tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36049907840041041952023-11-15T08:14:44.932-07:00In the life of a 24 yr old...Don't you just love the, "I love you, but not in that way." or "I'm not ready right now. I just want to focus on myself." or "Let's just be friends."
Take it with a grin and hope to god that they never call you again.The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-13761375375649248402011-02-09T12:20:00.000-07:002011-02-09T12:20:21.647-07:00Finally figured out how to work my network!Hey all! So, as a 24 yr old I play games on occasion. I'm not on them all the time, because that would leave no time for the lovely women in my life. Anyways, onto what I just figured out.<br />
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This is how I figured out how to get my XBOX working so I can join my friends lobbies and play with them. Many of you probably have heard of port forwarding and probably have tried it. I would be one of you. If you haven't here's a link to how to do it. <a href="http://www.halo3forum.com/xbox-console/244398-how-port-forward-your-xbox-360-a.html">XBOX 360 port forwarding</a> It is a comprehensive guide.<br />
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Essentially the part you should take from it is that if you DMZ your XBOX 360 you are opening up your XBOX to everyone in the world. But I dare you to find someone who will hack your xbox. If you are still worried about it, then just set your XBOX 360 to your DMZ when you are using it and take it off when you are done.<br />
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Now, here's a short guide to how to set your XBOX 360 to DMZ.<br />
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<ol><li>Go into the dashboard and find your internet settings. It should give you information on your connection. From this point find your IP Address that your XBOX 360 has. Write it down! </li>
<li>Now go to a computer that is hooked up to the same router. Go into the network software usually all you have to do is type 192.168.1.1 in the address bar above and it will send you there. At this point most of you will be stopped by a user name and password prompt. Enter your user name and password, for those of you who have not been into your router network software before it will be the default user name and password in your manual. </li>
<li>Go into your router network settings and it should give you the option for DMZ. Add the DMZ to the IP Address of your XBOX 360. Ok, so this is the part that most people will get frustrated over. If you have this network set up to a modem you DO NOT stop there. You now need to set up the DMZ for your network. Before you leave your router software you need to find out the IP Address of your router. To do this you need to find the status option in your router software. </li>
<li>Once you find the IP Address of your router you can now exit out and go into your modem software. This may be different for most of you. I believe most will also be 192.168.1.1 but it could also be 192.168.0.1. If it is neither of those look into your manual or google it.</li>
<li>Once you are in your modem software you will not have to find the DMZ option again, but instead of putting the IP Address of your XBOX 360 in there put the IP Address of your router.</li>
</ol>This should get it working, if it doesn't leave a comment and I will try to help. The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-27347129504690229812011-01-27T22:28:00.000-07:002011-01-27T22:28:12.449-07:00GirlsSo I know many of my posts have been pretty negative when it comes to women. But, now a days I'm just not sure what to do with them. At this moment there are 3 girls. I'll go through the list of girls.<br />
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Girl #1: She seems to be crazy about me. Although, I know things won't work out. She wants to stay in "this" state. I'm obviously not going to choose to stay here if I have the option to go somewhere else, especially Notre Dame, Northwestern or UC Berkely Law Schools.<br />
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Now to explain the situation. She constantly calls me and texts me. And when we do hang out she is pretty much attached to me. And at the risk of sounding shallow she is "ok" looking.<br />
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Girl #2: She is 31 years old. Ok, so I am not worried so much about the age. And she's well pretty good looking. I'd love to see her with long hair but even with the short hair she is still pretty beautiful. Oh, I also need to mention that she's also going to law school. I'm not sure where though.<br />
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But the biggest thing I'm worried about is I don't know how to deal with an older girl.<br />
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Girl #3: She's one of my high school friend's younger sister. Also pretty cute, but I haven't gone on a date with her yet. I asked her out but didn't give her a day yet. She said yes. So I got 1 foot in that door. We'll see where this goes.<br />
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This is getting complicated. Tomorrow I have a date with girl #2 and well I think girl #1 wants to do something this weekend too. But I also planned to go out with the guys this weekend.<br />
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We'll see what I do with this situation. I'll keep you guys updated =)The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-71717489960771360622011-01-21T11:05:00.000-07:002011-01-21T11:05:59.001-07:00It's been awhileSo I know I haven't been on and posting in awhile. Things have gotten a bit crazy for the past 6 months. I was in NY for 2 months and I spent 3 months studying for the LSAT exam, for those of you who don't know what that is. It's the entrance exam for law school. It goes to say that I got a pretty good score. I scored in the top 10% of the people who took the exam.<br />
