Here I go again....but not on my own
Where I am now :
Writing this at work. I have to clock in at 6am, which means if I want to get anything done in the morning, I have to wake up at the crack of 430ish. Mostly I set my alarm clock for it, but I end up re-setting it for 5am, which is the latest I can wake up and still conceivably make it to work on time. Sorta. Even this morning, I took my time waking up. Spent 20 minutes chatting with Steve. I didn't get out the door till 5:45. Thank Buddha I work only 5-10 minutes away from where I live. So anyway, I am at my desk, finally assigned one and I have a log in so I can get into it. But man the software on it sucks. I am using word 97 for Christ sakes. But I am sorta still in training. Shadowing they call it. Where I sit and observe a more experienced employee. I am thinking someday, I might actually start waking up on time, do my workout, fix breakfast, and goto work, all in time. But I just seem to have no energy at all lately.
Thoughts on my life :
I thought I would start typing in this thing again. Never did really like to, but I am hoping to use this thing as a bit of a reminder on how I can get my life in a bit better form of order. I figure if I write in it now and again, maybe I can look back and organize what I am thinking.
Just to give you a slight idea of what has been going on with my life, I no longer work at Microsoft. I got fucked around pretty bad over there, and really lost interest in the job. But before I could find something else, they decided to shut down all American call centers. Bam, no more Microsoft in Orem. So I got a job in the same building, for a company called Nortel Networks. It’s supporting network routers and VPN Tunnels and such. It’s a bit of a change from what I was doing. It’s odd, you get interested in something, and just when you think you are going to be doing it for a while, something changes, and you are doing something totally different. So I am now a network engineer. Yay.
Other updates…after almost 3 years of being single, I have finally decided to date again. For a little over 2 months, I have been seeing a girl named Erin. She is sweet, nice, pretty, smart, and just the type of person I love to be around. I never thought I would find someone worth getting this close to in Utah. But I guess I still get surprised now and again.
Now for some form-type things I am going to try to remember to do each journal entry…of course assuming I keep this up.
News Of The World :
I really don’t keep up on current events much. But I just read that Adobe just bought out Macromedia, and I am major bummed about that. ARGH! I am just glad I am no longer in my training class with those other dopeys, where all they did was talking about Michael Jackson touching Itty Bitty Wienie.
Adobe To Aquire Macromedia
Plans For My Life :
Things that I remember that I need to do today…
Clean my room - Desperately, and not just one of those put things back in their places and vacuum. I really need to scrub the fucker down. This includes my bathroom. I’ve been planning on doing this for a while now, but Erin keeps coming over. And holy shit she is a good distraction. Not that her visits distract me from things I can’t put off. I would rather spend time with her. But maybe next time I will just get her to help clean my room with me!
Get Finances in Order - I really need to plan a budget. I am finally earning enough money to where if I really planned out my finances, I could pull myself out of this hole that I am in.
Plan Diet - I really need to keep up with my diet. It’s really hard around the house, since I have to fix all my own meals. That is hard to do when you are living with a couple of inconsiderate people who don’t like to clean up theirs or their friend’s kitchen messes. So, when I think about fixing food, and I think of all the crap I am going to have to clean to have to fix dinner….fuckit, lets go get Papa Murphy’s.
Enter in Order info into company Database - Been putting this one off for a while.
I need to really do all that which needs to be done. I have been really lazy lately. I guess the changes in life, and the odd slump I have been in lately, really sucks. It makes me not really want to do anything. Even playing WoW has started to seem like a job, and I haven’t logged onto it in a couple weeks.
Well, that is all I can remember for today, I will remove/add to this list when I write the next entry. I hope to make this a daily thing.
Movie Reviews :
I have been watching a lot of movies lately. And I figure to encourage my writing this journal every day I will add a section where I can post a few comments on them.
Last night I just watched Anchorman, with Will Farrell. OMG this movie was crappy. Of course it had a couple of laughs in it. But anyone who liked it, needs a bit of ammonia in their DNA. First off, the story line…ok, well shit, you don’t really expect much for a story line in a movie with a Saturday Night Live comedian in it. But holy crap I have seen better story lines in porno movies. The funny parts were surely way to few, and far between. This is one of those movies that in the 30 second trailer for it, you could give away all the funny parts. If you gotta see it, don’t say I didn’t warn you. But avoid this movie like the plague. About the only decent part in it was Jack Black’s cameo scene, where he drop kicks a dog off the San Diego Bridge. I got a good chuckle out of it.
