Archive for category Work
Officially, First Time For Something..
First… to set the scene…. I am at a Hampton Inn down here in Monroe, LA. Now, this is not the normal Hamton I stay at, this one has no inside hallways and reminds me of a crack hotel, similar to the normal Red Roof or other type of place to stay. Also, the roadways and all of the surrounding area is pretty beat up and run down, I am pretty sure you have seen this area on at least 1 episode of cops, it fits the stereo typical cops area perfectly.
So, I went out to eat for dinner and have come back to my room. On the way there was this woman standing near her pickup truck which was parked near the stairway up to the 2nd level where my room is. She is probably mid 30’s but looks to be about mid to late 40’s and is dressed kinda trashy and smoking a cig while she stands there.
So I am walking past and go to head up to my room and I hear her say…
“hey, honey, you looking for any company tonight?”
So yes, I have officially been solicited by a hooker for the first time in person!!!
Talk about a monumental occasion
So I Am In LA
and that’s Louisiana not Los Angeles…
Not much interesting so far, but when I got off the plane, first reaction… Yup, smells like a swamp!
I Need To Go To The Middle Of Nowhere More Often!
I am not staying in a hotel this evening like I normally do… tonight I am staying in the guesthouse of the company I am installing at. now when I first heard this I was a bit apprehensive since I have heard about other “guest houses” that other consultants have stayed it.
just like a normal hotel room, I have my own room and I have my own bathroom.
However, this place is AWESOME, the only thing it is missing is a hot tub out back.
There is a pool room with big screen TV outside of my bedroom, also has a nordic track and a lifecycle and a drum set.
Then downstairs there is a huge flat screen TV, I think it has to be 60 inches, DVD, cable, multiple couches, slot machines, big dining room, and an awesome kitchen that I wish I had.
There is also a deck out back that is cool and has a really nice grill on it.
The fridge and bar are completely stocked and I was told to help myself to a beer or wine or whatever I wanted. Plenty of snacks and everything around as well.
I don’t live this well at home!!
So I am playing pool, drinking a plain coke, watching law and order and have internet access. I like this much better than a hotel room!
The batteries are charging for my camera so I can take some pictures later on of this place.
People Are Funny Sometimes…
So our flight outta Boston was delayed this morning and there were a ton of people on it who were getting connecting flights to places like St. Thomas, Montego Bay, Antigua, etc etc…
As soon as we landed, the cell phones were flipped out and they were on the phone with US Air to find out about re-booking or what they were going to do to fix the problem etc etc etc…
Geez people, why not wait til we at least park at the gate and you find out if your flights have actually left already? Are you not aware that there is always a ripple effect and they will delay flights leaving if there are a large number of people on another flight which is delayed in getting there. We are not the only flight, there are lots of other flights.
Relax, you are on a vacation! Stop stressing out!
but yeah… it is 12:30, I arrived in Philly at 10:30 and I am leaving on an 8:30 flight.
I would go rent a car and drive to Westfield, PA(Middle of F’in nowhere by the way) but that will take me 6 hours, and not like i would be able to actually do any work once I get there, so screw it…. I will sit here, eat my free dinner later on and surf the web….
Crack Den Red Roof Inn
So I am in a crack den Red Roof Inn, although since this is the midwest right now, it is probably more likely a meth den more than a crack den.
The door to my room has previously been busted in by the cops or the DEA or someone since I can tell by the mark where the battering ram hit the door…..
I am pleasantly surprised at the time though, it only took me 9 hours to get here from Boston, and that included 2 stops for gas, and dropping off a kid in Hartford on my way.
That being said, i am pretty disappointed in the PT Cruiser I have as a rental, while it was excellent at doing donuts in the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn, it is very poor on gas, 2.5 tanks of gas to get here. I know my car could have done it in probably 1.5 tanks, this thing only gets about 23 or 24 MPG, pretty pathetic if you ask me!
