I just got a bill for my LJ account, apparently they're still billing me. Here's to my first post in almost a year.

Indeed, no more sickness. I figured it out. If I take a lot of DayQuil TM, drink lots of water and try reallly hard, I can almost pull off not feeling sick. Just got back from the Doc's, apparently I'm really screwed. Mono + Cold + Allergies = Mmm, bad. But, it's all gravy, if I can fool the 3 deaths in to thinking that I'm not phased, maybe they'll just back off.

So, in other news... I haven't done anything in 3 days. Not a thing. Slept more then I usually sleep in a week. Started my new job, which seems okay, I guess. Ford is a lot more organized then Chrysler, I hate how their ticket tracking system works, and I know nothing about the two things I'm supposed to know everything about WebSphere & IPlanet.

It's raining outside, I have nothing to do. Call me, IM me, something me.

I've done nothing for the past 2 days besides work and sleep. I have some sickness, maybe just a cold, and I think it's starting to get to me. I fell asleep around 7:00pm last night and woke up about 20 minutes ago to hear my cat crying... but he sounded really far away. I went all over my apartment looking for him, so he must be outside. Sure enough, he's outside playing in the snow. I run down the stairs, outside to find myself in Melissa's front yard, the one in Bellevue, WA. "It took you 2 years to find me again, but now it's too late", she turns around, walks inside and slams the door. I need to know where she's going. I run to the door, locked. Lets give the window a shot. Windows a jammed.. naturally. "Maybe there's a back door," I think. I run around the side of the house, trip on something. "Two years," I hear, this time a different voice. I glance over my shouder, Angie? And someone else, why is she in my dream? "This time it won't happen again." And I wake up.

Haunted by my past. I can't be sleeping 15 hours a day anymore, this is just weird. Awe crap, I never did find my cat either.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

This puts me rigt next to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and The Dalai Llama. Apparently I'm lot more Left wing then I thought. Where do you stand in comparison?

Things have been on a positive upturn (as opposed to a negative one??). Had this whole week off, courtesy of me turning in my resignation at DaimlerChrysler. Next Monday I'll be starting at Ford. Unfortunately I'll still have a Pimp, 4-Serv this time around. The pay is better, I'll have weekends again, and this job seems a bit more stable, considering I won't have EDS trying to weasle their way in, and push me out of a job.

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Oh oh, I did go to the Evanescense, Seether, and 3 Days Grace concert last night. Andy was kind enough to pick up two tickets for me, and one for his sister as a graduation present. Seether was very very good. For Seether's closing song they played a cover of Nirvana's "About a Girl", Shaun Morgan is Kurt Cobain ressurected... at least with the vocals. The concert went until about 10:30, got home around 11:00, talked online for a bit, Z! came over for a bit & we played some XBox and drank homebrew until about 2:30. I was planning on cleaning this site up a bit, but never got around to it, sleep at 3:30.

This weekend is looking to be promising. Scott, a friend of mine from DCX, is throwing a party Saturday night. Then Sunday morning around 12:00 we may catch the races on the Detroit River. Unfortunately, it will all be ended with heading to Ford on Monday. This has been a very good week off.

Hi.

I return.

Updates?

I live in Southfield now, love my apartment.
I quit my job at DaimlerChrysler, starting at Ford on Monday.
I met some cool people lately, courtesy of DaimlerChrysler.
Got my first sleep last night for 48 hours worth of `uptime`.
Need to go to a drug test today.

That will be all.

Sure to be the first of many.

Guy: "I want to buy two drinks for those girls over there." Motions to two extremely slutty girls at the bar, currently working on their thrid, possibly fourth free drink of the night
Me: "Those girls, you sure?"
Guy: "You only live once, right?"
Me: "You only die from venereal diseases once too."
Guy: "That bad, huh?"
Me: "Worse."
Guy: "Thanks for the tip"
Boss approaches
Boss: "That guy was going to buy 2 maybe 3 drinks."
Me: "And possibly contract some new disease."
Boss: "We don't care, sell him his drinks without question."
Not even 5 minutes later another guy comes up and buys the girls a drink. 5 minutes later one starts making out with him. 15 minutes later they pack up and leave together.

