So pretty much my computer has gone to crap. I was angry at first but I'm not so much anymore. I'm on the computer way too much anyways. Just sittin' on my rump all day long.
I called Goodrich yesterday to see where my standing was. They said that they're still conducting interviews so they haven't made a decision yet. I expected the lag. I gave my resume in October, I got a phone interview in February, and I got my face-to-face interview in May. I'm expecting a response in late July. It's all good though cuz I got hired now I wouldn't be able to go to Maui. I kinda also want to go to Europe and see the world like my bro did last month.
I found a new way to blog at work. I'm typing all this crap up in Notepad so it makes it looks like I'm taking some notes for something and then I just log in for minute on my blogger and do a copy and paste and now it doesn't look like I'm online all the damn time.
Oh, I just remembered something that pissed me off. Last week I was with my friends and we met a few bitches (there is a reason I refer to them as such, keep reading). Well, we were conversating and all that jazz when all of a sudden one of these bitches asked me "What do you guys eat in China?" Hearing that comment made me want to give her the evil eye but I was shocked and all I could give her was a look of disbelief. I know I have chinky eyes and all but she could have at least asked where I was from first. But yeah, my friend saw my look of disgust and he answered for me saying "We cook actual dogs and we barbeque cats..." and that bitch got what she wanted to hear. She was all like "Yeah, I heard you guys eat dogs and cats and all kinds of animals." I didn't really talk for the rest of the night. I apologize for referring these females as bitches but if they had my respect I would refer to them as ladies.
So my bro decided to download some crap on my computer and it ended up having all these viruses and trojan horses and what not and now my computer is all out of whack. A bunch of the paths got re-written and when I try to open up programs it gives some error like it can find it or some crap like that. When I got home around 10 last night, my bro was all like "Man, you got alot of viruses on your comp!" And I was all like "Dude, I just did a scan on friday and I'm good." So I did some research and found that the viruses got launched at 6:51pm on 5/29/07. That was yesterday and at that time I was in the 4th frame of the 1st game in Bowling League. Lesson: be careful where you download from. If it's too easy, there's something wrong. If it aint rough, it aint right.
I learned some life lessons this weekend. I was always under the impression that "what you don't know won't hurt you." This was in reference to a significant other who was creepin'. Well, it happened to a friend of mine and I never understood the psychological repercussions until she told the story of her experience. It got me very angry because of how it occurred. It was also very reminiscent to my actions, I was just always on the other end of the spectrum(of course, me being a guy). Whenever I met a girl and she said she had a guy, I always said "it don't matter cuz he aint here." But the question was posed on me, "What would you do if your girl cheated on you but had enough morals to tell you about it firsthand instead of letting you hear about it from someone else.?" I had no response when they asked me this. The only answer I came up with is to cheat on her and let her know how it feels to be in my position and then see if we still stand in the same place.
Life lesson: One night of pleasure doesn't equate to a lifetime of happiness. A bad decision doesn't make you a bad person. There's room to learn, there's room to grow. I'm doing both everyday.
You had the right idea. The Golden Rule. Karma. They all work the same. I'll try to remember that at all times. Sometimes we learn the hard way.
Friday: Bachelor Party. I aint never been to one before so I didn't know what to expect. It was madness. I never knew all these things occurred and no bride should ever know what goes on during one of those. I wonder if Bachelorrette parties have that kind of craziness? I doubt it but you never know nowadays. Let's just say that we were all sore the next day. *Choo choo*
Saturday: Grad party. Best friend Ramon finally had his grad party and once again it was mayhem. Ended the night playing poker but we didn't have money so we played with shots. Loser of the hand had to down a shot. I lost on purpose. Lol. First hand I went all in and lost. I'm not a poker player nor a gambler. I'm also not a drinker. So I knew if i kept playing and losing I would be taking more shots. So I bet it all at once and took one shot and was done for. Smart move by me since I had to drive. Ha.
Sunday: Family parties and things of the sort. Not too much fun but that's what happens when you grow up.
