Everthings alright

Haven’t been active here in quite awhile. Oh well. Living life is more important sometimes than trying to document in online. Plus not everything needs to be posted.

Other than that everything is going well. Got hired in at Gentex and it looks to be a company that I could work at for life or at least a long time. There is plenty of growth opportunity there if one wants it. Hopefully, that will happen in my case sooner than the last place I work. Actually, it never happened, which is a reason that I wanted to leave there in the first place. So getting laid off from there was actually a blessing.

So in short life is just chillin at the moment. Mostly getting invested in my hobby of genealogy lately and making good progress. Until next time, whenever that will be.

It sure has been awhile

Wow. A month of no posts of any kind. now that is just down right ridiculous! I mean this is isn’t a first priority thing to do, but I sure thought that I would be writing here more.

I guess it is all just as well though, because really there is nothing new and exciting to write about anyway. There has been no new changes in work life or home life. Although, I do have to work the “off” Fridays at work now because they are mandatory due to ramp up in production. I guess the military really wants those weapons! But really thats not even a change because I have been working all the Fridays for the past 3 to 4 months anyway. What sucks is now you need to use vacation or personal time to take those off and being I had 2 wedding s to go to on Fridays, that sucks majorly. Oh well, roll with the punches of life.

I wouldn’t say I hate my job, but I definitely don’t love it. The company is really nice and most of the people there are awesome as well. As a bonus for working those extra Fridays they give us gift cards to Meijer, which is pretty sweet. But I would really like to be doing something different there or in my life in general. I don’t know why, but I have a strong sense that I want to somehow have a job that incorporates travel, probably lots of it. Also, my desire to at least go to Australia and New Zealand is starting to really grow too. Dang, why can’t I just win the lottery and just do whatever the heck I want? For that matter why is it the the root of most of these problems is because you need money.

Ah, money, you made up idea on which we somehow place value in. I think it is stupid, but necessary. But I think we all wish it was a little easier to just do things that relate to money usage. Oh well, thats the way the world works.

Now I don’t know when the next post shall be, but hopefully not in June. Probably, and I say that with great hesitation, the next post will be about the show Chuck. Yes, yet again. I know most people don’t watch the show or know anything about it, but I want to to come back for a 4th season and right now its on the bubble of being canceled at NBC. But who really knows. All I know is that the Lost has well, lost me as a crazy fan mainly due its sheer craziness in this last season. But Chuck has become my favorite and it needs some help. Well so does NBC with most of their shows not doing too awesome. Well the next time I post may be around the 17th, because thats when they tell if shows are coming back offialcially.

Until that time, have a wonderful start to May and midspring!

New computer

Dang, it has certainly been awhile hasn’t it? I know. I suck at this whole blog thing, but believe me this one at least is a better attempt than my first blog on Blogger. That poor sucker didn’t see any action for like 2 years after I started it.

Anyway, part of the reason it has been so long is my most recent purchase has landed me a new computer. Yay me! I figured it was time to replace to old Dell Inspiron 6000 with something fresh. I had a good experience with that computer…mostly. Other than trying to install other OSes and ruining previous ones that is. But those moments all provided learning experiences…or at least I am going to call them that.

So I went and bought another Dell. This time I got a 17″ Studio, instead of 15″. Bigger is better right? Well, I also got it because I wanted more of a desktop replacement type computer that still had some mobility.

So far I absolutely love the new computer and have already ditched the old one. Now this new laptop has Windows 7, and not Windows XP. This was at first a reservation of mine because I had seen how Vista operated and really didn’t like it. Also, I had really gotten to know XP by now and liked that alot. But so far it has been really no different and even where there are differences they are positive. Sometimes its just the little tweaks that make things better. Like you can “snap” 2 two windows next to each other by just dragging and you can full screen a window by just dragging it to the top of the screen.

Oh, and this thing has the Intel Core i3 processor, so that actually means 4 processors at 2.13GHz. I don’t know about you, but that is just awesome. This thing pretty much can handle all intensive tasks that I throw at it. Although, I really haven’t gotten into all that much high graphics type stuff yet. Hopefully, I’ll get a few games or something to play and see how it likes those. This processor did make the computer more money and I could have went with a better one yet, but price still mattered and I am no gamer.

Anyway, I am really impressed so far with Microsoft for creating a really good new OS and especially like the new features and the new taskbar that allows pinning of programs. And the 64-bit OS is just awesome! Well, I hope to write a post again tomorrow, but we shall see. It has to do with the big bang…

Another new theme

Its been a while hasn’t it? Well as you readers are aware there has been a theme change from the ChaoticSoul to the new Motion theme. Why the change? I was bored, simply enough. Oh, and I really love the colors blue and green and this new theme suits those well.

