Sleepless night

So I've been completely lazy over the past week or so. But I still intend to update this semi-frequently. I have to be at work in about an hour, and was unable to even sleep for a minute the entire night. The worst part is that I have no idea why. I was out earlier in the day, and was feeling pretty tired around 7pm. I got home some time around 8pm, stayed up until about 11 and then decided to try to sleep. 12:30 rolled around so I watched Craig Ferguson. After that was done, I spent two and a half hours trying to sleep, but it just never happened. So, I just got online and wasted the past three or four hours looking up stupid stuff.

I guess it is time for a shower now, and then off to my nice nine hour day in the snow. Nobody will be there most likely, which is nice, but it still sucks to have to work that long of a day without any sleep at all.

Wish me luck.

alright, so...

I'm done complaining, for now at least. I guess I just viewed myself as being in a much different spot than I am right now. Okay, I messed up, dug myself into a bit of a ditch. I guess it takes some time to get out of it. I mean, I basically spent two to three years messing up what I had going for me, so I shouldn't expect myself to be back on track 100% within a few months.

On a brighter note, hopefully I'll be getting paid more in the very near future. I can post about this because I know that nobody from my work would ever read this, let alone anybody at all. But I guess Tim, probably the funniest and nicest guy I work with, and also the manager of my department, is going to work elsewhere. Which means that I will most likely get to be the manager of my department. I'm actually excited, in an embarrassing way. I know its not a big deal, but at least it will finally feel like my hard work paid off. I'm a good employee for this place, and the fact that I'm still making what I started off with five months after the fact has been really bothering me. Now, I am not even positive that they will give me the position, but I'm sure I'll be promoted in some shape or fashion.

As for my social life? It's still quite dreary. I'm talking to this girl now, and I adore her, but that whole situation is completely fucked. I guess I'll just have to wait it out and see how things shape up. But hopefully, if I start making a reasonable amount of money as planned, I can start doing things again like I used to. I still have my train ticket for NYC, so I definitely have to go get my city therapy in the very near future. I just found out that Andy Moor will be playing on Saturday, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it this weekend. But on an even better note, Cosmic Gate, my favorite live DJs, are coming in early March. I wouldn't miss that show for the world. Hopefully some other people will join me, but I wouldn't give a shit going alone for that.

Well, I have to leave for work around 7am, which is about six hours and forty-five minutes from now. I should attempt to get some shut eye, even though my sleeping hasn't really been all that bad over the past two or three nights.

Goodnight, world.

i wouldn't mind...

just leaving everything behind. there's nothing here for me. i'm having a shit day, more like a shit life, and i'm tired of it. i know that there's somewhere out there for me, where i can be happy. but that sure as hell isn't here.

tired

today was a long day, but went by somewhat fast. I haven't been feeling to well over the past two days. Luckily, I have the day off tomorrow. That's definitely a great feeling. But as for now, it's already 2:35 am, so I should be going to bed soon. I'm not exactly tired, but I should at least try to get some sleep. I will probably end up sleeping until 2pm anyways.

I plan on making an entry when I wake up. Stay tuned!

Today was a very long day.

Well, as you can see from the time of my post last night, I didn't manage to get much sleep. I think I finally dozed off somewhere around 4:30 am. Then I woke up around 9:00. Thinking about it, it wasn't too bad, but doing that every night (or usually getting even less than four hours) for a few nights in a row really starts to wear on you.

I went into work at 11:00am, and walked into a decent volume of customers. I was hoping that it wouldn't be as busy as projected, and I was somewhat satisfied when I arrived. However, a few hours into my shift, it began to get extremely hectic. I tried to keep myself busy, mostly running out backstock to the shelves, but I'm paying the price now. I was bent over most of the day to put stuff away, much more than normal, and my back is screaming at the moment. I'm definitely not enjoying this pain in the least bit.

Anyways, I saw my "love interest" as soon as I walked into work, which was nice. It's a bit of a complicated situation, but I would have loved to bring her out for Valentine's Day. It's been a very long time since I had a "valentine", and she's the perfect one for me. Oh well, maybe next year. It doesn't really bother me, but it would have been nice.

I have to work the next two days at 8:00 am, which means I should try to start winding down whatever I'm doing by midnight, and try to get a good six or seven (yeah right) hours of sleep for the next few days. I have off Wednesday, so that's definitely going to be my "crash day".

Well, I will get on a topic or something tomorrow. I know reading about my dumb, repetitive days isn't exactly thrilling. So, until tomorrow!

