tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33177032011-04-21T12:08:35.061-07:00McDBAs of Our LivesThe saga of one man's quest to achieve Microsoft Certification and live to tell about it...but he failed, so now you can read about his regular life insteadRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-57104010840218370692007-09-16T17:00:00.000-07:002007-09-22T09:17:49.369-07:00Just watched Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Not the best movie, not the best animation, but OH LORD ON HIGH how Jane Seymour arouses me in this:Amazingly, that is the UGLIEST picture of her in the movie. It took me at least an extra hour to watch this because I was pausing every time she was on screen. SO. WORTH. IT.And yes, she and that cute blonde go swimming and subathing together:And as Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1160621486641956232006-10-11T19:47:00.000-07:002006-10-11T19:51:26.650-07:00Atlanta is a city that eludes the right angle. Roads, parking lots, housing developments, you will find nothing at 90 degrees to something else or straight for more than 100 feet. Even the lines painted on roads are curved; the parallel lines in parking lots are decorative, no one parks aligned with them. It must have been Sherman: he MUST have marched his soldiers in box formation as they Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1140019291273364572006-02-15T05:46:00.000-08:002006-02-22T06:28:23.576-08:00Reddit has been giving me some good ideas lately. This story on Boing Boing was pretty interesting and got me thinking about e-books, which I always thought were a good idea that wouldn't work unless there was a useful business model and good hardware. Also on Reddit was a link to this conceptual mock-up of a new touch-screen iPod. It's no great stretch to me that anything that can play moviesRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1137279165726809132006-01-14T14:50:00.000-08:002006-01-14T14:55:17.796-08:00I may have said earlier that I would gladly pay good money to drown myself in Keira Knightley's bathwater. I was mistaken. I meant to say I would beg, borrow, and steal every last dollar on the planet Earth so that I could bid on the slightest chance that I might sample one drop of this woman's bathwater:I absolutely recommend purchasing this exquisite publication, it's like watching the sun Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1117974691775972092005-06-05T05:28:00.000-07:002005-06-05T06:58:12.516-07:00Which neatly sums up a 2 page MSNBC article here.Of course this is all a smokescreen, because we all know who Deep Throat really is.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1104411911204785322004-12-30T05:03:00.000-08:002004-12-30T05:08:00.730-08:00R.I.P. Jerry
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/29/obit.orbach/index.htmlRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1099009066760749382004-10-28T17:17:00.000-07:002004-10-28T17:17:46.760-07:00This is too funny: http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4043
Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1068938960840564142003-11-15T15:29:00.000-08:002003-11-15T15:29:41.763-08:00My new toy. Elephants not included. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1064549091483271472003-09-25T21:04:00.000-07:002003-09-25T21:07:06.943-07:00OK, I guess I can post something new finally.Check out the new SQL Team blogs! All kinds of good things there, just don't read my blog.And elsewhere in the world: TVMax, oooops, sorry, DIPSHIT FUCKING CABLE CO. orally sodomizes four-legged antler-bearing tundra dwellers! Yeah, I know: water is wet, the sky is blue, death and taxes. Stoooooooooooooopid cable went out twice this past week! AndRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1060471218511701692003-08-09T16:20:00.000-07:002003-08-14T16:57:38.800-07:00Just to reiterate my reasons for why you should go see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:
Drink to me only with thine eyes,And I will pledge with mine;Or leave a kiss but in the cupAnd I'll not look for wine.The thirst that from the soul doth riseDoth ask a drink divine;But might I of Jove's nectar sup,I would not change for thine.I sent thee late a rosy wreath,Not so much Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1060394986222228752003-08-08T19:09:00.000-07:002003-08-08T19:09:46.210-07:00Well, I'm testing this software called W.Bloggar to post blogs. It works pretty nicely!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1059254069604784962003-07-26T14:14:00.000-07:002003-07-26T14:14:29.643-07:00Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. GO. SEE. IT.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1058232386168178442003-07-14T18:26:00.000-07:002003-07-14T18:26:26.193-07:00Dipshit Fucking Cable Co., aka TVMax, strikes again! So we have a minor thunderstorm (OK, actually there was a guy with a big wooden boat herding animals in the parking lot) and the power goes out for 10 seconds and comes back on. So the HBO channels I'm shelling out $12 a month for AREN'T THERE! Even funnier, all three of them are playing an infomercial for...drum roll...
