So, I was driving to my moms house and there is a long stretch of a two lane highway (one lane each way). Having driven in Oklahoma and Florida, I can understand people driving slow, it is a speed limit, and there is nothing wrong with driving within those limitations. There are a few things though that really irritate me though with these slow drivers. First, if it is a single lane, if I have to compromise, so do they.. They should drive at least the speed limit, or a where they feel comfortable if they are not willing to go 20 over like most Californians do. Even that wasn't the issue. What made me the most irritated was that when there was a second lane to pass the slow moving vehicles, and I tried to go around then, they speed up to whatever I was driving so I couldn't pass them and when it went back down to one lane, and they were ahead of me... it was back down to speed limit again.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Another 4:00 am blog
Okay, its really like 3:30, but I have awaken again. I am not sure if it is because my body is just used to five hours of sleep and I have been sleeping early in preperation for an early day of work. It could have been the barking dog and the screaming drunk woman outside my bedroom earlier this morning. Either way, I have found myself awake and I tried to go back to sleep but it just doesnt seem to happen.
I purchased a dining room table and chair set. A very basic counter high square table wtih chocolate stained wood and matching chair set. It was 300 bucks, which was higher than I set out to pay for a table and chair, but after some research, thats about the price I would pay for a build it yourself Ikea set made of pressboard. This was a clearance item, marked down from an original price of over 500 dollars, but they could have just marked it up to over five hundren simply to put it on clearnce for 300, right? It even if thats the case, 300 bucks is not a horrible price to pay for a solid table. I also bought a tv hutch/stand. I negotiated free delivery and 20 bucks off his asking price. Honeslty, it wasnt a horrible deal either. I would have liked to haggle down further, but 20 bucks was almost 10% already and it was a mom and pop shop. I wasn't spending a butt load of money on new furniture or anything so I would have felt bad taking their small profit margin.
This morning I feel really good about having moved to California. I can't say that I love my job out here, especially since it deviates from what I loved about my last job so much. That is, my authority to self manage. I don't even get basic decision making skills like how to dress cables so they look good. Everything is dictated to me and I am a pawn in someone elses crappy design. Actually, that is not true. The design of this network is spectacular and I only hope that one of these guys has a clear enough understanding so that I can myself gain further understanding of the hows and whys.
I purchased a dining room table and chair set. A very basic counter high square table wtih chocolate stained wood and matching chair set. It was 300 bucks, which was higher than I set out to pay for a table and chair, but after some research, thats about the price I would pay for a build it yourself Ikea set made of pressboard. This was a clearance item, marked down from an original price of over 500 dollars, but they could have just marked it up to over five hundren simply to put it on clearnce for 300, right? It even if thats the case, 300 bucks is not a horrible price to pay for a solid table. I also bought a tv hutch/stand. I negotiated free delivery and 20 bucks off his asking price. Honeslty, it wasnt a horrible deal either. I would have liked to haggle down further, but 20 bucks was almost 10% already and it was a mom and pop shop. I wasn't spending a butt load of money on new furniture or anything so I would have felt bad taking their small profit margin.
This morning I feel really good about having moved to California. I can't say that I love my job out here, especially since it deviates from what I loved about my last job so much. That is, my authority to self manage. I don't even get basic decision making skills like how to dress cables so they look good. Everything is dictated to me and I am a pawn in someone elses crappy design. Actually, that is not true. The design of this network is spectacular and I only hope that one of these guys has a clear enough understanding so that I can myself gain further understanding of the hows and whys.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Interesting
A few days ago Philip brought my attention to a post on Meebo about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). I had actually once ran across this several years ago and posted it on my Myspace blog. I ended up testing the same now, as I did then. I am an INTP. Of course, reality is that humans can not be summed into 16 catagorize, but I find that of the few groups I do fit, I mostly fit into INTP. There are some crazy points that are so true (and a few that are way off).
Popular leisure activities for an INTP include
reading, ........ we can just stop right there, this whole thing is crap!
Interesting facts about the INTP:
- On personality trait measures, score as Candid, Ingenious, Complicated, Independent, and Rebellious
- More likely than other types to study a foreign language
- Most frequent type among college students committing alcohol and drug policy violations
- Have lowest level of coping resources of all the types (with ISTPs)
- One of types least likely to believe in a higher spiritual power
- Highest of all types in career dissatisfaction (with INFPs)
- In school, have lower grades than would be predicted from aptitude scores
- More likely than average to complete engineering programs
- Personal values include Autonomy, Freedom, and Independence
- Overrepresented among working MBA students
- Commonly found in science and technical occupations
Popular leisure activities for an INTP include
reading, ........ we can just stop right there, this whole thing is crap!
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