Chargers of Old

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BALSDG

I can finally be at peace with my team and smile tonight.  Although I wasn't able to watch the game live, the highlights and reading all about it were enough to give me some good thoughts of the Chargers.  I was constantly asking for updates from the pilots while sitting in the jumpseat on the way home tonight and they gladly obliged.  We weren't really playing like last year's team, but at least Rivers was able to utilize his throwing abilities and prove once again that he's the QB of our future.  Gates had a big game and that alone is a good sign.  I really hope that LT gets more rushing TDs and more chances for bigger runs.  With Nick Hardwick back, it shouldn't be that hard to get more space down the center!  Merriman had his sack today and it just seemed like things got back together.  Thanks for winning guys.  I really think that the underlying conspiracy is to hide our awesomeness from the New England Patriots.  San Diego has a plan and the next few teams won't know what hit them!  I'm just really excited for the next game now.  Let's go CHARGERS!!!

Prestigious Careers

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Well, after being on duty since 6:30AM (that's excluding the fact that I woke up at 5:15AM, and headed downstairs for the shuttle van ride at 6:15AM), and having to fight through some of the air traffic congestion due to all the inclement weather surrounding the greater southwest, I arrived 30 minutes late on my last flight, ran to the gate that had the San Diego departure only to find out that they closed it 15 minutes prior to departure.  Now, I've been commuting for almost 1 year now and I've never once heard that they close it 15 minutes prior.  Usually its 10 but I just asked another gate agent and he told me 9 minutes.  This is crap.  Now, because of the stupidity of not only statistics of leaving on time, I'm forced to jump seat on a full flight or not get home at all because all remaining flights are booked solid!  Um, of course there were also 20 people that missed the flight because of the weather and their plane arriving later than scheduled.  Now, we're all stuck together hoping that we can get home tonight!  Thanks!  Oh yeah, and I'll have to start paying to "non-revenue" about 1.8 cents a mile + $5.00 a leg.  So, if I want to list for a flight, its going to cost me about $80 a week on top of my miserable salary.  I'm turning into the bitter pilot that I never wanted to be, but this industry in the United States does not take care of their own at all.  No wonder that a bunch of us rather go abroad where we are still part of those that people respect. On the same note, CNN just published an article about the Most Prestigious Jobs in the US.  They list that 50% of all Americans consider nurses as a prestigious career!  Way to chose babe!

Check it out!

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welcome

I made it...at least temporarily.  So far, I'm learning quite a bit on writing styles but its a start.  I should have jumped on the bandwagon a couple of years back, but its going to be a fun ride with this new venture.  Thanks to my honey for some proof reading!  Oh, and for you guys who didn't know what I've been posting about on my blog, it was for a writer's position on phonenews.com. 

Entry for Writer's Position

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Sprint's Future Not Clear at all

Sprints announcement at the beginning of the year to rollout Wi-Max technology and finance Clearwire's joint network venture is all coming to an end.  It was too good to be true after Gary Forsee, Sprint's CEO, resigned a couple weeks back as it was his baby and apparently a bastard at that.  Not having the confidence of the board alongside his idea of rolling out the first 4G network has brought down what many thought would be the wave of the future in wireless broadband computing.  Clearwire's future also seems to be more in the red after reporting a quarterly loss of $119.8 million (4 x its loss last year, same quarter).  So, if you've been waiting to buy a Wi-Max enabled phone on Sprint's network, you might as well hang on to your EV-DO rev.a for a while longer because who knows what the cellular phone companies are going to end up with as a replacement to day's 3G network.

Testing Windows Live Writer 1.0 (just newly out of beta)

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Well, this is the first time I'm going to try to use an offline blog writer and I happen to choose the new Windows Live Writer.  I'm doing this because the past experience that I have had with trying to cut and paste text from Microsoft Word 2007 onto an HTML text area produces unknown XHTML characters and I just felt that I could actively write while offline like for instance when I'm commuting back and forth from San Diego to Atlanta and back.  Let's just see how this works out.  (it didn't with blogger)

Gaming consoles and their owners

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I just found a "fun" article on kotaku.com who linked back to MSN Dating & Personals. It basically takes the three of the latest generation consoles (PS3, Wii, Xbox360) and categorizes their owners' personalities. It's almost spot on too! The Wii description is funny but I decided just to clip the excerpt from the PS3 component:

Q: What does a PlayStation reveal about a dude?

Arinoldo: The PlayStation 3 may indicate that the user is any "early-adopter," someone who likes to be the first on the block to have things. Owning the PS3 may also send the message that the person may have deep pockets.

Owen: This is your 21st-century individual who enjoys gaming and demands the best out of his experience--and probably his women. The PS3 guy enjoys life to its fullest. He is sophisticated, intelligent, enjoys competition and is willing to wait for a good thing. He is loyal as well.

Satterfield: This guy is in the know. He knows the right people, goes to the best restaurants and doesn't wait in line to get into the club. This guy will be difficult to keep up with, as he is always working. When he's not, he uses videogames as a chance to unwind and relax.

I guess that I can say that I'm glad I got a PS3! There's also a new firmware [official press release] which was just launched today dubbed 2.00 (November 8, 2007) which isn't that *boom* It's really disappointing that the Personal Video Recording feature hasn't been included just yet. It seems like PS3 and their Blu-Ray has a lot of catching up to do especially with this past weekends Toshiba $100 HD-DVD player blowout by Best Buy and Wal-Mart putting out 90,000 more proud owners and supporters out there.