Big Friday!!

As always it is a pleasant thing to find your self at weekends door. Today we will hopefully see the culmination of several key topics in my volatile life.

• To dog or not to dog.
• Is the busted car worth fixing?
• Is no news good news from a doctor?

Out of those you can assume that the third holds my highest level of priority.

If it appears I'm grasping for straws for todays content your more than right. I haven't learned a good life lesson, I have not had time to scrutinize pop culture. I've worked like a dog and came home to recoperate and watch some tv shows that I won't remember a thing about the next day. Is this lifestyle the gateway to middle aged, or was it just a mid week slump?

Validation of my poverty

	Upper class	Upper-middle classs	Middle-middle classs	Lower-middle classs	Lower classs
Proportion	1% to 3% of the U.S. population	10% or so of the U.S. population	40% or so of the U.S. population	30% or so of the U.S. population	20% of the U.S. population
Net worth (not including home)	above $500,000	between $250,000 and $500,000	between $125,000 and $250,000	$50,000 to $125,000	$0 to $50,000

The facts dont lie. I know this is a blanket regional statement that takes no account of COL by county or inflation or estate wealth, but man do I feel like a broke chump when I look at this.

Spammer Poetry

"Do you know I love you" by Phoebe Salter (wiodehjbjja@geeks.com)

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altercate cousin atrophic davenport
cent stew tucson scold fledge dawson
advantage embroidery bijective plethora
ace polish
virtue armload
gentian configure mail drift liniment
quadripartite bastard
encomium franchise evasive h
ourglass lunch eocene
inseminate ama lumbar coke clearance
blond churchillian chat churchyard
galapagos rogue hydrocarbon estonia
intervene
accumulate
balustrade psychic eject coed

Final Thoughts

Unwanted Opinion: The Nintendo Wii (pronounced "WE") is the dumbest console name ever.

Follow up: I will feel almost too embarassed now to mention it in conversation. Example:

Hey man did you pick up your Wii yet? I can't wait to get my hand on a Wii? Think I'm just going to play with my Wii tonight. I've played with my Wii non-stop since this morning. Hey man, you should come over tonight and check out my Wii.

Unwanted Opinion 2: Oh, is that a thinly veiled collection of genatalia puns? You're better than that.

Follow up: No I'm not.

Someones trying to kill me

The morning begins rather uneventfully, 15 minutes to shower, 10 minutes to dress. Weather war car lights up, pull up to the intersection and uh oh look who doesnt have the power to stop. The answer is me. I have not had the opportunity to inspect but since I love wild allegations lets list posible suspects.

1. Joel B. - Long standing blood feud.
2. Jayson J. - Canadian and prime evil with a side of ska.
3. Tiffany - Long suffering WOW widow.
4. Chaoslord - I took his EF boots. He only came for the EF boots, unfortunately I was there and hes an alt.
5. The neighbor who doesnt like me - We all have one.
6. Daniel - I skipped out on my part time job and he had to close the store alone.
7. Aaron - Business partner who would like nothing more than to claim our collaborative project as his sole possession.
8. Yak - Cutting ties from all who would have knowledge of his known where abouts.
9. Matt Cowgirl - I stole his dead daddys jacket. I would be pissed.
10. The dead Hobo in my trunk - I didn't like the sound of his voice. He didn't like my birdlike fingers. One of us had to die.

That about wraps up possible suspects. On with the investigation and probably a 4 figure repair bill. Happy Thursday.

In a Jam

Is there anything better than having a client on the edge of frenzy and then shutting them down with cold hard facts and numbers to back them up? So far I have not experienced a high like that in all my, to date, limited white collar experience.

Speaking of highs, I’m beginning to get the MBA itch again. A very pleasant night had last night that involved me and two others. I realized that they were both achieving a goal that I had set for myself. I want to use them as my inspiration to not stop pushing with my academics. Still I would prefer to find employment that will assist with the income and it appears that the local job market is not conducive to me keeping both my salary and obtaining these benefits. Perhaps its time to cast the net even wider.

It’s a pleasantly cool Wednesday, and life is out there for me to grab. I’ll close with what is quickly becoming my favorite segment…..

