stuck in a cube

Call me confused...

2008-11-26T15:35:00.003-05:00

So i'm at work on the eve of Thanksgiving 2008, I leave for lunch to find this orgy of police cars right outside my office. If you look over the top of the cars, you can see a few horse trailers on the intersecting street. Those were all police trucks towing police horse trailers(?). It was a sight to see, I only wish I could have found out WTF THEY WERE DOING THERE AT 12:30PM THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING!??!

Oh yea HAPPY THANKSGIVING.....and don't forget to GIVE THANKS...because today wasn't promised and neither is tomorrow!!!

soooooooo.......

2008-06-12T13:19:00.002-04:00

i guess a lot has happened since my last post which was on valentine's day.

quick rewind/fastForward
got a new job , moved to ft lauderdale , and now you're caught up (a more detailed post will be up later)

so got home from work yesterday, just lounged around and ended up falling asleep on the couch for the entire night, woke up early as hell, decided to do laundry...while the machine is running i get on the computer to check email and do the daily B.S. , i start smelling something funkdafied, turn around , open the bathroom door and the bathroom is underwater..... WTF?!!??!

i knew the plumbing was fucked when i moved in here cuz the toilet was not consistent on flushing/draining, i called the landlord a week ago today to tell her i mailed the rent and to tell her about the problems, didn't hear from her just left a message, never heard anything from her until this morning when i called her to tell her the bathroom was about 2 inches under water...

her initial response at 7 in the morning was "a plumber didn't come yet?"

to which i said "uhh nope haven't heard from anyboy and no one has came by"

"oh my god im so sorry, i had told Myra (the realtor who got me to rent this place) to get a plumber to stop by, well let me get a plumber there as soon as i can"

turns out the realtor "forgot" , isn't that nice.

so called in to work today and told them about my bathroom, took the day off for the plumbers/water extractors to come. they cleaned it all up and finally fixed the plumbing but now i have these 4 big fucking industrial fans blowing that i have to keep on for the next 4 days.

fortunately the landlord has been the shit so far and even offered to put me and debo up in a hotel room, so that's where me and debo will be off to later tonight because these fans are loud as hell and i can't imagine living here for the next 4 days yelling to myself in my head

at least debo gets to sleep in a hotel lol

Death to consumer driven Hallmark holidays!

2008-02-14T07:46:00.003-05:00

Another day has come full of high hopes and high expectations for millions of women everywhere. At the same time another day has come full of disappointment, guilty feelings and unmet obligations for millions of men. My problem with Valentines Day is it's a consumer driven holiday. It's an economic stabilizer. How convenient that day in February falls in the first quarter of the year. It's a way to increase consumer spending in the first quarter of the year and every year millions of dollars are spent on a "Hallmark Holiday".

Valentines Day cards, little candy hearts, roses, flowers, overstuffed giant teddy bears and other stuffed animals...all ways to tell that special someone that they're special. All ways to keep the economy going during the first quarter of every year. And every year it's relied upon.

What I don't like about this day is millions of women will have high expectations from their significant other. While an average man will feel obligated on this day to buy SOMETHING even if it's just a tiny stuffed animal, more than likely the gift receiver will have expected something bigger, or more extravagant. In my experiences, it's pretty damn hard to meet that expectation every year and every year it seems that expectation goes up.

At the same time for millions of men and women who JUST started dating, this day could serve as a jump start or a boost to that relationship. This day could also be valuable to millions of couples who have rocky relationships, it could be the make it or break it point for some relationships. For millions of others however it feels more like an obligatory day of giving and as an economics major I can't help but think of it as nothing more than a consumer driven economic stabilizer.

New Port Richey's going to freeze over!

2008-01-24T15:26:00.000-05:00

WTF?!?!?!?