Monday: Landscaping and graden work. My Mom had my Dad, my bro, and me build a greenhouse for her garden. It took us a while but it was cool. That's our family bonding experiences. We're always building something. I guess that's why me and my bro are engineers. We were trained from an early age. My mom always had us watching what our Dad was making. My Dad built alot of the stuff around the house/backyard/frontyard. And after the greenhouse was built I went shopping for a Wedding present. I ended up buying a beer dispenser since my friend brews his own beer. And after shopping me, Jay, and Grace watched Club Dread. It's made by the guys who made Super Troopers and Beerfest. I love every movie those guys make. It was like my 10th time watching it and was Jay and Grace's 1st time. There's this new movie coming out called Balls of Fury and it's a ping pong movie. For those of you who don't know, I'm all about ping pong.
Oh yeah, last night my bro bought a MacBook. If it can't run the CAD software he uses for work, we're gonna trade laptops. But I'll still give him money for it since I kinda make more than him but you didn't hear that from me. $600 + my laptop in exchange for his MacBook seems like a good deal to me. I just wanna play with GarageBand and the video programs on the MacBook. =)
Yesterday when I got home from work, I decided to take a nap in the living room. I knew if I took a nap in my room I would be too comfortable and then I wouldn't wake up until the morning.
So a crazy thing happened to me while I was napping. It seemed like I was fully awake and totally conscious but I couldn't move my body. I could hear the conversation my Mom was having with my Lola and my Dad was listening and would make some remarks every so often. I could even hear myself snoring. I knew exactly where my Mom was sitting and where my Lola was too. My Dad would get up since he was cooking and sit back down on the chair behind the sofa where I was napping. It was like I had an outer body experience where I could see and hear everything around me but the people there didn't know I was there. The weirdest part was hearing myself snore. I realized that my snore isn't a nasal one but more of my tongue dropping into my throat and causing some vibration which produces the snore sound. There is no way a person can hear themselves snore.
When I woke up, my Mom and Lola were still talking about the same thing.
Has anybody out there ever had an experience like this?
I haven't had much energy for the past month. I mean, I still go out and do the things I would normally do but my body feels drained. Everything I've been doing has been at half power. I have no idea what's going on with me.
I think a change of scenery would be nice.
I feel like setting up my drumset and just bashing away. I haven't played since December. I think it's time I hop back on.....
Imma be in Maui from 7/18-7/25. Been lookin' at flights and what not. With my work discount (since I work for an airplane company) it's only $15 cheaper than if I go to Travelocity or something of the sort. Since I will be cruisin' around with no shirt, I am officially on a diet. Today all I ate was a bunch of carrots and celery and a little bit of broccoli. We'll see how long I can last. I'm not gonna be eating rice again. Just like Lent. Ha.
I asked for the days off at work but they haven't responded. If they don't give it to me, imma just bounce. It's time for me to do things my way.
I'm going to Jay's graduation ceremony tonight. I've known Jay since kindergarten. He's one of the few friends who calls me Erick. Only my family calls me Erick but I consider Jay family. Out of my group of friends that I normally hang out with only Jay, Kevin, and Ramon are the ones that call me Erick. Those guys are my closest friends. Ernie calls me Erick too but I don't really talk to the guy anymore.
But yeah, Jay is graduating tonight and I'm proud of the guy. The stuff he had to go through with his family and the financial struggles. I'm sure his Mom didn't expect to see this day but she was always hoping. I knew he had it in him. The best way I could describe is Jay is that his talent supersedes his desire.
She has my heart in her hand at the moment. If you saw her, you'd think I'm crazy. But I got news for ya, I am crazy. I'm unconventional and I like it that way. There's something about that twang in her voice....
"The first and last breath don't matter. It's all the ones that are in-between"
I had this wicked dream on Saturday. I wish I had written down the details for it cuz I can't remember it anymore. But I kept waking up throughout the night. The dream felt so real and then I would go back to sleep and the dream would continue where I left off. I probably woke up 5 times. The only reason I know that I woke up was because I saw my clock each time. I don't recognize time when I'm in my dreams.
