The DerfJam Chronicles

So that crazy girl Shanel, whom I said wanted to get in my pants, hangs out with me frequently. We have lunch on a daily basis and what not.....but only because we work together and she is around the same age as me. Yaye for youngins in the working world! But yeah, I keep telling her that I hate her and she's always so mean to me but she keeps coming back for more(it's like those wrestlers who are bad guys and they like it when people boo them). But she's fun to be around. It makes being at work tolerable. Today for lunch she kept some of the most random things and I told her that she should be blonde. She asked if I was saying that because of her intelligence? I told her no, it was for her fun factor. Blondes have more fun. Hahahahaha. My buddy Scotty said it's not a good idea for Shanel to go blonde cuz he really likes blondes and we all work together and he doesn't want to be forced to make a move on a blonde at work. We only have one blonde girl working here and she's practically married so she's off limits.

Oh yeah, Saturday is movie night at Shanel's place. I will be bringing over Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. It will be a fun night. Hopefully her roommates are home and we can all get faded and hit the hot tub. Wishful thinking. Ha.

I was driving to work this morning and I was thinking about some stuff and I thought it would be good to write in here. But here I am and I can't remember a damn thing. Watch, once I get home I'll remember it exactly.

Tomorrow, free beer at Karl Strauss in Sorrento Mesa on Scranton Rd. Me and the coworkers will be heading over there after work. The first Thursday of every month they do a keg tap and they hook it up with free beer. Scotty and the gang go there quite frequently while this will be my first time. I'm not really a beer drinker but if it's free, what heck. Why not? I'm not really too big on alcohol period! I can drink every once in a while but not like my friends who do it on a weekly basis. Did I mention that I'm allergic to alcohol? My Mom is too. But if a really hot girl offers me a drink or asks me to join her in a drink, I simply will not pass up that opportunity.

"Ahhhh, it's on the tip of my tongue......." Don't you hate that feeling? You know exactly what it is but it won't come out. Or when you walk into a room and wonder why the hell you are there? And then as soon as you walk out, you remember you needed to get the stapler or something.

I have this deficiency where I can hear music in my head but when I try to play it, it doesn't ever sound the way it did in my head. I'm looking for ways to associate sounds with pictures or something of the sorrt. The idea is if I hear a certain musical note, let's say an F# (F sharp), I'll associate it with the color red. So when I hear that note, that assigned color pops into my brain. I think this is called Synesthsia or something like that.

And Shanel doesn't think that the girl I'm seeing is all that great. She says that I can do better. Could she possible be alluding to herself? She keeps saying that I'm the one who likes her and its not her who likes me. I'm sticking to my story.....

Let's do a weekend recap.

Friday I left work early so I could catch my flight to Seattle. My flight was delayed for two hours because it had come in from Cabo and they needed to go through Customs or some crap like that. And then once we boarded the plane, they discovered that the landing gear had some mechanical problems so we had to wait for that. And since the plane was full, they had trouble doing the work on it and the pilot mentioned that they might have to unload the entire plane in order to fix it. Luckily they were able to fix it with all of us onboard.

The original departure time was supposed to be 4:45 but we didn't leave until 6 something. We arrived in Seattle at around 10ish and went to eat dinner at a place called The Rock. It's Friday and I'm here with my coworkers and they're all ordering some good ass food and I'm thinking if I should order something good too but there was nothing on the menu that was tempting and didn't contain MEAT. Fridays during Lent = no meat for me. But I was thinking that I'm here on business trip and the company is paying and I'm in a different zipcode so I opted to order something with meat and it was delicious. Sinning never felt so good....

So it's almost midnight on Friday night and we just finished eating dinner and my coworker wants to go to this "club". Hahahahaha. He drove so I said I was down to roll. It ended up being a good decision cuz we had a damn good time. Its almost 2am by the time we leave and make it to the hotel to check in. We were scheduled to start our work at 5am but we were on call.

