Again.....its been a while

I seem to go through my phases with blogging.  I have tried other blogging websites.  I have tried to download apps to my droid so that I can blog "on the go".  It never works.

Well we'll see how it works.

My friend and I want to start a blog for work, the basic idea is works sucks!  We'll put stories about our experiences at work and we'll have people post comments about their experiences and tell their stories.

We'll see how long that will last!

daddy...........you suck

i often get the feeling that my 3 year old is subliminally telling me that i suck.  i work all the time and see him and his little brother for a couple hours a day.  it sucks!  last night he fell asleep at 6pm (due to a lack of a nap) and slept through until 4:30am.  once he woke up bright eyed and ready for the day i spent the next 2 1/2 hours telling him to stop jumping on the bed and to be quiet or hed wake his brother.  i know these are typical parenting things but i feel horrible.  my son wants to spend time with me and i cant even make time for my family.

that being said, i want to go back to school.  i have it set in my mind that i want to go back for my masters in education and become a teacher!  i could participate in an internship program which would pay for my masters program.  there are a few snags though.  1.  i have to take a year off from work to do the internship and go to classes.  2.  i might be able to get financial aide to pay for my bills for the next year, but its no guarantee.  3.  it would take up ALOT of my time in the next year.

there are benefits to this decision though.  1. summers/weekends/holidays/nights off from work  2.  pretty good pay  3.  pretty good benefits  4.  more time to spend with my family  5.  be able to watch my sons grow up  6.  help mold and shape the future adults of this country  7.  possibly teach in nyc (a dream ive had for a while)  8.  no more retail business, i cant stand it! 9.  planned vacations with the family, now i dont have ANY guarantee of when my vacation time will be....its seems like the list can go on and on.

i guess the benefits outweigh the snags....it may be one year of tough work and little time with my family but it will benefit my family in the long run.  all i can do is try, apply, and hope to get financial aide.  no financial aide=no money for bills=no school for me!

the possibilities of life

what ever happened to you can do anything your heart desires?  it seems as though we grow up, graduate college, get married, and have kids and all of the sudden we become afraid.  i have never been a paranoid man but as of late i have been paranoid of losing my job.  i know i need money to live in my house and have food and get things for my kids and i work a job that i do not like just because i feel comfortable with it because ive done it for so long.

 i want to go back to school and become a teacher but that requires me to take a year off from work and intern in a school.  the internship will pay for my masters program and certification but i will have no income besides my wifes, and honestly we cant survive just on that.  i can get $20000 in loans to pay my bills, if they accept me, but i dont even know if that is enough.  im not guaranteed a job after the program either!  the internship is a year long interview but what if they dont offer me a job?  then what?  i thought i was lost when i dropped out of the education program for my undergrad but this takes the cake.  this is a MUCH more difficult decision.  then my decision effected me and my possible future.  this decision effects, me, my wife, my two sons, and our possible futures.  i shouldve just finished it before!

ASS HOLE!

the samurai tongue

what to do on a Saturday night?

my sons are asleep, my wife is asleep, i am awake.  the internet has become so boring for me.  i come online to talk to no one.  i can open all the social networking sights and instant messengers in the world and STILL not talk to anyone.

I seem to be the anti-social networking person.  People friend me and secretly read my tweets and blogs to stay in touch with me because talking to me is too painful.  I think my level of sarcasm is supreme to everyone else.  I have reached a Buddha state of sarcasm.  I open my mouth and people can't even respond, they just kindly walk away.

The masochist conversationalists always comes back for more.  Some people are brutal with their words and conversations.  I like to call those people the a-bomb conversationalist.  They open their mouths and its mass chaos and total destruction.  People despise them.  People want to punch them in the face.  People hope some kind of pain on them.

I like to think of myself as a ninja of conversations.  I calmly and quietly slice conversations so the person doesn't know what happened, but they do know that they don't want to talk to me anymore.  They don't want to hurt me or inflict pain on me and they leave me alone.  Success!

feeling lost in the US

we live in the most popular and yet most hated country in the world.  the land of opportunity, or so they say.  i have a friend who has been looking for a job since last January.  i have another friend who is graduating with his doctorate in mathematics and could only find two jobs as a professor in a university.  my future brother in law wants to go to law school and only got into one school.  if there was an "opportunity" they would have taken advantage of it.

i had to interview people for a job fair with my company because were opening a new store and we had about 1300 people show up.  thats 1300 people who don't have a job, have never worked because they cant find a job, and had to cut their education short because they couldn't afford it anymore.

