Today...

[Furah]

Managed to close a car door while my girlfriend's hand was still in the frame, spent the night in hospital in A&E, which has meant a fun few days of irregular sleep since I was up so late. Really need to force myself into a regular, 24-hour day sleeping pattern.

 

Had a guy come into the office I work at during lunch hour. I was the only one in the front so I had to deal with him. He was shirtless, wearing bright blue basketball shorts and "looking for a job". He started pacing around looking at the front desks. Goes from asking for a job to asking for a referral. When he finally decided to leave, he grabbed a handful of candy, started to walk out, turned around and hit the service bell multiple times like a child, then left.

 

He could have been a "Mystery Shopper", ya know, to test your customer service skills and report back to the company heads.

 

I work as a mystery shopper, they do not do that. In fact you're told to not draw attention to yourself and act like a regular customer. Plus no way would "a handful of candy" qualify for their purchase requirement.

 

 

 

Well I won't be going to gas stations for a while, a quarter of a tank of gas in my echo lasts more than a week and the tank is busted so I can't put more than 3/4 without having gas leaking. Guess I'll have to wait until it flashes everytime before putting gas.

 

My friend left my fuel cap at a station when he was fuelling up my car since I was driving him around that day. So now until he buys me a replacement I can't fuel up past 1/2 a tank. Then on the weekend I had car problems so I got my dad to look at it to see if I need to take it a mechanics, and he ended up fuelling up the tank completely. Going to waste a lot of petrol. Plus if I have any more problems I'll need to take it in to a mechanic.

[Skull]

Decided to try to get some old friends together to hang out after a discussion my mom and I had a while ago. I'm never the one who plans things and I haven't seen or talked to some of these people since the end of high school so we'll see how it goes. A few people have responded so far so I'm definitely hopeful that it works out. I don't see any old friendships really being rekindled from this but I figured it would be worth a try.

 

Other than that, I've been chilling up here in New Hampshire, taking it really easy. I went on a pretty short hike today, which showed me how out of shape I am and/or how much smoking has affected my endurance. I really have to cut that shit out (I say after coming back in from a smoke). In my defense though, despite being a ~1 mile summit, it was pretty steep and rocky. Made it up in about 15-20 minutes which is good time, I was just out of breath and my heart was racing. I'm going to consider starting to run, since my cousin has been doing it every day and telling me about it. Granted she had the benefit of getting into the routine in Northern California where it's always beautiful. But I've honestly been considering trying to get into shape to eventually run a marathon just to say I did it. At the very least I want to be able to comfortably and quickly run a 5k.

 

So yeah, that was more or less my day. Went to dinner with my grandparents, power-washed a canoe and moved some downed branches/trees. I think I'm going car shopping with my cousin, aunt and uncle tomorrow. I will continue to drop hints that I'm willing to drive a car to her in California if they see one here that they like for her. Because I want to go on a road trip and that's a good way to finance it.

[Tim]

I always assumed mystery shoppers was a sort of scam thing where you practically get paid shit-all, also I applied for a trainee-manager job(s) that Ryan/Furah told me about so hopefully if I get that, my life will be back on track.

 

Aside from that, things have been hell here more then the first time my sister/fiancee lived here. my Niece steals and hides stuff, and those two scream and argue EVERYTIME to the point where me and the dog hide in my room with loud music to drown it out. I honestly thought they'd stab each other today the way it was going.

[unkn0wnwarrior]

Woke up this morning to the joyous sounds of my neighbours yelling at each other, despite neither one being angry with the other. Judging by what I overheard, they were just loudly agreeing that a third member of the neighbourhood was intolerable and followed it up with some name-calling of the variety I would rather not repeat. It wasn't even the ones from next door yelling, but rather the ones from 4 doors down. Apparently the back yard is ideal for yelling now.

 

Today more than ever, I regret moving back into the city.

 

And my mom was offered the chance to be a mystery shopper once. She never answered them, though. I would probably do it once, just to see what it's like.

[Distracted]

Another peak in guests, it seems. I wonder what triggers that stuff.