1 DAY A YEAR TO ACT A FOOL!!

2007-11-01T08:02:00.000-04:00

October 31st is my favorite work day of the year. It's the one day of the year 80% of the people at my work let their guards down and act a fool. It's the one day of the year you'll hear people hootin n hollerin all around all three buildings. This year was no different. My friend Sean and myself decided to go as Luchador Wrestlers. He was Huracan Ramirez and I was Coco Rojo. We had our masks, muscle tops and championship belts. We walked around screaming "VOTE FOR THE CHAMPIONS!!" while totally disrupting the workplace. It's Halloween people, like you didn't expect all the people you work with to be having fun and going crazy. It was amusing seeing all the people try to guess who we were under the masks. A lot of people guessed right, and a lot of people were shocked to see our true identities. (Yes we revealed our true identities which is a big no no in the world of luchador wrestling, but a brothers gotta eat and its kinda hard to eat with the mask on)

At the end of the day, reality sets in and the coming of November 1st is inevitable. This years halloween was by far the best halloween I've ever had at work and the pictures shall serve as a memory of the day THE CHAMPIONS WALKED COCA COLA ENTERPRISES!!

What a long ass weekend....

2007-10-22T09:33:00.000-04:00

THANKS TO JESSY FOR THE GROUP PIC!!!

So it's Monday morning. The begining to another mundane Monday. It's rare that I'll enjoy a mundane Monday, but today is one of those rarities because I am just absolutely BEAT from the weekend.

The "weekend" started last Wednesday when Pucky convinced me that I needed a mid-week hookah fix. I'll admit it had been a while since I've gone "hookah"-ing with Pucky so I went ahead and took my ass to the hookah bar on a Wednesday night and didn't get home until sometime after 1 AM. Let's just say I was pretty damn late to work Thursday morning.

So Thursday morning I was late to work, obviously. It didn't end there, not only was i late to work, i was freaking sleepy and found myself falling asleep pretty regularly that day. It was also a day that I couldn't just go home from work and sleep it off. Nope this was Thursday October 18, 2007. The day the USF Bulls went to New Jersey to play Rutgers. It was another Hooterific day to be a Bulls fan. Well until they lost by 3 points later that Thursday night. But its okay, i'm still Hooterific about my alma mater. Dem Bulls will do it again!

So Friday comes, obviously a tad bit hungover from Thursday nights football ritual, but very aware enough to go to work on time and put in those hours at work. Friday night is the night I was supposed to bring fellow alums to Berkeley to watch the Pipe & Drum Corps do the halftime show of the Homecoming Football Game. So i get off work early Friday and go home to 'rest'. I get coaxed into going to Saumrai Blue for some pre-halftime show sushi with Pucky, Mytu, and Goat. We stuff ourselves silly with sushi of course, then leave to pickup Ed, who has been waiting outside of my house for us to finish eating, and then off to Berkeley. It was real weird being at our old high school during the homecoming football game, but it was pretty sweet. We got to see the pipe and drum corps do their thing, and they kicked ass. We did a similar routine when we were in high school, but nothing like what they pulled off. So mad respect to the Berkeley Pipe % Drum Corps yo!!

So Friday actually ended up being an early night and Saturday night comes and we all go out to our friend Anna's pub in downtown Tampa for Jessy's Birthday. We were able to convince Fisher (the director of The Pipe & Drum Corps) to come out for a few brewskies. It was a damn good time with some old school people. Even my old roomate Josh came out who I hadn't seen in years. We even got a damn good group picture of all of us that went to Berkeley. It was a damn fun night out at the pub.

All in all it was a very fun and eventful weekend that started with a little hookah on Wednesday and ended with a few brews on Sunday.

Which brings me back to...another mundane monday.....

Escaped the cube only to return...

2007-10-01T14:59:00.000-04:00

So my 6 months as a Deductions Representative have come and gone. I have moved on up to Accountant I back in the property tax department. Before moving to the deductions department I was a Senior Property Tax Clerk and now I return to the department as an Accountant. My favorite way to tell someone of my promotion is like this..."I'M A MOFUGGIN ACCOUNTANT YO!".....very short, very simple, but full of enthusiasm.

It's weird to say, but damn I missed my cubicle! I took it for granted when I was last here and I now fully appreciate having walls around me. The privacy and the ability to Alt-Tab when needed is so nice and totally worth it. I work with some of the same people which makes it very comfy coming back.

A friend of mine got me the Office Space Kit as a cubicle warming present. I hung up the "IS THIS GOOD FOR THE COMPANY" banner. I'm still trying to figure out where to place my "Jump To Conclusions Mat". It completes my office space for sure. I also have my desk buddies to keep me entertained and occupied. I need more desk buddies.

