Xmen

Sat night Jen and I went out to see X-Men III. I'm always unsure of seeing movies at the theater..I don't like to spend 25$ + going to a hyped up movie and being disappointed in the end. Makes me feel like I wasted so much money.

I'm not a film critic but I liked, Why?
I just do.

Clive Law

IT Kick Out! Part #1

My boss is pissed today....

This is an odd occurance because he's not really the type of person who you would think that would go off like he did . You see he's kind of like Milton...he acts almost the same way and talks almost like him but in a Romanian accent.


So randomly some guys came into out office talking and looking around like we weren't even there. I swear I bumped into one and it was like he was playing the ignore game like back when I was a kid. "Oh, was that a bug?"

Fred was pissed because those guys were in here talking about how they were going to be taking this room over. We kinda knew this was going to happen but not anytime soon. We have this place filled to the gills with equiptment. We just set it all up so we are more productive. It took us a month to figure out all the wiring to get all the ports open and running along with other things. Now we have to leave.

See we have to be in a secure room because of all the laptops , PC's and Server. Where they would like to move us is to 3 cubes with no doors? Yeah well we will see how that one goes. We can't even get paper for out printer without someone having a fit about money.

Back to Fred / Milton....he was on their asses about it. He was tellin them that were not moving blah blah blah...I have never heard him cuss before but he was droppin Fuck like no tomarrow.

Tune in Tuesday for the conclusion of :

IT Kick Out!! Starring Milton.

Carb Day??

IT'S FRIDAY!!

Dave picked me up this morning and said that he hit hardly any traffic. As were were driving our usual route to work I mentined that everyone that works downtown must have taken the day off but us because there was no one to compete with for lanes. The strangeness continued on as we pulled into the parking garage we noticed the same thing. I think everyone had the same idea in the city ....stay home.

While we were in the elevator I struck up a conversation with a random lady. She informed us that today was "Carb Day".

Carb Day, what the hell is Carb Day?
I instantly thought that it was some local health day. May be there was a huge race some where like I always see around the city.

She went on to tell us that every year there is a HUGE all day festival at the track where all theIndy cars race. I turned on the radio and googled it...wow it's really a huge event and it looks like everyone knows about it but Dave and I.

Wow there are bands from all over coming and people from all over come to this thing as well. A full day from 8 am till ?. Filled with half naked women and men..alll drunk LOL.

So I guess something from Indiana this is what I'm missing:

Eazy

This is for all mah homies out there that need it:

Chuck Norris in the Morning

Ok so I totally do not remember posting anything lastnight on here. Kinda funny when I look at it.



So for some reason here at work in the good ol IT department we all got on Chuck Norris Jokes, here are a few we came accross:


Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull

On the 7th day, God rested.... Chuck Norris took over.

Chuck Norris is Luke Skywalker's real father.

If you want a list of Chuck Norris' enemies, just check the extinct species list.

Chuck Norris has never blinked in his entire life. Never.

Chuck Norris drinks napalm to quell his heartburn.

God offered Chuck Norris the gift to fly, which he swiftly declined for super strength roundhouse ability.

Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard. There is only another fist

I don't know why I thought these were so funny but they were this morning.

- Clive Law

Druuuuuuuunk

Tonight Jen and I went out to another wine tasting tonight. So while I'm writing this I'm pretty drunk off the wine..I'll let you know now that I did not see anyone there spit :)

It was a fun time we met alot of people there and yeah ok..I'm going to write more about this in the morn when I have more of a brain left.


Clive Law

The Fight

Last night Jen and I got into a fight. It all started because I noticed that she was acting a little weird. Naturally I asked what was going on. She started to tell me about how she’s starting to feel out of place around here. The girls that she manages at work all act like they are so carefree and that they have nothing to loose. They all go out and party all the time and come back with stories of it all on Monday. When she asked how old they were she found that they were all older than her, ages 27 – 32.

