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20 Questions
Posted on September 15, 2008 by Brian under Memes.
1) If you chose a new name for yourself, what would it be? Superman.
CHING: What? Really?
BRIAN: Sure.
2) If you were given an extra $10 in change at Wal-Mart, what would you do with it and why? Give it back. Bad karma.
CHING: I answered this the exact same way. We are so compatible!
3)What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from your past relationships? Patience.
CHING: That’s it? That’s all you’re going to say? Alright. Next question…
4) What’s one of your worst habits? Not bathing everyday, I guess.
CHING: At least he’s being honest.
5) What was the best day of the past week for you and why? I didn’t have any good days last week.
CHING: Wow, that’s so depressing. Not at all? Not a one?
6) What are you wearing today that is most reflective of who you are? Nothing, because I like being naked.
CHING: He really is wearing nothing right now.
7) Choose a unique item from your wallet and explain why you carry it around? My ticket for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, so that the next time an emergency vehicle comes through and I pull over immediately and cause an accident I can show it to the police officer.
CHING: You still have that thing in your wallet?
8) If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be and why? I’d be more fit-looking because Ching likes it.
CHING: I do? What? Really?
9) What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? Chocolate covered ants.
CHING: What? When was that?
BRIAN: In Tennessee.
CHING: Really?
BRIAN: They taste like rice crispies. I ate a roasted tarantula, too. The legs taste like rock candy.
10) What’s your favorite thing to do in the summer? Go to the drive-in.
BRIAN: What? You didin’t have any smart-alecky remarks about the drive-in.
CHING: No. I like going to the drive-in.
11) Name one of your favorite things about someone in your family. My dad’s sense of humor.
12) What three words best describe you? Patient, loving, and funny.
CHING: Funny-looking!
13) If you were forced to sing one karaoke song, what would it be? I better be forced at gun point, and it better be a really big gun. Umm… Aenema by Tool.
14) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? That’s a damn good question, because there’s a lot of places that I’d like to live. Most of them South, and most of them warm. Probably my own island. I’ve always wanted my own island. Some place where I could walk around naked and not give a shit.
15) Do you collect anything? If so, what? I used to collect action figures. I don’t anymore, though. I used to collect comic books also.
16) Would you bungee jump? Hell, yes! I already did. It was fun. I’d do it again, too.
17) Were you named after anyone? I’m not named after anyone.
CHING: What about your middle name?
BRIAN: My middle name is my dad’s first name and my brother’s middle name is my dad’s middle name, but I’m not actually named after anyone.
18) What do you usually think about right before falling asleep? I usually tell myself a story to get me to go to sleep.
CHING: Like what? And you don’t tell me stories?
BRIAN: No, it’s just in my head. They’re usually very brief. Just enough to get me to go to sleep.
19) If you were given a million dollars and 24 hours to spend it in, what would you buy (no depositing it in the bank or investing it)? I would probably play poker.
CHING: That’s not what you told me when you answered this the other day. Copy cat.
BRIAN: Well, that’s before you told me that you wanted to play poker.
20) Besides karaoke what is the one thing that you loathe the most? Stupid people.
CHING: Excluding yourself, right? Just kidding!
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Dream Office
Posted on February 17, 2008 by Brian under Wishlist.
This is my dream office. I saw this and sported wood. I can imagine the long hours of World of Warcraft play that could go on here. I mean this guy has everything! at least 3 separate servers, 3 Hard Drive Towers for I assume back ups, an incredible sound system. I looked at his set up and just drooled. My wife says that I am too much of a geek.
If you are a geek then you can bow to this system of the geek gods! If you want to look at all the picks you can look at this guys page here.
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New Hampshire Visit.
Posted on February 13, 2008 by Brian under Family, Life, Travel.
Well, I have one more day of my New Hampshire visit and I am so excited. I can not wait to get home to my loving wife. She means the world to me and I feel so lost without her around. I fly out Friday afternoon and will be back in town around 9 in the evening. I have learned a lot about the company, the software that I will be using and myself. I had a mini melt down yesterday and my wife and parents talked me through everything. I am so blessed to have such a loving family, they are the best and are very proud of me, my new job and the direction I am going.
Even though this is a new job, this is not what I want to be doing for the rest of my life. This is just a job. I needed something to do to get me by because my contract was ending at LSI (better to have a job then not have one i guess). I am thankful that Viega took me in and is willing to show me the ropes but it has not been easy. Traveling is something that I thought I would be able to get over and be able to cope with but I learned real fast that this was not the case. I hate traveling, I hate being away from home, I hate being away from my wife and my family. I am lucky in the fact that I have a boss that is totally understand and after a very heartfelt discussion we hammered out some details and I think we have come to an understanding and hopefully my traveling will be very, very, verrrrrry limited.
Tomorrow I might get to meet one of the owners of the company. This will be my first billionaire ever! I was told that he normally just blows through, meets a few folks then blows out. So hopefully he wont be here long so that my boss and I can get back to some training. I am looking forward to learning more so that next week when I am in the office I am able to effectivly do my job with little to no difficulty at all.
