Monday, February 28, 2005
Whiter Teeth, Brighter Smile
I threw down $27 US dollarz on the new and improved Crest whitening strips. I've heard a lot of good things about them, even from my sister-in-law who is a dental hygenist. These new bad puppies promise the removal of 14 years of yellow teeth in just 7 days!!! The older version of these things took 14 days. Like who is gonna wait 14 days to remove 14 years of daily drinking of Dr. Pepper. Mmmmm..... Dr. Pepper!!! In fact, I'm drinking one right now. HooRhaa!!
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
My Birthday and Valentines
Well, I've fallen behind again with my blog by a few days. Anyways, thought I'd catch you all up on the events. Sunday was my birthday and now I'm 28 years old. Man, 2 more years until 30! I still feel pretty young. In fact most people seem to think I look like I'm right out of high school. I don't think so, but oh well. This is nice except for the fact that my work place seems to put more value on years experience, more maturity, etc. Which I think have all that, but when people meet me for the first time, I kind of get blown off. That's about the time, I reach behind my back and grab my sledgehammer of information technology acronyms, and talk a bunch of useless non-sense like every other IT person does. ;-P
Anways, Valentines day was cool too. I cooked my famous grilled ribeyes, garlic mashed potatoes and steamed asparagus. MMmmmmmm... I love that stuff. My wife thinks a lot of my cooking is better than most restaurants. That's why my new idea is to open up my own restaurant. I'm just in the beginning stages of even thinking about this, but if anyone knows anything about making a business like that work, let me know. I think if I'm going to make any real money, I'm going to have to start some sort of business and something tells me that getting into the music business after 28 years of age is going to be a little tough.
Anways, Valentines day was cool too. I cooked my famous grilled ribeyes, garlic mashed potatoes and steamed asparagus. MMmmmmmm... I love that stuff. My wife thinks a lot of my cooking is better than most restaurants. That's why my new idea is to open up my own restaurant. I'm just in the beginning stages of even thinking about this, but if anyone knows anything about making a business like that work, let me know. I think if I'm going to make any real money, I'm going to have to start some sort of business and something tells me that getting into the music business after 28 years of age is going to be a little tough.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
My Highschool Rating…
You scored as Loner.
What's Your High School Stereotype? created with QuizFarm.com |
My good friend Nino had his results on his web site. I decided to try it out and I guess it is close. Although, I think the "prep" and "rebel" scores should be switched. (ps. I had to modify the html the results give you because my blogger template here doesn't allow for such large images... I need to fix that).
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
To quit or not to quit that is the question.
Man alive!!! I am so tired today. This past week and a half have been nothing but hell at work. I've been here every day until about 7pm, and I'm still so far behind. Every minute someone wants something that is NOT on my already long list of to do's. And they can't take no for an answer either... or even a wait. How does this happen you ask? (well I'm glad you asked)
Well, let me explain life at work according to Jonathan. This may not be totally true, but it is true based on my observations and comments from other people I work with. Ok, here goes...
Basically, there is a team next to me that has somewhere between 12 to 18 people on it for one application. For those out there that don't know IT lingo, an application is like Microsoft Word, Blogger.com, anything that has code for a specific set of people to use. So anyways, 12-18 for one app. Then there are 5 programmers on my team. 3 of them work on one application in all its glory and one other guy works on 2 (1 of which I help and 1 I will probably take over). Then I have 3 apps I work on by myself, plus I help the one guy that has 2, plus I help the other 3 guys that have 1 all to themselves. Now granted the 1 that those 3 have is pretty big. Or at least everyone makes it out to be. Oh, by the way... the guy that has 2 apps is leaving to a special project soon, so those apps (for sure 1 of them) will be put on me to manage. That means I'll have 4 apps by myself and 1 that I'll help another team of guys with. This is getting to be really hard since I cannot bounce off ideas from people nor offload any work. There was one guy I tried to get to learn one of my apps but it was like pushing peanut butter into a tube of toothpaste. I got tired of hearing, "no later", I'm busy now. Wow!! There sure is a lot of work on that one app for those 3 guys. Makes me wonder if the stuff I work on is pretty easy or something (not).