DISH NETWORK!!!! :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-1055720446064472242003-06-15T16:40:00.000-07:002003-06-15T16:40:46.096-07:00GOT A NEW CPU AND MOBO!!! After I went to DipshitPC, er, I mean PCRapids.com, AKA PCWe'llFuckYourAssWithExtraHiddenCharges.com and ordered some stuff and they just decided to charge me for it AFTER I posted the payment, but not before, and then I tried to get back to them and then finally someone called me and I called them back and said "CANCEL THE MOTHERFUCKER", I was livid, then I went to oneRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-954080962003-06-07T09:55:00.000-07:002003-06-07T09:55:52.070-07:00Got the big screen TV! WOO HOO! 65 inches of Mitsubishi splendor. Lawrence of Arabia was UN. FUCKING. BELIEVEABLE. Barry Lyndon was UN. FUCKING. BELIEVEABLE. The Matrix was just OK, I don't have the special edition, and the picture wasn't all that great. Still, Carrie-Ann Moss is MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM at any size, just more MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM on a big screen.
Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-941742232003-05-11T18:06:00.000-07:002003-05-11T18:06:58.300-07:00Yep, I'm still here. :) Got most of the shit unpacked, had some tornado warnings, and a small scorpion sneaking into the apartment. You know, the usual crap when moving to a new place. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-933539972003-04-27T12:10:00.000-07:002003-04-27T12:10:39.016-07:00I'M FINALLY MOVED IN!!!! WOO HOO!
I am EXTREMELY tired, and haven't made a dent in unpacking, and spent 4 hours cleaning up and vacuuming the old place AFTER spending the entire day moving. Feet hurt, legs hurt, head hurts, but I LOVE the new place. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-929135082003-04-19T19:30:00.000-07:002003-04-19T19:30:25.233-07:00Just watched The Mothman Propecies on HBO. FREAKY movie. Now I have a headache this big, I took two Excedrin, and I still have it. Good movie, but B. Zarre.
And I just realized that I have Barry Lyndon on DVD from Netflix, and I'm about to buy a big honkin' 65" wide screen HDTV ready television, and I was gonna RETURN Barry Lyndon before watching it on the big screen. If you haven't seen Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-928671082003-04-18T18:53:00.000-07:002003-04-18T18:53:41.373-07:00So all of the reading material is in THE NEW APARTMENT!!!! Now the only thing I can read all week are the instructions and ingredients on a Rice-a-Roni box.
I also ordered Direct TV satellite service! WOO HOO! Let's see: it's about the same price as cable, has more channels than cable, can be installed sooner than cable, and Direct TV actually answers their phone, unlike cable. Is this yet Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-925134482003-04-12T20:41:00.000-07:002003-04-12T20:42:23.000-07:00I'm starting to remember why I loved to work weekends at Nextel: NO FUCKING PEOPLE BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK TO GET SHIT DONE IN 2 MINUTES AND MAKING YOU FUCK IT UP WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS!
Yes, I've had some non-weekend days like that recently, and today was a good weekend day that cured me of their side effects. :D
OHHHHHHHH YES, I forgot, I also GOT THE KEYS TO THE NEW APARTMENT! It. Is. Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-924012112003-04-10T19:41:00.000-07:002003-04-10T19:41:29.856-07:00After a long, tiring, insane day at work, Julie Delpy looks even more ravishing and desirable.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-923338832003-04-09T20:06:00.000-07:002003-04-09T20:06:24.233-07:00mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Brazilian food.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-921898852003-04-07T18:53:00.000-07:002003-04-07T20:50:19.000-07:00Fuck lava lamps and those electric lightning balls, I want THIS!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-920188872003-04-04T18:49:00.000-08:002003-04-04T18:49:58.746-08:00Yep, you know it was a good day at work when you come home and slam back 3 beers in under an hour. Thank god I didn't GO OUT drinking. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-918118692003-04-01T18:23:00.000-08:002003-04-01T18:23:51.106-08:00WOOOOOO HOOOOO! I WON THE LOTTERY TODAY!!!April Fool's! :PRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-916801602003-03-30T18:37:00.000-08:002003-03-30T19:18:21.000-08:00OK, I just watched the movie Before Sunrise, which features the absolutely exquisite loveliness of Julie Delpy, who is singularly, utterly, luminously, intoxicatingly, enchantingly somewhat fucking resplendent.And the movie was pretty damn good too! :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-915216322003-03-27T19:28:00.000-08:002003-03-27T19:28:09.856-08:00Man, work is BUSY!!!! But good. I have been approved for whatever amount of hours I feel like working! :) Same rate though. :( Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-912436552003-03-23T14:55:00.000-08:002003-03-23T14:55:17.233-08:00As you can see, for some reason my career in journalism never took off. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-911072452003-03-20T21:43:00.000-08:002003-03-20T21:43:13.590-08:00WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!
