Surprise surprise "Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says"

http://mobile.latimes.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=294&nid=23170009&cid=16686&scid=-1&ith=1&title=Nation 

Things are going pretty good. I emailed the accountant yesterday with a bunch of questions, if I don't hear from him by Friday, I will switch accountants. I really haven't been happy with his response times on things, I know parents and Schep like him but I haven't been thrilled so far.

I am going on like 8 weeks without a paycheck, killing me since I pretty much go paycheck to paycheck. I will finally get paid this week and once I get that first one, I will be fine and on a routine, it was just the first one had a big delay.

Cats are all doing good. Cleo is such a scared cat with new people, but she knows me now and is loveable. Caesar is a great cat and will be like Hobbes as he grows. He eats alot though, so need to watch that. He is already probably 1/3 bigger than Cleo. Abbott is still doing great, gets his two shots a day and seems to be doing the trick. The three of them normally sleep down with me at night. Hobbes is getting old but still a great cat, always be my first :) He sleeps mostly upstairs on the couch instead of on the bed, I think the little ones have a little too much energy for him sometimes.

I will be moving completely to the new site pretty soon and put everythign behind a long in. I also will be removing facebook account. I don't use it and if people are messages me, may get annoyed since I don't ever go on. I began working on the new site last night again, it was nice to be back in that code. I am using a good framework called Coldbox and the code is much cleaner than this site.

I had a great weekend going to visit Dawn and Tim. I didn't go up until Saturday morning, got to Boston around 4ish I think. Dawn was running a charity event for her Tibet volunteer work and it was very nicely done. Sunday morning went into Boston for a couple hours, was very nice, saw some of the historic sites. Thinking of going back up to visit for Thanksgiving. The kids are both doing good :)

I am rereading (listening on audio) to Anne Rice The Witching Hour. I can't remember reading a book twice, but her older stuff was very good and this is pretty interesting. I forgot so many things but when I hear it, it starts to come back to me. Audio books for road trips are good, but now, not sure when I will finish, guess I need more road trips.

So Tim dropped us off at the Omni Hotel Saturday for Dawn's Charity event and thought it was on the top floor. Well we didn't bother to ask and just headed up there, ha ha. Cam, S., and I were standing around looking for Dawn and finally ask someone. She says, well, I wish I could help, I am the mother of the bride and have no clue. Ha, we raced back to the Lobby to ask, figuring we were a little out of place at a wedding :)

I need to read this and get a plan: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/110746/qa-with-lynnette-khalfani-cox 

I had a crazy funny dream last night, I was on vacation somewhere and somehow when I returned, my Dad was in the quarter finals of the US Open Tennis ????? He has probably never played tennis in his life. I feel like I knew it was a dream the entire time, during the dream :)

a good article: http://www.littlethingsmatter.com/blog/2010/03/19/10-simple-ways-to-show-your-sincere-interest-in-others/ 

I almost didn't come in to the office today. My body told me go back to bed and just rest and try to shake this, my wallet told me to get my ass out of bed. The wallet won. I noticed something was up with chest on Sept 5th, got antibiotics quickly, thought I would get it before it kicked my ass. Throat was not sore however until 2 days ago. Chest never did clear, had the cough for 10 days or so now. grrr...must get better soon.

Kell is coming in tomorrow, Jen and Schep come in today (but staying in NYC), not sure when Dawn and Tim are coming in, but we are all doing dinner at Stevani's restaurant Amber (AsianFusion) on Saturday night. I am going to see a movie tomorrow night, hopefully Resident Evil with friend :)

Must get this cold kicked.

I am helping Stevani today around 2 today :)

I can not get rid of this chest issue, going on over 10 days now. throat a little sore today, maybe that means things are moving up, which they need to. No infections at all and no fever, so not too worried yet. Chest is just hurting. I hope I didn't give it to anyone at the office :)

Just another Tuesday. It started raining last night just as I was getting to the bus terminal and it backed everything up for a couple hours. People were everywhere, so I just snuck off to the bar inside and watched some sports center and had a couple beers.

