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I have an interview Friday for a position as a shrink track analyst at the Stop & Shop corporate office in Braintree. The job pays pretty well and requires very little of me, so wish me luck. |
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[Jan. 4th, 2008|02:42 am] |
So I'm applying for a new position at Stop and Shop. I'd drive around and check out competitors prices and displays and report directly to the higher ups. Seems like a really fun, easy job, and I'm definately qualified for it. Before I send in my resume though, my mom suggested I go through all my MySpaces, Facebooks and Live Journal's that I've got and make them private and friends only so they can't research me any further than my resume and references allow.
MySpace and Facebook are all set, but I guess the only way to make all posts private or friends only from here would be to get a paid membership. I really didn't feel like paying the $2 until I went back to check my first five or six entries.
I had no idea I was such a tool my junior year of high school. Good god... I'm so sorry everyone. I can see why Nicole left me back then for acting like a little kid. If any of you are bored, just go back and check out my first dozen entries before I go and make all these things private retroactively. |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2007|02:44 am] |
I had considered voting for Mike Huckabee before when he said he would consider Steven Colbert as his running mate. This commercial did it for me though. I'm no longer voting for Rudy, this guy has my support!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYv2YW6azE |
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[Sep. 25th, 2007|10:22 pm] |
All my life, I've been extremely competitive in everything that's important to me like Frisbee, Halo, SOW, ping-pong, Smash Brothers and even at work. Being the best at what I enjoy is what gives me confidence in myself, and it brings my personality out. In school, or in large groups, I don't do much talking, but if you put a disc or a controller in my hand, or name-tag on my shirt, I'm a completely different person. I'm a leader.
I think today I realized I need to move on from that. My XBOX 360 crashed a couple months ago, so I sent it in for repairs and got it back a few weeks ago; Just in time for Halo 3. I stood in line at midnight to pick up my copy last night, and played a little yesterday and quite a bit today until a few hours ago, when my 360 crashed again.
I'm shipping the system back in for repairs, and then I'm selling my 360. I'm done with Halo. It's an excellent game, very fun, and I'm sure I could put tens of thousands of hours into that without getting bored. But I don't play that game to enjoy myself, I play To be better than everyone else. I took five days off from work, when I could really use the money, to play some game to convince myself I'm better at something that doesn't really matter.
I'm not done with video games, or being competitive. I'm just going to try and enjoy the things I do, and stop relying on them for confidence. I don't need to play Halo by myself to be better than my friends. I'll just try to improve my skills when I play with them. Same goes for everything else. I'm just going to do the things I enjoy to have fun, not to be the best. Maybe I'll get more out of life. Who knows? |
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[Aug. 12th, 2007|05:08 pm] |
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."
The student got an A. |
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[Jul. 29th, 2007|04:54 pm] |
So I have a plan set up to make a little money. I'm going to buy a house in Middleborough for $220,000. With $20,000 down and a $1200 a month mortgage, it's reasonable for me. However, I'm not going to live there. I'm going to rent it out at $1500 a month, and that will take care of the mortgage and property taxes. I'll take the remainder of that money, and put it into a 5 year CD.
Five years from now, the Casino will be built in Middleborough, and the town will have an additional income over $15 million a year to improving schools, roads and potentially doubling property values. I'll then take the money I invested into the CD, use it fix up the house, and then sell the house for close to $500,000. I'll have paid off $72,000.
Essentially, I'll turn a $20,000 investment into $352,000. All the while, I'll still have my apartment, I'll only need to work part time, and I'll be finishing up with school and going back for the admin job they offered me at Stop & Shop, or maybe a decent job at the casino.
Good plan? |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2007|03:49 am] |
So the 29th was Teresa's 21st birthday, and my 22nd. We went to Sam Diego's in Hyannis. I don't drink to get drunk that much anymore, but I guess that night was an exception. We were pretty much stumbling out of the place come 12:30, and her friend Liz drove us home. I kicked everyone's ass in Wii Bowling when we got back.
I went back to work on Saturday to work a quick four hour shift, and now my vacation continues. I'm off until 10th of July. I'm seeing an advanced screening of transformers tomorrow at 8 with Greg, Sue, Nevin, Engle, Teresa and some couple I don't know.
I'm gonna relax all day on the third. Go to Sue's for a BBQ on the fourth and hopefully catch some fireworks in Halifax if it doesn't rain too heavy. On the morning of the 5th, we head to Foxwoods. We'll be hitting up the penny slot machines and eating from the endless buffet tables. I got a sweet hotel room with a 24 hour shuttle bus to and from the Casino.
