This old House

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Well i visited the old home of West Lafayette. And took a picture of the old house. The new owners decided to plant some trees in the front yard. What on earth is that all about? Not scene is a small pine tree in the middle of the yard on the left. I'm guessing the tree nearest to the house and closest to the driveway is going to grow roots and tear up the driveway. You'd think they would see thats a possibility from what the tree near the street did to the sidewalk.

I hope everybody had a great holiday. I went into work on Saturday. and I'll be going into to work on Monday evening (even though i'm not supposed too) to set things up for tomorow and the rest of the week since i will be going to kentucky for training. I will be visiting the cincy crew on Wednesday.

i finally saw Starwars 3. it was pretty good. They seemed to race through a lot of stuff. I guess i was left hoping to see some of the childhood growth of twins. And of course Anakin is a punk. Some of the deaths of the jedi were pretty lame. Like the one girl in the forest. LAME. it was just as bad as Paedme's bad acting in Episode two when she falls out of a ship onto the dessert sand. Aching in pain. Then a clone comes up asks her if shes okay and she says shes fine. R2D2 showed off some cool fighting skills though. And my one complaint about the one fight in that place where the congress meet to vote on going to war or not. Why did that fight just end. And why did the person say that he failed? It still seamed pretty even. but maybe thats because i'm biased? Anyways. Holidays over. Now i have to wait 2 more months for another day of vacation. Woohoo.

They still haven't approved my holida vacation for November.

Rainbow

I saw the most Beautiful rainbow today during my lunch hour. Normally i only see like 1/2 or 1/4 of a rainbow. but this time i saw the full thing. bright as could be. and it hugely wide. like something you see on Rainbow Bright. it was massive. It's a shame i couldn't take a picture of it. by the time i got to my apartment, and grabbed a camera, it was gone.

SOme employees at work offered to bake me pizza/cake/cookies/ so that they wouldn't have to work in the cook room, along with a certain individual. As tempting as that was, i couldn't make that promise for the rest of the summer. STINK. i really could use some homecookin from those college ladies.

I wish i could post what occured today, but unfortunately i am not able to share in my misfortunes as a supervisor. But pretty much i had to have a meeting with an employee of mine, and i blew. I totally froze. I guess thats why i'm young and learning. But thankfully there was a second super around. PHEW. But if you guys see newspaper article kroger supervisor gets put behind bars for harrassment, it's probably me.

but i am slowly understanding the purpose of what i'm reading in books about the working with your employees, instead of trying to spend time waiting for all good ones to show up and magically making the perfectly working line.

Phillipians 1:12

Now i want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.

It's been a long time since i ever thought that. Here Paul gets put in jail and he is saying that is has helped to further the Kingdom of heaven. And here i am getting paid, have a roof underneath my head, food on my table, and a position to spread the Gospel at, and i'm getting bogged down thinking life could be so much better at a different company. When really it's all within me to deal with how i think and feel life is treating me.

(i forget if i posted this yet or not) in other news, one employee came to me thanking me for taking a chance on her and giving her a job. Because i took a chance she was able to keep her house and children. She even wanted to get my a card. little does she know i have to let her go on friday. :(

busy busy busy

So i've been rather busy of of late. Normally i've been working 10 hours days. but the past two days it has been 11 hours. so that certainly makes the workday seem very long, but the day VERY short.

My old boss emailed me back wanting to call him, so i'm gonna have to do that one of these days. Also my mentor emailed me seeing how i was doing. I said okay as always. busy. He asked if i was going anywhere for the summer. and i was ha ya right. i don't get to see vacation until the middle of August. But i'm planning to go see my parents in Cali in November, which hasn't been approved yet. grr.

The bible i ordered for the supervisor came the other day, so thats really cool. i forgot to tell her that i had a gift for her. I figured i should probably write up a little thing to her. First thing she said to me though when i saw her is that if i leave, she is going with me. So i if i try to find a job, i have to find one for two instead of just one.