“I’m afraid of getting older”, she said to me. I talked to her about how some of these girls are not in the same place as she is right now. They don’t have ambition or drive to do anything more that what they are doing at this moment. She agreed and we talked more about this. I could still tell something was wrong but she was not giving it up.

Finally she said that she does not know why I’m with her. She doesn’t know why I love her.
“Sometimes I need to know why Jay.”

It’s funny she said that because I had just bought her flowers and a card that said it all. This hurt me, that she would not believe that I love her. I asked her again……”Do you believe I love you?”

She had nothing to say.

I kinda lost it, how could she honestly think that I was just keeping her around for the hell of it? I explained to her that I have given up a lot to show her that I love her. I got rid of my safety net of Mandarins’ memories. I used to keep pics of her all the time so that I would know what it was like to be hurt and to never let myself get to that place again. I explained to her how hard it was to give up my personal pledge to never trust another again. I explained to her how hard it was for me to admit I was in love with her or anyone after Mandarin.

“You seem to have forgotten all the shit I have been through and, how hard it was for me to give my heart to you.”

She put her face down into her hands and started crying.
She forgot.

I took a little break from the moment to calm myself down. Went outside to have a cig. She still had her face covered. I went to her and apologized for yelling at her.
“You didn’t yell at me.”
“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.”
“I’m so fucking afraid of you!”

She explained that she was very much in love with me and that she could see herself being married to me. I didn’t want this to go on anymore so, I told her all is forgiven but just to not question my love for her. If there is something wrong with her and I, I would say something about it.

She told me before that when she has time to be alone that she thinks way too much about negative things. Situations like this, thinking about why I’m with her then coming up with negative sceneros to play in her mind ultimately upsetting herself.

- Clive Law

Mandarin

I have no idea why but Mandarin popped in my head today. I was not really thinking about anything and poof there she is.

She has been gone now for over 3 years and still this haunts me from time to time.

I found her mothers E-Mail addy online. At first I had no idea what to say to her. She was always a little funny with me for some reason.

I think in a way I was blamed for everything and I guess in many ways I was. I was not the person I should have been to her. She was younger than me and I was ready to make her my wife. She was not ready for anything like that. Now I can understand it but at the time it was just like a knife right in my chest. I don't want to go through this anymore, I thought I was done with you and your memories. Your ghosts still haunts me. Please leave me alone Mandarin. I don't want to cry over you ever again.

Clive Law

My Couch!

Jen and I finally got a couch yesterday. See we went to Chicago to the IKEA because we seen a couch that we really wanted.

Exhibit A:


So this is a very nice couch and it fits our style not to mention it was only $200.00.

"How much does this cost to ship to our house in Indianapolis?"

"That will be $300.00 to ship"
Ahhh no way were going to pay $300 to have it shipped when it's only worth $200 to begin with. So, we delayed getting the couch untill we could figure out some way of getting it home cheaper. The other day Jen stopped by the Scandinavian Furniture store and looked at a few things. We had been there before and saw a lot we liked but it was just too expensive for us at the time. As soon as I got home we set out to look for a couch.

So back to the Scand Store we go....Immediatly I liked this one couch but they wanted 800 for it. Wait, it's on sale for 700...hmm lemme see what I can do. I talked to the owner of the place and got him to drop it by another $100. Now all we needed to do was pay tax and shipping. This is the couch we bought but we ordered it in a cream color. Oh, yeah they have a warehouse a few blocks away so we don't have to wait for the new one. Ahh so yeah back to the pic........
Enter Exhibit B:

INTRODUCING MY NEW LOVE:
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I'll give more details later :)

Clive Law

Toyz

Today out Super gave us some new toys to use and I love it!!

I need, yes need one of these for my home use. He suggested we use it for the "Centerfolds" LOL!

Today is pretty good. I got a lot done in a short amount of time and now it's Chilaxin time!!