I have not been updating near as much mainly due to working a lot of overtime at work. For instance, this past week I got up almost everyday at 4am to go in early. It sure does differ from the college days when I stayed up until 2am, but got up at 8am or so. Man I miss being able to do that . Oh well, such is life.

Oh and lately, I have been very obsessed with looking at Android phones and new laptops. I think I really want to get a smartphone and its going to be an Android one. The Google synchronization on those devices is so cool. I want t a new laptop too, but not sure if I want two. One being Windows and the other a Mac. I know its stupid, but I have wanted a Macbook Pro for quite some time, but at the same time I will want Windows too on another computer. I know that a Mac can do dual boot both now, but what if something goes wrong with one OS? Then you are s.o.l. for both “computers.”

Anyway, I hope to write another recommends sections again soon. It might be about a show I recently got crazy addicted to, but we shall see.

Thinking of retirement

Since getting my coating operator position at Borisch I have already began to think about putting money aside for retirement. I know that sounds rather crazy, but with the way things go its safer to do it sooner rather than later. Also, I have heard really good things about starting a Roth IRA from fellow people around my age.

I guess I will qualify for a 401k at the end of the year from work, but I want to do something now. I want to get the most “bang for my buck” while I have an easy life right now. I think this is the best time because right now I still live at home and all I pay for is student loans. Also, I kind of had nowhere to go after college was done, seeing as I had no job lined up at the time. But I am grateful to my parents for letting me continue to stay at home.

Anyway, I want to start a Roth IRA, but have no idea where to do it. I prefer a place with no minimum starting balance and no fees for having an account. I do not really know much about other “characteristics” of places, but I’ll take those on as they come. I want no minimums, because I have a minimum amount of money to use. So where on earth do I start an account? I read its better to just start one rather than wait and wait. Please feel free to comment. Hope someone reads this and can give me some tips.

Paycheck Surprise

Well I this week I was certainly surprised when I got my paycheck. There was two of them this week. Why? Because apparently they give out bonuses every so often at work. Well, I had heard about it at work from other fellow employees, but did not think I would get anything because I had not put in my 90 days yet. Well that obviously proved false, which makes me happy.

I think I am going to love working at Borisch for those simple little things. I knew they were a Christian company, but did not really expect too much to come out of that. But they know how to treat their people/employees. I have heard that over and over again from others there. And thats awesome.

Oh, and I am pretty sure its awesome that I get the whole week of Christmas off! That on top of every other Friday off of work provides a lot of nice mini vacation time. I will get paid for the holidays eventually, but that bonus makes up for that this year. At least thats how I look at it.

As for do I like it? Well, yes, I believe I do. I cannot really think of any negatives. Especially negatives that outweigh working in the food manufacturing industry the last 2 summers. That was dirty and nasty, this is clean and controlled. Much more attuned to detail, like I consider myself to be. And its technology oriented! I mean come on. Food is boring, defense and aerospace is way more awesome!

Well, just wanted to write something down again because I got feeling bad about not updating. Why? I don’t really know. Its not like there is many viewers anyway. Although, I am tracking hits and get strange ones from Amazon.com and stuff. Don’t really know who that could be, but let me just say I love Amazon! Haha. Creep out the readers is my game. Anyway, I should get another “recommends” post out soon too or something completely different, who really knows. Tot ziens!

I want to live in Australia

Right now the economy sucks, just really sucks. I have been searching for a job now for at least over 6 months with little to no success. As I said before a lot of why that is is probably due to my GPA, which sucks again. I do not want to go to more school and I do not think I really could have done better anyway. As of now, I sort of regret going to college. Why? Mainly because now I am stuck with tons of debt that I have no foreseeable way of paying off with some employment.

Well amongst all of this I have a strong desire to go and live in Australia. I have no reasoning behind it other than I think thats where I would like to live. I do not know if there is much opportunity for a person with an Electrical Engineering background, but I really also would not mind doing anything that is not related to that. I liked the idea of engineering, but so far finding a career in it is a bit of a downer. And thats where I want to go Down Under.

So I do not know how or when I will get there, but I shall make it there someday. That is why on Twitter I have been playing the game from Air New Zeeland, the KiWeets campaign, because I really want to live in that part of the world if not just for a visit. Maybe going there can uplift my spirits a bit and renew my search for a job. I guess for now I will resign myself to finding a temporary job somewhere. Hopefully, this economy picks up faster soon.