I'm pretty excited for this. I haven't looked forward to a vacation this much in at least 7 or 8 years. If anyone wants to do anything, give me a call and I'll see if I can get you in on anything. |
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[Jun. 14th, 2007|06:49 pm] |
Now that I've got a big issue out of the way and out of my head. Here's an update on my life. I met this girl Teresa, she's pretty awesome. You'll all meet her July 4th if you're going to the waterfront.
I'm going to see Lewis Black on August 1st.
Bridgewater freaking rocks.
Working part time makes me feel like I have a life again.
I know I don't like reading long entries, so I figure people don't like reading mine. If you want to know anything about what's going on in my life, just ask, and I'll write about it.
Edit: My XBOX 360 just crashed! |
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[May. 19th, 2007|11:16 pm] |
Work
Sunday night
Monday morning
Tuesday night
Wednesday morning
Thursday night
Friday off
Saturday night
Class
Tuesday morning
Thursday morning
Frisbee
Monday night
Wedneday night
Saturday morning pickup |
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[Apr. 8th, 2007|01:39 am] |
Stop and Shop eliminated 27 full-time seafood positions. To be fair to people with more seniority, new full-timers like myself are given to option to step down to part time, take a lay-off, or work in whatever store they want doing whatever they want you to do.
If I were to step down to part time, I would keep my current rate of pay, I would continue to get a 62 cent per hour raise every 6 months, I would keep my health insurance while maintaining a flexible schedule of about 30 hours a week + unlimited sunday time and a half. I'd also have first dibs at a full time position as soon as one becomes available.
Seemed like a good deal to me. It'd give me time to get back in shape, play frisbee again, go back to school full time, and finally enjoy a social life. Then my store manager pulls me aside and hits me with this.
Manager dude: "Kevin, how would you like a job as a General Merchandise manager?"
Me: "Seriously?"
Manager: "I was talking to Steve (district manager) today, and he agreed that the company doesn't want to lose you as a full time employee. I told him you're a hard worker, good with customers, you're excellent at motivating your co-workers and you have incredible organizational skills."
So basicly, I've been offered a salary management postion outside the union that pays over $50,000 a year. It'll be at some Cape store. I don't feel like traveling that much, or giving up the freedom I was about to receive. But can I really pass up this opportunity?
I've saved up enough money this past year to pay off two years rent plus bills. I don't NEED the money, but I will eventually. What the hell should I do? |
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[Feb. 14th, 2007|11:13 pm] |
I was having a discussion with someone about global warming, and they made this point. I hadn't thought of this before. It makes a lot of sense.
The thing about the debate that really irritates me is the lack of real commitment to research new solutions. Perhaps our government is waiting for the private sector to come up with commercially feasible new fuels, but why are pharmaceuticals so expensive? Research and development. An issue this important should be getting far more funding than it does. Bush proposed $1.2B for research over the next decade - we're going to spend more in a couple of weeks in Iraq than we will over ten years to prevent the need to be there? Don't tell me there isn't a public interest in that kind of governmental expenditure. |
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[Jan. 9th, 2007|04:09 pm] |
I escaped from the Dungeon of Sekkusuichi!I killed Pink Taffeta the floating eye, Pillywigginn the zombie, Enjoimychaos the floating eye and Rockygirl455 the kobold. I looted the Dagger of Truegoober, the Axe of Shadownicki, the Wand of Ultimate, the Amulet of Ma and 44 gold pieces. Score: 69 Explore the Dungeon of Sekkusuichi and try to beat this score, or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon... |
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[Jan. 3rd, 2007|04:17 am] |
So I don't know if any of you remember, but for four or five years, I've been playing this crappy online web based game called Secrets of War. I've tried to get some people to play, but everyone except Jon Richards seemed to hate it. It was never that flashy, but it's extremely addicting, and has an awesome community.
I had been doing some work on the game for about a year, working on some of the images in photoshop, and the layouts of different pages, and moderating chat and forums and junk like that. I gave it up about two years ago because the admins pretty much gave up on the game.
Like a month ago, they sold the game to a few people that played, and I decided to come back and play and see if things got interesting. There were two owners before that worked on the game maybe an hour a month. Now there are four owners that are working on the game around the clock to improve every single aspect.
The origonal owner was some 22 year old kid from Norway. The current owners are filthy freaking rich. One owns his own software company, the other is a lawyer, the other is a net admin, and the last guy won state lotto a few years back.
The game's funds have gone from about $1,500 a month to about $150,000 a month, and some serious changes are about to take place. I just got my job back there, and I'm getting paid pretty good now. It is now an American company, and should be going public soon.