So, I'm a bar tender (in training) now at Wild Woody's. It's stressful as hell, and I have no idea what I'm doing. My schedule overall is going to suck greatly now. 8:00pm - 3:00am @ woody's, 7:00am - 4:00pm @ Chrysler. At least the $bling$ will be decent.

Lost in Translation might just be one of the best movies this year. Go see it... unless you liked Bad Boys 2.

<3 Scarlett Johansson. Big time.

omg life is weird.

WTF is a milkshake? And why hasn't it brought me to the yard?

it's 97 degrees here @ work. Fake heat stroke and screw the company? Yes or no?

There's no stoppin those crazy girls.

[Edit]: Blast! That just goned and ruined my night. I so wanted The Olsen Twin's virginity too. And for $29,000 what a deal!

Tis the season to wonder... am I really related to these people?

It's been about 3 months since I've used this thing... Trust me, you haven't missed much.

It's 2:40am, I'm at work. Gotta love coming in to do midnight support work and the first thing you hear is, "Good news, EDS will be coming in this week to 'talk' to everyone on an individual basis. They got the Chrysler bid, start looking for a job, we may only have one for a few more weeks."

Wonderful.

EDS outsourcing has been talked about for months, but now it seems like it'll definitely happen, and much sooner then anyone ever thought. I have one job lined up but I doubt that'll ever go through. So, I'll probably:

1. End up taking a shit job until I can find something worth wile.
2. Collect unemployment until I find a new job (yeah, right, in this market?)
3. Move back with my parents and leech as long as possible... but oh wait, they're moving to Milford, selling their house.
4. Get hired in to EDS if they decide to be generous and hire people that 'know the environment'. (fat chance)

Why the hell did I take this job? I should have stayed at MLive where I was guaranteed a job for at least as long as I've been at this one, and potentially much longer. MLive was such a great job. No stress, a 40 hour week (none of these 60+ hours), about 2 hours a day of actual work... big mistake.

Back to the 'I freelance for food' mentality and barely making rent payments every month. I need a roommate. I need to get out of Detroit/Michigan. I need to actually learn something to make myself more marketable. I just need something to change, and getting laid off is not what I had in mind.

I am so incredably bored with LiveJournal. Who's with me?

Yes, I'm alive. I've been busy.

Oh and my dishwasher exploded.

And my cat is black.


That will be all.

another one bites the dust.

yet another person fired today in my group @ work. That makes 4 in the 5 months I've been there. I need a new job.

Someone buy me some Marco Carola vinyl... now.

So I decided I'd do a few rants a week to keep my journal interesting, and to have people care a bit more about the drivel that I'm constantly spouting off about my sorry ass life.

For edition one we'll touch on motivation, more like Motivation and Americans.

How many times have you heard someone say I wish .... ? What a load of crap. You can wish all you want, but get off your fat McDonald's eating ass and do something about it. I'm not saying that I'm immune to laziness or lack of motivation, but come on. What has happened to all the Ben Franklins, Albert Einsteins, and Thomas Crappers?

What's been the biggest invention of our time? The internet? Computers possibly? Where the hell are the flying cars I was promised on y2k? All I remember about Y2K is all the morons who bought gas lanterns, bottled water, canned food, and plenty of KY to enjoy the end of the world. I feel extremely ripped off.

See, the problem is we have no need to be innovative, we just expect all great advances to happen for us. That or we'd just sit on our asses and enjoy lifes greatest insti-gratification giver, the TV. All that momentary spur of self motivitation goes shit out the window when the thought of dropping on front of the TV pops in our heads. What a bunch of useless sheep we've become.

There's 6.3 Billion people in the world and counting. We seemed to be better off and more innovative when we had less people. I say bring on sars and monkey pox. Maybe then I'd get my flying car.

I leave you with the scary spider of death.