Spammer Poetry

Today’s submission comes from Bud Paige at TKEIIGWZ@dch.hcmut.edu.vn

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Retail and the Real World

Never ever ever trust retailers. Hopefully by now were all shopping online.

This September will mark the five year anninversary of me being involved with a retail chain at an at least part time basis. Now that I have almost a full year of white collar experience under my belt we can begin to compare and contrast the two professions. What seperates the retail work experience from the business world?

Honesty.

Now admittedly, I am making some extreemly sweeping generalizations here. However the lessons I have learned from retail bosses essentially summed up to:

1. The customer is not always right.
2. You are there to let the customer know how he/she thinks
3. Full disclosure of fees should never be directly stated.
4. When cornered, policy can be manipulated or intentionally misinterpeted.
5. We don't need the business of a client who doen't fully comply with our demands.

Perhaps I have had a poor experience or bad management. I dont want to come off as the jaded retail employee. Retail has assisted me through a number of the steps of life. However lets compare and contrast the lessons learned at my current employer.

1. Over communication is a requirement.
2. Even if the truth hurts it will be brought to the attention of a client.
3. Policy is an unbreakable truth.
4. The input of our clients is our most valuable resources. Identifying the trends of needs versus the flaws of our product will only make us stronger.
5. We want every clients business. The best sales presentation comes from recomendation.

Today as I handled a very touchy issue with a client who was on the brink of anger my first thougts run to the principles I have learned in retail. I want to scheme, I want to figure out a way out of this mess.

Fortunately, my thoughts returned to appropriate course plotting. Honesty prevailed, policy had my back, and a client will be retained. The sooner I can lose the retail mentallity the better. Not just in how I manage my career, but how I manage my life.

Links to make you

Ultimate Arm Wrestling
The Science behind the sound of Rice Krispies

Skills

An almost too relaxing weekend left me ill prepared for the ravages of the workplace. Happy Monday it is now officially time to put both feet on the gas and drive your car off a bridge.

Today I started on a validation project that is bothersome to say the least. I would never bore with the details of date and product sorting, or referencing of claim id's but lets just say that I am not bouncing into this task with the furror of anything more then a recently fed house cat who just found a sunny spot on the rug.

It's times like these where you begin to question what you're doing with your career. I am well aware that these first years out of college are not going to always be globe trotting and hand shaking, but these task do nothing but assist in the lingering doubt that your career for a time is locked in permanent stasis.

My goal is to find that bright light at the end of the tunnel. In this rather mundane data scrub I want to find one piece of value, one glimmer of insight. It could be in time taken to complete the task to be later used in time budgeting or it could be a new method of madness that helps ease the several hours of line study typically before me.

And with that I should go. Im starting to use my penchant for rambling to allow myself to deviate from task. Perhaps that is todays lesson learned.

Moments of Terror

A very interesting 2 days these have been with the general theme being the gasp of terror and the release of triumph.

Wednesday, I am training a new Jr. account manager on reporting. It typically takes me an hour and a half to get these reports from raw data to client ready. Were slightly under the gun, so I schedule a generous 4 hour block of time to accomplish this task. I felt the large block of time was necessary in order to answer all questions as fully as possible. Also she was not the most Excel proficient person.

We are doing well, finishing up the report, we have a full hour to complete our task. We took our time, I fully answered all questions and then it happens. A moment of terror, her foot slips as it had been laying idly on the top of her pc. The power chord is pulled from the computer. I, in all my professional wisdom, had failed to enforce the cardinal rule, “always save your work.”

So now it is show time. The report can not be late the client often treads a razor thin wire between adoration and panic. So I roll up the sleeves, kick the trainee off her terminal and bust out the entire slew of reports in 47 minutes definitely eclipsing my past personal record.

The headline for today, part of my routine web maintenance is to update the content that is dynamically created in .pdf form on a clients web site. These claims are also used to send to our data processing center in order for them to accurately validate claiming and correctly pay out end- users. I get word from my boss that the processing center is saying that they never received updated claim forms since last February. A moment of terror begins.

