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Name: Donald Park
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Yesterday after Phileo, a TON of us went to Oo-rae-gwan Korean restaurant. It's been ages since I was last there. The food wasn't terrible, but not worth the money. I don't know what possessed everyone to go there. So as we pull up we find out that the restaurant is supposed to close, but since there are so many of us 20+ people, they would stay open for us.
This morning I had a tough time getting out of bed. Didn't go to bed until 3 in the morning. I wasn't all that tired and sat in front of the aquarium looking at my fish. Showered up and went to an eye exam. My eyes are getting worse. The doctor strongly recommended I get contacts, but I'm not sure if he was saying that in my best interest or his shop's. The place I went to was actually a pretty nice looking place with their own optical shop. The receptionist had a nice slender and well shaped body, but somewhat disproportionate. I thought she might tip over. Anyway it got me thinking about what life must be like having jugs like that taped to your upper body. She must have strong back muscles that's for sure...ha ha ha. But seriously all I kept thinking was...that can't be healthy. Just so there's no confusion, I'm not the kind of guy that obsesses over women's assets. I like my women petite. Big women just scare me.
Last night's The Apprentice show was kind of disappointing. It was a boring show and one of the hot looking girls got fired. Richard Hatch, winner of the first Survivor got voted off from his tribe. HA HA HA, ya dumb, gun-slinging perv...and why the heck are jewish people up at arms about The Passion? If jews didn't kill Jesus...than WHO DID? SO SHUT UP ALL YOU STUPID PEOPLE!!! Answer my question and you'll shut me up. Sure...the Roman soldiers might have hung Jesus on the cross, but WHY? Jews please chime in...I'm still waiting...still here...*cricket symphony*
So anyway I sound like I'm in a pretty P.O. mood huh? Well not really. I'm just saying it like it is. That's me. I still love everyone. Just not right now...ha ha ha...just kidding...really, I'm just well...I don't know. I'm in one of those strange "blah" moods I guess.
Here's an interesting article on KYW.com's website about the local Food Court.
Mice also nibbled away at the Moorestown Mall in New Jersey. Last year, almost half of the restaurants at their food court had mice.
In November, Sakura Japanese Restaurant had "numerous mouse droppings" and "live and dead cockroaches."
Went to go see The Passion of the Christ. Very gory movie. I'll try not spoil the movie by giving away the plot ;) He he he, well there really isn't a plot, just an account leading up to the crucifixion. Several times I have to look away to fight the tears...but they streamed down my face anyway. I could hear people in the audience all around sniffling. After the crucifixion, I began to wonder, how on earth is Mel Gibson going to end this movie after all that bloodshed. How could this possibly have a good ending. The protagonist just DIED!!! Almost as if I had forgotten about why Jesus died on the cross for us, I was pleasantly surprised as to how the movie ended. Thanks Mel for adding a little bit of realism to the movie. I would have thought the movie was a complete dud, had Jesus not gotten revenge and blew up the Pharisee-filled temple with those rocket-launchers, and RPGs. I especially liked how the disciples rode into Jersusalem in the M-1 Abrams tanks blasting away the Roman army. But seriously, after the movie, I just felt sapped of emotion. That movie was very heavy. Personally I thought it was a little overboard. I refuse to believe a person can be beaten that much and still live to be nailed to a cross...but my small group leader, somewhat of a biblical scholar told me that the beating was probably very accurate.
Last night I had a dream that we had an extra room in our apartment...and I felt so stupid that I hadn't realized me and my roommate didn't need to be sharing a room. When I woke up, I was a little bit confused because there wasn't an extra room. I'm slowly beginning to really want my own room...and my own bathroom. Hey Yujin...want to share rooms with me? That's $100/month you can be saving for your...*ach-lynnette-oo*...self.
