H1N1
Wednesday, December 23
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Arlington Cemetery
Saturday, December 12
RIP Lt Col Michael J Stroff Jr
07April1920 - 19October2006
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 9:54 AM,
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$10
Friday, December 11
When did $10 become the new $5?? I know, I know, inflation and the like. But here we are in almost 2010 and it's difficult to get a quick lunch for $5 anymore unless you wanna get a Big Mac combo (currently $4 on special) or a Wendy's Double combo (special for $2.99) or hit the 7-11 for a hot dog and a soda. Clearly the corporations are doing some cheapie food, (KFC's 2 piece meal $3.95) but even the Chinese place lunch specials are creeping up to $8.95 and that's with out a soda. $5 is currently what it costs for a quick breakfast if you don't grab something at home. The economy is currently pulling everyone in every which direction and people are deff cutting back in everything, including going out to lunch. I wonder if this is going to be a skimpy consumer Christmas for the country??
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 10:15 AM,
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Bizarre
Tuesday, December 8
Is this what going mad feels like? Last night, I woke up at 4am. Not sleepy stumble wake up, but wiiiiiiiide awake. And started freaking out about my toe nails and weight? WTF?? Well, let's do some basic checks… Cognitive reasoning - Check! Grasp on reality - Check! Basic logic - Check! Well, I guess I'm not crazy but that 4 am thing sure was odd. This better not be the start of a new pattern. I'm not having that.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 1:15 PM,
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Delish!!
Monday, December 7
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 6:49 PM,
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Overwhelmed
Monday, November 30
These past few weeks, I feel like I've been on the go non stop... again!! Perhaps it's the fact that we are coming into the holiday's and there are a ton of get together's? Possibly. But I think it's the combination of work picking up, the social calendar staying packed and dating someone new. It always takes a little while for that last item to settle into your regular life rather then being its own thing. Not saying it's bad, b/c it's not not. I'm really enjoying it in fact. I also need to devote some time to the gym and getting into shape in the midst of all of this. I hate that I keep putting it off. Ok, I'll start then. or Ok, after this event. Grrr (to me) there is always something! I'm really enjoying everything going on right now, and just haven't found much time for some of the maintenance that I need to do on my life. Sure, I'm still keeping track of finances and getting to my laundry/dry cleaning (eventually) but I can feel that I'm just spreading myself a little thin. I think next week life will slow down a little and It'll be business as usual. This week... I'll just have to freak out a little to get thru it. Gotta do it like a duck! On the surface, everything is cool and calm. Under the water, those feet are going a mile a minute to fight the current.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 11:53 AM,
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Social Media
Monday, November 23
In my always on the go lifestyle, with blackberry in hand I'm always up to something. Not in a bad way, it's just that a life always out and always networking means you are always up to some event, or planning meeting, or your next engagement. Personally, I enjoy it. I like to keep busy, that's what I do. The side effect of all this is that on my free moments, I'm noticing that I'm blogging less. I still have a desire to write, but my office is using a ton of that with actual work. What? What has filled this void? Mobile social media in the form of Twitter or Facebook. I can update on the go. Is it as in depth? Oh hell no. If all I got was 140 char's to blog on, I think this post would have stopped a hot minute ago and made no sense. As with everything else, I'm looking for balance. And this is no different. I need balance b/t all my social outlets. The list serves, the FB accounts, the Twitter feeds all of which my new berry is streaming amazingly!! But still, it doesn't take the place of this blog. I'm not going to look at my FB feed next year wondering what was on my mind today... well, I might but that's not the point. FB Posts/Tweets are good for the moment. Typing over here is good for a little more then instant thoughts. I tend to like to sum up my thoughts, thank you JD from Scrubs, at the end of my emails... but not today! Just a random splattering of thoughts. Just for me/you!
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 12:58 PM,
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Upgrade Time
Tuesday, November 17
Is it obvious yet that I'm a gadget freak?? Well it should be. I just upgraded my berry to the new Curve 8900 and I freaking love it!! For those of you keeping count at home, that's berry number 5 I think for this year. Yikes!! At any rate, this thing is great. It has 4x the memory for processing and storage. I'm actually able to use all the features on it w/o it locking up and more. The Curve 8310 was a great phone, but I just run too many apps and use my berry more then the phone can keep up with. If you need a basic berry, that thing kicks serious a$$. Great battery life, great functionality, etc. But if you need a little more processing power and memory, you gotta upgrade.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 10:34 PM,
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Logic Fail Rebuttle
Monday, November 9
Well, I followed thru with the plan I made Saturday. Here's a link in case you missed it. Click me!! Travel time down 8.5 hours, travel time back 7.5 hours. Total = 15 hours.