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Anyways, I'm sure you guys don't want to hear about that. Since I finished my exam in December I've been working at the family business. When I went in I was surprised to find out that the place was not only all a mess but the sales have gone down since I had left 6 months ago. I'm usually a nice boss but, when I step in and see crap like what I saw happening I have to be a dick. It isn't more or less being a dick but telling my employees their job is on the line and if they don't start doing the stuff that I hired them to do I will find someone else. This is pretty much the same work crew that I had hired before I left, if any of you are wondering.<br />
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Ok, so on to some more interesting stuff. I met a girl. The only thing is that she's 31. Now that's a 7 year age difference and she's older...I'm not really concerned about the age difference, I'm more worried about how to work things with a girl that's older than me. Any suggestions? For those who just seemingly pass by. Well, I have a date with her tonight so we will see what happens.<br />
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Oh right I forgot, there is another girl. Things with her will obviously not work out. First of all, she wants to stay in AZ. Personally I want to get the hell out of here. Things here are pretty messed up. Like the government state debt is ridiculous all left by the "Great" Janet Napolitano. "Great" my ass! She took funding away from things like a school dedicated to helping homeless children, to put towards her own personal projects. That's just the start. Then there's this 10-70 legislation, which put a ton of pressure on the illegal immigrant population here in AZ. This cause a massive "GTFO!" (Get The Fuck Out) response. Oh, this did wonders for our already crapped on economy. I've seen my family's business doing over 1 million in yearly sales to a little over half. I think if the people of AZ had a real problem with the current illegal immigrant community we should of done something else. Amnesty or something else. I think this was a ploy by politicians, including Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to further his radical idealism.<br />
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So what can I do to change the course of states like AZ? I can become an attorney and do something about it. It's been far too long since there has been someone in politics who doesn't warp the reality the public sees and tells us how things are. Someone who uses logic and understanding, but most of all cares about his fellow human being no matter the country of origin.<br />
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Sorry guys I kind of went off on a politics spree. I'd like to hear about some of the things you want me to talk about. Anyways, later for now.The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-62215835511807542112010-03-17T01:57:00.000-07:002010-03-17T01:57:11.526-07:00SPRING BREAK!!It's spring break here and well I've had too work A LOT. That's just an understatement. We've done nearly 50% better than we did the year before during this time. It gets so busy that we have people still coming in after the time we are suppose to be closed by. But hey who am I to turn away money. CHA CHING!<br />
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I have to say one of my biggest pet peeves is when these kids come into my store and they abuse the take a penny leave a penny jar. It's not the take a penny leave a penny then come back later and take the whole fucking jar.<br />
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I mean, I'm fine with them taking a penny or 2 here and there. But when they start to take 5 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents that's just wrong.<br />
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So I just met a pretty cool girl. But the only prob is that she's in Tucson which is just about a 1 hr 30 mins drive away. Hmmm we'll see what happens. I'll keep you all updated.<br />
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Oh by the way I've been drinking a bunch of different ones lately. But haven't written them down or remembered what each on looked like. I'll have to get back to you guys on that. Until then, happy drinking!The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-53630017408896879072010-03-13T02:39:00.000-07:002010-03-13T02:39:53.185-07:00What did ya expect?I think I will again start with the beer of the day. Today's beer is from Ska Brewery. It is their True Blonde Ale. This beer pours a nice golden color with a little head. The aroma is dominated by the wheat then followed by the hops. But given the dominance of the hops I was expecting it to be stronger to the taste than it was. The taste was smooth, the wheat is clearly noticeable but definitely not overpowering. The after taste is very smooth, it's as smooth as a baby's butt. Yes it is that smooth. From some of the reviews that I have seen about this beer, it is a highly underrated beer. Though, I believe it is underrated I think it is too smooth for me. It is still a good beer in my opinion and I wouldn't mind drinking it again. Very good beer to drink for those who just started drinking craft beers. Grade: B<br />
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So on to today, I worked the morning then had to come back in at night to close up for 4 hours. This is actually the first time that I have worked with...I will name her "desperate", for reasons I will explain a little later. In the morning I got some bad news. It's not a good idea to put an ad in the local paper that we are offering a dirt ass cheap 30 pack of beer. My sales rep was freaking out about it. But it was already circulated and too late to take it off. So we had to make up a cover story. Not a very good cover story but it was the best that we could make on such a short notice. If you want to know what the cover was just ask, but I'd rather just move on to the more interesting part of the day.<br />
