ugh

Today = Audit = Stress = No Sleep = No fun Kevin
Tomorow = Audit = Major Stress = Heart Attack.

fortune cookie

So i've been meaning to hit up P.F. Changs (Chinese Bistro) to tell a co worker how it was. It wasn't all that bad. Except of course the awkward moments between people that realize i walked in by myself and i'm not waiting for anybody to join me and i have no real interest in sitting at the bar.

Other than the fact that everybody was real nice, they sit me at a table in the middle of knowhere. not a side booth, but in the middle of the whole restuarant for people to stare directly in the middle of the restuarant and see me having a blast with my sweet and sour Chicken. BOOYA.

So the waiter introduces himself and says we don't have salt and pepper her, we have soysauce that is like a salt, and some other thing that may i guess act as a pepper or something, then he went on to the third sauce, and the word neutralizer actually came out of his mouth. I couldn't get past the fact he said neutralizer when talking about condiments. There were also three little bowls in front. not sure what they were but he asked me if i liked things hot or mild. i said mild. So he grabbe a little of the red stuff from the right and a little of the yellow stuf from the left and began to mix it in this oil base substance. Nothing really ever mixed, it just kind of got mixed and chunks where still in the bowl. needless to say i don't have even the slightest clue what i was supposed to add that too.

So ya i ordered the Crab Rangoon (not awesome, but decent). Then the sweet and sour chicken. It was nice. It was good. I wished they had some sort of chicken with cashews or something.

Lastly came the fortune cookie. The part everyeone looks forward to when going to a chinese restaurant. Mine proceeded to state "You can't please everyone, so start pleasing yourself." I think i remember that saying in the bible somewhere. Hezekiah 3:9 i think? So anyways. Out of all the fortune cookies that i have actually ever gotten, most of them seem funny and you know could happen but of course you never really buy into the whole saying. But this time the chinese cookie saying whent just a tad bit to far. Obviously the cookie hadn't been going to church recently to here our pastor preach about being a servent. All well too late. I ate the cookie, so no turning back. oops.

Kevin

phonebook

im such a terrible person. i stole a phone book from our mail room. but know i can look up stuff. the dude can find one somewhere else. it was just sitting on the ground.

home sweet home

Well, i've finally found my cardboard box to live in for my stay here. The layout is probably the biggest i'm going to get, without rooming with someone. And the view isn't exactly the greatest either. But its got space for me to put my stuff and underground parking, which i'm a huge fan of. Not that anybody would really break into my car except myself, but just knowing i have a parking spot is nice. Here are the specs.


Plan B
1 Bedroom, 1 Bath
680 square feet



So now the bidding starts for all you non californian type. Try and guess what an apartment much like this one would cost without a discount. I'm all about discounts.

still expensive though.

Mawwaige

Tis the season for the weddings. So i got a buddy named matt, and hes getting married in Georgia in June. I suprisingly scheduled a vacation day for that monday, so i may get a good deal on some plane tickets. unfortunately If i fly out of LAZ i'd probably have to take all of friday off. But if i flew out of long beach, I would only have to work like half of a day but go in early. I'm sure your all ver excited to here about what decision i may take.

On a much more important note, Matt was calling me to be one of the groomsmen. So thats always an honor, especially when i get to stand up for couples that are Focused on Christ. So ya, the wedding is in georgia, so that should be fun to visit. Not necessarily drive in though. I heard there traffic is terrible. oh wait thats right i live in california. OOPS. my bad.

Today was probably not the most productive of days while at work,, but i certianly did get a lot done which allowed me to do stuff at home, and then have to go in on the weekend to finish more stuff. Were doing a type of training that is computer based, which at the moment is userfriendly for the person in training, but not the person tracking the training. So i've got my hands full Sunday i think if i end up going in to work to deal with some of those issues. I have to install this software on 10 computers and upload the database on each one. Sometimes i wonder why i don't just go into the computer field, or have a job that deals more with tracking. But obviously with those types of responsibilities, people learn your a computer nerd, and they start having friends of friends call up to fix the computers. Which can get tiresome if its all for free, but ya i'm just rambling. God only knows what he has planned for me down the road and if it involves computers or not.