Some crazy man comes in and asks me where he can find marijuana cause he wants the seeds. He is going to start growing and selling pot cause someone just stole 10 TONS of cocaine from him. He was looking for this person. 10 tons of coke, ha ha, the guy was crazy.

Saw the roommates for a bit last night and also talked to Kell and Jen. Kell is going to come visit for a few days before she moves to Chicago. She is a little scared of NYC however so will have to make arrangements to meet her so she doesn't get lost getting from Penn Station to Port Authority :) Jen and Schep are also going to be in town this weekend.

I still have this damn cough, I can't get rid of it, going on 8 days now, already did antibiotics, Dawn said they continue to work even after the last pill, so last pill was saturday. Hopefully pills are still working. I am sucking on so many of these strawberry cough drops :)

Overall things are good, I do need to get this first paycheck from Multiplan.

I had a decent weekend. Friday night was great, stayed in and relaxed, watched some of Sherlock Holmes :). Saturday I relaxed and didn't get a whole lot done, I did play a couple hours of wii Fitness. The new roommates have been playing and setting records, so now my competitive side comes out a bit and want to beat their scores. Found out the Wii Fit will only register 8 people/pets, so I had to remove the kids so that I had space for roommates and friend.

Yesterday I was productive most of the day. I finished watching the mini series "The Pillars of the Earth" and was good. That is such a good book.

Time to get productive at work. Another old friend Naveen came back to Multiplan today. Like a reunion from 2 years ago here.

Happy Friday! I went bowling last night and had a good time. 2 friends from current job (John & Roberto) and 3 (Ojas, Pat, Jen) from the last job, so 6 total. Bowling is very expensive in NYC, but this wasn't too bad. $21 total with tax for 1 game of bowling, shoes, and one drink (beer or martini). It goes by the hour, but 1 hour equalled 1 game for 6 people.

I read a friend's fictional writing piece. It was very good and really kind of neat to read something fictional from someone you know. It's like you are getting a tiny sliver of their imagination. I wish I was a better writer, but guess I was just always focused on math side of things, which didn't work out too bad :)

Jen & Schep will be in the city next weekend. I think Dawn and Tim may be coming in town too. My friend Kell from home may come and visit that weekend as well, should be fun. I am going to boston the last weekend of the month to go to Dawn's charity event. That also should be a great time :)

Things are going pretty good. I am very glad to be back at the old job, hanging out with old friends and meeting some new ones. My friend Stevani and her friends have moved into the house. I am down in the basement but the room is setup pretty nice. Getty the cleaning lady is great and she helped me organize everything. I had her and her 18-year old son come over for 7 hours a few sundays back when we were moving everything around. Getty also took the extra bedroom set that Cam did not want, so I was glad that we could help her. She is going to just one day a week starting next week, but I am glad to keep her on one day.

I will start writing on here more :) When I am writing on here, it means things are going good, when I don't write, generally means I am being lazy (not so good).

My friend Kell from home may come visit in two weeks. I told her i need her help as a semi life coach, haha. Help me get my ass organized a bit. She has one month until she moves to Chicago so NYC/NJ might be cool to hang out for a little bit. Get a break from Meadville.

This will be a busy weekend. MJ is coming back from 2 weeks working in Orlando. I think she is stayin in NY for a week and then will be maybe back to Paris and then off to Michigan. Not sure of schedule, but she is on the move quite a bit. I have new roommates coming in this coming Monday, one is my long time friend Stevani. I need to get the house ready this weekend, will be busy.

Week one went well at new place. I have my machine all setup and I am already starting to code on defects. It is nice to already know the applications and be able to jump in.

No big weekend plans, MJ will be coming in tonight from Montreal so will be nice to see her for the weekend. She heads to Florida on Sunday for two weeks. Her new job will keep her on the move quite a bit.

