Enthusiasm on the wane...
The fact that day 2 of this project is already seeing diminished motivation surely bodes ill for the future of this little endeavour, but time will tell, as they say...(you'll find that if you haven't spoken to me enough and learned this on your own, I tend to speak in trite cliches...)
Less than a week left to go in my fabulous-fringe-benefits, slave-wage-paying joke of a job, and nary a word nor development from any of the folks in charge of any of the alternate plans I've considered. In typical Gene fashion, I'm dealing with the problem of being unemployed again by not thinking about it. Spent the evening yesterday with a dear, dear local friend who is (not actively, but merely from the sheer magnetic radiance of her person) making the option of relocation to keep said flight benefits a much less attractive option for me...what to do? Also on the "agin it" column is the fact that I've just started to settle in to a decent apartment that I could very easily spend a year in. That being said, however, the ability to show up at the airport, get on a plane and go basically anywhere I want at the drop of a hat, is a difficult thing to walk away from. Developments on that front as they occur...
Speaking of flight benefits, flew to NYC by way of Newark, NJ on Tuesday to visit my new Colombian hottie friend Jessica. We lunched at a fabulously cozy Portuguese restaurant in Newark called Iberia Tavern and had two tremendous plates of this great dish they call "Rodizio" - a sampler platter of various spit-roasted meats served on a bed of rice with a side of some kind of delicious marinated cabbage or something, with a pitcher of red sangria to share between the two of us. After that, we trained it in to Manhattan. The ride from Newark Penn Station to the ACTUAL Penn Station was far shorter than I thought, only 20 or so minutes by commuter rail. It was odd to be back in Manhattan after almost a year's absence...emerging on Seventh Ave. and getting Starbucks in Koni's (one of the few gorgeous Chinese girls I know, she got deported (sort of) last year because she didn't keep her visa paperwork up-to-date, she's now in Hong Kong...I should call her...) old work building, walking on Seventh and Fifth Avenues, all the people, all the traffic...really took me back. Anyway, we walked over to Tiffany (swoon) on Fifth and 57th, which turned out to be a longer walk than I remembered. There was actually a line to get into Tiffany! After Christmas! Savages! Showed Jessica the Tiffany diamond, in all it's 100+ carat glory, then we walked over to Rockerfeller Center to see the Christmas tree and all the crazy ice skaters, it was packed there too...don't these people have jobs?! Cabbed it back to Penn, trained back into Jersey, drove around a bit, chatted about life, had dessert and hot chocolate at IHOP, back to Newark Liberty, where I sat around for over an hour waiting for my delayed plane to board. I really dig Jessica, she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever met; bubbly personality, cute accent, body of a goddess (ask me for pictures if I haven't showed you already!), absolutely infectious laugh/smile, etc...I could go on, but this isn't a fan site...I feel bad for her situation, wish there was something I could do for her...anyway, I digress (excessively)...
OK, this has definitely turned into FAR too long an entry, I'll wrap it up for now, going to go home and see if my internet's back up (by "my" there, I mean the unsecured wireless connection that I'm misappropriating from one of my neighbors...I fully intended to pay for cable, but in setting up my computer after I'd ordered cable installation services, I discovered that one of my neighbors had very graciously neglected to secure his/her wireless connection, and I figured it would just be until my two-week-out appointment lag lapsed...then I happened to miss my appointment dealing with a delayed flight at work, and never happened to reschedule. I justify it internally by telling myself that I'm helping this unknowingly altruistic and non-tech-savvy neighbor get more bang-for-his/her-buck, by maximizing utilization of his/her bandwidth...I've also taken the liberty of optimizing the router settings for them, so that's an added benefit...) The downside to not paying for your internet access is that you a) have to do without when it's not working, and b) have no one to complain to when it doesn't. All the other times the service has been out, it's been pretty brief - several hours at a time, tops...but this time, it's been over 2 days, and I have to feed the internet fix, so I did some wardriving...drove around with the iBook and the Kensington wifi finder, and stumbled on another neighbor (one benefit of living in a high-development-concentration area) just down the street (the Wansi Family - that's the name of their network, I didn't look inside, just seeing to whom to allot the universal good karma...) with the network name of "default". Second development I hit, after finding about half a dozen or so secured networks, which kind of surprised me, kind of not...this Kensington dealie is really pretty cool, for that very reason...I tried the Starbucks down the street first, but they had T-Mobile Hotspot...I'm not against that, but not super keen on paying $20 for it, especially when I only need it for two hours or so...
