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A Look Back…

Dead Soda’s Check out this list of old sodas and what not. Very cool. I remember most of them… lol. It’s funny to look back and wonder what the hell these people were thinking!

Great list of MacOSX apps… My new fav is VirtueDesktops. Which is so cool! The beta has lots of bugs, but I can live!

It’s sad that this stuff is real… and that so many UK/European people will see the US like this. UGH!

I completely forgot to write about what happened at the office last Friday. I was working up in SM and these two girls came by handing out stickers with our names on them. I asked what these were for and they said “The move happening this weekend”…. “WHAT!?” Whave move?! This was the first I had heard of any move! I knew that they were planning a move sometime early this year to across the street, but I hadn’t heard ANYTHING about it in months! So I messaged the guy who manages me there and ask what’s going on. He gives me the DL and that apparently the dolt that’s managing the move forgot to notify me at all. They are only moving the people off the second floor into temp housing till the REAL move next month.

So then about 2 hours later, after I’ve packed up all my shit and freaked out and what not, because NO ONE knows where my shit is being moved to, or ANYTHING the dolt who’s organizing the move comes down and is like, “we’re not moving till NEXT weekend.” UGH! Can’t these people get ANYTHING straight!? What the fuck. Very annoying.

Monday was a 13 hour day at the office… Lots of stuff going on and what not. I have to learn Joomla now. I’ve been meaning to play with it and see what’s going on, but have just never had the chance to do it. I was given the task on Monday to completely redesign the corporate website… By next Tuesday.

Tuesday morning I slept in and headed to the office about 10ish and worked the day away on that stuff. Tuesday night was my first class. It was HORRIBLE… I’m really debating about if I want to go back or not. The prof seems nice enough, he was joking around and making it funny and stuff, but I just don’t know if I can deal with a class right now. Plus when I signed up work was dead. Now I don’t think I have the time or energy to spend 5 hours a week in class, plus the time it’s going to take to do all the homework/etc.

After that I headed over to Ben’s house and hung out with him we went down to Venice Beach and had coffee and just chatted. It was really nice.

It’s so wierd saying.. “I have to run to class now”.. It’s been 2.5+ years since I’ve said that! Ugh. I’m soooo old! haha.

How to blow $145 billion a year.

Remember that job I flew to Chicago to look into last year around easter? Well the same company has posted another ad.. I’m debating about applying.

Well. I have TONS of work to do, and a date tonight! YAY! So see ya later.

Wow…

“Only 13 Percent Of Congressional Republicans Believe In Man-Made Global Warming”. I love how 13% of R, and it’s 94% D… Wow…

“Snickers Superbowl Web site promotes violence against gays and lesbians. Bears & Colts players react in disgust, on camera, to gays.”. Thankfully they have now pulled this Ad.

I got yelled at by the bitch at the grocery store the other day. I had a basket full of shit, and I always just set the basket on the belt. I mean. Why bother unloading it, if you put it on the belt, then the cashier can just put it in a stack at the END of the isle so that it’s easier for the baggers/etc to put them back by the door. And either way it’s really not that big of a deal. It’s not like it’s going to break something. So I get up to the front of the line and the bitch says. ‘Next time empty the basket and leave it at the end”. Umm, excuse me? You talk to your customers like that? Fuck you. The next day I was at the store again and she was working. I only bought an onion, but I was SOOO tempted to wait in her line and just set the fucking basket on the belt again. Stupid bitch.

Nothing much really going on. Today has been hectic!! I’m spinning 7 different projects, all of them have show-and-tells coming up in the next 2-3 days and it’s getting really frustrating. I have changes coming from every direction and stuff. And three of them have the same freaking name! I can’t keep track of them! lol.

I didn’t even get into the office till 11 today, then things weren’t working and I couldn’t upload the changes and what not. Very frustrating. So now I’m sitting in and empty office so that things actually work! 🙂 One of the projects I presented 2 different themes to last week. They picked the one that I thought looked the worst. Oh well, it still looks good though! 🙂

I ended up buying the new camera. It should be here tomorrow. I’m very excited for this, but still pissed that I had to spend the money on it. I should get a retractable cord for this one! lol.

Last night Ben came over again and hung out. Good times. I made Chicken Pizza. It was excellent. What can I say! I think tonight we’re all going out to Beige again. But not sure, people are iffy and I’m tired and what not. Plus I really don’t want to run into you know who again!

Ok. I gotta go, way to much going on. Later!

It Wasn’t Me

So I was listening to the radio the other day and “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy came on the radio. It got to the line where the song goes:

now we were both caught making love on the bathroom floor

and instead of that it now says:

now we were both caught love on the bathroom floor

Umm. WTF?! Since when did “making love” become something you can’t say on the radio!? WHAT!? Are you serious!? This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard!

