Okay readers, this commenting spam has to stop

Well seriously the first spam was funny because he says:

" Hello, just visited your bible blog, I also have a bible related website, it's about some books which is helpful to understand the God's Words." That's fantastic. I've always wanted some books to understand the God's Words. You?

But seriously...I wonder if there is a way to stop this crap without making it so only registered peps can comments...because that could potentially be lame. What if some hot hotty somehow finds my website and can't post how much she wants me because she's either a) not a member of blogger or b) not specifically added to the members of the site.

Marcus, your quote was right on...I am ashamed...Everyone, heed his correction of my defamation of the the Turtle's quote. His comment is most helpful to understand the Michaelangelo's Words.

in Christ,
jason

Stick it to the intern

So it's been about a week and I promised my readers that I would keep this thing relatively up-to-date. And by relatively, I mean that in comparison to 3 months of silence it will be down right frequent (But in all seriousness, once a week is healthy...and given Brian's recent break-up with the internet I find spending time with it more and more awkward. It just sulks and casually asks me things like, "so....how IS brian doing? I just want what's best for him." I don't know, I guess I knew the internet first, but Brian has really been there for me ya know? The internet didn't attend my going-away party dressed like an M&M...ah but it did help me post pictures from the party...I'm so torn).

So...work. It's been a little crazy lately. I've sorta been pulling a George Castanza at work lately. Ya know, act frustrated and intense while looking at my computer screen so people don't bug me with stuff I can't help them with. But it wasn't always this way...no wait, I mean it's NOT like it hasn't always been this way. But it just gets annoying. But I am doing stuff, just not the critical stuff that everyone needs done. Why not you ask? Let me back up.

This isn't public knowledge so I'm going to type anonymous company names. I officially work for .Hcet Muinegni. This company's owner owns half of Enihcam & Loot Yellav Yrrehc and I spend most of my time at that location with 3 other HM employees. Well...like last week sometime the ELYY owner bought out the HM owner's shares. I come back to work on tuesday and I'm the only HM employee at ELYY! My boss totally isn't there. Well this is kinda a problem because he tells me what I need to be working on, what's a priority, and furthermore he has an adequate knowledge of the system at ELYY because he's been working with it for years. Some of things they need done require my boss's presence. So anyway, he's not there on tuesday...no note...nothing. So I just try and find stuff to do. Well the pressure to complete some of the HM projects that were sort of left hanging starts falling on my shoulders because I'm the only HM employee there, but I know nothing about completely some of these projects. My boss knows that I'm there because he emailed me, but he still pretty much leaves me to fend for myself amongst the ELYY dogs. Anyways, I remain the only HM employee there for the next two days!! Then the ELYY manager comes in and says, "So what are you doing...like...right now?" which is sort of a kin to, "What is it you say...ya do here?" So I told him what I was working on. I was doing something, it just wasn't anything high on the priority list because my boss wasn't around to aid in that stuff. And he was all, "Well we need to talk about your role here..." blah blah, and I was all, "Yeah, I understand...well Alec hasn't been around for 3 days..." blah and he was all, "Well when he gets here we're gonna have a talk because HM charges premium for their consulting..." bla.

Anyway, my boss Alec swoops in and assures the ELYY manager Roger that I am working on very important stuff....WHAT!? So like, Alec knows that the critical stuff isn't getting done because he didn't get me started on it, and he knows I've been working on a program that will only make sense after other more critical stuff is accomplished. So I have to wonder...is Alec really just blind to the fact that I could spend like 3hours a day at ELYY and get the same amount of critical work done? Or is he really brilliant, using me as a pawn to suck ELYY for more money? I don't know. I kinda feel like that. "Leave the intern to clean up all the loose ends at ELYY and fend for himself." It's pretty funny actually. And secondly, I could be out of a job once my work at ELYY is done because HM hired me with working there in mind, they may not have other work for me to do now. So it's in my best interest to George Castanza the whole thing as long as possible. Jenny and I agreed that it might be fun to test the whole "pawn" theory by making myself blatanlty incompitent in the eyes of HM while maintaining some level of trust with ELYY. If HM keeps me at ELYY despite my deficiencies, then I know they are just sucking ELYY's bank account...twisted huh.

