i'm still here, just been busy

Well it’s been a while since I made another entry.  I have been busy though.  Last week I was working actually.  I was downtown by Wall St. working as a data entry guy for an IT staffing firm (Ironic that a staffing firm would call another for a temp).  It wasn’t that bad of a gig, and the people seemed cool, other than the night I was accused of not doing my job at all (which was later proven otherwise, I spent two damn days on one project and proved it was done).  So I got 4 days of work there in the end, and should be getting some nice cash back this week (don’t’ know when I’ll get it, either tomorrow or later this week).  By the way, my resume is updated and shows what I did.

Good thing it’s coming in too.  I had some car problems this weekend, which later turned out to be my dirty fuel injectors and me being a jackass and forgetting to get a tune up.  Other than that nothing really happening.  I’m enjoying Metro doing well in the playoffs, and I might travel to Foxboro and se the second leg of the playoff round this Saturday, but that depends on when I get paid.  I’ve actually been happy this week, especially after some things were cleaned up in my personal life, and things seem to be getting better.  I have to cal my temp agency rep tomorrow, so maybe I’ll have a job lined up soon.

Later all

today was a good day

Man I love this time of the year.  Women dress their sexiest in my opinion.  I love it when women wear dresses skirts and a blouse, not miniskirts, but nice skirts or dresses and the knee-high boots.  I don’t know why I find that type of ensemble sexy and attractive, maybe the “leaving something to the imagination” thing.  Ladies, want to get my attraction? Wear something like that and I will notice you.

I got an assignment finally.  It’s at an IT staffing firm in downtown Manhattan.  I start tomorrow, and I believe it lasts only this week, maybe more.  No problem, it’s money and something to put on my resume.  I also had an interview with a nice scam today.  It was one of those “Direct marketing” places, where you’re a door-to-door salesman.  These places are the ones with the ads up constantly on Monster, or careerbuilder.com, because they burn through employees so fast.  They make the job seem like a “management trainee” position, but that happens after you are ran into the ground, living off some piss-poor commission and if you are up their standards, you get brainwashed into their system.  Thank god they didn’t call me back to go for a second interview, I wouldn’t want to go there again, I felt so dirty in there!!!!

I hate it when I’m not the reason something went bad.  I am in the right about this situation I have been involved with for almost a year, and I am pissed off that I don’t’ know how to handle that.  Usually I’m in the wrong and at least there I can go “Ok, I did this wrong, and now I know not to do that in this situation.”   It does suck, but maybe I can move onto bigger and better from it, or maybe this situation will pan out to be beneficial for me and I get what I was hoping to get out of the whole arrangement.  Maybe I can go into detail about the whole thing in the future, but right now I have no desire to and I really don’t want to open up some fresh scars.

Digital life

I went to the Digital live convention in NYC today.  I t wasn’t that bad, I expected more.  I also now know why these things are usually not open to the public, because the public are savages!!!  It was really crowded, and a lot of the people were just standing around.  I didn’t’ like that they had all these game tournaments, but since the convention was put on by a company that publishes gaming magazines, it’s ok.  I hoped to see more about the Xbox 360, but Microsoft (who had a hell of a booth area) only was showing the promo video they have ran at other conventions and I found online somewhere.  I really liked what Tivo showed, especially the newer recorder with the DVD burner.  In all honestly, if I were to get one of these type recorders, I would get it through Time Warner as part of the digital cable package.  It’s cheaper than Tivo, and I don’t’ have to worry about having to get a new Tivo every couple years (which Tivo is known to do by making their service only really work well for newer products from what I hear)

The only bad thing was at the XM booth.  I found out that at the event, they were selling XM2Go receivers (the portable ones) for $129 at the show and only at the show, which is more than half off.  I almost cried when I saw/heard that, since I’ve wanted one of these things since I got XM (the roady2 works for me but it sucks, and I would like to have XM when I go out on my walks), but I don’t have the money for it!!!  My cousin’s wife asked if I could charge it on my credit card, but I don’t have one.  I’m glad I don’t now, since this would be the perfect type of “impulse buy” that would put me into debt!!!  Who knows, maybe after this week I’ll have a job (interview Monday, pray for me peeps), or maybe a wealthy benefactor could just happen to leave me the money for one of the XM2go receivers.  

Well the dream of 11-0 is now over.  Penn State lost to Michigan tonight, but they did pretty damn good up to the last play.  I didn’t’ expect them to win tonight, but it was nice to see that they can hang with some of the best.  What did make me smile was that Notre Dame lost tonight, and whenever they lose, the world is right.