great opportunities!

i make decent money as a manager in a grocery store.  is it what i want to do for the rest of my life?  i'm not sure.  its a good business but i think i want to go back to school for psychology.  my fear is that i go back to school for psychology and DON'T find a job in the field after i graduate and end up where i am now paying an extra $100,000 in student loans.

i think the United States motto shouldn't be the land of opportunity but "the former land of opportunity, the current land of disappointment"

social networking

i used to have my twitter post on my facebook...my blogger post to my facebook...then i realized that if i do that people will never follow me on twitter or blogger so i stopped them from posting on my fb.

i was WRONG!

no one cares what i have to say on any of these social networking websites.  i could say "sitting with a monkey eating breakfast" and people wouldnt comment.  i know i wouldnt!  i dont read peoples status updates but i expect them to read mine.  social networking is only good for those who are sociable (and those who stalk people on fb).

i am not very sociable nor do i provide words of wisdom to the world.  i barely talk to the people in my life as it is.  not because i dont want to talk to them but because i have nothing to talk about.  i either talk about my kids or work.  it gets kind of tiresome to listen to i guess.

i watch the recorded shows that my wife and i watch every night.  and when i am home with my boys the usual television viewing is Disney or nickelodeon. i barely watch the news or sports!  i cant talk to "friends" about the backyardigans or mickey mouse, its just not a good discussion topic.

No wonder I have no followers!

I haven't been on here in a while.

I decided to log on and see if I can get this blog going again and when I signed on I began to read the previous posts that I had written.  OMFG!  They're horrible!  I wrote about social networking websites and how it would be cool if a monkey had a facebook and twitter so they can tell us how it is to be a monkey!  Am I for real?

I don't remember EVER having that thought in my head nevermind writing it in a blog.  To those of you who read my blog, it sucks, move on!

Or don't and see what other stupid useless things I say! ; )

nuclear weaponry

sooo a cnn article today says that president Ahmadinejad of Iran announced today that they are expanding their nuclear weapon program.  it seems all of the sudden these countries are expanding their nuc programs just to test the us and the united nations.  iran, pakistan, north korea they are all expanding.  it is kind of scary that these crazy "dictators" have enough power to wipe anyone off the map.  


i know supposedly nostradamus predicted the end of the world as 2012 or something like that.  will the destruction of the world be due to these crazy ass holes and nuclear weapons or sarah palin running for president?  i guess we have to wait and see...

life in the social networking world

i have, in recent months, become a social networking whore!

i check my facebook constantly.
i tweet about nothing and everything at the same time.
i blog, again about nothing and everything.

i think i am a very unsociable person but find it interesting that i spend so much time on networking websites with people that i probably will not talk to.  maybe i am just nosey?  maybe i feel socially attached to these people through their websites and only their websites.

i think the coolest thing ever would be if a monkey had a facebook and a twitter and they spoke english just so they can tell us what life is like to be a monkey.

brilliant!  i know what my life's goal is now......

Pornography: beneficial or detrimental? haha love it

porno: beneficial or detrimental?

Enjoy....I think

babys are easy?!?!

Someone asked me how my 2 1/2 yr old and my 1 month old sons are doing.  When I told them that they were doing well they responded by saying "well the baby must be doing great they only eat, sleep, and poop".  What?!?!?!?! Obviously this person has never had a child!  Yes baby's eat, sleep, and poop but they also CRY!  Logan, my 1 month old, has his good days and his bad days.  Some days he only cry's when he's hungry or his diaper is wet (awesome days) but other days (like yesterday) he cries a good portion of the day.  If they can't poop...they cry...if they're hungry...they cry...if they're stomach hurts...they cry..I think you get the point.  Baby's can't talk so when something is wrong they cry and it is YOUR job to figure out why.  Sometimes you can't even figure out what's wrong.  You bounce them, pat them on the back, and sing to them hoping that it helps. 

These are the things that they don't tell you about having a kid.  It can be difficult but honestly I wouldn't trade my kids for anything.

michael jackson

He had numerous #1 songs/albums, platinum records, he has won many awards, and was dubbed "the King of Pop".  What is it about this "man" that makes everyone go crazy?  I have never been a fan.  It's not my type of music.  I don't like to dance.  I don't like to watch him dance or moonwalk or whatever you want to call it.