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I would have the say that I have not worked the night shift on a Friday night in a long ass time. Not that I actually use my Friday nights off to actually go out and do something. Anyways, today I was working with Desperate. Now here's why she is now named Desperate. For about the first 2 hours all I heard from her was this guy's cute and I want to be with him, for nearly the entire male student body at ASU. But I will attest to one very big fact, gotta keep up my vocabulary, most of those guys were not the nice guys. The nice guys in her life all fell into the friend category. mmmmMMMMMmmmm the dreaded friend category, once in you will NEVER get out! MUAHAHAHA!<br />
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This pretty much lead to telling her the simple facts of college life. Girls go for the <a href="http://wanderingtosomewhere.blogspot.com/2010/03/long-time-no-see.html">jerks and assholes</a>, as previously mentioned in my earlier posts. She, of course protested that I was wrong. I then asked her to prove to me a scenario that she has experienced that I was wrong. She started to explain how each one of the guys that she mentioned that she likes were all nice guys. This is of course a praise to the Love Is Blind God. All praise him! AMEN! She sees what she wants to see.<br />
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Don't get me wrong she is a really nice girl. All I am doing is educating her on how to sniff out the asscracks. It was at this point when I started to feel my old confident/borderline cocky self coming back from a long ass vacation. So for the next 2 hours she was being as stubborn as you can be, just wouldn't listen to the true facts of the world. Oh well, can't say I didn't try.<br />
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That's about it for today, make sure to start reading from the <a href="http://wanderingtosomewhere.blogspot.com/2010/03/welcome.html">beginning of my journey</a>.The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-53276178516459416372010-03-12T01:48:00.001-07:002010-03-12T04:00:11.684-07:00Long Time No SeeToday I'm going to start off a little different. I'm going to start off by telling you what today's beers are. Today I'll be tasting a Breckenridge Vanilla Porter eaten with a steak. From my new found knowledge of the wild world of beer and food, I've recently learned that red meat and porters go really well together. This porter was poured into a small neck glass. It pours a dark brown color, the aroma has a slight sense of vanilla but nothing prevalent. The taste is a smooth vanilla with little bitterness. Some people will say that this porter is very harsh, but the key to my opinion is that I ate a steak with the porter. The steak made the porter a much smoother beer to drink and in my opinion a overall decent beer to session at any time....that i'm having red meat. Grade: B<br />
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The second beer is an Odells Isolation. This beer pours out a reddish amber, with the aroma presents an earthly aroma. The carbonation is prevalent. I would have to say that I didn't like having too much carbonation in a beer. But now that I started on this journey in craft beers I have learned that there are good times for a lot of carbonation. This would be one of those times. The taste of this beer shows a good bitterness to it with a very good opposition of malt. I would definitely suggest this beer. This beer would be probably one of my most favorite beers. I give this *drum roll* Grade: <b>A+</b> <br />
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I think I'll finally bring up the topic of relationships, since well I haven't really mentioned it since I started the blog.<br />
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So, I've come to a situation in my life where all I do is work and come home. I rarely get a chance to go out...not saying there is anywhere good to go out, here in Mesa. About the only place that resembles any sense of the word good would be the bar called the Monastery, but the only women there are women in their 30's and 40's. And god knows I am no cougar meat. This leaves me with not much of a social life.<br />
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But, I think I will finally succumb to the fact that the jackasses and assholes of the world that get the women. Being the nice guy is an old fashioned notion of what a man should be. But not what a man needs to be, to get a woman.<br />
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All in all I think all guys actually begin their lives as good guys, but something happened in their lives that changed them. They change to protect themselves from being vulnerable. Some guys go to alcohol, other go to being a jackass or asshole, but those, like myself, that go to work to cover up their vulnerability are probably some of the hardest to change. We, the workers, use the excuse that we are always working to not open ourselves up to being vulnerable to being hurt, again. Which definitely makes it hard to meet women. <br />
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I guess I keep thinking about this, because I still believe in the whole chivalry bullshit. But these days chivalry will get you nowhere it seems. I mean case in point. I'M A FUCKING 23 YEAR OLD VIRGIN!! Again I'm going to say that I will not just have sex with anyone. Cause I know that if I just wanted to go that way there are way too many insecure women that I could take advantage of. I do know how to bullshit my way into and through things. I'm going to be blunt with you guys, the women that are most vulnerable are the ones that are fat, ugly, or fugly (both of them together). You know it's the truth, but of course there are few exceptions and I do mean FEW exceptions!<br />
