I heard from Dave at TriBridge today. We're gonna meet for happy hour around 5:00pm tomorrow (August 27th) and discuss my potential employment. I guess we're skipping Round 2 and going straight to Round 3 of the interview process. Wish me luck. Sick Thought of the Day: Beans Above The Frank
Category: General
Goodbye Charley, Hello Tony?
It's been just over a week since Charley hit South West Florida. Fortunately, it missed Sarasota entirely. Unfortunately, it hit Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte (50 miles southeast of here) and devastated them. A friend of mine, Naser, lives down there. We finally got word from him that he, his wife, and the kids are all OK and he's moving them up to Tennessee for awhile until everything gets back to normal. So, fast forward to today; I get a phone call today at 2:20pm from my recruiting agency. They tell me that they have a possible job opening with a company, TriBridge in Tampa, who outsources web and Visual Basic development work. They were in a hurry to set up a phone interview with me and the company, so we scheduled it for 2:30pm. Sure enough, my cell phone rings at 2:27pm and I spend the next 20 minutes...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The time is almost upon us. I live in Sarasota, FL, which currently lies smack-dab in the middle of the path of hurricane Charlie. Yeah. Great. Shauna and I will most likely weather the storm at home, even if it's in the bathroom in the middle of the building. Currently, it looks like Charley will be knocking on the front door around 8:00pm Friday, so we have a little time. I expect I will make a definite call tomorrow morning if we'll stay here or get in the car (me, Shauna, our two cats, my mom and sister, and their cat and dog) and head East towards Lake Okeechobee. They say the storm will be a strong Category 3 by the time it gets here. Needless to say, there are a lot of people that are nervous over this one. A hurricane of this magnitude hasn't hit the Suncoast since...
The Grindstone
I wish I could say I had an interesting weekend, but I spent it at the office. 53 hour week this week. And that's with taking Monday off because I was sick, and having to leave 3.5 hours early on Tuesday as well. Yuk. The only fun thing that happened was that my wife and I went to the dollar theater last night and saw Around the World in 80 Days. It was a fun movie. It really helped get my mind off work for a couple of hours. Sick Thought of the Day: Shit Moustache
Cop Killa
I'm normally not the kind of guy who thinks that blowing up police cars is funny or killing cops is cool. Last night I realized that, in the virtual world, I'm quite happy with both of those scenarios. Millard and I sat and played Vice City for hours and I was laughing my ass off every time I'd slam into a cop car or run an officer over. Man, they were ganging up on me so much. They'd push and slam into my jacked SUV or car and just make it do these crazy stunts. That's so much fun! I started out last night not feeling too vibrant because the crazy week at the office drained me hard. After playing that game, I was so relaxed and happy. I wish I'd have gotten this game when it first came out. So, that being said, I'm at the office today with...
Day Off
I decided today that I was going to take Wednesday off because my last paycheck stub showed the following balances: Vacation time: 232.09 hours (5 weeks, 5 days, 4 hours, 55.56 minutes) Sick time: 40 hours (1 week) Personal Days: 16 hours (2 days) Insane. And, I still have another 1.5 weeks to accrue this year. So, I went up to my boss and told him. He was cool about it. I think I'll go get my hair cut, as it's about a week and a half overdue. Maybe get the oil changed on my truck as well. I have a load of old VHS movies I'll take to Goodwill, along with some clothes. The rest of the day I'll spend on the comic book database application that I'm working on. Sick Thought of the Day: Penis Blisters
Habitual Mastication
Last night I watched about a third of Tron with Millard. For some fucked up reason, the DVD freaked out (twice) at the point where Flynn is talking to RAM in the cell block right after he gets digitized. Oddly enough, the digitizing of the disc screwed up, and all these odd colored blocks were all over the screen while the inverted movie played in the background. Like I said, fucked up.So, after getting sick of that real quick, I popped in Spider-man and we watched that. Millard fell asleep on the couch...After the first snore, I slowly approached him like the prowling cat that I am. First came the sweaty palms, then the salivation as I touched the zipper on his pants. He mumbled something in his sleep and shifted, but didn't wake.My eyes glazed over. As I unzipped his pants, I dropped my zipper too. The both of...
Dentists, Lights, and Eight Hours of Insanity
So, today was another day in the life of Chewbode. I sat through eight hours of insanity. Let me explain what insanity is: Doing something that you didn't realize you were going to do until someone (usually a more powerful or higher status person than you) tells you that you are going to do something, and you know nothing about what you are going to do. Oh, and you're doing it tomorrow. For eight hours. That's insane. Pretending that you like doing something for the sake of projecting an image to others, who probably don't care whether you like it or not, but you don't know if they care, and you still want to impress "just to be on the safe side". Insane. Telling yourself that Cheeze-Its are only a "recreational hobby". Complaining for 5 years that "this is broken", or "this needs adjustment", and being ignored. As soon as...
Pickle In My Pants
I ate so much Denny's tonight, I almost shit a brown pickle into my pants.
Fun in the Sun
This picture was taken by my wife (using her cell phone) this past weekend when she went to the beach in Venice. Pardon the thumb.
