In a blazing form of mimicry, Aaron's getting a job at the State Department has inspired me to actually go job hunting myself. Over the last couple of months I have become increasingly dissatisfied with both working for Marathon Oil and now SAIC. Marathon because of the whole outsourcing debacle and SAIC because I just feel like I'm getting no ( Read more... )

I just had an interesting conversation with Bank of America. Apparently the police caught somebody that had my credit card number. No purchases were made with it, but they still had my number. My credit card has now been canceled and they are going to send me a new one ( Read more... )

I have been reminded today why I don't like to drink coffee on a regular, or even irregular, basis ( Read more... )

I love my new company. They've just been called to the mat for, I guess gross incompetence, with regards to a new software package they were building for the FBI (See story).

At least when I worked for Marathon we were only an embarrassment to our industry, not the entire nation.

You can't see it, but right now I'm laughing my ass over this :)

Ever since I've gone to work for SAIC my work life has sucked ass, big hairy stinky ass. Most of my day is spent sitting on my ass trying to think of something to do. Seriously ( Read more... )

A funny thing happened on the way home from Karate tonight. I was stopped at a light along with another truck. Said truck decided that it was taking a long time for the light to switch and decided they wanted to reposition themselves. As such, they duly placed their truck in reverse, their lights did go on, and started to back up ( Read more... )

This weekend was fun. I spent all day Saturday and Sunday taking a class to learn how to ride and operate a motorcycle. There was the obligatory class time where you had to watch dumb ass videos and answer questions from a book. But a majority of the time both days was actually spent on a bike learning the basic bike operation and street ( Read more... )

I curse you Nathan for introducing me to Ghastly's Ghastly Comic. It is rude, crude, and absolutely hilarious. However, I wonder what the Christian Coalition would think of the recent comic. Hopefully the likes of Pat Robertson would have conniptions if they saw it.

Arafat is dead. Not to be crass, but ( Read more... )

Damn, the Red Sox won. Now I can't revel in the pain and misery of Boston's plight anymore. Oh well, next on the list is Chicago, may their drought continue on.