March 29, 2004
Smile!
You're on my candid camera!
I got me a new phone today. I finally made the purchase. If you'll recall, my other phone was drowned/smashed/lost/all of the above. So now I can take pictures, too! I never intended to buy a phone with a camera, but something possessed me to do just that. Let's see what I can come up with.
My last day at the temp job was Thursday. I was sent home early on Wednesday (at 11:30 a.m. early), and then Thursday at 2:30 p.m. She told me that I should probably not come in on Friday because there just wasn't any work to do. That's OK. I understand. Really I do. Yeah, cheers, thanks a lot.
I'm doing a training session at a client on Tuesday and Wednesday. Not exactly looking forward to that. It's Word and template training, stuff I know like the back of my hand, but it's still boring. I should be glad that it will be so easy. I just hope I don't come across as being an arrogant asshole about it. I have a tendency to be so when I'm not happy about what I'm doing. I'll try to remember to smile. That's the hard part.
Thursday I leave for my trip. I'm so totally excited. And if I can, I'll buy a Bluetooth adapter for my Pismo so I can use the new mobile as a modem so I can post here while I'm there...and avoid the nasty hotel phone charges. I'll pay $35 to save that and more on phone charges at the hotel. I'm cheap, OK? No, strike that. I'm saving my pennies so I can go to England in September. Did I mention that?
Then when I get back on Tuesday, I'll start my new contract job in Palo Alto. Another 50-mile commute. But it will be good work this time.
I volunteered at Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign office over the weekend. Please, if you're of voting age and a resident of California, please vote in November. I rarely ever preach about politics, but I'm so completely pissed off at the current government and what they're doing to this country that I can't help myself this year.
I honestly don't understand how anyone in their right minds could possibly find a worthwhile reason to re-elect (or whatever) the incumbent leader of our country. He's a complete moron, and frankly nothing that John Kerry could do to this country would be worse than what Shrub has already done and will continue to do if re-elected. Please vote with your head and not because your friends tell you to and not because the media coerces you to. Get educated on the facts, read between the lines, don't believe everything you read anyway, and pay attention. This is so important now. I don't know if it's just because I myself have been paying attention recently or not, but it seems like this election year is more critical than any other we've had in a very long time. I just hope and pray that things will be better in January 2005. And that's all I'll say. Promise.