The verdict? Totally worth it!
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 2:59 PM,
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Logic Fail
Saturday, November 7
I don't understand my own logic here, but this is essentially what I'm doing. Since I'm not going to use city names, this might be a little tricky so follow along, k? Earlier this week, I park my vehicle at location A. From location A, I took a direct flight to location B. Today, it's time to head back (a day early thank you very much!) and I'm leaving location B by plane. So far pretty simple. Well, my flight goes from A to B. B, where my vehicle is parked. Instead, location B is just going to be a lay over as I take a flight to location C. From location C, I will then rent a car and drive back to location B in order to pick up my vehicle. Doesn't that seem a little like going around your a$$ to get to your elbow? There must be something great at location C for this plan to be worth while. I'm not complaining and I think it'll be a great extra little mini trip, but the concept is a little funny to me. If there were a direct flight from A to C, and then rent a car to travel from C to B, I wouldn't even notice. It's just that lay over at location B that makes this amusing IMHO.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 10:42 AM,
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Luggage
Friday, November 6
Due to my recent work travel and a partial effort to appear more professional, I've invested in some fancier luggage to travel. I picked up the usual non-descript black luggage that EVERYONE else has on the plane. Ha. A large garment bag and a freakin huge laptop/carry on bag. The latter is great for folks who travel with two laptops, me, and don't wanna have their office PC breaking their back b/c it weighs an arm and a leg!! Having spent some time wheeling this thing around, I just don't think I'm ready to become those people that tote wheelie bags to work. As soon as I'm back in DC, it's back to my back pack for me. I just think that's more me and waaaay more comfortable. I like this bag, I really do. But it's more suited to travel and less to every day totin around.
Every time I look at my bags and notice that I just picked up matched luggage, I can see the space balls scene in my head "What the hell is all that?""It's her royal highnesses matched luggage!"
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 9:00 AM,
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Sickie
Thursday, November 5
There's nothing quite so fun as getting sick on work travel (did I use the sarcasm font?). Why is this a problem? Well, in my office you don't exactly get to call out sick normally and at home. Try it on travel (unless you are one of my co-workers... grrrr) and you are probably out of a job. Well, the 30+ degree temperature drop combined with the nasty nasty rain/winds coming in off the water are taking their toll on my immune system. Hell, it was raining sideways!! WTF? My pants were soaked thru and all I did was walk 3 blocks to my hotel. I will tell you this tho, my Northface has been tested Cleveland tough and passed! But I digress. In the evening, I need to self medicate off the small amount of things that I have with me. So, a little ginger ale (not pictured) to settle the tummy, a little ibuprofen (also not pictured) to help with the aches and pains, and a quadruple shot of crown to help it all come together. I think this'll be the ticket and I'll feel better in no time. B/c seriously, not making it to the office on travel is NOT an option.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 9:20 PM,
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Wireless
Wednesday, November 4
I've been with a lot of carriers, all of them in fact. And have finally come to the conclusion that they all suck. Just pick one and stick with them has been my motto. This week, I'm on a Verizon air card (sucks!!) and my blackberry is starting to look very very rough. No problem, I've given AT&T a ton of business over the years I bet my upgrade rate is reasonable.
These two carriers clearly have their fans and their enemies, you can't deal with this many people and everyone like you. First off Verizon. I've hated you for years and years and years mostly b/c you lock out your phones and force everyone into your red/black themed interface bull sh!t. You are the god damned Toyota Camry of the wireless world!! Your air card service is also crap. The connection is slow for all your BS talk of fastest network and periodically, your network just goes dormant on my connection b/c I guess it's just bored. Wow. Awesome. If I actually paid for your service, I'd drop you like a bad habit.