I better go. its 4am here, but 7am back in WL. crazy to think i should be waking up now. I drank way too much caffeine to get this database up to date.

serving

So serving seems to be the topic of my life today after listening to a sermon on sunday. The focus was the Good samaritan parable that jesus said. So with that said, it was brought in a new light kind of on Tuesday at Biblestudy. You here the parable, and you tend to think it has a great meaning, but every once and a while it will come alive in a different light.

But anyways, the previous week had rented Hotel Rawanda i think, about the Tootsie and Tootsu tribes i think where the names. One was taking over the other, and this one guy opened up his hotel to protect the people that were being threatened for there lives during this huge Genocide that is happening in africa. He obviously was that samaritan when everyone else who called them friends like the United Nations to help out. But we all backed out. We could have easily stopped the genocide from happening.

so during the sermon it was mentioned that the pastor had a really good life story about being up in LA and meeting this homeless guy and how he was able to bless him, and be a samaritan to the homeless guy so that was cool.

Then during biblestudy we kind of dug deaper into the versus, and looked in some other versus about the history of what it was to a jew to touch someone that was unclean or dead. So anyways it was brought to the point that a samaritan is a person that you would least expect to help out a jewish person becuase they obviously wouldn't give them the time of day. So the questions was brought up, what if it was sadam, or osama, or a terrorist that saw you on the side of the road beaten and half dead. They put you in a hotel to be taken care of until you got healthy. The last person you would think helped you. Nor would probably have shown much mercy for them if we saw them on the side of the road.

So anyways, we had a good talk. So then i go outside to my car and i see this old homeless guy walking. My first gut reaction is to freak and get in my car and drive off before anything happen. And well thats exactly what i did. SO much for Repenting.

Then This morning when i was driving to work, i was flipping channels and i come across this one station that is looking up the addresses of the people on the radio to check out if any sex offenders live near their houses. And of course one begins to think oh sex offenders their terrible people. Then it hit me, when the radio voice said hes your neighbor. Neighbors.... Love God and Love your Neighbor. The greatest commandment of them all. What if a sex offender caim to our need.

Anyways, that was a long post. Basically the morale of the story is go serve someone. be a servant. love your neighbors. Serve someone in a way that costs you something like time or money.

its a preview

Four jobs I have had (in no order):
1. Autobath Carwash.. (workin at the car wash. believe me it wasn't that fun, but somehow getting paid for that job, just seemed wrong on some days).
2. Undergraduate Teachers Assistant (taught website stuff to a bunch of college weirdos)
3. Cafeteria porter... cleaned tables cleaned dishes(Mcl Cafeteria West lafayette, Tecumseh Diner Vincennes University).
4. Pearon (internship... i got to fire a lot of people that summer)

Four movies I can watch over and over (where do I start????):
1. Jurassic Park
2. Prince of Egypt (quite a difference from JP right?)
3. Napolean Dynomite (i've only seen it once, but it would seem that i could watch it over and over, people quote it enough and i laugh every time. GOSH
4. Event Horizon... okay just kidding... but i guess maybe national Treasure.

Four places I have lived:
1. West lafayette, IN
2. Vincennes, IN
3. Indianapolis, IN
4. Greensburg, IN
5. Long Beach, CA. Sorry that was a bonus. Just wanted to put a state in there that was different than boring ole Indiana. Sorry guys. i'll probably move back someday..... When the winters are warm?

Four TV shows I love
1. Grey's Anatomy.. my boss keeps me up to date on the shows. i don't watch TV much anymore.
2. used to watch House back in indiana when i was on first shift.
3. Macgyver. every morning at 6am. Thats 9am to you indianers.
4. Traffic report so i know how early to leave, since i don't know any other quick ways to work.

Four places I've vacationed:
1. Naples, FL
2. Austin, TX
3. Washington, DC
4. Myrtle Beach, SC

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Lasagne (Stouffers) or homede from Mary Jane.
2. Biscuits and Gravy.. I sadly have to stay away from these.
3. Pizza, of course
4. Crack Potatoes!!!!! You guys thought i forgot huh.