 

Anyway, had my first day of work this summer yesterday. I'm back at McDonald's except this year I'll be at a cash register instead of in the kitchen. Afterwards I went to a friend's house to celebrate his birthday together with a bunch of friends, that was good fun too.

[constrictor]

Flying out this morning to go see my sister in Boston. Going to be such a sick weekend. Just not looking forward to the exuberant amounts of money being spent plus the hour or two driving to the airport. :cry:

 

But it's Boston!

[Star.]

Vodka watermelon sounds amazing but I'll have to try it once I'm at uni.

 

Some family are coming around today so we'll have the bbq going. I'm sad that my love of eating overrides my love of exercising. Not sad enough to not eat some bacon wrapped bananas though.

[Blake]

Microsoft had its signature week for the interns this week. There's about 1800 interns. It is really awesome - they fly all of the interns to Seattle (most are there, I'm in Fargo), paying for hotel/flight/car. Also, we get $75/day for food. John Howie steakhouse every night!

There were a few events over the week - a product fair, where I got to do stuff like play an Xbox One and do other things I can't show pictures of/talk about, tour the campus, and have a private Steve Ballmer keynote. The highlight of the event was yesterday though...

Every year they have an event they call the Signature Event. It's super secret, on the same security level as the Xbox One was. You don't know what it's going to be until you're there. This year, they loaded us up on coach busses. It ended up that the venue was the Boeing Factory in Everett, Washington. It's the biggest building in the world, by volume. It was really cool, we got tours to see plane manufacturing and testing. We saw 737s up to the prototype 797s in various build stages. The view was great too, with Mt Rainier and other large mountains circling the place. There was also unlimited food and free alcohol. During this, there was a huge stage, with a new 787 wrapped around it. There was a famous DJ from Las Vegas, can't remember from which casino/hotel.

At 8, everyone gathered around the stage. After the coordinators talked for a bit, Macklemore came out on stage to give us a private convert. Everyone got floor seats, as there was only 1700 people there. I was in the fifth row or something. An hour later, Macklemore went off stage, and there was this huge cube thing draped in black cloth in the back. The rolled it up, took off the cloth, and DeadMau5 came up and played for an hour and a half. It was the most amazing convert, I never would've imagined they'd get Macklemore and DeadMau5.

At the end, DeadMau5 and the coordinators went on stage. Everyone thanked everyone else for things - DeadMau5 thanked us for making the software and hardware that allows him to make music, Macklemore thanked us for making the softwares that run the world. Then, the coordinators gave DeadMau5 a gift - an unreleased Surface Pro with a type cover. After that, DeadMau5 said that we should all get them - and we did! Really sweet. We were guesstimating the whole ordeal was about $3M to do, not including the rest of the week.

 

 

[Ember]

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[Riku3220]

Microsoft had its signature week for the interns this week. There's about 1800 interns. It is really awesome - they fly all of the interns to Seattle (most are there, I'm in Fargo), paying for hotel/flight/car. Also, we get $75/day for food. John Howie steakhouse every night!

There were a few events over the week - a product fair, where I got to do stuff like play an Xbox One and do other things I can't show pictures of/talk about, tour the campus, and have a private Steve Ballmer keynote. The highlight of the event was yesterday though...

Every year they have an event they call the Signature Event. It's super secret, on the same security level as the Xbox One was. You don't know what it's going to be until you're there. This year, they loaded us up on coach busses. It ended up that the venue was the Boeing Factory in Everett, Washington. It's the biggest building in the world, by volume. It was really cool, we got tours to see plane manufacturing and testing. We saw 737s up to the prototype 797s in various build stages. The view was great too, with Mt Rainier and other large mountains circling the place. There was also unlimited food and free alcohol. During this, there was a huge stage, with a new 787 wrapped around it. There was a famous DJ from Las Vegas, can't remember from which casino/hotel.

At 8, everyone gathered around the stage. After the coordinators talked for a bit, Macklemore came out on stage to give us a private convert. Everyone got floor seats, as there was only 1700 people there. I was in the fifth row or something. An hour later, Macklemore went off stage, and there was this huge cube thing draped in black cloth in the back. The rolled it up, took off the cloth, and DeadMau5 came up and played for an hour and a half. It was the most amazing convert, I never would've imagined they'd get Macklemore and DeadMau5.

