So I'm riding my bike home from work today down Grand Ave. which has a pretty significant hill to come down. Now one of the depressing things about working during the fall and winter is the daylight...or rather the lack-there-of. I leave for work in the morning before the sun comes up and leave work after the sun sets. So with that said, I try to ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm a good guesser...

You paid attention during 97% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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California's Bottomless Tax Well
10/23/2006 The Wall Street Journal
California already ranks as one of America's five most taxing states, but if liberal activists have their way the Golden State will soon be competing for Number One. Having voted to raise the top income tax rate on the rich two years ago, Californians are this year being confronted ( Read more... )

So I'm starting to shop around for a new mattress. Anyone have any suggestion as to where (in LA) and what brand I should get?

So my dryer hasn't been working properly lately. Namely, it will not produce any heat, but it will still tumble. Since this was handed down to me from my parents and it was a few years old to begin with, there was no warranty involved. So after trying to fix it myself, I begrudgingly failed and decided to call the Sear’s service center to schedule ( Read more... )

Okay so this is a little late in getting put in my journal seeing as this happened a couple weekends ago, but how well, you'll all just have to suffer!

So what does the BPR stand for you may be asking yourself, well I will tell you.  It is my refinery's little way of presenting reviewing our past year's performance, while looking ahead to this year ( Read more... )

So for those of you who don’t know, I traveled on business to Richmond CA, (near Oakland) for some technical training for my job.  It’s actually called CTU (Chevron Technical University), yea yea, I’m going to school again…go ahead and laugh.  But all of the new refinery engineers in North America have to go to this.  So everyone else has gone to ( Read more... )

2005 Year in Review:

So I know that it’s a little late for this, but I’ve been meaning to do this for a while.  I just wanted to remind myself of good memories, good times and lessons learned. So here we go:

• College was one of the best times of my life.  I really miss it.  If I could, I would go back and be a career student.

• Edward 40 Hands ( Read more... )

So it's been a rough year for my sports teams.  Both the Packers and the Dodgers have had the worst years in quite some time. But I will stand by my teams no matter how bad it gets and let me tell you it got pretty bad this last Monday night with a 48-3 disaster.  And with games coming up against Chicago and Seatle, it doesn't look like the season ( Read more... )

How great is it that I've only been working at Chevron for two months and I'm already getting a raise? Granted it's only because they are offering more to the new employees that they are hiring, but still, a 6% raise that's retroactive to October 1?!?! How cool is that?