thus cutting down on the amount of annoying work we have to do later. However, the automation part is very tricky, because I have to find all these sqlloader control files and try and decipher what’s going on in them. Not only do I have to do that, I also have to try and decipher what’s going on in these perl programs that currently handle the data movement between systems. Since I don’t know perl, that tends to be a difficutly.

I bookmarked this forever ago and have been meaning to share it: Cleaning Hunk. I’m sure most of you have already seen it, it’s been going around the internet pretty hard core. What a slut.

I get along without you very well,

Of course I do,

Except when soft rains fall

And drip from leaves, then I recall

The thrill of being sheltered in your arms.

Of course, I do,

But I get along without you very well.

I’ve forgotten you just like I should,

Of course I have,

Except to hear your name,

Or someone’s laugh that is the same,

But I’ve forgotten you just like I should.

What a guy, what a fool am I,

To think my breaking heart could kick the mood.

What’s in store? Should I phone once more?

No, it’s best that I stick to my tune.

I get along without you very well,

Of course I do,

Except perhaps in Spring,

But I should never think of Spring,

For that would surely break my heart in two.

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.

Randomness.

Chick #1: Who’s that actress who plays Blanche Devereaux?

Chick #2: Rue McClanahan!

Chick #1: Okay, you can say it. You’re not drunk enough yet.

I admit I can’t let things go… I still hold little bits of my heart for Adam and Andrew, etc. I still get mad about thinking about things Andrew did to hurt me forever ago. I still wonder what would happen if Justin and I had gone further, or if Jed and I had been honest with each other those many years ago at Camp, or what if I had made out with Ben Shep that night in my car? I need to work on just getting over things and moving on.

Speaking of Andrew, I think he got a new screen name.. And even though I haven’t talked to him in months.. It annoys me that I don’t have his new one.

I spent half an hour last night trying to find a song that was stuck in my head.. I had the music, and the video stuck, but I couldn’t think of the damn Band or the song name or the lyrics! It was so annoying.. It ended up being “The World I Know” by Collective Soul.

Yesterday was an even busier day for e-mail, 445. God, why is this such a mess.

I’ve got an office lined up now. Now to talk to the boss and make a final decision about going back. My mother said to just wait till Easter and take it as a vacation. I dunno if I can wait it out that long. But now things aren’t seeming as bad as they were, so I’m not sure if I want to go to the expense of doing it.

I’m such a nerd, I have 38 playlists in iTunes.

OG posted a great blog yesterday.. Go read it.

It looks like Germany isn’t going to happen.. The cous can’t get funds.. Anyone else want to go with me?

It’s been so long since you’ve gone away

And I know things will never be the same

I break it all down so it will show to me clear

But all the while I’m wishing you were here

In my dreams I can see and feel your face

But next to me sits an empty space

Sometimes this life doesn’t make any sense to me

I need some time to heal and some space to breathe

I’m breathing you in and I’m breathing you out

As I lay on the floor and I wonder why

I thank God for you and the memories

But I still wish you were here with me

I’m breathing you in and I’m breathing you out

Gone away and I pray for the strength to

Strength to carry on

As I am breathing you in and I’m breathing you out

I still feel you though you’re gone

I’m breathing you in and I’m breathing you out

Breathe – Seven Channels