First day yesterday went well, however, I did have 2 beers after work with old coworker friends. 2 isn't bad, and on the way home, I thought about stopping at the bar by the bus station and saying hello to those people (my regular place) but decided not to and just go home, so that was good. However, I now need to start the 30 day stoppage thing over again. This may take a while to get to thirty, ha ha. Day 1 today :)

I am getting caught up on what I used to do here as well as getting the machine setup with all the pieces I will need. However, I was already in meetings talking about defects on first day, so that is a good thing. I am ready to start coding again, which is what I missed from Learning Express. Just give me a ton of defects or new functionality and let me go to town on them.

John (boss) said yesterday that I can do overtime as soon as I want. I need to take a week to get back in to the swing of things but could possible start doing more than 40 hours next week. As long as I am all set up and ready to go. I won't do more than 40 until I have dived in to working completely. I did start to think about code and computer related things last night as I was falling a sleep. A good sign.

I didn't get up quite early enough today. I made it to work in plenty of time and I caught the bus I needed to make, but I didn't do enough around the house. I skipped doing this blog (just got to work now), pushup and situps,  and I skipped the cat's litter. I will do it tonight, so they will be fine and there are 4 boxes, but its more about me getting in the daily habit of doing a set list of things. Need to stop the laziness. I'd like to get up 45 mins earlier and actually do a language lesson in the morning, I think working the mind first thing would be good. However, even with just 2 beers, I won't get up as well in the morning. I used to drink all night and then do a full day the next day and not think twice about it. Not any more :)

So I wasn't too productive yesterday. I did a few things in the morning but then I went in to NYC and got my hair twisted by some new guy. He did a pretty good job and much better than the last girl on maitanance but I still think MJ did better ha ha. The dread guy, who only does dreads for a living was very impressed with MJ's ability to take care of my dreads and how she just learned from youtube videos :) When scheduling the hair appointment, the guy says "I don't smoke or sell, but we are very pot friendly, so if you want to bring some, we have a room for smoking" You don't hear that every day when setting up a hair appointment :) He was the first gay hippie I have met, his long time husband came in for a bit and wasn't a hippie at all, was a computer guy, so we talked for a bit. After the hair appointment, I came home and didn't get a whole lot done :(

Productive today and about done with the things on my list. I have a schedule made out for the week so I can stay productive. Day 4 of not drinking alcohol, I am going for 30 days. Both money and I need to lose a few pounds, so cutting out the beer will help on both areas. We'll see after 30, I need to quit smoking and in order to do that, I can not be drinking for a while.

Start new/old job again tomorrow. I have the business bank account set up, I have the needed liablity insurance setup, I think that is all I need. I didn't get medical yet, but I will at some point, its on the big master to-do list. Once I start making better cash and have the roommates, I will make a debt to-do list to see which things need paid off first and have a running total so that I have an end point :)

So Wednesday was my last day at Learning Express. I am going back to consulting and using Ken York LLC. I just need to do things right the 2nd time around and get on payroll from the beginning :) Good news from Schep, looks like the boat will sell and get a little money from that. I have roommates coming in September 1st, this will help with things as well. I was productive today, finally, I need to really stay on top of things for the next year. I should be able to get out of debt in 18-24 months and then be able to leave NYC and do some traveling.

Today I did Bills and got caught up on that, set up the business bank account, got liabilty insurance for the business and some other things around the house. I am going to wait 3-4 until I get medical, so that I can pay it out of the business account instead of personal. I did find out that Cobra can be retro active for up to 6 months if something were to happen to me before I get my own medical.

Wow MJ spent last week in Boston and this week new company sent her to Paris for a week of training. She is liking it so far. I am watching all the pets this week and getting used to living solo. I need to get a Craigslist ad done soon to get roommate(s) by end of August.

I should have some news in next few days or so about job.

Hey good news for MJ, she got a fulltime programming job. She was doing QA consulting. She will start in about two weeks and will be out of town for training to start with and will slowly have to transition to Boston. I think she is excited, Boston is a great city. I need to talk to Dawn and let her know so she can possibly help MJ out.