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I will not and could not take advantage of a woman just to say that I'm not a virgin. It's not only immoral, but just plain fucking wrong!<br />
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I'll leave you with these few closing thoughts. Women are meant to be cherished and sex is meant for those who are special to you. Not those who you just met at a bar or club that same day. If you just have sex with anyone and everyone, the meaning of making love begins to fade and eventually you will not know the feeling of actually loving someone. You're thoughts of love will begin to bend, curve, and twist to the point where love is not love. The love you think you feel is not love at all. But who am I to be giving this kind of advice. Take it however you want.<br />
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I promise my next post will be more of a happier post. I just felt that I needed to get some things off of my chest.The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-19786020913628786982010-03-09T01:29:00.000-07:002010-03-09T01:29:07.638-07:00SO MUCH BEER!!!! @_@I know, I missed yesterday. I'll try to make up for it today.<br />
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So today I started off by going off to the gym for 4 hours. It wasn't like I was forcing myself to be there for 4 hours I just felt like I could keep going. It goes to say that I got a pretty good workout.<br />
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After the gym it was back off to work. For those of you remember, Monday's are the days that I work the night shift. Today my goal was to figure out some videos to put together for our microbeer section. I can't tell you how many videos I've been through. But I would have to say that the thing I remember from all of them is that there are 12,000 + different beers in the world. That's insane! I guess I better get drinking. <br />
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Today we have 2 different beers!! =O<br />
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The first beer is the Alaskan Amber Ale. This beer presents a clear through deep red color. The aroma is very difficult to explain. I have heard that it smells like caramel, but I can only sense a slight hint of caramel. In my best description the aroma has that hint of caramel but is highly overpowered by the grain. This beer doesn't surprise, it smells like grain and it tastes like grain. There are hints of caramel and a very small amount of hops, but it's all overpowered by grain. This beer I would say is a very good beer to sit down and relax with. There are no surprises and for some, nothing that you may have to muscle through. ;-) Grade: B<br />
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The second beer is a beer from Big Sky Brewery. It is their famous Moose Drool. This one I would have to say I was a little hesitant about. I wasn't sure what to expect. The aroma was slightly deceiving, I was expecting a similar beer to the Left Hand Milk Stout. For those of you who haven't had the Left Hand Milk Stout, this beer is in my opinion an overpowering coffee beer with a hint of chocolate. I would have to say that it wasn't something that I expected at the time. But this time with Moose Drool the coffee had definitely a weaker punch, which in my opinion made it all that much better. Not only did I sense the coffee but there was caramel prevalent in the aroma as well. So far this was exactly like the Milk Stout that I had before. But to the taste the first couple seconds there is definitely a similarity between the 2, but I do like how Moose Drool ends with a sweet chocolate taste. It almost feels like one of those water log rides at Disneyland. You start going up with the aroma and have a feeling for what to expect. Then you go for a pretty wild ride for a couple seconds, and finish off with a nice smooth ride back home. I thoroughly enjoyed this beer, it definitely lived up to the hype. Grade: A<br />
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After those 2 beers I'm feeling a bit buzzed. Each one has about 5.1-5.4% ABV I would say that if you were going to pick one or the other, pick the moose drool if you haven't had it. If you guys want to add some beers that you've tried just leave me a comment and I'll put it up on the next post. Cause god knows that I won't be able to try all 12,000 + beers! I'll be drinking all the time and probably too wasted to even use my palate to tell you guys what each one was like. <br />
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Oh, I'm thinking about starting a video blog addition to this on the different beers that I try. But it's in the works. Happy drinking! and well here's hoping to my life as a virgin! CHEERS!The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-44417938724296973562010-03-07T01:12:00.000-07:002010-03-07T01:12:59.992-07:00UnappreciatedYes, my work seems to be unappreciated. Right now I'm still working for my parents business. Today I got news that we just did 150% better than we did on our normal Saturday. I'm ecstatic! Because we haven't seen these numbers in over 5 years. This is insane. But when I bring the good news to my mother that we had done better. I was shot down by her saying that our assistant manager should not know how much we are making. This is ridiculous! It was thanks to me promoting one of our supervisors that we have been able to go over the wall that has been blocking us for a long time. No matter how much work I put into this business I could not get it over the wall by myself.<br />
