I was digging through a few bags of clothes my mom was going to donate and she explicitly told me and my dad that none of our clothes were in it. Usually when she says that, we both know her due diligence in this type of thing isn't diligent at all so we began digging.
We both found a bunch of shirts and pants that belonged to us that we could still wear as if they were new. I kept thinking, "So that's where that shirt went!" I found a bunch of clothes I used to wear in high school that still look pretty good, and I'm wearing one of those shirts today at work. It's a little loose, and it makes me look a little thuggish, but its still a collard shirt. That's alot more than what other folks wear here everyday.
It always feels good to find some old clothes you can still fit. It's like going shopping, but without spending all the money!
*yawn*
I'm tired. I stayed up late making a short presentation. I felt like I was doing hw. I watched tv till about 11pm, and then I started working shortly after.
So about my previous post. I've noticed work has been picking up a lot lately. I'm not saying I'm stressed, but I am busier than before. Could my boss or supervisor be reading my blog?
I've been at my current for more than half a year now and I've been getting in the grove of things. My role has been almost completely defined, I've set a few goals, and I take on responsibilities as needed, or as necessary.
One of the first things I was told when I got here was, "It's very fast paced." Now, I took this on with open arms. The stress level at my last job was pretty rough at first. I got used to it. It's all about being organized and managing my time accordingly. I went from managing 2-3 campaigns to a week, to managing as high as 20 campaigns a week. I would end each day knowing I put a hard day in, whether it was the full 8 hours, or the occasional 10-12. In any case, I learned how to deal with stress and high workloads.
So when I was told about the face paced environment here, I thought "bring it on!" Now that its been 8 months, I've noticed that I haven't stressed much at all. No matter the load, I get all my work done in a timely manner. When I look at my team, the other person that I don't see stress out is the other web guy. Everyone else seems to run around like a headless chicken when its crunch time.
What inspired me to write this post is hearing my friend stressing out at her job. All it took was one night. She came over for dinner and spoke nonstop about her job, complaining about everything she could think of. The type of stuff she had on her plate sounded pretty interesting and challenging. I figured, hey, she's only been there for 3 months, its gotta be just hype. Then again, I don't really know what's going on. I took alot of roles at my first job and I'd complain alot. But my complaints were focused mostly around my manager and how she'd treat me like her little bitch. So then I thought, maybe she just wants to brag about her job and what she does there, and this is the way she shares that.
I've seen quite a few people act like this in my short time as a yuppie. People grocery listing their tasks and action items in the form of woes and cries. Maybe its just a form of stress-management. When it happens here at my current job, I will admit, it gets contagious. I don't stress out, but I do feel the pressure when one person is going nuts.
So back to my point, maybe I'm over it, maybe I just manage myself well, or maybe, I'm just not at that work level to receive that level of stress yet. I guess if the latter is the case, I'll just have to wait and see. For now, I'd like to thank my last job at AD for teaching me how to handle this level of work with ease.
Yea, this might be bad, but come on, this was the reason why people shared mp3s from the days of Napster rite? Share your collection to open people to knew realms of music. Of course, it was expected that said shared music was to be purchased and since no one did, the downfall of music sharing began.
Nonetheless, thanks to Youtube, users post numerous songs for us to listen to. I think this is the most effective way to share music since downloading the flash file isn't an option, but sharing is. That's ok right?
This song has to be my favorite song at the moment. This is the kind of thing I expected to hear from N*E*R*D's new album and I'm happy they delivered with this. The beat is smooth, but lifting with the patented "Neptune's Sound" sprinkled throughout the rhythm. The oscillating pitches and tones, dance with your ears so well one can say that "Seeing Sounds" is almost possible. Ok, before I go any further with my wanna-be poetic description of this song, I'll just say, this song is the shit. It pwnz me, and I want to share it with you. Enjoy.
So I got a new desk with a flashy view. I sit with my team and such, which is great. I love the new digs.
I left my desk thinking that I was getting away from that neighbor who's always having computer problems. Turns out, I sit next to another one now. I can't help but feel that every ten minutes, I gotta teach this person how to do simple shit with his/her computer.
Today, I walked him/her through how to: cut and paste, insert an image into a document, use the character map, change a font style, change font size, set document margins, and of course, cut and paste. I get questions like, "I have a file that I want to print. How should I save the file?" As if hitting File>>Print could be any different from before rite?