Well, that’s what I watched last night. But I feel that even though I watched this movie a while ago, that I should mention it. Jet Li’s Hero was a phenomenal piece of art. Normally wire-martial-arts movies kinda turn me off. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was pretty damn corny. Way too much unrealistic wire-acrobatics. Hero on the other hand was done very tastefully, in the tradition of the late 70’s and early 80’s Chinese martial arts movies. Not to mention the story line, based on a true story of the first Emperor of a United China, feels just like something out of a Chinese myth book. It is very mystical, very tragic, and unbelievably compelling. The story is full of tragedy and emotion. The story is about a valiant assassination attempt on the life of the emperor that was attempting to unify China. It was a simple story line to it, admittedly not much to it, but I think the magic of it lies in it’s simplicity. But I think one of the most genius things about this movie, was the cinematography and the director’s use of colours to invoke emotions in the viewer. Scenes are bright, and vibrant, and amazingly textured and coloured. For those of you who remember the breath-taking scene sets in Tom Cruise’s Legend, you will be equally awed by the sets in this movie. Anytime the general theme of the movie changes, you will notice that the emotionally inflicting colours also change. The actors wardrobes change to reflect the themes of the scenes, along with the sets. And each new colour variation takes your breath away. And through it all, only one colour remains consistent, the Black and Gold of the emperor, giving you the feeling of his majesty, and the somber, foreboding, dark black of the main ant/protagonist, Jet Li. Unless subtitles give you the dizzies, you should see this movie. Even if you don’t like the genre, you will still appreciate the beauty of this movie.
Final Notes :
Finally, I would like to say, there is this old fucking hippy throwback from the sixties that sits two rows over from me, that I will eventually kill. Every morning when he comes in, he announces his presence by playing Arthur Brown’s “Fire” at a volume that is well inappropriate for a work environment. And I remember some asshole complaining about me playing an un-amplified bass saying that it was distracting. Sometimes I hate people. Nah, check that, I always hate people. Anyway, until my next entry…I think this is gonna be it.
Oh yeah, and after typing this whole thing in, in word 97, I broke down and installed Dreamweaver, so I could do it in style. Maybe my next entries will get a bit better looking.
Writing this at work. I have to clock in at 6am, which means if I want to get anything done in the morning, I have to wake up at the crack of 430ish. Mostly I set my alarm clock for it, but I end up re-setting it for 5am, which is the latest I can wake up and still conceivably make it to work on time. Sorta. Even this morning, I took my time waking up. Spent 20 minutes chatting with Steve. I didn't get out the door till 5:45. Thank Buddha I work only 5-10 minutes away from where I live. So anyway, I am at my desk, finally assigned one and I have a log in so I can get into it. But man the software on it sucks. I am using word 97 for Christ sakes. But I am sorta still in training. Shadowing they call it. Where I sit and observe a more experienced employee. I am thinking someday, I might actually start waking up on time, do my workout, fix breakfast, and goto work, all in time. But I just seem to have no energy at all lately.
Thoughts on my life :
I thought I would start typing in this thing again. Never did really like to, but I am hoping to use this thing as a bit of a reminder on how I can get my life in a bit better form of order. I figure if I write in it now and again, maybe I can look back and organize what I am thinking.
Just to give you a slight idea of what has been going on with my life, I no longer work at Microsoft. I got fucked around pretty bad over there, and really lost interest in the job. But before I could find something else, they decided to shut down all American call centers. Bam, no more Microsoft in Orem. So I got a job in the same building, for a company called Nortel Networks. It’s supporting network routers and VPN Tunnels and such. It’s a bit of a change from what I was doing. It’s odd, you get interested in something, and just when you think you are going to be doing it for a while, something changes, and you are doing something totally different. So I am now a network engineer. Yay.
Other updates…after almost 3 years of being single, I have finally decided to date again. For a little over 2 months, I have been seeing a girl named Erin. She is sweet, nice, pretty, smart, and just the type of person I love to be around. I never thought I would find someone worth getting this close to in Utah. But I guess I still get surprised now and again.
Now for some form-type things I am going to try to remember to do each journal entry…of course assuming I keep this up.
News Of The World :
I really don’t keep up on current events much. But I just read that Adobe just bought out Macromedia, and I am major bummed about that. ARGH! I am just glad I am no longer in my training class with those other dopeys, where all they did was talking about Michael Jackson touching Itty Bitty Wienie.
