Ugh Google
Google sold me out, and now this website comes up if you do a search on my name.
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The Cooler Part I Never Uploaded
I should have uploaded these after the balloon rally. They are cooler than the daytime photos.
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Macomb Balloon Rally
Fast forward about two months: finished the internship, returned to WIU to finish school, will return to Bloomington to continue career at State Farm in May.
It is the third weekend into the semester, and it is also the 21st annual Macomb Balloon Rally. 90% of this event is crap; the rest is pretty neat.
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Boring Day
Today was supposed to be my day to work on all my java stuff without any meetings or crap to get in the way. Well, I got some of it done in the morning, but I needed to meet with my mentor to discuss WebSphere and my next project… She emailed me, however, and said she couldn’t meet with me until tomorrow morning.
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New Design and Some Other Stuff
Thanks for redesigning the weblog, mom, I think it looks ultra-sweet. Way better than that defaultish thing I had going on before.... Now I should just post more, but I know that only us and anybody else who has googled my name know about this.
It’s been a while since I posted about work, but I have certainly been working. Like, a lot.
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The Business Casual Dress Challenge
I gave my first speech today at work as part of the intern speech program, and I think it went over quite well considering I wrote it so close to the deadline and did not practice it. For a four to six minute speech, I paced it out to a nice ending in about five minutes and forty seconds. The audience laughed quite a bit because all I do is make jokes when I am nervous, but the general feedback was pretty good.
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Being Dumb at Work
I didn’t really get home from work until sometime between 5:30 and 6 today, and I usually leave my desk at around 4:15. Traffic is getting worse around that time of day and it is getting to be a pain passing through all of the lights. Today, however, I had to drive home from work twice because I’m an idiot.
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$10,000 for your career or for the biggest crack rock you’ve ever seen?
Pat and I were sitting in living room today playing Halo 3 when somebody knocked on the door. Eric was upstairs and Rob was out back, so we didn’t really know who it was. Pat got up and opened the door, and this big black girl and her big white sidekick assaulted us with their scheme to earn $10,000 to fund their careers. They had good salesman tactics in that they kept talking and managed to get into our home. They made enough noise that Eric came downstairs and Rob came in to see what was going on… however, everybody pretty much scattered except for me and Pat when they found out that these two were selling magazine subscriptions.
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Tomorrow I Will Be Training All Day Long
And the next day, and the next, and so on for two weeks. I won’t be spending my days in the building where I’m supposed to be working, and so I won’t even see my desk or co-workers until June 4th. Instead, I sit in a classroom flipping through a massively huge binder full of training manuals. There is a timeline which I am to follow in order to get all of the training done within my two weeks, and there are short exercises and things thrown in there which I have to turn into my advisers before I can progress.
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Very Tired
I woke up at 5:45am for orientation day at State Farm today. I only got about five hours of sleep I think because I am not used to going to bed early or waking up early. I think the last time I was awake as early as 5:45 was when I had to get up at 4:00am to drive down to Macomb last fall. I managed not to take a nap at all today after work, though, so I am sufficiently tired at around 9-10:00pm when I should be going to bed. I don’t have to be out of bed until 6:30 tomorrow morning which is quite nice also.
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Jed
Systems Analyst
Bloomington, IL.
Ubuntu 8.04
Currently using
Montana Trip
May/06
Books I've read recently or am sort of reading now
- God is not Great
- Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
He's not.
Apparently you can read the whole damn thing on google.
I don't listen to a lot of music.
- 95.5 GLO (Peoria)
Okay, they keep playing the same shit. Seriously, Mellencamp sucks. - Led Zeppelin
Zep. - The Who
- Jethro Tull
- Pink Floyd
- The Big Lebowski
Finest movie ever made.