AT&T, I know you have to attract new customers and that's fine. But why the hell should my upgrade rates be sooooo much higher then intro rates? Isn't good customer service keeping existing customers happy and then that in turn attracts new ones? Don't get me wrong, I don't expect anything for free but I also think it's complete BS that I have to pay an extra $100 to upgrade to the same phone over a new customer. I've been paying you for 4 (or 5) phone lines for how many years now?!?! Also, if you are gonna sell a refurbished phone, sell the fcuking refurbished phone. Don't try to mask your new customer discount as a refurbished discount since it's clearly not available to anyone else.
Am I ready to switch to another carrier? I dunno. That kind of violates my belief that they all suck. But in the mean time, you can both go fcuk yourselves. Sprint? T-Mobile? How are things?
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 12:19 PM,
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Cleveland @ Night
Tuesday, November 3
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 7:36 PM,
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Cleveland
Monday, November 2
I once again find myself in Cleveland, and the more I go the less funny I find these video's. I actually feel sad for this area. I mean the mass transit is in place, they have tons and tons of office space for commercial items and the city itself is working really hard to turn things around. I know they are currently working b/c I've been listening to a fcuking jack hammer out side my building for the past 3+ hours, but I digress. Good luck Cleveland. I hope you guys can do something with all this space! If not, hell the house for the price of a VCR sounds kinda nice!
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 2:44 PM,
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Turn off the world
Tuesday, October 27
Last night I had the privilege of catching up with an old old friend of mine. In fact, I think she's known me longer then just about anyone else I keep in touch with. True, we lost touch for a few years, but I'm glad she found me and we have been able to spend this time together. Rather then going to do some fancy DC stuff, we just kicked it at a local bar. We snacked, we laughed, we drank, we told stories of sorrow and of good times... all in all, it was a great evening. Why is this evening special or so much different from every other night out of good stories and good laughs? Well, b/c we started out the night with both of us turning our phones off. She didn't ask me to, it's just that honestly there was no where else I would have rather been and no one else I wanted to hear from. If you've met me, you'll know how truly rare that really is.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 10:46 AM,
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Excessive!!
Friday, October 23
Holy hell, this is just ridiculous. I wonder if anyone is actually gonna eat one of these? Mmmmm... Excessive!
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 2:04 PM,
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Neglect
Thursday, October 22
This week has been a heavy week when it comes to social life. In my never ending discussion/search for balance in my life, I've deff tipped the scales to social. How can you tell? Well, you can watch my budget going straight to hell for party expenses or my lack of sleep or my absence in the gym. One interesting byproduct of the party life style, if you have a messy roommate, is that the upkeep of the house doesn't go on. In this case, it's the dishes. Maybe I'm a nit picky neat freak, but if I never eat at home why are there always dirty dishes??
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 4:46 PM,
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Monday's
Monday, October 19
Every time I hear people using the term "A case of the Monday's" in real life it takes me back to Office Space and the first time I watched it. I thought, holy crap, life can't really be like that. Can it?? At the time, I clearly had not experienced office life. Nor did I ever hate Monday's like I do now. It's not so much that the day itself sucks, it's that in the serving world all the days blend together. You kind of start forgetting what day of the week it is and you sort of stop caring. Not b/c life is bad by any means, but the days of the week really don't matter when you work 7 days a week and holiday's. The catch is, you really don't mind either. Or maybe I really don't mind. Is that even really a catch? I see my roomie now working/sleeping crazy hours while I work the 9-5 grind. Is one better or worse? I think they are different and they deff. both have their pro's/cons. Maybe this is just one of those grass is greener sort of thoughts? Or maybe the fact that "A case of the Monday's" exists is a little ridiculous to me.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 3:17 PM,
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Hiya
Friday, October 16
Hey there blog, what's up? It is just soooo muggy, gray, gross, whatever you wanna call it out there. Feels like one of those stay in the house and do nuuuuuthin kinda nights. Ya know? Maybe get my video games on or catch up on some old shows that I haven't seen in years. You know what would be fun? Cooking a nice gourmet meal for some folks like I used to years ago. Way before your time blog, some friends and I used to have last supper a couple nights a week. I was working in a kitchen full time so to cook for only 10 at home was nooooothin. They'd all chip in for foods and someone else cleaned. Really, a great deal for everyone. I think that would be one of the great pro's for living in a group home. Last supper! Deff, good times.
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posted by Cptn S.A. Ho @ 3:09 PM,
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