>I don’t like shaving, oh sure… I’ve probably said it before, but I haven’t had to shave every day up to this point. So I’m a late bloomer — I guess, but it’s frustrating. I can usually shave no problem, normally I go with the manual blade… until I try and do it every day. Electric razor is worse… ingrown hairs is my main issue with them. The other choice is the standard Mach III – which was literally issued to every man in America at the age of 18 (I received a package in the mail for my 18th…
>H2 In The Ghetto
>I was driving to work today, I usually go through the ghetto on my way in because it’s shorter. I was following an H2 and it was interesting to see the people react. A few raised their fists in the air, a sort of “way to go – bud” gesture. At another point I was following a Dodge Aries with “police” plates, appeared to be an older detective, maybe 55 or so. He was so excited when it passed him on the right that he was jumping, and alternated pointing and putting his hand to his head while driving with…
>Katita Wind-up Toys Terror Has Another Name My scheme has failed. I was hoping to “get back” at the theweblogreview.com for their horrible review of my site a while back. Granted, it was “hidden” but I expected them to be at least somewhat tech savvy and have a fast internet connection. They didn’t find the bubbles, got in the back door (the old windows that pop up) and it just was all bad. They chided my web-authoring skills, design, and content “I think when people talk about moving, it’s boring” yeah… when you only read the first entry!!! (but I’m…
>The Plan
>So here is my plan: Classes will have already started as of September 5th, I am working up until that point. I can’t claim benefits before that point. I can’t be enrolled before I’m “approved” for re-training and accompanying extension on my unemployment benefits or I risk losing all benefits (this happened to me before, so I know they’ll do it). I can’t go to school this semester, but I can apply at any time after receiving benefits to go back to school. This will extend my benefits by an additional 18 weeks at that point, past the usual 6…
>It’s been a while since I was able to sit down and post. I’ve been busy going here and there – looking at job listings, and trying to find a safety net. I have my plan. I haven’t gone into it yet, but I’ll divulge it shortly. It’s not overly impressive, but it’s a milestone. Here at this point in my life I need to re-establish my short term goals. My long term goals have remained about where they were, and though I’ve gotten marginally closer to them — must say that I haven’t done as well as I’d hoped…
>Job Hunt @ Baystate
>I went to the local hospital the other day, the administrative building, to see if I might find a job. There was a waiting room of sorts, a whole “recruitment department” which had computers to be able to sign up for positions online. When I arrived, I was seccond to another woman who said she had filed an application before, that she had an interview… the recruitment worker was confused, what the woman was telling her didn’t pan out — that wasn’t how they did things. The woman eventually confirmed (as in-directly, and with as little responsibility as possible) that…
>Hung out last night with people from work — when I got out we played the “Officespace Drinking Game” (see link from a few days ago). We played with beer sips… and it was so well thought out… worked perfectly. Right where the movie would normally get dull — many many drinks take place shortly before (the “yeah…. hi” repeatedly from Lumburg during the answering machine scene is a killer). Gotta hand it to the guy @ Berkeley =] Hard alcohol is a no no for this one — wouldn’t make it through the movie :] We had a hard…
>Last night was wonderful. I was with my good friend Jamie, her boyfriend Carlos (who’s a sweetheart). They’re both super athletic and star performers. Cheerleading and soccer, respectively. We hung out for a while, went for a drive – and I was able to visit the person I most wanted to see. We did some more driving – then back to my place where we hung out till almost morning just talking. It was simple, it was relaxed, it was theraputic. We talked for a long time – I tried not to dwell on the whole upcoming D-day, but said…
>I think the more people I tell my plan to – the better the chance it will work. I am not so sure about the time frames, however — school starts before I can collect, I can’t file the “education extension” until after I’m already registered for bennefits. I can’t start classes before I file the “education extension” or they take all bennefits away (I found this out first hand in late 2001). I was in school, getting unemployment, hadn’t cleared it with them… wasn’t started yet when I received my first 2 checks. On the 3rd “check up” mailer…
>A few months ago I had issues with my kitty. I brought her to the hospital, had her stay there a few days. They ran many a test and still they were unable to tell me what was wrong. I finally took her home, to live in piece as I knew the end was near. When she was in so much pain and weak that she was unable to walk I had to bring her in to be put to sleep. They wanted to charge me an extra $75 to be there with her (because it required a doctor). I…
>Tom Petty : The Waiting The waiting is the hardest part every day get one more yard you take it in faith, you take it to heart don’t let it kill ya baby don’t let it get to ya don’t let it kill ya baby don’t let it get to ya ___________________ That could apply to a few things in my life right now, the 60 days looming over me… the seemingly endless beginning to school – for several reasons, people will go back to their “regular” routines for the most part, and I’ll probably be starting classes then as…
>Here’s some links for my fellow boat-mates: MA D.E.T. – File a Claim MA D.E.T. – Training Application List of Major Employers of Springfield Bachelor Prank: Sweden Style The Officespace Drinking Game Tidy Up(mpeg) I’ve noticed everyone’s nicer, more personable. They know that everyone’s stressed, everyone’s having a hard time… and it’s not uncommon to hear “You OK?” or “How you holding up?” as it’s a valid question for virtually everyone. People are making arrangements, preparing to move out – find another place, possibly sell their car. It’s somewhat depressing, but it doesn’t feel like you’re alone — like I’m…