After he passed away his movie came out.  I heard it was a good flick but honestly.....I don't care to ever see it.  I didn't pay attention to him in the tabloids when he was alive.  I didn't follow him in any way.  But I think that it is amazing that he wins so many of these awards especially the lifetime achievement awards.

At the Grammy Awards this year there will be a 3-D tribute to MJ because he will be awarded the lifetime achievement award.

I understand that he was very popular, he had many hit songs and albums, he was loved by millions.  I guess those are reasons to give him an award of this caliber....I guess you could even consider his courtroom victories part of his lifetime achievement.

We know what he was accused of and we know that he paid families off to stop the lawsuits yet we choose to overlook it. 

Maybe they should give priests who have been accused of the same things lifetime achievement awards and praise them for the work they did while pushing the accusations to the back of our mind?  Doesn't seem likely does it?  Why do we overlook it when it comes to him?

Conan's getting screwed!

Prime time rating are down with this new Jay Leno show.  Solution: Move him back to his old slot and push Conan and Jimmy back.  Wrong!  How about NBC puts on shows in the 10 o'clock hour that are good?  Leno is done.  His show isn't different then his late night show but instead of competing with other late night shows he is now in competition with sitcoms, dramas, and such (you know shows that your everyday American would rather watch then Leno). 

Shows that Leno is up against at the 10 o'clock hour:
Numbers, Castle, CSI: Miami, The Forgotten, The Good Wife, Ugly Betty, CSI: NY, Private Practice, The Mentalist!!

For real?  Some of these shows are already established with a good fan base and some of these are up and coming shows developing a fan base.  Why watch Jay?  I could get a better show out of Conan at 11:35, Jimmy Fallon at 12:30, David Letterman at 11:35, Jimmy Kimmel at 12, or Craig Ferguson at 12:30. 

Maybe if his show was a completely different format people would watch but having a show that is basically all 5 of those comedians shows just in an earlier spot makes it unappealing.

My words of advice to Conan:  Start talking to Fox so you can rival that big chinned bastard!

Go Conan!

Eris apps

aldiko book reader is great. read one of the great free books.

androblogger...great Blogger app...using it now actually.

twidroid....much better then HTC peep.

lookout...backup your phone list...media files...and use the locator to find your phone when its lost.

the haitian disaster

It seems like Mother Nature has it out for the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.  Haiti was hit by 4....yes 4....hurricanes in 2008.  Hundreds of people were missing or dead.  Now in the beginning of 2010 they have been hit even harder by a massive earthquake.  Buildings are rubble.  People are dead and missing.  As you can see above Haiti is located toward the edge or the Caribbean Plate.  If I'm not mistaken Port-au-Prince was the hardest hit part of Haiti which I find a little odd because PoP is located more on the Southern portion of Haiti.  I thought that usually earthquakes are located more toward the plate but I guess I am wrong.  I am no geographer or earthquakologist but it does interest me. 

To all those aiding in the relief of this country please be careful.  A good portion of those who live there are, unfortunately for them,  infected with HIV as well as TB

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/natural-disasters

compliment

my associate complimented me today and said that I look like I'm losing weight. she prob stole from the store and is trying to not get caught. Haha

widgets and such

So I want to spice up my blog but every widget I try to use says its either not compatible or it just doesn't work. I have used html before but apparently I am no good at it.  Are there any websites that I can use for a. templates and b. widgets that will work?  These blogspot templates are pretty blah.

HTC Eris droid

I love my Eris! I love the Google op system. I love the touch screen. I love most of the apps. The one thing that I HATE about the phone is the quick dying battery! With the Google op system everything runs in the background eating away at your battery life. I downloaded advanced taskiller and task panel and both work well but I want my phone to last the whole day while I use it. Is that too much to ask for? Is there a way that I can use my phone and still keep the battery life good? I guess I will have to search and keep everyone posted.

sports stupidity

Yesterday Gilbert Arenas was suspended indefinitely for pointing an unloaded gun at a teammate in the locker room.  ARE YOU FOR REAL?!?!?!?!?!?! 

Ok, I am a Giants fan and I have dealt with the whole Plaxico ordeal but this is remarkable.

Plaxico shot himself in the leg.  Was the gun loaded?  Yes.  Was Gilbert Arenas' gun loaded?  Supposedly no.  Plaxico's gun was concealed.  Arenas' gun was only concealed until he made his teammate lick the barrel.  Is there really a difference? 

Neither man should've had a gun in their possession.  To me it doesn't matter if the gun was loaded or not.  It doesn't matter if it was concealed or not.  These men are sports figures that many many little boys and girls look up to.  They are watched by millions.  These "men" are role models. 

