Hello, I'm writing from bed on my phone, not from my laptop, or desktop compter, both of which are 5 ft away. I've been in bed all day, it's 4:27pm now, I awoke at 1:40pm. I drank a bit yesterday, and during the middle of the night I had to throw up, there was an empty nalgene on the floor, it's not empty anymore. I didn't feel sick or hung over, maybe a little quesy, but I did feel like staying in bed and napping. It's been wonderful, I rarely sleep in this late, and even more rarely do I go back to bed after waking up. But thanks to St Pattys Day, my bed has been a devine retreat. Around 4, I was tired of my stomach feeling quesy so I had some Ginger Ale, and finally took my green medicine, my stomach felt better instantly, and everything was pleasing.
So St Pattys Day, is on Tuesday but yesterday was the closest Saturday so the celebrations and festivities took place yesterday. My Saturday started like most others, I awoke, read the news, caught up on some rss feeds, facebook, and twitter, and played some games, all on my iPhone. Then Brian texted me, wondering if I wanted to go to the St. Pattys parade. I did, so I got outta bed, and got a beer. Then I took a shower, got ready, and bee came over. Had another beer, and took two for the parade. The parade was decent, and i took some pictures of the festivities and wierdo's, by mostly of the wierdo's. After the parade we went to Sobelmann's cause Bee had never been, and their burgers are amazing. We had two beers with our burgers and then they gave us two free beers because they had us move tables. Then bee went to go work out, and went home and relaxed and tried to sober up for the evening. Bee came back over when he was do e and we went to the liquor store to get some Irish Whiskey and Ginger Ale. We drank a few of those, then met up with John at Mo's for a bit, then went to Fat Abbey to met up with Christian, Angie, and her friends, and to have delicous Belgian beer. They had Delirium Noel on tap, and this proved to be a great end to the night and sufficiently put me over the edge. And I'm really tired of typing in the iPhone now so . . . The End
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Integrity
The other day we had our Annual Company Meeting. We had this off-site at a Marriott, and it began at 8 am. Right off the bat I was running late, but eventually started the 45 minute commute with my breakfast: two Heineken and a bowl of green. It was a delightful drive and I eventually arrived 15 min late, stood in the back of the room, smiling, taking photos of the event.
Around lunch time we took a break to have some sandwiches provided by the Marriott that were utterly disgusting. They just randomly handed out the sandwiches, so whichever one you got you were stuck with. I was stuck with a raw roast beef sandwich, on day (or two day) old wheat bread, two small thin strips of heavily-marbled red raw roast beef, the core of iceberg lettuce, and a soup ladle sized scoop of mayonnaise. The sandwich was also server with a pickle (which was good), and a mustard potato salad(which was bad). Needless to say it was horrible and I was still hungry. So I decided to leave to go out to get lunch, even though no one else left, I wasn’t too worried and didn’t think anyone would notice my absence. I went to Arby’s to replace the taste of the disgusting roast beef with delicious roast beef. On the way back my dessert was another bowl of green.
I got back to the hotel about 10 min after the meeting had resumed, happy as could be, grinning from ear to ear. But my boss was in the hall waiting for me when I returned, he was upset and embarrassed because they had been looking for me because they were handing out the employee awards and I was supposed to be taking pictures of this. But even worse, they had called out my name to come up and receive an award I won. Once back in the big meeting room, the owner and president, who were giving out the awards, noticed I had returned and called me up to the front to receive the award.
The awards are voted on by fellow employees and then the executive team meet and decide which of those employees nominated should receive an award. There are 6 different awards; for Collaboration, Continuous Learning, Courage, Fun, Integrity, and Quality.
I won the award for Integrity, the description of which is –
Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to ******** by consistently showing business excellence, while maintaining the highest standards of business ethics and portraying respectful, responsible behaviors and attitudes while making positive and sincere choices on the path to integrity.