Not having updated claim forms holds a number of repercussions. Financially, it means that claimants were possibly not paid out correct sums. Correction of this error would require a large mount of man hours for validation as well as cost of under funded claims. Secondly there are legal ramifications, if end users had been denied falsely using outdated terms and conditions we would be liable to pay any fees in small claims court. All of these fees would come directly out of my profit and loss statement, and my past client would likely get hits on the almighty Better Business Bureau report. Which if you do any work in retail and distributor channel management taking a BBB hit is equal to blasphemy to a Christian.

So you can see why the walk back to my desk was a shaky experience. My brain immediately begins to work on how to spin the situation into a viable means of holding my employment. However there is no option. It is a black and white issue, were documents sent or not sent?

Vindication comes in the form of a sweet sweet email sent in the appropriate time. I forward it and run to my bosses desk and am greeted with a thumbs up as she is already on the horn to let our processing center know that it is time to reach deep and get their accounts in order.

Finally, I went in for a series of test on my heart yesterday. I had held a fairly casual demeanor in regards to the entire experience up until I am lying topless on a doctor bed with 4 electrodes painfully stuck to my torso. The moment of terror bursts its way through the doorway of my at times over anxious imagination. A thousand panic scenarios burst its way into my head.

Tests taken and I am still here. In fact I hit the driving range that same day and smacked a monster shot a distance of 200 yards in the air. I get test results next week and God willing we can complete these moments of terror trio with a final and greatest of all moment of triumph.

Sellout

Work has me by the neck. A software driven company where I manage the results provided by our development staff. When the development staff does not get their work done I'm still the first line to take blows from my client.

Today we had the wonderous case of the missing email. I stayed late last night to help accomplish a task. Of course despite my enthusiasm I am told that progress was not made and that the SQL files has not been sent to the server admin. He leaves and I vent my frustration on my cubicle. This morning we have the grand discovery of the missing email and of course the swearing up and down that it wasn't in his inbox the night before.

So now everything is code red and we scramble to pull the miracle out of our hat.

Coke makes Jack sell out?

Once in an interview Jack White of the White Stripes said he would never allow his music to be used for a commercial product. Money changes everything.



Links to make you

Since were pressed for time I will direct you to web content that could be benneficial.

Americas Secret Plan to Attack Canada
Maps of Religion in the United States
New Meat Eating Dino Discovered

A little slice of nostalgia

As a child I dreamed of owning a Nintendo Power Glove. If you dont know what that is here is a video detailing all of its glory.



I will be out tommorow for heart testing. Have a happy Thursday for me.

Anniversaries and breaching the void

Anniversary

Last post was my 30th official post! That means 30 times I have gone to mother internet thinking that I had something to say. Even better, I probably actually did have something to say once or twice. Ah self depreciating blogs and humor..so original!

Onto physical pursuits!!! I have setup a new game with myself, where I closely monitor my lunchtime eating habits and then try to burn the calories off when I get on the elliptical at home. So far the scoreboard reads intake/burnt 580/200. My ultimate goal is to burn off 1800 calories a week. With an average lunchtime caloric intake of 2400 calories.

Unhealthy!?! Probably, multivitamins and water for the win. Besides I really could use some weight loss. So a few weeks of this probably will do my body good and then I can try to coax myself back. To burn 400 calories will probably take about a little over a half hour. I'll be proud if I go 20 minutes which should be good for about 250-300 in total caloric burnination. If I begin to have deprivation hallucinations I'll be sure to tell you about it.

As far as motivation? If i can keep up the 1800 a week burn for 4 weeks, I will buy myself that Vocal training course I have been eyeballing for some time now.

Breaching the void

Speaking of which, I came SOooo close to actually getting up and running this morning before work. I actually got up at the appropriate time. However I went back to sleep. New plan: Set my alarm clock back an additional 20 minutes.

Apparently I have become a snooze button aholic. Which is a habit to break at a later date. For now were just trying to get into the habit of exercise before work. Just as a side note, should I ever get my sleep butt up, calories will not be judged nor entered into the contest that I listed above.

Final 5 thoughts

Business opportunity: I would buy a Bible if it had been translated into modern ebonics. (insert cheap joke with bling, ice and shizzle here)

2nd thought: The Bible is a long manuscript and the joke would probably get old long before you got to any of the good stuff.

