Germany....make me happy...

Hhaha...well, I've been having a good time so far. I was able to meet a ton of people that used to go to my school as well as a number of old friends of mine. All I can say is that the booze flows well when I'm in Germany and that I wish I could be here for at least another week. Oh wells, I'll just have to make the best of what I get :)
K, I want a smoke. I'm out
PS: I'm drunk :)

Sparkly spark

Was bored so I ended up washing my car! Now its pretty and sparkly...time to take it on a ride down to Northfield @ 100mph. haha, just kidding. I would never drive that fast!

MAC/APPLE SUCKS!

So in light of the new mac commercials I see myself obligated to come back to the statement I used to enjoy spreading. MAC or better knows as APPLE sucks!

There was a commercial with two guys, one representing mac and the other representing pcs. Well, what happens is that the mac guy and pc guy start talking and the pc guy freezes. Then he starts blabbering and freezes again. So what the hell is this? OSX compared to Windows 95? WTF!!! Seriously though, windows xp sp2, which would be the one to be compared with osX is STABLE!!!! I currently have three windows xp computers (two laptops and one main computer) and they all run very well - I don't think that I've had any of them freeze other than the one laptop that slows down when I'm scanning for viruses (its bcs it only has 256MB of RAM). So they must be comparing the old windows operating system with the brand new / way expensive to update osx. Why do that? WHY?? Should microsoft go making adds comparing win xp with os9? or even better some older version of it?? Absolutely not, because all you're doing is lying to the customer. This is a tactic some communist leader would use, or some president we know all too much of...not a supposedly "great" company like Apple. From now on all I can say is that the little respect I had for macs is lost. Yes, they have a good os and some nice and expensive mp3 players, but they are just scumbags.

Oh, and speaking of os's: as a gamer osX is worthless. All great games come out on winxp. It doesn't mean that osx sucks, but that pc hardware vendors provide the needed hardware for the faster and better games, while mac is just making pretty and expensive hardware without having to compete with other vendors (well, they just buy their components from contract companies I think).

Oh, yeah...I forgot... you can run winxp on apple hardware. Is that the same as using a pc? I don't think so. All that does is that it makes apple the same as gateway or dell...sad stuff...

Boston

Today was my second day in Boston. Though the days have been long, I have to say that things are going much better than expected. Sure, I still feel like the other people are speaking Chinese (I speak Japanese, not Chinese!) but otherwise I've been having a blast. The expo wasn't the largest one, but it has many people that have to do with my company in one way or another - some even work for Dyneon, but aren't stationed in Oakdale. Anyways, the fun part of this event is getting to know the other people and to interact with them. They've been more than welcoming and its been fun going out to restaurants and bars with them. There are a lot of competitors that also interact with eachother and oh man, its funny to see two people take jabs at eachother while staying very polite. I'm sure I'll be seening a lot more of this...w00t!
The cool part is that many of them will be going to the trade show in Chicago next month - another one that I'll be attending. It'll be nice to go to a large show and actually know some people and I can't wait to see the size of this thing: its supposed to be huuuuuge.
Well, its around 1am and I have to wake up early tomorrow. I'm doing all well and hope that y'all are too...oh, and please leave me a note if you actually read this boring blog :D
Night y'all!

Creating a storage inventory

Sounds like a lot of boring and hard labor huh? Well, it was fun!! I found a lot of things from the past and a lot of strange things I wouldn't have expected my parent's to have. Here is a little taste of the fun Christian and I had:

This is Christian wearing the hat I used to wear when I was a baby. I can't believe how well it suits him :D
And this is me wearing the awesome russian winter hat.
Well, I would have liked to post more pictures, but its time to go to bed. I have to wake up at 5am and go to the airport to fly to Boston :) Au Revoir!
I'll post the rest when I get back from my trip.

The good, the bad and the busy

I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible.

