New Position

So after a couple of days in the new position at work, I think I am starting to settle in nicely. It's kind of funny though, that after three 8 hour days of training, the first thing I do in the new job role, I have no friggin' idea of how to do it! But so is life I suppose. No matter how much training I could have, and no matter how much confidence I could feel in training, it's always going to be a little bit different after you actually start the job.

Anyways, I am excited about the new job, the new money, and the new opportunities that me and the clan will have together. I just am anxious for that point when the procedures of this job become second nature.

The Last Supper

After my last day of training, I had a tremendous amount of time to waste. So I decided to catch a movie, "The Hangover" very, very funny, and now some tasty food! The Last Supper.

Pikey!

Here's a view of Pike's from the training room. I'm gonna try to head over there after work today.

A Room With a View

Check out the view from my training room!

Fairmont Olympic

This hotel is absolutely sick! I can honestly say that I have never stayed at a hotel this nice before. I felt under-dressed. I still feel under-dressed. Maybe I should get some clothes on.

The cab ride over here was fun. My nuts were in my throat, that kinda fun. Homeboy decided to show me how to drive in the big city, and now I know. I really wish I had the ability and more importantly the time to truly explore, but alas, work apparently needs to come first.

BTW, I had a note in my room that said, "Mr. Anthony Church." it's that kinda fancy. I really shouldn't be here.

Somewhere in Flight

At 24000 feet, everything looks like Google Earth.

Seattle-bound

So I am leaving to Seattle in about an hour, and I must say, it's kind of exciting for me to go on an actually business trip. Usually the only trips I have to take care of business are in the bathroom. The only thing that sucks, and sucks hard, is being away from the K-Bawlz and the O.

I realize that it is sometimes good to be away from time to time, but in all actuality, I don't want to be away. The truth of the matter, is that Kelly is my best friend, and Olivia is the most entertaining person I know. Why would I want to go anywhere without the two of them. Anyways, I will miss them both tremendously, and I thought that I would let it be known.

In the meantime... Seattle!!!

A Great Idea!

Okay! I was at my in-laws today for Easter and throughout the course of the day there were numbers of pictures taken. This is to be expected when there are five or six grandchildren and a crapton of older people. So I was taking a picture of my daughter and her cousin Scarlett on their grandma Terry's lap, and I was purposefully trying to make sure it was an exceptionally bad picture of Terry, just to fuck with her. She threatened me and asked me to delete it and I explained to her that it was my art, and I didn't have to compromise my artistic values simply to please her. Typical smartass fashion. Then my brother-in-law came up with one of those muse-like moments about making a collection of bad snapshots and calling it art and selling it.

LIGHT BULB!

What about an opposite Flickr? What about a website devoted to crappy photography? What about a website that had posts of nothing more than party quality drunken snapshots of people you know and love? Granted there is Myspace.com, and Flickr.com is not too far behind, for the most part, but I think that it would be fun, and of course funny. I did a preliminary search for bad snapshots, and candid pics and came up empty, with exception to sites that have sections for that. But I want an entire site devoted to the everyday picture. The camera phone picture. The "Oh shit! Delete that now!" picture.

Give me some feedback fellows.

Stumped.

Okay so here's the deal... I LOVE to talk some shit! Trash-talking is one of my favorite things to do in life. I live for the next opportunity for someone to make some minute mistake so that I can call them on it. It's what I do. Recently though... I found myself in a very hard situation. You see the Los Angeles Lakers have lost the last 8 games that they have played at the Rose Garden in Portland, and though I know that they don't have a great record against the Blazers at home I can't ever seem to shut my mouth when they meet. THEY SHOULD BEAT THEM!!! It doesn't logically make sense that they lose. It doesn't. No it doesn't. Nevertheless this is not the reason that I am in a difficult situation. The difficulty of this situation is that a Portland Trailblazer fan that I know, who lives in the Beaverton area, who shall remain nameless is a hardcore, trash-talking, cold-hearted, slinger of some serious shit talkage. During the game last night, I was literally lost for words a few times throughout our communications and I had no way to respond. I don't know exactly why I couldn't respond, but I have narrowed it down to a few possible causes:

One: Possibly she is a witch. I say we burn her to find out. It really is the only solution.

Two: Maybe she is a computer program. I do know someone very close to her that is handy with the computer.

Three: Maybe she read an article on trash-talking right before the game. Thus the key components of an insult are still fresh in her mind.

Four: iPhone app. This is probably the most likely reason.

Five: She is evil.

So I will have to give these reasons some more thought, but I think I definately have some solid leads to work off of.

Let me know what you think.
Night.

So here is the skinny on what the hell I am up to. I have currently been taking some web design classes at Ye Olde RCC. I haven’t yet acquired the proper skillz to do everything, (or anything for that matter) I want, but ultimately my goal is simple and can be outlined in a three part process as follows:

Step One: Cut a hole in the box.

Wait. Bad idea.

Step One: Learn fundamentals and basics of web design (just enough to get me started) and start working on the side, to develop web sites (hopefully) for local small time businesses and individuals.

Step One and a Half: Try to utilize valuable work time to complete some self-education.

Step Two: Through continuous education, carry on my ultimate short-time goal of creating a kick ass social networking site which I have named… “Project Ultimate Short-Time Goal.”

Step Three: Dominate.

So that’s what I got thus far. I bring this up because over the course of the next few months I could really use some sound technical advice (and I will most likely be calling on all of you) and most definitely feedback and input with all the developments that I will be posting along the way.