Four sites I visit daily:
1. mail.yahoo.com
2. gmail.com
3 blog.erics-world.com/
4. http://www.lbclifegroup.com/ (see guys i have friends... they even let me have dinner with them too. haha)

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Hanging out with Family in the areas that they live
2. Whale Watching off in the ocean
3. Normally being winter time i would say some place warm, but i'm already there, so i guess i'll have to say some place cold. No wait thats just crazy talk. But instead of being in my apartment on a friday night, i'd probably say hanging out with some peeps from my life group.
4. On tour with EricB's band.

Five people I am tagging:
1. EricJ
2. RyanU
3. Lawana
4. Cindy
5. Matt
Sadly i don't think any of them know or will ever know that they had just been tagged.

i miss people

today has just been one of those nights where i miss people from home. (WL,VU,PU,Geensburg). Its just one of those weird days. So far removed from past friends lives back home.

In other news, but buddy Barry got a Blog, so it has been exciting to add to my very short list of bloglets to read. So welcome to the world of internet Bro.

sleep time. Another fun filled day tomorow.

another vague post

Just wanted to say that my Timing with the opposite sex, is impeckable.

In other news i found an apartment that i'm almost satisfied with. I have a couple more to check out tomorow. So well see how those turn out if the people are even home.

The Great Adventure

As Steven Curtis Chapman used to say in one of his songs, "This is the Great Adventure." Obviously he was probably speaking in different terms, but still I am on a great adventure in my business career.

First off before i get all deep (well as deep as one can get when talking about work) i figure i might as well mention that If i didn't have an issue with living with a female under the same roof as me that i wasn't married to, I would probably have an apartment on the beach, and pay 700 bucks for it. Talk about easy pay man. Oh or living with Dudes that party all the time. I just couldn't afford it. But as you learned from a previous post, i'm cheap and ask if Bread costs anything at a restaurant.

Okay so on to work stuff. Yesterday, my boss and the department found out that starting Monday there would be a New HR manager (My boss is/was the current HR manager). So that has deffinately thrown us off track. This makes the past two jobs that i have worked at where the boss i interview with ends up not being my boss after a few months. Which really stinks.

Now whenever somone gets replaced or moved to a different assignment, the first thing that comes to mind is that the person obviously failed, or did something wrong do get moved. Which is deffinately not the case. Not that i have had that many boss's, but she ranks in the top two, even though shes only been my boss for 5 weeks. It truly is a shame that i really can't talk about some of the cool stuff that we were planning and how she was a good boss to the HR department. Great strides apparently have been made, and hopefully we can all keep ourselves composed to be managed by someone else. We all hope the guy has a personatlity, because we will sure miss that about her. There are a lot of things that we will miss. But obviously we also have to look forward to think that we have new challenges ahead of us. But to start off were going to have to pull some pranks on him. So if you guys have any ideas i'm up for one. The first one i'm going to say that it has always been tradition that the HR manager always has the fridge stocked with drinks. And takes us out to lunch every Friday.

It was once said to me that I know how to pick out good friends. I happen to agree. I for the most part know who to trust, and who to stay away from. Now i'm not going to say that i'm a perfect judge in character, but my judgement was questioned the other day. Maybe it was just because of all of the events that had been occuring, but it hurt. It might be a pride issue, but if its a pride issue, its more of a misjudgement on previous behaviors that i have learned from other good people to be good. But anyways. Its just been a real weird one and a half days i guess.

So if i ever have to interview with a different company or differen't part of the company, i'm going to demand in some sort of contract, that my boss stay for at least a year, before i agree to sign on to do what i'm going to do.

Well thats all i got I guess. I think its probably time to head to bed so that i can do some apartment searching tomorow. Later all.

fire alarm

so i was just about to go to bed, and my fire alarm above my door decides to start buzzin/clanking, whatever noise it makes when the hammer hits the bell. SO since i was in my P.J.s i put my work pants and a shirft on and headed outside. Everybody else seems to be outside wondering what the rutcuss is. The consier was on our floor at the time... oddly eough it confused me. He didn't tell us that we had to leave or go downstairs or anything so thats kind of disturbing. So We finally decide to walk down the stairs to go outside. While we were down there i saw a couple come out of the elevator. Okay IDIOTS, your on floor lets say 9 and the fire is on 5 your obviously going to be going right through the fire. At least with the stairs you can see the fire and turn around. not so much the choice with an elevator. Your a turkey just waitin to be cooked.

