Author: Jordan

My cousin Cassie (left) and I (right):

Another week has gone by since I last posted, and I can’t say I’ve done much since then. My mom and little sister Nicolle came into town last Tuesday, so that was a bit interesting. Wednesday Morgan (my other) sister flew home, but it was good getting to see my family for awhile. Mom got on my nerves most of the time, mainly doing motherly acts I haven’t been used to in almost two years. She would call me whenever I was out with Rem, and would ask if I took a shower or changed my underwear.

I definitely overused the lines “what the hell?”, “i haven’t lived with you in almost two years!” and “i’m twenty!” more then necessary, but I was trying to prove a point with my mom! Even though she drove me crazy we definitely had some good moments. Went to the Galleria over the weekend; Saw Click and had a blast, and actually enjoyed some of the time with her. I definitely miss Morgan, Nicolle, mom and my dad. I didn’t get to spend too much time with dad, since it was the day I was leaving to drive down to Texas. Hopefully once I get settled I can fly back home to spend more time with them… My sisters have grown up so much since I last saw them a year ago.

I’m starting to become a bit restless though. Haven’t started work yet, and definitely won’t be until after Friday (I’m hoping) so tomorrow I might venture out to Starbucks to fill out an application to work part time, so I can hopefully just pick up some quick hours. The most I’ve gotten accomplished occurred earlier today. Rem and I took care of getting my car’s safety tested and getting it registered in the state of Texas. So I now have TX plates. Oh boy!

Well, time for sleep, I’m exhausted.

Well, it’s going on day five of me being in Houston, TX. So far I love it. It’s been raining since Saturday though, and looks like it will continue to rain for the rest of the week. I don’t really mind because I love rain, and it just makes me want to stay in doors.

I’m still waiting for a call back from Alex (#216) in regards to what department he’s going to put me in, and what day I will start. This little mini-vacation is lovely and all, but damn I’m getting really bored of just sitting around all day, or spending my money. I hate spending my money.

Not only that but I want to start getting paid money that I will be able to save towards getting my apartment. Since I’ll be living in with my grandparents for awhile, I won’t have to worry about paying for rent, bills, and groceries. Which means the main thing I will be spending my money on for sure will be gas, and of course paying my dad back a little bit of money here and there for helping me out with everything over the years.

Tomorrow I’m not sure what I’m doing but I think Rem and I are going to hang out again, so that will most definitely be some fun right there… But I really don’t know what the fuck there is to do that doesn’t involve spending money. Mebbe I’ll drag him into a BB store with me so I can just check out the place and sneak around it and see how some of the people are at the store I’d be going into.

I know Wednesday is the AMD/Microsoft Tech Tour and we’re definitely going to that one. That is also the day that my lovely mom and little sister fly into town. I’m not looking forward to it that much because my mom has a tendency to drive me absolutely fucking batty. However, it’ll be good to see her since it’s been a year since we last saw each other. I also hope she’ll praise my independence by saying yes to taking me shopping for a few new clothes for work (tan pants, bras, undies) or for whatever occasion.

I also need to get back to working on Holdfire Web Hosting. Today is really the first day since I moved that I’ve been online for more then thirty minutes, but the only thing that’s preventing me from working on it is being on dial up. We’re getting DSL, but it won’t be for a few more days, so hopefully I can try to get some stuff done in the meantime.

Sleep is looking really good right now..

Well I’m in Houston now. It ended up being an extremely long drive due to my car breaking down in Hope, Arkansas around 10:30pm. Got in around 7:30pm on Friday and I have been out and about since then.

 I had my interview with the GM on Saturday and it went amazingly well. I got hired into #216 and will hopefully go back into PCHO (I HOPE!).

 There’s so much to talk about but I just don’t have the concentration right now. Tonight I ended up hanging out with Rem. Went to go see MI:3 and had some dinner at a queer taco place, I can’t remember the name. Needless to say, lots of fun was had and I can’t wait to have more… fun? ;d

 Time for sleep soon. 🙂 Ohhh, I also got a new phone. A Samsung D807. I love it.