I drove through PA on 84, and then 80 to get here. PA is pretty damn depressing to drive through in the winter. I hope it is better during the summer, otherwise I have pity on it.
ummmmm oh yeah… I felt kind bad for the girl at Subway in some PA town where I stopped for gas and got a sub for dinner, she was short and cute but you could totally tell she was pissed off at the two girls who were working the gas station register partially because they were doing basically nothing, and partially because you could tell they were the “popular girls” in terms of a high school type of thing, but that was only because they were probably ho’s, they looked like ho’s, and they had all the sleazy looking “gangsta” guys stopping by to say high and flirt with them.
I so wish I had a black light to check this bed out before I go to sleep in it… although it is probably best that I do not have that otherwise I would probably not sleep!
Changing on a Dime… or Nickel… or Penny Even…
So yeah.. not driving to Allentown, PA today… instead I am driving to Cleveland and then doing an install tomorrow and then going to Allentown for Wed and part of Thurs and then to Birdsboro, PA for part of Thurs and Fri and then driving home….
YAH!!!
ROAD TRIP!!!
At least they increased the mileage reimbursement at the start of the year…..
So I Got a Corporate Award…
This was supposed to be presented to me at the meeting I was supposed to be at in AZ a couple weeks ago but I ended up out at a customer site in CA instead.
Now, I know what it is supposed to look like, but the first thought that came to my mind was….
“wow, this looks just like a really funky dildo”
“Ned ****** – Winner’s Circle 2007”
Any suggestions on where to keep this to best collect the dust that will accumulate on it?
Ok… So I am Finally Leaving California…
and I am moving on to bigger and better things…. well, ok so that is a lie… I am headed to the great state of New Jersey tomorrow!
From the scenic beauty of California, to the Scenic…. something or other…. of New Jersey…
What fun what fun!
I think I will be home at some point on Saturday…. depends if I do the second partial install Fri night and Sat morning or not….
*burp* yet another night of sushi out here in California… I will miss that!
FINALLY
So, while I know this is going to be disappointing to at least one person on my friends list, I won’t be going back to California next week!! I will be at home, and working in Burlington for at least 2 days, and possibly working from home the other 3, ABOUT FUCKING TIME!
but anyway, my flight is delayed right now but thank goodness for iPass so I can log on here and post some meaningless blogs…
A Week Since My Last Update
Yeah.. busy week… to summarize….
I am back in California this week, same place as last week and it will be the same place next week.. I am coming home for the weekend though since I have a bunch of things to do and want to go get my newsed car registered on Monday.
Still trying to deal with VW on the situation with my car but I bought a Saab in the mean time to get me around when I am home. I figure once I get my car back I will either go enter a demolition derby with the Saab, or sell it. Depends on my mood at the time.
So CA is not all that interesting, I am working 11-17 hour days while I am here, and working is not really working since I sit here, and watch a computer screen and try to clear up any problems that happen.
Their system keeps locking up because of the way our programmers programmed the system, they fucked up so I need to sit and keep this thing on life support while they write new code to try to compensate for the problem.
Fuck, but on the upside, I am earning a ton of FF miles, Holiday Inn Priority points, I am not spending any of my own money on anything, and I am really cranking up the billable hours!!! I think I might almost be at my quarterly amount and I am only a couple weeks into the year!
What I am really waiting for is 11 days from now for my paycheck, that is gonna be the nice one, my 4th quarter bonus and then all the leftover from my 2nd and 3rd quarters that they held back from me last year.
I had tried to write a couple blogs earlier this week but the damn thing kept screwing up on me so I could not post em… oh well….
if you are ever in Watsonville, CA – then definitely check out Green Valley Grill and Cilantro’s Mexican restaurants. They are both really good. I had a very nice double breast of duck with a juniper, raspberry and red wine reduction with saphron rice and then at Cilantros I had some soft tacos ‘con carne asada’ and orange rice, and they were all really really good!
I am on the red eye home tonight, same as last week and same as planned for next week. That was the reason I did not make it to the show last week, I was totally drained and slept off and on Sat afternoon and was just too wiped to go out in public!
have a great weekend and hope all is well with all of you!