I bought this guitar and I gave it to my Mom for Mother's day. She started playing it and trying to remember the songs she knew back in the day. She knew one song and we played it. I played piano while she sang and played the guitar. We did this for about half an hour and then her fingers started to hurt and she said she didn't want to play anymore. She also said I could keep the guitar since I'm the one who plays the most. Ha.
So Imma be goin' to Hawaii in July for my (former best)friend Ernie's wedding. Even though I don't approve of it, I still support him. This could possibly be the last time I see or speak to him. It's sad but it's life. For those of you who don't know the story, Ernie was my neighbor and best friend since we were 3 years old. He went to the Naval Academy for college and came back a different man. He became my hero. All the stories he told me about the things he did and all his encounters and that inspired me to be a different man. But soon after he came back he met this girl who had a big effect on him. He stopped drinking, he stopped going out, he stopped being around us. Basically he stopped being our friend. We would call him to go out and he would say "Oh man, you gotta give me two days in advance." What kind of crap is that? We always call each other up for last minute plans. If you can't go, then don't go. If you can, we'll see you there. No big deal. But being friends isn't like being at work where you have to ask for days off in advance. I dunno, maybe I'm selfish but I feel like I got my friend taken away from me. There's more to the story but I'm getting angry and I'm still at work. Peace.
For the next month and a half, my Tuesday nights will consist of me being at the bowling alley in the Navy base on 32nd St. Me and my cousin joined a bowling league. I've been wanting to ever since last year but I didn't want to join alone. My cousin finally has the time to join and now we're all up on that mug. So far, there's 6 teams that consist of 4 people each. There were 40 people that signed up but only a little more than half have showed up. I think next week more people will come. It's cool cuz we get 2 tickets each to 4 Padres games. Everyone in the league will sit the same section and we'll just have a blast. Some of the guys that I tailgate with at the Chargers games are in the league too. So it's basically just another excuse to hang out. Speaking of which, I need to go out and buy a pair of bowling shoes. When I worked at K-Mart we sold these bowling shoes that looked like skater shoes so imma go out and see if they still sell it. I hate those two-tone bowling shoes at the alley. Hahahaha.
I wanna join the Table Tennis Association also. They have that at Balboa Park and tournaments are every Thursday night. I was moving up the rankings last year and I stopped by a couple times this year but I only watched.
On May 20, there's gonna be the Bay Bridge Walk that I want to participate in. It's a charity event that helps raise funds for Quality of Life programs for Navy personnel. It's a 4 mile distance that starts at the Convention Center through the Coronado bridge and all the way to Tidelands Park(right by the golf course) in Coronado. I was gonna sign up but I realized that some of my friends are graduating on that day so I might not get a chance to participate in it. I'll find out for sure what the ceremony dates are. Well it's not like any of my friends came to my ceremony so we'll see if I feel like going to theirs. I remember me and April Joy waited so we could be the last ones to be announced. Hahahahaha. That was fun.
For the past few weeks I have been walking around in alot of pain. Take that literally. I was cutting my toe nails and I cut the corner of the big toe too short. Well, when it started growing it grew under the skin since I cut it too short. So everytime I took a step I felt all pressure of the nail pressing against the skin. It felt like someone was sticking a needle under my toenail and stabbing me everytime I took a step.
So last night I decided to try to get rid of that ingrown toenail. I sliced open the skin and went to pry the nail out. I sliced open the skin just fine. It didn't hurt too bad. But trying to get the nail out was excruciating. It took me about 35 mins to get it out. I had to stop every 5 mins or so cuz the pain was unbearable. Everytime the tweezer came into contact with the nail, I felt all the pressure. The skin around the nail was so tender since it was freshly opened. The nail itself was small so it was hard to grab it. All I would grab was skin and it hurt so bad. It was also hard to see where the nail was cuz blood and puss kept oozing out.
I finally got the nail out and now it doesn't hurt as much when I take a step. I can still feel the skin since it's still open. Right now, the corner of my toe is all purple. It looks pretty nasty but it feels so much better than before. The pain endured during the removal process was so worth the end result.