I spent most of the day/evening finishing last minute packing, and cleaning of my car because I’m a procrastinator and I wait until the last minute. It’s weird–by this time tomorrow I will either already be in Houston, or somewhere near.

I have a whole new life starting for me.

Well, I’m finally going to announce it, since I’ve kept it quite private. In one week I am moving to Houston, Texas! I finally decided to take some action against my current living situation. Chris and I get along when we don’t live together, and since I had moved back into the apartment in March, things just went downhill. It’ll be alot better for me, because now I have a chance to start anew, and meet alot of great people.

I have a feeling that this is going to be a great thing for me and I’m really looking forward to it. Hell, I don’t even mind that I’m going to be driving for fifteen hours. Rem helped me out with some directions to get there.

Louisville > Nashville > Memphis > Little Rock > Texarkana > Huntsville > Houston

That’s going to be the route I’ll be taking to get there. I’ll end up taking very little of my belongings with. Mainly my clothes, computer, and xbox. Dad is going to drive down from Chicago to get the rest of my stuff and will drive it back home until I move into my apartment. I’m hoping that my little sister Morgan, ends up coming with dad, and goes on the drive with me to Houston. It’s been a year since I’ve seen her, and we could really use the time for a nice drive and to get back into talking. We really lost contact.

My only worry right now is my job situation. I have to call the Texas stores tomorrow when I get all of the stores locations that would be best for me, and hopefully they’ve got some full-time or part-time spots open. Worst case scenario (which would suck honestly, as I love Best Buy) is that I’d have to work elsewhere, but BB is a top retailer, places like Circuit City, CompUSA and others would love to hire me–at least I hope so!

Things are getting bigger and better for Holdfire. Rem and I recently sent another webhosting company an e-mail offering to buy out their paying monthly customers, but so far no reply from them. We did this because of an entry we read about the owner probably not being able to pay for their server, and essentially losing all of their clients. Holdfire to the request, that’s for sure. But again, no reply, so we’re going to get into contact again, to emphasize our offer, because we’re willing to pay this person for the clients.

My other job has been going good. I’ve gotten the hang of wireless in a matter of days. I’ve done Cingular and Sprint activations so far. Haven’t gotten in a Verizon. I’m also trying to get in a deposit as well. I’ve had a few credit applications go through that required a $300 deposit for each line, and then another guy was for $400 for a single line. Sooner or later I’m going to get it in.

I also found out that I can get an ANR account with Cingular. $25/month for 2,000 minutes, unlimited txt, and 5MB of Media Mall download. The only extra I’d have to pay for would be M2M and N/W. But with 2,000 minutes I wouldn’t even need to worry about it. I’d get it solely for the unlimited txt’ing, and use that mobile just for that. The only downfall is that I’d have to go through a credit check, which in turn means a deposit, depsite the fact there’s no contract? Who knows.

Day #2 of working in Wireless has been decent. Yesterday was a really bad day that I’m going to forget never happened. I ended up working 11:30-8:30 all while getting paid time and a half. Thank-you Memorial Day!

Never in my life have I sold so many iPods. I honestly think I sold about 20 ipods, and each of them either had the “PRP ((Product Replacement Plan – replacement of covered products, with no deductibles or other hidden charges. more))” attached to it along with a case (or other accessory) or a “PSP ((Performance Service Plan – ensures the long-lasting enjoyment of your purchase with comprehensive coverage more))”. That’s a feat in itself. I asked Alicia who has sold the most in a day, and she mentioned one of the front-end girls having sold $500 worth, but that was because it was on the XBOX 360 release day. So hopefully we have good numbers for tomorrow. Our budget was for $7,000 and my other co-worker didn’t think we’d be able to hit it. I hope I got it all in though.

Hopefully I will have more days like today, then I’ll actually look forward to work. Computers is still going to be my favorite department, and honestly I’m really still upset over being transferred out of it. I loved working with Rocker, and the other guys, and with Geek Squad. I’ve had the most fun there, and I’ve definitely gotten alot better with my customer service, and just overall attitude about the job. I fucking loved it there. So who knows, maybe the same can be with wireless, once I’m in there for a few months.