This might offend some folks, but this is just short of saying people who use iTunes are idiots!!! So let me explain. While at work today I bought another bottle of Pepsi and won a free song with their new iTunes/Pepsi promotion. So when I got home I had Yujin download a song for me. There is no way I'm going to install a worthless piece of software on my computer unless I absolutely need it. I prefer the simple stuff over complex, bloated software with a googillion features you never use. For example I like notepad over MS Word, or Paint over Photoshop, or command line ftp over WS_FTP, etc. So anyway I'm quite impressed with iTunes. You can search and sample different artists. I find a song by DJ Encore that sounds pretty cool, and I ask Yujin to download it to my USB drive so I can transfer the song to my computer. Then I find out it's not an MP3 file. It's an M4P file. WTF!!! Why would anyone in their right might want this crap except for MAC users. AIGOO CHAM!!! So anyway I thought I was going to be drinking up Pepsi for the next month or so just to collect free songs, but I can scrap that idea. ha ha ha. I'll still buy a pack of M&M every once in a while. Who knows who that last few lucky Beetles will go to.
So anyway after work...or actually I should say during work, I dropped by the pet store to pick up fish medicine. Who could have known Ich medicine only costs $3. Wow...what a deal. Unfortunately I'll probably lose another fish tomorrow, because it too is looking pretty bad. We'll see though.
I just realized I got shafted, well sort of. Way back in November my project leader was telling me I was basically going to sail to San Diego. I have a really good friend now living in San Diego, and I told her I was planning on stopping by. Then recently I found out I wasn’t sailing all the way to San Diego. I was going to get dropped off one stop earlier. Now I suppose I shouldn’t be complaining since I’ll get to hit some cool places along the way, like Florida, the Bahamas, the Panama Canal, and Puerto Vallerta (which is supposed to be this nice resort area in Mexico); but I was excited at this rare opportunity to visit my friend.
So anyway I was asked to go on this month long trip at sea because my co-worker had classes to take, and a wife to tend to, so he couldn’t go on it, but somehow ended up on the last leg of my trip. I’m wondering if I should convey my displeasure at this change of events. I’ve never complained about being on the ship for a whole month, and after coming back from my last trip from Pascagoula, I’m even more excited. I think my co-worker whined that he wasn’t going on a part of the trip, even though he also complained he couldn’t go on the whole thing because of classes, and his wife. So now we are flying in and out of Puerto Vallerta, Mexico just so he can complete the last few days of the trip. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?!?!?! I’m kind of upset.
I left work kind of early...well not early, but after a normal 8-hour day. Went to ACME to pick up 12-pieces of fried chicken for $5.99...and some other stuff. Also stopped by Circuit City to see what kind of neon lighting was 50% off. I know it was wishful thinking, but I was hoping to see under-car neon kits like I saw at Best Buy. After dinner I made some coffee for me and my roommate. This coffee was given to me by Dave who had just gotten back from Egypt...and now it's 2:13 AM and both me and my roommate are WIDE AWAKE. Man...those Egyptians know their coffee.
Dang...yet another of my neon tetras bit the mud today...and worse...I think all of my fish now have the disease. Now I realized how flawed my thoughts were when I didn't want to spend $10 on a fish medicine for a 99 cent fish. Now because of that, I'll be down $15.
Today I bought a bottle of Pepsi, just so I could see if I could "hack" the Pepsi/iTunes offer. I only had to spend like 15 seconds tilting the bottle to see if I could see what was underneath the cap. Sure enough I could see "PLEASE PLAY AGAIN". (read more...)
Today is turning out to be a nice work day. I'm not at my desk, but I'm not in the test site falling asleep at the dim lighting, constant humming of computer equipment, and the arctic chill of the air conditioning of CIC.
Picture of CIC taken from the Navy website. So no...there ain't anything secret about it.