We ended up not coming in at 5am but I was awake anyways. Our supervisor called us around that time and said they were fixing some problems and that he would call us when we could come in. He ended calling back later and told us to come in at 7am. So we get there but they weren't done fixing what they needed to fix. We were just chillin for a damn long time and we didn't get to start working until about 9:45am. Our work was supposed to be done by 10am. What we needed to do could not be possibly done in 15 mins. We ended staying til noon and I'm not too sure if the work we did would even be useful. Oh well. Shit happens.

And now we're done with work and its around 1pm and our scheduled flight is at 8:55pm. We had some other coworkers also in the area for some training and I called them up so we could meet for lunch. We go to the place I had in mind but it was closed and didn't open til 3pm. We were trying to catch an earlier flight at 5:30pm so we didn't want to wait til it opened. We ended going to the same place we ate at on Friday night and it was good. One of our coworkers in training is this really hot girl and she was the one I called to come meet for lunch and I was hoping to get her alone but all the other coworkers came along. It's all good. Lunch is good and we make it in time for the 5:30 flight.

We arrive in SD at about 8:10pm and I get home around 8:45 or so. I get a call at 9pm and it's my friend Kevin's b-day and they tell there's a party at his place. So i'm pretty damn tired but I go over there anyway cuz I've known Kevin since we were about 7 years old. But yeah, we drank and ate and played some musical instruments and listend to some jazz and also RATM since Kevin got tix to Coachella and Rage is gonna be playing. It was good to see friends I haven't seen in a while. I'm pretty much the only one who works a full time job cuz most of my friends are still in school so I can't hang out with them as much as I'd like. I ended up getting home around 1am.

Sunday comes and I don't wake up til noon cuz I'm dead tired. I wake up to Alexis' call. We were scheduled for a date on Sunday. She calls and basically makes sure that we're still gonna do our plan. So I'm cleaning from 1pm til about 4 and then I go to pick up Alexis. I haven't seen her since December. We were supposed to eat at a restaurant but she was kinda lagging so we didn't have time go to a sit-down restaurant and make it to the Misc. Ailments show over @ SOMA. So we decided to go to this taco shop called "It's a Taco Shop" over by SOMA. It was so weird. Random dirty looking guys kept talking to us. I know they were just checking her out and everything cuz I saw them looking at her ass but she was scared. Hahahahah. One of them had this dog and asked us to watch it while he went outside and did something. I told him No and I gave him this look like he was crazy and I wanted to fight him so he walked out immediately. Everytime I stepped away from Alexis, he would come to her and talk and then I would hear her call my name I'd come over and talk to them crazy guys. I don't think I'll be going back to that taco shop anytime soon.

So we go to SOMA to watch Misc. Ailments and they had their CD release show. It's about time they released their CD. It's been about 8 months since they recorded it. It turns out that Alexis knows the studio producer that recorded their album. I guess she's family friends with him. But the show @ SOMA was good and I got alot of good pix. I even had that press pass so I could go onstage and take pix of the bands. It was good show. I'll post the pix sometime within the next few days.

I like hanging out with Alexis cuz she likes to have her picture taken and I like to take pictures. We go hand in hand. So yeah, that was my weekend. I wish I could have gone to April Joy's housewarming but it's all good. I'm not Superman and I can't do everything but I wish that wasn't the case.

Oh yeah, there's this crazy girl at work named Shanel and she totally wants me. Hahahahaha. When we go out drinking, she gives me all these crazy looks like she wants to get in my pants but we work together and I will never let that happen....when I'm sober. If I'm drunk I am not accountable for my actions. If I don't remember it, it never happened....but I'm sure my camera will tell a different story.

I just found out I am flying to Seattle Friday night after work so I can do some work up there and work starts at 4am on Saturday. I'll be back Saturday night. Things are kinda hectic but whatever. This means I will miss out on April Joy's housewarming and Kevin's b-day.....but I will be back for Misc. Ailments @ SOMA and the date with Alexis.

Back in college (ha, that sounds funny. I feel like an old man) when Bluetooth was starting to come around and get noticed, I had an idea that I thought would revolutionize the electronic community. I thought about the way bluetooth or wireless internet worked and I thought it would be a cool idea if we could use those same ideas for rechargeable batteries. What if we could recharge batteries without ever having to plug them in to a charger? Well, it looks like somebody beat me to the punch. Looks like I won't be getting rich anytime soon. I'll let you guys read about the details on how this works.