At the end, DeadMau5 and the coordinators went on stage. Everyone thanked everyone else for things - DeadMau5 thanked us for making the software and hardware that allows him to make music, Macklemore thanked us for making the softwares that run the world. Then, the coordinators gave DeadMau5 a gift - an unreleased Surface Pro with a type cover. After that, DeadMau5 said that we should all get them - and we did! Really sweet. We were guesstimating the whole ordeal was about $3M to do, not including the rest of the week.

All of that sounds absolutely incredible even if you don't like Macklemore or Deadmau5. It's really cool for MS to do that for their interns. Also you're probably not allowed to say anything about it, but if you can how easy was the Xbox One to use with voice commands and hand motions?

[jasignhagj]

Sounds awesome. I'm surprised Microsoft has offices in Fargo of all places though.

[RpgGamer]

I want to be Blake

[Nom]

$75 a day for food? I can eat for three weeks off $75. I'd be pocketing the rest.

[Blake]

It was incredibly awesome :) I'm not huge into rap or whatever Macklemore is classified as, but it was a really good concert. Even the people who didn't know who deadmau5 was loved it, super energetic concert. They had a brand new 787 kind of wrapped around the stage, with the stage inbetween the wing and the plane chasse. The wings were lit up with all of deadmau5's effects.

About the One - It was at a large internal (loud) product fair, so no voice commands. The controller was absolutely amazing, especially with the vibrate effects. They had a whole station set up just for that. Motion was perfect too.

Microsoft Fargo is the second biggest MS campus - about 3000 people. It's super nice, on par with the Seattle one. I'd definitely want to work in Seattle though, I love it here.

About the food - they don't give you 75, they reimburse you for up to 75. So, you can't keep the change. Makes it easier to live it up in Seattle and go to the best places :)

[Skull]

And to think that I'm going to be trying to eat on less than $50 a week. $75 a day for food sounds beautiful. Out of all of those amazing things, that's really what appeals to me haha.

[Blake]

It is really great, I've had some of the best food of my life this week. I'll post pics later :)

[constrictor]

That's just insane. [more] Reason's to become a programmer ladies and gentlemen.

[Riku3220]

That's just insane. [more] Reason's to become a programmer ladies and gentlemen.

Not everyone can get a Microsoft internship though. Google probably does something similar with their interns right?

[RpgGamer]

Google internships are like washing your problems away

 

Today I watched the first half of the Justice League Unlimited series. I subsequently spent the rest of the day on Wikipedia trying to make sense of the DC universe

[Tim]

GYM, assignment etc. since I came home, I weighed about 86kg. Since the beginning of this month, I started watching what I eat and I'm losing 1kg (2.2 lbs) per week, which is a steady decrease. At the moment im trying to get the willpower to cut out soft drink (as I rely on them just to motivate myself energy wise, which isnt good) and once I do, I should lose 2-3kgs per week. I'm hoping to drop back down to ~65kg.

[Artillery]

EDIT: I don't know why I posted my post here, totally wrong spot. My apologies.

Edited July 28, 2013 by Artillery

[nine naked men]

this is really messed up and rude and i don't appreciate it

[Tim]

I randomly felt like doing the Mage Arena. I get all geared up with my potions, food, runes, and equipment and fight Kolodion. He was super easy, even with 61 Mage. Then I get my Zammy god cape, get the staff, and head to the mage arena. I start looking for the Flames of Zamorak spell only to realize it was dropped from the book when Jagex brought on EoC. Got all excited for nothing. Now, time to cast Divine Storm 100 times.

Runescape talk? in my off-topic?!?

[Hedgehog]

That's just insane. [more] Reason's to become a programmer ladies and gentlemen.

Not everyone can get a Microsoft internship though. Google probably does something similar with their interns right?

I have a Grooveshark internship next summer and it won't be nearly as cool as Microsoft/Google :/

[Tim]

well, I'm about to upload my intro vlog. I'm nervous as hell when i did it as my blog stuff has always been written and behind screen, so putting a face to it makes me nervous.