For those of you that have seen The Dark Knight, this is a little spoof on how low Batmans voice was in the movie. I laugh every time I watch this.

So, I haven’t posted about my new job that much, but I got to tell ya, I love it. It really is a great place to work. It seems like everyone in the company, whether it be at the main office, or a store, is really cool. I’m really busy right now with all the store upgrades and updates that I have going on, but that makes the day go by really fast. Too fast really…that’s how busy I am. For example, I’m right smack dab in the middle of upgrading the Mt. Clemens BW3’s…literally sitting in the store right now just kind of waiting to see how they do on the new system, having some lunch, and here is my schedule from last week.

I worked Monday through Friday, like normal, then I worked Saturday 8-4, then Sunday morning till about 2, then went back Sunay night to complete the install. Got home about 3:30am Monday morning, then back to the office at 8:30 today. Now, I’m back to Mt. Clemens store…which is going well, thanks for asking. Then I’m back here for close tonight at midnight, probably work till 1:00am or so, then tomorrow morning, 8:00am, I’m going to Muskegon for their install until Friday. Then home for the weekend, and off to Mexico next Wednesday.

I have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me.

Still love my job though.

Man, I NEVER update this thing anymore. In my defense though, my transition to my new job hasn’t exactly been seamless and easy. I’m coming in to a position that’s new. New for me, and new for the company. It’s taking some time to take all this information and put it into some order. So while I’m getting things done, it feels like I’m not. Plus I’ve been going out to Howell everyday, and that drive is a killer. I fill up every other day, which is costing me a small fortune. I’m getting there though, and I’m about to really start ramping up with the implementation plan for our next location, so I’m looking forward to that. It’s just been a tough adjustment.

With that said, I got nothing else for ya, lol. My work days are a lot longer now then they were at my last job which means my fun time is cut dramatically, which in turn means I don’t have anything interesting to say because it’s pretty much been rinse, repeat, for the last few weeks.

This is where we lose Kelly….football season started, and I’m glad because I couldn’t wait any longer. I don’t think I’ve been this excited for a season to start…ever. Did you guys know that the Lions are undefeated? Yup, 2-0 and on top of the division. They have finally turned it around! They are going to be tough to beat in the NFC. Next week Kevin Jones will be back, and then they’ll have an inside runner to balance their air attack! Look out league, the Lions are going to leave their mark this year!!

Do you believe that I typed that whole thing out with a straight face?

A lot of stuff has been happening lately. Rayl closed after what seemed to be a pretty long closing process. I don’t know exactly what is involved with closing a company, I just know I was there a lot longer then I thought I would be cleaning up the place. I did get a new job working for a company called Ideal/Setech. They are a joint venture between the Ideal Group and Setech. Both are big companies which do a lot of work with GM. I’m the implementation project manager. What does that mean? Well, if you look at my list of duties, it means a whole lot. Basically, I’m in charge of setting up their remote facilities. The first project I will be working on is in Toledo. Heck of a commute, but it’s only until the project is finished. Then off to the next project, or a permanent job in Livonia.

Other then that, not much else is going on. Let’s see…I saw the new Halloween movie. The one thing I’ve noticed from reading online is that when it comes to Rob Zombie movies, people either love him, or really hate him. There aren’t many people that are in the middle with this guy. I was sort of in the middle with him, as I don’t love him or hate him, but I do think the movies House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devils Rejects are pretty entertaining. So I was kind of excited to see what he would do with this remake of the original Halloween. Don’t be fooled by the studios though, they call it a re-imagination of the original film, but it’s a friggin remake. That is their feeble attempt to separate this film from the negative connotation that comes with the term “remake”. Anyway, saw the movie, and hated it. Totally hated it. I loved the original Halloween. That was what all horror movies should strive to be. This new one was just garbage. Michael Meyers was an escaped mental patient that wore a creepy mask (which was originally a William Shatner mask for you trivia buffs) and stalked a baby sitter for seemingly no reason. There was no motivation, he was just a fucking psycho. Then his doctor shows up to further the point that this guy is just nuts. He states that he spent 7 years trying to rehabilitate Micheal, and the rest of the time trying to keep him locked up because he realized that he was nothing but pure evil. When your shrink says your way to fucked up to be helped, you’re in bad shape. That’s scary stuff.