I have more ideas such as this that I think could shake the ground we walk upon. It's just a matter of me actually figuring out how to get it to work. Think about it, if we invent something that pretty much the whole world will use we would be rich and never have to work a day in our lives. I mean, I would still "work" but I just would be in a different field if ya nom sain?

I went to sleep at 6pm last night and woke up at 4am. I don't really feel refreshed at all. Too many nights of staying up late and waking up early. I think I need a full week of sleep to catch up and get my body fully recovered. Well whatever, that's my own badd.

Things to look forward to this week:

*Misc. Ailments playing at SOMA
*Date with Alexis
*April Joy's housewarming
*Karmen coming back from Taiwan
*Ash Wednesday (don't eat MEAT!!!!)
*Think of something to give up for Lent (Soda for sure and maybe chocolate, MAYBE!)

So here I am blogging from workland and we got a bunch Boeing folks are here to help understand all the system problems we're having. Ok, enough about work....

Everyone around me is getting sick so that means I'm gonna get sick sometime soon. Did I mention I hate being sick? Ha. My friend April Joy is funny cuz she likes being sick. Crazy girl. Hahahahahah. I can't understand how anyone can enjoy being sick unless they are attended to hand and foot by someone and that person is fulfilling their every desire. I think I would enjoy being sick if it meant that I had to miss work or school or something. But yeah, being sick is not my thing cuz I'm sick for months at a time. I never take medicine cuz I think it makes the body weaker. I think your body becomes dependent on it and you don't build the immunities that you normally would if you didn't take that medicine. But whatever, I could be wrong. What else is new?

So I spent the New Year with my homie Nam and his group of friends. They had a party for the grand opening of his car shop Revd Up Kustomz. It was pretty dope. It was like a giant block party. They had a DJ, food, a unch of fixed up cars and bikes. They even had a stunt riding demo and I took a bunch of pix of it. They had Lisa Flemming there too. I was there for about 4 hours or so and I left before the bikini contest. I was hoping to be able to see it but my grandma was at home alone and I felt bad for leaving her there so I went home. But yeah pix are posted on my website www.derfjam.com and Happy New Year!

Oh yeah, I entered in this Chess tournament at work. The winners get to be the first passengers on the new 787 plane. I dunno if that's a prize or if it's punishment. Hahahaha. My supervisor wants nothing to do with that first flight. He wants to see it fly a couple hundred times before he sets foot inside that plane. But yeah, word on the streets is that some of the people that work here are nationally ranked chess players. So I brought my chess board to work and I'm practicing....

I wake up and I want something else. Everyday I wake up and I wish hadn't. It's not death that I wish. It's life. I wish I didn't have to sleep so I could experience all the things I want to and have been meaning to do. Stupid sleep takes up so much of my day. It's way overrated. Yet, I can't seem to get enough of it. My waking moments have me fighting to keep my eyes open. My eyelids get heavier throughout the day but as night nears, suddenly I'm wide awake. I don't know if it's me being greedy or the battle between my "id" and super-ego. My morals have all gone out the door and with it, any self-respect that I once had. I just want to fulfill these desires without shame. Is that so much to ask?

So today for Valentine's I brought cards and candy for the entire office. It's those Winnie the Pooh Valentine's cards that say something clever on it. Ha. People were all surprised cuz no one's done this since elementary school. I wish more people would still do it. I guess I'm the only one who doesn't care to get ridiculed. Some of the guys in the office were all like "I usually never get these kinds of things from a man." The chocolate will still taste the same even if it's from a girl. Ha.

Everyone has this so called "hatred" towards this day but it's just like any other day. It's like my birthday, another day come and gone. Basically I don't do anything too special. It might be because I'm single but that shouldn't matter. I'll go out and bring a girl chocolates or flowers anytime I feel like it. It might be because she's sad about something it might cheer her up. Or it could be me trying to impress her. Same shit, different toilet.