Had an absolutely terrible Sunday. Nothing went right and just when I was beginning to take pride in my work at church, he humbles me. I woke up extra early too for church. The pastor didn't send me his sermon notes until Saturday evening...and even then he sent it to my work email address, and so I had to make the sermon slides right before service. Luckily his sermon was simple enough. I was planning on installing the DVD-ROM into a computer so that we could watch a DVD preview about the movie "The Passion of The Christ" which is coming out this Wednesday. My small group is going to watch it together along with some other folks. So anyway, there was a really bad communication and I didn't know where to start and end...and as a result killed it too early and couldn't get it working again. Then second service used a downloaded clip that I got off the web, but the sound was HORRIBLE. I tried replaying the clip on a different computer and it worked fine. I'm baffled. And then the sermon recording wasn't as good as I hoped. It recorded in mono, instead of stereo. Then 3rd service I realized that I hadn't installed the DVD player correctly in the first place. I didn't have the audio cable attached to the DVD drive.
Needless to say, P.Paul was NOT happy. I'm sure he would have loved to say a lot of things, but he couldn't since he's a pastor. I wish I could say I take joy in doing my best for the Lord, no matter what the outcome, but not true at all. After church a few of us went to eat again at the cheap Vietnamese Restaurant. Again like last week, I was short of cash (since I went out last night) and my roommate paid for my lunch. And if I couldn't feel any more like crap than I already did...I got to my car and found it too was covered in bird crap. All around it was just a really, really crappy day for me and my car. On my way home I looked for a car-wash with wash bays, so you can wash the car yourself. Those automatic car washes run your car along a rail which ruins my rims...so I always go to the wash bays. Washed all the bird crap off my car and headed home.
While I was at church, Ed asked me how in the world I had gotten 588 points on this stupid penguin game. And so I tried to show him how "good" I was. I tried a few times but couldn't seem to make even half my score. I thought something was definitely not right. I figured it had to be a difference with the hosting sites...and so I went to the one I was playing off of, linked from USA Today. The other penguin game...and we realized the game I was playing was MUCH easier. In fact the penguin always goes beyond the markers...which kind of makes you think if someone hacked the game. Man...and I thought I was good. The day has just not been kind to me.
My neon tetra with Ich died. I stopped by the office to check up on it and sure enough it was laying on the bottom of the bowl. Oh well.
Here's some background info for my readers. Neon Tetras
Tropical Fish Diseases
The skiing trip was cancelled due to very little interest, and also windy, but warm weather.
This morning I wanted to sleep in so bad. Got to work 15 minutes late but as soon as I got there I was trying to figure out why we had so many problems with the displays. I'm still not 100% sure what the deal was, but I think it was network related. They must have done something because stuff started to fix itself after I reported it. I hate when stuff like this happens - problems that arise due to the fault of other people. The displays are obviously highly visible, so whenver they don't work the way one might expect it's always "our" problem...and the funny thing is that it's usually not. So spent a good part of the morning trouble-shooting, and before I knew it, it was lunch. Then 4pm rolled around and the test shot was over. I was a little bemused.
Today my hands are so shaky. My eyes feel like they are failing me. My body doesn't feel as solid and coordinated as before. All in all, I feel I'm growing frail. I find myself taking precautions like older people do, taking smaller steps in the snow, taking my time to go up/down stairs, making sure not to exert myself too much, forgetting things, fumbling with words, etc. I'm so scared to think what my body will be like in another 25 years.
The Apprentice is definitely losing its appeal, despite the network's claim that some mind-blowing, earth-shattering event is going to happen. Like puppets, we are glued to the TV even until the very last seconds to learn that nothing really big even occured. This makes the network (NBC) lose so much credibility. I seriously don't trust anything they say anymore.
One of my neon tetras has Ich. So I had to quarantine it from the others. A second neon tetra also has a tiny bit of Ich as well, but just barely. I think I may have to isolate him as well. Tips on how to save a $1 fish without spending $10 on fish medicine? This might sound insensitive, but I think I'd rather get 10 new neon's than try to save one. Ha ha ha...and some of you think I'm really into my pets. It's all about the greenbacks man...and how to save a few. It boggles my mind how some people can pay hundreds even thousands of dollars on veterinary care. It's just a pet...but I guess I can't really say anything because it's kind of hard to get emotionally attached to a squealing rodent that only irritates the hell out of you when it wants food, and won't let you touch it. Sometimes it even nibbles on my fingers when I hold it...not hard though, but nonetheless unreassuring. Anyway I hope my neon tetra doesn't die.
