10Jul
Had a great time at the BBQ today with Chris, Keivan and the whole gang..Hell, even got some Geocaching done while out there but the real adventure was getting out to the park in the first place!
First of all, I woke up at 8 just to get ready for Chris to pick me up at 9:30… I called him and promptly realized that it was only 8:30! I had set my alarm foward an hour while snoozing or something yesterday! lol. So he agrees to pick me up and we went to pick up his G/F from the car dealership. We get a phonecall that they forgot a few things for the BBQ… Water, Grill Brush, Spatula, etc… so we head out to get that stuff…A few more delays but we’re on our way…..
Just before Commack Road (on the Long Island Expressway) we notice Chris’s car making some foul noises. (We noticed it slightly earlier but it was getting much louder!)….Like a really nasty knocking in the engine…. We pulled off to the side and there was smoke coming out from under the hood and the car kept stalling…
We managed to get it into a parking lot and called K to come pick us up….
To make a long story short, we got back to Plainview and got another car and headed out to the BBQ. It was a lot of fun, and we got a tow truck in under a half hour when we went back for the car… Definitely an eventfull day.
Work again tomorrow 
Oh well….
09Jul
A friend of mine emailed me about a petition being put together to support the 11 people who died during last years Staten Island ferry crash. His cousin’s fiance’s first cousin was among those 11 people. Their families are protesting the decision to put the ferry back in service. If you’d like to help support their cause, go ahead and sign this petition
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06Jul
Fellow techies, We’ve all had THIS customer:
Your customer has computer problems so he cant use your service. Rather than refer him out to a PC repair shop (which is normal practice as you’re not a PC hardware/OS tech!) you offer to assist him in installing new hardware if he goes out and gets it. You offer to pay him back for the hardware and in addition, give him additional money back for the inconvenience….
… and he still has the nerve to yell at you that the customer service sucks and that I should be doing something for “the customer”
Isn’t Technical Support fun! lol
04Jul
The 4th was kinda bummin’ this year. Last night was cool. I worked the fireworks show at Point Lookout. Had a front row view of the fireworks show and got some great pictures of the event. (See below)
Tonight I BBQ’d with the family.. Just me mom and dad…. My cousing came over as I headed out to meet up with some friends and try to catch some more photos of the fireworks… Got kicked out of the first location I found to watch the fireworks in Eisenhower park (The top of the Source Mall parking lot)… Wound up on the parking garage at Roosevelt Field mall, but it wasn’t much better. Plus, there is a building that blocks the view of the park…. In fact, the park was directly behind this building and down a hill so we got just a small taste of the fireworks that went off there. I gave up at that point. Next year, I’d like to get to Jones Beach early and hang there all day. We did that a few years back and the show looks AWESOME when you’re that close…
Now some pics from yesterday. Warning, they’re all 640×480 (5 of em)
01Jul
So after Mini golf, I went to the diner with Jen and Charlie…. They’re hysterical. It seems whenever we go out to eat and have a female waitress, they tend to try to hook me up…
It also seems that these same nights are ones when I did not shave and just tossed on jeans and a T-shirt to go hang out.
Of course the napkin with my website, both phone numbers and the phrase, “You know you wanna cuz it’s cool!” is more likely to get me a call from the Police than the waitress 
Who knows. She was cute. lol
01Jul
It’s been a small week….Mini even! Yesterday and today I went mini-golfin! I’ve decided that I like the smaller, cheaper mini-golf course better than the big elaborate (and more expensive) one because it had more elaborate and creative courses…
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