I hope that my wife gets a great position in her company. She gets her masters degree in May and I am so excited for that day. She deserves it and I can not be more proud. If she can manage to swing a new position at her work then hopefully, with any luck, I can get into her old position which is what I really want to do. My passion for the longest time has been Supervising a cal center. Her work is very good and treats there employees very well. Viega is very much like that, they treat there employees very well, but in the end I want something that I know is going to be around for a long time and I know her business will be around for a long time and on the plus side, there is no travel.
Well, I think that is all for now, I will have pictures of New Hampshire when i get home, this laptop has been locked down so much that I can not even upload pictures because the USB slot only recognizes specific devices. German security for you.
I cant wait to get home!
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Everything is Changing.
Posted on February 10, 2008 by Brian under Life.
Well for those of you that do not already know, I got a new job. If you don’t know why then let me give you a little back story.
Several months ago I was told by the company I worked for that there was a cap on Contractor Employment. Now this was not disclosed to me when I started, I was simply told that the contract would continually renew and I had nothing to worry about. However, this was not the case. There was indeed a cap on Contractor employment and I was unfortunately reaching the end of my time with the company. Now, just for a little mystery to this story, I learned in the time I had left that there were several people in the organization that had been contractors before me and they were there longer than 3 years! So this means that the cap is something recent that they failed to communicate to the rest of the Contractors, or the cap just involved me and I am just the biggest sucker in the world for believing it and not putting up a fight. Now, I didn’t exactly just lay down and die, no, I tried to get a position within the company. Unfortunately, I was told at every opportunity that there were no positions available. Yet I watched all my friends get promoted around me. Even as I was leaving I was told by one of my good friends that they were given there offer letter. This was un-nerving to me and I felt betrayed by the company and people that I had come to admire and love working for. It made me feel like I was nothing to them and that they just saw me as some tool to be used and discarded.
My new job is with a company called Viega! They are a plumbing and heating company from Germany. They have been in business for over a hundred years and are now expanding there market into the United States. To give you a little detail on how I got the job, I simply applied for it on Career Builder. I was applying for just about anything because I was wanting to make sure that I had something lined up before I got laid-off. I figured anything would be better than nothing, but for the first time in my life every opportunity that came around was met with the same response after the interview, “We feel that you are over qualified for this position”. I had never got that before. I was always met with, the standard weed out messages or the no reply at all process. I finally get a call from Viega and I had forgot all about applying for there position. I was a little surprised and accepted the interview.
I showed up for my interview and was met with nothing but kindness and accepting people. They were very outgoing and eager to hear about my experience. After a few weeks I heard back from them and they wanted to offer me the position. I was excited but a little worried about the job because I did not know how to operate the systems that they use. I was told by my new boss that I would be trained on everything and that I would not have to worry about the lack of knowledge because they would work very hard to get me up to speed. The company is very exciting and they are growing larger and larger every day. I am still a little worried about my job because I do not completely grasp what it is that I am exactly supposed to do. I assume I will learn as time goes on but its a little unsettling to not know. I am a control freak and I like to have insight into the direction that I am going in life and currently I have none.
As of 2/11/08 I will be making my way to New Hampshire for training on my new job. I assume that I will travel a little in the beginnig because my boss is based out of New Hampshire and I will be based out of Wichita. With technology the way it is this shouldn’t be too much of a problem. I am not looking forward to the traveling because I am one of those people that find traveling to be a hassle and try to avoid it as much as possible. My wife is the traveler in the house, she loves to travel. If it were up to me I would never leave my house. I would have a job that I could work from home, I would have a nice house and never leave. I have everything that I desire here at my house. I have my movies, games, cats and dog and most important, my wife!
I hope that everything works out with this new job, I am sure that after this week I will have a better understanding of what I am going to be doing but we will see. Like I said before, this seems to be a great company and I am looking forward to the new start, but I am not looking forward to the travel. I will always be looking for that perfect job (I am hoping that my wife will be getting promoted at her work and then I can apply for her job) I know that its out there, this is not the job that I want to do for the rest of my life. This is just another job to pay the bills. Maybe I will get lucky and win the lottery, then I can just spend my time helping people and spend time with my wife and make her happy.
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10,000 BC
Posted on January 29, 2008 by Brian under Movies.
As a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man, 21-year-old mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D’Leh, leading an army, uncovers a lost civilization while in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle). D’Leh and his army encounter saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other prehistoric creatures in the journey to save his tribe.
I think this is going to be a great film but I am worried that it will be similar to “Clan of the Cave Bear”. Instead of a woman from a lost tribe you have a man that finds a lost tribe. All in all I think this is a fresh take on an old story. So far the movies that have been coming out have been Sci-fi or Action Adventure.
I look forward to seeing this when it shows and hopefully it will be entertaining and fun.
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