so, i am sitting here getting ready to watch a movie. i am going to watch pelham 1, 2, 3. i kind of want to see it and since i am here at my aunt and uncle's place and they are going to watch it, i figure that i will jump in while i do a load of laundry.
my father is coming in from new jersey tonite. he is flying here so that he can spend time with us for thanksgiving, although he is leaving thursday afternoon due to cheaper airline ticket prices. it should be fun and i plan on playing some golf with him and my uncle on the weekend which is always a bonus. the temperatures down here are still in the mid to upper seventies!
i have been really busy this week. my work schedule is pretty rough. i wake up at 5:45am to get into work at 7am and i work until 5pm. then, i drive home where i man the on-call phone from 5pm until 7am! ridiculous!! it's weird working while i am commuting to and from work. what really pisses me off is getting prank called at midnite or later when i try and do the responsible thing and get to bed on time. the other nite some joker called me just to tell me that he had used us before...at 11:55pm while intoxicated. i hung up on him and went back to bed for 5 hours.
before i have been falling asleep, i have been enjoying this book called "the first patient". it is a medical thriller about this guy who becomes the presidential doctor due to the previous one going missing, but...is he REALLY missing??? dunh-dunh-dunnnnnnnhhh!!! it's a real page turner and it is authored by a guy named michael palmer. check it out if you like to read, which if you are reading this i assume you do.
a couple of other things coming on the near horizon that i am excited about. doing an interview tomorrow with the singer of the band It's From the Sky. his name is chris o'keeffe. they are a great band out of boston who have just released an album called Barbara's Bloody Footprints. this is a concept album and i can't wait to chat with chris about the process of making the album and the different tracks. i don't want to give more away other than that, so stay tuned!
the other thing is that i don't think that i am going to be posting to much, if at all, on facebook anymore. i feel like i flooded the page with a lot of me which isn't really cool. i think i can get out all i need to say here. i am still going to be available and will be online there still, but just for e-mailing and chat if you want. so that is that.
until next time, you can follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/judenewcomb or you can read my blogs here or you can chat me up at www.facebook.com/hendrimike.
a big shout out to my friends sean and nikki who will be expecting their second kid, a girl, any day now. good luck, guys.
until the next episode...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
every pitch, i can hit
it's been a week and some days since i last posted my first post. what the hell happened here? it's not that there have been zero things to talk about. actually, that couldn't be further from the truth.
the health care reform bill passed by a slim margin in the house sparking even more debate about the issue. the execution of thirteen of our brothers and sisters in the tragedy of ft. hood occurred. kareem abdul-jabbar came out to the public that he is battling leukemia.
and in less serious news, the eagles lost to the cowboys (while my fantasy team is at an exciting 7-2). i have received more hours at work which is nice and i have reached my 90th day here, so i have become eligible for benefits.
none of this has really sparked my interest to connect with the readers though.
i was on facebook today and i noticed at the bottom of the page they had a link for careers. i clicked wondering what could facebook possibly make available online for everyone to see.
they had every job posted it seemed. they had them in london, dublin, sydney, new york, palo alto. you name it, they had it. and, all kinds of jobs to boot. from account managers to software engineers to people who speak arabic, or french were all being asked to apply. i was pretty taken back at the openness of this huge conglomerate, so i clicked on a few of the links to jobs.
then, it hit me. with all of these jobs around the world that people were being called upon, the minimum requirements read like a list of you are not good enoughs. phd required. 8 years experience required. BS required. 4-6 years in such and such situation required.
it was depressing. here i am at 30 years old. i have experience in a field that i really don't want to do for the rest of my life. i do not have my degree and still have about two years to go to complete one.
sometimes, i just don't feel like i am prime material for the job market. i feel like i can do any job that is presented to me though, and just given an opportunity to showcase my skills and smarts, i can make anyone a believer. just because i went through some tough times as a kid in college and didn't finish, that does not determine who i am, or even who i was then.
i am friendly and intelligent. i have myself to give. i can learn anything you throw at me. not meeting requirements just to apply is a joke. i can outwork and perform better than most of the people with those degrees, but because of a lack of a piece of paper, i can't even get my foot in the door to prove myself.
i need someone to take a chance on me, so that i can show to them, that every person has led a life. my life has led me to this, and i am better for it. let me show you what i have learned in these years of mine.
the health care reform bill passed by a slim margin in the house sparking even more debate about the issue. the execution of thirteen of our brothers and sisters in the tragedy of ft. hood occurred. kareem abdul-jabbar came out to the public that he is battling leukemia.
and in less serious news, the eagles lost to the cowboys (while my fantasy team is at an exciting 7-2). i have received more hours at work which is nice and i have reached my 90th day here, so i have become eligible for benefits.