Got an email from someone at Microsoft that I'm being considered for their MVP Award! Maybe Bill Gates isn't such a bad guy after all!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-910341272003-03-19T19:36:00.000-08:002003-03-19T19:36:03.746-08:00Yeah, I know, U.S. attacks Iraq and I STILL don't have anything to blog about. :) Oh well.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-909632632003-03-18T18:31:00.000-08:002003-03-18T18:31:27.700-08:00Second night in a row with nothing to say. Keeping the streak alive! :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-908944562003-03-17T18:26:00.000-08:002003-03-17T18:26:56.843-08:00Just thought I'd drop in and say nothing tonight.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-907430982003-03-14T18:35:00.000-08:002003-03-14T18:37:34.000-08:00OK, I can survive not being in a threesome with Nicole Kidman and Diane Lane. I'll be perfectly happy to make do with Nicole Kidman! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Now a new wallpaper coming to a computer near me!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-906827112003-03-13T18:11:00.000-08:002003-03-13T18:11:59.060-08:00OK, here's a threesome I'd love to be in! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Nicole and Diane!!!! :P:P:P:P Actually, all of the babes nominated for Best Actress would suit me juuuuuuuust fine!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-906251212003-03-12T18:47:00.000-08:002003-03-12T18:48:31.000-08:00TNN is getting better! You don't have to wait 2 weeks to see the same bad episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation again! Now you only have to wait 2 DAYS!!!!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-905593102003-03-11T18:15:00.000-08:002003-03-11T18:21:10.000-08:00Yep, I'm taking a whole 25 minutes to make the REAL jambalaya, instead of nuking a bowl of it. Chicken AND sausage.
Hopefully The Onion won't break the link to this story for a while. It describes me to a T. :)
And on that note, I didn't feel that having subscriptions to Playboy, Maxim, and FHM were enough, I also subscribed to Stuff today! WOO HOO! And it's only 75ยข an issue!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-904966242003-03-10T19:05:00.000-08:002003-03-10T19:05:40.450-08:00More goodness about Diane Lane. Not much else to talk about. :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-903842982003-03-08T20:07:00.000-08:002003-03-08T20:07:21.890-08:00For the one other person out there with absolutely NOTHING better to do than read my blog, if you're wondering why I didn't add anything yesterday or today until now, it's because we went out with some (former) co-workers and bar hopped and drank and drank and drank. That's about all I remember. I woke up feeling like I had a brain transplant without anesthesia, and also without getting the Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-902739782003-03-06T18:00:00.000-08:002003-03-06T18:03:20.000-08:00http://www.odysseytec.com/Gallery/friedman2.html
I read/heard someone call the MAGIC/PURPLE decoding project the equivalent of "building a human being using only their letters/correspondence as a guide." This sounds very much like the database conversion I'm doing. :)
If you really want a good laugh, head on over to http://www.aptratings.com/ and see how your favorite apartments rate! I Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-902134772003-03-05T18:59:00.000-08:002003-03-05T18:59:50.450-08:00And the great thing about TNN is, if you like watching really bad episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, they will gladly show you the same really bad episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation two weeks later! See the Feb. 23 blog for more info on this really bad episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
One thing they do that I HATE, is that they trim certain scenes a little, I guess Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-901436082003-03-04T16:36:00.000-08:002003-03-05T18:52:24.000-08:00Some days, there's just nothing on the Internet. This blog pretty much proves that :)Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-900826112003-03-03T17:31:00.000-08:002003-03-03T17:31:28.936-08:00Yeah, I know, I'm writing really boring shit in my blog. But we all knew that the head of steam I originally had was gonna run out sooner or....sooner. Work is about the same, I almost fully automated my invoicing :) so I don't even have to actually do any work to create it anymore. I'm hoping I get to the point where I just come in on Monday, open Outlook, and it prints the invoice Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-899785552003-03-01T18:25:00.000-08:002003-03-03T17:28:54.000-08:00Unemployment is great for your car! In the first 1 year and about 3 months, I put 15,000 miles on my new Miata. Compared to the first year I had the original Miata, I put 31,000 miles on it. :) And those 15,000 miles include 3 round trips to NY and one to NH! 1800 and 2500 miles, respectively. And when I move to Norcross, I'll be lucky to put 50 miles on it in a MONTH.