The perks aren’t too bad either. I can get a free phone and [regional] plan from Verizon, or a $20 plan from Sprint (that includes all the bells and whistles, 1000 mins) but buy the phone. I’m not sure what we can get from Cingular, but I’m sure there’s a deal as well.

Holdfire is doing great this month. Definitely am ending the month on good terms, and I hope that June looks even better. I really love that Rem has been helping me out with it alot lately, and I’m really grateful for it as well as loving it 😀

Well I got Linux (Ubuntu) installed last night. (Okay, with the guided help of Rem, there ya happy! Maybe I should put that footnote plugin to work, so I footnote everything I ever work on since you seem to help me with it!) So far I’m loving it. I haven’t had a chance to really use it yet, but I’ve messed around with it enough to understand the concept of it. I was telling Rem last night that I might consider using that as my desktop OS and just putting Windows XP on VMware instead. Who knows though, because that will require me reformatting again and I’m not sure if I really want to go that route. We’ll see though.

In the next couple of days I plan on really working on aow, and changing the theme to one of my own. I haven’t had a chance to finish tweaking with this one, and the amount of validation errors were just too much to even go through and fix them all. I have a theme ready to use right now, but I have to go in and add all of the plugins, but of course I’m too lazy to do right now. Also plan on adding some content. I really want to add my recipes up, so I’m sure that’s what I’ll be adding soon. I dont’ care too much for content, because I can list so many other sites that visitors could go to instead.

Pink eye is slowly but surely going away. It’s still a bit itchy, and dry but hopefully tomorrow it will be all cleared up. I’m wearing glasses right now and will be for a long time, unless I get order contacts online without having a Doctor verification on the prescription. Now I remember why I never wore these glasses. With my short haircut, I look like a librarian–or so Rem says.

Well, I woke up this morning with my right eye entirely shut from all of the dried up mucus. Go to the bathroom to see that my entire eye is red, still achey (it was hurting last night), and watery. Was scheduled for work today, so I didn’t want to call out, so I went in anyway. Was told that I needed to go back home, but I was able to stay for 30 minutes while the store was still closed, to make sure that Adam, my co-worker actually came in.

So here I am a couple of hours later, dreading the thought of waiting hours in at the doctor’s office. I have to run to the bank to get some cash out, because I have a $25 co-pay, but 100% of the rest is covered by my insurance (United Heatlhcare). Guess I should take a quick shower (my hair is nasty) and find a book to take with, because I foresee me being there for at least 2-3 hours. This is going to suck. -sigh-

I guess I should also take initiative and call around optomotrists to see who is taking new patients, and to get an appointment set up. I need to get my eyes checked out, and a new prescription for contacts; I’m on my last pair, and now that I have pink eye, my right contact is infected. So I need to buy more solution that will hopefully disinfect it. Who knows.

edit 5:20pm – I ended up going to Norton Immediate Care center around 1pm. Thought I was going to be stuck there forever, so I packed up my ipod to watch a movie there. I endedup waiting max of about 10 minutes.

The doctor confirmed that I had pink eye and also did a bacteria swab on my eye to make sure that it wasn’t anything else. She then gave me Zymar for the bacterial conjunctivitis so it wouldn’t spread to my other eye. Then she referred me to an opthomoligist, and was able to get me in today as well. So after NIC I went over to a Dr. Black’s office (Eye Associates I believe?) and she took a look at my eye as well.

Confirmed what I already knew, and agreed that the drops I was given will be excellent to help rid of the infection. Also tested my eye’s pressure to make sure it wasn’t anything else, and scheduled me to see her again on June 6th pending my eye is good to go. Now I have to check out with United Healthcare to see if my VSP will cover for their service and vice versa, because I could really use a new prescription and an order for contacts. I’m entirely out, and after today I’ve noticed that my eyesight has gotten a little worse. And to think I’m currently at -5.00 pres.

Time to go find my glasses. I had to throw away my [right] contact as well as my mascara and eyeliner, to prevent future infection. I can’t see with just one contact in, so I need to get to those glasses. Haven’t worn them in well over a year. Hopefulyl I can find them!