Here’s another definition of integrity - comprises perceived consistency of actions, values, methods, measures and principles. Integrity may be seen as the quality of having a sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions. The term hypocrisy is used in contrast to integrity for asserting that one part of a value system is demonstrably at odds with another, and to demand that the parties holding apparently conflicting values account for the discrepancy or change their beliefs to improve internal consistency.
A pretty sweet award, made all the more special given the circumstances, and the fact that my work self is in some ways far different than my true self. It makes me proud that I can be who I am and enjoy what I like, yet still be able to go to work and act in a professional and ethical manner and make others believe that is truly who I am.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
what's up and enjoyable these days?
hi
so i've been gone a while,
which unfortunately is how many of my entries start,
and so in predictable manner,
things are good, life is peachy, and all that,
im still working at an accounting software company,
learning more about my most hated subject in school than i ever thought possible,
things are delightful on the female front as well,
the source of delight is jenny,
many of you may have meet or heard of her previously over the years,
she's a friend of my friend matt,
we've dated briefly twice before,
but i guess the third times the charm,
rachel don't groan,
this fall i dated Yulia,
i was set up with her through a woman at work,
she was a 29 year old from russia,
it was fine for a bit but a pretty face only goes so far,
personality wise we were too different,
ironically many of jenny and my mutual friends would argue jenny and i are too similar,
Aaron to answer your question about socialized health care,
absolutely not,
i can't wait to discuss this with you after you cover it in a finance class,
basically i think that no one deserves health care for free,
it seems many people view it as a given birth right that everyone has,
i don't think people deserve to be taken care of for free,
there is a cost that comes from taking care of people,
i don't understand why people shouldn't be at least partially responsible for this cost,
i feel that if people are not at least partially responsible it leads to abuse of the system,
if people get a service for free they will be abusive and wasteful of the use of that service,
But if people are a little bit responsible for the cost of their health care,
they will invariably be more invested in their health,
surprisingly people aren't more concerned about their health,
since it can lead to so many problems and ultimately a shorter life,
But most importantly of all, financially it is by far more cost effective to have people partially responsible, and in essence insurance,
yes there are obvious problems with insurance companies, and the american insurance system,
but the basic underlying rules and laws of insurance are brilliant and logical and ridiculously financially effective, it keeps cost so much lower,
and i think that should be an important factor in any government program,
but especially any social program,
grouping people into so many subsets and categories allows everyone to pay the lowest possible cost for heath care than they would if they paid for only them self,
or most expensive of all, for everyone but the sickest, a universal health care system,
Originally i planned this entry to be solely about Saul,
Saul Williams,
i mentioned him to you over christmas aaron,
he is a poet, who starred in this movie slam that i think you would love,
his flow and delivery are amazing, but his use and structure of words is simply breathtaking
Someone posted the whole movie slam on you tube, here the the first of 12,
a clip from slam where he is in jail and being taunted and harassed by some other inmates and this is how he retaliates
Another clip from slam
Here he is from a radio interview that i thought was pretty interesting and he made some amazing points,
here is another amazing poem, this one about his father and religion
here is reciting a poem at an art and spirituality festival
and yet another one, but at least it's the last one,
<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^
Another recent enjoyment has been peep show, its a british TV comedy,
that's very unique, different and executed hilariously,
one defining difference is that it is often shot from each charters exact point of view, and this allows the viewer to hear the thoughts of each character as they are showing that characters view point,
to view more peep show, and lots of other TV shows try
http://www14.alluc.org/alluc/
Oh also i don't think i ever mentioned that i stopped putting my photos on here and instead refer to my flickr page to view my some of my photography
so i've been gone a while,
which unfortunately is how many of my entries start,
and so in predictable manner,
things are good, life is peachy, and all that,
im still working at an accounting software company,
learning more about my most hated subject in school than i ever thought possible,
