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Gotta love money …

I was awakened this morning to the sound of large burly men screaming and yelling and doing large burly man stuff outside my window.

They are remodeling the house next door, because the tenants moved out a week ago and the place needs some fixing up. Even two stories above them, they are extremely loud with their loud, obnoxious voices and clanging of tools. You can hear their jokes and hear their laughter … just makes you want to drop a water bomb on them.

You realize that just because you move out doesnt really mean you are free of your parents. I just want everyone to be clear on that. As I’m typing this entry, I’m receiving emails from my mom asking me questions.

I think I created a monster showing her how to use email, she won’t stop now. She’s emailing everyone, everything, all the time, non stop.

I’m definately not showing her how to use the internet. See, people, you have to choose very carefully what you show the old folks. Once you give them just a little knowledge, it becomes an ever growing monster, and then you will never hear the end of it.

A girl at work is working on a an chat/instant messenging project at work, where she has to find a provider for our networks.

So, guess what I spend Thursday doing. If you said, trying out for the next big football team, you’d be very wrong. Where do you get that stuff? Anyhow, I was chatting with her, at the desk next to me, through AOL Instant Messenger and through ICQ. She was a … she was a … I’m not sure you are all ready for something like this, but she was a chat virgin. (gasp, horror, gasp)

I know, everyone calm down, I know it’s difficult to take sometimes, that someone has never used a chat/IM program, but I had to teach it all to her. We even did the elephant sound on ICQ, thank to Tim for showing me.

She loved it, and again I created a monster, because almost immediately she was on the phone with her mom and sister, who already had AIM and asked them to sign on so she could chat with them. I think she spent the next three hours, “researching” the product, if you know what I mean.

So, one more person converted to the chat/IM world. Just the other day, my other coworker was doing a similar project, but for voice chat. I guess you have to speak into a microphone and chat with people that way, through the internet. Personally, I felt it was stupid. I dont want people listening to me. How many of you would use the voice chat thing? Probably none of you. I mean, the one good thing about typing stuff if that you dont have to be heard.

Maybe the next generation of kids will be ready for voice chat, but for now, I know I’m not ready. I mean, it would be great for family members to chat with each other, but for total strangers, I think not. I dont really want to chat on the phone with people from the internet, and it seems like the same thing. Almost like it would turn into a sex line or something.

Anyhow, that’s the excitement at work. Oh, by the way, the music CD store opened on ChickShops.com, so you’ll all have to check it out. I designed the chickshops page with all the Kabang CD’s on it. I didnt choose the CD’s, so dont blame me for that. I just do what I’m told to do. Some sales rep that feels they are in touch with the youth generation probably chose those, thinking she was dope or something.

Anyhow, goto chickshops.com and scroll to the bottom of the left hand column and click on the CD’s from Kabang link and the page you’ll end up was done by your’s truly. That’s all. Just so you know what the hell I’m doing all day, and why I can’t update my frickin’ journal.

I’m beginning to feel like my life revolves around web pages. I love it, but it’s just taking over my life.

I mean, all day I’m working for snowball.com, pumping out pages for them, then I get home and have to update the sites I keep, which are my personal home page, this journal, the alumni page and the Freaks and Geeks fan page, which is taking more time than I ever intended.

Seems that fan page is the most popular page for that show, and now I’m getting contacted by reporters doing stories and by the show’s producers/creators. It’s more celebrity than I ever got from this journal. I’m getting about twenty or emails a day from other fans, commenting on things, and I’m getting another load from people doing stories on the show and wanting information.

Yikes, see what can happen when you do something for fun. It turns into a full time job.

I’ve been wanting to thank, Kristina, for answering my leap year question with “The extra day is needed to keep the seasons right. Otherwise in a billion or so years, weather wise, Christmas would be like some holiday in June, or Father’s day will work and vice versa. . . so I guess that is all I have to say.”

I always like hearing from people, so thanks for your response.

I love getting surprise money. I got a check this week for a little over a $1000 from my last job. I totally forgot about it, but they didn’t. It was some kind of savings program they started where they were taking money from my check and saving it for stock purchase. Unfortunately I quit before they bought any stock for me, so they just gave me my money back. So, now I have an extra $1000 to waste … erm, I mean diligently save for my retirement.

Just a little heads up for you young folks, some advice. Make alot of money, because by the time all the taxes come out of your check, and they take money out for 401k (retirement savings) and then for stock purchase, medical, and dental, you really dont have alot left to just live on. I mean it great that they take our half my check for all these oddball things, but I’d rather just get it and take care of all that stuff myself.

Just wait til all you youngins are having money taken out of your check to pay for my lazy ass laying around the house watching television.

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