I'll probably do nothing.

in Christ,
jason

N.T.M.Q.
"A wise man once said, never pay full price for late pizza."

Blog anyone?

Here she is, I haven't blogged since I got back from my crazy adventures around the places. I think it's because I've been reconnecting in person with all the people I really have wanted to see, so why fiddle with a keyboard? But I was very touched by the uproar of people I didn't even know read this thing...So, I should get back to getting with this thing. So here is my attempt at building momentum for myself.

I've been working a 40hr or so a week job for an engineering company called Ingenium Technologies at a factory called Cherry Valley Tools. Those of you who have seen me off-and-on know this, so skip this paragraph unless you want some more detailed information. I say 40hr or so because I pretty much make my own hours. Yep, jason's got another cozy job. Naw, it's a real job though. Although, I don't talk about it much. I don't talk about work because it sucks. That's not to say it's bad. I'm actually a total snob for even suggesting that it's bad, I'm just saying it sucks. I'm doing a bunch of IT work, which for you non-geeks means Information Technology. Basically I work with applications all day. Working on networks etc. I wanna program dammit.

So that's a small update...below I have included some funny pictures from my phone over the past month or so...enjoy.

in Christ,
jason

p.s. more to come soon. Don't stay tuned because that doesn't make any sense here. You might wanna shut down your computer. And even if you kept this page open it wouldn't automatically update when I post next. So just...close the browser, step away from the computer, and ya know....check back some other time.

And as always (Very impressivo marcus on the Spanglish catch):
- Jeff you can't answer because we just talked about this
N.T.M.Q.
"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness."

Wow the quality here is pretty grainey but allow me to explain. I saw this guy on the way to work. This wonderful wonderful man was dressed in a death metal t-shirt, j-walking across the middle of Broadway & Kishwaukee, had a massive pony-tail mullet, was listening to what imagine to be classic rock (based on the air-drum fills), and carrying a single drum stick in his right hand that he used for his air drums. This was gonna be the best day of work yet. How could I not have an awesome day after I saw this guy?! Totally made my morning.
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Jon's reaction at his surprise birthday party. I think the caption would go something like, "Hey." or possibly, "WTF."
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Didn't you know? He didn't give you a call? Well, I feel sorry for you, Jesus totally let me know before he was coming into the world again.
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This is a random store on the way to meet up with my bro in chicago. You can get Phone Cards & Shoes there. So, that's the go-to store for both Phone Cards & Shoes. Like if you needed to get both of those things in a single location...you'd go to Walmart...but if you only needed those two things, well...you could go here.
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Okay, megan olenik. So from the get-go this is an interesting picture. But the best part is how unbelievably Brian this moment was. What you can't see is how this apparantly random bumping into with megan was not that at all but instead it was directed by much greater cosmic forces.

(Her shirt caption: Hot guy wanted Brian's shirt caption: Caution Hot)
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Sam playing chess with me. I think a picture of a blind man playing chess is sorta funny. Sorry Sam, you know I love you, but it's just sort of comedic in a wierd way. And, ahem...he beat me.
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aww...look at dat...look at dat. my cat rocks. The sadest part about this picture is that I was relaxing like this and thought, "This would make a good picture" So I took it myself and pretended to be a sleep. Do you feel jipped? sorry. This picture is in fact...staged...sorta.
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And we'll end with the cutest picture of all. Noah is totally adorable these days. He makes this kinda strained face like he's taking a steamer almost on command, he has gorgeous black curley hair, and he waits for an adult hand before going down stairs. Come on, adorable. My sister and him visited this past weekend and it was great.
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