I am a frozen bunch of carrots...

Damn, I'm experiencing my first below freezing weather...it's -2 outside right now....man, it is COOOOOOOOOOLD! I'm so glad I'm leaving in about 4 hours though....LA and warmer weather, here I come!!!! Woooohoooooooooooo!

To know or not to know
If you had a choice between knowing death was coming(well, it IS coming all the time, for everyone{sheesh, that was morbid}, but I'm talking like right about to come) or not ever knowing what hit you. Like say seeing the train coming right at you, or like dying in your sleep. Never knowing it was gonna happen. I'm not really sure which I would choose, but one of the cons I see in never seeing it come is that you never get to see your life flash before your eyes...ha ha ha, kidding, only kidding...I know it's a weird thought, but it was a thought, and I just had to jot it down...
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This is something that they keep on the wall at work here in Joizey, I thought it was pretty cool.

YOU CAN ACT AS SMART AS YOU ARE,
BUT ONLY IF YOUR PERSONALITY MATCHES YOUR INTELLIGENCE.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST HANDICAPS IS AN ARGUMENTATIVE PERSONALITY. OFTEN WITHOUT REALIZING IT, SOME PEOPLE LOOK FOR WAYS TO DISAGREE. THIS HABIT SETS THEM UP FOR MAKIG FOOLISH STATEMENTS.

THAT'S BECAUSE THEY OFTEN ENTER TERRITORY THAT ALREADY HAS BEEN EXAMINED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE MUCH MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT.

SMARTEN UP YOUR PERSONALITY, AND YOU'LL IMPROVE BOTH YOUR IMAGE AND YOUR FUNCTIONING.

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Man, driving through new york could totally be a video game...it is totally insane. You really gotta keep your wits about you in that area man. Dodging crazy cabbies, avoiding the occasional pedestrian that's crossing when they shouldn't be. Keeping an eye on one way streets, traffic in tunnels, ice, snow, all that. And I think I've developed a new-found respect for NY cab drivers... I mean, I survived 4 days of driving in lower Manhattan so far, but those guys do it all the time...for x hours a day....sheesh. Of course, there are the occasional sucky ass ones that try to run me off the road or what-not...but man, it is certainly a crazy thing to drive the streets of NYC. "NYC City! Boys, we gonna have ourselves' a hangin!" he he he, anyone know where that's from?

Another thing I experienced while out here in the bitter cold(though it isn't as cold as it was last week, thank goodness), is brushing and scraping snow off the windows in the morning. That'd be quite a beyotch to do every single day...and we Californians are quite lucky.
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Pics I wish I had while I was out here

-a dog with little boots on (pretty crazy lookin), this lady was walkin him down the street, and he had four little dog booties on. It looked kinda funny, cuz the dog didn't have one of those sweaters...so essentiallyl, he or she was naked except for the boots....four of them. Picture it, it's funny as hell.
-fight outside my hotel room, cops and the whole shebang...at the club downstairs, you could hear the fighting from a mile away, was exciting for about 5 minutes, then got annoying cuz I couldn't fall asleep w/ all the racket. I should've complained to the hotel to get a comp or something, but my company's paying anyway, so I don't really care.
-driving the wrong way on a one way street in manhattan(scary ass shit man). I'd have to tell you the whole story some other time, but it was insane...I had to dodge 2 cars, like they do in the movies, and the Japanese engineer w/ me was freakin out...I felt so bad for him. This, coming right after he told me I was a very "smooth" driver(comparing me to some other people who shall remain nameless, he he he). It freaked the hell out of me though, my heart was racing after said incident.
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negativite
-people who are constantly negative peeve me. It's just that type of attitude that doesn't get you anywhere from the getgo. I mean, say person A asks person B to do something, and person B says, "That's gonna take the whole day again." A- "Only for a short period of time though." B-"still, that's gonna take all day." Me-(in my head of course) No it won't, we did the same thing yesterday, and it didn't take all day. In fact, it took about half a day.
Homeboy wanted to go home after lunch just to avoid traffic. There's efficiency and then, there's just plain laziness and selfishness. Mind you, person A ranked above both B and me. I mean, on the most basic of terms, that's just insubordination(too strong of a word, but I can't htink of another one just yet), and an unwillingness to do what what you're asked to do. We're out here for work, and who are we to really decide that we wanna go back to the office just because of a little traffic...and I'm talking TOTALLY trying to avoid traffic, like at 2...dude, we could at least wait an hour and half and get a little more work done. That's why it takes him so long to do stuff I imagine, cuz he cuts things short because of things like traffic, or "it's gonna take all day" so he won't do it type attitude. Again, not one of the qualities in a well-oiled machine. I would really like for this team to become that well-oiled machine, and then, I could be the lazy and selfish one, muah ha ha ha!

Slacklines
I saw this show on the Discovery Channel last night about these dudes called slack liners. Basically, these guys make a tighrope in the canyons or mountains and stuff, and then they walk it. It's like a tightrope walker, except that the rope isn't tight, it has slack, hence the name...slacklining. So they are subject to the wind and stuff, it's freakin crazy man, the balance that they have. I couldn't believe what I was watching....amazing.

anecdote of the day
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood.

Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

"Yes," the class said.

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn`t run into my feet? "
A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain`t empty."

"Strangers...are just family you have yet to come to know."