The Good: had a great week/weekend. I went to the science museum with Katie on Saturday (body worlds was really interesting), to the Legion in Hopkins on Friday with Erin and others (and met 6 oles and others and had good beer) and today I'm going to be watching MI3 with Christian after creating an inventory of the contents located in our storage in Burnsville. Tomorrow I'll be flying off to my first business trip to Boston. I'll be visiting a wire & cable expo to learn more about the industry and the terms used in it. Then I'll have to pack up my stuff soon cause I'll be moving to Oakdale beginning of next month - to be closer to work. I'll be living in a 1br apartment (but a pretty nice one!). Problem is I'm moving on the 1st and on the 2nd I have this: the trip to Germany - for my mother's b-day, class reunion and wedding. Gosh, I'm going to be busy!

The Bad: hmm, I'm not going to get into this one. A couple of things are bothering me, but they ain't nothing I'm going to do about. I did my part and I'm going to ignore my anger to the best I can and what helps is being busy. Good stuff. Oh, and I still smoke, ugh....

The Busy: Did I mention it already? I'm going to be busy.

Ha, now that was short. One thing though. I've noticed again that I haven't posted a picture. Hopefully I'll be able to take some pictures in Boston. So if I do manage to find time to do that I'll put them on here asap.

"I'm too busy...no time to talk!"

First off all I want to say is that "I'm too busy...no time to talk!" translates into a loud "Fuck off I've got better stuff to do than to talk to you!!!" Yeah, people are busy, but seriously, isn't that just another way of saying that you don't want to allocate the little time it would take to have a chat, phone call, or hang out? Sure there are times that you actually have things to do (like meetings, dates or bedtime or times when you're sick), but thats not what I'm talking about. Its more when somebody says they can't call you because they're busy, or when they say that they'ld give you a call and never do. It sure sucks when it starts getting one-sided. Feeling guilty already? Well, this isn't really directed to anybody so don't worry. Though one thing more: I you have time to spend a lot of time on the internet, playing computer games, or watching tv, then maybe you should feel guilty.

I admit that I feel some guilt myself.

And I'm also trying to adjust to the post college life of having noone around...'bout time to start joining those fun 3M clubs and make new friends I guess

Got trip? Got celly? Got bills?

Wr0d! Here are a couple of nice new things:

I'm flying to Boston on the 22nd of this month. Then on the 2nd I'll be flying to Germany (80% certainty). Boston is going to be a wire expo and the flight to Germs will be thanks to my mothers b-day, class reunion, and finally my cousin's wedding! Wow, they sure don't come one at a time!

I ordered a new celly for my busy self :) - as a gadget freak I just couldn't let myself live with this little poop of a phone from Siemens. So instead, I got the Blackberry 8700c....man, this thing is going to make me happy and keep me there for another 3 or 4 years! I can't wait!

Eh nice? Not really...I have a bunch of bills creeping up on me - 1) gotta start paying back to my second college loan :( 2) Had to pay some for my new apartment in Woodbury 3) cell phone bill ...and bunch of others...eek :(

Ha!

I know now why I was being f'ed up. I'm not getting enough sleep and I'm not working out enough. I'm gonna wake up tomorrow at 4am and go run and bike for 1 1/2h. That will do me good! Sucks to be you reading all these confused and depressed (was it?) blog entries. Anyhow, things are going to be better...speaking of which, I got a new laptop! Its kick ass and sleek lookin! Oh yea!!

Getting over things

There are always things you need to get over. They are things that started in the part and keep on bugging you and influencing the type and style of life you have. For one there is smoking - a bad habit I picked up quite a long time ago. There are a lot of occasion in which I have to go out of my way, make myself look bad and pest others with my ashtray breath so I can enjoy that little stick of joy - oh and when I'm really quiet its because of the breath - something at least. I really need to get over the thought that its a part of my life and quit it for once and all...urgh, I could use some help with this one.

And then there are other things that I rather not go into detail. I cause some changes and for the time being I thought that it was for a good cause. Then it seemed like things won't go back to how it used to be and I was comfortable with it. Now I'm not sure anymore about anything and its starting to bug me again. How is it that something that took place more than 2 1/2 years ago can still plague me like this? Can it go back to how it was, and would that be a good idea? Or should I put more effort into my job and not think of having a life? Ugh, must be a sign that I'm not getting enough sleep. I'm off to bed, good night.