November Is Halfway Over...
and what a month it has been. I hit 1000 hits on the blog which is exciting and it meant i also shouldn't have waited a month before putting in another entry. As of today I have been training on my shift supervisor job for six months, SIX MONTHS! Now don't get me wrong I am absolutely loving the job that I am doing but it would be great to move from the "in training" symbolically following me around to "trained". I don't know when it will happen but they have given me a crew to lead for the interim which is encouraging but I would love to have the job especially in this economy. Well enough of that on to more important things.
I got to spend another weekend in beautiful Highlands, NC. with the same 3 other couples that we traveled with there last year. It was a beautiful weekend of sitting around the fire, eating great food and drinking a college party equivalent of alcohol with friends who all needed a weekend away and made the most of it.
The temperature was perfect, the leaves were just beginning to fall off the trees it was gorgeous I always forget how much I love the outdoors when I haven't been there in a while. I need a backpacking trip soon or I may explode.
I want to take a moment before I move on I want to say something about advertising. With the over advertisement of alot of things these days it's tough for things to happen, especially interesting things, that not many people talk about. First one is that there is a director and I must say he may be the worst promoter in the history of movie directors, Guy Ritchie. Most of you will know of the movie Snatch, with Brad Pitt. It was a fantastic movie but wasn't big in theaters and really picked up with the dvd release this though was not his first, mobbish, action movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was his first and I don't know that anyone even knew it was in theaters. This past week I caught his 3rd movie in this genre in the last week it was in theaters only because I kept seeing the stupid title on imdb.com and researched it. RocknRolla... it was a great movie but like I said if a guy like me hasn't heard much about a movie they must have not even put out a trailer. The second thing and I will get off my saopbox is Pepsi. They took the time to compete with the coke rewards points that Coca-Cola had put out and in the process trounced coke by teaming up with amazon.com giving free mp3s with every five cap codes. I don't drink much Pepsi but the guys around the mill do and they have been saving them for me. In the course of about a month and a half I have put in about 250 codes which is fifty, that's right FIFTY free songs. For a music junkie like me this is pay dirt. Every artist isn't available but we have gotten everything from Coldplay and Jason Mraz to Eagles of Death Metal and Dashboard Confessional.
I have a few books this time mostly because I was reading two of these simultaneously while I when I blogged last.
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson (3 out of 5) Good travel book about Australia and Bryson's travels there. The first part of the book about the cities wasn't as interesting as the second half which focuses on the outback and outlying areas of the only country that's a continent.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (4 out of 5) A very neat story about a nerdy guy whose mother is from the Dominican Republic but he grew up in New Jersey and never really found his nitch as a person. The metaphors and story were right up my alley although it is a sad story as evidenced by the title the story is moved along by multiple narrators that all add depth to the story.(winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Good to Great - Jim Collins (5 out of 5) Business book about taking a company from good to great. One of the most interesting takes on what makes a business step out of the comfort of being good and becoming great and staying there. Outstanding for anyone in business world or really is applicable in so many parts of life.
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (4 out of 5) My dive back into the classics was a short but good story about a man who catches the biggest fish of his life but at what cost. He lays everything he has on the line for a marlin the likes of which has never been seen. Great story but like most Hemingway it's not a fairy tale ending.
and what a month it has been. I hit 1000 hits on the blog which is exciting and it meant i also shouldn't have waited a month before putting in another entry. As of today I have been training on my shift supervisor job for six months, SIX MONTHS! Now don't get me wrong I am absolutely loving the job that I am doing but it would be great to move from the "in training" symbolically following me around to "trained". I don't know when it will happen but they have given me a crew to lead for the interim which is encouraging but I would love to have the job especially in this economy. Well enough of that on to more important things.
I got to spend another weekend in beautiful Highlands, NC. with the same 3 other couples that we traveled with there last year. It was a beautiful weekend of sitting around the fire, eating great food and drinking a college party equivalent of alcohol with friends who all needed a weekend away and made the most of it.
The temperature was perfect, the leaves were just beginning to fall off the trees it was gorgeous I always forget how much I love the outdoors when I haven't been there in a while. I need a backpacking trip soon or I may explode.I want to take a moment before I move on I want to say something about advertising. With the over advertisement of alot of things these days it's tough for things to happen, especially interesting things, that not many people talk about. First one is that there is a director and I must say he may be the worst promoter in the history of movie directors, Guy Ritchie. Most of you will know of the movie Snatch, with Brad Pitt. It was a fantastic movie but wasn't big in theaters and really picked up with the dvd release this though was not his first, mobbish, action movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was his first and I don't know that anyone even knew it was in theaters. This past week I caught his 3rd movie in this genre in the last week it was in theaters only because I kept seeing the stupid title on imdb.com and researched it. RocknRolla... it was a great movie but like I said if a guy like me hasn't heard much about a movie they must have not even put out a trailer. The second thing and I will get off my saopbox is Pepsi. They took the time to compete with the coke rewards points that Coca-Cola had put out and in the process trounced coke by teaming up with amazon.com giving free mp3s with every five cap codes. I don't drink much Pepsi but the guys around the mill do and they have been saving them for me. In the course of about a month and a half I have put in about 250 codes which is fifty, that's right FIFTY free songs. For a music junkie like me this is pay dirt. Every artist isn't available but we have gotten everything from Coldplay and Jason Mraz to Eagles of Death Metal and Dashboard Confessional.
I have a few books this time mostly because I was reading two of these simultaneously while I when I blogged last.
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson (3 out of 5) Good travel book about Australia and Bryson's travels there. The first part of the book about the cities wasn't as interesting as the second half which focuses on the outback and outlying areas of the only country that's a continent.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (4 out of 5) A very neat story about a nerdy guy whose mother is from the Dominican Republic but he grew up in New Jersey and never really found his nitch as a person. The metaphors and story were right up my alley although it is a sad story as evidenced by the title the story is moved along by multiple narrators that all add depth to the story.(winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Good to Great - Jim Collins (5 out of 5) Business book about taking a company from good to great. One of the most interesting takes on what makes a business step out of the comfort of being good and becoming great and staying there. Outstanding for anyone in business world or really is applicable in so many parts of life.
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (4 out of 5) My dive back into the classics was a short but good story about a man who catches the biggest fish of his life but at what cost. He lays everything he has on the line for a marlin the likes of which has never been seen. Great story but like most Hemingway it's not a fairy tale ending.
posted by John III @ 12:18 AM
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