OK, so I caved in and did one!

I love my wife!

2005-01-25T22:46:00.000-08:00

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Mo

I guess I'm windex....

2005-01-19T18:15:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I'm sitting in the bar in a restaurant and do this funny survey thing that was on Magn's blog and it comes up and says I'm windex... the funniest part is when I read the first line, I thought it said "You are a freak" and I laughed out loud! This kind of applies to me, like the middle part, but not the top... I guess or something... I don't know, thoughts are too unorganized!

You are Windex.

You are a neat freak. Quite plain and simple. If you walk into an unorganized area, you go insane. Most of your free time is spent cleaning and organizing, when you aren't having fun with you friends. Even though many are annoyed by your constant organizing, some see it as a quality of neatness, and that is something most people envy about you. The opposite sex sees you as clean-cut and pure, though you are too shy to express your true feelings for them. You keep a list of goals and priorities in your life, and in almost all cases, accomplish them. You are the over-acheiver, most intelligent in your class, and strive to do all that is in your ability. Some people may try to take advantage of you, however, so don't let them make you clean up their messes. "Just put some Windex."

Most compatible with: Toothbrush.

mo

THIS WON'T BE A BAD TRIP

2004-12-27T01:06:00.000-08:00

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Do you catch the theme here?

I just hit LA again, last week of this install and it's already been insane.

First of all, I thought I lost my visa card, I was fairly insane, because without it, you can't travel. I feel sooooo bad for magn, because I was kinda crazy... grrrr

Then, I finally get to LA, and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for my luggage (my wonderful incredible new luggage that my mom gave me for Christmas) and it never shows. So after I wait and wait and wait and wait and wait some more, they tell me it never left Medford.

This will not be a bad trip. Please pray for me that this trip ends as great as the first two weeks started!

I just got to my room and its 1 a.m.

must sleep! Hope my bags get here.

mo

fun fun fun!

2004-12-15T23:57:00.000-08:00

Wow, I think I've had more fun on this trip than I have on any other. I went to the Clippers game on Monday, slept 11 hours last night (that was fun!) and then I went into LA and had a great dinner and went to a show with my sister.

Usually when I travel I don't go out and do a lot, because I'm beat or whatever... but it's been cool going and doing things here. I REALLY wish Meagan was here with me. I isn't the same going out and having fun without her. I feel kinda guilty going out and having so much fun without her, but I think she's happy for me.

We went to a dance thing at the Henry Fonda theater on Hollywood Blvd. I think the coolest thing about traveling is going to all sorts of places that I've only heard about...

I gotta stop typing, I'm falling asleep!

mike

Clippers!

2004-12-13T18:04:00.000-08:00

I had such an awesome day, and now I'm off to a LA Clippers game! My first NBA game... and the company is paying!

Mo

should be sleeping

2004-12-13T01:02:00.000-08:00

I actually made it to LA... LAX is the nastiest airport I've been to. But I have a great hotel!

It's 1 a.m. and I have a HUGE meeting tomorrow at 7 a.m.

I don't quite know why I'm not in bed. Except that I'm really psyched about this meeting and this install. This might sound lame, but to me it's almost like sports, I get all jacked up, and totally into it and just want to go in and kick butt! It's probably all pride, but I really want to go in and make this a perfect install, when no one else has been able to work with this dealer group.

This group actually made my bosses boss actually cry during a meeting. This is such a big opportunity, pray for me!

OK, off to bed...

mo

Off to LA

2004-12-12T17:45:00.000-08:00

Well, once again I'm back in the airport... actually sitting in the same seat that I was in two weeks ago when my flight was cancelled. There's no fog tonigt!

Wow, what a short weekend. Had good time with magn, but never enough! My whole focus on this trip is to kick ass because if it goes as amazingly as I know it will, then it will put me on a track for very good things at ADP. As well as the fact that doing well at ADP will do very good things for both Meagan and I.