So five minutes later the fire department decides to show up. I had just got done watching Ladder 49 (good movie about fireman). Just seeing those things are cool.

DANG the freaking alarm just went off again for two seconds. I'm not sure i'm going to beable to sleep under these circumstances, knowing that that thing will go off every five minutes. Its nice to have when there is a fire, but GEEZ, I'm kind of hoping to get some sort of compensation. Good night all. Hope i can sleep tonight.

Post #611

So as i logged on i decided to look at how many total posts i have created (Blogger keeps a cout of that for me... at least there good for something.) Anyways, it just reminded me of my old school website back when it was hosted on the same server as the VUCCF website. Man those where the days.

Okay so anyways, If i said this year is going by so fast i don't think anybody would really believe. It's already half way through the second month of the year. I have so much planned for march its not even funny. I scheduled a vacation day in march. As well as part of my pasteurizer certification class will start next during the second month of march. And i think i have to fly somewhere else to present a grant or something too. As well as going to texas for a couple of days for a BAPP conference. Before you know it its April. And then the first quarter of the year is just gone.

So the story about work these past couple of weeks. I have been busy at work, but haven't really accomplished anything what i considered fun until today. We have been creating a database to track our training and slowly moving everything over from our excel sheets. Yesterday i was given a task, not fully knowing how i was going to pull it off. Then it hit me at like midninght that evening. So it took me forever to get to bed because i just wanted to work on the project. So today i got to work on that along with some ofther stuff. I I created a couple of quireis for myself to grab information in the right way. So Today just seemed to be like my first happy productive day. This is not to say at all that i hate or dislike the job. Its just stating that during the learning stage it can be overwhelming and frusterating because i am not picking up things immediately. I fear becoming a risk if someone where to test me on my knowledge if you know what i mean (only few proabably do.(sorry had to keep it wordy like that)).

My boss also informed me today or yesterday i forget which one that she wanted me to create a website. Their still kind of vauge on what they are wanting, so i'm assuming that they are waiting to see what they are seeing what i can offer. But we'll see. I don't have much time to work on anytype of website stuff at the moment at work. It may have to be pushed off till next year. But also she said that i should deffinately look into taking some design and coldfusion classes. They may pay for the training since they are needed to do the stuff effectively for their plant. SCORE.

Janice, i know you have been calling. i usually don't get leave work until 6 and don't get home till like 8 because of going to the grocery store. That makes it 10 your time. I think in two years i will be doing the time conversion still in my head.

well this is a long post and still no pretty pics of california to brighten your days from the cold thirty degree weather. maybe this weekend i'll get some?

later

Sunset

You'd think that living on the beach i would have seen some pretty sweet sunsets. Unfortunately that hasn't been true. My window faces the wrong way, and its been too cold to go to the beach.... haha got ya. I just saw on the TV today that you the Midwest had this HUGE snow storm. Sorry guys. It was nice and warm here.

Anyways i was driving around with a friend on sunday in the Redondo/ Palos Verde area i think and the Harbor (You know the one they show in the Pretty Woman Video). And the question was asked if i had been on the bridge yet. I was like i drive on many bridges, and i go under many bridges while driving to work. It was then clarified to me that a bridge is not a bridge if it doesn't go over water. So now that we had that all clarified, she took me over some bridge which was really cool going one way. It looked almost pretty scarey coming from that direction. This bridge is pretty high and VERY narrow. Imagine four lanes (2 lanes per direction), and like maybe a food dividing the two directions, and no space on the otherside of the bridge to move ontop of the already narrow california roadway system. Anyways on the way back the sun had just set over the mountains, and you when you looked to downtown LA (which sticks out like a sour thumb in California) you could see the sun reflecting off the buildings. It was really cool.

I was going to take pictures, but it was too dark for the camera phone and i didn't think i was going to be doing much site seeing so i didn't grab the digital camera. But then we decided to hit up a mexican restaurant. Talk about old school restrooms. Not only was it tight, but it was the old school bathrooms where it looks like they put a miniture tub in the bathroom for everybody to use. And you thought going to the bathroom without dividers was bad. haha.

