Its getting annoying.....

the typical office employee that is. see at most of my stop where i fill up the vending machines are usually in the lunch rooms of these corporate offices. and i think its soooo funny on how the same crap goes on at every stop.

i was filling up a machine and these lunch rooms are usually so quiet that you could usually hear the conversations going on while the employees eat. the funniest thing i encountered was the "shit talker". a women was chatting it up with co workers appearently talking shit about others who were out in the office. bitching that certain individuals dont do their jobs right or just dont do it at all. and after i heard names being spat out by these women, funny thing is that those people came to lunch moments later and these ladies were acting really friendly with them.

well i noticed that an individual lady stood behind as her other co workers took off back to lunch. the trippy thing is this lady began to talk shit on those ladies who just left, which were the women that she was talking shit with in the first place. i took a look at this lady gave her that "boy, you need an ass woopin" look.

next is the flirts, the people who sit in the lunch room talking to one another as if there was created chemistry in the air. but yeah funny thing is that these girls are the same way to the next guy as they were to the first. same with the dude, he flirts with a chick tells her things she likes and she leaves. next girl walks in, hes putting the same lines on her. its really funny to me how stupid these people can be.

then you have the gay guys. who are ones for some reason like to chat it up with me. i mean really, what kind of a man calls a cart full of boxes containing assorted candy and snacks.."goodies". real men would say "snacks", right?? Goodies??? would you look at me the same way if i called them that?? i yet to hear one guy say something else besides "goodies". these guys are usually the ones bitching for certain unmanly candies such as "laffy taffy, and jollyranchers", or some kind of "diet" cola.

oh and dont forget the hardcore tie and suiters. these guys are usually high positioned in there job or location and think that that position gives them that access to the world. i get these guys coming up to me in the middle of servicing a machine, "hey, give me a coke". i say "sorry you have to wait for me to close the machine". then after usually i get the " well the other guy.." or "why cant i you just give you the dollar...". then i end up putting my foot down and say something like " look, im just doing my job. the less i get interrupted the faster im out of here and you could have your precious diet cola". after this being said the guy usually gives up or the if hes a real dick, he'll take time off from being a desk warmer and bitch to my company.

then my company depending on whose complaining will tell me to chill or just say " aahhh what ever". God i hate the typical office employee. they really need to take a good hard look at themselves. and for crying out fuckn loud, quite worring about whats in the machine. if we have it, we have it, we dont, then we dont.

Sports Talk.......

Well i've come across this so many times now and its really irrahtating now. "Sports Talk", the thing that men do. hate to sound like im against men its just all the shit talking they do when it comes to sports. see i work with a bunch of truck drivers, and it seems like every monday and tuesday these guys are talking so much crap about their favorite football team.

A guy will be all big and bad ass a day before the game......"yeah we're going to win cause we have a good offensive and the other teams defensive blows". then thats when they begin to debate and start bringing out the statistics to back it up. well the funny thing is when they come back the next day and the team lossed.....they are the quietest ones around the place. then as the others realize he there and quiet, they throw it in his face. then hes left with that half smile like hes pissed, amused and shameful in one. oh and embarrased as well, cause he made a fool of himself. but rather than to just take it and let it go, he then decides to argue back. and i gurantee you its always, " Well the ref made a bad call.....". then the debacule begins and you get a bunch of back and forth non sence. Sports politics is soo annoying, i mean these guys swear they are the team's coach and will put everything on the line to defend their favorite team.

this is just my opinion on how a man becomes a fool when he doesnt know when to keep his mouth shut.

Memory Lane-1

My first black eye...

well i remember the time i first got my black eye, i was bout 15 years old. my friends and i were playing hand ball in the back alleys using someone's garage as a wall. i remember having fun til we noticed a car pulling up...
so we cleared out of the way so that it could pass by but it stopped right then and there in front of us. i noticed about 5 hoodlums sitting in that car and remembered thinking, "damn we're going to get our asses kicked". well they took a long hard look at us and then drove away. didnt say a word or anything, and that kind of crept out my friends.

as the evening turned into night, we found ourselves hanging around the alley again. the thing is, i asked my mother if i could sleep over my friends house and she okayed it. "as long as i stay at his house and dont go anywhere else". that was the rule i had to follow. well me being a kid, i decided to disobey and was hanging out in the alley with my friends cause their curfews were around midnight while mine was at 10pm.

well back to the story, we were hanging out and one of us noticed that a car had drove by slowly at the opposite end of the alley and it looked like the car from before. as kids we all paniced and decided to run. i ran my fastest, and at that time i was the 2nd fastest of my friends. my friend jumped his backyard gate like nothing, so i decided to follow, only thing is my hops werent as good as his. i got to the top of the fence (not a very wide fence either) pulled myself up but since sagging your pants was in at the time i couldnt get my foot at the very top of the fence. so see, here i have both my arms holding me up against the fence, the top of the fence is at my theighs, and my left leg dangling as my right is reaching just inches short from the top.