If I were to buy stock, would that be considered insider trading? |
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[Jan. 2nd, 2007|02:23 am] |
It's been a long time since I last posted. The last few months have been pretty terrible. I'm looking to move out ASAP, so if anyone is looking for a roomate, let me know. My lease is up in April, but I have the funds to pay it all off now and still have plenty to invest in a new place. I've got loads of furniture, and all kinds of cool stuff to put in it. So if anyone wants to get a place like... tomorrow, then call me.
I'm also looking to get a new job. It's going to be hard leaving Stop & Shop. The money is great, and the benefits are outstanding, but the responsibility and stress are just too much for me to handle. I need a 9-5 Monday to Friday job. I need to have weekends, holiday's, a full night's sleep. I did a 31 hour shift going into Christmas Eve. That's not how I want to spend my holiday.
Last month, we were shortstaffed for inventory, and then we had two sick calls, so I ended up by myself. You're supposed to be overloaded with staff during inventory, but our store manager sucks and cuts hours back. Since we're understaffed to begin with, there was nobody to call in.
A few hours into inventory, someone from Boston Market came in, and gave us an audit. We did pretty well, but it put me behind about two hours on inventory. Three o'clock came around, and I had to leave an hour early since I never had the opportunity to take a lunch, and I wasn't allowed overtime. I rushed inventory, made up some numbers, and handed them in on my way out. I was in a pretty bad mood, and didn't care if our numbers came back bad. It was our store managers fault for understaffing us.
Well... our numbers came back. Worst in the Boston Sales Division. Had a lot of company come in and gave the deli manager and my store manager a hard time about it. The son of bitch store manager passed it right onto me.
I have inventory tomorrow, and the South Shore deli specialist is coming down to the Cape to watch me do inventory for 7 hours. She'll be breathing down my neck the whole day, telling me everything my department and I have been doing wrong, and making me feel like shit. I'm fucking tired of it already. I know there are people out there that make twise what I do, and don't go through half this shit.
Work is all I really have on the Cape right now. There isn't much of a social life for me, so since work sucks, my life pretty much sucks. I hate being a whiny emo bitch, so that's why I need to move out, and get a new job ASAP.
So who needs a roomate? |
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[Nov. 21st, 2006|07:20 pm] |
Shitty day at work, almost quit. Life at home has been pretty awesome finally, everyone finally gets along. I think the Wii did it. I still haven't caught up on sleep enough to talk about how amazing the Wii is. Every single game I bought for it has been by far better than any other game I have ever played.
This machine is amazing, and I can't get enough of it. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2006|03:04 am] |
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Vote Yes on question 1. Don't even research it, just go vote yes. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2006|08:51 pm] |
You know what's sad? Amanda's in her room with her new kitten, trying to eat dinner, and the kitten just keeps getting in her food, meowing loudly, and scratching at her. She's like, "Cory cut it out, I'm trying eat!". She had been carrying on a conversation with the kitten for a while at that point.
So I yell, "Hey, you want me to watch Cory for a while?".
And she says, "No, I'm fine, she just won't fucking let me eat.
So Star, our other older cat gives me this evil jealous look. So I look directly at her and say, "What are you looking at... the girl's gotta eat. Jesus Christ, I'm just trying to do something nice for her and you get all bitchy. Not everything is about you!"
So yeah, Amanda and I have conversations with our cats, but not with each other. Star's been hanging out with me more lately since our new kitten's been getting a lot of attention from Amanda. Right now, she's my best friend (the cat, not Amanda).
Anyway, Amanda's having a conversation with a kitten right now. That's just plain silly. Everyone knows cat's don't understand english until they're like 3 months old. I start my vacation today, I'll be sleeping on the South Shore all week. Give me a call. Do it. |
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[Sep. 29th, 2006|11:26 am] |
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I'm going to punch you in the face! |
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[Sep. 27th, 2006|11:05 pm] |
Sometimes, it feels like I go way out my way to do nice things for people, and the only thing I get in return is attitude. I used to despise people that couldn't keep their word; There was a time when people like that would bother me more than anyone. Now it's selfish people. Everyone deserves to get away with being selfish every now and then, but those people who are constantly and consciously selfish are scum. They hurt everyone they know, and contribute nothing to society.
Despite that sentiment, today was one of the best days I've had in a long time. Frisbee, beaches, golfing, food, warm sunny mornings, cool fall breezes, my best friend, and a good converation. Also, I met someone today. It's been a very, very long time since I've started a relationship with someone. Surprisingly, I didn't choke up, or freeze, or get all retarded like I'm used to doing. I was actually pretty smooth.
Maybe it's because I've been living with two girls, maybe it's because I don't have many people to talk to anymore, and I've got a lot to say, maybe it's something I picked up from work, or maybe it's something else. I don't know, something about the way I approach women changed, and it worked pretty well. |
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