So then. Friday night I was supposed to go out to Weho with people but everyone backed out at the last minute and it was just annoying. Instead I spent the night working on some stuff for one of my contract jobs and I just couldn’t get it figured out. The View is returning 4 rows and I need to take data from the two identical rows and join it together…. Well, it’s harder then that, I’m just not explaining it right. Either way I couldn’t figure it out. I went to bed about 11 and woke up around 9ish Saturday.

Got up and went to Ikea and the SouthBay Pavilion. GHETTO! Ikea was good. I spent $65 there, got a shoe rack, a rack for the bathroom, some spoons, and a huge coffee mug for the newport beach office. Came home and put things together and cleaned.

So remember the camera I lost? It’s STILL not found. I have spent 15-20 minutes every day looking for it. Today I pulled EvERYTHING off my desk, out from under my desk, out of the closets, turned the couch up side down, moved the coffee tables, I even searched through my underwear drawer!! It’s GONE. I’m really starting to think I might have thrown it away or something, but I went out and searched through the two bags of trash that I’ve taken out in the last week.. NOTHING. So now I have to find a new one. I’ve been WANTING a Digital SLR forever, but I think that’s just way too much to spend on it right now. So I don’t know what to do. I’m thining the Canon Powershot SD630. It looks like a really nice camera and I _love_ the 3″ screen! I really want to have a camera before this weekend’s ride.

I also went out and did a quick bike ride. That was good. Less then one week till my 100 mile ride.

Saturday night Robert and I hit up Weho. Had a really good time, and checked out a few boys. 🙂 Fun fun! Surpised we didn’t run into you know who. But thank god. The lines at HERE were HUGE! Something special must have been going on. Either way we had a great time. Got home about 3am and crashed.

Sunday got up and looked for my camera a little more. But there’s really no where LEFT to look, but I just know that as soon as I go buy a new one, it’s going to turn up somewhere.

Went flying in the afternoon with Jason and Carlito. We flew inland over downtown LA, up to Santa Monica, south over LAX and then back into Hawthorne. While we were flying up towards downtown LA we came within what seemed like a couple hundred feet of an Airbus A320 that was coming into LAX. They said that they were really low or what not. Either way it was COOL and scary at the same time being that close to such a huge jet.

After that Jason and I went over to Torrance Airport and talked to a guy who knows the guy who was in a plane crasha over the weekend. Pretty amazing story. Now that’s a real pilot!

Ben came over that afternoon about 3 hours after I had expected him, but either way we had an enjoyable evening talking and watching Scrubs.

BzzWhack

BuzzWords to love. Very funny site.

Eh. Week is going. I’m still really upset about the whole issues with Mayko. I was really hoping that through all this we could at least be friends. I just can’t get over that he would just throw away our friendship like this. Just really hurts, as per usual. Also have you noticed that shortly after I say something like. “If I’m still talking to so and so in X month we’ll do Y”.. And then I stop talking to that person. Ugh.

I’ve added a few new pages to the site.. Just some random strange things.

1) Baby Names – A page for me to put names that I come across and really like. Kinda small at this point, but it’ll grow!

2) CjB For President! – A page for me to bitch about policies, etc. It’s still empty.

3) Rules for Dating me. – This is a page for people to read if they are interested in dating me. Tips and lists of things I like/don’t like. I think it’ll save some time…. lol

Monday work was good. I got another good project to do. But I spent most of the day re-learning Coldfusion!

Tuesday I went to the SM office and the fucking DSL was down. I bitch to the HD at 8am as soon as they got there and they started working on it. It still wasn’t up at 10. I had now wasted half my day, so I went home. As soon as I walked in my door I got a call. “The DSL is back up!”. Of course it is!

So I worked from home and did some random stuff. I chatted with this really cute guy named Matthew (the guy who runs GGB) and he told me about this concert tuesday night, it sounded really cool. But the group ended up going out to Beige. Jason, Ben and I. We had a really good time. Mayko was there. I felt so awk and horrible just ignoring him like that. I really wanted to go up and at least say ‘Hi’ or be nice. I dunno what to do. I mean now I’m sure I’ll be seeing him out wherever I go. I avoided eye contact the whole night with him and just enjoyed hanging out with the two boys. But Jason said everytime he looked in that direction Mayko and the guy he was with were looking at us and apparently at one point he was standing right behind me for like 10 minutes. I also really wish I could know what he was saying to the guy he was with. Because the group said he kept looking at us and then leaning in and talking to the guy he was with.. blah blah blah. You know it?

I really just want to talk to him and make things better. I started writing a letter to him yesterday afternoon. I know I shouldn’t send it, but I just can’t write people off. It’s so hard for me. I have to have people like me, my psychologist said I need to work on that, but I just don’t know how! lol.

