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It’s Friday, I aint got no job, I aint got sh… to do…

Oh wait, I do have a job. Damn. Oh well, at least today was another payday. I woke up to a replenished bank account, and please believe it will all be gone by the end of the weekend.

I stayed until 7 o’clock last night finishing that stupid project for my boss, and he wasn’t too impressed. “Bout time” was his response when I finally e-mailed it to him, which took me like 45 extra minutes because I had to go through and re-install Outlook. Oh Microsoft, can you make my job any more difficult?

He said he’ll have something new for me to work on today, and to just answer e-mails and make myself look busy until then.

So for the time being, did anyone catch the MLS all-star game last night? West Ham thinks they’ll challenge for a place in Europe this season, but they can’t keep Blanco’s fat ass from scoring? Scott Parker got used and abused on that goal, and Blanco looked like he was moving in slow motion.

How lazy has David Beckham become since he moved here? He just stands around and calls for the ball, and serves a few long balls and crosses. I think the fastest I saw him run was when he ran over to take free kicks and corners. I would like to see the amount of distance he covers every match, it’s probably close to 20 feet.

Dwayne De rosario played well also in front of his fellow Canadians, eh. Here’s a throwback pic of when he was at Richmond Kickers:

Hair for days.

I’m curious to see where Kenny Cooper ends up, but after listening to his interview, it sounds like he’ll be in Norway along with Clarence Goodson and Troy Perkins (and I think I’m forgetting someone? Ramiro Corrales was over at Bran but now he’s back in San Jose. Someone who moved from New England but isn’t doing so well, who the hell is it?). Even Edson Buddle has been rumored to be off to Norway; what a joke of a league MLS is turning into when guys would rather play in NORWAY than their own country.

Oh well, I’m going to monitor Yanks Abroad and other news sites for updates all day while my boss finds some busy work for me.

I came in to start my PC, and as SOON as Vista started I got this (this isn’t the actual screenshot but it’s the same error message I got):

and I had to restart.

I ended up doing nothing yesterday but play on Youtube all day and read up on West Ham to get ready for tonight’s All-Star game, and now my boss needs that Excel spreadsheet by end of business today. Hopefully this POS PC decides to cooperate with me and I can actually focus on my work for a few hours, I dont want my boss screaming at me first thing on a Friday morning.

Does anybody know any free programs I can install to see if there is something slowing up and causing problems with my PC? A friend of mine mentioned something about spyware?

So this morning when I came in and my boss had another awesome task for me to spend 8 hours on. I basically sit here and copy and paste a buttload of data from a word document to an excel spreadhseet. But then, of course, after spending 30 minutes on it… I go up to click save to make sure I don’t lose any information in case my PC locks up (which has happened about 4 times this week), and I can’t even click anything on the top toolbar. Then, I can’t even click on the Windows icon on the bottom of the screen to restart.

I didn’t know what to do and didn’t want my boss thinking I’m an idiot so I had to power off the PC and power it back on, and pretty much start all over. Of course the files didn’t show up in the auto-recovery option so, a half an hour of work down the drain. Luckily this will only take me about 3 hours to complete, then I dick around on Facebook and Youtube all day.

I’ve been living in Los Angeles for a month now and I’m really happy. I am, but life isn’t always easy. Of course it’s hard to complain when my biggest stresses are job success and number of Los Angeles friends on Facebook, but it doesn’t change the fact that occasionally in a city that never rains there are still rainy days. I’m remembering what it’s like to be at the bottom of the totem pole, little fish in the sea, and the kangaroo on vacation. Okay, Kangaroo on vacation isn’t a term, but I thought you might bite if I put it in there with the other ones.

So sometimes I want go home, sleep-in through work (and yes it’s only my second week), or just wake up and feel on top again. It’s just not the case. So, what do I do? I rant on the blog and to be honest it does make me feel a little better.

The printer broke in the office. I called the tech company and they transferred me to India. All I wanted was someone to come in, take fifteen minutes, and fix it. How does someone who can’t see the printer fix the printer? I’m not anti-out sourcing, but this is getting out of control. If we want to make toys, flat screen tv’s, or burn dvd’s outside the US cause it’s cheaper I understand. But tech help from India isn’t my cup of chai.

All in one fax copiers suck balls. Henry Ford, even though the douchebag was a racist, had it right when he separated all the tasks in making a car. Why does Xerox feel like they have to put a faxer, printer, copier, phone, walkie talkie, camera, jelly bean maker, and butt wiper all into one machine? I tried sending a fax today for one of my bosses and then like a tool had to ask how the thing worked. Beard Boss guy came over and pushed like fifty buttons before the fax went through and then said the classic, “That’s all you have to do.” Why couldn’t we have gone over faxing during our training. I know how to open mail and put it in a box no one needs to teach me that. But when operating the Xerox I would have appreciated getting more than the code. If you’re a boss reading this please help your interns with the way to expensive technology in the office you only bought to look legit.