well as im reaching and just cant get my foot up there, i hear my friends behind me yelling, "hurry up!!! come on, we're going to die!!!". which is real funny to me to this day. but at that time i was panicing and the adrenaline rush was kicking in but if it wasnt for my damn sagging pants. moments after hearing that, i feel two hands being pressed against my ass and im being lifted and when i thought i was going to make it, i realized my feet arent over yet. all i remember seeing was my friends facial expression, then his chest, his knees, his shoes and then the concrete. my faced ended up meeting the concrete, and i remember hearing a loud "THUD"!! i then started rolling on the floor in pain as my friends looked on in shock. after that my friend's dad came out cause he heard the thud from inside the house, saw me on the floor and told all of us to leave, while his son had to go inside now. which now that im older, pisses me off cause he could've checked on me but no, i think he was more concerned about getting sued.

turns out it was the wrong car, and i have a huge black lump on my face to prove it. so as we finally decide that its time to turn in, my friend gave me some ice, cause his family saw my eye. but as im laying there, his older sister mentions "maybe he shouldn't sleep, i heard when people take a bad bang to the head and sleep they could go into a coma or just die". okay here i am now wide eyed, and fearing that im going to die. if i could only thank her now.

basically i ended up falling a sleep, and when i awoke i noticed that all the redness from scraping of the concrete was now covered in black. giving me the biggest black eye ever. well my fear for that night was the cholos, and then fearing i'd die in my sleep. well now that those were okay, the only fear i had left was........showing my mother. (this is where the terrifying backround music comes in).

i'll never forget the look on her face when i walked in the house the next morning. its funny cause on the 10min walk home iwas thinking of the best way i could get out of this and keep from getting grounded. well as i walk in, covering my eye, i say "Good morning everyone". and as shes about to reply back i notice her face from goodmorning changed to the face of "what the fuck"?? her first question was who did this to you??? and stupid me, i only practiced my answer for "how did this happen"? so as she saw i was struggling for an answer, she asked "who are you covering up for"?? and i came up with the stupidest answer, "well i was on my way to ben's house and i fell off the curve and hit my face on the floor, it didnt hurt at the time but i noticed it got bad this morning". she then grabbed my by the shoulder and shoved me towards my room and said "when you stop lying, maybe i'll help you".

i eventually told her and she ended up grounding me for a month. that black eye lasted almost two weeks. it was seriously fun being a kid.

Jury Duty Serviced.......

okay well i was summonsed awhile back now. i think around April, but i kept posponing it and making it a later date so that i wouldnt miss work. Eventually the week came when i was on call for service, Monday passed, then Tuesday and so on. Til about Thursday after i called in, i was told to report on Friday. im thinking "Damn!", because i'd have to deal with traffic going and coming back. It would be the death of me.

Well my first day was quite new to me due to not being in the town much. so i went into the waiting room and was waiting for about 2 hours before they called me. During those two hours i was trying to get comfortable by sleeping on chairs. well it didnt work because i was so uncomfortable laying my head on my wrists, then my elbows and it started to fraustrate me.

They finally called me in with a group of individuals to go to a court room where we will be pretty much interviewed by the judge and the lawyers. well day 1 i wasnt interviewed and i pretty much was sitting around all day.

But as i sat there and listened to people getting interviewed, i tripped out on the way people were willing to try and get out of it as much as possible. Many people came up with many political excuses to try and get out, but the one who stood out the most was this one guy.
he was asked something like, " So what do you do as far as employment?" he replied with .." i work on computers for some company.........oh yeah and im racist". Everyone then laughed or chuckled if you will about that but the judge didnt really find that amusing. So he sent this guy to civil case court which is to last about 30 days as oppose to the 8 days he would've spent as a juror for this case.

Day 2 i witnessed a bum fight. i was on my way to court and in front of the courthouse were two bum duking it out. pretty entertaining, but i didnt stay to watch. eventually one began to chase the other down the street. When lunch time came i had no idea where food was located, so i began my hunt.
Day 1 i walked north, Day 2 i'll walk east. so i end up in China Town and dont recognize any place to eat. im searching for a burger now and you wont find that in China Town. after about a three mile walk i realize its about time to walk back. Well that day i ended up eating back at the cafeteria on the ground floor. Great right? well atleast i might have lost some weight.

Day 3, damn i really wish i had taken some notes as too what happend. but as far as i remember i remember walking to Subway for about 7 days straight and pretty much tried every combo on display.
Only to find out that there was a freakin underground mall like about a block away. with a freakin food court with every type of fast food.

other than that i remember in deliberations, so many people were pissing me off because they were so closed minded. i mean you get the facts straight from the evidence but never compare the things that were said to have happend, and compare them to what you were going to do in that situation. basically one of the jurors was annoying the hell out of me because you could tell she was bitter, and she was always trying to disagree to what everyone was saying. and her main answers were, "Well i mean if that was me...." and we kept saying "but it wasnt you so you cant sit there and say that".

Long story short, all i remember is that one of the lawyers reminded me of Tom Cruise from "A few good men", the judge was really cool, one of the lawyers tripped big time in the middle of questioning a witness, and taking the biggest craps i'd ever seen due to eating the cafeteria food.