That’s all I got tonight, I’m off to weep about the XM thing….

friday afternoon thoughts

Damn I love the Blowhard. I just heard him on Ron and Fez and he really went off on some of the hicks that called in (like this one moron in Iowa that was blabbering on about 9/11, and the blowhard went off and put him in his place).  It’s nice to hear one caller agree with him, and the next call him an asshole.  I can’t stress how good of a blog the man does, and if you don’t read it at least once a day, you’re missing out on some good thought provoking stuff.  

I’m going to the digilife convention tomorrow with my cousin.  I can’t wait to go see the new electronics and hi-tech gadgets.  I also want to see what free crap I can get.  I really want to see if the XM booth is giving out anything, and I will be the ass that goes “As a subscriber, I demand to get something free.  I am a fancy subscribing person and I deserve something!!”.  I also want to see if any of the new game systems are going to be there, especially the new Sony system, since that looks like it has the most potential (not ot mention I am a Sony person, and my PS3 games are supposed to work with the PS3).

That’s all I got right now, I may write something more tonight.

Sports radio fans/"Talent"+a lot of XM 202 fans=whiny little bitches

I laugh when the elitist NY radio "talent" on the sports stations now are upset that because NY isn't involved in the playoffs, the playoffs are crap now.  This is on top of them complaining that the start times of the other games in other parts of the US aren't "convenient" for them (like when the SD/Cards in SD game started at 11 Est. which was prime time in the west).  God forbid something would start at a "normal" time for others outside of NY.  It’s almost as bad as hearing Ron and Fez/Opie and Anthony fans bitch and moan about how the XM 202 Channel is set up now when it comes to the times of their shows and the replays.

Sports Sunday

WOO HOOO!!!! Penn State kicked the hell out of Ohio State last night!!!! That puts them undefeated overall, and the only undefeated school in the Big Ten.  It feels so good to hear the hack analysts who kept bashing PSU all week, saying that they couldn’t hang with the Buckeyes, (and what the hell is a buckeye anyway??) go on TV and try to make it seem that they gave PSU a chance after all.  The only bad thing is that I wish I was up there to see the game.  

After watching the PSU game, I turned to the Metro-DC tape delayed match.  I was expecting a nightmare.  I did get to see a nightmare of a field (but coming form a nightmare of a stadium it doesn’t’ surprise me).  The baseball infield was sodded over, but halfassed.  The ball wouldn’t bounce on it, due to all the water in the sod, so it made for a horrible playing field.  Shockingly, Metro pulled off a 2-1 victory thanks to a great winning goal by Youri Djorkief from over 20 yards out.   This means the Metro can still make the playoffs if they can win against Chivas USA next week.  I still don’t get it how this team can still be in the playoff hunt.  On the other hand, the US lost to Costa Rica also last night, but that game really meant nothing more than a on-field test to see some of the US players that might have a chance of making the team.  

Today I got to see some of the Jets game, and it’s good to see that they have a running game, because Vinnie couldn’t carry the team if he needed to.  I still wonder why Vinnie was called in?  What happened, Neil O’Donnell wasn’t available?  Overall today, I didn’t’ do too bad on my football picks (I’m involved with a ESPN “Pigskin Pick ‘em” league), and I think I got about 70% of my picks so far, I still have to check that out.  I’m doing Ok in the league, but I could do better.  

Nothing much else happening in my life, so I’ll leave this entry at that.

Tonight's thoughts (and a plug)

First, my column for Metrofanatic.com

Now, I had an interview today for an HR position at Macys in Midtown.  Hopefully I did better than how I think I did

Hockey’s back baby!!! This is the first time I am able to watch hockey (years of that bullshit “grab and clutch” style really killed the sport).  The Rangers have gotten 3 of the first 4 points they could, and this team has a lot of potential.  This is the first Ranger team that has played entertaining hockey, and has something the other teams didn’t have in the past decade….HEART!!!!!!

Ah my metros, how many ways can you just piss away points???  They did it last night in injury time to get one point, where they were in shape to get three.  Also didn’t help when their star striker gets a retarded Red card for losing his cool, and now cant’ play against the Scum Saturday, where Metro may FINALLY be eliminated form the playoff run and ends this clusterfuck of a season….

That’s all I got tonight, go back you your lives people

Is nothing sacred anymore??