none of this has really sparked my interest to connect with the readers though.
i was on facebook today and i noticed at the bottom of the page they had a link for careers. i clicked wondering what could facebook possibly make available online for everyone to see.
they had every job posted it seemed. they had them in london, dublin, sydney, new york, palo alto. you name it, they had it. and, all kinds of jobs to boot. from account managers to software engineers to people who speak arabic, or french were all being asked to apply. i was pretty taken back at the openness of this huge conglomerate, so i clicked on a few of the links to jobs.
then, it hit me. with all of these jobs around the world that people were being called upon, the minimum requirements read like a list of you are not good enoughs. phd required. 8 years experience required. BS required. 4-6 years in such and such situation required.
it was depressing. here i am at 30 years old. i have experience in a field that i really don't want to do for the rest of my life. i do not have my degree and still have about two years to go to complete one.
sometimes, i just don't feel like i am prime material for the job market. i feel like i can do any job that is presented to me though, and just given an opportunity to showcase my skills and smarts, i can make anyone a believer. just because i went through some tough times as a kid in college and didn't finish, that does not determine who i am, or even who i was then.
i am friendly and intelligent. i have myself to give. i can learn anything you throw at me. not meeting requirements just to apply is a joke. i can outwork and perform better than most of the people with those degrees, but because of a lack of a piece of paper, i can't even get my foot in the door to prove myself.
i need someone to take a chance on me, so that i can show to them, that every person has led a life. my life has led me to this, and i am better for it. let me show you what i have learned in these years of mine.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
salutations
i have decided to make a blog. here are a couple things that you may like to know about me to begin. i live in the tampa bay area. st. petersburg to be exact. i am thirty. i'm male.
alright,
what i would like to do with this space here is have a chance to wander off the pages of facebook (and myspace and twitter and message boards and youtube) to reflect on how i feel about the life and the world with me inside it. this space here i welcome you to. i welcome your feedback and your views. in the course of the coming months or however long i come back to post, i may make you laugh. i may make you freaking angry. i may offend you. i really don't care about that. i just hope that i can get my point across and that it is appreciated. i do not claim right off the bat to be unbiased. that would bore me to walk the line.
i have come to a crossroads. i need to be myself completely and without apology. for so long, i have felt the need to self-censor myself right before, and i mean literally a split-second before i choose the words i am about to utter. i would say that about 50 percent of the time, i tend to smooth out what i will say. maybe that makes some sense for social situations where you don't want to throw-up on a foreign dignitary like the first george bush, but it really does me no good here. if you are not liking what i say, then move on.
but know this: this will not be about just views on one thing like politics. it will have self-analysis of life. ideas about the world. a cheap shot towards the dallas cowboys. my favorite food creations. music, friends, drinks, the south, money, women, douchebags, whatever. it will not have a central theme except variety itself. i may come back to an idea you find funny every once in awhile and explore it. i may type about one thing once and never revisit it again.
i think what may end up happening is that you will see that a lot goes on in the head of a thirty year old guy who still has yet to really begin his life. it's a diary of what's to be with what has just occurred. i am going to be honest. completely. it has to be since i am writing this to myself.
take a walk with me. who knows what lies ahead.
alright,
what i would like to do with this space here is have a chance to wander off the pages of facebook (and myspace and twitter and message boards and youtube) to reflect on how i feel about the life and the world with me inside it. this space here i welcome you to. i welcome your feedback and your views. in the course of the coming months or however long i come back to post, i may make you laugh. i may make you freaking angry. i may offend you. i really don't care about that. i just hope that i can get my point across and that it is appreciated. i do not claim right off the bat to be unbiased. that would bore me to walk the line.
i have come to a crossroads. i need to be myself completely and without apology. for so long, i have felt the need to self-censor myself right before, and i mean literally a split-second before i choose the words i am about to utter. i would say that about 50 percent of the time, i tend to smooth out what i will say. maybe that makes some sense for social situations where you don't want to throw-up on a foreign dignitary like the first george bush, but it really does me no good here. if you are not liking what i say, then move on.
but know this: this will not be about just views on one thing like politics. it will have self-analysis of life. ideas about the world. a cheap shot towards the dallas cowboys. my favorite food creations. music, friends, drinks, the south, money, women, douchebags, whatever. it will not have a central theme except variety itself. i may come back to an idea you find funny every once in awhile and explore it. i may type about one thing once and never revisit it again.
i think what may end up happening is that you will see that a lot goes on in the head of a thirty year old guy who still has yet to really begin his life. it's a diary of what's to be with what has just occurred. i am going to be honest. completely. it has to be since i am writing this to myself.
take a walk with me. who knows what lies ahead.
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