Gordon and Woody Be Blogged

It has been awhile since I wrote a blog so I decided to update everyone a little bit on what is going on in my life. Well, I am not on Myspace all day like I used to be, I decided to take on new projects & plus it is way too hot to sit in the office without AC & veg on the computer. I have been trying to get out a lot more lately & do errands & what not, it has been nice. The diet thing however took a slight pause as the weather is too damn hot to exercise in. After the weather cools I will be working out once again.

I have been looking high & low for a job lately with a slight panic because my unemployment is going to be running out soon. Not sure what the problem is but I send tons of resumes out & no one is calling me. I have a pretty impressive resume so I really don’t understand what the problem is. And the interviews I do get I really just blow at them. I guess I am just to the point now that I am so sick of pretending that I care about a job or working that it probably comes off that way to them. People want you to get all excited about your job & what not & I am just not like that, what is exciting about Customer Service? Also, Gordon just found out that AAA is going to be closing their Irvine office. Basically they are not renewing the lease in 4 years, however that didn’t come to such a surprise to us, we saw all the same signs there as we did at ProsoftTraining when it went down & also that I saw at LTU before they went down. First big-wigs were “retiring” or transferring to the Frisco office & there were a lot of lay offs & hiring freezes off & on. Very obvious to us. Two years later they announced what Gordon & I were anticipating. The company is so big that they are going to be letting go each department a little at a time but by the 4th year no one will be there. No telling how long anyone has there job there. So Gordon is looking for a job now along with me.

Gordon & I also decided to start fertility treatments, we just had a small consultation & him & I took some blood tests. They only gave him two & when I sat there to take my blood they had 9 vials out to take my blood, there were 21 tests that I had to take… INSANE! But the female has to go through a lot & real intensive stuff. We have to find out why my eggs aren’t carrying down the way they should be. In the meantime the Dr. said it was OK to keep trying, if we get pregnant hopefully this third time will be a charm, at least I am hoping. Everyone around me seems to be having babies & I am hoping to join the pack. Our friend Joe & Monique are due in January, my friend Jack & Darla also & my friend Tony & Jenny are due in November. If we get knocked up it will be cool for all our kids to someday hang out together.

My mom still has the house up for sale. She has had a couple of open houses & a lot of looky-loos but no bites yet. Hopefully they will get that place sold & outta here to Oregon. She is giving it until November & if it does not sell then she will put it up for sale again at the beginning of next summer. Not sure what the Lords plans are but we all trust Him.

So all in all things are OK, besides the fact that I got a real bad summer cold for about 7 days that really sucked, crappy interviews & the weather has been hotter than Hades… all in all though it hasn’t been that bad of an August.

Posted by Kung Fu Joe at 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments  

Gordon here.

Last night I had the sad duty of installing Windows to my computer again. For the past 3 months I have been running Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn I believe) which is a flavor of Linux. For those of you not in the know, Linux is a free offshoot of the old Unix operating system that is still the standard for most servers.

I was really sad to have to replace the OS because I had actually become very accustomed to Ubuntu. I have installed at least 6 different versions of Linux on different systems over the years and Ubuntu was the first one that really stuck. They made it very easy for someone used to Windows to make the migration to Linux. The only problem I had with my latest foray into Linux again was the video drivers. Luckily though, someone with a lot more free time and smarts than I have created a script that detects and automatically downloads and installs your drivers for you. Once I figured that out I never really looked back. From what I read everywhere video drivers are a big problem with Linux right now because the vendors aren't really releasing useable ones and get upset when other people try to write their own files.

The reason for the switch was because I am starting school again in 2 weeks and the the only class I signed up for was C++. C++ can be used in Linux but I know for a fact that the class will be taught using Visual Studio, which is Windows only.

Installing Windows is pretty easy for me it's just all the extra crap that you have to install with it that gets overwhelming. Whenever I wanted any software on Ubuntu all I had to do was open a program that listed all the available software and click what I wanted. Now I have to search for each software package, download it, execute it and then configure it. Also with Linux you don't really need anti-virus or spyware programs because there just aren't enough of them floating around and they would have to be very good programs to do any damage anyways due to the more secure nature of Linux. So the entire installation took about four hours including loading Visual Studio. Blehh.

So until next summer, I have to say goodbye Linux. We shall meet again.

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So I went & hung out with my friend tonight & we called it an early night, however, I still wanted to cruise around so when I got by my house I just continued onto Brookhurst & thought I would take it all the way to PCH & then loop back around to my house.

As I was driving I had just passed Heil off of Brookhurst & noticed a silver Mercedes in the far right lane going extremely to the curb & then floating over again over to the line almost crossing it. At first I thought they were just fooling around but they kept doing it. When we got to Warner the car almost made a right hand turn Not in the right hand turn lane & almost smashed into another car. The car continued to go straight & kept on with the swerving. We got to the next light which was GREEN & she came to a complete stop with no cars even in front of her.

We started to pass Slater & this is when I decided to call 911, she had almost hit 3 people in just a mile. As I was talking to the 911 operator we were crossing into HB police territory so they patched me & the information over to them. They kept me on the line as I kept telling them what lights we were passing. They said they were sending a helicopter to monitor her driving. All of a sudden we got to Hamilton & she decided to make a right hand turn, for some reason I made one too, I was really into this! We got to Magnolia & Hamilton & she was in the right hand turning lane & I just had a feeling she was going to go straight so I stayed in the correct lane. I was right! She kept going straight but the thing was that there was construction up ahead which she had to swerve around & get back into the lane I was. I was explaining to the 911 operator what had just happened & she kind of chuckled because as I was telling her this the helicopter pilot was saying the exact thing. All of a sudden a police car zooms passed me. The operator told me that the police would like me to park behind them at least 20 feet behind so I could be a witness.

I parked my car & if you know HB police they usually don't have much to do in that town because HB is relatively a very peaceful safe place so there was like a whole swat team of them coming to the rescue. As I sat there waiting for them to come to my car I noticed it was a young girl with short shorts on & a tank top with big perky boobs & long curly hair. The cop came to my window & asked me questions like when I noticed her & my address & such. I asked, "She's pretty drunk huh?" He said, "Actually no, she's just really high & flying right now on Meth."

So that was my fun exciting night, my adrenalin was completely pumping & I was way excited about the chase, I was really getting into. Gordon made a funny comment, he said what if it was like Lindsey Lohan that you ended up reporting in or one of the Hilton girls... I died laughing! We figured I could make a lot of money selling my story to the press... too bad it was just some tweeker from HB. I might take up being a vigilante or something!

Posted by Kung Fu Joe at 11:38 PM | Permalink | Comments