Yep that's right. I joined the iPhone cult and drank the delicious kool-aid. Isn't it pretty? The app store is brilliant and I've already loaded a bunch of them on to my phone.
So work has sent me to Tech Data's Apple Partner Summit. I spent last night and all day today playing salesman and talking with representatives from companies like Parallels, EMC, LaCie, even Microsoft and HP. It's been really interesting, especially dinner tonight at a restaurant called Riva on Navy Pier. Chicago is a beautiful city, from what I've seen and I'd really like to come back sometime and actually play tourist. I don't know if I'm even going to be able to get a slice of deep dish since I leave tomorrow afternoon!
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Been a while since an update here, and I've hit a lull at work so I figured I'd make an entry.
Summer has begun here in Jersey and I've been enjoying my apartment despite having no money to enjoy much of anything else. There have been some fun things that happened in the past week or so, though.
2 Fridays ago (the 13th, spooky) Cesco and I went into NYC to meet up with some friends, Rachel and Shawn. Rachel lives in Queens and the two of us have become fast friends due to our mutual love of all things Idol and other reality TV. Plus she follows the news and can actually have political conversations! Shawn is from Oklahoma and is Rachel's best friend, the two of them together crack me up. Cesco has been an enormous help to Shawn in terms of coming out and adjusting to life as an Oklahomo, they've all been friends for almost 5 years. Shawn works as a middle school teacher back home and he says he's going to start working on a Master's soon.
Anyway, the 4 of us went to the Museum of Modern Art since it's free from 4pm to 8pm on Fridays. After perusing the museum and spending way too much time making a video in Rach & Shawn's series of impressions of the SNL "Two A-Holes" we jumped on the subway and went downtown to a restaurant in Chelsea called VYNL. There we met up with some other friends.
The restaurant was having a "Friday the 13th" themed night where all the waiters wore "blood" (ketchup, but will get back to that later) stained tee shirts and the host wore a Jason-esque hockey mask. They played the movie on a screen in the restaurant, but everyone was too busy staring at all the waiters. They were, for a lack of words, smokin'. Turns out Rach picked this restaurant specifically because of the reputation they had for a young, hot and male waitstaff. After someone at the table requested some ketchup from out waiter, I quickly cracked a joke that they could take some from his shirt. Without missing a beat, Matt (the waiter) grabbed the right side of his chest and squeezed, as if he was going to lactate ketchup for the table. It was, perhaps, the highlight of the dinner. I haven't even talked about the Justin Timberlake themed bathroom or the fact we ate off of a mosaic representation of Ms. Liza.
After dinner we walked a bit til we got to our final destination of the evening. It was the four of us plus Anghus from dinner, Will and his man were sadly otherwise engaged for the evening. The place was called Karaoke one 7. It was a bar with 9 private rooms that each had their own karaoke machine, that had hundreds of thousands of songs pre-loaded onto the machine. You simply found the code in the piles of books they had, punched it into the keypad and got ready to rock. Rachel and Shawn had the most fun, they had been planning choreographed routines all week and the results were pretty hysterical. The room cost $40 an hour split 5 ways, and the drinks were pretty outrageously priced, so I only had 2. We all sang a few songs, laughed at Mariah Carey's amazing downfall as a songwriter and had an incredible amount of fun. I can't recommend the place strongly enough.
This past weekend I got to see Kim, Xander, Chris & Dave along with some other familliar faces at the BBQ that Kim had in Johnson Park of New Brunswick. There was food, music, frisbee, a pathetic attempt at wiffle ball and pyromania of course. After the sun started setting, we packed it up and headed for Kim & Xander's new apartment in NB and had some fun playing Wii. I owned at Wii bowling, with a record score of 235. 5 Strikes in a row, plus 2 others.
I also started re-watching Arrested Development over the weekend, since Derek kept IMing me with quotes and scenes. I miss this show so badly.
Narrator: Tobias listens to a day's worth of his own words, to see what Michael was referring to...
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] ... even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.
Tobias Fünke: Nothing wrong with that.
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] Oh, I've been in the film business for a while, but I just can't seem to get one in the can.
Tobias Fünke: It's out of context.
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] I wouldn't mind kissing that man between the cheeks.
Narrator: ...and he realized there is something distinct about the way he speaks.
Tobias Fünke: Tobias, you blowhard.
[chuckles]
By the way, the title of this post doesn't mean anything, it just happens to be the song playing on my iPod right now and I dig it. It's on the LOST Season 2 soundtrack, by Michael Giacchino.
THE UNDERDOG
Picture yourself in a living room
Your pipe and slippers set out for you
I know you think that it ain’t too far
But I hear a call of a lifetime ring
Felt the need to get up for it
And cut out the middle man
Get free from the middle man
You got no time for the messenger
Got no regard for the thing that you don’t understand
You got no fear of the underdog
That’s why you will not survive
I wanna forget how convention fits
But can I get out from under it
Can I cut it out of me
It can’t all be wedding cake
It can’t all be boiled away
I try but I can’t let go of it
Can’t let go of it, nuh uh
Cause you don’t talk to the waterboy
And there’s so much you could learn but you don’t want to know
You will not back up an inch ever
That’s why you will not survive
YEAH
The thing that I tell you now
It may not go over well
It may not be photo op
The way that I spell it out
But you won’t hear from the messenger
Don’t wanna know ‘bout some thing that you don’t understand
You got no fear of the underdog
That’s why you will not survive
Right!
Had a nice relaxing weekend now that I'm finally all moved in to the apt. Saw Indy over the weekend; it was a lot of fun but it wasn't as good as Raiders or Temple. Came back down to Middletown today to go out on the boat for the afternoon. It's been a beautiful day out here on the water. I attached a picture.
First, there was THIS...