The Rise of the Creative Class

I actualy did some work today and got some time in as well to read. I found this book at a little shop in the discount bin for 1$ but it's well worth more:

I love this book so far because it speaks about me and how I work best. I highly reccomend it to anyone that works with and or around technology. This really hits the spot!

Dayz go By

So another day another few dollars.

I hate that I usually only write about things that piss me off or annoy me but here it goes.
So Dave is on this "move" team here. Moving cubes around to different locations...cool. Well once again he's trying to make it sound more than it is and for some reason had to tell me he had a conf call 4 times this morning.



What ever makes you feel important I guess? I just came in from checking to see if we got anymore PC's in. We were told there were about 60 more. Turns out they are all laptops and they aren't even for us. So I came back in to let Dave know that there was no rush because we hardly had any in. He looked up at me from his chair and gave me the little hand sign for "Cut-it". I don't know why but this about pissed me off?

I guess this conf call about moving cubes upstairs is pretty interesting LOL



Ahh well another day another few dollars

Clive Law

Ramble On

I've been lookin on line for some of my old Hacker buddies and I found only one. B-$tring...I'm not sure how he's really doing but from some of his blogs I found not too well.

God, I'm bored today...but got xp on my laptop and downloaded all the cool proggies that I wanted. On the way home think I'll fire up net stumbler and see who's out there unsecured.

Jen won't be home till late tonight and I know Jen#2 (roommate) will be there. She get's on my nerves so friggn bad. Is it bad that I just want to tell her to shut up or smack her one? She competes for my Jen's attention with me like we were siblings fighting over mother. I realise that she does not have a mom or really a dad but shit your 24 grow th e hell up and leave me out of it!

Clive Law

It was a great weekend. Jen and I went out to the store and picked out a few bottles of wine for out own inhouse tasting. We both picked one we thought we would like, then we picked out one together.


Went home with out booze an popped in disk one of season 2 Nip/Tuck. We also bought some Pita bread and Basil/Tomato Hummus. I cut the pita bread into small triangles, butter, salt, and basil on top. Baked on 350 for about 10 mins. Damn good stuff just like in those fancy wine bars LOL.

I'll list the wines we tried that night on here for you all to see and try yourself.


Sunday Jen and I went to Easley Winery for the grand tour of the place. Really there was not much to see it's a small operation but I did learn some things about wine I had no idea about. We sampled a few of what they had to offer but honestly there was nothing that really stuck out.

Ahh but then there was the Honey wine. It was very very sweet really too sweet for me. I guess that sticks out in my head because I didn't like it at all. So after our free wine tasting at Easleys we marched on over to Dino's Vino but, Dino was closed. I remembered that there was a place in BroadRipple that had a pretty nice wine bar.

We were not even sure if they were open. I could see no customers and there was hardly anyone around as far as staff goes. I know I was underdressed from the look I got while walking in by the waiter. I think it was the hat.

We ordered a few flights to check out I had the "Travelers Flight" and Jen had the "Zin Flight".


Clive Law

Jen bought Nip/Tuck season 2 lastnight, got an awsome deal on it from Target I think.


Syn sent me an e-mail with his new joy in his life..the extended desktop
.

Makes me happy in a geeky way that he's advancing and taking some suggestions that I had made to him a long time ago :)


My little geek is growing up!!

- Clive Law

H@ppy C400 Day!

So I'm getting a new laptop today YAAY!! Ok, so it's not entirely new but it's still better than what I have goin on now.

I have an older Compaq that has been living way beyond it's means. The poor things has an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, cd-rom drive, NIC and a frayed power cord. It's screaming to die, it's the equivalent to an old lady who has broken her hip, leg, knee surgury, brain tumor and blind. She just needs to be let go. My modern medicine has kept this thing alive for too long.

So here is it's replacement:

No, it's not the fastest or the best but for $300.00 it is. Going from a 500 Mhz to 1.2 Gig is great. I only had a 5 gig HD in the Compaq this is 20. No wireless have ever touched the Compaq, this is built-in. 128 RAM old, 512 new.