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So I brought in one of my supervisors to be my assistant manager. I developed a confidentiality clause in the contract. But it seems that no matter the fact that there is a confidentiality clause, my mother says that I did wrong and we should make it go back the old way. In my personal view, all expanding businesses have to trust their employees. But have legal backing to protect themselves from their employees.<br />
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I have done exactly that. I provided the legal protection while putting my trust into my employees or in this case my employee.<br />
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I'm tired, all I think about is work, and simply no matter what I do it is wrong. When I took over as manager I was able to effectively put into place cost-management and efficiency management. This was done to be able to climb back out of the hole that we were in. Once we finally began to see the light I began planning for expansionary management. I noticed that even though I was planning for expansion I could not focus on it because I was busy doing daily operations management.<br />
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This got me thinking, can I bring in an assistant manager to help me out in this area? The answer was yes. In nearly all businesses exact numbers are closely held but basic numbers are known by many people. With this knowledge I began to look into what I can do and how I can protect the business at the same time. Protecting the business was #1 priority.<br />
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That's when I started writing up a contract and discussing with a certain employee about an opportunity to become assistant manager. This employee was excited and accepted the opportunity. Once the contract was drafted, I made sure there was a confidentiality clause in there to protect the business from her leaking out vital information about our business.<br />
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It has been about 2 weeks since then. We have seen great improvements in our business and look to large future growths. But, the co-owner, my mother disapproves of my methods. She believe that the necessary information for my assistant manager to do her job should not be given to her. Plain and simple. Her exact words were, "I don't want to get dragged in when you fall in the whole." to both me and my father. She then goes on to state, "I want to be reimbursed for the health insurance that I'm paying for." to just my father. I'm currently paying my own.<br />
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That last part she said to my father was very unnecessary. It was my idea to start off and my dad, still weary of the idea, reluctantly approved. I believe that I should take full responsibility of this project. Not to mention we are "suppose" to be a family and family do not abandon family. I gave up opportunities because my parents' business was beginning to fail. It failing was not the only other reason for me to start taking over the family business. I noticed that my dad really enjoys helping the elderly with their medicare problems and issues. But because of the business, he can't do what he enjoys. I want my dad to at least have some enjoyment out of his life, he has sacrificed so much for us.<br />
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But no, all my mother can think about is her, her, her. I'm sick of this. She thinks she's always right and doesn't believe in me. She says she does but in all reality she doesn't. She still treats me like a child, I am by no means still a child. I have knowledge and a good sense to use it for the betterment of everyone around me. <br />
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Once I get accepted I'm gone. If I don't get accepted anywhere I am leaving to Japan to go teach English as soon as I can. If I don't do either, as long as I'm leaving this place I'll be fine.<br />
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Oh, did I mention that I've been working there for free for the past 2 months. I haven't been paid in 2 months, so far I'm living off of the money I made earlier and the money I had been given for graduation. I'm starting to think that my mother loves herself and shopping more than she loves this family. <br />
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By the way, the beer of the day is a high end Breckenridge 471 IPA. It is bitter to the taste with the overpowering amount of hops and the aroma seems to hint towards fruit, I think it's grape. Grade: B+The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-48788859976430794252010-03-05T23:26:00.000-07:002010-03-05T23:26:20.288-07:00The dreaded Bar Scene! dun dun dunHey everyone! Not much has happened today. I pretty much stayed home, went to the gym and went to a Mesa Bar. Considering Mesa is majority Mormon and well they just don't drink. There wasn't much of a crowd, not to mention any hot girls. I would have to say that the only day that I went there and saw an even smidget of a hot girl was when I was there 2 weeks ago. <br />
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She wasn't exactly drop down on my knees and propose to her gorgeous, it was more like she was hot but not hot enough to pick up at the bar. So I didn't get her phone number and pretty much every other time that I've been to this bar I have not gotten a phone number. <br />
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Eh, what can I say? Bar scenes aren't me. I don't like picking up girls at the bar. <br />
