here it is, 2am after valentine’s day. it’s been an interesting few days. my new dentist didn’t have much to say to me, teeth were fine, just floss more. dr told me i have a fracture of some sort in my hand that’s causing me a lot of pain but because there are no alignment problems, there’s no need for screws and bolts (good). so i got a splint to wear that i’m not really wearing full time yet. i need to get better about that so this damn thing will heal soon, as its definitely painful and a nuisance. saturday morning i managed to either turn off my alarm immediately or i failed to turn it on the night before and either way i missed my appt with anderson honda to get the 45k tuneup for my accord. i’ll probably have to do it this saturday, which sucks because that’s another friday night down the drain, but we’ll see about that. i’ve got a strong thirst for intoxicating amounts of alcohol.
lots of random things happened on friday. i was approached (for the second time) to join a pyramid scheme of sorts. the first time, it was some random guy at nordstrom’s and he had me under the impression that he had some tech project that i could work on as a consultant. well… we met at university coffee in palo alto after i hooked him up with my resume and it turned out to be this pyramid scheme where you convince your friends (soon to be ex-friends) to sign up for a bunch of services and shop through a particular e-commerce site. basically, a bunch of contrived bullshit. i felt flustered that night last year, feeling like i was completely misled and was wasting a lot of my free time. i did take the time to destroy the guy pitching the idea to me and made him look like an idiot. so on friday, a guy who used to live in my dorm when i was in burbank senior year came up to me, all friendly. at first, i thought it was all genuine, but he kept slipping in tid bits about this “project” he was putting time into. when i casually mentioned my experience last year, he connected the dots and told me that it was the same scheme. i felt bad for him… i mean he has some hopes of making “millions” of dollars on this half-baked idea. pyramid schemes don’t work. anyway, after my fake-detector went off, i shot the shit for a few and escaped to my dr’s appt.
the other weird thing happened while i was waiting at my dentist’s office. i got a call from my old mentor at the startup i worked for that was bought out by motorola. i think from this point forward, i will always refer to that start up as motorola for simplicity’s sake. anyway ex-CTO of said startup is the mentor and calls me up as i’m chilling in the dentist’s office. his call catches me by surprise and i’m further surprise to learn he’s left said startup and that motorola wants him bad so they invited him out to corporate to pitch projects to him. one struck his fancy and he wanted to know what my status is. now i’m in school and i feel committed to my employer… but i’m not going to pass up on a golden opportunity if it falls in my lap. anyway, at this point i don’t know enough about the project besides some hand-waving information about vertical integration through software services but that means nothing at this point. mentor will be in town this week on business and we’ll be meeting to talk about the project. needless to say, without any details, i’m just fantasizing about what this project could be…. in some ways i definitely miss working in the mobile space because it was so hot, cutting edge in its own way, and very applicable to everyone’s daily life. it was a lot of fun, and i think it’s pretty sweet that the technology i worked on is touching over 300 million lives at the moment.
when i tell people nowadays that i work on ABL, it’s like there’s an immediate wall that comes up and people, while interested in the project, definitley project a distance in understanding between what i explain and what they seem to comprehend that wouldn’t exist if i was talking about consumer technology. there’s definitely pros and cons to working military stuff versus working consumer stuff, so i’ll have to weigh that stuff down the road.
i have a lot of work to catch up on school-wise. i’m hoping to knock down 2 or 3 assignments this week to buy myself some breathing room for the weekend so i can chill with friends, who i feel like i’ve been neglecting. i haven’t been feeling too well lately so i think i might take a sick day from work to recuperate and use it as an opportunity to get a handle on my apartment, which is in a total state of disarray.
i watched garden state last night. very good movie. it wasn’t amazing or a top flick i’ve seen, but i definitely enjoyed it and i loved the sequence where braff is talking about what home means after one has moved away and home doesn’t feel like home anymore but neither does where one has moved. that whole scene struck a strong chord within me. definitely a good movie to watch, especially for those of you with a SO or potential SO.
looking foward to this week: testing out my new gas grill that katie got me!
avoiding this week: taxes and bills
needs to be done this week: assignments 05 and 06 for school!
more posts coming because i thought of a bunch of stuff over the weekend to blog about but right now it’s 2:45am, pouring rain and i need to get some rest for work tomorrow.
happy vday everyone! and happy bday to the weirdest person in my life 