This week was a busy week. 13 hours of overtime and still 7 hours short of where I'm supposed to be at. Argh. I feel so drained.
Today I had to give a practice presentation to my co-workers. I HATE public speaking. My body tenses up, my sweat glands open up like floodgates, my stomach becomes queasy, I stu..stu..stutter like a blibbering, blibberbing, bli-ther-ing idiot. It’s amazing I don’t choke on my own tongue and die. I used to think my parents were just lazy, when they asked me to do something or couldn’t remember something and cited that they were too old. Now I absolutely, full-heartedly understand what they mean, which is scary because, I don’t want to even begin to imagine what I’ll be like when I’m their age, or older. So anyway I crawled my way through that presentation, and I didn’t even make the presentation which made it that much harder to convey the point of the slides. And of all the times I ever have to see my manager, he had to be there as well. As long as I can give a great presentation to the sailors when I’m aboard the ship, then I’ll be happy. But unfortunately my manager won’t be there to see what a great job I’ll do.
Later when I got back into the office, I was feeling really thirsty and I went to go put some ice in my cup and when I came back to my cube I realized I had finished my 2-liter Pepsi. Now there’s this other co-worker that always scavenges for food. He found my case of Pepsi and while I was away in Pascagoula, he polished off the whole case. He didn’t think I would mind, and I don’t for the most part, as long as he replaces it. He wanted to pay me back, but I refused saying I wanted a case of soda. It’s such a pain having to buy soda and then bring it into the office for someone else to drink. So anyway I came to the realization that I was out of soda while he was in my cube and I reminded him that I would have soda if he didn’t drink it all. He felt kind of bad and pulled a coke out of his back pocket to offer me. I was like, "wow, that was a neat trick", but I thought about it for a second and said, "I’m not about to drink a can of soda that you just pulled out of your ass." We both had a good laugh.
Hmmmm....slowly loosing desire to update this blog. On Valentine's Day I went to work. Also got two estimates for my front right fender. Maaco was $450, and the Honda dealer said over $1,000. I looked online for replacement parts and I think it could be cheaper to replace than to repair the fender. Also noticed the sky was painted red at dusk. It was absolutely gorgeous.
Sunday went to church. Patched the 3rd floor computer which had gotten hit with the Blaster worm only 30 minutes after being online. Had some lunch at the cheap VR place again. Later we all went back to our place again.
Monday was just a regular work day. Worked 11 hours...just like today. Also today I picked up two more GloFish for my office tank. I got them from a pet shop owner that goes to our church. I brought my portable black light, but the fish don't glow as bright as you'd expect. You have to put the light right up to the fish. I've also noticed that the more reddish the fish appears in normal light...the brighter it glows under the black light.
Here's the dent in my car
Who am I to judge...but when you see a big guy using a forklift to move a cart full of furniture...that just seems like a new low for laziness. The carts got wheels already!!! Push the darn thing instead!!!
There seems to be a lot of bad news in the news lately. Kid gets caugh in the crossfire from a school shootout, other kids are getting a beat down on the school bus, a woman's nude body found in the trash, another one barely escapes death from her abusive husband, another woman supposedly tied herself to train tracks and committed suicide, and even the world of fiction is all screwed up - Ken and Barbie break up!!! Mattel states Ken's reluctance to getting married after 43 years.
It just really all makes you wonder who's out there and in control.
Yesterday was another 14 hour work day. Got home and watched Scrubs from my computer.
Went to CSC at 10am for a meeting. It went pretty well. I actually felt confident going in, even though there was nothing I had to worry about anyway. Pointed out a problem with the document and was on my merry way back to the office. My manager was able to find me a secondary desk at the main plant where the rest of my team sits. I went to the bathroom and something made me laugh. Before I left this place like a year and a half ago, I remember seeing long pieces of toilet paper hanging from the hinges of the stall doors. Apparently we have some ultra modest engineers that work here because the toilet paper is used to cover the centimeter gap between the door and wall. I walked into the bathroom today and saw the same thing. I think it's kind of funny to see habits like that. The guy who does this totally leaves a mess of toilet paper laying around the bathroom floor. Anyway...I gotta head off to a webteam meeting at Mark's.