Voluntarily stuck in a cube.....

Made it...

2007-06-01T01:21:00.000-04:00

Made it to Denver....there are waaayy too many "Scenic Views" along the way...that definitely made us drag ass...

2007-06-01T01:19:00.000-04:00

now that's brand loyalty!

Just more pics...

2007-05-31T01:14:00.000-04:00

The goal for 2morrow is Denver, CO or further...yeaaaaaaaa let's see how far we get...

St. George, Utah

2007-05-31T01:06:00.000-04:00

FIrst day on the road wasn't the best....we didnt leave Long Beach until almost noon so we didn't get off to a good start and to make it worse we called it a night after driving 6 hours...went from Long Beach, CA to St. George, UT.

The drive along the way was pretty effin sweet, we drove by Las Vegas which was tight, didn't drive thru the strip but still saw some big name casinos. The view is just amazing out here...how the freeways go right through the middle of the mountains is pretty wild for a country Florida boy...I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves...

Must clear my mind.....

2007-05-30T14:44:00.000-04:00

just a few more pics....no entry...must clear my mind first....

I Done Gone Back To Cali!!

2007-05-27T15:29:00.000-04:00

Well i made it out to Long Beach....after a long friday night of no sleep and a long multi airport adventure starting at an exciting 5:30am i finally got to my sister's apartment by about 8pm West Coast Time.....she picked me up from the airport took me to get 'breakfast' at about noon at this bomb place calld Bake N Broil...then proceeded to show me the beautiful scenery that is Long Beach...you know i had to do a photoshoot lolz.....so these are the pics from my first day/night back in California.....today we're just running errands, donating a buttload of stuff she doesn't need to Goodwill and the animal shelter...nothin exciting...I'm supposed to meet up with a few friends on Monday for some friendly Memorial Day partying.... ;-)I told this to my sister at the end of the day yesterday.....it'll be a damn shame when you arrive in NY and realize how much CALI is the fucking SHIT!! Not like she has a choice but still....I think spending one night this close to the damn beach has convinced me that I want to move out to Clearwater or St Pete just to be close the water...it's unreal...i never would have thought it would be this cold in Southern California at the end of May!! We left the balcony door open last night and i was freeeeezing all night!!!! Don't get me wrong it's sunny as shit, but there is like no humidity here and being so close to the water makes it sooo breezy and cool! It's awesome....I'll be back here for sure one of these days.....okay back to more errands...

The future exists depending on the actions of today.

2007-04-17T12:22:00.000-04:00

It has begun. The blame game for the Virginia Tech tragedy has begun. Video games? Movies? Society? Parents? The government? Virginia Tech? The war in Iraq? Who’s ultimately going to get the brunt of the blame for what happened on the Va Tech campus Monday morning? I’ve already read articles blaming video games and how the mass murderers of tomorrow are today’s kids being violently programmed by the video games they play. I think it’s irresponsible and ignorant for the media to place the blame on one factor. Obviously there is no ONE cause for WHY this mad man did what he did. And if there is well then only him and God know it now. We as people should not be reporting what we THINK is the cause for people doing such things simply because we don’t know. We don’t know why the Columbine shootings took place we can only speculate and assume. And again it’s irresponsible for one media outlet to blame another media outlet for something so tragic. The only thing we can do as society as a whole is to come together and not point the finger at one another. All we can do is raise our children to know better, to teach them that this is never a justified action and that there are other ways to solve problems than violence. Also parents need to take more responsibility for their actions or lack thereof. If a parent allows their child to see the Saw movies with no explanation that “it’s just a movie” then they are in a way allowing their child to take the violent images and bloody scenes as reality.

My question is, with the onset of video games based on movies becoming more popular, if Grand Theft Auto was based on a movie, which would get more of the blame? The movie? Or the video game? My money is on the video game.

There is no one source of blame when something like this happens. It can be too complex with too many factors for any human being to make a judgment and rationally place the blame on one thing. A logical human being will understand that when something like this happens it is because of a number of things like their upbringing, the environment and atmosphere in which they were raised, if they’re left or right handed, if they said their prayers every night before going to sleep, if they honored and respected their parents, if the father was a wife beater, if there was no father, if they were beaten or picked on as a child, if they liked scary movies as a child. Point being there are countless reasons a person could/would do something as tragic as what happened. And blaming one sole thing as the reason is irresponsible and can very well be the downfall of humanity as we know it.