I just don’t get it. I did NOTHING to hurt him and I’m sure you can generally tell from my writings here that I cared about him very much and would never purposly do anything to hurt him. I just feel like shit about the whole situation and what not.

Either way, the night as a whole was lots of fun. We chatted, we laughed, we shared stories. Good times. Picking up Ben and dropping him off was a mess though. His exit was closed and the area he lives in is so confusing to drive, etc. And then I had to get gas and the only place we could find was an Arco that kept declining my Credit card, ugh! It was a mess… Got home about 2ish and tried to crash, but I was just going over the whole Mayko situation and getting upset about it. Got up at 5am this morning and came into work for my 6am meeting with the CEO. I’ve got another good project from him that I’m working on. Currently taking a break and trying to think of a way to display the data.

As for Ben… He’s really cute, very nice, all the standard stuff so far. I mean I’ve only known him what 2 weeks or something? But last night while we were out, he hardly said anything! I kept trying to talk to him and getting one line answers, etc. I’m going to bring it up tonight on our movie date and see what he has to say. Because I can’t deal with someone who’s so quiet. Cause if it’s not going to work I’d like to keep him as a friend.

Pop vs. Soda Debate… Check out this cool map:

And OMG! Check out Harry Potter! Who wants to fly to London to see this!?!??!

This weekend I’m potentially flying up to Santa Barbara, grabbing lunch and then flying back. It should be tons of fun, and I’m really hoping it comes through. I’m not sure if I mentioned it or not, but Carlito randomly txted me last week saying he wanted to go flying with me. That boy is so crazy. So I have to call him today to find out if he’s still up for it. I sure hope so. If not, perhaps Jason and I can just go on our own or something.

Ok. I have to get back to work. Later!

Really Cool. STOFU

This is a really cool app for showing stats about the state of the union. It’d be kinda cool to build something like that into normal websites, etc.

Here in LA there’s been a lot of talk recently about this homeless guy, who found a vial of Mercury in the garbage. He was transporting it to sell for drugs and spilled it in the subway. Granted the guy should be off the streets, but they are trying to charge him with terrorism! How crazy is that. Idiots.

So anyways, recap…

Wed I worked in Newport again. I got moved out of the shared office and into a bullpen cube area with the developers. Very strange move for me. I don’t really feel like I should be sitting with them. The good news is that I no longer have to sit in the office and listen to the two other people I was sharing with talk baby talk to thier fucking wives all day long! On the other hand, now my monitor is visible to everyone who walks by again. Very annoying in it’s own right. So we’ll see how that goes!

After work I went home and hit the gym. Three UBER hot boys working out yesterday. OMG. I swear one of them kept staring at me too. Came home after that, showered and then did some work. Ben came over about 6ish and we hit up the sushi place. Since he was late we didn’t get half price, but it was still good. The convo got off to a bit of a rocky start, he was cute and very nice, but searching for topics not work related was a little difficult because he hasn’t really done much here and he’s been working so much that’s about all there was. However, I tried to stay away from that because he said he was sick of it.

Got done with dinner and decided to head back to my place, where we watched a movie, cuddled and talked some more. He’s very nice, and like I said, VERY cute. I was a bit concerned because his myspace pics aren’t that good, and he actually looks good with longish hair. Big concern is that he smokes, UGH! He left my place about 10 and I tried going to bed.

Ended up trying to talk to Mayko, but just got annoyed. I think I need to take a break from him. As the feelings are once again becoming more then just friendly. Finially got to sleep about 11, which is strange considering I’d only had 2.5 hours of sleep the night before.

Phil said this the other day: “All I know is that my love is wasted away as each year passes away”…. Damnit!

Thursday I worked as usual and applied for a part-time IT Manager for a small non-profit in BevHills. I think it would be a really fun job to add onto my typical work duties, plus this way I won’t have to worry about contracts all the time. I would have a steady second job. So I’m looking forward to hearing back about that. The only place I was lacking experience was in the fund raising software they use. Which I’m sure can’t be that hard to learn.

I had lunch with this guy Jimmy today day as well. He was cute, nice and very smart, majoring in neuroscience. But yeah. Just not my type. He was very quiet as well though. What is it with me finding all these quiet boys. I can’t do that! I need someone who talks a lot! After work I went home and biked for a while and then pretty much crashed on the couch. I don’t have to work till 11 on Friday and wanted to go out Thrusday night, but I haven’t found anyone to go with me yet… Hopefully someone will come through! 🙁

I was bored at work the other day and decided to play with Google Maps. My weekly routine now includes over 500 miles, and 12 HOURS in the car. EACH WEEK! Oh god, someone shoot me? That doesn’t even include the time driving between the gym, store, etc. That’s just TO AND FROM WORK! And then add in the traffic time as well. 🙂