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From the five-star rooms down to skid row

So its been over two months since I updated this sucker and it seems that there have been some changes again. I should really try to get into the habit of updating this at least every other week again but who knows whether or not I will… Especially in light of the fact that outside of work I have been trying to spend less time online intentionally and that has been a good thing for me.

Speaking of work… its the slow season and like everybody else I am looking around to see what is out there and like everybody else I am seeing pathetically little thanks to our troubled economy. Still, the best time to find a new job is when you have one so I figure I might as well look. That said, my company has actually been making it somewhat appealing to stay with them since they lifted the freeze on salaries and such. It might not be much but hey, a raise is a raise in this economy. I have been doing a lot of reading and talking about this economy lately and, just my personal opinion, its going to get worse further before it really gets better and that downswing will last a bit longer then people are predicting (which is already into spring /summer of 2011). I also think the effects of this downswing are going to resonate a hell of a lot longer then people really realize. The people graduating college right now who can’t find jobs? That’s going to stick with them for years to come and effect their careers in negative ways. But enough depressing talk, lets switch to something a bit more fun.

In February I took a trip out to South Korea and it. Was. Awesome. Got to see one of my very good buddies, got to get myself to another continent (only 4 left on the list) and got to see all sorts of crazy stuff. Some of the highlights: Going to the DMZ, seeing the Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul, the Namsan Seoul N Tower, seeing where my friend works/lives and how he lives and of course the food. I will be honest, here in the states I am hit or miss with Asian food, sometimes I really crave it but oftentimes I’m pretty indifferent. Well, the food over there was largely great. the fried shrimp thing wasn’t very good, but the rest of it? Fantastic. Fried thick bacon, ribs, Bulgogi, all of it was just absolutely fantastic. That said, they do have some strange takes on pizza as well. They also have a crazy market that we went to, just jampacked with everything you might want to buy and thousands of things you don’t want to buy. The food section (talking about the raw ingredients section) had a ton of food that you would never really see in America in the same way. So all in all it was a fantastic trip, I got to experience a ton of things that I have never really experienced before and I call it, overall, a complete win. Even the flights (about 19 hours to get there, roughly 15 or so to get home, including layovers) didn’t bother me much. The Jet lag sucked but I certainly can’t complain and I know how to deal with that. Regarding pictures, I took about a hundred which is actually fairly few for me and many of them are of the same sort of thing but as soon as Gallery3 gets released and I upgrade the gallery on the site I will be uploading at least some of my pictures to the site. I will make sure to make mention of it when I do.

Speaking of traveling, later today I will be buying some plane tickets to go out to visit CO. Haven’t been there in a few years (2007) and I miss it. Other then that, I am planning a motorcycle camping trip (might be as short as one night) for this summer and starting to figure out another trip overseas. I can’t decide, right now, between Egypt and Argentina. A few other places on my radar as well, like Greece and Turkey, Australia, etc but I think I want to make use of my Typhoid shot while its still valid and Argentina is looking pretty tempting at the moment.

Since I brought up motorcycling already… I am looking forward to the weather getting the rest of the way into spring/summer mode and getting out there on the bike. I see some people out there already but the potholes/crap on the road are just too bad at the moment for me to want to fuck around with it yet. Still, I can feel it getting closer, most of the snowpack is gone and I am starting to get antsy again… huge shock I know. Hopefully within a month I will be wiling away my weekends on the bike again but we will see.

Other then that… reading, started writing some again although its nothing worth sharing with anybody, and tons of video games now that BFBC2 is released. Its a good game (primarily the multiplayer is what I have been playing) but man do DICE and EA need to figure out how to do the online thing a bit better. Were they not expecting a rush of people? Hopefully having the servers down for a chunk this weekend will help them quite a bit and we can get back to capping flags and blowing M-COM stations. Till then… well I guess I can play the single player. I am also planning on picking up Darksiders from Amazon later today. We’ll see how that goes I guess but I won’t be able to complain much since it should only really run me about $20 after gift certificates and such.

I think that’s about all of the news that’s fit to print at the moment. So I just want to tell you that nobody loves you like your mama. Remember that.

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