If they can't handle their life and their tempers they should quit.  Maybe they should choose a profession where they can use guns and shoot people.  Go into the Army.  Become a police officer.  Become a drug dealer.  Who cares?  Their reputations are now that of useless street thugs.  Good job ass holes...GOOD JOB!

look at that $300 million smile

Blog templates

Why is it that all of these blog templates are girly?  Are there any plain simple blog templates?  Or nice manly blog templates?

arctic blast

so the temp throughout the country at wakeup time in ct was 25 degrees or lower. do they even sell winter jackets in Texas? how about Florida?

it looks like the rest of the country is in for a new England winter. but are they ready for it? we in ct are used to the snow and cold but what will people in Texas or new Orleans do if they get the white stuff falling from the sky? I guess the most ironic part is that people move to these places to get away from the snow and cold. older people go to Florida for the winter to keep warm. jacksonville was 27 degrees this morning!

enjoy the warm southern weather!

A Good Call?

So last weekend when the Colts played the Jets I was a little furious and a little understanding.  I understand that you don't want your key players to get injured before the post-season.  It would be horrible if Peyton Manning or Dallas Clark or Reggie Wayne were to get hurt but in the same breath I wanted the Perfect Season...Superbowl and all.  Just to prove to everyone that the Colts are a better team then the 2007 *almost undefeated* Patriots.  But yesterday the Patriots proved to us that this was an excellent idea because of the season ending injury of key wide out Wes Welker.  The leading receiver of the Pats is down for the count with a torn ACL/MCL and will not play in the post-season.  I can hear the sighs of relief coming from all Colts fans *myself included*.

Perfect season?  or the lose of a very key player?  Now the choice seems simple for the Colts who really had nothing but a perfect season to play for last week.  Keep your players healthy.  Rest them for a few weeks and hope that the month layoff won't kill their enthusiasm or momentum.  Because of yesterday I say these words....good call Jim Caldwell!

morning or night

My usual shift for work is the 3-11pm shift. It sux! Not as bad as the 11:30-8 shift which takes up ALL of your day but almost as bad. I love when I get the luxury of working a 7-3 shift. Driving home at 3 is much better then 11 because you still have much of your day to do stuff. The downfall is that I don't get all of the crazy customers. The crazies can be HORRIBLE but they can also brighten up your day with their stupidity and insane claims.

A guy came in one night and claimed that my associate was stalking him....he showed us pics of my associate "stalking" him.Sir...these pics are of my associate working....is he working or stalking you? or how about my associate finding a pair ofwl worn panties in the middle of the aisle...I am sure there will be many other stories to come

weird concoctions

I LOVE to cook!  I find it refreshing to make a good meal whether it be a nice hearty tasty sandwich or a mouth watering dinner.  I do have to admit *which my wife will love* that I do have a tendency to put some weird ingredients together.  Today I made a sandwich on a flour tortilla.  This sandwich had 3 pieces of ham, three slices of cracked pepper turkey, banana peppers, yellow mustard, French's fried onions, and a surplus of Mexican cheeses.  I folded this up burrito style and heated it on the stove until the tortilla was nice and crunchy and the insides were melted together waiting to be eaten.  I thought it tasted great and even though my wife thinks I'm crazy sometimes for the things I put together she does usually enjoy the food.

I also make various grilled cheeses.  Whatever I can find in the fridge goes on the sandwich.  I should become a chef.....a chef in my mind that is!  I think I can...I think I can..........I think I can.....Ya your right..........not gunna happen

a new year

Well the new year is upon us. I have chosen to follow my resolutions from last year because I on no way, shape, or form followed them last year! I, like most everyone else, want to lose some weight. I want to eat healthier. I want to find a new job. I want to make more money! I want...I want...I want! I sound like a little kid around Christmas time. Shouldn't I say I will instead of I want? I never did understand the whole resolution thing though. Why should I say I want to stop being fat this year when I could've easily done it last year? Does the new year really bring on new possibilities or does it just reuse the same ones? Actually, last year I wanted to make more money.....but this year...with its new possibilities....I want to be President! Hell I want to be Emporer of the WORLD!!

the restart of the calendar year

So today is the beginning of the new calendar year...2010! 2009 had its ups and its downs but will be a difficult year to top. My wife and I just had a baby boy to add to our family and that's tough to beat. The first night of the new year was an interesting one because my newborn slept from 11 pm until 230 am and then kept me up all night.