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Today's beer is a Widmer Hefeweizen, apparently this beer has won awards at a couple beer events. I enjoyed the taste as well as the aroma. It is perfect with either a lime, lemon or my personal favorite a orange slice. I would not consider this a light beer nor a strong hops beer. It is about near the middle in my opinion. This is the type of beer that you can session at nearly all occasions. Grade: B+The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-39732942503133212812010-03-04T20:46:00.005-07:002010-03-05T13:18:43.942-07:00CrocodileMMMMMmmmm gotta love those days where you get 4 or less hours of sleep. Today was one of those days. I had to wake up early to get to work and do the accounting work in addition to my normal work. Long day, long day indeed. But as it turns out all of the accounting work was done by the time I got there. I swear it was by some magical elfs or I'd like to think so. =D <br />
I'm not sure if any of you know about the boarder illegal alien issue in Arizona. For those of you who don't, there are a lot of mexican citizens crossing the Arizona/Mexico boarder everyday. But a lot of them were dying of dehydration. So a group of people decided to start putting out gallons of water in the desert for those people. But there are some stupid people who are slicing and smashing those gallons of water. <br />
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I mean I'm not exactly happy about how these Mexican citizens are getting into America but that doesn't mean that they should die for it. Have we sunk so low as moral human beings to not help those who are dying? I'm sure someone out there can rebuttal this by saying that putting out the gallons of water out there only encourages them to cross. Even I have thought about that scenario. But, if thinking of the consequences if we do not put water out there. I could not live with myself. <br />
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People from Mexico will cross whether there are those gallons of water or not. With the dream and belief that they can come to America and have a better life. That seems to be just a fact of life right now. <br />
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I am in plain words, siding with those who are putting out the gallons of water. They are doing a noble and moral thing. I say to you who argue the reverse, have you no respect for human life? We are all humans on <br />
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That's my rant for the day. On another note, my employee that can't say crocodile was working with me today. I have dully named her crocodile girl from now on. Apparently she's a heartbreaker. I surely didn't let her live that down. All day it was "ay, mi corazon!" That's "oh my heart" in English =) Now i'm sure some of you are probably saying that i'm a jerk and this and that. But you got to hear the whole story. <br />
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I am the only guy working in an all girl staff. There are on a constant basis pranks and, yes you guessed it, "Chhhhrrrrriiiiisssss..." Not to mention I'm made fun of all the time. So before you crucify me at least think about why I did it. I would never do that to someone I didn't joke around with. <br />
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I promise I'm not a jerk. I'm a pretty nice guy once you get to know me. =D<br />
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So on to the beer of the day. Today's beer was a beer from Lost Coast Brewery. It was their Great White. Though, I am particular to stronger beers, this beer was smooth. It was light and had a hint of citrus. If you are the kind of person that likes a light beer to sit and relax with, this is the beer for you. But for me I'm not very fond of this beer because it is too light. Grade: C+ (others of you may rate it differently, but I feel on my overall scale, that is to my liking, this is a generous grade)The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-67260691923838176182010-03-03T22:15:00.002-07:002010-03-03T22:39:56.757-07:00Hey readersSo I'm not sure if anyone reads this but, I'll just keep ranting about my days. Oh and don't forget about following my journey through all of the different beers of the world. I also need some suggestions. =)<br /><br />Unfortunately for today there isn't much to rant about. I spent most of the day at home. I have been thinking about something for a long time. If I don't get into law school I think I will take a year and go off to Japan and teach English for a year. If that happens I probably won't be in law school till I'm 26. Oh well, it'll be worth it in the end I think and a great experience also.<br /><br />At this point in my life, through all the bullshit. I'm having second thoughts about what I want to do. I thought I wanted to go into a consulting firm and eventually work up to consulting for international companies. But at this point I'm not sure if that's what I want to do. So if I don't get into law school this journey to teach English in Japan could also be a little soul searching. <br /><br />And for the moment that all...well maybe some, of you have been waiting for. The beer of the day is from the brewery Ballast Point. It is their Calico Amber Ale. At first the aroma has a hint of citrus. I can't tell you the color cause I was too lazy to get a glass to pour it into. But the taste was a bit overpowering with citrus, but if you really pay attention you can taste a hint of caramel. Grade: B+The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-29558493466865519862010-03-02T22:23:00.003-07:002010-03-05T02:59:04.719-07:00I spy with my little eye something ______Gotta love it when you meet a very carefree kid. They are just full of amazement and awe. <br />
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Today after the gym I came home and noticed that my neighbor's little girl was sitting outside with her backpack. Of course being the good neighbor that I am I went over to go see if she was ok. She said that she tried to get in her house but the key won't work. I'm guessing that they latched the door on top. But anyways, I decided to wait with her till her mom came home. That way she wasn't outside alone. <br />