>Draft copy:: not to be published until after “D-Day” My separation from RCN today was a bit of a milestone. I’ve never said where I worked before, for fear of repercussions and separation of employment… but don’t have to worry about that now, though this won’t be published/available until after all is said and done. I don’t feel like my time’s wasted. I’m almost thankful that it’s happened now. I have 2 years+ experience in telecommunications under my belt, and am almost finished with my programming degree. I have always said that I wish I got layed off – could…
>Ever since I saw my father getting old — I’ve worried about losing my memory. My parents are rather old anyway, my dad was in his 40s growing up and I saw the signs early on. He could never keep things straight, meetings, events… and sometimes having troubles recalling events. I’ve collected media since, text, pictures, video… as much as I can collect. This way when I want to go back and remember a certain thing that happened, I’ll have something to refresh and retrieve the memory from my head =] I got some news today that might put a…
>So I must do something to change the tone for today — although I keep having dreams of the situation, and the people involved… I’m just accepting it as people changing as they will. I obviously can’t do anything to change it for the better — so I’ll stop trying and just let things be how they will. I made a great fruit platter last night! I had a hankerin’ so I bought a bunch of fruit while at the grocery store, came home and cut it all up! It was amazing, and wish I had pictures cause I made…
>My separation from *** today was a bit of a milestone. I’ve never said where I worked before, for fear of repercussions and separation of employment… but don’t have to worry about that now, though this won’t be published/available until after all is said and done. I don’t feel like my time’s wasted. I’m almost thankful that it’s happened now. I have 2 years+ experience in telecommunications under my belt, and am almost finished with my programming degree. I have always said that I wish I got layed off – could go back to school, maybe work a part time…
>I hate to be a one note horse here, but what do you do when all of a sudden you don’t feel welcome? — I asked my friend who was going with another friend to go out to eat if they would mind if I tagged along. I was greeted with silence : OK, I can take a hint, that’s fine, but then she said “well, you comin?” when she was ready to leave, without really saying anything in-between, like “Yeah! Come on!” or even a “sure”. I said OK — we were taking separate cars, but I had issues…
>I went to the Springfield Quadrangle today with Jon, Heather, Scott, & Laura. Check out the link for some really cool pictures of our day out (and me with Dr Suess, or Stan Lee as I like to call him). There was many an interesting thing, with a few uninteresting things inbetween. I’m always one for the history of the local area, and was particularly taken by the maps of old Springfield. Shortly after it’s being founded, it was divided up into rectangles on the map. Each rectangle had the owners name on it, and you could see many people…
>I was playing with the search engine thingy — it has text ads, at least it’s not in your face flashing .gifs everywhere. It has a few “recommended links” to the right as well, depending what they want to sell and what you were searching for. In the process of indexing: look what I found! I’m about to write something similar the last entry yet again — but I’ll get more into that in a bit. The Real Hussein (flash)
>I really want to write about last night — but first… the whores! (er… links) Any domains that I come across that are featured will be added to the links page for easy retrieval at a later date. I’m also well on my way to adding a search function to scour the past entries… will be adding that soon (and should be ad free if I can finangle the .cgi). Check out this keyboard for pirates (posted July 3rd). Check out this movie of “The Honda Commercial Americans wouldn’t get“. (flash 6 required) A naughty film (QT) with thumbs? WOW!…
>(for when you come home drunk this evening and still don’t quite want to go to bed) Virtual Mac OSX 10.3 (Panther) – walk-through Some bands haave decided to shun the per track iTunes sales model Just can’t seem to manually ping Weblogs.com for your site correctly? That’s because the link to it’s broken, but a little investigation finds improper capitalization at fault… that’s why lowercase is so great! Apparently there’s a bit of a hacker contest going on this weekend. I suppose it’s a good time to do it, considering limited admins available due to the holiday. Hey look!…
>Uh oh – first sign of the Googlopolypse: ~ Blogger is advocating the “free Google toolbar” ~ The free Google toolbar is infamous for it’s information collecting and privacy concerns. Yes — millions of people everywhere trust you not to throw a sneaky little thing like that onto blogger.com… and there it is. I feel productive, made the most of my limited break time here @ work — CSS is a wonderful thing. In other words the links page looks fairly normal — now just to fill in the empty spaces. I’m still partial to the white. I’m going to…
>So I had to bring my car in for an electrical issue (yeah, the one I just bought… with 5000 miles on it). From what the service guy said they’re having similar issues with all the Mazdaspeed models due to the extra complicated alarm (shock sensor). I don’t give a hoot about the sophisticated stock alarm… active word here being stock — no. I need to have it working correctly first – however, as that is what the warranty is all about and also that way they won’t be able to blame it on the aftermarket alarm if anything should…
>Well I recently added a new mini-section. You may have noticed the new links page. This was to give back to all those that have linked in the past… as I know my past page was pretty pathetic after only about a month. 😉 I’ve also gone through the past 2 months of posts, pulled out any major domain and/or major link that I might refer to. The newest addition, boasas.com is a rather amusing comic. You’ll find that under “B”… it ought to be fairly self explanatory. I’ve stuck to alphabetizing by the domain name, though I’ll use the…