Well, work at verizon is getting more and more boring. I have, on average, 3 conference calls a day.
Let me explain what these calls are like.

• Call 1: 9:00am - "Hey everyone! What are your plans for today and what got done last night? "
  
• Call 2: 11:00am - "Hey everyone! What have you done since the 9am call?"
  
• Call 3: 5pm - "Hey everyone! What has been done since 11am? What are you doing tomorrow?"

On average, these calls go from 30 minutes to an hour. That's usually 2 hours of my day gone. That's 1/4 of my day, every day, consumed by stupid phone calls. On these calls, generally there are 16-20 people and only 4 programmers.

I don't hate them, it's free time for me to not work. It's like a 25% of a sick day, every day!
But Verizon needs to learn to organize their people and time better.

::Car::

I got a car! It makes me happy!

It's a 1992 Dodge Stealth!

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Well, it seems I'm always busy...

These past two weeks have been crazy! I've been working on stuff I never thought I'd be able to! Needless to say, x-pound isn't getting the love it needs to stay a current project. That is way I'm just going to give you all the link now. That way you'll whine to me and tell me to make it have this feature, or work on this browser. Because with the work I'm currently doing, I don't have time to devote to thinking up more stuff to add to it!

http://www.x-pound.com/

I guess I should take a little time to explain what has happened. I was taken out to lunch last week by a friend of mine. He came to me with a really great idea! After I talked to him a little, and told him how we could implement it, I went home and started researching. I didn't start coding until Sunday afternoon. By that evening I had a mockup that worked on our intranet, but not the internet.

I've done work for this friend before in the past and I really love his projects. They are usually fast and fun (one day turn around time). As development continues, I keep getting more excited! It hasn't even been a week yet, and I have actual applications with shape and fluidity!

Verizon is still paying the bills (the other job is just for fun for now) and my boss has switched me over to another team who deals with data mining (I go to college to be a miner? I hope I don't get the black lung *cough*)

Woot stinks, so it's off to bed for me.

Well, I've been working for about a month now at Verizon.
I think I'm beginning to understand this new life. I've been learning faster than before (when I started college).

Verizon work is fun! I get to play all day with code and stuff! I'm a CDI Software Application Developer/Analyst (I'm not making that up, it's my real title!). Basically, I work all day on fun webstuff! AND THEY PAY ME TO DO IT!
Oh man! If they only knew I was doing it for free before!

I feel a little weird. I've been complaining to my friends and family about this code that I've been altering this past week. It's been a real pain since it was written by someone who doesn't know javascript very well at all. Anyway, I found out today that the girl who wrote it quit this week! I'm not sure if it was because I'm basically re-writing all her code because it was ugly or not. I hope she gets a good job somewhere where she can do what she loves (and I hope it doesn't involve javascript )

I've been thinking a lot about single life. I have decided that I like it! I really do like being single! I can hang out with my parents, my sister and brother-in-law! I recently have been getting to know my brother ben a lot more. Life really is good here in Double Oak, Texas! God has been so good to me and I love this!

Oh! Also, I get to talk to all my friends from college and laugh at them when they tell me that the have exams! It's AWESOME! I'm such a great friend!

Well, I better go. I'm going to talk more about x-pound when I work a few more of the bugs out.