I am so disgusted about the media today.  I go to pick up the papers today, and what do I see on the cover? A picture of Gotti Jr. praying in church.  How fucking scummy are the media that they have to go into a house of God and take pictures of a man exercising his right?  The man deserves some privacy and time to himself, but the whores that are the media have to desecrate a religious building for profit.  Now if he was a criminal and the cops wanted to get him, I have no problem if they went into church and got him (I think that should happen in any religious institution, even in Iraq if it means getting a criminal). If I were at the service and saw what was going on, I would step in and block the cameras and try to get those assholes out of the church.  I don’t agree with everything that the Gotti’s are about, but why can’t a man who hasn’t been convicted of anything be hunted down and exploited like this just because he and his family were allegedly involved with the mob.  I find it insulting how the media focuses on the alleged crimes of the Gottis, yet overlook all the community work and charity work they have done in Queens.

I blame that coward Curtis Sliwa for a lot of this.  For those who don’t know him, he’s the founder of the glorified boy scouts called the “Guardian Angels”.  They are the guys in red jackets and berets, look like a bowling team, and they walk around neighborhoods trying to act like they are some form of law.  These tough guys are also the ones who are known for beating up undercover cops posing as drug buyers in city parks in the ‘80s.  I remember these tough guys were going to not let me down one sidewalk in Downtown Manhattan (I think it was around NYU) because they didn’t think the block was safe (mind you, countless people were coming and going on the other side).  I eventually told him to try to stop me as I walked by the two geeks, one raised his hand, and I got right in his face.  It’s amazing how these so-called “tough guys” back down when challenged.

Anyway, Sliwa goes on his radio show and talks all this shit about the mob, and hides behind his microphone doing so.  He was the one the Mob allegedly tried to kill, but it hasn’t been proven in court.  Honestly, if the mob did try to kill Sliwa and were successful (remember this was all alleged, it wasn’t’ proven in court), the people of New York would probably not shed one tear if they did and was successful.  That would be one less boil media whore that won’t be sucking up airtime and air in this city.

Sorry about that rant, but I had that in me all day and it just bothered me.  I other news, I had my interview today, seemed to go ok, but I suck at judging those things.  I may find out in a week if I got the gig or not.  So far I have nothing else going on in my life, I may have some other leads about work, but who knows.  Anyway that’s all I got right now.  Until another time…..

weekends suck (at least to me they do)

I don’t know what it is about weekends, but recently I have had a bad, dark mood on weekends.  I think it’s more because I have no money to have fun on weekends, and it just keeps reminding me that last week was another week without a real job, and how I can’t support myself.  I sat in my house the entire weekend just thinking about how things are in my life and how no matter what I have tried to do, things don’t seem to work out right.  This really makes me a real asshole on weekend, where I can be really confrontational and just mean to people.  I tired myself out from worrying/over thinking about myself this weekend Saturday- night I ended up getting almost 11 hours of sleep.  I really needed it too, since all week I get up at 6 after only being able to get to sleep at 1-2 AM.  I really don’t want to get into too much detail about what’s bothering me, since it’s almost 5 years of pain and disappointment, but it’s just something that really did a number on me and my confidence.

I have so much pressure on myself at this point to get my act together and get on my life, but it seems that the more I do, the more things get worse.  My family keeps telling me that I do a lot for them and that I am not a burden on them, but I do feel like a burden, and that really does hurt.  I hope that things tomorrow works out well at my interview, I really need this job in the worst possible way.  From what I understand, things look good that I may get it.  But then again I have no idea about these things anymore considering some of the interviews I have been on seemed to go well, but turned out to not go well.  The assignment is for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Long Island as an administrative assistant (but most of the work I think is calling up members to arrange their volunteering assignments).  It doesn’t sound that bad, and the commute shouldn’t be too bad (they are based in Manhasset, like 20 mins. drive for me).

What else is going on…Penn State won Saturday!!! They beat the hell out of Minnesota and their much-hyped running back.  On the other hand, the Metros decided to bend over and take it from the Scum, more or less eliminating themselves form the playoffs.  It was pathetic to watch the game on TV, how Metro once again played like they were an amateur team.  Today though the G-Men won, showing that they can play football, which is something the Jets can’t say.  Toney Stewart almost one the NASCAR race today, but Dale Jarrett had much more momentum and drafted past Stewart in the end to win.  

This week looks like it’s going to be a big deal for me personally.  I hope that things turn out the way I want them to be, but if they don’t I really won’t be too sad considering that what I want may in the end not be what I want.

That’s all I got now.