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WTF!…I don’t remember growing up.
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Brian under Family, Leadership, Life, Memes, Moblog.
So I was sitting at work today listening to my Pandora Radio, busting out some reports for a few people when it occurred to me. “When the hell did I become so responsable”.
As the array of old school rap rolled through my headphones it sparked memories of where I was in my life when those songs were popular.
To give you a little insite, I was kind of a looser when I was younger. I hated school and only applied myself when it benifited me in some way. I always did just enough to get by, never seeking recognition for anything that I did, never wanting to get ahead.
I followed this path of existence for many years. Talking various jobs, doing just enough to get by. At one point in my life I was a pretty big stoner, this just made things worse. Now not only did I have no desire to get ahead in life but I had no desire to do much of anything in life. My purpose at that point was to make enough money to get by and get high. Needless to say even through all of this I felt like there was something missing.
It wasn’t until I met my wife that I really began to change. Even in the beginning I was just doing enough. I worked at a bank as an IT admin and helped people get started with online banking. It was nice because I really didn’t have to talk to a lot of people, again doing just enough to get by. Then things, as they always do in life, changed and I had to find a better job. Still, I felt like there was something missing.
So I began work for a prominent celluar company. I started out as a simple rep and picked up on things pretty quick. I learned that I had a knack for technology. Learning what I could I found myself wanting more. My wife encouraged me to try out for a lead position when it became available. She told me that in this position I could teach others what I have learned and in turn, learn what was needed to be a supervisor. Now, I had been in management once before. I ran a video store in town. It was fun but I was afraid of the responsability. The thought of being responssble again was a little frightening. Needless to say after some pushing from my wife I did apply and got a Supervisor position.
I was well on my way to being responsable at this point. I kept this job for some time. I think this is where I truly grew as an individual. I Learned to deal with situations, people and other things that life threw in front of me.
Using this knowledge I sought out a new position, one in cusromer service for a cable provider. It was great because we got free cable. But I also learned about how the sales world worked. Something that I had touched on but never really knew until I worked there.
I then heard of this position from a friend at a local technology company. They built servers for companies like IBM and Sun. I thought “this is my way back to technology”. Luckily I got into the position but soon realized that I was in way over my head. This technology was something I had never done or seen before. But I was determinded to make it work. There it is again, that dammed responsability sneaking into my life. Where did I get that from.
I worked for this company for several years. Unfortunately, it was a contract job and I had to find other work. Luckily for me I found myself working for a German plumbing compay. Here is where I really began to thrive. I started out as an assistant. 6 months into the position my boss quit. Being we were the only two people in the department I feared the worse. However, the VP told me that this just meant that I would be called on to do more now. Again I had that feeling that I was in over my head. I even called my wife crying once asking her “what have I gotten myself into”. My wife gently but firmly told me to suck it up and grow a pair. I did and have never looked back.
I truely believe that every position I held in the past has groomed me for this job. I touch on so much of my previous positions here. Without the bank I would not have the skills to do the reporting I do and understand the data that I provide to the field. Without my technical jobs, I would not have the knowledge to help the company expand its software that helps the sales force stay on top of their customers. Without my management background, I would not have the confidence or knowledge to teach the reps on how to use any of the new features that we provide or to handle situations that arise or to manage my time effectively. Without my sales background, I would not understand the needs of the sales force or the time constraints that they are under. And without my wife, I would not have learned everything that I needed to learn to be successful at this job. She is the one that truly helped me get to where I am today. She is the one that pushes me every day to be better and better. She is the one that I grew up for and became the responsable person that I am today.
Without her, I would still be that under achiever that did just enough to get by.
I love you baby, thank you for all of your support.
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It’s a Sad World!
Posted on November 3, 2010 by Brian under Life.
Last night my wife and I had a small conversation about her being naive and the unfortunate way of the world. I tried to tell her that she needs to realize that not all people are nice. It’s an unfortunate thing, but it’s the truth. There are just not that many nice people in this world today. I told her that she need to look at it like everyone is evil until you get to know them better, there are people out there that will pretend to be your friend to take advantage of you. If you are on your guard and you don’t trust them then you wont get burned by them in the short term. This gives you the time you need to see if they are genuinely nice people, or were they trying to use you, con you are just all around hurt you in some way.
I know it’s a sad way to look at the world but just stop and think about it. We have people in this world that are taking advantage of the old, taking their life savings because they don’t want to get off their lazy asses and do an honest job. We have people posing as contractors, handy men, or repair men that will come in and get money up front then not do the work or do half the work and try to con people out of more money before they finish it. We have chain letters, e-mail scams and now phone apps that try to get us to give them bank account information so that they can wipe you out.
I try to see the good in people, but I look at the news and it makes it harder and harder to do that every day. I know there is good out there but they are all hiding from all of the bad in the world, afraid to come out and beat the bad down so that it doesn’t get out of hand. But that’s exactly what has happened, the bad had gotten out of hand. We don’t have enough people in the world that care any more. We have taken up a “It didn’t happen to me, it’s not my problem” stance on life. Then when it does happen to you, you go out to the world and say “Why didn’t anyone warn me” or “Why didn’t anyone help me”. The saddest part is, it’s not even the rich people that are getting the worst of it. The people that are getting targeted are the old, the not so well off and the people that just don’t have the knowledge to know that they are getting duped.
In my opinion, the world needs a cleansing. The world needs to have a natural catastrophe so big that it wakes up and says “Oh shit!, there are other people in this world, I should help them!”.