things are delightful on the female front as well,
the source of delight is jenny,
many of you may have meet or heard of her previously over the years,
she's a friend of my friend matt,
we've dated briefly twice before,
but i guess the third times the charm,
rachel don't groan,
this fall i dated Yulia,
i was set up with her through a woman at work,
she was a 29 year old from russia,
it was fine for a bit but a pretty face only goes so far,
personality wise we were too different,
ironically many of jenny and my mutual friends would argue jenny and i are too similar,
Aaron to answer your question about socialized health care,
absolutely not,
i can't wait to discuss this with you after you cover it in a finance class,
basically i think that no one deserves health care for free,
it seems many people view it as a given birth right that everyone has,
i don't think people deserve to be taken care of for free,
there is a cost that comes from taking care of people,
i don't understand why people shouldn't be at least partially responsible for this cost,
i feel that if people are not at least partially responsible it leads to abuse of the system,
if people get a service for free they will be abusive and wasteful of the use of that service,
But if people are a little bit responsible for the cost of their health care,
they will invariably be more invested in their health,
surprisingly people aren't more concerned about their health,
since it can lead to so many problems and ultimately a shorter life,
But most importantly of all, financially it is by far more cost effective to have people partially responsible, and in essence insurance,
yes there are obvious problems with insurance companies, and the american insurance system,
but the basic underlying rules and laws of insurance are brilliant and logical and ridiculously financially effective, it keeps cost so much lower,
and i think that should be an important factor in any government program,
but especially any social program,
grouping people into so many subsets and categories allows everyone to pay the lowest possible cost for heath care than they would if they paid for only them self,
or most expensive of all, for everyone but the sickest, a universal health care system,
Originally i planned this entry to be solely about Saul,
Saul Williams,
i mentioned him to you over christmas aaron,
he is a poet, who starred in this movie slam that i think you would love,
his flow and delivery are amazing, but his use and structure of words is simply breathtaking
Someone posted the whole movie slam on you tube, here the the first of 12,
a clip from slam where he is in jail and being taunted and harassed by some other inmates and this is how he retaliates
Another clip from slam
Here he is from a radio interview that i thought was pretty interesting and he made some amazing points,
here is another amazing poem, this one about his father and religion
here is reciting a poem at an art and spirituality festival
and yet another one, but at least it's the last one,
<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^<^
Another recent enjoyment has been peep show, its a british TV comedy,
that's very unique, different and executed hilariously,
one defining difference is that it is often shot from each charters exact point of view, and this allows the viewer to hear the thoughts of each character as they are showing that characters view point,
to view more peep show, and lots of other TV shows try
http://www14.alluc.org/alluc/
Oh also i don't think i ever mentioned that i stopped putting my photos on here and instead refer to my flickr page to view my some of my photography
Monday, September 10, 2007
yaohong
hi
I was just inspired to write a comment on some Asian Photography blog, i have included it here below. I write alot each day, often in computer/accounting jargon, i like it more than i would've thought, and i am better at it than Mrs. Nelson would have thought(she was my high school English teacher, i had her 3.5 out of 4 years, she challenged me and was my nemesis for quite some time but she somehow invigorated my interest in English and writing).
Things are grand, last weekend i was in San Fran, Berkeley, Oakland with my friends Marf and
E-Lease. I have wanted to visit them forever, and a few days before it worked out. On 8/24 i saw that none of my coworkers had asked for off over labor day weekend. On 8/25 my boss was on vacation so i couldn't ask him if i could have off. On 8/27 i asked my boss he said yes, i asked Mark, he said yes as well, i bought my tickets. On 8/30 i flew out, and arrived in san fran.
It was a fabulous trip~ biking around Berkeley, eating the best sushi i have ever had, playing video games with mark, walking san fran, eating at an old school German restaurant, searching for a photography bookstore in Japan Town (after the word in red is the letters "an" in white, for the Japanese colors), drinking in Buddha bar in china town, and eating Thai for dinner, wandering Napa Valley drinking our way though amazing vineyards, fighting a freeway of miniature ants, making cyanotypes, meeting a burning man, biking around Berkeley some more, and eating the best spaghetti and veal meatballs @ chez panisse.
