Justin Rocque's Blog

Justin as LP?

2008-04-18T16:01:00.002-04:00

Yea, I know..... I know..... it's been like 7 months since I updated anything lately. I guess now is a better time than any.
One important thing I'll note is I changed my position at Best Buy now. The change happened around December of last year ('07). I am now in LP (Loss Prevention) which is mainly a door greeter in the store. Yep, I stand at the front of the door for around 8hrs a day saying, "Hi, how are you doin' today?" "Did you find everything OK? Great, have a nice day!" to stuff like, "This is not checkout, checkout is behind you where it says, "Checkout." to "Other door, that is enter only." Then I get the smart ass people who say, "But it says 'Exit!" "Then I have to say sometimes when I'm not in the mood to argue, "Yea, but right here (pointing to it), it says "DO NOT ENTER!" Then they get annoyed and walk out. I can go on and on about dialog I have with customers up there everyday but I think I may make that into another part of my site or maybe even a blog of some sort. It might be an interesting read. I always thought about working up there but didn't think I could stand standing up there all day and looking at the camera and greeting customers. 4 months later and I am still up there so I guess it's not too bad. A lot of people (myself included when I was still on the sales floor) thought all the LP person did up there was greet the customers and watch the camera. Boy, was I wrong. Besides greeting the customers, we are the last ones to get bitched at if the customer received no help and we try to resolve that problem before they leave the store or have to call a manager up front and see if they can resolve it. We direct customers to where the stuff is located in the store. When a customer walks in, they always want to talk to us about their problem with their laptop or camera and I try to help them anyway if I can or just bring them to the Geek Squad. If the registers are getting busy, I have to call for help up there sometimes to bring the traffic down and before customers bitch at me and stare at me for not getting more help. There are weekly and monthy physical security checklists which need to be done in the store to make sure things are in working order and there are no safety issues in the store. If there is, they need to be noted and addressed and corrected in one way or another. There is more stuff but I won't get into that here....
Other than that, there is honestly nothing much else going on really worth mentioning here. There is a few things new to my car I did but I'll add that to the blog I made specifically for that.
For now, I'll publish this part to get out of the way before I lose it because for some reason the "autosave" feature of this blogger site isn't working for some damn reason. If I have something else to post, I'll post it soon but I thought I'd do this now because it's been too damn long.

More to come. Stay tuned!

-Justin

Any where, anytime, whenever they find an opportunity, they will always be there

2007-09-18T02:42:00.000-04:00

I've just been reminded (not that I already did not know), it's been around April since my last update. Apparently I have not been keeping this up to date like I wanted to. With what happened yesterday, this seems like the right time, then the other updates to my life and, of course, my car (which I know you all still love and want to be running perfect soon!) will commence soon.

It's been a typical slow day at work on 9/17/07 or so I thought...

I don't remember the exact time it was but I would say it was around 3:00pm, an hour before I had until I would normally clock out and get the hell outa there. I was talking to a young customer, in his early 20's, kind of short, stocky (like Elaine would describe George on Seinfeld), and of the Cuban/Mexican decent. I didn't bother to get his name at first because I knew he was just "browsing around" and did not have an intent to "purchase" (this is the key word right here). He wanted to know about a good laptop for gaming and I showed him the HP 9535nr which was the only laptop we had in the store with a good amount of dedicated video RAM for gaming. He was saying how he did not have enough money on his card to buy it and was going to come back later in the week to get it. He asked a few questions as to why it was the better one and started "inspecting" it. He then said something about trying to get into the "main screen" and I kind of reiterated what he said because he didn't make sense (typical for guys who think they are all that and know shit about computers but when you spend less than five minutes with them you realize they don't know dick!) so I just told him it was already on the "desktop" screen and the Best Buy program was on top of that. He was like, "Oh, ok, I see." I was with this guy for around 20 minutes talking to him about the laptop. One thing to note is he was holding his bike helmet and also had a big ass back-pack on his back. I did not think much of it because it was pretty fat and I knew he won't do something stupid in front of me or my associates around him.

A few minutes later, a female customer wanted my help with the printers, which was just the next isle over. I asked the guy if he had any more questions. Lets call him "fuckface" from now on. He said he had no more questions and was OK. I then went to the next isle over and proceeded to help the female customer with a printer, cables, and ink, and, of course, paper. I put it all in her cart for her and she was all set and proceeded to go up front to check out. I then went back to the lap area and still saw fuckface there.