What was supposed to be an awesome weekend

I was supposed to go to Manhattan yesterday to see Ferry Corsten at the Nokia Theater. I was excited, because not only was I going to get to see Ferry, who I haven't seen for probably two years, nor because I haven't been to a club in the city since Halloween, but mostly because I have never seen the Nokia Theater. There are a lot of events upcoming at the venue on Made Event's website and I was very excited to get a look at the place. However, this possibly amazing night never happened, and this is why:

I was going to leave work at 5, catch the train into 30th street at 6:30, and from there catch the Megabus at 8:15, which would arrive at Penn Station around 10:15. The first issue I ran into was my father not getting done work until 6:00, making it impossible to catch the train. However I didn't figure this would matter that much.

I got home at 6:30 and decided to replan. Eventually, I convinced my dad to bring my two friends and I to 30th street station, where we could catch the 9:30 bus instead. We got there around 8:30, checked out the times for everything, and then proceeded to wait for the bus. You are supposed to be there 15 minutes early, which we were. And then beyond that, we waited until 9:45 without a bus ever showing up. Frustrated, we decided to take the train, even though we already had tickets for the bus. We figured that we'd rather spend the extra $21 to make sure we made it to the city in the timely fashion. Things just got worse from this point on.

So, after having bought the bus ticket, we went and bought tickets into Trenton, and then from there into Penn Station. The train was supposed to arrive somewhere around 10:00. Then, there are announcements from Septa, saying that due to a switch malfunction, all trains are subject to delays up to 30 minutes. "No big deal," we all thought as we waited. We'd at least make it to NYC by 1:00 am.

Well, after hours of waiting, and two trains never showing, 12:30 rolled around. I decided that it wasn't going to work, and went to McDonalds to get some food. As I'm there, Erica calls and tells me the train showed up, but I said that I wouldn't make it back up there in time. I was upset originally, because I wouldn't have minded even making it around 2:40 am, because I would still get to go to the club. However, luckily I didn't get on that train, because I found out today that it didn't get into Penn Station until 5am.

So, that was the terrible part of the night. However, I paid $12 for a taxi ride over to Buckhead. Mike, also known as "The Situation" from the Jersey Shore show was there. Joey let me get to the VIP area, and I got to meet him. I even got a picture with him. As much as I hated him from the show, he was nothing like on TV in real life. He was down to earth, and seemingly very nice. He didn't mind taking a few pictures with us, which was cool.

So, that somewhat saved my night from being a complete disaster, but I'm still out more than $100 for nothing. I am never going to rely on something as shitty as Septa ever again. I can't believe that two trains just never came, and the one that did took an extra 3 hours to make it into the city. 4 hours on a train when it takes 90 minutes to drive there? That's ridiculous.

Anyway, the moral of the story is to never EVER have any kind of faith whatsoever in Septa (or in Philadelphia in general for that matter) and to only buy tickets for events when I have a more guaranteed plan and mode of transportation. And also, people on TV can be much different in real life. There is no such thing as reality TV. Nobody acts the same off camera as they do when they know there is one watching them. So keep that in mind.

With that, it's almost 2:30 am, so I think I should get some sleep before I have to go into work at 11. Goodnight!

my day

Well, I'm going to have to make this short. I had a busy night of playing my pointless facebook games, and for some reason I've been doing so for a few hours.

Anyways, my day was pretty terrible today. I had to work my department alone, but thankfully the managers at my store all helped to do as much as possible. However, not nearly all the stuff got put away, so I'll be working on that bright and early (like in 6 hours).

That being said, I should probably try to get some sleep now. I'm going up to New York tomorrow night after work to see Ferry Corsten at the Nokia Theater. Hoping to have a fun time. Wish me the best!

Goodnight.

yesterday.

it was a snow day yesterday. i didn't have work anyway, but i kept busy. so, i'll update later tonight after work. peace y'all.

Actually exhausted for once.

Well, I'm just about falling asleep after wasting my entire evening doing nothing of importance. It's snowing, and its accumulating rapidly. Unfortunately, this gets in the way of me seeing somebody very special, as we had planned. I just wish that I could wake up to clear streets and maybe her smile. That would make it a great day. But, I really don't see that happening, so off I am to dream of better times.

Goodnight.

Scuba Diving Road Warriors

I would usually save this for my tumblr, but the whole site seems to be down (it is one of the worst performing websites I've ever come across). So, I will just post it on here.

Anyways, I find this extremely humorous. I'm not sure how frequently the Google Maps street view updates, if at all, but as of today, this is definitely a funny find. I will instruct you of what to do, or I can also post the link at the end.

Go to Google Maps and type in the address "rugdeveien 39 bergen". Now, at that exact location, use the street view. You will see two men dressed as scuba divers, and if you go up and down the street via the arrows, you can see a hilarious progression. As the maps vehicle is approaching the two men, you can see them sitting in their chairs. Then, as you continue down the street, you can watch them chase the vehicle in their full scuba gear. I find this much more amusing than just giving one link, but if you'd like just click this link here.

