Insane Random Ramblings

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”
-E. V. Lucas

Jill was discussing the various aspects and possible outcome of the Insurance policy with the man at the Insurance Agency.

During the discussion, she asked, “Suppose I take the life insurance for my husband today and tomorrow he dies? What will I get?”

The agent eyed her suspiciously and replied, “Probably 20 to life.”

Big Ben is in trouble again. And it’s the same charge accusation, sexual assault. You would think that he would learn from the last time, right? I’m not even going to pass judgement on this case. There are some unknown variables right now. This is not as simple as when he had his motorcycle accident a few years back. He could get a good pleasanton motorcycle accident attorney, pay a fine and be on his way. This is a much more serious allegation and I have a feeling that he’ll be paying through the nose one way or another.

It’s like one step forward, two steps back with this guy. I wish he would put himself in better situations.

I had the alarm clock set and I got up at my usual time. I had even gone as far as to start getting ready for work when I realized that I had today off. I originally had a doctors appointment today. My doctor only works in the morning but I couldn’t get in to see him before 11am. So instead of taking half the day off I took the whole day off. Then I wound up rescheduling the appointment for a different day.

I don’t have any plans for today now. I could go shopping later on this afternoon and look at game tables. It’s fairly nice today and I want to at least get out and enjoy the weather. I just wish I hadn’t burned a day off. I need all of my days for the summer. That’s when I’m really ready to be off of work.

I’ve been looking for a new job for several months. It’s the longest time that I’ve looked for a job in a long time. Usually I find something within 2 or 3 months but I’ve been looking for over 5 months now. I’m ready to move on now. I’ve thought about a Cleveland job search, or Miami or Jacksonville Florida or anywhere that will hire me right now. I have the skills and knowledge so that shouldn’t be a problem. I do realize that we’re in a tough job market and there is rampant unemployment. However the city I live in is fairly stable as far as jobs go.

I just can’t believe I’m having this hard of a time finding a internal position.

I write a lot of posts and most of them have links in them. The only problem is that they’re all outgoing links. Google looks at too many outgoing links as a spam site so I have to do something to correct that. What I’ve decided to do is start deep-linking within my own blog. If I have 5 posts with links, then I’ll have 1 post with a deep link back to my own site.

I may link to a post talking about the Yankees, Phillies, my neighbors or anything else that I can think of. I may even link back to a old post about mailing a bill late since that seems to be the post I get the most hits on. I have no idea why the bots pick that post but they do.

Anything to keep my site in the search engines and stop it from being considered spam.

A beautiful young blonde woman boards a plane to LA with a ticket for the coach section. She looks at the seats in coach and then looks ahead to the first class seats. Seeing that the first class seats appear to be much larger and more comfortable, she moves forward to the last empty one. The flight attendant checks her ticket and tells the woman that her seat is in coach.

The blonde replies, “I’m young, blonde and beautiful, and I’m going to sit here all the way to LA.”

Flustered, the flight attendant goes to the cockpit and informs the captain of the blonde problem. The captain goes back and tells the woman that her assigned seat is in coach.

Again, the blonde replies, “I’m young, blonde and beautiful, and I’m going to sit here all the way to LA.”

The captain doesn’t want to cause a commotion, and so returns to the cockpit to discuss the blonde with the co-pilot.

The co-pilot says that he has a blonde girlfriend, and that he can take care of the problem. He then goes back and briefly whispers something into the blonde’s ear. She immediately gets up, says, “Thank you so much,” hugs the co-pilot, and rushes back to her seat in the coach section. The pilot and flight attendant, who were watching with rapt attention, together ask the co-pilot what he had said to the woman.

He replies, “I just told her that the first class section isn’t going to LA.”

We have a new driver on our route for UPS. Actually my street is not on a route, it’s a pick-up route for whoever has time or is in the area. So we have a different driver every few months.

My newest driver is a early morning kind of guy. He tried to deliver a package at 10am and the slip said he would be back around the same time the next day. I’m at work in the morning so there’s no one around to sign for the package. If the building manager is around, he’ll sign for us but he’s generally busy so you can’t depend on that.

I called UPS and asked them to hold the package at the nearest center and I would pick it up after work. Of course it’s snowing like crazy and I hate driving in the snow. That package may just have to sit over there for a few days.

They think they’re so slick but they didn’t get over on me. I had to buy some frequent flyer miles so my account wouldn’t go dormant. I hadn’t flown in almost 18 months and that’s the new threshold for keeping your account active. I have enough for a trip to the Caribbean or Europe (but probably the Caribbean) and I was not about to let those miles expire.

I purchased 1000 miles and they gave me a bonus of the same amount. So how did they try to get me? Well my account was set to expire on the 18th. I bought miles on the 12th expecting them to be credited within 3 days. They charged my account on the 13th but held the miles. I had to call customer service and they told me the miles would be credited around the 18th or 19th, the day after my miles would expire. Ummm nope that won’t work. I had the customer service rep credit them right then while I was on the phone. Now I have a new 18 month window to play with.

I see I have to keep an eye on them and keep them in check. You won’t be snatching my miles Mr. Airline. Nice try though.

It’s pretty hard though. I’ve applied for a ton of jobs and I’ve only had 2 interviews. I didn’t get either job but the frustrating part is both times I’ve lost out to a coworker. Good for my coworkers but not so good for me.

I’m still applying for new jobs but it’s getting harder and harder to maintain a positive attitude.