WoW opportunity: Hoping to see myself cracking the top 300 in pvp'rs today. Official rankings should be posted soon.

2nd thought: WoW is taking away valuable resources. Next time your in a jam for money use it as an excuse to cancel your monthly subscription.

3rd thought: Never allow yourself to be in a jam for money.

I Bring the Content!!!

Happy Monday!! Today we have Spammer Poetry, Wow Videos, Interesting Links and random thoughts!!!

Well the Easter tradition continues to grow as another hillarious round of conversation took place between myself and my straight off the boat Grandparents. Perhaps the serving of wine should be concluded with this latest event. It seems to only open tongues and let verbal fists fly. The best part is that the words coming out of my Grandparents mouth typically are straight up truth.

Case in point... I am sitting on the couch next to my grandfather and he pats me twice under the chin and says, "You've gained weight!!". Who in their right mind thought that this would fall under a typical social saying? Apparently my Grandfather and thats why I love him. The Dutch have always had a screw loose what with their dykes and levies.

The Bulls stumbled their way into the playoffs and life is good. Easter truly is a magical time.

I watched the Chronicles of Narnia and Memoirs of a Geisha over the weekend. The movie I was most excited to see was crap and the "chick flick" actually turned out pretty well. Perhaps my epxectations were not met with Narnia because I had devoured the books on numerous occasions. Even still those LOTR nuts got their good film!! Why couldn't mine have at least the same level of CGI? The kids were a stretch but they did have that good UK ugliness that slips into vogue every once or twice. MoaG strangely started to interest me the longer I watched definetly a unique version of the worlds oldest profession. Geishas were the hookers you would tell Mom about.

Behold.... the Greatness... of Spammer Poetry!!

Impertinence Pop by Win Lancaster(kace@datospersonales.com)

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Infested Strategically by Richard Robbins(urgwkf@burnspkg.demon.co.uk)

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The Greatness of WOW

This video will not interest you at all if you dont play the game. Ill give you the setup...

A real person died, he was known in the game, a group of his friends decided to setup an in game memorial honoring the man and the game he loved....
A group of people who didnt like the man or his friends unite, crash the party, and kill eveyone at the funeral....

I know the idea lends itself a bit to the macabre, but its videos like this that let me realize that aside from my RL friends I am essentially running around a digital universe with a bunch of nut cases!! I find the idea quite interesting and the idea that someone would value their in game rivalry over the real life hurt and pain is amazing!! Seriously the virtual world is the wild west, the new frontier. Psychologists will study it, parents will cry about it, but it's reality and it will become more prevalent the longer it is allowed to last.

On a side note ruining this funeral is in very poor taste, but if you play the game this video will make you laugh. Enjoy!!





Links to make you

Well if you actually took the time to read through all this drivel I applaud your efforts and can only now move you off into the sunset. Theres a whole crazy internet just waiting to greet you with open arms!! I will understand if you just politely slip out the back.

Top Lost Time Capsules
Top 10 CSS tutorials
Crazy Tornado Videos
Web Site Reading Patterns

Enjoy your Easter!!

So I made it through the week of torture. Good times are ahead!! Lets use Easter as a catalyst to begin our plans for this summer. Lets have a relaxing weekend and go into the next week with new energy and new focus. What is it that we want? It could be travel, physical fitness, new career paths. I have the weekend to think about it. Lets make this weekend a date that we remember 6 months to a year from now as the time when we started down the path to success in ________ . When summers done lets look back on this weekend as a starting date of rebirth.

Happy Friday!!

More spam Poetry and Shutting out what's not important

Here's what I received today from my favorite spammer. I am humbled by his eloquence and find inspiration in his wordplay.

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Seriously that is brilliant stuff. I might even use his material for later projects.

The lessons being learned right now is that for each thing you do a certain measure of focus is required to achieve. Learning the right amount of focus and when to apply it is a paramount skill for me to obtain. Too often I begin a task and the allow my mind to drift along some useless bunny trail. There is a time and a place for everything. If it is not the right time nor the right place, shut those useless thoughts out.

It will take practice but it is worth doing.