So now with 12 minutes of battery time left, I bid y'all adieu, until which time as my home internet is restored, or after this battery has recharged, whichever comes first...
Less than a week left to go in my fabulous-fringe-benefits, slave-wage-paying joke of a job, and nary a word nor development from any of the folks in charge of any of the alternate plans I've considered. In typical Gene fashion, I'm dealing with the problem of being unemployed again by not thinking about it. Spent the evening yesterday with a dear, dear local friend who is (not actively, but merely from the sheer magnetic radiance of her person) making the option of relocation to keep said flight benefits a much less attractive option for me...what to do? Also on the "agin it" column is the fact that I've just started to settle in to a decent apartment that I could very easily spend a year in. That being said, however, the ability to show up at the airport, get on a plane and go basically anywhere I want at the drop of a hat, is a difficult thing to walk away from. Developments on that front as they occur...
Speaking of flight benefits, flew to NYC by way of Newark, NJ on Tuesday to visit my new Colombian hottie friend Jessica. We lunched at a fabulously cozy Portuguese restaurant in Newark called Iberia Tavern and had two tremendous plates of this great dish they call "Rodizio" - a sampler platter of various spit-roasted meats served on a bed of rice with a side of some kind of delicious marinated cabbage or something, with a pitcher of red sangria to share between the two of us. After that, we trained it in to Manhattan. The ride from Newark Penn Station to the ACTUAL Penn Station was far shorter than I thought, only 20 or so minutes by commuter rail. It was odd to be back in Manhattan after almost a year's absence...emerging on Seventh Ave. and getting Starbucks in Koni's (one of the few gorgeous Chinese girls I know, she got deported (sort of) last year because she didn't keep her visa paperwork up-to-date, she's now in Hong Kong...I should call her...) old work building, walking on Seventh and Fifth Avenues, all the people, all the traffic...really took me back. Anyway, we walked over to Tiffany (swoon) on Fifth and 57th, which turned out to be a longer walk than I remembered. There was actually a line to get into Tiffany! After Christmas! Savages! Showed Jessica the Tiffany diamond, in all it's 100+ carat glory, then we walked over to Rockerfeller Center to see the Christmas tree and all the crazy ice skaters, it was packed there too...don't these people have jobs?! Cabbed it back to Penn, trained back into Jersey, drove around a bit, chatted about life, had dessert and hot chocolate at IHOP, back to Newark Liberty, where I sat around for over an hour waiting for my delayed plane to board. I really dig Jessica, she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever met; bubbly personality, cute accent, body of a goddess (ask me for pictures if I haven't showed you already!), absolutely infectious laugh/smile, etc...I could go on, but this isn't a fan site...I feel bad for her situation, wish there was something I could do for her...anyway, I digress (excessively)...
OK, this has definitely turned into FAR too long an entry, I'll wrap it up for now, going to go home and see if my internet's back up (by "my" there, I mean the unsecured wireless connection that I'm misappropriating from one of my neighbors...I fully intended to pay for cable, but in setting up my computer after I'd ordered cable installation services, I discovered that one of my neighbors had very graciously neglected to secure his/her wireless connection, and I figured it would just be until my two-week-out appointment lag lapsed...then I happened to miss my appointment dealing with a delayed flight at work, and never happened to reschedule. I justify it internally by telling myself that I'm helping this unknowingly altruistic and non-tech-savvy neighbor get more bang-for-his/her-buck, by maximizing utilization of his/her bandwidth...I've also taken the liberty of optimizing the router settings for them, so that's an added benefit...) The downside to not paying for your internet access is that you a) have to do without when it's not working, and b) have no one to complain to when it doesn't. All the other times the service has been out, it's been pretty brief - several hours at a time, tops...but this time, it's been over 2 days, and I have to feed the internet fix, so I did some wardriving...drove around with the iBook and the Kensington wifi finder, and stumbled on another neighbor (one benefit of living in a high-development-concentration area) just down the street (the Wansi Family - that's the name of their network, I didn't look inside, just seeing to whom to allot the universal good karma...) with the network name of "default". Second development I hit, after finding about half a dozen or so secured networks, which kind of surprised me, kind of not...this Kensington dealie is really pretty cool, for that very reason...I tried the Starbucks down the street first, but they had T-Mobile Hotspot...I'm not against that, but not super keen on paying $20 for it, especially when I only need it for two hours or so...
So now with 12 minutes of battery time left, I bid y'all adieu, until which time as my home internet is restored, or after this battery has recharged, whichever comes first...
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