The future exists depending on the actions of today.

Good Article

2006-11-14T17:31:00.000-05:00

The Spending Diaries of Six New Yorkers

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2006/23490/index.html

Good idea, good timing too as i just started an expense spreadsheet this afternoon. I'd like to see exactly how and where i spend my money. Hopefully I'll stick with it.

Observation

2006-11-09T11:20:00.000-05:00

I received an email forward just now at work, it was a typical FWD concerning religion and comparing it to other aspects of life. I usually do a quick read thru of the email and if it seems worth it i'll read the entire email but if it seems nonsensical i'll delete it. This particular one had a line that caught my attention and the more i read it the more it related to reality and society today.

Isn't it strange how we
believe everything
that magazines and newspapers
say, but we question the words in the
Bible?

That's it. One simple sentence, but its one of those that makes you think. It's damn true, we are trained to believe what we read in magazines and papers and what we see or hear on the news, but we question the words in the bible. I'm not going to go on a tangent about the Bible. I respect people's opinions that the Bible may not be fact but it's still a set of moral stories that we should live life by. But if we question such documents like the bible, but believe the headlines about Iraq and how we're winning, what does that say about us as a society?

Dave Chappelle once said when talking about the controversey with the Dixie Chicks when they expressed their shame for being from the same state as the president, he said "Who cares what the Dixie Chicks think? It's not like their political scientists or anything, they're just couple chicks who can sing good" he then went on to say "Stop worshipping celebrities, I don't even know why people listen to me. I've done commercials for both Pepsi and Coke. You want to know the truth? Can't tell the difference, but Pepsi paid me most recently, so ...taste better"

I agree with him whole heartedly. We shouldn't be worshipping celebrities because they're no more special than any of us. Just because they're on tv more than the next person we're supposed to be captivated by their appearance and believe everything they say? We have to simplify life and if that means living life based on a set of morals from a Book called the Bible, then so be it! Regardles of your belief or religion or stance on politics no one can really argue that the Bible is something you shouldn't live your life by. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe i'm crazy...or maybe i'm right or maybe i make just a little bit of sense. Even that little bit of sense, if it's enough to make a person stop and think than mission accomplished.

That's what that one line from the email forward did to me....it made me think...

November 7, 2006

2006-11-07T16:55:00.000-05:00

Time for me to leave work early and go vote. Too bad i have to drive out to Pasco County because i'm still registered there. If i was registered in Hillsborough County I would only have to walk down the street.

But I did my job, i convinced one person who wasn't going to vote, to go vote.

I can't wait for today to be over with. No more damn campaign ads. I love the statistic that more Political Campaign Ads were shown in Tampa than anywhere else int he country. I do not doubt that for a second.

We shall see what tomorrow has in store for the media. The day after an election is like Black Friday to the media it seems.

Off to the City of Dade!!

New Motto

2006-11-07T14:38:00.000-05:00

In preparation of my new years resolution, i've come accross a motto that i will try my hardest to live by. It's definitely one of those "Easier said than done" statements. If i can do what it says i should be on my way.

SPEND LESS THAN YOU MAKE , PUT THE REST IN THE BANK

like i said....easier said than done...let's see it happen....

Eyes Forward

2006-11-06T16:05:00.000-05:00

So it looks like I'll be changing departments here in a little bit. I was offered a job two levels higher than what I'm at now. Decent bump up in pay , more work , more responsibility , supposedly a track/path you can follow to keep moving up in the same department. I'm looking at it with an open mind and with my vision staring straight ahead into the future. It's a good opportunity for me to move up another notch and gain more experience while at the same time getting paid more. It's still not what I want to get paid or what I think I should be getting paid, but i'm down to put in some more time. I'm down to show some of the haters and doubters that I'm not done. I'm down to succeed!!

It sucks having to leave my group now though, just because it's probably one of the most coolest and most laid back groups within the company. A group that most of the rest of the company don't really know what we do and so it gives us freedom to do what we need to do with little to no interference. I've heard bad stories about the department i'll be moving to, but I've also heard good stories. It definitely seems like one of those jobs that isn't for everyone. But I'm an Economics Major. I had to remind myself this morning what exactly that means.