Another associate was towards the end of the laptop isle and ended up talking to a man I talked to from before about a cheap ass Gateway laptop for $349 to take to the Philippians. I then took control of the conversation and the other associate ended up helping another customer with something else. The man said he wanted just that laptop and nothing else because it's going in a suitcase with his wife (his wife will be carrying the suitcase, not be inside it) and just taken to the Philippians. I walked back to the back, up the ladder and called a MOD (Manager On Duty) for the key to the top cage. I was looking around from atop but saw nothing out of the ordinary nor did I hear anything strange. I saw a manager up ahead and waved him down. He approached me and threw up the keys, which I then caught and opened the cage, removed the laptop, and handed the keys back.

Down the ladder I went, saw the man where I left him then, out of nowhere, with an odd smirk on his face, asked me, "do you know where that laptop the guy was next to went?" I was kind of caught in a strange moment and took a quick look at that HP laptop only to find out... it was no longer there. Now, here I have one cheap laptop in my hand, yet this other one which was locked on display, MIA, as if Hudini was just there and made it just vanish in thin air. I was a bit confused and asked that man if fuckface left already and he said he walked away already. Cheap laptop in hand, I proceeded to walk fast (more like a power walk) up towards the front of the store, while saying something on the headset which was too fast and haded to be repeated because nobody knew what the heck I just slurred out my mouth. I talked to the person in LP about the said person and the person said fuckface left already.

I stood there for a while, cheap laptop in hand, stunned and utterly shocked. "Did this big ass 17" laptop just walk out the door with fuckface?", I said to myself? I knew it did and I knew it was over now and there was nothing I could do about it now, for fuckface was long gone and with the damn big ass stickers on the windows outside, it's hard to see outside anyways.

I turned around and saw the man on his way up. Long story short, I took care of him, while having one of the worst moments I ever had in a retail store. I was on my way back to the laptop area and just repeated what happened over and over again in my head, as if I did something wrong, as if I let this happen. Why did I not sense this? It seemed like I was trying to take care of that customer who wanted the cheap ass laptop and I was not concentrating on my senses of fuckface. Maybe it was because I worked the morning shift (which I barely do) and my mind was not focused as good as it normally is? To this minute of typing this, I still wonder, what if I did something different, would I have stopped this from happening?

Maybe I should have told LP to watch fuckface in the laptop valley but I knew he/she must have known about fuckface because he did walk in the only door you can walk in to get in the store, which was up front, where LP is located. Because of this and looking at the puffy ass backpack, I did not do this. I did not find a logical reason for alarm of fuckface.

I do not play that "blame game" but in a sense, I do blame myself. I am still a licensed security officer. I was trained to some degree in these kind of things, even though I have not had the class in a few years and have not been in security for more than a year, it should still be second nature.
But the flip-side of the thing is, I am only one person. Why did the other 20 or so people in the store not notice this or have an idea as to what was about to take place?

Sure, there is LP (Loss Prevention) in the store, which manly consists of one person in the front of the store looking at cameras, while watching and greeting people who come in and out of the store. Sad thing is, the main focus is to be a so-called greeter. Customers are always first and everything else is on the bottom of the list. That's why everyone in the store has to keep out look out for this bullshit.

I work at Best Buy. Most of us on the sales floor are Customer Specialists, specializing in customers unknown needs. So, that's what I though since I been there for around two years and since this is what they drill our heads with every day while we our in there store. I realized I was wrong; they (the managers) are also wrong. We have other rolls as well, which is never brought up much, most of which are obvious but the last few are not.
Obvious to not so obvious:

1. We are Customer Specialists

2. We are merchandisers, even though there is a "merchandising team" for this, it is still part of our duties when wearing the blue shirt

3. We are the cleaning crew. If there is a mess in the break room, we clean it up. If our department is filthy, we clean it up, not the Clean-Up Busters you would find in the yellow pages

4. We are Social Workers. If there is an issue with a fellow associate, we have to find out what the issue is and the best way to solve the issue because we need to make sure everyone on our team is happy and have no work issues or personal issues which could affect the team players performance. This also applies to customers who come into the store. There is never a day where you don't get a pissed off, bitchy customer. We all have to become the social worker and psychiatrist to work out a way to change their anger and frustration (which could as well may be caused by some dumb ass outside of our store which has nothing to do with us) into happiness

5. We are the technicians. If there is a malfunction with a POS, computer, or printer, we have to fix it ourselves, even though we have tech support who can come to the store and do it for us. After spending a few hours trying to fix the problem, even though we usually have no clue what we're doing sometimes, we will then call tech support to come over and do what they get paid to do.

6. Last but definitely not least, we are the Security/Loss Prevention Officers. We, while talking/listening to customers, and showing customers where stuff is, have to always keep our eyes peeled for suspicious activity, not just with customers (that would be too easy!), but our team players as well because there is always at least one player who just wants to be different and just wants to think about himself and we all know there is no "I" in "Team."