So back during my travels from last week i forgot my luggage and computer and stuff in the truck that took me back from Japser to Indy (which that truck when 2.5 hours north west to his home after that. So i've had to go without my computer (luckily everything is on the server) but more importantly my badge. I've been able to get around the plant without needing a badge. If they ever check the card swipe records, there going to think i was never here. I should get that stuff on saturday.

Coldfusion

So i bought this book that is 1100+ pages to teach me coldfusion. and as if that wasn't enough, there is an advanced book which is another 1100+ pages. So much knowledge in just one language. So by the time i read all that. i'll probably have been dead for 50 years.

not much else to blog here today that wouldn't get me in trouble. SO i guess i'll cease my talking for another day :(

I should probably start reupdating my resume, seeing as how its almost been a year and i've got a little more experience.

i finally requested my vacation time for a second time. so hopefully it will get accepted this time.

My Travels

(if your bored this section will only make you puke from motion sickness)
This past weekend i went to go help Nick H move to jasper. In all my travels we seemed to pass a lot of landmarks. Ones that reminded me a lot of the past few years of my life while in college. We ended up on 231 which obviously goes through my hometown, along with travels to Camp Illiana from Purdue. We drove not to far the place from where Audra and Drew got married in Dubios IN. Which also i guess is not far from Paoli where Amanda lives. But during the Dubios wedding i had to go to a walmart and buy granny pants so that drew could pull out granny pants instead of the actual garder(sp). And on the way home we drove a little on 67 which leads to Vincennes, but was also the same road i drove to drive to IU to see Josh and Purdue kill IU in football back in 99. And the Mcdonalds i stopped at after the game was over to call the parents saying i was safe and i made it out of that horrible town called bloomington. But we also somehow got on road 54 which was my football number back in Jr. High, but we somehow ended up driving towards sullivan. Which this would be where Matt C lives. So we had to turn around. I was on that road at like 1 in the morning i think coming home from the Audra and Drew wedding to stay the night with Matt so i didn't have to drive at night alone. (bad contact days.. and possibly post scratch days)

On a much harder note, i got to talking about the job oppurtunity that my friends are getting with this company. After they get through this program, they will be very well off as far as employers wanting them because of there knowledge ontop of their experience. At this point, i feel after a year all i have is an experience. So it's just something to really think about and ponder for a really long time. But hopefully not too long. I probably shouldn't wait 10 years for a 5k sallery raise. But that might obviously be what the world is telling me.

Also the friend i helped move. He has an HDTV. it's huge and only like 80lbs. I really wanted one. but then figured i could probably help some poor starving ministry for 3k vs. spending it on myself. Darn that inner voice. haha. He's so smart.

not a good day

We ran out of roses for cakes. employees were putting trash bins on conveyor belts. The employees that order roses where yelling at team leaders when it was there own fault.

I found out that today one of the employees at work is a model for budweiser. And i actually dance with her at the Xmas party. And her mom really likes me, even though she is married. Crazy world we live in.

and to top it off, i think i have conjuctivitis today.

i need to get a new phone#

6:30am/9:30/9:33/9:35/9:55

those are the times that my phone rang this morning. This is just NOT cool. Especially when i'm trying to sleep here.

Internet lovin

I never new that health food could taste good. I've been on this smart ones and lean cuisine box dinner things these days. and today i opened up a bowl of 4 cheese ravioli type thing with vegetables. man its good.

Talked to the sis (Kristy) today. She passed her first two CPA tests so shes halfway to becoming a CPA or whatever those accountant people are called.

Then she suggested i should try eHarmony. I stated I'm not that desperate. And then she stated she had friends that had good experiences. So well see what turns up.

