Plurk and ChaCha

June 23rd, 2008

Just sharing a couple new sites I’m on. I’ve been such a boring blogger.

First up: Plurk! This site is kind of like Twitter on steroids. It’s a lot of fun. I’m currently obsessed with my karma score hehe. Anyway, check it out, sign up, friend me, etc.

Second: ChaCha!. This is a nifty thing to use from your phone… you send a text message to 242242 with a question, and a few minutes later you get an answer. It’s like a search engine powered by real people. It’s fun. I’m more excited about the Guide thing though. Guides are the humans behind the search engine. I’m waiting for my final approval (I just finished all the tests) but I am pretty sure I’ll get accepted *knock on wood* It’s a fully flexible work from home job. Answer queries, get paid! Yay! But yes, ask it a question.

That’s it for now. I’m hungry.

  Randumbness   permalink   2 comments   10:19 AM

I Hate Being Sick!

June 19th, 2008

Being sick is lame. I think I am dying. My snot is yellow. My head is so stuffy that my EARS hurt. My face is leaky. I have a fever. My head hurts. My body hurts. I can’t breathe. I am sad.

This thing is going around the whole call center. We all sound terrible. We are miserable. Poor us.

Isn’t it summer?! Isn’t there some law against being sick in June?! If there’s not, there should be.

How is everybody else feeling?

  Everyday Life  I Hate Life   permalink   2 comments   07:19 AM

Woah, Fire

June 13th, 2008

BEAVERTON, Ore. - Over 40 people were displaced early Friday morning in Beaverton when a 3-alarm fire heavily damaged an apartment complex.

The blaze broke out at the Birch Pointe Apartments on Southwest Cornell Road at about 1:15 a.m. Friday morning.

The Red Cross is assisting those left homeless after 18 units in the complex were damaged.

While there were no injuries to people from the fire, one dog died despite efforts to resuscitate it.

Five apartments were damaged by the fire while 13 more suffered smoke and water damage. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The Red Cross has set up services for the displaced tenants at the Oak Hills Christian Church on NW 153rd Street in Beaverton.

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This is the apartment complex right next door to the one I just moved out of. I have friends that live in this complex (though luckily they were not affected by the fires). This is crazy though! Those poor people I know my apartment required all the tenants to have renter’s insurance.. I hope for the sake of these people that this complex does too, so that these people can at least get some of their stuff replaced.

I must be bad luck to my neighbors or something. One time in L.A., a tree fell on my neighbors house. Srsly? I am now half expecting a tornado to land on Mle’s condo.

  News   permalink   2 comments   05:48 PM

Let’s Welcome Another One!

June 11th, 2008

You’ll have to excuse me for making another Link Whore post… but, well, I just have to introduce Wesley to all my blogging friends

Wesley (… ok fine, Wes as most everybody else in the whole universe calls him but me) is one of my buddy’s from work. I made him get back into blogging. His site, Make It Easy For Me (MIEFM for short) is a very thought provoking, “tell-it-as-you-see-it” blog focusing mostly on modern politics. I gotta say, I’m not the most political person on earth (far from it rather!) but his posts are engaging, even to me.

So, everybody stop by and say hello!

  Site Development   permalink   0 comments   12:49 PM

Xoie at the Beach

June 8th, 2008

Xoie had her first exposure to the beach yesterday! It was adorable.

She was all excited about the sand first off and was leaping everywhere through it. Then she was trying to chase the ocean… that is, until she realized it was moving towards her, then her reaction was, “RETREAT!!!!!!!!” teehehehehehe. Aw man, then she was trying to eat seaweed, the weirdo.

Also, looking for Haystack Rock was hilarious. “I know it’s around here somewhere… it’s a giant fucking rock in the ocean!” “Oh look, there it is!”

I want to take her again during the day, and take some pictures.

That is all for now. Don’t forget, Pointless Drivel Live tonight at 4 pacific time! See you all there

  Everyday Life   permalink   3 comments   11:47 AM

Katie on Pointless Drivel Live!

June 7th, 2008

Tomorrow, at 4pm Pacific, I will be co-hosting on Pointless Drivel Live! Stop by, listen, call in… do something! It’ll be fun. Possibly a train-wreck, but fun!

  News   permalink   2 comments   06:48 PM

Oregon Chili’s Closed With No Warning

May 29th, 2008

BEAVERTON, Ore. - Hundreds of restaurant workers started looking for new jobs Tuesday after national restaurant chain “Chili’s” closed several of its Portland-area restaurants.

At the Beaverton location, the parking lot sat empty Tuesday except for former employees showing up for work and discovering they were out of a job.

A sign on the front door said the restaurant was “closed for repairs,” but that is not true, according to managers and the corporate office.

The Hillsboro location also closed; The Lake Oswego and Wilsonville restaurants may be shut down after Tuesday night.

Workers were stunned.

“I was on the schedule for this morning, and I walked up and (the manager) was here and said, ‘Nope, they’re closed,’ “ said Jimbo Purcell, a cook.

The Clackamas and Eugene locations will stay open and be run by the corporate office.

A manager predicted the closings will cost 300 Oregonians their jobs.

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I was a big fan of the enchilada soup and the boneless buffalo chicken salad. The Beaverton location is was in the same parking lot as where I used to work, pretty much up the street from my house.  But man, what a terrible way to find out that you’re out of a job… that’s very sad. Terrible business practice.

  News   permalink   2 comments   05:24 PM