This new version of the story goes back to when Michael Meyers is 10 years old. We see how he was brought up, we see his home life and how screwed up it was. We see what drove him to be a crazy killer (sort of, I mean you need to be screwed up already to start wasting people with kitchen knives). But you see how bad he had it growing up. This totally humanized him…which is not at all good for the story. This made him, NOT scary. Meyers always freaked me out, which is probably because I was a fetus the first time I saw him in the 70’s. (I probably didn’t actually watch it until the 80’s, but either way, I was young) This new Meyers was just a screwed up dude, from a fucked up home. During this movie, you actually felt bad for this kid. For a horror movie to be scary, the audience should never root for the killer. In this movie, you find yourself doing just that. To further that point, there was so much development on Michael Meyers, that when it came time to introduce Laurie to the movie, there wasn’t enough time to develop her into a character that you actually gave a shit about. So again, you didn’t care about her when Michael showed up. Also, Rob Zombie decided to incorporate the family aspect that Michael and Laurie were related which didn’t actually come out till Halloween 2. Another mistake since it furthers makes him seem more normal then this emotionless lunatic that just likes to watch people bleed.

If you’re a Halloween fan, and lets face it, if you like any kind of horror movie, you ARE a Halloween fan, then stay clear of this movie. It really was a piece of crap.

That’s what I’ve been calling the end of Rayl. Seems like the end of days is approaching. Going out of business sure does take a long time, lol. We’ve gone though this place 4-5 times getting rid of old garbage. We’ve filled up 3 30 yard dumpsters with crap that probably should have been thrown away years ago. But we’re still here, working. No um-employment yet. It’s coming though, we’re simply running out of things to do. Today, I’m taking apart my office. Throwing out all my notes and files that don’t mean anything to anyone but me anyway. Taking apart my computer (monitor/keyboard/mouse/docking station, the computer itself is actually my personal laptop) I’m such a company guy. I think mine is the last desk to get cleaned out, with the exception of the girls that are still working at theirs….just not for long.

It is a beautiful day out today, and I rode my bike in to work, which was nice. I need to get my front brakes done though, but I should probably find a new job first huh.

I NEVER update this thing anymore. Sorry about that. There is actually a lot of shit going on right now. We’re all losing our jobs at work, which is nice. Things were going bad, but we didn’t think they were that bad. A week ago Friday, boss comes in and lays everyone but a few of us off. I’m still there, but who knows for how long. All I’m doing is running a bunch of reports for the bank auditor. I’m thinking we’re going to stay open long enough to collect what we can, and move what we can, to repay the bank, then close the doors. So I’m looking for a job right now, and let me tell you, if you’re out to find a $10-$12 job doing anything, there is a ton out there. Anything else, and you’re out of luck. So far at least, we’ll see what happens.

Let’s see, what else has been going on lately…I got a new laptop. Sort of. I sold my Toshiba, and bought a Sony UX from a buddy of mine, so it was more like a swap. I just couldn’t turn this thing down. Here is a pic of it:

It’s a full version of Windows XP Pro, Bluetooth, WiFi, Cellular EDGE, biometric fingerprint scanner, front and rear cameras, touchscreen with stylus, built in keyboard, all in something small enough to where on your hip. I also got a BT mouse and keyboard, extra case, and two docking stations. Damn good times. I’m actually sitting in my family room typing this out on the BT keyboard right now. I need to get a battery for it though, as the one that came with it is wasted. I got such a great deal on this though, that it’s no big deal to pick one up, which I’ve already ordered. Seriously, this is the coolest little computer I’ve ever seen. Some serious James Bond shit,

Other then that, the same shit has been going on. I’m riding my bike as much as possible, and loving every minute of it. I love the way someone online described it. You get 50 miles to the gallon on something that walks Corvettes off the line all day. That’s about as close to Science Fiction as you can get.

….not that I ever go that fast, of course.

That sounds a little dirty.

Got back from Louisville last night around 9:30. We had two pretty busy days down there, and some travel time, so I’m pretty tired. I rolled in late this morning, although that was kind of on purpose. I wasn’t planning on coming in late, I was just planning on taking it easy this morning.

Coming in today, I was kind of planning on their being a rediculious pile of work waiting for me, since it seems that nothing gets done while I’m gone. Much to my surprise, my inbox wasn’t exploding. So I should have some time to get my bearings today, which is nice.