Economics builds scientific models to explain why people behave the way they do. And economists use these models, in conjunction with their observations of the world, to analyze and explain why things happen the way they do.

...Even more, economics is about finding the truth, even if the truth may go counter to what you, and most people, may intuitively believe. As one economist put it, economics is about paradoxes, about providing answers to riddles that are contrary to accepted opinion yet are true.

...Why do businesses need economists? First, economists are trained to think analytically and critically to solve complex problems. Second, and relatedly, economists is a social science, and as such economists are trained to recognize human behavior in relation to work, production, distribution and consumption, the fundamental operations of most businesses.

I'm starting to realize i picked the right major for myself. Closely enough related to general business and at the same time a social science with a concentration on human behavior as it relates. I think I'm very much a people person. I get along with pretty much everyone. And I think it would be hard to find many people that actually have bad things to say about me. I hope i can continue this trend at my new position.

Like i said...My vision is forward...no where to go but up...

FOCUS , INSPIRE , MOTIVATE

Physical Evidence

2006-11-03T16:44:00.000-05:00

Oh the life of being a mole.

What a sick and twisted game it is for kids to take a mallet and bash the skulls of innocent moles who pop their heads out of their holes to see who came to visit.

It's Official

2006-11-03T13:05:00.000-05:00

It's officially the spending season...let the holidays begin...I love the holidays because it's just always a nicer time of the year for some reason. What sucks is how broke you get by the time the holidays are over. And let's not forget the birthdays that fall in the middle of the holidays.
Every new year we are supposed to make resolutions for the coming year. Resolutions that ideally we will follow and that should ultimately make life better or easier. Resolutions such as quitting smoking, quitting drinking, losing weight, exercising more, lower my spending and so forth. Every year I think i've either given up or simply forgotten about my resolution by mid February. I think the average person does the same by about mid April/May. Why is it so hard to follow through with a resolution til the end of the year? Who knows...but i'm already thinking of my resolution.

For the year 2007 I hope to SAVE. That's it! I just want to save and hopefully have a decent lump sum by the time 2008 comes around. So far i've tried to save, but have ended up takin money out of savings here and there for various reasons. This time i want to put money away and not touch it. Every day i try to visit some Personal Finance web sites and read some articles. Sites like Personal Finance Advice and Money Under 30. These sites offer articles mostly on how to save, or how to control your spending as well as random other topics. There are so many others out there it's ridiculous. And deep down in the back of my mind I kinda hope my blog will turn into one of those Personal Finance sites. All in due time...

Point being, (this is the meat of this post) in order to go through with my resolution, i need a means to save. If you havent seen or read lately, the High Yielding Online Savings market is pretty much booming. By booming I mean you will get higher interest rates by putting your money into one of these Online Savings account than if you went to a local bank and opened a savings account there. I have 3 accounts setup so far with 3 different companies. I'll give a brief review of the three.

1) ING Direct
- They were the first company that i heard of that did the high yielding savings account. They're currently offering %4.40 Annual Percentage Yield. It's not the highest, but they usually up the % every few months to stay competitive with the rest. What i like about them is the User Interface of their website. I think it's the best layout and design of the others. Easy to use , easy to navigate. There is no minimum deposit required, so you can open an account with $1. The other thing i like about them is if you want to withdraw money from your savings account, it will take 2-3 days to transfer from the savings to your local checking account. This makes it harder to dip into your savings. If you want to open an account with at least $250.00 , use my referral link and we'll both get a cash bonus.

2) Citi Bank Online- I found out about CitiBank when i applied for a credit card with them. They offer a higher interest rate of %5.00 APY. The only thing with them is when you open a savings account with them they automatically open a checking account also and deposit $1 into it. You are not obligated to use the checking account. Their savings account is much like ING where there is no minimum balance. However they make it easier for you to dip into you savings because they give you a debit card. What i like about them is you can use the debit card to withdraw money at any 7/11 convenience store that has a Citi ATM. Depending on the way you look at it, it could be good and bad because it gives you easier access to your savings and gives you the option to dip into your savings. I know i'm guilty of dipping because they make it easy to.