Here are some things I need to do and get done this summer:

• get into a sports league somewhere. Volleyball, flag football, something.
• Play some ping pong
• go diving around NYC
• get cats all converted to a raw diet
• Redo website completely

iPhone 4 came out, I saw a coworker's, I want one, but will not do it, it has to stop somewhere, ha ha, I can't have everything I want without some work going into it. I blew money last week on drinks, it could have been a new phone instead, so won't let me self get one :(

Wow what a soccer/football game today. Amazing finish, US is going on to the 2nd round. I was watching on the work machine, Ojas and I both have access and don't think the others do :) it pays to be in IT.

I had a good weekend, I read some and got a few things done around the house. I had a single glass of wine on Saturday night, thought about getting more, but decided not. I would have smoked cigs if I did and also can not afford any more drinking. That is one of the worse part about when I go out, the money I spend and I don't think about it. So no more.

I am home today, took a personal day, need to run up to the bank here in a minute and transfer some money from PNC over to BOA and also pay bills. but first I grabbed some new music for the iPhone. Oh, maybe iPhone this week, not sure. My current one is getting pretty banged up, the battery is terrible and hardly holds a charge. We will see.

Playlist June 21 2010

• Dub FX - Love Someone
• Jay Z - Forever Young
• Emenem - Love the way you lie
• Damien Rice - Rootless Tree
• Lykke Li - Tonight
• Karen O - Hello Tomorrow
• Fiona Apple - Across the Universe
• Katie Melue - I cried for you
• Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
• Broken Social Scene - Swimmers
• Damien Rice - I remember
• Brazilan Girls - Don't Stop
• The Door - The End

 

Was a really good soccer game this morning to watch, US should have capped a 2-0 comeback but a 2-2 isn't the worse thing. They still should advance with a win in the final round robin game. I have no clue what the ref saw when he disallowed the 3rd goal.

I want to check out http://www.phonegap.com/, looks very interesting. A way to develop for all the different cell phones instead of just focusing on one or the other.

When I go to write my own site, some key things:

• Coldbox/Spring - take as close to OO as I can with CF and have proper objects. This will give me ability to easily share all my functionality
• Ajax - Properly use Ajax on all the pages.
• JS library - Enough of writing all my own, I need to use something common, Jquery will probably be the one.
• Pure CSS for design with Divs - I want no tables in my code, all divs and everything being properly controlled from CSS
• TinyMCE for the HTML Editor
• Proper database design, roles and permissions will drive everything.
• Must look good mobile and be useable. Once I rewrite this, and complete, move to learning xCode for iPhone.
• read up a bit on 508 compliance and get as close as I can. Will look good for future jobs. This site will be what I show.

Well, I need to start my 30 day no soda/alcohol thing over again :( We had a happy hour at work for a product release and I had some beers, and a couple shots :) Good times by all until I fall asleep on the bus home and take it to the last stop, which is about an hour from my actual house. So now at 2 AM I am trying to find a cab and have no clue where I actually am, Spring Valley I believe. bad bad bad.

Job is so unorganized, blah, not safe to blog too much on current jobs, hear the horror stories, but this place is not organized at all. frustrating sometimes

No plans for the weekend. I do want to start working on a redraft of this website and want to focus on a couple different programming areas. I want to use a coldfusion framework called Coldbox and set up proper objects, I want to have jQuery and ajax set up and used properly. Basically I want this site to be a sample of my code and done properly. It will take me a month or so but have to start sometime. I need to layout some thing on paper first and try to set goals.

I also need my hair twisted and think MJ will help with that. She actually does a better job than the girl I initially had doing it.

I also need to get back in to yoga this weekend. I am doing good with not having any soda or alcohol but damn, could go for something today, glad it is Friday.

hmmm...didn't make yoga last night, I had a nasty headache and decided to miss. Tonight might be difficult too, but I am going to try. I am thinking of going to a place in the city on my way home instead of the usual place so that I know I can make it.

Finished book 4 of Trueblood series last night and started book 5 this morning on the bus. They are good easy reads, enjoying them.

I am going to try and preregister for an iphone4 in a couple weeks and see if I cna get one on the 24th when they come out. Exciting, new phone!