Oh yeah, Karmen gave me chocolate this morning. What a sweet girl! =)

....and you're to blame. You give love a bad name. Well well well, the Charger head coach Marty Schottenheimer got fired last night as you all may know. I walk into to work and people are waiting for my reaction. Ha. I guess that just shows how much they know about how I feel for the Chargers. I guess anyone passing by my cubicle would know that too. My posters and the stuff on my desk and screensaver and all the hats and shirts I wear everyday. Hahahaha.

But yeah, I'm a little shocked by the news as to how late in the offseason they decided to do it yet I am not troubled by it. I have faith in the General manager AJ Smith. The man has a masterplan and he would not start it without some of the pieces already falling into place. I think our team is loaded and anyone who takes over will have to just look pretty. It's like handing the keys of your Porsche to the valet driver. It's gonna look good no matter who is driving it. I think they have someone in mind to be the next head coach otherwise they wouldn't have fired Marty. I don't think we've taken a step backwards. We're moving laterally....I'm looking forward to our next move.

I was talking to my boy Johnny "The Moocher" Lam. We went to school together but alot of people hated him cuz of his "mooching". Me and Johnny were cool cuz he didn't really mooch off me that much but he hooked me up with alot of stuff in exchange for his mooching so I didn't mind. If I ever needed anything, he could get me a bootleg copy of it. He is from Hong Kong, the bootleg capital of the world. Hahahahaha. But yeah, he hit me up on Friday and we started shooting the shit. We were just talking about everything we're doing and what we've done since we last spoke. He's married now and his chick is pretty smokin' hot!!!!!! I showed him pix of the one I'm working on (I won't post it on here cuz she probably looks at this page). And he was teaching me phrases of his native language cuz my chick in the works is from the same place he is (Damn, that narrows the field so I might as well as put her pic up on here). He was explaining to me about why he's not an engineer and why he's doing what he is now. He's the manager of some company in the food industry. He told me he's in the works of starting an import/export company (I smell BOOOOOOOTLEGGGG!!!!!!!!!!). Hahahahahahahaha.

I was wondering how Johnny got his chick. But when he got with her he was about 50 lbs. lighter so that makes sense. Ha. Damn, I gotta get 50 lbs. lighter now. For reals.

I thought you were supposed to feel different when you got older. I really don't feel that different. Maybe it's cuz I still live at home and I don't have any real responsibilities. I mean I mow the lawn, trim the bushes/plants/shrubs, take out the garbage, do the dishes, do laundry and all that jazz but I don't feel like an adult. I'm 24 damn years old but I feel like I'm 16. I still have to call home to check in cuz my Mom is paranoid that I got killed if I don't call when I go out. I have to tell her where I'm going. It's pretty weak. I need to get my own place. I dunno though, people always tell the opposite of what I feel. "Take yout time in college". "Live at home as long as you can" Things of that nature but sometimes I have to find things out on my own for it to have any meaning. Somebody talk some sense into me.....

I woke up today in the worst possible way. I woke up cuz I had a calf cramp. Those are so damn painful when you don't realize what's goin' on! I woke up and felt paralyzed from the pain. I couldn't really move, let alone understand what was going on. I tried to get up out of bed but I couldn't. I tried to bend my leg so I could grab onto my calf but my knee wouldn't bend. After about a minute of being in pain, I finally realized I could use my other leg to push my cramped leg towards my body. Basically I just used one foot to make my other foot be in a neutral position. Because of the cramp, my heel was close to me and my toes were pointing away. I used my other foot to get my toes pointing towards me instead of away. It was a major struggle but once I was able to do it, the cramp subsided. And I finally was able to stand up and stretch it out. I HATE calf cramps. I hate them with a passion. But I guess it's my own fault for not stretching before running.

I didn't wake up in time this morning. I mean, I didn't get up in time. My alarm went off 410am but I turned it off and went back into bed. The next time I looked at the clock it was 512am. I still didn't get up. Ha. by the time it hit 530 I finally decided to get up. I was still debating if I should get dressed and go to work right away or eat and lounge around for a while. I decided to go to work and eat there. Ha. So here I am now.