This is such a good life lesson: Endure the pain and enjoy the pleasure. The greatest pain will NEVER compare to the greatest happiness.
I had my interview at Goodrich this morning. I decided to call in sick....wait, I emailed in sick today. Hahahahaha. I was pretty damn nervous when I was waiting in the lobby for my interview to start. It was crazy cuz when I was entering the gate, my name wasn't on the list for interviewees so I thought maybe they forget to give my name to the guards. So I check in with the recpetionist and my name isn't on the list either. So they contact HR and they set up a room for me to go in.
When I went into the room, there were 3 people there to interview me. The HR chick was pretty slammin'. Ha. They didn't have my resume and luckily I printed one out before I left. They were pretty impressed with my resume when they were looking over it. That calmed me down quite a bit to see their faces. I guess CATIA is a pretty big deal and I'm using the newest version so I'm one step ahead of the game.
They asked alot about my current job and everyone I talk to seems to be impressed about it. They did grill me with some technical questions that I was somewhat prepared for. They even had a paper with a picture of two plates being held together by a bolt and asked me questions about that. They asked me stuff about 4 different matreials and their properties and I couldn't remember so I responded with "Well, with the proper resources I can go out and find the correct answer." and one of the guys interviewing me said he liked that answer. Hahahahaha.
And Angela, my senior project partner, passed by the room I was being interviewed in and I said I knew her. So they brought her into the room and we all just started joking around. They were comfortable with Angela and So was I so that made things so smooth. It brought out the lighter side of the interviewers and myself. My question session probably lasted as long as my interview. I decided to grill them with questions now and they would respond with "Well, that's a good question. Bill do you want to handle that?" Hahahahaha. And they kept passing it on to the next person cuz they didn't really have good answers for me. I asked them "What they enjoy most out of the job?" and one of the guys responded "I get to work with Aimee!" Aimee is the HR chick who's pretty slammin'. Hahahahah. We all started cracking up after that.
Well, after the interview was done Angela walked out with me to my car and we chatted for a bit. She said her interview was like that too. It was pretty casual with a few technical questions thrown in but they get just want to get a feel for your personality and see if you can work in that environment. That was probably the funnest interview I've been to.
It took me 8 minutes to get there. I hope I get this job.
My bro is back from Europe and he brought me back some crazy shirts. I don't really understand them and I guess you had to be in Europe to really get a feel of what the shirt is about but they're cool. XL is Europe is slightly smaller than XL here cuz the shirts are skin tight on me. Hahahahaha. I guess that means I just have to drop a few pounds. I need to. Out of the 40+ shirts I own, only 15 fit me good. The rest are getting tighter everyday.
It was weird not having my bro around. The house was just too quiet. I like there to be noise. When it's too quiet I can hear my own thoughts and they scare me. Yeah, I'm weird like that.
On Thursday I have a follow up doctor's appt. for the pain I've been having in my elbow, wrist, and fingers. I blamed it on all the computer work I've been doing but I'm pretty sure it's from playing drums. But I haven't played drums since December and I think the computer is just aggravating an old injury. So I guess that applies as an on-the-job injury. And the only reason I played drums in Decmeber is because they asked me to play for the the X-mas program we had at work. And now I have all this worker's comp paperwork to fill out and I don't really want to do that.
I should also do some studying before my interview at Goodrich on Friday. When I had my phone interview, they grilled me with some technical questions and caught me off-guard. They asked me shit from like 2-3 years ago that I studied in school but have never actually used. Shit like factors of safety and material properties and explanations of structures like why this has that type of shape. I hope I get this job since it's like 10 mins away from my house and that means no traffic for me! Yaye! I don't mind being in my car for 50 minutes cuz I get my groove on with some music but I'm pretty sure this job will pay more than my current job.
I almost cut my hair for this upcoming interview but I decided that my hair is at a decent length when I can still comb it pretty boy styles. I did shave off my goatee which I have been growing for the past 9 months or so. It was about 3 inches long and I could almost braid it. I shouldn't have shaved it but oh well. I hate having to conform to society's standards.