Of course now that I’ve said that, I’ll probably come back from lunch to find my office on fire.

Going back to Louisville this evening. I’ll be home tomorrow night. Bascially we’re going down to see how screwed up things have gotten since we’ve been gone, and try to fix all the issues. Without one of us there, we need to trust that they are doing everything they’re supposed to do. Well, in a conference call last week, we found out they weren’t. So We’re heading down to try and straighten everything out.

I’m so excited to go….woo-friggin-hoo.

Hi. I’m back in town now.

Louisville was cool. We didn’t really get to go sight seeing or anything, and actually ended up up busting our ass the whole time we were there. We worked about 46 hours in the three days we were there, so needless to say I’m pretty damn tired having to come back to work after getting in around midnight.

I don’t know if I mentioned why I was going down there. We are setting up a satellite office down there, for industrial sales. We needed to get them connected to our system, set a bunch of processess for converting their old customers and vendors (the new employees are all from the same company), and get them working on our software. The whole time there, they all thought I was in IT. That’s all I told them, because I didn’t want them probing me for information about our company. That’s not my gig, and if they new my title I know they would have. Actually, one of the guys did ask me about sales totals to which I replied that I didn’t know. He got the hint, and left me alone after that.

So, about the trip.

Let’s see, the drive pretty much sucked balls. Although I can’t imagine a 6 hour drive anywhere NOT sucking balls, so that was expected. Man, Ohio is the worst state to drive through. That trip down I-75 through northern Ohio is terrible. Once you get to Dayton though, the scenery get’s better, and riving through Cincy and the border there with Kentucky was cool.

So we got down to Louisville and the location and waited for the guys to meet us at the building to let us in. After going into work at 7:30 that morning, leaving for Louisville at 1, and arriving there at 7, the only thing on my mind was working another 5-6 hours.

Okay, that’s not entirely true, that’s just what actually friggin happened. At the end of that hellacious day, it was off to find a hotel room after midnight. Ken said to me “what are we going to do about the room we get, and the arrangements” to which I replied “that’s easy, I’m going to get my own room, and you can do whatever you want in yours”.

So I got in my hotel room at the Hilton around 1ish and finally crashed out for the night.

Wake up and get to work at 8 the next morning, and work non-stop till about 7:30 when we left to go to Ruth’s Chris for dinner. The restaurant was on top of an office building hi-rise and had a great view of down town Louisville, albeit from far away. We met Jim (my boss that flew down that day) and Mark and Aaron Mivelaz who are running the satellite office. It was a nice dinner, and a lot of conversation about the direction of their office and how we we’re going to approach this new venture. The dinner ran a little late, and after driving Jim to his hotel, Ken and I were once again pretty damn tired by the time we got back to ours. So, it was hit the room, and crash again.

6:45am came real quick the next day. We were going to meet a bunch of the new employees, so we said we would be in at 7:30am. Since Ken and I were the last to leave the building the night before, we had a key to lock up. When we picked up Jim at 7:15, we debated whether or not to get some breakfast, or to just go in. We decided to go in, and it’s a good thing too. When we arrived at the new building, everyone was standing in the parking lot. Yeah, turns out, we had the only key, lol. We laughed at the possibilty of everyone standning in the parking lot, on that muggy-ass morning, while we ate breakfast.

That day Ken worked on connectivity in the office, and I trained the new employees on our system. It was more of just showing it to them, since it is a lot of information to take in at once. I’ll officially train them when I go back in a few weeks. We worked until just after 6pm, when we hopped back on the road to head home. The ride home seemed shorter then the ride down. I think it’s because we are seeing landmarks that look familiar to us now. They way down, we were flying blind.

Got home about midnight, and got up at 6:30am to go to work.

It’s been a long week, and I’m ready for the weekend. As luck would have it, I promised my Dad I would help him out this Saturday, lol. He only asks me a few times to help him out, but what timing. It’s not a hard job, or long day or anything, it’s just a little funny how that worked out.

I’m going to Louisville, KY today. Yipee.

Ken and I have to drive down there for work. We will have 3 days to take a brand new, empty building, and turn it into a working office that is connected to our server here, with trained employees. Should be a snap (he he..HA HA..MUHAHAHAHAHAHA…..yeah, no fuckin way)