Thanks again,
Mark & Elissa
Marf & E-Lease
M & E
,~o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'
Which job inspires more creativity?
I was just inspired to write a comment on some Asian Photography blog, i have included it here below. I write alot each day, often in computer/accounting jargon, i like it more than i would've thought, and i am better at it than Mrs. Nelson would have thought(she was my high school English teacher, i had her 3.5 out of 4 years, she challenged me and was my nemesis for quite some time but she somehow invigorated my interest in English and writing).
Things are grand, last weekend i was in San Fran, Berkeley, Oakland with my friends Marf and
E-Lease. I have wanted to visit them forever, and a few days before it worked out. On 8/24 i saw that none of my coworkers had asked for off over labor day weekend. On 8/25 my boss was on vacation so i couldn't ask him if i could have off. On 8/27 i asked my boss he said yes, i asked Mark, he said yes as well, i bought my tickets. On 8/30 i flew out, and arrived in san fran.
It was a fabulous trip~ biking around Berkeley, eating the best sushi i have ever had, playing video games with mark, walking san fran, eating at an old school German restaurant, searching for a photography bookstore in Japan Town (after the word in red is the letters "an" in white, for the Japanese colors), drinking in Buddha bar in china town, and eating Thai for dinner, wandering Napa Valley drinking our way though amazing vineyards, fighting a freeway of miniature ants, making cyanotypes, meeting a burning man, biking around Berkeley some more, and eating the best spaghetti and veal meatballs @ chez panisse.
Thanks again,
Mark & Elissa
Marf & E-Lease
M & E
,~o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'o,~,o'~'
There are many things to consider, and everyone considers different things. i had a similar choice and these are some of the things i considered.
Which is easier?
~there are many benefits of having a job that you don't Hate, and i job that is less Grueling.
Which is more lucrative?
~Like it or not, Money is important. Money affects almost everything, and it is a source of major Worry, for everyone.
Which do you Enjoy more?
~Obviously important, but I think most people don’t consider enjoyment enough.
What job will be more Challenging?
~Significantly more important than people realize, if you can be great at your job in less than 5 years it probably isn’t challenging enough.
Which job has longer hours?
~The longer you spend working for someone else the less time you can be doing what you love.
Which job inspires more creativity?
~a tough question, because I have found my non-creative job often inspires much more desire and inspiration for creation than some job using creativity. I feel that being surround by an environment of logic and lack of creativity 8 hours a day invigorates my joy of creation.
For me, I choose to go the business route doing software support for some accounting software. It sounds horrible, i admit, but it has been a great choice for me. A day spent at a desk is easy, more lucrative, likely more challenging, shorter hours, and may likely inspire your creativity more than many of the other jobs you would have to do to supplement your creativity.
i’ll admit you may not enjoy it more than doing photography all day, but I don’t think that’s the only question to ask.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
well
hi
how are you
i hope well
i am
in hi fi cafe
a block from my new place in bay view
also a block away is my new vehicle
a honda cr-v
it's wonderful
a bit nicer than my 94 explorer
everything has been a bit nicer lately
last weekend i was in DC
with a bunch of friends from lax
the weekend was perfect
as was copious amounts of libation
the beaches
the beach house
the skinny dipping
and most importantly the company
ta ta
for now
how are you
i hope well
i am
in hi fi cafe
a block from my new place in bay view
also a block away is my new vehicle
a honda cr-v
it's wonderful
a bit nicer than my 94 explorer
everything has been a bit nicer lately
last weekend i was in DC
with a bunch of friends from lax
the weekend was perfect
as was copious amounts of libation
the beaches
the beach house
the skinny dipping
and most importantly the company
ta ta
for now
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