Insane & Cool

So, not much time to write this weekend. I didn't get any quality time with my laptop, which I'm supposed to pay today.

Let's get started with the reason for this entry. Last week was super funny, and I know I have to write it down, 'cause that's what I said I would do with this blog! Here goes.

Tuesday (I swear that's when the week started) this buddy from the dojang phoned asking me to play wingman in a bar he was going to with a friend's girlfriend. So, after I left some undone work in the office (if work got finished, the company would have to close, right?), I got to the bar. My buddy, the girl (Sandra) and her friend (Rita) had already drunk some beers, so I tried to catch up. I started a little campei game, which ended up being a solo game, 'cause the girls wouldn't drink the whole bottle. However, it had a very interesting effect: According to the girls, I started getting funnier! No matter what I said (I really can't remember what was I talking about) they would laugh at it. And suddenly, the best thing of the week happened, the one thing that made aaaall the bugs from work not matter, what made me forget about how sad I feel about Seinfeld's last episode, the one thing that makes Darth Vader's-birth's lameness irrelevant happened, Sandra said in a really funny voice: I'm laughing 'cause you're like SO cute! I have no idea what I had said, but that I remember!! There you have it, I always knew it. I've been telling it to girls for decades, and they wouldn't believe me, but it's true! Yay for drunken-me!! Which also proves how easy it can be for girls to manipulate me.

Well, then, Rita said she had to go home. She had to study or something. I think maybe she was scared that I campei'ed like 4-5 beers, and I was driving. I DID drive over a corner, but no big deal, I do that even sober. So, when we got to the next spot, I ate something, and settled down to not campei'ing my drinks.

Now, this I remember, Sandra wanted to dance. So, as I can never say no to a pretty girl, I HAD to dance (you know I hate it, but with the "So cute" line, I would have danced on the stage), but it was cool. I must have been drunk without noticing, 'cause she kept laughing.

Then, another super cool thing happened, this friend of hers arrived, and like to get him angry or something, Sandra started dancing with me and my buddy, leaving the dude standing on a corner!! You know I love making people mad. This guy looked really pissed. Too bad I had to get back home to go to work. Seriously, I got to stop doing that. Well, this one is pretty long already, so we'll leave dancing with that other girl and almost crashing my car for the next one. GREAT FREAKING WEEK!!

Penny-Less Odd-Month has ended!!

Well, following something I read from "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", I haven't paid for my car this month. It's their fault for having closed their only bank that was close to where I'm working now. The funny thing is that I do think I can move now.

Seriously, I now don't think you can add and rest numbers and come up with how much money you have. Money is not like that. It really doesn't exist. The more you calculate, the least you have. So, how can you even buy food? I actually bought my food on credit this month. (Sadly) I didn't to the Daddy Yankee concert, and still owe the laptop payment. What's really weird is that the more time I let pass, the more comfortable I feel with it (maybe I'll end up in jail). By the way, someone still owes me money, so she's buying me a new jacket, and still end up owing me!!

I'll pay the car, but that'll be a "long lunch", 'cause those guys are kinda far away, the laptop will get paid soon, but it's also a bit complicated. My buddy who has to design the screens for a software is not sending them. He says I'm not working on the project, only because I don't phone him... I wonder what has one thing to do with the other.

FeelinG NostRadAmicus

Nope, it's not like I pretend to know what's going to happen in the next 200 years, or anything like that.

I just think it's funny how things in my work DO happen the way I think they're gonna happen. Funnily, my biggest mistake yet has been the date for when they fire me... Well, it must be getting closer, who cares.

Point is, man, in college we saw this case like 6 times, if not more. When you get a design with repeated buttons (2 birthdate buttons for the same person?), missing "required" buttons (your customer SHOULD have an address, right?), and even some missing forms; you HAVE to know your project won't make it on time. Specially when TODAY they tell you how to calculate some "crucial" data. Of course, just paying attention to the 5-minute-who-did-this-thing design, one realizes the customer has no idea what he wants (actually it's a bunch of people), or someone just put in what they though was necessary without any real analysis. So, of course, now it's off-schedule, off-budget, and it should be ready two weeks ago. HHHmmmmm... that time-machine I was working on would make billions if it wasn't a huge pile of crap...

Well, lets hope one or two of you learn from someone else's mistake. If the design is obviously a half-done work, you'll end up with a half-done project. Being positive can really get you places in life, but you also should put some action into it, like, say, do your job, find out what the customer will need, and design forms that allow them to retrieve THAT data...