I found a couple of apartments that i may look at in the next couple of days. I actually found an apartment guide that said one of the rental properties two blocks down on the same side i'm on now is going for 995. So i may go check it out. I'd probably be facing the street, but hey i'd be near the ocean.

In case you didn't know, but there are a TON of helicoptors all over the place. Also on the way home there was one of those tour buses that got into an accident northbound on the interstate i drive home on. It slowed me down a little. But ultimately slowed the people that were in the accident a lot more. I hope everyone is okay. There are signs that my battery is dying. Its been having trouble starting up. Not to thrilled to here that.

Okay long post. time to go. Off to another busy filled day tomorow. Oh and happy single awareness day tomorow. I'll be going out with my small group people. Who are all married. SO that should be a hoot. Later.

Taxes

So i filled out my tax return thing online today. And i think i actually owe the state 3 bucks. And my return is nothing near what it was last year becuase i can't claim any educational costs. Maybe my bonus with Kroger, will be big? Who knows.

valley girls

So i've been looking for apartments in the area, and found a place for like 525 bucks a month. Part of the description was talking about that they wanted a man or a woman. It also stated that they wanted a drama free romate and NO chicks from the Valley!!! I thought that was pretty funny.

today was a pretty intense day at work. I keep scheduling due dates for myself to get things done. Everything is different here though for recording due dates. Not many people use the electronic calendar. I ordered one of those calendars, but it doesn't come until next week. So until then I have a whole bunch of stuff scheduled, but i can't see it all so its real annoying.

One thing that i really need to figure out in life, is when to bring work home, and when to say your giving me too much work, stop. Of course it is still early in my career, and there is a TON for me to learn to make sure that that were ready for inspections and audits. Its all very frusterating that i just don't know the information to begin with. And it obviously becomes very overwhelming. In six months this aspect of being busy will be over, but will be in full force in a different aspect of training.

I got to talk to my boss a little bit later about possibly going to some design type classes. We had gotten on the subject of Databases and webdesign. I said that i didn't have much design experience, and said that i should look into a certain company for certain training. So thats cool.

Well i better head out. Its 9 and i'm exhausted. It has slowly been getting warmer, which means that i can't have my windows open at night that i need to start turning on the air conditioning. Ya in February. I'm not paying for it, so ight as well. haha.

gnight all.

Bad News

So i just got done watching the new version of the bad news bears. So anti climactic, waste of money. yadda yadda yadda. But at the end the mentioend that they had body surfed at Redondo Beach. Well what do you know, that is one of the places i'm thinking of living. Its so weird the hollywood movie tv thing. everything mentions california and places i've been. Its surreal.

Dinner and a Book?

So i decided to hit up one of the sports club bars tonight that has big screen TV's like every 3 inches. So anyways, i'm there sitting in my booth, when i see this lady sitting at the bar. She is sitting by herself and reading one of those romance novels. Seriously. Sports Bar ..... Romance Novel. The two don't mix. It was quite commical. The only thing i could think is that she had to of read in some Dating book somewhere that the cool place to meet guys is at Sports bars. It's a step up from just a bar, because you can actually eat food and be civialized.. or something weird like that.

So yesterday was a blast. Went over to someones apartment and watched the Superbowl on a big screen TV. I learned that somebody in the group lived on the same street as Stephanie Tanner from the show Full House. I am also supposed to get a few tapes from Jesse or something so I can see what exactly "SHOW CHOIR" is all about. I don't have a VHS player, so hopefully i'll get to see them. Which reminds me. I don't have a VHS player, i don't have a VHS player, i miss out on cool things like Show Choir. I have a Tape PLayer in my car, and i get made fun of. I just can't win. haha.

The Movie Alexander is a terrible movie. Not worth renting.

Happy Bday to Eric.