Saw 5 apartments Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-899358632003-02-28T19:15:00.000-08:002003-02-28T19:15:31.200-08:00This is how much I love having a job: I stayed 2 hours unbilled overtime, and I'm an hourly employee, just to hang out and chat with people working there! OK, one person. And I surfed the web a little, but I was actually doing LEGITIMATE RESEARCH! I'm not kidding! Stop staring at me like that!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-898765332003-02-27T18:47:00.000-08:002003-02-27T18:47:31.310-08:00mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Stir Fry! I finally got to use the wok I got as a gift from mom years ago. Veggies, chicken, and some Pasta Roni angel hair parmesan something or other, ate almost two helpings and there's STILL some left over, gonna make a nice meal tomorrow, maybe bring it with me for lunch! :)
Source Control RULES! And I haven't even really started using it yet, and I'm already Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-898096942003-02-26T17:56:00.000-08:002003-02-26T17:59:52.000-08:00OK, Majel Barrett/Roddenberry can't act. I mean, she's so bad in that episode you can see the other actors practically cringing. It's a shame, she was actually pretty good in some other scenes, but she can't do anything where she has to cry. It's horrendous. Shatner is Olivier or Geilgud by comparison. She's probably crying at her complete lack of ability to do crying scenes.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-898090552003-02-26T17:44:00.000-08:002003-02-26T17:44:19.280-08:00Here's me in glass-half-full mode, remember it, it may not come again for a while :) Since I've been out of work for so long, I lost a lot of my bad habits and attitude about things, for instance: SOURCE CONTROL. I never would've used it at Nextel, and today I played with it for 5 minutes and fell totally in love! I may actually become a professional coder now!
Turned in my notice to vacate Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-897485162003-02-25T18:12:00.000-08:002003-02-25T18:12:08.466-08:00I had a headache THIS BIG, but I took 2 bottles of Excedrin, and it's gone! :)
FINALLY FOUND the lease, on top of papers I must've picked up and looked through 10 FUCKING TIMES without opening the envelope they were actually in! And it does end on April 30, so I'm within my 60 days! WOO HOO! Don't need the extra month!
Nor-cross Geor-gia here I come!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-896814882003-02-24T17:56:00.000-08:002003-02-24T17:56:32.763-08:00So they had a board meeting today and the CEO had sent out an email on Friday that all the guys had to wear a tie. Well, they didn't have me on the "Everyone" email list so I didn't get that email. Luckily I happened to wear a dress shirt and slacks today, more or less because I had no other clean laundry. :) Of course, everyone was asking "Didn't you get the email?" Sooooooooo close to Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-896138802003-02-23T13:09:00.000-08:002003-02-23T14:44:48.000-08:00Forgot how bad some of the first season episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation were. Although I do miss Denise Crosby. mmmmmmmmRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-896129102003-02-23T12:48:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:48:32.686-08:00More proof that advertising is hypocritical, AND that I really need to find better things to do with my time:
I'm cooking some noodles and the package says to "use butter or margarine, but we recommend "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!""
OK, so now they want me to use a product that is DELIBERATELY LYING to me, and being completely up-front about lying to me. Then they want me to believe, "Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-896068232003-02-23T10:22:00.000-08:002003-02-23T14:46:23.000-08:00I love how the ads that appear on this blog page are for DBA services, and none of them are for MY services. :) Gotta talk to the guys posting the ads about getting kickbacks. Although, that's assuming they actually WANT the customers they get from reading this blog, which is highly doubtful. Also assumes anyone but me actually reads this thing, which is highly doubtful too.
OK, time for theRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-895299962003-02-21T18:12:00.000-08:002003-02-21T18:12:36.803-08:00Sort of weird vibes at work today, nothing really upsetting, just odd. Like someone saying "You need to get your car fixed!" and then not allowing you to bring it into the shop, nor allowing the mechanic to come out and fix it...???? Maybe if I was better at lateral thinking I could figure out a way to do it under those circumstances.
STILL no signed copy of the contract. Even better, I only Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-894656982003-02-20T16:50:00.000-08:002003-02-20T16:50:30.550-08:00YES!!!!! Signed the contract today!!!! WOO HOO!!!!! Although I don't know if THEY signed it yet, and I haven't gotten my copy either, but still, that's the last step.