Adobe To Aquire Macromedia
Plans For My Life :
Things that I remember that I need to do today…
Clean my room - Desperately, and not just one of those put things back in their places and vacuum. I really need to scrub the fucker down. This includes my bathroom. I’ve been planning on doing this for a while now, but Erin keeps coming over. And holy shit she is a good distraction. Not that her visits distract me from things I can’t put off. I would rather spend time with her. But maybe next time I will just get her to help clean my room with me!
Get Finances in Order - I really need to plan a budget. I am finally earning enough money to where if I really planned out my finances, I could pull myself out of this hole that I am in.
Plan Diet - I really need to keep up with my diet. It’s really hard around the house, since I have to fix all my own meals. That is hard to do when you are living with a couple of inconsiderate people who don’t like to clean up theirs or their friend’s kitchen messes. So, when I think about fixing food, and I think of all the crap I am going to have to clean to have to fix dinner….fuckit, lets go get Papa Murphy’s.
Enter in Order info into company Database - Been putting this one off for a while.
I need to really do all that which needs to be done. I have been really lazy lately. I guess the changes in life, and the odd slump I have been in lately, really sucks. It makes me not really want to do anything. Even playing WoW has started to seem like a job, and I haven’t logged onto it in a couple weeks.
Well, that is all I can remember for today, I will remove/add to this list when I write the next entry. I hope to make this a daily thing.
Movie Reviews :
I have been watching a lot of movies lately. And I figure to encourage my writing this journal every day I will add a section where I can post a few comments on them.
Last night I just watched Anchorman, with Will Farrell. OMG this movie was crappy. Of course it had a couple of laughs in it. But anyone who liked it, needs a bit of ammonia in their DNA. First off, the story line…ok, well shit, you don’t really expect much for a story line in a movie with a Saturday Night Live comedian in it. But holy crap I have seen better story lines in porno movies. The funny parts were surely way to few, and far between. This is one of those movies that in the 30 second trailer for it, you could give away all the funny parts. If you gotta see it, don’t say I didn’t warn you. But avoid this movie like the plague. About the only decent part in it was Jack Black’s cameo scene, where he drop kicks a dog off the San Diego Bridge. I got a good chuckle out of it.
Well, that’s what I watched last night. But I feel that even though I watched this movie a while ago, that I should mention it. Jet Li’s Hero was a phenomenal piece of art. Normally wire-martial-arts movies kinda turn me off. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was pretty damn corny. Way too much unrealistic wire-acrobatics. Hero on the other hand was done very tastefully, in the tradition of the late 70’s and early 80’s Chinese martial arts movies. Not to mention the story line, based on a true story of the first Emperor of a United China, feels just like something out of a Chinese myth book. It is very mystical, very tragic, and unbelievably compelling. The story is full of tragedy and emotion. The story is about a valiant assassination attempt on the life of the emperor that was attempting to unify China. It was a simple story line to it, admittedly not much to it, but I think the magic of it lies in it’s simplicity. But I think one of the most genius things about this movie, was the cinematography and the director’s use of colours to invoke emotions in the viewer. Scenes are bright, and vibrant, and amazingly textured and coloured. For those of you who remember the breath-taking scene sets in Tom Cruise’s Legend, you will be equally awed by the sets in this movie. Anytime the general theme of the movie changes, you will notice that the emotionally inflicting colours also change. The actors wardrobes change to reflect the themes of the scenes, along with the sets. And each new colour variation takes your breath away. And through it all, only one colour remains consistent, the Black and Gold of the emperor, giving you the feeling of his majesty, and the somber, foreboding, dark black of the main ant/protagonist, Jet Li. Unless subtitles give you the dizzies, you should see this movie. Even if you don’t like the genre, you will still appreciate the beauty of this movie.
Final Notes :
Finally, I would like to say, there is this old fucking hippy throwback from the sixties that sits two rows over from me, that I will eventually kill. Every morning when he comes in, he announces his presence by playing Arthur Brown’s “Fire” at a volume that is well inappropriate for a work environment. And I remember some asshole complaining about me playing an un-amplified bass saying that it was distracting. Sometimes I hate people. Nah, check that, I always hate people. Anyway, until my next entry…I think this is gonna be it.
Oh yeah, and after typing this whole thing in, in word 97, I broke down and installed Dreamweaver, so I could do it in style. Maybe my next entries will get a bit better looking.