Anyways, something tells me that I'll never be happy with a job unless I am in business for myself. This is a pitty though. I love computer programming and I've been programming since I was in 11th grade. While most people were changing majors trying to find out what to do, I pressed on with the same old thing though these years. My last job, they saw me as quote, "the most technical person on the team". Wow!! And there were some guys there that I really admired too.
Here I feel under utilized. I still wish I was designing that next big thing that would save the company millions of dollars, streamline business processes, etc. But now I fix bugs and listen to gripes all day.
Blast! There I go again complaining..... I'll have something happy and fun here tomorrow... I promise.
Well, let me explain life at work according to Jonathan. This may not be totally true, but it is true based on my observations and comments from other people I work with. Ok, here goes...
Basically, there is a team next to me that has somewhere between 12 to 18 people on it for one application. For those out there that don't know IT lingo, an application is like Microsoft Word, Blogger.com, anything that has code for a specific set of people to use. So anyways, 12-18 for one app. Then there are 5 programmers on my team. 3 of them work on one application in all its glory and one other guy works on 2 (1 of which I help and 1 I will probably take over). Then I have 3 apps I work on by myself, plus I help the one guy that has 2, plus I help the other 3 guys that have 1 all to themselves. Now granted the 1 that those 3 have is pretty big. Or at least everyone makes it out to be. Oh, by the way... the guy that has 2 apps is leaving to a special project soon, so those apps (for sure 1 of them) will be put on me to manage. That means I'll have 4 apps by myself and 1 that I'll help another team of guys with. This is getting to be really hard since I cannot bounce off ideas from people nor offload any work. There was one guy I tried to get to learn one of my apps but it was like pushing peanut butter into a tube of toothpaste. I got tired of hearing, "no later", I'm busy now. Wow!! There sure is a lot of work on that one app for those 3 guys. Makes me wonder if the stuff I work on is pretty easy or something (not).
Anyways, something tells me that I'll never be happy with a job unless I am in business for myself. This is a pitty though. I love computer programming and I've been programming since I was in 11th grade. While most people were changing majors trying to find out what to do, I pressed on with the same old thing though these years. My last job, they saw me as quote, "the most technical person on the team". Wow!! And there were some guys there that I really admired too.
Here I feel under utilized. I still wish I was designing that next big thing that would save the company millions of dollars, streamline business processes, etc. But now I fix bugs and listen to gripes all day.
Blast! There I go again complaining..... I'll have something happy and fun here tomorrow... I promise.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Sick of this crap!!!
After reading this article on MSNBC, I was so upset. There were two girls who took some cookies to a neighbor at 10:30pm at night. Apparently, the lady at home got so scared that she fled to her sister's house and thought she might have had a heart attack and went to the hospital. I guess the lady didn't see the cookies or the note or something. Anyway, the girls families offered to pay the ladies medical fees but the lady did not accept and decided to sue. Appearently she won!!! What the hell is that all about?! I can't believe we allow these stupid cases to waste tax dollars. What kind of person sues to high school girls? The lady was quoted as saying that the girls showed "very poor judement". Ok, I can agree with that (although I don't think 10:30pm is very late), but to sue someone over it. Come on!! I think someone should sue this lady for using very poor judgement for bringing this crap to court and sueing two teenage girls for being nice.
My Family
I've had some questions from people asking what I look like and my family web site at thekeels.com just doesn't have a decent picure of me. This one I thought was nice. It is of my wife, Audrey, my son Ashton, and me on a train at Knott's Berry Farms in California.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Here's something worth looking at
It seems as though Bill Gates was quite the man in his 30's. He looks so young here.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Work sucks... no respect
I'm getting pretty sick of the work I'm doing now. I just had to write about this, as it has been on my mind for some time. Granted this has to be the 2nd most laid back IT job I've had. I have so many projects to work on, it drives me nuts. Actually, I should rephrase that... I love being on many projects and being s t r e t c h e d , but the problem is that most of my applications I support are support by me and me alone. No help! The worst part of this whole mess is the fact that I can't ask for 2nd opinions on bugs, tasks, ideas. I'm completely alone.