3 posts in 1 day

how on earth are you ever going to catch up with all i have to type about. Okay so today was really pretty cool. Even though most of it was spent paying bills. One of these days i think i'm going to hate paying bills. But i'm one of those nerds that enjoy's seeing things work out. Less worrying i have to do later knowing if i have enough money for toys and junk and stuff. But the i decided to pay my last high expensive car insurance bill today. I'll be 25 next time i have to pay so there should be a huge decrease in my payment right?

I tried to go to some websites to find out if i could find out my fico score. but it's just too hard to find a site you can trust to give your information too such as your social security number, mothers maiden name. but more importantly your email address (j/k) who wants all that annoying spam sent to you.

So today i actually wrote myself a check from my business (Branch On) I bought supplies on my own credit card a while back and i'm just now getting to paying myself for it. Maybe i should charge my self a late fee or interest. When i went to sign the check i had no clue how to sign it. Do i sign my name, or do i sign the business name. I need to have one of those stamps made that has the company name on it so i don't have to write everytime i have to cash a check. which so far totals an amount of only 1 time this year.

My business bank card came in the mail a while back. having my own business is pretty cool. And obviously has its perks. But also its downside too of being taken to court.

FINALLY... i found out a couple of days ago that Subway (at least in Greensburg) is stopping the SUBCLUB (stamp thing) promotion. That thing has been going on since i was a wee lad. This is just outrageous. There going to stop taking our coupons in August. I just can't believe this is happening. And they raised there prices. Stupid jerry on a diet campaign.

It's a survey

( ) Snuck out of the house
( ) Gotten lost in your city
( ) Saw a shooting star
(x) Been to any other countries besides the united states
( ) Had a serious surgery
(just knee surgery)
( ) Gone out in public in your pajamas
( ) Kissed a stranger
( ) Hugged a stranger
( ) Been in a fist fight
( ) Been arrested
(x) Laughed and had a drink come out of your nose
( ) Pushed all the buttons on an elevator
( ) Swore at your parents
( ) Been in love
(x) Been close to love
( ) Been to a casino
( ) Been skydiving
(x) Broken a bone
(x) Been high
(not from drugs. We were putting up new mats in the
wrestling room. Strong glue, low ventalation, not a
good combination.
( ) Skinny-dipped
(x) Skipped school (mom let me stay home once)
( ) Flashed someone
( ) Saw a therapist
( ) Played spin the bottle
(x) Been kissed (it wasn't mutual)
( ) Kissed someone else
(x) Gotten stitches (moles where removed)
( ) Drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour
(x) Bitten someone
(i've been bitten as well)
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
(x) Gotten the chicken pox
( ) Kissed a member of the opposite sex
( ) Been to Japan
(x) Ridden in a taxi (to skip out on a strip joint)
( ) Been dumped (turned down but not dumped)
( ) Shoplifted
(x) Had feelings for someone who didnt have them back
(x) Gone on a blind date (it was more of a group thing)
(x) Lied to a friend
(x) Had a crush on a teacher (3rd grade)
( ) Celebrated mardi-gras in new orleans
( ) Been to Europe
( ) Had a close friend die
(x) Driven over 100 miles in one day
( ) Been to Canada
(x) Been to Mexico (mission trip)
(x) Been on a plane (every year i do)
( ) Purposely set a part of myself on fire
( ) Eaten Sushi
(x) Been skiing/snowboarding
(x) Gone to college
(x) Graduated college
( ) Done hard drugs
( ) Tried killing yourself
(x) Fired a gun (boy scouts)
( ) Purposely hurt yourself
(x) Taken painkillers (duh after my knee surgery)
( ) Love someone right now
( ) Miss someone right now
(x) Spent over $500 in a week(and not just on weeks the rent was due)
(ya but i was saving for the digital camera,
so it didn't set me back any and Discover
left a message on the answering machine
by the time i got home. Impressive!
(x) Been in a race (isn't that what life is)

thunder

So last night there was a storm. And i've got a litle clip to show a lightening rod. Which proven is only a couple of inches wide.

thunder.avi

the aftermath

So the big extremely tough day that i thought was going to happen yesterday, didn't really happen. Still i learned some stuff. Like never to walk in the path of someone throwing bad cabbage into a dumpster while holding important governement papers that are needed in case of an audit. Luckily the cabbage only hit my clipboard. And i was able to salvage the paperwork. PHEW.