OK, here's a question: you buy a frozen jambalaya rice bowl at the market, and the instructions are: 6 minutes microwave, 50 minutes in the oven. Hmmmmm, which one, which one? Oven? Microwave? Does this strike anyone else Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-893990922003-02-19T16:43:00.000-08:002003-02-19T16:43:04.320-08:00I FILLED OUT THE CONTRACT TODAY! Except for the required signatures. :( Maybe tomorrow....
Oh yeah, yesterday was the six year anniversary of my very first day at Nextel. And it's been about 1 year and 1 month since I was paroled from same. YAY!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-893481532003-02-18T19:23:00.000-08:002003-02-18T19:23:59.863-08:00Man, it's hard to work when you didn't get enough sleep and your brain is completely non-functional, AND you're trying to write SQL code. I don't recommend it. Get a good night's sleep before you write SQL!
Actually saw a CONTRACT today...only it was blank. I could've signed it I guess, but then I would've had to ____________________________ for the Company while they ________________________Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-892910122003-02-17T22:51:00.000-08:002003-02-18T19:18:38.000-08:00It's nice to catch up with old friends :) Met Ava and Len today (Ava is a fellow Nextel parolee like myself, Len is her hubby) they were visiting her mom and sister. We went to Hooters for dinner. :) Len and I had a GREAT time, and Ava did too but she won't admit it. She could work there if she wanted to...oooops, did I say that out loud? Also spoke to Donna this past weekend (Donna is my Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-892190462003-02-16T19:55:00.000-08:002003-02-23T14:45:44.000-08:00Diane Lane is a very damn fine looking woman! If you haven't seen Unfaithful yet, you're in for a treat. Not only is she gorgeous and sexy, she's a great actress too. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-892020642003-02-16T13:26:00.000-08:002003-02-16T13:26:18.350-08:00Well, I didn't get fired in my first week at work, and I feel confident enough about it that I shut off my email notifications from Dice.com and Monster.com! Now I no longer get emails about all of the available jobs that I apply for but don't get a response! Nor do I feel guilty about not applying for a job I could get but really don't want to apply for cause it sounds like a loser! Ahhhhh, Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-891248782003-02-14T18:56:00.000-08:002003-02-16T18:38:26.000-08:00Scary things happening at work. Not only am I beginning to understand the database and can therefore actually contribute something useful to the company, I'm even beginning to use Microsoft Outlook to manage my time!!!!! First diagrams in Powerpoint and now useful task scheduling and invoicing in Outlook! MS is truly an evil corporation! They're beginning to make me like their most hated Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-890878852003-02-14T04:37:00.000-08:002003-02-14T16:47:52.000-08:00A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's an erection for?Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-890693062003-02-13T19:13:00.000-08:002003-02-13T19:13:26.946-08:00Hehehehehehehehe, I didn't have anything to blog about for a year, and now that I do it is the most boring mundane shit anyone could possibly write about! :) If you've got any paint drying in your house, pull up a chair and watch it, you'll enjoy it more than this blog.
Wonky VB code doing things a database should be doing instead, writing SQL code to do such things and realizing that *maybe* Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-890067162003-02-12T18:05:00.000-08:002003-02-18T20:36:02.000-08:00February 12, 2003
Day 2 of being employed again! WOO HOO! Actually did some real work today, only on something that will probably never be used by anyone else on the planet because they know better: getting Powerpoint to generate database diagrams. For anyone reading this who doesn't know, trust me, this is the DBA equivalent of getting kicked in the balls. Repeatedly. With a steel toe Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-889543492003-02-11T20:30:00.000-08:002003-02-11T20:30:04.513-08:00February 11, 2003
An entire year has gone by since I last blogged. Whoopee. I'm SOOOOO lazy. But more important than that:
I NOW HAVE A JOB!!!
And I didn't even need a certificate to get it! Which is good, because all I did today was cut and tape together a database diagram. I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't insisted that you need a cert to do even THAT. Yes, they let me have scissors and Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317703.post-94251952002-02-05T19:57:00.000-08:002002-02-05T19:57:56.313-08:00Semi-resume for RV:
SQL Server database and ASP web developer. No longer working at his job, (did something SCANDALOUS, won't tell you what it is though because your imagination is juicier than the truth), and could really use another one because...well, my lease requires me to pay rent. They're funny like that.
Well, let's see now: plenty of jobs at Monster.com, Dice.com, HotJobs.com, Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523225829525743687noreply@blogger.com