Kia Spectra Automobile advertisement (Stupid)

There is a relatively new advertisement of the Kia Spectra where they show the drivers keep pulling up to the gas pump with the wrong side of the car for the pump because they rarely fill their gas tanks. They are saying that their cars are very fuel efficient that between fills it is so rare that they totally forget which side their gas tank is.

I think that's the stupidest thing, because every car, if it has been designed intuitively, has a dash indicator showing either the gas gauge which tells you which side it is else there is a triangular icon which indeed points to the side where the fuel tank is.

It's been a while

Well, job situation hasn't improved, as usual the group is biting off more than we can chew. What else, well searching for jobs in Buffalo NY and Possibly Detroit. Need to move closer to my dearly beloved.

Anyway, on my to do list: tax + update my web page yada yada yada.

OMG and finally got my reimbursement and then some from my trip to Richardson, Texas. OMG I hate travel reimbursement and incompetent accounts handling people. Maybe I should h ave taken them to court and sued them.

KEZK Soft Rock 102.5MHz STL Missouri Winner starting 9 am CST

I take no responsibility for missed names, locations and spellings ha ha ha!

9 - 10AM
Carol Miller from IL

10 - 11 am
Joe Nunez from Mayland Heights MO

11am - 12 noon
Dennis Stevenson from Granite City MO

12noon - 1 pm
Shirley Bishoff Florissant MO

1pm - 2 pm
Sherry Jones from Fenton MO

2pm - 3 pm (2 names now)
Ashley Applebaum ___ ? MO
Patricia Mann O'fallon IL (323 pm)
Kathy Harden St Charles MO (351 pm)

3pm - 4pm
Lisa Cryder Collinsville IL (423 pm)
Laura Foster Furgeson MO (452 pm)

4pm - 5 pm
Jessica ?
Maria A Bellview ? (523pm)
Kathy Lewis ? (538 pm)
Heather Viviano Hazelwood MO (553 pm)

6pm - 7 pm
Andrea Jenkins St Louis (618 pm)
? ? 6++ PM
Sherry Wolf (649 pm)

Job's mid-life crisis

Am in the middle of my usual day... contemplating my future. Heard rumors that after release 7 contractors are going to get canned. Time for me to get something more stable and something which I was trained in.

Time to flex some networking muscles which I have somewhat developed and make use of it. Need to figure out my long term goals also...

Besides that... well things are mundane as usual.

Here's some pictures of fall leaves:

2007_11_14_Fall_Leaves

Need more motivation

Ugghh... still haven't fully unpacked from my trip. I need to get myself moving. Also prob need to move on to another job. Something more stable... something which I was trained in.

Anyway, nothing much happening. Leaves are once again turning color as another Fall season approaches.

Looks pretty... gotta get out more and enjoy things around me and not be so hermit like.

The First Cut is the Deepest

I know I'm a little late and this song in actuality is a sad song, but I just love it.

2 month haitus to Richardson, Texas AT&T

Wow after a 2 month assignment and $8k poorer, I'm back in Maryland Heights. It's good to be home, though I do miss the Triage team which I trained to do initial investigation for the OMS software by Amdocs.

Why Richardson Texas? Well because AT&T is there. Within that area there's Nortel and Verizon also and a huge AT&T building. Can't miss it if you're on Hwy 75. (2600 N Central Expressway). They even installed a new lighted AT&T sign so that if you're southbound on Hwy 75 you can see it's their building.

Hmm yeah worked like crazy.. filed 73.5 hrs the first week because of poor organization and each and all of us worked 12 hrs daily and many 16++ hrs.

To a certain degree I guess I felt kind of honored (for the first time in Amdocs) because they (not all of them only a smaller group) finally recognized that I had some talent and knack of doing some much needed help related to initial investigation for issues related to the ordering application software.

No offense to the people in Dallas, but the traffic is horrible and your drivers drive way to fast and tailgate.

Went to the 6th Floor Dealy Plaza Museum... quite sad to read the events of the assassination of JFK.

http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/
bambi_seller/2007_09_21_JFK_Museum/

While I was there I found a small comfort zone... a chinese grocery place. Ohh yeah! And it's Aug Sept so I also found mooncake for sale. So I am guilty of sharing a small bit of chinese culture with the other folks in the triage team. There was pearl tea also.

Overall I still didn't like the idea of me spending my $8k and then only after jumping through 2 hoops I get my reimbursement. Even got fined for over limit spending. Anyway I hope I get my reimbursement soon.

I hope also my pay raise comes soon. Stupid staffing companies. Can't live with them and can't live without them. Possibly the true culprits of the H1b visa abuse.

Besides that, well things are somewhat back to normal. Restarted my life here in Maryland Heights. I actually turned off my refridgerator (why waste power on running the fridge if I am not going to be home for 2 weeks at a time?) and turned off the air conditioning. Not that I normally use them, only to cool off or heat the house just enough and then I would turn it off already.

So sad that my rose plant had died, but I guess one less thing for me to take care of.

I can't wait for winter to come. I think I am a winter person, I like the cold weather, fall leaves and snow. The only bad thing is if it gets dangerous while driving and having a dead car battery. That really sucks.

A bunch of my friends this year have been getting married. Maybe it's the wedding blues time.

Anyway, this is all the time I have for storied this time around. Hope to update more soon!