Peace Out.

introductions

So i didn't think much of anything past couple of weeks when the GM kept introducing me to people that i was a Purdue Graduate. Then my boss put out one of the newsletters to the high up bosses stating that i had arrived, and that i was a Purdue Graduate. So apparently Purdue is pretty highly thought of. Even on the outer reaches of California. How cool. Hope i don't dissapoint them too badly.

well i'm off to go find some place to go eat. Maybe i'll try some Chilis in old rememberance of the Only restaurant in Greensburg. Okay so its not true. But i did go there a lot compared to any other restaurant.

more dreams

i've been having this recurring dream that happens like once every three months or so. not too sure because how frequently it happens, but not everything is the same. Not everything is the same except the freaky man that comes after people and attacks them to no end (seriously i don't watch scary movies). In the dream i don't really know why but nothing we use to try and kill him nothing works. not that my dreams are that elaborate. Just stuff like shovels and and stuff. hit him on the side of the head. The only thing that works agains him is this silver gun i have that shoots out some unseen pulse that totally freezes his musclens and then he collapses. Obviously i only have so many shots otherwise i would use it every single time he showed up. You would think after a while my brain would create some sort of fall out shelter to go to or something that would be safe from the guy. Who knows. I never wake up during the dream because there is usually a different story going on. This time i think we were recruiting for assistants for jobs at work.

today i woke up with a huge headache. this is really cutting into my weekends.

well i better get busy. later

shrimp

So the dreaded week is finally over. only 12 more to go for the year. woohoo. okay so the week wasn't all that bad, but i'm deffinately going to have to edit the powerpoint if i am going to have to do this 45 minute presentation for new hires. ugh.

Tonights feast i was feeling like going to that Japanese restaurant again where they cook the food in front of you. Well there was a restaurant right next to it called Gladstones. It seemed like more of an american grill type place. Nope it was a Fish place. I think they had one meal that had chicken in it. One Filet Mignon or Mignon strips, or a hamburger. Once again the cheapest thing was like 19 bucks and all the way up to 60 bucks for lobster. Also there was a no price on one of the items. Probably depends on the season type thing. But i delected to purchase the BBQ shrimp. Ya i know. For someone that hates anything that lives under the sea, i ate shrimp. It wasn't all that bad. Its a shame everything else was so expensive. I would have possibly tried something fishy since i'm on this new kick of stepping outside my box.

So i show up at the restaurant. (I hate this part) and tell the host person that i would like a table for 1. Then i of course get the weird look. Friday night, eating by himself. Man he must have no friends. So to further along the meal the waitress asks me what i would like to drink. I say water. So she either things i'm a cheapo or on a diet, or really sick for drinking water that doesn't come out of a botel. Then she asks me if i would like some bread. I then proceed to ask if that costs any money (i have to keep a tight budget here with the 25 dollars that i'm allowed. So if she didn't think i was a tight wad to begin with asking if the bread was anything, then i'm sure she has probably made the assumption of why i'm out on a friday night alone. I'm too cheap to have friends right? haha. No I just wouldn't want anybody to have to pay to be with me while going out to these restaurants. 25 bucks a meal can get rather pricey.

Lately their has been a few highway drive-by shootings. Kind of scarey. Luckily not on the roads that i drive on a regular basis.

Out of all of the news though i have only seen one news report about a shooting from Compton. Not to say their isn't more and the news people just don't want to go into those areas... i guess we'll never know.

There was a shooting somewhere a couple of days ago at a post office. not too sure if it made national news where any of you guys are, but i was just kind of curious.

My satelite TV Dish is out so i am not getting any TV for the past few days. Which has been kind of nice. I'm not motivated to sit and watch the TV. I'm just motivated to surf the web now on my new laptop. I'll have to go out and rent a DVD sometime soon.

I really should go up to LA sometime and walk on Rodeo Drive and do all that fartsy sight seeing stuff.

Okay so this is a pretty long post about nothing, so i'll leave. have a good one all.

Cool Toys

So being here at work, i get some benefits. Not to say the others didn't give me perks, i'm just stating that i'm getting some different perks... but with the perks comes responsibility.

So This week i recieved a laptop. The old one i had was nice, but they have temporarily given me one with a DVD player. Very cool right? Well it not only has the DVD player, it has a built in Wireless network card. So when i travel i can hook up to other people's networks. Well if their not authenticated. I have found a lot already. Unfortunately the ones without needing authentication are the ones that have very low connection capabilities. So anyways. Thats a cool little toy i get temporarily i think until they get me a tricked out one.

This morning was Real FOGGY. Just thought you'd like to know. Its supposed to get up to 74 today. i can't wait.