Gmail SBEmail

Arrugh! Gmail Services have been down for the last two hours. I have specific mail that I need to download and print!! Oh the humanity! Will someone from Gmail please call me back? Oh heck, lets mosie on down to Strong Bad for the moment until Google gets their act together.

Jason Blows

I missed out on todays run. Good thing because I didnt feel the let down when at:
Caution 7 / Lap 217: Jason Leffler blows an engine!

After a week at Daytona, Jason was driving in the back of the pack. According to what I have been reading that strategy was to save the strength of the car for a win at the end of the race. Unfortunately for Mr. Leffler, it ended in a blown engine and another lost weekend. Good luck next year Jason. Oh by the way, I am still a fan. Go FedEx Racing!

Nascar Starts

Watched as the new FedEx Car became part of a multi car accident at the final 50 laps of the Daytona 500! The FedEx Car had a lot of potential and really stuck in the middle of the pack until the last 50 laps when it was involved in a multi car mishap that moved it from 14th position to 35 overall. Such a disappointing loss for its first day at the track. Well, no one says that it was going to be easy. I hope to see the FedEx Kinkos Car roll out in the next few races. According to NASCAR.com its expected to be in 6 races this season. My congratulations to Jeff Gordon for winning Daytona for a third time! Great job Mr. Gordon!

Guilty Pleasure

I was surfing the web tonight and found gwenstefani.com! I wasnt sure if she had her own site now that she has a hit record. Its all Macro baby! (Macromedia that is) So far its only promoting 2 new songs but the graphic art and the eastereggs flourish in the flora. When I heard her on the radio that this record might just turn out to be a guilty pleasure, she wasnt kidding around. Seems that she and her troup are going all out on this venture. I wish her prosperity and luck. And as EVE would say..."Come together all over the world. From the hoods of Japan Harajuku girls. What? It’s all love. What? Give it up. What? (shouldn’t matter) What?"

It’s time to say Gung shi fa chai

Today marks the beginning of the year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar!
Gung Shi! Gung Shi!

This is also my last time that I will be celebrating single. Anyone care to give me a red envelope? =)

Thoughtful words from a colleague

I happened to pass by one of the Centers to drop off a package and the manager, who I happen to know for a long time and consider a colleague, approached me to chat. He found out about my move last Thursday and was actually asked if I could be placed in his center. He had some worldly advice for me since he was in a similar situation before.

"Try not to dwell on it too long and consider moving forward. Its not going to be easy but the sooner you forget what happened, the faster it is going to be to make positive changes on your new assignment."

I never thought this center manager was ever in tune with my activities and I most certainly was taken aback that he has some helpful advice for me to better myself with the company.

I am certainly appreciative about his advice and will take it to heart. Its probably safe to assume that other managers in the district share the same sentiments. It was really unfair that I was pulled from the project so early in the game and that they had such high expectations and yet they failed to give me the ball and run with it. But like my colleague says, I should try not to dwell on it.

I could sure use some cheering right about now...

AMC Update

I just read that Eden Riegel will be leaving All My Children. Her last show will be on February 24th. Awww shucks! An I just started watching it again too. Things are heating up with her character in the show as well. I am eager to see what will happen in her last appearance as Bianca Montgomery.

heres the link to the article

YoYo Dreams

When I was a kid, I used to play with Yoyo's and with the help of my dear old Dad, I became somewhat of an expert at it. I would do tricks in the school yard along with other kids that have shown me other things that I could do with a Yoyo.

Last night, I had the most bizzare dream. I dreamt that I was playing with a Yoyo right before I went to bed with who I thought was my fiance. I was doing my old routine of the round the world, back and forth, walking the dog and rock a bye baby. Then I wound up the routine by dropping the Yoyo in the normal drop and pull back to show that it was still alive. Then I began to approach the bed and my fiance turns around and it turns out that it wasnt her but a woman that I had a crush on when I was a younger! I looked into her eyes and she asked why I had to show off like that? Then she took the Yoyo away from me and did her thing with it and showed me what she could do with it. I was very much impressed, I mean, after all playing with a Yoyo in a nighty isnt a walk in the park. And then I woke up!

Its a strange dream indeed. I would like to know what it means, I remembered it like it was real so it must poise to have something to do with my past what I am currently experiencing in my real life. I certainly think that I will not be having an affair from my fiance whom I dearly love but the dream might me about other things aside from a sexual inuendo.

Never the less, I really found it strange that I would have such a dream. And its really funny that I would be playing with a Yoyo which I haven't touched in over ten years!

Off the Project

Last Thursday, I had a meeting with the district manager and my boss. I was enlightened to the mistakes that I have made while doing work on the project. Both managers expressed to me their frustrations and I was given the chance to explain why I made such crucial errors that I wouldn't normally do given my past work ethics. Needless to say, I was put in my place and that I will be off the project beginning next week.

For me it was a sigh of relief! I've been working on this project for over 8 weeks now and the last 3 weeks were a disaster! I was not given full transitions everyday and I would have to beg for the chance to get a transition. It painfully obvious that I wasn't just going to be in charge solely on the project but also other things in the center even though TPTB told me that I wouldnt do anything else.

I failed for I was communicated the expectations and didnt tell TPTB above my manager about my frustrations and shortcomings. So in my future endeavours I need
to manage upward if I cannot get the answers that I need and that I have to manage up on a timely basis too. Its part of the S.M.A.R.T. goals that I have been told to enforce.

On a learning curve, I am at the near bottom of the curve. I will need to study this a little bit more and learn from my mistakes. For now the managers are looking for a new home for me and a new task.

02/07/2005-UPDATE: I have been given a new home and a new project! Woohoo! I am psyched about it and will give some details later. Wish me luck...

Select-O-Matic

The Jukebox that was truly memorable for me were the Select-O-Matic jukeboxes at the Georgia Diner on Queens Blvd in NY. I would remember after clubbing all night, that was our spot for a bite to eat and to listen to the beats of nostalgia. It took a bit of time for our songs to come up since it was always packed after 4 am! We would sometimes order more fries with mozzarella cheese and ketchup just so that we could hear our selected songs play in the order we chose.

The Select-O-Matics might have been just a connection to the real one somewhere in the Diner since everyone listened to the same song when it came up the speakers. But that was the place. The jukebox didnt have a lot of top 40 tunes of the times but it was packed with 50's and 60's classics! Elvis, The 4 Seasons, The Beach Boys, The Platters, you name it. It had a menu of songs behind a contured glass frame with shiny tin housing. It had buttons at the base of the jukebox and we would select the songs by pressing the designated buttons underneath. AcclaimImages.com has a great stock shot of the Jukebox.

We would leave The Georgia Diner without the beat of the club out of ears and with do-wop and early rock and roll music in our minds and hearts instead. It was a part of my past that I rarely talk about since it was just something that really just put me in a place of private heaven with a bunch of guys and girls where we didnt really think about who liked who and if there was really any serious relationship with that person. We just liked to listen to our songs and getting home to dream of Bobby, Elvis, and The Beach Boys at a time when America was in its pristine moment.

AMC

Ive started watching AMC again after all these years my favorite character, Bianca Montgomery is still there! I cant believe that they changed her birthdate to make her a major player in the show. If they stuck to the old birthday it would have meant that she would have only be 15 years old right now. Currently, with the new birthdate Bianca is 21 years old!

Its Friday! Off with your Pants!!