I wrote this a long time ago but I feel it applies to my life right now and I wanted to post it again.

I saw this watch in midst of the recent trend in watchs for black and rose gold. But this one was wow that's cool. Too bad the price tag is not so cool. 

 

But for now, something that has made me laugh till it hurt. And I don't even know spanish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9227lDYhVKU

Well, just got settled for two days here in Anacapri, Italy. The view is spectacular and I've attempted to take as many photos as I can with Sharon's camera as I didn't bring mine for some crazy reason. But that's okay since everyone else brought cameras in various sizes and we're probably totally over 10,000 photos at least between everyone. I'll share when I can. =)

Hope everyone is well look forward to catching up when I get back to the US. Just have a 5 day stop in Dublin left. =)

Ciao!

Just thought I'd write a quick hello from Naples, Italy =)

Ciao!

So I'm at lunch with one of my coworkers and this group of seemingly normal middleaged people start filing into the resturant. They all introduced each other sort of in that I've talked to you on the phone but never met you in person sort of way. I thought it was a bit odd but I didn't think much of it. They all sat at this group table and this other guy shows up with a bag and pulls out a laptop and stacks of paper and a box of pens. Ah okay it's some lunch meeting no biggy. That's when everything got really funny.

Continuing with my lunch I notice out of the corner of my eye this guy is now over by the front of the resturant pulling business cards out of the fishbowl in the front. You know the one you drop your business card in to possibly get a free lunch etc? Yeah he's going through them like a deck of cards and PULLING SOME OUT! I'm thinking wow is this guy really fishing for contacts out of the fishbowl!?

So now I'm all curious what's going on. He starts into his little presentation with these people and he's over enunceating everything he's saying. And the rate of speech is very fast. The I want you to hear what I'm saying but I'll talk fast enough not to give you any time to think about what I've said found prodominately in used car salesmen, fanatics, and people who generally hussle people.

I catch a couple of statments this guy is throwing out like "...make sure to fill out a phone number which is most convienent and easiest to reach you on.", "...please make sure to check the box real quick in the middle of the page which saying you'd like a free consultation with a senior advisor, which is me, *chuckle* one on one at a later time.", "... lets thank Sandra for winning everyone a free lunch! *claps*..."

By this point me and my coworkers are just enjoying the floor show. As SOON as this guy gets everyone to fill out this sheet which probably has them give all the personal information you'd be hesitant to give to even your friends he thanks everyone, pays for a cheap lunch, and is off leaving the people to probably digest making a very bad mistake.

We finish our lunch and head back to the office and I put the name into google. With in 2 minutes on the first page I see this...

http://www.ameriprisesuck.com/

The part that gets me laughing the most.."Signup for a financial plan to help someone win a free happy hour!"

And to think my feeling of jumping up at lunch and saying "DON'T DO IT! IT'S A SCAM!" would have been the nice thing to do for these people =)

Seriously what defines genius? I mean yeah there's the whole mental age over actual age formulas. There's IQs, theres Mensa, etc etc. When someone busts out with crazy ideas/inventions one after another or figures out complex calculations that's just run of the mill smart.

Now you take some prison warden and put this together... that's what I call GENIUS^2! Seriously this man should run for ruler of the world. The US is lagging behind in inmate reform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

LMAO!

I broke down and got a Xbox 360. The graphics on video games these days are shockingly real. It's amazing how well you can tell a story and how real it sort of becomes versus just watching a movie or reading a book. There is definitely a sense of self while playing these games. I watched this developers trailer of a game called Fable2 coming out in the future and they talk about how they actually want to put the feelings of love into the game. How they created a dog in the game to respond and act to you much like a dog in real life would. As you play with it and feed it, the dog reacts to you more favorably.

It's very cool to see that various things in the game happen regardless of what you do and yet there is other things in the entire game that changes when you do things. I'm just glad my favorite comic of all time was made into a game and it's been pretty good so far =)

THE DARKNESS

So they say every 7 years your tastes change. I've noticed before that things I HATED when I was younger (Dr. Pepper, Celery, Sushi) all have made there way around and now are things I enjoy quite a bit. I was thinking this as I was eating raw celery without any dressing or anything here at my desk at work. I'm trying to figure out what the new change in what I might like or dislike will bring cause the 7 year change over should happen this year or next.

I've also noted alot of things not just food preferences have changed. Corduroy seems like a wearable fabric after all(I threw major tanrums at the age of 5 when force to wear it), asian/latin/exotic women seem alot prettier now as I never really though they were THAT attractive versus the more European ethnicity, music that is a bit more mellow versus beats that are all in your face, and cars that are more luxury/comfortable then just fast and tricked out.

So what sort of things did you dislike and now feel entirely differently about?

I figure its about time I start using this again. How's every doing? I'm going to have to see where I left off last time I posted.

I got a new hairstyle.