3) Emigrant Direct
- I don't really like EmigrantDirect but i still have an account with them with $5 in it. I signed up with them because they had the highest interest rate. I don't like them because they're site is usually slow for me. The user interface i dont think is that great and just overall i didnt have a very good experience with them. Although they do offer one of the highest yielding savings accounts. They also have no minimum balance.

Bottom line is I'm trying my damndest to put away 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. I hope that my new year resolution will be followed through but only time will tell. But I hope if anything i can get others to do the same because at this point, it's like....Why Not?

Happy Halloween

2006-10-31T17:34:00.000-05:00

Well i made it through another Halloween...at work at least. My group had the creative idea of decorating our cubes like the arcade game Wack-A-Mole. You know the game where moles pop out of their holes and you bash their skulls with a mallet? Yea we were the moles...and our cubes were our holes. There was a ginormous mallet that one of my supes made out of leather and cotton stuffing. The idea was grand. Just sucks i had to wear denim overalls, plaid shirt, rodent nose, geek glasses and a construction hat. Yea i'll leave that to your imagination and ill put up a picture tomorrow if i have any. We didn't win the decorating contest which convinces me that every year it's been rigged!! It just wouldn't surprise me that's all.

One thing that kept me somewhat entertained was the akward comments that came out of people mouths. Comments that to some corrupted minds could be interpreted as uber perverted. Comments such as "Oh can i wack you?" while another person reiterating the comment with "HAHAH She wants to wack you!!" could potentially draw a perverted picture in the minds of some. And then there was another comment of "Who's banging on my hole?" with a reply of "Yea that was me banging on your hole". The double meanings were confirmed by other parties at my work place so it definitely was NOT just me.

At the end of the day, it was a fun entertaining day. A lot of people dressed up and showed a lot of Halloween spirit and it definitely made the workplace a much more enjoyable place to do business. Although how much actual business work was done is another question and answer. All that matters is today is the end of October. Tomorrow is November 1st 2006. 60 days left until 2007. Now that's scary!! I'm starting to be a believer that after the age of 21 time flies twice as fast. Think about it...

Happy Halloween and Candy Binging! May your souls be spooked by children in cartoon masks and puppy dog constumes.

Sunday...

2006-10-29T16:28:00.000-05:00

I love days like this...scenes like this just make problems disappear for me, like i could care less about what else i have going on in life because i could sit out here bask in the sun and enjoy the view forever...gotta love Tampa for this...

Even more pictures...

2006-10-26T10:07:00.000-04:00

Create Your Own!

FOCUS , INSPIRE , MOTIVATE

2006-10-25T10:40:00.000-04:00

Day 2 back at work…I think after the cruise, I’m more inspired and more motivated to do the damn thing and keep moving. I can’t stay stagnant, I have to keep moving. If this company won’t give me the opportunity to, then so be it, but I have to keep moving. Like the song says…..”Everyday I’m hustling” and by the way “hustling” doesn’t have to be a rap reference or a drug reference….hustling is getting paid….any means necessary…it’s what drives the millionaires of the world today. Donald Trump is one of the biggest hustlers in world history. At the same time money doesn’t rule the world, and money can’t buy happiness….BUT….money makes living easier…money makes it so you don’t have to work as hard and in turn you have time to enjoy life. When I started working after graduating college, it hit me pretty hard realizing that I’m going to be working 9-5 for nearly the rest of my life. For what? To live, to survive and to provide for a family. On the cruise we met a friend named Jason. One night at dinner he said something like “I would be completely happy living in a small hut on the beach, growing and hunting my own food”. I’ve said something similar in the past about living life as simple as possible with minimal materialistic things. It’s a nice idealistic image. But how plausible is it? In the end you’ll still need money for the bare necessities. I can’t grow toilet paper, and I’m not about to use a leaf. Got to stay motivated.

FOCUS , INSPIRE , MOTIVATE

a few pics...

2006-10-24T15:06:00.000-04:00

Create Your Own!

2006-10-24T13:50:00.000-04:00

And I’m back….man was it hard bringing my ass to work this morning…..only good thing is IT’S COLD!! After 5 days in the Bahamas, coming back to TAMPA and having COLD weather is a nice change…..on top of that the Bucs did their THANG on Sunday!! It was damn nice representing the bucs hardcore on the cruise and getting a lot of responses….there are a lot of bucs fans in the Bahamas!