Feeling really tired today. Didn't get into work until past 10am. I had wanted to go to the auto body shop and get an estimate of the damage...but my slumber was incredibly difficult to shake.
I'm now sitting at my new cube in Lockheed Martin's main plant. When I first started working here, I worked in the same building just a few cubes down. Then they moved my group to it's current building which is where my main desk is. All of my team was left in the original building. I asked my manager if he can find me a cube with the rest of my team. One opened up and now I'm sitting with the rest of my team. Today I picked up my Baseline 7 Phase 1 jacket...which is the project I'm currently working on and I didn't even have to pay for it. :)
I'm still absolutely shocked by the whole investigation. You can find out the details yourself on the new sites, but none of it makes any sense. It's made me think about the relationship I have with my brother and my cute baby nephew. I'll end there before I get carried away.
My work day really sucked. I spent most of it by myself at the test site...only no one was there testing...so really there was no point for me to be there. I tried to get other stuff done but since it was so boring up there I kept falling asleep. I'm amazed I got through the day. Then I found out that one of our church members was killed last night. *edited*
After work I went to ACME to pick up some fried chicken. On my way out of the parking lot, another lady in an Lexus MDX backed-up right into my front right side. I saw it coming but all I could do was lay on my horn. I don't know why she didn't stop...she just kept coming...until finally she banged into my car. It sounded a whole lot worse than it actually was. I got her info and hopefully it won't cost a lot to fix the car...for her sake.
Had dinner with the rest of the guys before going to church for the special prayer meeting. It was pretty emotional, and I think for the first time in a long time I actually felt like God was helping me pray.
OMG...
http://www.nbc10.com/news/2832059/detail.html
http://kyw.com/news/local_story_040101316.html
I just heard some very very bad news. I hope and pray it's not true.
Yesterday I got to church kind of late. Basically got there when things started which is way too late for me. After service I went out to lunch at Thai Singha House. Scott and Debby come by later and completely decided to skip out to service. Shame on them. Anyway we decided to go to a coffee house in New Jersey. The placed turned out to be in Voorhees...which seemed super duper far. We sat on some couches near a small coffee table and ended up playing Monopoly. Like 4 of 5 hours later we finish because we lost one of the dice. The game was pretty much over anyway, but it was interesting to see the balance of power move from one person to another. At one point I had a lot of money, but ended up paying exorbitantly high rent on some properties. Scott and Heejin were the last players left. I think Scott won, but he said he had lost. I think he was just being modest.
After that we all went over to my place to eat some dinner and watch some TV. All in all, it was a very fun Sunday.
I'm so glad last night is over. It was just one of those nights where nothing seemed to go my way. On my way to church, part of Route 38 was closed and so I got lost on the detour, not to mention the traffic it caused. I had to cancel a little meeting I was going to have with some folks. My small group meeting was okay. There wasn't really anyone to hang out with afterward so me and Injoong decided to go to a chinese restaurant which is where a large group of people went. I sat at the table with younger people and I totally felt like odd man out. It seemed as though I was eating more of my words than my food. Then toward the end I kind of messed up on the bill. I got into my car and was just soooooo glad the night was ending. I just wanted to go home and sleep it off. I get home and just as I get to the door I realized I left my phone in the car, so I had to traverse the WHOLE parking lot again since all the closer spaces were taken. My day really sucked. When I walked in the door I saw DE Dave laying on the futon. I asked him what brought him here, and he told me his bad day...much worse than mine. Hit a pot hole that took out his two front tires, had to wait hours after hours for a tow truck...so he ended up just staying the night over at our place. Now my day didn't seem so bad after all.