Lemediocrity my home sweet home

well its been a few weeks since i last posted and honestly i want to post more but i cant really find the time and dedication to doing so. anyway this past weekend i spent some time with my friends from Le Med. What is Le Med? well le med is a group of people all over the U.S who play xbox video games online with one another. Just one of many billions of groups out there, but our group consist of atleast thirty decidicated souls, and thats just the west coast. We also have a East coast Le Med they are all pretty cool as well.
I really enjoy playing with the ones i've had the priveledge of playing with. Ive only met a small number of them in person which so far has been a great experience. through our site on proboards we get to know each other outside of gaming a bit and its interesting to learn about all the individual souls out there and the complications we all go through in every day life. im really glad that i've been introduced to a great bunch of people who continue to entertain and help me get some great gaming experiences that before i've never had the chance to have.
Well getting back to this weekend we had a hell of a lot of fun, first we met up in Pasadena for some spanish food. which i thought wasnt that bad, but i wish i would've gotten more on my plate. after a long dinner and introduction to Cinco (Overlord of group) and Dock (a friend thats crazier than me) and a return visit from Haplo, Yellow and Powdergirl, we decided we'd go to Long Beach to visit the Queen Mary. My gosh, we found out it was more packed than ever and the traffic was just too annoying. so luckily we headed to Hollywood from there.
I say luckily cause the night turned out great anyway, well from Long Beach back to Hollywood we ended up in a parking lot behind a corner store which was really cool, cause i had downed a New Castle for the first time in a long time. then we continued into the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. After paying admission fee for a band neither of us ever heard, we hit strait to the bar. My beer honestly is Moosehead, but when i go out i expect not one place to have it out there, so i always ask for Heiniken. But they were out, so i got stuck with Bohemia, which is the beer i first got drunk off of in my life. i had one and when i returned they had ran out....what gives??? so Dock refers Sam Adams my way, so i figure what the heck. about 5 beers later and approxamently 40 bucks later due to buying Dock beer as well, we thought we'd leave cause Cinco was falling over too much and we wanted to avoid any fights.
it was a great experience and i really love to hang with these guys a bunch. and really i cant wait til the next time to meet them again. they're suppose to meet up in Oregan i think next time but im not sure if i can or will be able to go. well til next time.

My Introduction

Hello all, im nick and this is my second attempt to keep a blog. i've tried to keep this up before but at that time i was pretty stressed, angry and thought i knew what was out there by jumping to conclusions about things that i didnt know of. i read some past posts that i've made and it was pretty sad how closed minded i was.

Well just to recap, im Nick from California. Im twenty four years old and just recently got engaged to my fiancee Miho. We've been together for about 4 1/2 years now and thought we were pretty ready to move on to the next stage of a relationship. Back to me, im into creating and playing music, xbox video games, photography and now recently into learning about computer graffics and programing.

For the last Two years i've been working for a vending company, i'm a route driver and i fill up the vending machines. Its a good job but kind of rough on the back. I rather work here instead of back at an office, i cant stand being in an office anymore. The only bad things about my job are the customer complainers, the california drivers and the very hot summers. There are alot of cool people at my job but we really dont have time to hang out and get to know one another as friends cause my job is more of a fast pace area. The earlier you start, the earlier you go home and still get your eight hours pay. Therefore the guys are just loading and going, comeback, turn in your money and leave. But sometimes on the road you get the most weirdest, most stupid and most annoying people coming to you.

With that said, let me tell you a couple things about the crap i go through. At all of my stops there is always one "funny" dumb ass who has to say "Alright freebies". i've heard that joke atleast twice a day for the last two years..... its annoying now, not even worth a fake smile. Then there is always the person with too much time on their hands. I call these people the "machine watchmen". All they do is complain about whats in the machine, what they want in the machine, notify me that the machine is almost empty, and/or let me know what taste nasty and whos eating what. Seriously, there are people that do this, and usually its a heavy set individual. Not that i have anything against fat people, but i really dont think you need to be worrying about what flavor doughnuts im placing in the machine. Then there is the "Tight Ass". Most of these guys are usually corporate schnobbs or just regular old union members. I would be busy filling up a machine and be approached while im working, "Hey man, your machine says the doughnuts are 95cents, i put in a dollar and it didnt give me anything back". Man, if i had a freakin bat i would seriously pound their faces in. First of all, how do you have the nerves to approach me with that kind of question?? Corporate guys usually make a fair share of good money, as well as Union members for a warehouse company. Its not going to kill you if you dont get your nickel back!!!

Its things like this that make me angry at the world today, i mean why are they like that? i remember when i was an idiot of a teenager, pinching pennies for a soda at a machine after a tiring day of skateboarding. And yeah, the machine took my dollar and yeah i got pissed. But im not going to remember it for the rest of the week, until the vendor comes and ask for my dollar back. Hey shit happens but we have to deal with the smell and move on. i mean these people probably make more than me and i have alot of finances that have to be paid just like the next guy. But money has never been something that i "want". Of course i need it to survive but not to get greedy with.

Its nice to have money to buy things you want with, but if i cant have it that easy, thats just perfectly fine. I've lasted this long with my budget spendings but i appreciate the things i have already and dont really care for anymore. Til next time.