So now that i'm covering a whole bunch more. For the first time i actually feel right asleep on my bed. for the first time in a while i just crashed not thinking about how to improve something. I'm sure that after a couple of weeks i'll get into the habit again of thinking how to improve the lines.

well i think i'll be unleashing the church's new website sometime during the weekend. but for now its here.

So i got this Leadership bible from the parents. I'm really thinking about buying one and giving it to one of the supervisors. We'll see if i can get one ordered.

yo fella's kick the melody!

Hard times

So life really isn't hard at the moment. I'm just on the vurge of being made a fool of. My character is on the line. And tomorow i will prove to the employees of second shift that i'm an idiot and don't know a freakin thing. Then you probably say. No Kevin thats not true, you know lots of stuff. Then i say. Well you may be true, but i'm not smart about what is going to happen tomorow.

So tomorrow is one of those sink or fly days. Some things are changing at KB to the point that i'm adding a new department to my responsibilities. And of all the departments, i'm being added the biggest department with the most people involved. I'll have to come in normal time and leave an hour later. So instead of only having to work my 45 hours a week. i'll have to work an extra five every day without getting paid. I've been doing it for free since i moved to second shift since i'm such a nice guy and want to help out the company.

To carry on with the same subject in the first subject, one thing i hate THE most is being made fun of for not knowing something. Most of it probably stems from early childhood school. I guess that's probably why im around new people, i don't say a word, because i don't want to say or do anything stupid. I was grown up as a kid to always keep up the Feiertag name. And one way to do that is always make good and right decisions. When people start making fun of me i take it personal. Most days i can block it out, because it's little things and it's only one person. But something like a whole crew turn on you, is not good.

And of course being a manager you can't show that fear. Or they'll eat you a live. All this management stuff seemed so much easier when i was at college and you only had to read about it.

i don't know maybe this is too much emo for ya'll but it will be an interesting journey. I'm sure i'll do fine God Willing.

also because of these changes where losing a supervisor on that shift for at least four weeks. so i will no longer have the ability to leave for 1.5 hours for lunch to go practice with the praise team.

I heard someone at work today also say she was giving up on religion. Which tore my heart in to pieces. Because some kid was bullying her kid and calling him stupid for not knowing the answer to one of the questions. (Kids are mean). So hopefully maybe i can get them to come to Community? But still that hurt quite a lot. Then someone stated that you know what it says in the bible, "he who believes in me shall not parish." Then stated stuff that it doesn't say in the ten commandments that "Thou hast to go to church every sunday." I'm such a wuss. It also hurts how people take the bible and pull out versus without knowing the whole book. Just believing the parts they want to believe.

People at work keep coming up to me saying they have friends out of college getting jobs 10/20k more than what we're all getting paid. Not every company is perfect. So it's tough to leave what you're already used to. But if i want to advance further in this world, i'm going to have to move to other places. When? i'm not sure. Or do i quite, and take a pay cut and go work for a church somewhere? is supervision in manufacturing/production really what i want to do? I probably don't want to do it for the rest of my life. It would be nice to supervise/manage a small group of individuals that knew what they were doing, and where extremely good at it. Or at least educated enough not to call someone a dumb ass behind there back just to start a fight. Or is this just me trying to cop out of where i'm supposed to be. Am i the only that can reach these employees? Am i called for such a time as this?
I guess time will tell. and by the good and bad choices i get to make for my life.

gnight all.

Your Jedi Name

This post is brought to you courtesy of Tayje Dicin.

For the first name, you take the first 3 letters of your last name, and the first 2 letters of your first name.