I witnessed two acts of just shear meanness this week. One was a man upset because he was going to be placed in a room off site from the regular hotel (but still within walking distance), he was beating up this woman because she would not put someone else in that room and give him one in the main complex, she held her composure and kept her cool. Later on, I complimented her and told her that she handled him very well. Then today I witnessed a woman tearing into a cleaning lady because she was cleaning her room at 3:00 in the afternoon. The cleaning lady tried to tell her that the rooms were cleaned in zones, but the woman didn’t listen and just kept tearing into her. The cleaning lady finally stopped talking and just waited for the woman to shut the door. In both cases there was no need for the meanness to have occurred. If both of those people would have just stopped and realized that the situations that they were in were out of their control and the people that were trying to explain were only doing their job and could not change the outcome no matter what, then maybe they could have stopped a little more hatred from being poured into this world.
Humanity is on a downward spiral and I don’t see anything that can stop it. I weep for the future and the generations that follow us.
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New Year’s Eve
Posted on October 19, 2010 by Brian under Things to Do, Travel.
The wife and I have been trying to decide what to do for New Year’s Eve. We toyed with the idea of going to Austin, Texas. We have looked into returning to Couples Tower Isle in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. I think we have finally decided to go to Vegas, specifically the new Aria Hotel and Casino in City Center. I told her that if I’m going to go to Vegas for New Year’s then I wanted to go to the newest, most up-to-date place in Vegas.
Vegas is known for its New Year’s Eve parties. I read somewhere that Vegas is host to over 300,000 people from all over the world during this time. They close down the Strip and open it up to foot traffic only. Then there is one of the largest fireworks shows on the West Coast.
Below are the details from all of the locations that we looked at. I even included a few links so that you can look at the places we’re considering.
Austin, Texas (12/29/2010 – 1/1/2011)
This is rated as one of the top 10 places to party on New Year’s Eve. Flying to Austin is out of the question. There are too many stupid flights and it is crazy expensive. It’s actually more expensive than flying to Vegas. Although, we can drive there and save a lot of money.
Austin has what they call “First Night.” It consumes a large portion of downtown Austin and is a large party with artist of all kinds. The event is capped of by one of the largest fireworks festivities in the state.
If we were to spend New Year’s in Austin, I’d want to stay at the historic Driskill Hotel.
Las Vegas, Nevada (12/29/2010 – 1/1/2011)
This is the place to be. Las Vegas offers a large variety of things to do. Personally, I think that City Center would be the ideal place to stay. It is the newest place on the Strip. It is located in the middle of everything and is designed so that you don’t need to leave unless you absolutely want to.
None of the hotels in Vegas are promoting their parties until November 1st, but I have a feeling that since they are the new kids on the block they’re going to party it up like none other.Aria is the place that I would want to go. Check out their web site above or pictures and info.
Ocho Rios, Jamaica (12/26/2010 – 1/1/2011)
Since this is the off season for Jamaica I could not find anything on festivities for New Year’s. On the up side, all of your food and drink are taken care of since this is an all-inclusive resort. Also, they just remolded this resort and added a new building. On the down side, for two people it will cost a little over $5,000 for the week for our room and airfare.
Personally, I still think that Vegas is the place to go. It is rated the #1 place to be on New Year’s Eve with New York being the second. It will probably cost us around $3,000 total for our hotel accommodations, airfare, food and entertainment; but it would be a hell of a way to end the year or start the new one (depending on how you look at it).
There are less expensive hotels on the Strip, but I think that Aria would be the coolest since it’s the newest. I called to see if there was any information on New Year’s events and they said that they would not release any of that information until after Halloween. Halloween is a major event for them (as with everyone else in Vegas), almost as big as New Year’s Eve.
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Time for your Meds!
Posted on September 23, 2010 by Brian under Health, Sex.
This has got to be the single greatest medical achievement in human history!
It was announced today on CNN’s web page that Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent, a North Carolina State University study found.
In 1991, 43,582 women died of breast cancer, as reported by the National Cancer Institute. The research consisted of two groups, 6,246 women ages 25 to 45 who had performed fellatio and swallowed on a regular basis over the past five to ten years, and 9,728 women who had not or did not swallow. The group of women who had performed and swallowed had a breast cancer rate of 1.9 percent and the group who had not had a breast cancer rate of 10.4 percent.
Men, it is our duty to convince your wives your girlfriends to perform fellatio on you at least two times a week. You will be saving their lives. Show them this article, it is scientifically proven that we can help them.
Update: This is all a hoax, and from what I can see, an old one. Sorry guys, I was so hopeful for our futures.
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I Can Dance!
Posted on September 20, 2010 by Brian under Date Ideas, Things to Do.
On Friday Ching, myself and some friends from work went to Harry Reese Dance Studio for some lessons. We all had a lot of fun learning some of the more basic dance steps. Ching and I were a little bored because we were a little beyond the basics. But we still learned a few things. Like the fact that I suck at Salsa dancing.
After the lessons we all decided that we would go to.”Suede” a local club that plays salsa on Friday evenings. When we got there we all tried to SHOW OFF what we learned. That’s when I found out that I can MERENGUE! Who would have thought? LOL. Ching and one of the instructors George were picking on me because they said that anyone can MERENGUE. What they don’t realize is that before I met my wife, I never knew how to really dance. I could slow dance but that was it. Every time I learn something new with my wife, I feel like I have accomplished something great.
Honestly if it was not for my wife, I would not have experienced many of the things I have. I owe her a great deal in my life. More than I could ever repay.
If you find yourself bored on a Friday ninth and you want to learn how to dance, come to the lessons. Then come out with us after and have a drink and try out your new skills. It’s $5.00 per person and well worth the cost.
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