I can go on and on but I think I beat this around the bush enough. Until now, I did not know there was so many things one would need to be efficient at in a retail job. I thought being a Private Investigator was much more complicated. Heck, maybe I should have went into the academy to become a cop because I know for a fact, I would not have to deal with all of the above; I'd be fighting crime (and, well, be a social worker as well).

The name is Rocque and I work in retail. I've been through it all and seen it all and am still going through and seeing a lot more bullshit out there a lot of people do not see because they have no idea how retail is "behind the scenes." It's more than just selling a laptop; it's a lifestyle which constantly changes and is constantly in motion.

Until next time,

Rocque out!

....... to continue

2007-04-13T04:08:00.000-04:00

I noticed I had not added anything in my blog recently and I had a draft to be finished and then publish. I ended up publishing it just now so the blog before this is from a few weeks back.
One thing I had in the title of the previous blog post was about speaking American or something.
I might as well talk about that now before people start to think I'm some prejudice ass or something (yes, it has happened before).

To reiterate, this is America, speak American!
There are many people in this state (and country) who, apparently can not do that. We all see it and we all know it. On the phone, in stores, in restaurants, on TV, everywhere. There is always those people we see or hear every day who do not, to this day speak nor know how to speak AMERICAN. I am not against any race or nationality out there but I honestly think it's time for there to be a rule, law, or statute which should be met when a person moves or has currently been staying in this country, let alone state.
I honestly think we are doing everything ass-backwards. Sure, this is considered a "free" country (although I don't know what the heck is free in this damn country anymore. Is it our freedom? Ha!! The government does not allow that anymore. Stay tuned in a couple years for those new RFID tags which will be implemented in our drivers licenses to track our habits! More on that can be found here.) Freedom of speech? Ha! That is pretty much gone too!) but there is no need for our country to stoop down low as to the point where we need to have things (well, everything) bi-lingual for people who come into this country and do not understand out native language.

When we go to another country, will there be people for us Americans who speak our native language? Highly doubtable. When we go to another country, will there be signs, documents, and objects in our American language? Highly doubtable too.

From now on, there should be a law for people who come to this country. The law is for there to be a class (or classes) developed, provided free by the wonderful (sarcasm there!) government. This class (or classes) will be specifically designed for others from another country who do not know how to speak our "native" language (which is just about all of them) and for others who do not know how to read out "native" language. These people must take this class and pass a verbal and written test to be able to obtain a Social Security Card in this country, which is required to live in this country. If the people want to live in a "Free Country," it shall be earned, not just handed to on a silver platter. All of us had to learn our language and how to do everything the "American Way" and learn out rules and laws to live in this country; the people who move here shall do the same! I think it's only fair, don't you?

I am honestly at the point where I am sick and tired of going to a damn drive through window to order food and not be able to understand what is being said because of the "broken" American language they are barely speaking (and ending up getting the wrong damn thing I DID NOT order or missing a few things I DID order!). I find not being able to speak "our" language while living in "our" country is a disgrace and slap in the face to "our" country. I am sick and tired of trying to call tech support or a credit card company or any other 800 number for any other reason and having to press "1" for English (our native language) and "Numero Dos for Espanol" No offense to any nationality or race as said above but.... this is America, and there should be no need for us Americans to press any number for our language nor to "select" our language in some other menu system in our Country.

I am also sick and tired of people coming into a retail store and having the nerve to ask me or another associate if we "speaka spanish." Why can't you "speaka American?" Are you not in America? Then why do you not know how to speak American? How do you go around in this Country by not being able to speak American? How is that possible? If you do not find a person who speaks "your" language, do you really like being talked to like a damn five year old trying to understand what we are saying and you talking to us like a five year old so we can try to understand what you are saying? Is that how you want to spend the rest of your life and is that how you want people to see you as? If that is the case, more power to ya!

If you are a tourist or something like that and come from wherever you came from and do not speak American, then that is OK. You are visiting and you do not really "need" to speak American. Surely it will be a little hard getting around not knowing our language but you'll manage to get by and it's only temporary so you have nothing to worry about.

But, if you live in this country and don't speak American by now then...... get da F out!!
I don't mean to be harsh but....... if we don't do something about this of the many issues, this country along with this world, is coming to an end! And that's a fact!

I can go on and on about this but it's after 5AM and I thought I'd be done with this sooner but once I start, I can't stop!

Comments and complaints is highly welcomed and encouraged!

Until next time....

Justin, who always says what's on his mind without holding anything back...... even though he gets in trouble for it in the end.

Speak American!!!

2007-03-29T01:46:00.000-04:00

Another day, another damn dollar. Well, not today because I was off these past two days.
Well, I was going to mention a few positive things but I don't really have any to share. Let's see what's been going on since the last time.....
first up...... my car!!