Yesterday when I got home from work, I was feeling a little bit woozy. I had this dizzy feeling but I wasn't dizzy. At times it felt like I was just gonna tip over when I was standing still. This happened when I was washing the dishes. I guess it was a sign that my body was lacking sleep. I always thought 4 hours of sleep was good enough but I guess when you do it two weeks in a row it doesn't work.

I've been playing music again but I haven't been writing anything new or working on anything old. I've just been learning songs that are popular so that when someone asks me if I can play this or that, I won't even say anything and I'll just start playing it. It's funny how I get alot of admiration from the ladies when I play guitar. It seems they are so impressed with it. There's just something about the guitar. But when I play drums all the guys are impressed. I enjoy playing the drums more than the guitar but I like it when the ladies come around. Imma stick to guitar for a while. I'll be back on the drums soon though.....

I don't know why I can't go to sleep early. I try.....but I always just end up laying down for a couple hours before I actually fall asleep. It sucks too cuz I know I have to wake up early. My friends are still up from the night before by the time I wake up to go to work. I wish I could sleep at 10pm every night.

This year's SuperBowl sucked major ass. The Bears were just horrible and the Colts did enough to win. But I must say that Devin Hester is a BEAST! The Chargers should have been there and they would have won. But oh well, there's always next year.

The commercials were also pretty weak. There were two good ones in my book. The Snickers one where the two dudes kissed and the Sierra Mist one with the beard comb-over. Who would have ever thought of a beard comb-over? That is genius. I'm into that off-beat sense of humor type of thing.

This past Saturday, we celebrated my best friend Ramon's b-day. It was like a mini-reunion. Alot of us close friends were in the same vicinity for the first time in a long time. It was a good feeling to be able to walk to any part of the house and talk to anyone and be totally comfortable. The house was packed like an ass but everyone there was considered family. The trust that me and my friends built up is amazing. I like the fact that my friend's girlfriend can hang out with us even though my friend isn't there. That's the kind of trust we have. There's alot of February b-days among my friends so I hope there are more good times like this one.

It's Friday and I enjoy Fridays. For some strange reason, this day seems to go by way faster than any other day......except for Sundays during the football season. After the SuperBowl and ProBowl, it will be back to my regular routine of going to Church on Sunday mornings.

I don't know why my Mom gets pissed at me for not going to Church. The way I see Church is like a library. People go to a library to go study or read. And People go to Church to pray and ask for forgiveness. But I am able to study and read at a place other than a library. And I can also pray and ask for forgiveness in a place other than Church.

But since the chargers were winning this year, my Mom didn't really give me any grief cuz when we lose she says it was a waste of my time to be there at the game. I just enjoy being at the game no matter what. Winning isn't everything......but losing SUCKS!

I'm starting to lose track of the days. I wake up in the mornings and all I know is that I have work today. I don't know if it's Monday or Thursday. All I know is that it's not Friday and I'm up at 410am. I feel like I'm losing touch with society. In school, at least I knew what days were what cuz I had certain classes on certain days and certain times but with work it's the same thing all day everyday. I also got to see a variety of people at school. People that I got to hang out with with and have lunch with or just chat with. I got to meet new people all the time. Now I see the same people and I think I've seen everyone's entire wardrobe. I can tell when someone gets a new shirt or some new pants or new shoes or something. Call me crazy but I'm very observant of my surroundings. I know if someone wore the exact same outfit down to their socks 2 Mondays ago. I have a wandering eye but it's also very sharp.

I need to read some new books. I haven't read a book in about 6 months. Can someone recommend a good read? Yeah, right. I hardly know anybody that reads a book nowadays. Maybe 2 or 3 of my friends actually read. And they just read stuff that I just finished reading cuz they'll see me reading it and ask about it and then get interested. So I think everything I've read, they have too. What is happening to kids these days? Don't they have "Book-It" anymore? When I was growing up, we had this program called Book-It where after you read a certain amount of books you'd get a gift. I think after you read 4 books, you'd get a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut was right across the street from my elementary school and jr. high. I was gettin' pizzas every other week. Hahaha. As you can see from my belly, I read alot of books.