We've had nothing but problems with this group that we're installing, but I did some good work with the main guy at the store this afternoon, and I think it set a good precedent for the 3 weeks to come.

We had a great party last night! I was really tired, so not quite as entertaining as I might usually be, but it was a lot of fun!

I'm going to see my sister this week... I'm excited, sort of. It's kind of weird because she's very trendy, and very cool, and I'm just me (which is a very good thing!). Plus she has recently (over the last few months) kind of come out of the closet and told me about her relationship with her friend Betsy.

She thinks that I think she's condemned to hell for that... but she isn't any more than I am for pride or any of the other thousands of sins I've done.

I hope that it's giong to be a good time with her. I won't meet Betsy until next week, I actually look forward to meeting her.

I'm not very excited about going to LA... I REALLY don't like Southern California, and have everything I can to avoid going there. But oh well, it'll be good.

Well, 15 minutes 'til my flight so I better go.

Mo

soooooo tired!

2004-12-09T07:54:00.000-08:00

I'm really tired, but I'm sooooooo happy becauuse I'm going to be home tomorrow! I can't write much, it's 7:55 a.m. and I have to meet the rest of the team downstairs in 35 minutes. I'm still wearing shorts and a sweatshirt... I don't want to work today.

No more 12 day trips.

Get to see Magn and the fish and the turtle tomorrow night. That is a very good thing!

Have a great day today!

Mike

all jacked-up

2004-12-07T19:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I'm finally like really excited about my new job... today was the first day that I really felt like I worked a full day. We were training and working with people, and they were getting it, and getting into it, and it was sooooo cool!

I'm also excited about next week. We're going to be at a dealership in LA, and the people who have worked with this dealer group before me have had nothing but problems. I'm Kinda sick/crazy, but I look at it as the total complete opportunity to go in and have this be the first install we've had with this group that hasn't turned into a disaster.

I love situations like that. Not that I want to show-up the people that installed before me, but I'm human and I'm more competitive than most and I'll soooo bust my ass to make sure that everything goes as perfect as possible there.

At the same time, I'm ready to be home. I've been gone for too many days straight, I left Nov. 28 I think, and I miss my wife, and my fish and my turtle and my chair and my coffee and my house and my bed and my tiny bathroom (with the "Men" sign) and my town and especially my wife!

But at the same time, I'm soooo grateful that Meagan is so supportive of my career. There's benefits for both of us in me moving up with ADP, but my life with her comes first and if she ever told me she couldn't handle me traveling so much, I'd stop.

OK, writing too much, getting too sappy.... gotta sleep. I haven't slept well at all since I've been in Kentucky, so I'm going to bed now!

Mike

shamed into blogging!

2004-12-06T07:07:00.000-08:00

Alright, so it isn't quite that bad, but I feel bad that Meagan has checked my blog so many times and I haven't posted anything.

Like Meagan said, I've been fairly stranded in Kentucky since Friday with nothing to do. So I watched a lot of football, drove around downtown Lexington, walked around the University of Kentucky and ate at applebee's way too much!

But finally it's Monday morning and I get to work today! Yeah, I said "get" to work... I'm kinda sick like that. But I do really love my work, and it should be really busy this week.

I'm going to be in LA for 3 weeks starting the week of the 13th... I'm not really looking forward to that. First, I don't like being in California at all... and then the store that I'm going to be at has been nothing but a problem, so that will be a challange. They've actually been abusive toward other people on my team that have been there. I'm kind of surpriised we're still working with them. But my plan is to actually try and make a positive difference there. And if that doesn't work, then to just survive!

Well, enough blogging for now, gotta look at work emails.

I miss my wife and Poco and Madeline!

mike

beer, broncos and first class

2004-11-28T20:00:00.000-08:00

Alright, so other than the great drive up to Portland with Crawford, my day/night is getting better.

I checked in for my flight, and got bumped to first class! That is such a bonus. I'll actually be comfortable for my 4 1/2 hours on the plane! Add to that, I found a decent place to have a beer, and they're playing the Broncos vs. raiders game (yes, I did mean to not capitalize the "R" in raiders, because they don't deserve that kind of honor of a capital letter!).