Okay...this is going to surprise you...but I think I'm going to apply for the next season of The Apprentice. My roommates said I should apply, sarcastically of course...and well. I think it'd be fun to give it a try even though I know I won't be able to do this. Why...because even if I am selected for an interview...I won't be able to because I'll be aboard DDG-91 USS Pinckney.
I'll need to come up with a 5 or 10 minute video tape of myself. I need your help for ideas that'll catch their eyes...and make them laugh. Oh...and another reason why I'm doing this? Because I've got to clean up and accurately represent the asian minority. Oh...and also I'm doing this in Sam's honor.
Yesterday I had dinner with P.Dwight who is also my small group leader. He's a really down to earth guy and I wish I could hang out with him more, but he's always so busy with church. During dinner we were exchanging stories about our parents and stuff. He laughed at the fact that I address my dad as "Yes sir" or "No sir". I wonder if I'll make my kids do the same. I wonder if Brian will do the same with his kids.
So anyway yesterday's Apprentice show was disappointing. The network advertised an explosive episode. So up until the end we were expecting some mind blowing revelation but got nothing. I was so disappointed and I guess I can even say a little jaded by the show. Just like when the original Survivor aired, there isn't another sure fire way to kill viewership than to vote off the pretty girls. Come on Donald Trump, the girls even proved it for you with 4 straight wins...SEX SELLS.
Also the other night my roommate was talking in his sleep again. During the middle of the night, I heard my roommate say very clearly (he didn't mumble) "Oh no...well...uh...uh...you see..." and then a few moments later I hear him say "HOLY SHNIKIES!!!" and then a little while later I hear him say something about fat people. So I think he was dreaming of fat people. I asked him about the dream but he couldn't remember. Sure Shao...sure...you can't remember. *wink* Whatever you say. Ha ha ha.
Also I was playing around with the blacklight yesterday and I read on the internet that certain things in nature glow in UV light. Scorpions glow in the dark if you have a blacklight on hand. Also URINE glows too. So last night I was looking around the toilet to see just how bad of an aim Shao is. Verdict: He's a bad shot!!! It's amazing to see where the urine splashes.
Yesterday tensions in the apartment kind of flared up again. Someone wanted to bring up his halogen lamp from the living room, but I think someone else accused him of taking the wrong one...which really ticked him off. The worst part is that the person who chimed in, doesn't even live in the apartment. I don't know...it didn't even sound that bad, but all of a sudden everyone was mad at each other. :o
Yesterday night was Laura's semi-surprise b-day dinner. It was a blast. We all had a great time. We were all supposed to meet at the Continental at 7pm. Me and Allen are supposed to drive there together. Laura thinks she's just having dinner with Carolyn at 7:15. Allen calls me and tells me it's been postponed 15 minutes...so in the mean time I run to the store to pick up some balloons and a gift. Allen calls me and tells me, Laura just left, I need to go pick him up. 15 minutes later I pick Allen up...and we rush to the diner. We are positive that Laura made it there before us, because not only did she have a 15 minute head start, she's also a fast driver. We strategically look for parking on the bridge (it's couple blocks away, but most likely to have parking available). We meet up with Eunsook and Debbie, but Laura's not there yet. We get seated and wait for Laura. 20 minutes later she walks in. The whole time she was looking for parking. Then Carolyn comes in an apologizes for being late. We find out that we were supposed to be there at 7pm, and Laura was supposed to be there at 7:15pm. Nothing was ever postponed. So anyway we enjoyed our food and drinks...but the conversation was so much better. We basically were laughing the whole time we were there. After dinner I drop Eunsook off at her house and went back to work only to find everyone else had left...so I went home.
This morning I wake up and stroll into work. For lunch I go to the mall to withdraw some money, but just as I'm doing so, 2 bus full of kids unload and fill up the food court. I'm craving Chinese food. The last time I was there I felt jipped and vowed never to go back there. I'm growing impatient and finally decide to get some Arby's instead. $7 for fastfood at Arby's. Talk about expensive. Determined to get my money's worth, I grab a couple handfuls of Arby's special Horsey sause. I just LOVE that stuff. Then went to PetSmart to pick up 3 neon tetras for my office fish tank. I was waiting to get the new Glofish but after finding out the one I have at home DOESN'T GLOW, I decided to get regular fish.
