I know I'm going to jinx it, but I couldn't resist! 3pm and NOT ONE INTERNAL CALL AT WORK!!!! This may be the best day of my life! I feel like getting some take out and doing it twice!!! I do realize though that the day ends at 5 and not 3 and something will surely ruin my day in the next two hours. That's why I'm posting now while I still can! It feels soo good to not be bothered. And my desk is sooo clean! Not to mention I've caught up on paperwork and we're getting two seperate people coming in tomorrow! This may be the best day ever!!!

It's Friday!!! Nobody else has been fired...although I heard it was politics that got the last HR manager removed from here. She wanted to make a change, the GM didn't like it so she left. Ahh well...she had her run here, and now it's over.

Heading out to the Keg tonight for my brother's birthday...mMMMm...steak!!! Then maybe some more poker or drinking...or both!

Played Dark Phoenix in Madden 2005 last night. All I'll say about the game is he did play like a phoenix franchise. Hehe, 1-18 passing with 3 ints!!! My defence caught more of his QB's passes than his offence did! I'll post the game stats once they get e-mailed to me. Anybody wanna challenge the king of madden?!? Final score was 26-7. His only points came off a Joey Harrington fumble returned for a touchdown. I went for two once and had a wide open fullback drop the ball (Harrington was under pressure) and booted two field goals. I also returned one of McNabb's passes all the way!

*UPDATE*

As promised...here are the game stats!

Here are the official results of your Madden NFL 2005 game on 2005.1.28

3:03:08.



Mode: Ranked

Qtr Length: 4 minutes

Difficulty: All-Pro

Opponent: DrKFeniX

Rank: 100001



Score breakdown:



                                 1    2    3    4   OT    F

StuGautzz (Lions)                 0    6    6   14    0   26

DrKFeniX (Eagles)                 0    0    7    0    0    7



Statistics                  StuGautzz         DrKFeniX       

Rushing attempts for                 14               7

Rushing yards for                    78              31

Passing attempts for                 27              18

Passing yards for                   145              11

Punts                                 3               4

Field goals for                       2               0

Long field goals (40+) for            1               0

Rushing touchdowns for                2               0

Passing touchdowns for                0               0

Returns touchdowns for                0               0

Defensive touchdowns for              1               1

Turnovers for                         3               1

Interceptions for                     3               0

Sacks for                             1               6

Number of third downs                 9               7

Third down conversions                4               0

No-huddle plays                       1               0

Audibles called                       7               0

Hot routes used                      10               0

Shotgun plays                        16               0

Blitzes                               5              19

Time of possession                10:53            5:07

2-point conversions tried             0               0

2-point conversions succeeded         0               0

Red zone field goals                  2               0

Red zone touchdowns                   2               0

Red zone opportunities                4               0

First downs                          14               3

First down yards                    137              41

Special teams yards                  18              95

Punt return yards                     0              13

Punt yards                          117             193

Penalties                             0               2

Penalty yards                         0              32

First down rushing plays              6               5

First down passing plays             16               6

Second down rushing plays             7               1

Second down passing plays             9               7

Third down rushing plays              1               1

Third down passing plays              8               6

Fourth down rushing plays             0               0

Fourth down passing plays             0               0

Passes completed                     17               1

Fumbles                               2               0

Fumbles recovered                     0               1

Possessions                          15              14

Third downs, 3 or less yards          3               2

 Successes                           1               0

Third downs, 4 to 9 yards             3               2

 Successes                           2               0

Third downs, 10 or more yards         3               3

 Successes                           1               0

Hurries                               6               5

Knockdowns                            5               1

Passes deflected                      8               5

Passes tipped                         0               0

Offensive yards                     223              42

Total yards                         241             137

Return yards                         18              82

Total touchdowns                      3               1

Here's a kick in the nuts for you: Brushing my teeth this morning. Feeling good that I'll be leaving 10 minutes earlier than normal to battle traffic. When all of a sudden I hear Mr. Plow come by not once...but twice!!! Grrr...and for insult to injury he was on my side of the street first (so I got the bulk of the snow). Well...I attempt to move the pole blaster (which packs on the focus side of the driveway) out of my path so I can release the focus into the wild. Pole blaster goes down the driveway and comes to a nice rest along Mr. Plow's snow work. Grr...the focus is going to be super fucked. Now pole blaster up....nope. It doesn't want to go up the driveway. Back and forth...back and forth...back and forth. Eventually I get it up and the way is cleared for the Focus! Focus down and through the snowbank without a problem at all!!! Man I was shocked....yup...i continued on all the way down to the curb right across the street from me! Well...nothing was damaged so all is good! BUT I HATE YOU MR. PLOW!

