I am the crest of the high tide...
(actually written at 1:19AM...something was wrong with blogger last night)
Long day today...got to go on my first official Road Evaluation and went all around town...from Redondo Beach all the way down to Newport and a bunch of places inbetween. Not too bad, as I didn't mind the driving as long as my parter was the one taking the notes. It's pretty fun to play with these systems...they offer lots of resources, of which I shant name at the moment out of sheer laziness...I have other things I'd rather write about. We got to stop off and take a break at Fashion Island for about 1/2 an hour. Good Lord there are some beautiful women there...the atmosphere is crazy though, I mean almost all of the consumers in that area were women, and some of course were of the totally pretentious and ostentatious type, and others were not. But $400 for velvet pumps? Come on...not even if I HAD a million dollars. I'd rather have like 10 different pairs of $40 regular shoes. Anyway, the test drive took the whole day, so I didn't really have to sit at my desk very much...which was cool. But before we went, I got another lil mini-orientation done, safetly explanations and the grand tour...man we got some cool ass stuff over there....and ironically, as my power of suggestion theory holds true...our next show car is a freakin MINI COOPER! That car is awesome...ahhhh...
After work, my original dinner schedule didn't go exactly according to plan, as my rendezvous-ee was swallowed up by the workmonster, yet again...but it's all good, what can you really do when your supervisor leaves and you're left w/ all the work? so we both concurred to a reschedule of event. In place of that dinner, I went out w/ Nam and Jen to get some eats, where we happened to meet up w/ Floyd. So it was actually a blessing in disguise, as I don't get the chance to see these people as often either. It was good times, and I haven't laughed this hard for a while...it's just fun to be goofy.
Expansion...
Things have been expanding since forever ago...today, my thoughts of expansion are aimed towards phone numbers, specifically, area codes. Back when I was younger, I remember LA only had 1 area code...it was all about the 213. Soon enough by about 4th or 5th grade, I remember 310 was introduced: and divided LA into two...right down the La Cienega(or as some people would say..."Laci") line. I think there was a break then as far as new area codes were concerned, because the next changes didn't appear until after high school. I moved to Irvine, which used to be 714, and by the end of the year I think, it became 949. 562 was also introduced to previously 310 areas...thus introducing another split. And yet another when 323 was introduced to the changed 213's leaving the only 213's in a donut type region around downtown. That's a lot of area codes, and that's not a lot of time spanned in between... Meaning from all this? I don't really know, just that there are a crapload of numbers out there...but what's the difference, because they don't really reuse the EXACT numbers for the diff area codes...it just kinda signifies where you're comin from...hence, the songs...which just so happen to be ALL ABOUT AREA CODES....funny how things like that arise...
Even a lil bit counts
Some bill got passed recently, I think it was about raising school taxes or something...not really sure, but that's not my point anyway. The point is it got passed, but only by about 12 votes...seems like a lot...but not when it's out of 17000. That's...(checking my calculator)...less than .001 PER CENT!!! (.00074something to be exact)!!! But holy goodness, that's crazy, just goes to show that every vote does matter. So it's funny to hear people talk about how votes don't really matter when, here is exhibit A...
From afar...
There are lots of things that come to my mind when I think about seeing things from a far...but perhaps the most prevalent thought is how people see my friends and myself from a third party POV. We are quite a loud bunch, regardless of who I'm with usually, laughin up a storm, acting dumb, and laughing more. Lots of good times, apparently, but I guess it can be a lil obnoxious(I don't really care though, it's just an observation). Whilst scarfing down some Pink's hot dogs this evening with a few friends, we got to talking about how weird we all are...and how funny and yet not-so-much our experiences have been. And Floyd brought up how our conversations seem to get funnier and funnier the older we get, and he said that if he was some stranger and heard our conversations, he'd think we were all crazy. Funny think is though, sometimes I do wonder about people hearing lil bits and pieces of our conversations, and I wonder if they would think some of us had hit our heads one too many times on the pavement or something. Really random.
Another things- from-afar-thought...We don't really notice it when we look in the sky, but there are tons of satellites out there, floating round and round the earth, in perpetual orbit, supplying us w/ the necessary signals we need for 1) our cell phones 2) computers 3) and tons of other stuff I can't even think about right now that we all just assume exists withough thinking about how and where certain things(technologically speaking) are being supplied to us. But in fact, invisible to the naked eye, well at least invisible from our relatively distant position from said satellites...there's just a bunch of stuff floatin around the earth. I mean think about it...there are at least 24 GPS satellites alone...with 6 that run as backup systems in case one or 6 others were to fail. And that's just GPS, there's all the other satellites out there...so that all adds up. And it's just floating there...round and round and round and round. From far away, it must look crazy. I mean, if I were an alien and I was about to invade the earth, the first thing I would ask is, "What the heck is all that crap floating around that planet?"
Appreciations for the day...