Yesterday was a long work day...14 hours long. Got to work at 7am and didn't leave until 9pm. I got home and watch the last episode of Fraiser (I think it's the last episode anyway) and watched Scrubs after that.
Aside from that, I've kind of lost my desire to blog. Hmmm...I'll think of something interesting to say shortly.
Happy Birthday shout outs to Laura, Injoong, and Ed. Also another for Clara tomorrow.
I’m back. Here are some highlights of the trip. 2 Sunday’s ago, I had to run to the ATM to withdraw some money for my trip. I parked in front of the grocery store since there weren’t any close parking spots for like 2 minutes. When I came out, a cop was behind my car issuing me a ticket!!! Good grief, I think that cop had nothing better to do than to stake out that place looking for people to ticket. I admit wrongdoing, but come on, two minutes, that’s more than plenty of time to remove my car in the event of a fire and emergency vehicles need to come in. But the officer also said something about trying to discourage shoplifters from parking their "get away car" just outside the store. Luckily the ticket only came out to $56 w/o points. I was afraid it was going to cost me more than $100.
Went to second service because I was too late for first. After service a few of us went to this cheap Vietnamese restaurant nearby. Then headed off to the airport. Had a hard time finding this particular long-term parking lot so just parked in regular airport parking. I was afraid I was going to get caught in the mad monster long airport security lines, but since Delta only has a few gates, there was essentially no line. Finally got into the airplane, after the flight was already delayed due to backups in Atlanta. Then once on the plane, it got delayed even more. When I finally arrived in Atlanta, I had them put me on a different flight directly to Gulfport-Biloxi, instead of going through Mobile, AL. On this leg of the trip, there were parents traveling with two of their little boys. They were making a ruckus and the whole time I kept thinking I wanted to beat those kids down. They were screaming, disobeying their parents, banging on the tray tables, running around the cabin, etc. They must have had a late dinner, because they were eating hotdogs and fries, and the mother was giving soda to the kids. I kept thinking they were such bad parents, and then later just before the flight was to take off, one of the kids threw up all over his car seat and all over his mom and cried his head off even more. Inside I was dancing and singing, rejoicing with glee. That mom had what was coming to her. What are you doing feeding your uncontrollable kids soda so late at night right before a plane flight?!?!? That’s like trying to fight fire with gasoline, and explosive combination! So anyway, then I realized what a horrible person I was for having such a thought, and realized my lack of compassion and understanding. The mom was probably just trying to give their kids what they wanted to quiet them down in the short-term. Finally flew into the tiny airport, and took a shuttle to the hotel. The Beau Rivage was nice, but I never again want to stay at a casino. Even though my company was paying for it, I ended up paying for it too :(
Some interesting events on the trip included leaving one of our co-workers at the shipyard because no one bothered to ask where he was and just assumed he was in the other van. After we got back to the hotel someone asked where he was. Luckily he was able to grab a ride with another co-worker who had taken his own car. Another time we were driving in the two vans and after lunch we pulled up next to the other van at an intersection, and Dan took out his gum and threw it at the other van hoping it would stick to the window. As we passed the other van he threw his gum at them, but we realized it wasn’t the right van. Luckily the gum stuck to his fingers a little and instead of hitting the window, it fell short of its mark and hit the side of the door, and I don’t think they saw us either. We were all so petrified in fear thinking they were going to pull out their shot guns and pump us full of lead.
So yesterday I went to third service. After service we went to the Vietnamese restaurant down the street from the church. I’m really beginning to like that place. It ain’t the best, but it’s not bad either. After service I went to the mall to trade in a pair of shoes that I had gotten from Scott a long time ago. The pair he got me was too small. Then I went to Spencer’s gifts to pick up some black lights. They were half off so I picked up two. When I got home I was disappointed that my GloFish doesn’t glow at ALL!!! What a RIP OFF!!! $10 for that stupid little fish.
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