In my last job I worked for a rather large corporation... actually THE largest corporation in the world (you can figure that one out). While I was there I worked horrible hours and for huge amounts of time (60-80 hours per week). This job had ok pay, bad medical coverage, and other sub-par benefits. BUT, I do have to say that I was constantly innovative. I usually worked on the largest projects there... known as tranformation projects at that company. I had nothing but respect and people valued my ideas.
What really got me going today was someone asking everyone around me for help and not stopping by to ask me (let me finish the story so you know what I mean). This individual was asking different people around me for help. Sure I heard him, but I was so entrenched in my own dilemas that I figured if nobody helped him, then he may ask me. Well, he didn't and I'm not sure if he found an answer to his problem. But later at the end of the day another guy on my team, said "hey you should have asked Jonathan... he knows how to do that." And the guy flat out said no Jonathan doesn't know that..and can't help me. In to make me more upset, he had some questions earlier about some similar stuff and said the same thing about me not knowing it and didn't need my help.
Now, granted I feel like I've gotten remarkly stupid at this job since I do not stretch myself and a lot of the technology I use is out dated and what we do use is usually used in the not-so-best of situations. But come on,... over a year ago at my last job I had managers and directors begging me for my ideas... to come to their teams... to promote me to where I wanted to go. I wanted to move to Texas to be closer to family, which has been nice, but I'm getting sick of the lack of respect. I feel like I used to be somebody, and now I'm considered a "junior" developer at my new company. I'm sorry that designing the worlds largest company's single sign-on security system, corporate wide J2EE standards, rolling out 3 of the largest eCommerce web sites in ONE year, being one of 3 developers on the worlds largest employee portal systems, and not to mention a multitude of other corporate web sites wasn't enough. I'll go ahead and keep my "junior" developer title thank you!!!! While everyone else works their way up because they have "more years" in the industry than I (which for some reason this company thinks is more important than actual knowledge). I'll never figure that one out.
God I'm so pissed right now!!! I better stop before I start composing my sentences with nothing but 4-letter words.
In my last job I worked for a rather large corporation... actually THE largest corporation in the world (you can figure that one out). While I was there I worked horrible hours and for huge amounts of time (60-80 hours per week). This job had ok pay, bad medical coverage, and other sub-par benefits. BUT, I do have to say that I was constantly innovative. I usually worked on the largest projects there... known as tranformation projects at that company. I had nothing but respect and people valued my ideas.
What really got me going today was someone asking everyone around me for help and not stopping by to ask me (let me finish the story so you know what I mean). This individual was asking different people around me for help. Sure I heard him, but I was so entrenched in my own dilemas that I figured if nobody helped him, then he may ask me. Well, he didn't and I'm not sure if he found an answer to his problem. But later at the end of the day another guy on my team, said "hey you should have asked Jonathan... he knows how to do that." And the guy flat out said no Jonathan doesn't know that..and can't help me. In to make me more upset, he had some questions earlier about some similar stuff and said the same thing about me not knowing it and didn't need my help.
Now, granted I feel like I've gotten remarkly stupid at this job since I do not stretch myself and a lot of the technology I use is out dated and what we do use is usually used in the not-so-best of situations. But come on,... over a year ago at my last job I had managers and directors begging me for my ideas... to come to their teams... to promote me to where I wanted to go. I wanted to move to Texas to be closer to family, which has been nice, but I'm getting sick of the lack of respect. I feel like I used to be somebody, and now I'm considered a "junior" developer at my new company. I'm sorry that designing the worlds largest company's single sign-on security system, corporate wide J2EE standards, rolling out 3 of the largest eCommerce web sites in ONE year, being one of 3 developers on the worlds largest employee portal systems, and not to mention a multitude of other corporate web sites wasn't enough. I'll go ahead and keep my "junior" developer title thank you!!!! While everyone else works their way up because they have "more years" in the industry than I (which for some reason this company thinks is more important than actual knowledge). I'll never figure that one out.
God I'm so pissed right now!!! I better stop before I start composing my sentences with nothing but 4-letter words.
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