So yeah I'm pretty happy with it even though I have not played with it yet. The situation was kinda funny. I saw the ad on Craigslist and thought WTF let's see if he still has it. I wrote an email that said only "Do you still have the laptop?" He replied yes and that he lived about 45 mins from downtown. Later on during the day he wrote back from another e-mail address:

"I just looked at your email address and noticed you work here hehe :) You emailed me about my laptop on sale on Craigslist. I actually have the laptop here if you want to come look at it. "

Ryan O

He worked a few floors above me. I thought it was pretty funny and it has to be a sign to buy the laptop. I had been lookin for sometime now and have not been too impressed with anything. I wanted something smaller and lightweight and I found it.


Happy C400 D@y!

Clive Law

@work

Another day of nothing but I'm pretty tired today so it's not sweat off my back.



My co-worker (someone I brought on this project with me) is about getting on my nerves. We will call him 1up. You have all heard of the "one upper". Everytime someone talks about something, he's been there done that and more or knows someone that has.

I really don't know how long I will end up keeping him on this project with me. He does not really know that I do have a little power all of that. I don't want to tell him because unlike him I try not to be the "One Upper".

Just today he was telling me that his mom was some super brain woman and he also knew someone that was once on the Mensa Board at like age 19 and was accepted to Harvard with just a G.E.D.

Wow, I'M IMPRESSED!! NO!


Now he's trying to be impressive with his well thought out words that have no flow and are clearly said just to make him seem like a smart guy.


Little does he realize that they bosses talk to me about this and it's in one ear with them and out the other.

For the past few days, well make that weeks on this project we have had a lot of down time. I thought I would like this and yeah there are times I do but now it's starting to get boring. Ahhh well I guess I could have some shitty job workin my ass off for nothing.


Jen and I have been talking more about getting married. We get along great and I do love her so I have been looking at ideas for rings.

Here's a few I was kinda thinkin of:

Trauma

It's been some time now that I have been able to have enough time to get on and write about anything.

Finally got a new job after about 2.5 months of sitting on mah ass and going to interviews all over the city.





Yesterday Jen and I were driving back home from doing a little needless shopping when I saw a car in the middle of the road with the entire front end crunched in. I saw a lady on the the cell phone so I pulled over to see if she was alright. She said she was but she did not know what happened. I looked around and saw that there was no other cars around that looked like they were involved. There were no poles that were damaged or anything like that either.

She said she was ok but that her cousin was in the car and was hurt. I looked in and there she was laying on the seat, her head was cut open and bleeding pretty bad. I looked up and saw that she had smashed her head on the windshield. There was a clear indention in the glass from it. I asked her to stay still and that we would have someone out as soon as they could get here. Jen was calling the police while all of this was going on.

The lady said that she was driving and that a car had hit her head on but she does not know where it went. I asked for a description of the car so I could look around the neighborhood and find it. I looked down the road and saw a white truck pulled over on the wrong side of the road with a man exiting it. The funny thing was that his car was pointed in the same direction as she was but they were going opposite ways when the accident occured. I went over to him accross four lanes of traffic. He was holding his head and could barely speak. He said that he was travelling the other direction but she hit him and spun him around. His car was about a 1/2 mile from the actual site though.

I assured him as well that we were getting someone out there to take care of him and everyone else and to just go back and sit in his car. I felt so bad for him too because he was totally out of it.

i went back to check on the lady and her cousin. Jen had offered a seat in our car to get out of the rain. Just then the para and police showed up.

I just sat there for a min not sure what to do. A few others had stopped as well to make sure everyone was ok. One lady just got out of church and saw everything going on and stopped. She came up to Jen and I and gave us a hug each for stopping.

I have always worn a seatbelt but seeing this trauma makes me a true beliver.

Clive Law