Revolution Time!

Seriously people, what is WRONG with this country, 3 school shootings in the last week, this guy in congress, Dirty dirty dirty. It’s time for a revolution. If this doesn’t wake up all those damn right wing bitches, then what will!?

This man was head of the group to protect children online and yet he was doing this!?!? This man is discusting and should be shot or something. The republican leadership that covered this up should be thrown out and Bush should be impeached… Well just for being Bush. I haven’t read anything yet that he was aware of this. But it’s been going on for at least 5 years! Comon people, why wasn’t something done about this YEARS ago!

How many poor kids did this man actually molest or something? Who knows, but you sure know it went much farther then just dirty messages online! UGH

REVOLUTION PEOPLE! Vote new people in… It’s coming up soon! Ugh!

In other news, the Germany trip is coming along it appears… I think I’m getting my hopes up a little too much though. I feel it’s all going to fall through any minute now.

Drove down to NB today, there was a car on fire and the freeway was REALLY backed up. Very annoying… Been chatting with people all morning about things since, and haven’t really started any work.

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Another Great Date!

So last night was another great date! 🙂

I felt really bad for him though, because it took him 1.5 hours to get here from SM, where it normally takes me between 30 and 40 minutes. Poor him, I think I made up for it though!

So he got there about 7:30 and we went over to HT Grill and had dinner. Excellent food! I highly suggest you go there! 🙂 Our waitress was really fun and we had a great convo over dinner. Just talked about all kinds of random stuff, and some not so random serious stuff.

When we went to pay, he kept trying to pay for it. But I wanted to pay since he did last time.. In the end he did cause they didn’t take Discover and he attacked our waitress. It was really nice of him.

After dinner we walked home and did a little window shoping on the way. It’s not quite what I had in mind of sitting no the beach chatting, but it was too cold and too late for that. Either way we got back to my place and I showed him some pictures of things that I had talked about during dinner. And then we just sat on the couch and spent the night talking and making out. 😀 haha.

He’s such a cutie and so nice! It makes me happy…. And to think we met on “MySpace”!

Anyways, he ate only 2 cookies! But I made him take some home. haha. He left about midnight, but not after we went over to the hill above the beach and stood there for a minute looking at the water and making out some more! It’s so pretty there at night! Next time we’re walking on the beach.

I kinda pushed his PDA limit though there… I hope it didn’t bug him.

So yeah, he left and I went to bed. I forgot to turn off my alarm last night, so it went off at 5 and I couldn’t get back to sleep.

Anyways, I don’t think I’ll get a chance to see him again till next Wed. Tonight he’s got practice, and then I leave tomorrow and won’t be back till late Tuesday night. 🙁

Adios!

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!

Preparing Again

So…. two years ago, I was preparing for the biggest move of my life… Now here I am preparing for another big move, although not near as bad.

The last few days have been stressful and very long. Although, I’ve been getting to bed on time, it just feels like they have been much longer.

Yesterday I went out biking with Rob, and also went shopping for some things I need at the new place. I wanted to buy one of those fun Curver ShowerRods… Who knew they were $40?!? Plus I had to go to three stores before I could even find people selling them!

It was also a LONG day at work. I’m trying to get everything off my old laptop and onto the new one, which is proving to be a pain in the ass. Why does ORACLE never work right the first fucking time! Ugh, I hate this product! I also hate Coldfusion, why are the two things I do more have to use both of those so fucking much! Ugh.

I also hate stupid bitchy drivers… Today I was driving to work, and turning left from MacArthur onto Campus.. The light was red, so I was slowing down to stop. As I’m coming up to it, the light turns green…. I was still slowing a little bit though so that I could make the damn turn… All of a sudden this jackass comes FLYING past me on the left (in the traffic lane for people coming the other way) blaring his horn and flipping me off!… Excuse me bitch!? What the fuck did I do!?!?! I wanted to just bash into him so fucking badly. Jackass.

Dustin is back home this week and seeing all the pictures he’s posting and all the blogs he’s writing makes me want to get my ass home so badly. How I miss thee!

My new MacBook is so fucking cool… When apple came out with the FrontRow application, I thought it was really stupid. But alas, it is so fucking cool! I’m sure it won’t get much use from it since I don’t keep videos, etc on my laptop. But for someone looking to use it as a media center it’s amazing! I also found this fun program called IAlertU. Once you set it with your remote, if anyone tries to move, touch or unplug your laptop it sets off a car alarm like sound and takes a picture with the built in iSight. You can only disarm it with the remote that came with your laptop too… It’s so cool!

Robert hooked me up with this boy in RB, he lives like 2 blocks from my new place… We’ve been writing novels back and forth to each other lately. Sadly, he’s got friends in town till next weekend, but it seems like I’ve already found a potential friend up there! If you’ve seen next with the Ep where the boys go flying, and the Nextor has a dog, well that’s him. The point is, hopefully we’ll be friends! haha.

My Mom’s B-day is coming up soon… I dunno what to do for it.

Well, I’ve already wasted enough time writing this. I have to pack the last of my office up today for it’s transfer to SM tomorrow.

Adios!

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.

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