Hope somebody else finds that as amusing as I do.

As Promised

Okay, so I just got done working, and I'm extremely tired. However, I felt that I had an obligation to update my blog again, considering that if I don't now, I'll probably stop doing it altogether. I must start with good habits when it comes to updating if I'm going to continue to do so.

So, Facebook and Twitter... two similar yet very different services that are main attractions on this world wide web that we so fervently adore. I use both, and have gone through phases where I use more of one than the other. Over the summer, I started basically living on fb. I had no job, wasn't in class, and had no car. I had nothing to do all day. So, Facebook kept me busy. I got into some of the games, like (yes, I know I'm terrible) Farmville and Mafia Wars. I still see it as a great way to kill time if you don't really want to accomplish anything that matters.

After using Facebook so much, and obviously much more than everybody else, I began to tire of it. Then, I went to Twitter. I had created an account about a year prior, but never really used it, figuring that it was pointless, as I knew nobody on there. But a few people joined, and I was all over the trending topics, and soon I had about 100 followers, so it felt more viable as a means of communication. Plus, I can say stuff on there that I can't on Facebook, due to too many family members, making me feel censored.

I believe that Twitter hasn't been accepted by most Facebook users because there are no "friends". You don't befriend anybody at all. You can follow somebody, but they don't have to follow you, leaving you feeling unappreciated in a sense. If you don't have followers, then who are you posting to? I understand this logic, and that's why I didn't use it at first. I have about 800+ friends on Facebook, so I have an audience in that arena.

As I started using Twitter, I began to just use it for fun. I loved playing around with some of the trending topics. Example: #moviesturnedxxx (I had some good ones... like The Fantastic Foursome, or Forest Hump) So, this kept me entertained.

As for now, I use both somewhat frequently. My phone posts any statuses I write to both my Facebook and my Twitter account, so that's pretty cool. I'm just wondering if Twitter is going to take off in the same way Facebook did. Some may say that it already has, but I hardly know anybody without Facebook, and don't know many people at all on Twitter.

So I guess we will just wait and see...

By the way, here are links to my: Facebook and my Twitter

I'm trying to sleep but...

I just can't get her off my mind for some reason. Maybe I'll detail this a little bit more tomorrow as well. Wish me luck in my next attempt to fall asleep.

Stay tuned...

I don't want to have two rants go down in the same evening, but i'll make a note to self to touch on the differences between the twitter and facebook communities tomorrow night. I have a few interesting thoughts about that.

My how the times have changed.

I remember the days when a large portion of my social life revolved around instant messaging via AIM. Basically everybody used to use it, as far as I'm concerned. It seems like those days have been long gone, but I'm just noticing that now. Actually, for a pretty significant amount of time, I completely forgot all about AIM. I mean, I have it on my phone and everything, probably signed on it once just to check it out, but for the most part it had been phased out of my life.

About 10 minutes ago, I realized that I had seen an email notifying me of a message that I received on MySpace. Now, come on. MySpace? I haven't even logged on to that for... I couldn't tell you how long. And even that makes me think that only a few years ago, that was a huge part of a lot of people's lives, as well. It's really nostalgic. But only until I realize the means of communication that we have now.

I'm basically connected to anything, anywhere, anytime with my phone. Integrated Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other things. All updates come right to my main screen, or one of the 5 anyways. Anything that happens immediately blows up my phone, whether through either of the aforementioned services (thanks to Motoblur), or through text messages that are set up to deliver me news from sources like CNN. It's insane, when I really think about it. So much knowledge there for the taking, that is if you want to take it.

But all of this has come to wear me down in a sense. I traditionally ignore my emails nowadays, whereas I used to check them all the time even about a year or so ago. And as they come right to my phone, which is an Android device, I haven't even logged onto Gmail on my computer or laptop in weeks it seems.

I don't really have any idea where I was going with this post, just feeling (yes I'll use the word again) nostalgic in my own little way, and wondering how long these things we have now will last. I actually have a Google Wave account, and I'm thinking that that will be the next huge thing to blow up. Not many people have access to it yet, but when there is widespread usage, I think it will become a main player in modern day communication. For now, Twitter and Facebook are both ridiculously used, and that makes for a lot of time wasting if you feel like following them daily.

Well, that was probably longer than any post that I figure I had in me for a blog. Doubt anybody will read it, and I'm sure I will in a few years and feel awkward doing so, as with my previous attempts at "blogging". But hey, that's what it's for.

Goodnight all.

best commercial i've ever seen i reckon.

i'm kind of using a tumblr, i know i know... mikesonsalla.tumblr.com

i might use this for actual posting though, that's more like pictures and videos and all that.