-Being out of the office
-Random conversation
-Similar thoughts
-Friends
-Debit Cards
-Hot dogs with bacon cheese and chili
"The destination can only be reached when you start moving towards it"
(actually written at 1:19AM...something was wrong with blogger last night)
Long day today...got to go on my first official Road Evaluation and went all around town...from Redondo Beach all the way down to Newport and a bunch of places inbetween. Not too bad, as I didn't mind the driving as long as my parter was the one taking the notes. It's pretty fun to play with these systems...they offer lots of resources, of which I shant name at the moment out of sheer laziness...I have other things I'd rather write about. We got to stop off and take a break at Fashion Island for about 1/2 an hour. Good Lord there are some beautiful women there...the atmosphere is crazy though, I mean almost all of the consumers in that area were women, and some of course were of the totally pretentious and ostentatious type, and others were not. But $400 for velvet pumps? Come on...not even if I HAD a million dollars. I'd rather have like 10 different pairs of $40 regular shoes. Anyway, the test drive took the whole day, so I didn't really have to sit at my desk very much...which was cool. But before we went, I got another lil mini-orientation done, safetly explanations and the grand tour...man we got some cool ass stuff over there....and ironically, as my power of suggestion theory holds true...our next show car is a freakin MINI COOPER! That car is awesome...ahhhh...
After work, my original dinner schedule didn't go exactly according to plan, as my rendezvous-ee was swallowed up by the workmonster, yet again...but it's all good, what can you really do when your supervisor leaves and you're left w/ all the work? so we both concurred to a reschedule of event. In place of that dinner, I went out w/ Nam and Jen to get some eats, where we happened to meet up w/ Floyd. So it was actually a blessing in disguise, as I don't get the chance to see these people as often either. It was good times, and I haven't laughed this hard for a while...it's just fun to be goofy.
Expansion...
Things have been expanding since forever ago...today, my thoughts of expansion are aimed towards phone numbers, specifically, area codes. Back when I was younger, I remember LA only had 1 area code...it was all about the 213. Soon enough by about 4th or 5th grade, I remember 310 was introduced: and divided LA into two...right down the La Cienega(or as some people would say..."Laci") line. I think there was a break then as far as new area codes were concerned, because the next changes didn't appear until after high school. I moved to Irvine, which used to be 714, and by the end of the year I think, it became 949. 562 was also introduced to previously 310 areas...thus introducing another split. And yet another when 323 was introduced to the changed 213's leaving the only 213's in a donut type region around downtown. That's a lot of area codes, and that's not a lot of time spanned in between... Meaning from all this? I don't really know, just that there are a crapload of numbers out there...but what's the difference, because they don't really reuse the EXACT numbers for the diff area codes...it just kinda signifies where you're comin from...hence, the songs...which just so happen to be ALL ABOUT AREA CODES....funny how things like that arise...
Even a lil bit counts
Some bill got passed recently, I think it was about raising school taxes or something...not really sure, but that's not my point anyway. The point is it got passed, but only by about 12 votes...seems like a lot...but not when it's out of 17000. That's...(checking my calculator)...less than .001 PER CENT!!! (.00074something to be exact)!!! But holy goodness, that's crazy, just goes to show that every vote does matter. So it's funny to hear people talk about how votes don't really matter when, here is exhibit A...
From afar...
There are lots of things that come to my mind when I think about seeing things from a far...but perhaps the most prevalent thought is how people see my friends and myself from a third party POV. We are quite a loud bunch, regardless of who I'm with usually, laughin up a storm, acting dumb, and laughing more. Lots of good times, apparently, but I guess it can be a lil obnoxious(I don't really care though, it's just an observation). Whilst scarfing down some Pink's hot dogs this evening with a few friends, we got to talking about how weird we all are...and how funny and yet not-so-much our experiences have been. And Floyd brought up how our conversations seem to get funnier and funnier the older we get, and he said that if he was some stranger and heard our conversations, he'd think we were all crazy. Funny think is though, sometimes I do wonder about people hearing lil bits and pieces of our conversations, and I wonder if they would think some of us had hit our heads one too many times on the pavement or something. Really random.
Another things- from-afar-thought...We don't really notice it when we look in the sky, but there are tons of satellites out there, floating round and round the earth, in perpetual orbit, supplying us w/ the necessary signals we need for 1) our cell phones 2) computers 3) and tons of other stuff I can't even think about right now that we all just assume exists withough thinking about how and where certain things(technologically speaking) are being supplied to us. But in fact, invisible to the naked eye, well at least invisible from our relatively distant position from said satellites...there's just a bunch of stuff floatin around the earth. I mean think about it...there are at least 24 GPS satellites alone...with 6 that run as backup systems in case one or 6 others were to fail. And that's just GPS, there's all the other satellites out there...so that all adds up. And it's just floating there...round and round and round and round. From far away, it must look crazy. I mean, if I were an alien and I was about to invade the earth, the first thing I would ask is, "What the heck is all that crap floating around that planet?"
Appreciations for the day...
-Being out of the office
-Random conversation
-Similar thoughts
-Friends
-Debit Cards
-Hot dogs with bacon cheese and chili
"The destination can only be reached when you start moving towards it"
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