Sudafed Days

Man it is just wave after wave of viri lately. I recover, the wife goes down, how long till its my turn again. Last night we went to a friends house and were mentally vacant to the point of embarassment. It's always casual when among friends but when someone invites you over and provides a meal you should at least be able to provide polite conversation.

Despite medical drains work continues as the great client swap of 2006 rolls on. The general theme is the opportunity to pick up new skills and view other peoples programs through new eyes. It's all good stuff and fairly challenging, and of course there are those who are not stepping up to take new responsibilities also locked in combat are those who are more than anxious to drop the clients that are a pain in the ass. Looks like I turned out on the good end of the stick here, I regained a past high volume client and gained 2 new low volume programs. Definetly could have turned out worse. Still I am submitting resumes when the opportunity is provided.

In the theme of trying new things and gaining new perspectives heres a link to site where a guy shows over 16 different ways to tie your shoes.

sick days and sick tuesdays

Actual message sent to me through email.

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Not sure what it means, but after that fine blurb they tried to sell me on a stock purchase. This has been the highlight of my last two days. In fact within all this madness it actually seemed a message so perfectly absurd that I laughed about it for quite some time. So obviously i broke my streak of consecutive workday posts yesterday due to a day for medical testing.

The good news is that I have started taking propecia, so begins my war with the genetic defects. Bad news my weight has balooned to an impressive 217 pounds. Not bad for a six foot tall dude, but bad considering that I weighed about 180-90 about 1.5 years ago. Part of the problem probably lies in my recent abscence in the dancing drinking partying scene. Its strange but when you dance your weekends away the booze doesnt add up so fast. Should i go back to the days of being ripped out of my head? Hey whatever works but I have to drop some poundage.

Second bad news, is my heart issues from my youth still remains. I will have to have heart workups next week. Seriously its so weird but lately everything on or in my body seems to be going all funhouse mirror on me. Is this aging? Seriously I'm only 25 I havent even hit my athletic prime. Things need to change. Nothing like a good medical scare to put us on the straight and narrow. I always hated people who suddenly have these revelations of whats meaningful in life and then abruptly modified everything about them. Perhaps I am having one of those moments.

The VanRuse project is going well hopefully another session will transpire this weekend. We have about 10 workable product demos that may get distributed soon and about 10 more following closely behind that. I go through waves of paranoia on the topic. For these startups I had always played the support role and now that I am the CEO I go back and forth riding waves of excitement and self-doubt. I think the product will be polarizing a definete love hate collection. Friends will lie and praise it while others will be surprised.

Since we are all dying a bit more each day I have decided to link an article that discusses how long people are alive once decapitated.

Enjoy!!!

I drag

Quite the sleepy Friday. No time for interests or other ilk, just a time to steam roll through the work day and hope that a miracle burst of energy allows me to find more this evening then the couch at home.

Aaron finished up musical touches on Goodnight Darling, were doing a lunch meeting to go over the latest mix. Vocals may transpire on Saturday. The worst part is that today is not a good day to feel tired but is any day really a good one? Should have taken the day off, but minimal progress is better than no progress and if I am standing I will work.

Whenever I get this way I always think of beer commercials that show attractive and affluent twenty somethings working than hitting the gym then having a fancy dinner date followed by clubbing with their friends. I used to do my best to keep up this pace but lately I can't.

Is this occurrence age, declining fitness, or lack of cheap cocaine? Probably a mixture of all three. Actually I'm probably just feeling down today due to me trying to break from my caffeine addiction.

Got the new Placebo album and its quite good. If you dont know Placebo then you probably dont know Mojo Nixon, and if you don't know Mojo Nixon then your head could use some fixing.

Happy Friday!

Change

Much, much, much, work today I have been going full throttle in attempts to ease my succesor into my role and for me to move into my new division. It was quite interesting upon later reflection to observe how I took the news of my division restructuring. Innitially I was upset that I would be losing clients that I had spent almost a year developing relationships with. However its quite clear that the change will only do me good and the more clients I can work with the more I can pad the old resume. Speaking of which I need to start getting those out. Also the alternative could have been company restructure your now out of a job.. so count your blessing and find that silver lining even if its a hair thin sliver.