For the last name, you take the first 2 letters of your mom's maiden name, and the first three letters of the city you were born in.

Mine is Feike Julaf post your names below if you'd like. Feidi Hewau is my dad.

rat basketball

so this lady explains that these rats where trained using the Skinner and Pavlov theories. But what the kids don't know that visit this Discovery place was that the rats where electricrified when they didn't make a basket. Man if only the kids knew half the story. Click for movie

Okay on a much lighter note. I got done watching some movies today and heres the short reviews

My Boss's Daughter (the one with ashton kusher)
The best line of that whole movie is "Sometimes... i wish i was that stupid bird."

The Chronicles of Riddick
I realized that the guy from LOTR it was the dude in charge of the Riders of Rohon. He was kind of sadistic. The movie had some cool theological things you could use in church services.

Lasagna is really great tasting.

I'm a work a holic

So past few days i've gone to sleep with a calculator next to my bed. Crunching numbers to see what the line has to do to get so many pallets out. when i started i had the line getting about 38 pallets in a 7 hour period when 50 should be the least you should have. i've been averaging about 45 right now. but really it should be 50 because of breakdowns and cleanings we have to do. And new people that are slow workers.

I also stay up till like 330 thinking about how to improve the line, and make things better for the employees. i'm such a nice boss aren't I? Good thing i don't have a social life that is demanding. I wouldn't have the time or energy for it. Unless i guess my friends met up around 1230-300am. and they allowed me to think about work. I guess i'd probably have to go to a bar and tell all my stories to a bar tender. haha.

Fainting Goats

So here is a little video clip of a breed of goats that faint. Ya its like the veggie tale sheep(popcorn sheep) that just out of nowhere fall to the side. Its real stuff here man, but with goats.
http://www.alldumb.com/item/11687/

Worship practice went okay. Just another one of those practices where you do great on some of the songs, and others everybody around you is so awesome you can't keep up with the awesomeness. LIke when they bring in those songs where chords change every 2 beats. my fingers and brain aren't used to thinking like that.

Sat down with the worship leader and learned me some new chords. And a new song. barely. I'm just glad i get two weeks to practice these songs, unlike last weeks. Still not very good with the amazing grace song. I'm good at the new'er version, but not the piano version. but i'll get their.

Pacmanhatten

So i was surfing the WWW and i came across this site
http://pacmanhattan.com/videos.php

and these guys play pacman in manhatten. It's so cool.We should try and see if we could do that in greensburg somewhere.

you ever have one of those...

dreams where you (for us folks that don't have a girlfriend/wife) dream about some woman (and you've never seen the girl before in your whole life) and somehow you you know that person is going to be the one you are supposed to marry and live life happily ever after? Well last night was one of those nights. I've never really loved someone, so how i could feel those feelings in a dream is beyond me, but you can't help but be a little dissappointed waking up.

PLayed in service today. it went much better than i expected. I showed up before they unlocked the doors. It still boggles me that the team i'm on doesn't at least run through one song. Just to loosen up the fingers, or vocal chords. If anything just to give the person mixing our sound a chance to mix us before service starts. But that's me.

Some day i'd like to have a big unplugged set. Where on Sunday everybody is sitting in a circle. No stage just unplugged with instramentalist situated throughout the area. Or have the instramentalist on a wireless pickup, so that we could travel into the congregation and face the same wall.

Money. I'm reminded of the song by AVB. Money... Can't buy you happiness... Can't buy your success, can't buy you love. MONEY. I have a friend that is recently changing jobs. And i wouldn't say he wants me to come with, but I'm pretty sure he'd like me too. And the money would be a considerable difference. God blesses those who are patient. I certainly don't want to go searching for new jobs with higher pay just because my education says that i should be getting paid more after so many years. I can't exactly say i'm Happy or dissatisfied with my job and the Church I am currently attending has a lot for me to do.