It's starting to get to the point where I cringe whenever this person calls my name. I think to myself, "How did this person get anything done before I was here?" HOW HARD IS IT TO CUT AND PASTE GOD DAMMIT!?!?!
Ok, I'm going off topic. The point is, I get frustrated when I am constantly bothered by being asked how to do simple commands that these people should have learned before taking any job that involves using Office for their productivity.
I still get questions like, "I think my computer has a virus because its slow. What should I do?" How bout fuck off?
"What kind of computer should I buy?" I ask, what they wanna do with the computer, and I get the reply, "I don't know? I just want to do stuff with it." When I get shit like this, I tell them to go to their local computer store.
But really dood. How hard is it to cut and paste? If I wanted to deal with this shit, I would have worked in IT. This type of shit makes me miss my previous job. Everyone there was at least a little proficient with using their computers.
that my stomach is killing me. My friends and I had a chicken wing night consisting of Hooters, University Chicken, and Wingstop wings. There was a hundred wings between eight people. I think I plowed through fifteen? maybe a little more.
In any case, my 4th of July celebration is starting a little early - in my stomach and in the bathroom... ohhhh.
There was one Wingstop wing that was way too spicy for me. I was only able to eat one side of the wing. My tongue and lips followed with an extreme burning sensation followed by a waterfall of beer gushing down my throat.
What a night. What a morning....
I made a goal for myself when I graduated college and started off my career...
...I wanted to make $xxk after two years of being out of school. During my first review at my first job, I told my manager what my goals were - including my salary expectation. She laughed at me and said marketers don't hit that kind of amount until after 5 years. (I immediately proceeded to looking for a new job.)
Today, almost two years later, I hit the goal just as I promised myself... and then some.
I am satisfied, I hit the goals I set out to make, and I'm doing what I wanna do.
I shouldn't be so bitter about it, but seriously. Who laughs at someone's goals?
Suck on that shit.
I spent the weekend at my parents home. Felt kinda weird to be hanging around the house again.
Both Friday night and Saturday night, I went to the SF with a bunch of friends for bar hopping and such. It's amazing how live SF is at night. I forgot what it was like, and when I did go out to SF for clubbing, it was always the usual spots, so I never really got to explore other places besides those.
Saturday night was pretty tough because of all the paintballing I did that day. Friday was killer, I got home at 2, the heat kept me awake till 4, and I had to head out to the paintball field at 8.30. Tried taking a nap afterwards, but the heat was annoying the shit out of me. Because of that, Saturday night was pretty rough. Still had fun tho. And WTF weather? It was so hot Friday/Saturday, and then Sunday was pretty cold. Stop fucking with us please?
This upcoming weekend, I'll be at a beach house in Santa Barbara. I'm looking forward to getting drunk and passing out on the beach. YAY!
A lady came up to me the other day and asked me to explain how to empty her recycle bin.
I'm not kidding. I was shocked.
In the recent months, I couldn't help but feel that my computer was in danger. When things perform oddly, and I can't find the reason why, I suspect trojans and such are lurking about. Whenever my computer reaches this stage, I install Spybot. Spybot detects things and "immunizes" the computer - but I don't ever really know what goes on in that process. I also have my firewall and anti-virus from Norton. Total protection right? No. Norly.
I check deep within the dark corridors of my hard drive to see suspicious files and entries, weird programs running in my task manager, and when simple tasks take longer than usual or certain sites time out for no reason, I get very paranoid.
This usually happens every 1.5 years, and when that happens, I wipe my hard drive clean. All the goods are backed up and a fresh copy of Windows is installed. I'm at the stage where I need to reinstall everything. I hate this part. Some programs take for-fucking-ever. I finally opened up The Orange Box and installed that as my first game. Wow. This took all night and I fell asleep in the process. Every hour in the night, I'd have to press enter or switch a cd. At around 6 this morning, I noticed it was all done, but with an error message. I was able to complete the installation even when the error message showed up. No biggie yet I suppose.
This time around, I'm not resorting to my usual Norton for protection. I hear AVG is pretty good and bet of all, its free. So I'm going with that. Everything else should be fine. I've got most of the necessary components to get production rolling. Hopefully I can start working on websites at home again this time around.