The Vanruse project renewed to some extent. Intended product launch is slated for the ever ambiguous "summer". We may be recruiting some outside consultants namely vocals and backing from the Celestial Static group and a guest spot from a certain local celebrity known as Mike Felumelee. So far pure conjecture but if you don't have lofty goals youll only achieve less than lofty results. Shoot for the moon kiddo! Were planning on working up a large number of products and then distributing for market research, then putting final touches and assembling a sales team for a summer fall merchandise push. Could be epic could be lame well see how the final product turns out.

Very interesting day if your into that shy little topic called science. I added several links below for you to get your learn on. Happy Thursday.


Why Scientists study and Confirm the Obvious
Heroes of Might & Magic online mini game (Good work downtime killer)
Evolutionary Link Found
Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
The Lost Mario Game
Radiohead calls the music industry retards

Origami and positive results

It's strange but it seems that the harder I work the less I have to complain about. Could it be that personal productivity is directly linked to my sense of self worth. I continue to labor in a job that I do not care for. Despite my distaste for my profession I find that I feel better personally when I know that I have shown results. I'm sure there's some psychology major that could explain to me where on the blasted tree of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs that I am meeting this feeling of self worth. I just feel that it's a strange thing that even when you don't enjoy what your doing you can feel fullfilled by doing it. Could it be that I would have the same feelings if I found myself in jail or in a labor camp? Prison is a hard comparison to my cozy corner double wide cube with a 300 dollar chair but I wonder if that positive state of mind and being is what keeps an inmate from going crazy.

In an unrelated subject I stumbled upon a website that features quite amazing origami. Most of these sculptures come from a single sheet of paper. Origami would diffinetly be a cool thing to learn but completely impractical. Not many times in my life have I had the urge to impress the room by busting out a beetle made from a napkin, but if i had the ability at my disposal I suppose the opportunitys are endless. Lets just file it under useless skills that I would like to learn.

Origami

Your Reasoning Behind Procrastinating

"The procrastinator is often remarkably optimistic about his ability to complete a task on a tight deadline; this is usually accompanied by expressions of reassurance that everything is under control."

Don't lay this article off to the side, you need to read it now.

Great article on procrastinating click the link and learn more.

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Easter and that odd moment before you sleep

I had a real downer of a post lined up that was full of introspection. The main summarization i can give you for what it was and what it may become is "progress". Are you moving forward? In ten years will you look back on the first quarter of 2006 and say oh that was the year that I started __ or met ___ or did ____ . I might write something up later, the point is I am going to try to set a goal each quarter year and make sure that I moved my life forward.

On to randomness in which I specialize. This could be said about a multitude of holidays but I can really see no connection between easter, the crucifixion and a rabbit that produces eggs. Theres no tradition behind it ala christmas it just has become what it is.

I'm super busy at work so to wrap up I found a link that explains why you jerk when you are falling asleep or why you feel like you are falling when you are asleep. This phenomenon happens to 70% of the population so chances are you know what im talking about. Link

Theres always more to say but sometimes life gets in the way.

I chose to sleep

Last night I had a very clever idea. This idea actually excited me to the point where I had difficulty sleeping. However this morning that idea is gone lost into the nether. I can not stand it. I’m actually depressed by it. Unfortunately this scenario is all too common and makes me wonder why. For one why does inspiration seem to hit in the twilight hours before sleep but after lucidity. Also, what can be done to capitalize on these insights? If I can remember that I had the idea I should be able to capture the specifics.

2 tips that I think can be helpful would be to include a notepad or a journal next to the bed for instant availability. However the note pad by the bed always made me feel that it gave a “Holiday Inn” feel to the décor, when it should be your cave of solitude and serenity. The biggest tip I can give for how to counteract idea forgetting is to simply act on it. In fact I think that’s what separates people in a variety of ways. It simply boils down to those who act and those who don’t. Last night I made a conscious choice to sleep.

When you eat your breakfast look at your eggs and bacon and think, “the chicken was involved but the pig was committed.” In life what will you be the chicken or the pig? Then laugh because either way you’re going to be eating a better breakfast than the majority of third world will ever see. Damn it feels good to be a gangster!!!!