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She told me about how strong she was and how her favorite thing to do is jump rope. My first thought was "AWWW how cute!" She also said that she learned a new game called "I spy with my little eye." I'm sure most of you remember that game. I know I sure do. <br />
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So she let me go first. "I spy...with my little eye...something...orange." And yes it did take me that long to figure out what I wanted to pick. Of course I didn't pick anything hard. I picked a pretty easy one since there <br />
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After that it was eventful. I got an email from a school that was offering me a scholarship. I nearly shit my pants when I found out they wanted to pay me $20,000 to go to their school. Who's tuition is only $16,000. That would mean I still have $4,000 left over. But we'll see if I do it or not. Probably going to reply to them though. At least to tell them that I'm interested in their offer. =D Gotta keep them on the hook. <br />
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So it was off to work I go. And yes the whole cycle of "Chris this is broken..." started. Gotta love my employees. =/ Sometimes I wonder about them. <br />
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I did although have a very awkward moment at work today. One of the kids that I saw grow up came in asking if I could write a letter of recommendation for the boy scout board to get his eagle scout badge. For those of you who don't know what an eagle scout is. It is as high up in the scouts as you can go. Of course I was proud of him and proud to write that letter. My family has helped him out with his scout projects since the beginning. That's not the weird part. <br />
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The weird moment came when I started thinking about when he was growing up and just blurted out "I remember when you were THIS tall." Putting my hand at a really low level. Yes that felt weird to say because up until today I was the one who people was saying that to. I swear everyday I was at my parent's store there would be at least 10 people who would come in and say "I remember when you were THIS tall." Some of them I was so tall that I about a foot tall. At that moment I pictured one of those bags that women put their small dogs in, but instead of the dog it was me...<br />
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All in all, it was a pretty interesting day. <br />
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Oh today's beer was Alaskan White Ale. It was smooth, not bitter or strong. The spices in the beer made it a perfect blend for those who don't want to muscle through an IPA or any of the other heavily spiced beers. The aroma was pleasant. A very nice beer to end the night with. Grade: AThe wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-19351010158094720202010-03-02T12:41:00.003-07:002010-03-02T12:51:21.598-07:00Hong Kong FriendUnlike yesterday's early morning uncalled for phone call. I woke up today to a very pleasant voice. It was my friend in Hong Kong. She just got back from her vacation for Chinese New Years. <br /><br />We caught up on what's going on in our lives. I asked her how her boyfriend was doing and well it took her awhile to answer. I didn't imply anything to her, but it seemed that a person would be quick to answer a simple thing like that. Maybe that's just me. She asked me how my dating life was...I told her that it was just non-existent. She told me that there were plenty of fish out in the sea. I must be a bad fisherman...<br /><br />I just finished talking to her and I'm heading out to the gym. I'll be back on to write more about my exploits of the day.The wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-70341511673833788102010-03-02T02:22:00.002-07:002010-03-05T02:58:30.869-07:00Day 1So this is day 1 of my blog journey. I woke up today to a phone call at 7:30 am. Mind you I didn't go to sleep till about 5:00 am. Of course I didn't answer it cause well, it's fucking 7:30 am!! I just shut it off and went back to sleep.<br />
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I finally got up at 10:30 am. Still a bit angry about the phone call but what are you going to do. It wasn't important enough for them to leave a message so it isn't important enough for me to call them back. I got all washed up and decided to make some lunch before I go to work. I have the late shift today.<br />
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Usually I don't have a set time that I have to be at work but recently I had to fire 2 former employees for stealing money from the cash registers. It kinda broke my heart with one of them. She had been working for my family for years. But it was recently that her husband had beaten her so badly that they fell behind on their bills and took on a lot of medical bills. I'm still sad that I had to fire her. The other one...well, eh, that one was easy. I guess in the end I'm running a business.<br />
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So, now that I got all of you caught up. After lunch I went to go give my brother a ride home from school. He's still in high school. I finally got to work at about 4 pm. It seems like every time I step 1 foot into the door it's "Chris we have a problem..." "Chris can you fix this...." "Chris..." A never ending cycle. This day was no different. Apparently a computer fan was making a loud noise. I took a quick look and just sprayed a can of compressed air on it to get the dust off and clean it a bit. And it just stopped making that loud noise and went back to normal. Sigh...all it needed was to be dusted...<br />
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I bet some of you are wondering what kind of store it is. It's one of those kinda expensive mom and pop stores that tries to carry a little bit of everything.<br />
