Apparently I just can't get back into the habbit of posting. I ran accross this article which parts of bothered me.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3076008.ece

No its just fine through most of it, yada yada yada x-mas is all made up and a bunch of bs. Thats just fine until we get to this part:

“The thing is, belief in Santa does not generate a moral code, it does not generate art, it does not generate imagination. Belief in God is a bit bigger than that,” the Archbishop said.

Huh, What???
Beleif in santa dosen't generate a moral code???
What part of good children get gifts and stuff and bad children get coal or nothing does he not understand. I guess this is so different from good people get into heaven, bad people go to hell that it just went over his head. See with Santa you get a year by year update as to how good you are being and you also get physical/real benefits that you can use in the world now. Where with God, you don't really know if you have been bad or good until its too late and you're dead. Then you only get a reward thats usefull if you are dead.
So I guiess the only good moral code is one thats confusing and leaves you totally in the dark. Great, just great.

And what is he talking about Santa dosen't generate Art or stimulate the imagination??? Has he not seen a Coke comercial in the last 30 years? Has he not been to a halmark? Has he not been to walmart, target, K-mart, or any where else that sells x-mas cards, decorations, gift ideas, ect??? In the curent age Santa has inspired more art than god could ever hope to.

Got to love the holidays.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3980889&page=1

This story caught my attention today. Its titled "Security Guard Prayed for Divine Guidance Before Shooting Gunman" or as I would put it, Crazy person guns down other crazy person.

This is something that always bothers me about overly religious people. They claim that god has a direct hand in just about everything that happens in their life, especially if its anything good.
So she has just gunned down some craised christian assassian and what does she attribute her good shooting skills and calm demeaner under pressure? Is it her many years on the police force, the countless hours of training and real world experience she has had...no it was God. He was there with her pulling the trigger, because apparently she was on some sort of divine misison to takedown this killer.

And the sad thing is all of this is painted in a glowing positive light by the paper.
Ugh.

Time Flash:
Monday August 6th, 2007
9am
My next step in job hunting starts today. I sent out a score of resumes to various scientific compagnies. I also sent in some applications to some unskilled labor type places. I really don't want to work outside of my field, but BZ and I are not in great financial shape and I need to get back to work.

2pm
Wow, I already got a call back about a job. Its for some place called JT industries or something like that. Its for eithor a warehouse type job or sales I'm not sure, the add had a lot of positions listed. It shouldn't be too mentally chalenging but its money. They want me to come down for an interview today so I'm off.

4pm
Well the interview wasn't what I expected. It turns out that the job is actually for Kirby, the vacume compagny. It would be going out and doing product demos for them. I would only be doing demos for people who have called in and requested them, so none of that door to door crap, so thats good. I don't have any problem being a sales man, I did it with the adventure board and that went pretty well. I have to go back tomorow for training and I'm fairly hopeful. The recruiting girl was quoting some high numbers for weekly salaries, between $456 and 2K, which is huge for a nondegree job. I was a bit concerned though that she stressed that they didn't care about education or experience. That seemed a bit odd to me.

Time flash
approximitly July 30, 2007

The new job at CareStream has been kind of rough. Their equipment is horrible. The prople there don't know the first thing about running QC testing on a comercial product, but I'm fairly confident I can bring them around. I've started filling in holes in their methods and have written up some validation work for the method as well. This should reduce some of the variability it has been having.
I was pretty shocked though to learn that the big bosses of the compagny don't really want to do any sort of QC testing on their material. This is really a disreputable practice and will get the compagny sued as soon as people who purchase their product start having assays fail becuase the CareStream product is crap.

I got in to long discussion with one of the two PHDs working here. Apparently she dosen't want to use my validation method, which would be ok as long as I can use her method, but she dosen't want that eithor. Apparently she feels a person to person reproducability validation of a method should be done with two seperate methods. I'm not quite sure how to describe this for the nonscience people reading this (not that I think anyone really reads this blog anymore), but this is a big flashing neon sign that someone dosen't know the first thing about validating a method. I tried to explain to her that we need to limit all variability in the method to see if it is rugged enough for different people to do it and come up with the same answer, but she just didn't get it. Ugh.

Time Flash:
Aug 3, 2007
Well I got a call today from the temping service that I am employed through saying that my services are no longer required. Apparently their reasoning is that I was "Too Senior" for the position. for what ever bullshit that means. Over all I'm glad to be out of there. I don't like working for disreputable compagnies, but the money will be missed. I guess its back to job searching.

Its been way way way too long since I have posted. for the longest time it was a combination of semi depression mixed with the reality that there really wasn't much going on it my life, but that phase seems to have come to an end, at least for a while.

So since my last post, I had a bachlor party, got married, had a bit of a honeymoon, got a job and probably a lot more. I've been having some crazy dreams as well, so bit by bit the urge to capture all of these things is returning.

I don't want to make this a long post, but I will come back and fill in the gaps when I get the chance.

This is my first post in about 2 months. Not too much has been going on durring that time, hence the shortage of updates on my life.
Starting off: In good news I've got a job. Its only part time currently, but could be expanded to a perminant position. Im working at carestream, which used to be part of Kodac and was formerly IBI, so all in all I've somewhat come full circle in my life. A friend of mine followed almost the same path, leaving gradschool with a masters then comming to work for this compagny. From here she went on to Pfizer so I'm hoping that will be my next stop and very hopefully in less time than it took her to get there.

About two weeks ago I stood in line for over 5 hours to try to be an extra in the up comming Indiana jones movie. It was kind of exciting being there, except the jack ass about 10 people in front of me who insisted on playing his guiotar the whole tme we were there. I was about ready to feed him the damn thing by the time we got in to audition.

Other than that I've been watching too much tv. Doing manual labor at my parent's house to help them with a buch of projects they had and have been cruizing ebay for costumes for the wedding.
See what I haven't been posting.
More to come in the days ahead as this job kicks off.

So last week, monday to be exact I went to the gym and felt kind of woosy when I got home. I didn't think too much of it so I just rested up the day and went about the routine I had set up. I set up my interview with borders and ran the job boards.
Tuesday found me worse. I was very cold and had a head ache on and off. I tried to keep hydrated.
By wensday I had a 104 temp and a constant migrain headache. Eatting was difficult and I ended up taking a cold showed to get my temp down.
Thursday found me in the same state and through the proding of my mother I checked into the emergency room. They pumped me full of morphein. I got a cat scan which I hardly remember and a spinal tap, which hurt like the dickens. Not nearly as cool as the movie lead on.
I was diagnosed with Viral Meningitis, possibly bacterial. So I was kept at the hospitle until saturday, when the plates finally came up negative and I was cleared of the bacterial version.

I had a lot more to say about things I saw while under the influnce of a morphein drip, but right now its not comming to me.

Well I've done it.
Applications have been sent into Home Depot, Borders, and Best buy.
It totally sucks, but I need the money and I need to get out of the house.
Its this or I start applying for jobs accross the US instead of just the tristate region.