I'm glad I'm not going to Denver... it's snowing hard there. All I have to deal with in Houston is thunderstorms and tornados!

I've had a lot of coffee today, and am pretty wired... I figure that a beer or two will help cut the coffee and give me a chance of getting some sleep on the plane.

I talked to my mom on the phone, I didn't go to her house for Thanksgiving... she was actually pretty happy and OK with it... I guess she felt bad for my travel craziness.

Well back to the football game!

4 hours left!!!

panda express lemonade

2004-11-28T18:04:00.000-08:00

So my first blog that I wrote at the Medford airport actually posted... I didn't think it did. I guess that I'll write the continuation of my saga of trying to get to Houston.

So at about 8:30, it was still foggy in medford, they announced that the plane had been circling overhead until it got low on fuel and had to divert to Klamath. I don't know what would be better, to run out of gas and crash land in Medford in the fog, or to go to Klamath... it's a toss-up.

About 20 minutes later they came on and said that my flight was cancelled. So now it was 9:00 a.m. and I had a connecting flight to Houston at 12:10, so I was fairly out of luck. My only choices were; 1) ride the bus that AlaskaAir was providing to Portland, 2) Drive myself to Portland and park my car for 12 days here, or 3) See if Katie Crawford (mine and meagan's friend) had left to drive back to Portland. Oh, and I also had to get a flight sometime out of Portland.

After a quick call to Meagan and 30 minutes on the phone with Continental, I got a flight at midnight, and a ride with Katie to Portland! I did have like 3 offers while I was in line waiting for my luggage to share a ride to Portland, but I'm kind of happy I didn't have to do that, it would have been weird.

So Katie and I had a nice 5 hour drive to Portland... we talked almost the whole way. Talked about work, friends, God, family, the Dots (aka the dorkadots) diesel vs. gas... that's about it! But it was a lot of fun (as much fun as a 5 hour drive with someone other than Meagan could be!).

So now it's 6 p.m., and I'm sitting in Panda Express at the Portland Airport, drinking Lemonade and borrowing their power to plug my laptop into! Only 5 hours and 58 minutes to go. I think I'm going to buy a book, it's called The Rule of Four. Sounds very cool, kind of analytical... hope it doesn't turn into the same trash that Davinci's Code was (that was the only book I've ever thrown away, and I'm proud to say that!).

Anyway, enough rambling for now. Meagan should be happy that I have a blog now. Maybe she'll send it to her friends!

5 hours and 56 minutes to go!

waiting waiting waiting

2004-11-28T07:58:00.000-08:00

Alright, so I'm going to spend some of my wonderful free time writing and see what happens.

Right now, I'm sitting in Medford airport, watching the fog get thicker, and kind of hoping my flight gets out of here, and kind of hoping it doesn't... I don't know, I'm split on the idea! If it gets out of here, I'll spend the next week in Houston, and the weekend and the following week in Lexington, KY. If it doesn't get out of here, then I'll have to scramble and decide if I want to drive to Portland to try and get a connecting flight to Houston or what.

They already cancelled the LA flight for this morning, and told everyone that there probably wouldn't be any flights out with seats available until Tuesday. There were some really pissed people... this one guy was angry with the airlines on the phone, but what can they do about it?

It never fails that you meet someone at the airport that is in the same exact situation as you are, but they have to tell you all about it. "My flight is delayed, I might not get out 'til Wednesday, I don't know what I'm going to do...". Maybe they just need a blog to write on!

I guess that since I'm getting paid to sit and wait, it doesn't really matter to me too much!

But I did meet a nice guy from Eagle Point sitting at the gate that I talked to a little bit.

Its still foggy...

Meagan is going to be soooo excited that I'm writing on my blog. I love having a wireless card, so that I can get online anywhere (I'm a geek)!

I just ran out of things to say. So I'll make Meagan's day and actually publish this!