Pay comes to only those who fight

As with many Americans in thus current economy my luck at finding a job has been rather disappointing so far. I have had at least five interviews thus far, but so far all of them have said “no” or “another candidate has been selected” or something to that effect. Even ones for internships or part-time jobs are hard to get. Look I am free all the time I have no more school to go to. I am prefect because I have no other real commitments to things like school anymore. I knew that it was going to be hard finding work, but didn’t think internships would just as hard. That is frankly ridiculous.

And why is it that most places I apply are not hiring people like me? Well probably because of at least one single stupid reason. GPA. Without a high enough GPA in this country you are weeded out before they even begin to look at the rest if your resume. Why is GPA so strong an indicator to “how smart you are”? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that is a flag thats says how good at school you are. Well I think thats pretty much bull because some people go through school without having to do anything to get good grades while others struggle through because it takes them longer to get concepts. The latter is where I see myself. Therefore that makes GPA an unfair assessor for the overall quality in candidates.

In my view people who do not have such good records in school typically have more common sense, which often more useful in life than just book knowledge. But this is not always true either, just everything else in life is not easy to tack down in specifics and rules.

Anyway. enough about that. What started me thinking on this is the Obama Administration’s new idea to pay off the Taliban in Afghanistan to switch sides to help the USA fight the rest of them. Apparently, we have been doing this is Iraq already, which I either did not know or remember. Whatever the case there, I think it is just plain stupid on both accounts. Lets roll back history here a second. Who gave what is now Al Qaeda weapons when Russia tried invading the Afghan region. Oh ya, that was us. As in the US! Well that did not go well for us in the end, did it? No, of course not because we are now fighting them under the War on Terror. So employing them, the Taliban, to switch side temporarily seems like a rather dumb idea because once we are finished there do we just take all the supplies back? Ans won’t they just go back to being the way they were? I think so. People are not easy to change. Money may do it temporarily, but it won’t bring a lasting peace.

So the heck are we going to us more money for outside country purposes when I and millions of others are sitting at home trying to find a job. Pay me Obama! I will go  and hunt the people if thats what will make it work. I would rather not go there, but while I sit at home wishing for work to come around why don’t we just try to fix what we don’t have here and worry about that all later. It sounds to me like joining the Taliban over there right now only to be paid to switch would be a great idea. For all its worth most people here in the US don’t really care what is going on over there anymore, but this should get people talking. All this money supposedly being spent for stimulus this, stimulus that, but we are not seeing the outcome of it yet! Well hopefully it all comes full circle and I and the millions of jobless get jobs soon.

For some more information on the Taliban payment go here. It sounds like it is not official yet, but I don’t have the patience to read it fully, it just entices me to write about it. Oh, and Happy Halloween!

Peace is talking

Today was a weird day. First NASA bombed the moon to see if they could get ice/water particles to fly off at a detector that only existed for moments to send back data and then proceeded to crash into the moon too. So first of all why in the world are we sending millions of dollars into space only to have it crash literally hours later, so that it is unusable? I guess its for scientific exploration, but I really don’t see the point.

But in other bigger news President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh and he was put in the nomination for this a little less than 2 weeks after he was inaugurated. What heck does that mean? He had not even really talked to anyone yet at that point. The deadline for the prize is Februaury 1, so really to my recollection he had done nothing by then.  Of course I have no real idea what the requirements are for the honor, but that does not exclude the fact that he really should not have received it. There has been a great deal of people that have actually done things to enact peace and ones that are doing it. All Obama ever did was talk about his ideas so far, not really any direct action. All it was in my opinion was a direct attack at former President Bush for his wars. Thing is now Obama has a standard to live up to from those dumb Norwegians at Nobel and he probably will because they want him too. But I hope he fails. He has not done anything in this country yet, so how can he outside of the country? Alright, well I really hate politics, but thats what the Nobel Prize has turned into and its really too bad.

What do you think? From what I gather by most Twitter users it is not really understood why he received the honor. Either way the Nobel Prize now means that I can get it because I think I am going to talk about peace next year. And that should be good enough really.

First is the worst

Hello to the greater blogging universe! This being my first blog post on at least WordPress. I had/have another blog on Blogger, but thought that this looked way cooler to use. Especially the fact that I can write thus entire post from my iPod touch. Ok, so enough of that. What will this blog be about? Well I hope it goes better than my last attempt at blogging and shows a hint of who I am throughout my postings. Since I am quite into technology and Internet news, it will probably focus on stuff like that. But I might even go on an occasional rant about something that bothers me or is stupid.

Anyway, starting these first posts to an blog is a bit weird because you don’t know if it will turn out the way you say it might. So here is to trying something new and hoping I can keep up the task!