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Here's the interesting part of my day, which in fact isn't very interesting. We don't get very many beautiful women coming in our store. Most of them got saggy boobs, are fat, are druggies, look like they're 40 when they're actually 22, or, my personal favorite, the one's that leave a smell that lingers for 5 hours. Today was indeed a special day, 2 beautiful women walk in today.<br />
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I started talking to 1 one of them, about how her day was going and I asked her if she could tell me how the beer she was buying tasted like since I haven't had it yet. Of course I actually have had it and it wasn't too bad, not my favorite but not bad. Well it was about this point when her friend gave me a look of "just shut up! all men are pigs!" So I just finished the sale and they left. What a sad life if that's the most interesting thing in my day, but not much else I could have done. I was at work.<br />
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So the day just drudged on and on and on. I was suppose to be training the new assistant manager but it just wasn't possible with only the 2 of us working. Customers kept coming to the drive-thru and walking in and there were daily cleaning and stocking that had to be done. I decided to postpone the training till tomorrow. Hopefully I can get her trained so I can actually have a life outside of work...<br />
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Oh, I've decided to also chronicle my journey through as many different kinds of beers as I can. Right now I'm drinking a beer from Bear Republic called Racer 5 IPA. It's a strong, bitter beer that I would say leaves a pleasant after-taste. I suggest that, for those of you over 21 or whatever the legal drinking age is for you, to try it out. That is if you aren't afraid of trying different kinds of beers. =D Grade: BThe wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604990784004104195.post-48090618399074687762010-03-02T01:52:00.001-07:002010-03-05T02:58:05.667-07:00WelcomeSo I'm not sure what to write about in a blog. I've never been really good at things like these but I'm going to give it a try.<br />
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Hi, my name is Chris, I'm 23 years old, just graduated college and I'm planning to go to law school. In the mean time I'm managing my parents store. That's a whole story in itself. You'll probably hear about it more later.<br />
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Ok, so you're probably reading this so far and thinking, "eh, this isn't special at all." Well here's the kicker. I'm still a virgin. Yes, you heard me right. I'm still a virgin. For some damn reason I seems to just radiate "big brother aura."<br />
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Here's the story behind the story. In high school I can't say that I dated a lot of girls, but I dated my fair share of girls. But they all just seemed to have joined the "let's cheat on Chris club." Some of you probably will be thinking, well what the hell did you do to make them cheat on you. Tell you the truth I don't know, it could be that I'm just a nice guy to a fault. I still believe in chivalry.<br />
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Now that high school is over and "The Nightmare on Cheat Street" has ended, not without a couple scars and missing limbs. I decided to make a change and well that's when I saw HER. She was a girl that came from a very conservative Catholic family. When I mean conservative I mean they make the Pope look like a sex machine. This is definitely a big change from the type of girls I was dating before.<br />
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Unfortunately it was a trap. I was like the fly that didn't see the web. I flew head first into that sucker. *POW* That was the longest 4 years of my life. And yes it took 3 of those years to just hold her hand...It was torture. Well at the time it wasn't but at the time I didn't know what kind of shit I was standing in. Oh at this point she still hasn't said if she likes me or not. Ya...some seriously smelly shit.<br />
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So it was the week before I leave for Hong Kong on a Student Exchange. She finally tells me that she likes me and wants to see if we can have a long distance relationship. My immediate thought was, "OH SHIT..." Most of you and I know that long distance relationships don't work, with a few exceptions. But I stupidly said "OK."<br />
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I wish I could go back to that moment and punch myself in the face and say "what the hell are you thinking? Stupid Fuck!"<br />
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After the long 5 months is over I'm finally home for Christmas and hoping to finally get with her. Well, it goes to show that she ALSO joined the "let's cheat on Chris club" while I was gone.<br />
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It's been a little over a year since then. I've gone on a couple dates, but nothing really worth while. And no I'm not just going to have sex with just anyone. I'm working a lot now, just about 50-60 hours a week and trying to get into law school at the same time.<br />
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I'm a little embarrassed to say that because I work so much which makes me too tired to go out, I joined an online dating site. Not going to say which one, but nothing has really come from it. It wasn't like I was expecting it to. But hey, I'm open to trying new things.<br />
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Thanks for reading. Next post is going to be more up to date stuff. Well actually it's just going to be about today. =DThe wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891280891412768779noreply@blogger.com0