Easy come, easy go. Yup, that describes our HR managers. We had 2 full time HR managers leave us last year. Took us 6 months to find a replacement, and she lasts about a month and a half. Wow...what is it about this place that makes people go crazy??? Yup...I definetly need to go somewhere else. But I can't get a transfer for another 6 months. Grrr....maybe I'll find something better in that time!

Kids I'm moving to California!

Hmm...seems the recall may be our fault after all! Still haven't had any new job offers yet...but I'm not quite ready to jump ship either. Meh whatever, I just won't work as hard. Played poker on Saturday (not much else to do when you're snowed in). Despite my attempts to recruit crew members to play...nobody accepted my challenge. But back to poker...I had a great night. We played $10 N/L hold'em tournaments. For those of you that don't know we all put $10 into the pot and each get 50 chips. The one with all the chips at the end of the tournament gets the pot. Saturday we had 6 people...so you would get a $50 profit if you won.

I started out by playing really tight...raising in hands that I obviously had something (and doing nothing to hide the fact). Slowly though...I snuck in a few bluffs but stuck with my strategy. Ended up $50 for the night!!! I won one tournament outright...then made a couple deals another three, and lost the last two. We had about 6 players for two games and 4 for the other 4. It was a good Saturday night!

Anybody hiring for network support? One day after telling my (un)loyal readers that we aren't allowed to buy new PC's until May, I find out the company may get dinged for a recall. Now, while I won't go into details (because I've probably already let you know too much as it is) all I can say is it's time to start handing out resume's because I seriously believe this company is fucked. Second thought...I don't want to be known as somebody that abandons the ship while it's sinking...I probably could get a lot more credibility if I stay on the sinking ship and drown (after all this is a quality/production issue, not related in any way to IT...until they can find something to blame us for...then it'll be our fault).

So that's been my day today. Finding out this great news...well thankfully the parent company has a lot of money and I'm not hated by those in the corporate office (at least I hope I'm not) so I'm gonna stay put.

Just a quick update. I should really be getting home from work. I thought I"d be cool and use an old KVM instead of buying a new one. Well the old one sucks because none of the cables are tied together (think 3 wires for each computer...it's getting messy). Man I gotta let a big fart rip...blogging with your boss in the office...have I sunk to a brand new low? The answer is no. Being late 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour and 20 minutes on consecutive days is a bad thing, but hey at least I'm up for my review later this month. One of the hot financial analysts from corporate was in today...she remembered me and asked me what I was still doing here. I told her...another few months and then I want to be transfered somewhere closer to home. At least I've got a legitmate reason for asking to be transfered.

That's about it...except one more thing: We've got $80,000 in our budget and can't touch any of it (unless production is stopped) until May!

New Years Resolution:

Be early or on time for everything.

Days resolution lasted (excluding work because that was broken on January 3rd): 8

Alright people, I'm really going to try and be on time for everything now! It's my new years resolution and I plan to getting rid of this habit of being late for everything. See my problem is I try to track things down to the exact minute (see control freak) and there's always something that delays me. So from here on in, I'm going to aim to be everywhere 15 minutes early (exculding work).

That's my resolution and I'm sticking with it!

I know I've been slacking lately with my updates, but so what? That's why it's MY site and not yours!!!! Was up until 4:30 am last night playing Madden. Damm that rushing attack is addictive...I think the final score was 25-14 or something like that for me over the hairy greek. Tons of fun!!!

I went sking last weekend at Blue Mountain. I gotta go again, it was the first time in my life I was ever on ski's and I had a blast doing it! Best part of all was I didn't break anything!!! I think that's the most shocking part.

Poker room opens up in Niagara in 2 days! They better have a good room there. Sure I'm not expecting something like Binions or the Bellagio's poker room, but something like the one in the Luxor would be good enough for me. If anybody has been to the one at the Bellagio you know what I mean, it's simply MASSIVE! Binions has a great poker room as well, but that because they have great people and tons of history there.

Damm, that reminds me, I haven't played poker in 6 days!!!