But now it’s back to work…. I’ll upload our pictures and post em sometime soon. Should be some good ones…until then it’s back to this work catching up on errrrrthang!

THE TIME IS NOW!

2006-10-18T19:31:00.000-04:00

I made it to 7:30....today is my friday...and I'M OUT!

See ya in 5 days cube!!!

PEACE!!

The countdown begins

2006-10-18T14:37:00.000-04:00

It's 2:30pm....5 more hours and then i'm done.....i get to get away from my cube for 5 whole freaking days....oh man...that sounds nice just typing it out lol.....i still have to go home and pack and go to walmart to get last minute supplies though...i'm such a guy....but guys take less than 30 minutes to pack for a trip....it's so easy....i'm ready...no wait i'm not, still gotta buy a few bottles of liquor to bring...

in the end...my cubicle and I need a vacation from each other...we've been having issues, the cube wants me to clean my desk and i refuse...the cube wants me to stop eating at my desk and i refuse...the cube doesn't like it when i visit other people's cubes, even though im visiting the people and not their cubes...the cube needs a few days to cool off and i need a few days to get krunk in the middle of the ocean...goodbye cube...cya in FIVE FREAKING DAYS!!

reflect

2006-10-17T09:26:00.000-04:00

i really have no idea how i used to work a morning job and then 10 hrs at the night job every day and still be friendly to people....

Mundane Munday

2006-10-16T12:32:00.000-04:00

Another mundane munday in the office….it’s 12:12pm and I’m still in the cube….I have to pull 10 hour days today, tomorrow and Wednesday so I’ll have close enough to 40 hrs by the time Thursday comes so I can go on my CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS!! Yayer! Me and the whoaman are going for 4 days. I hope to be extremely inebriated for the majority of the cruise. After the cruise, that leaves me with 2 vacation days left for the year, I’m hoping to make it up to visit my cousin in Philly with those 2 days.

Oh yea some drama…i smell a conspiracy in the HR department because when I went to look at my employee profile, it’s supposed to show the jobs you’ve applied for…well according to that I’ve only applied for one job in 2006, the rest of the list are the jobs I applied for in 2005, so for some reason the jobs I’ve applied to and had interviews for this year are not showing, and yes I smell a conspiracy….now granted some at this company already think I’m a mole or a spy of some kind….but as Big Perm may have put it in another world “messing with my employee profile, is like messing with my emotions” something is afoot!!

However to make this Monday not so Monday like, the TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS finally won a game yesterday in TAMPA at RAYMOND JAMES STADIUM (a.k.a. The Crown Jewel of the NFL) against the Cincinnati Bengals. Thank God! It’s about time too! Like I said, we just got our losses out of the way, it’s all wins from here on out!!

Okay I guess I should go to lunch….

Mmm Hooters

2006-10-13T14:10:00.000-04:00

Just got back from a Business lunch meeting at Hooters with Pucky...shared some good ideas about opening up shop...ordered 50 wings for 2 people...didn't finish.....yeaaaa we did it right !! Ended up being 30 minutes late clocking back in from lunch. So now i should (emphasis on SHOULD) stay 30 min late after work.....yeaaaaa......

Today is also the birthday of the lady in the cube next to me, so there are all these balloons and streamers hanging over the side of her cube and into mine....it's distracting because it's all colorful and vibrant and festive. And i haven't heard anyone say Happy Birthday to her yet lol.....oh what a Fried Day!

Friday the who?

2006-10-13T08:49:00.000-04:00

The 13th of October...happens to be Friday the 13th. Woo hooo!! A night of mischievious behavior all around the world. For me it will include a night of good music in orlando when i go see my old roomate's band PSYCHO PHARM peform at the Emergenza Battle of the Bands. But for now it's 8:45am and i have to do some work...yea right...no for real...shyeahh...ooookaayyyy!

time has come

2006-10-12T17:53:00.000-04:00

So i finally decided to keep track of my life via blogger...i can honestly blame Ravi for putting a link in his gmail chat status to his blog because that is the reason i am typing away today....it is 5:48pm Thursday October 12th 2006. I'm going home, it's been a long day.......it's hard work making it look like you're working...