It looks like a fix has been done to prevent my battery from dying down every damn week. It seems like the secondary (aux) battery was draining the other one for some odd reason, or maybe something connected to it was. The fix, for now, was to just unhook that battery all together. The place I took it to said the radio was hooked up to it and the amp but.... the radio still works and so does the amp. I have not been using the radio at all since it's been unhooked but sometimes when I put the fog lights on, the sub-woofer makes a noise. So, I guess everything is still hooked to the other battery as well for some odd reason.
Another prob is the rust near the windshield getting worse. I thought it was the t-tops causing massive leakage but there is a small gap between the frame of the car and weather strip seals so I around it for now using black wire tape. It looks nicely sealed and I have not notice it leak as much.

I got my fender in the mail a couple months ago. As soon as I get a second job and save up some more money, I'll be getting that put on, along with everything else I got for the outside of the car as well. But, before I do that, I'm probably going to get a second cheap ass car to use while that is getting done because it will take a couple weeks to get the body repaired. I'll also be using the other car to drive back and forth to work. I'm just going to find a decent 2 door with no less than a v6 for around $1500 or less. I saw a few 90's Pontiac grand am coupe for around that price a few weeks ago online.

The door locks on my car locks using the remote lock thing when it wants to; other times I have to open the car door and....... lock them manually with the door lock thing in the inside of the car!
The car has not been remote starting in a long ass while.

When I get that second job soon, I'll take it to sound insights where I got the alarm and have them inspect the wires in the car and have them redo the main areas: locks, second batt, alarm, and other minor things. Later on..... I'll have someone rewire the whole car back to fact. specs. For now, the main things I just mentioned will be good enough.

The car is dripping shit again so that needs to be checked again. It could be power stearing fluid because it was low a couple days ago so I had to fill it up..... and ended up overfilling it! lol!
The exhaust needs to be looked at and fixed as well because there is more leaks in it. Eventually, after all the other stuff is done, I'll have the exhaust and pipes redone because they are all rusted anyways. That won't be for a long while. My main goals now is the body, electrical, and dash. Just three basic things, which is the most expensive shit to fix, of course! Such is my life!!
Other than that.... my car is running great!! ha!

Now onto my wonderful life...
The past has been creeping up on me recently. People from the past, that is, whom I have been trying so hard to forget and never bump into again. But, of course, that never happens, especially when one works in retail!

To be continued............

Vista time

2007-02-13T23:57:00.000-05:00

It's been a couple weeks since Vista appeared to the general public in PC's and standalone software versions. This was and still is the biggest time being in a computer area in a retail store.
I have gotten a lot of mixed feelings about it while helping people and just standing around in the PC area of Best Buy. Here are some instances I came across so far:

Scenario 1:
Customer: Do all of these PC's have Vista in it now?
Justin: Yes.
Customer: *Laughs* I don't want anything to do with that piece of shit! (or something to that affect)
Justin: OK, well, have a good night!

Senario 2:
Customer: Do you have any PC's left with Xp in it?
Justin: No we do not but I can order one for you.
Customer: That's OK. I'll try someplace else.
Justin: OK, good luck!

I have been using Vista a bit so far and, as soon as ATI releases a driver and software for my TV tuner card, I'll switch to it as my main OS and have Xp MCE as a secondary OS justin case. So far, I think it's the best Windows version yet. Nice interface and great features, not that I'll use many of them but it's cool to know it's there in case I do.

This was a draft and I'd thought I'd finish it up before I update this a bit more coming up right after this......

Posting Positively

2007-01-22T22:25:00.000-05:00

OK, some of you out there (well, like 2) have told me I should post something positive so here it goes.

It turns out the battery was dead in my car again. I went to Auto Zone to have them test it and low and behold, it was a goner. Since I got it less than a year ago, they gave me a free replacement. Saved me $70 on a new one. So, now the knight rider is riding again through the knight.

Today is my Birthday and I got one of the best presents ever which I never had in a long while. Actually, I never had something like it before. It was a rare and fun experience and I'm sure you guys are dying to know what it is already so I'll just cut to the chase and tell you: I went over to a girls house and, well, talked for a hour and so. Talked, you say? Yes, just talked. Now, I know some of you out there may not think talking was such a big deal but to me, it was. I met this girl online (ha, what a surprise!) a couple days ago and we started chatting on AIM for a bit. She was already wanting to talk to me on the phone but I declined because I am phone shy. I asked if she had anything special planned today and to sum it up, I met her at her house and we talked and had a great time. Now mind you, I highly, under no circumstances , recommend any girl giving out her address to a guy to meet at their house. It is very dangerous and you can't trust guys at all these days. I, on the other hand, even though went through with it, am a rare exception to that rule for the simple fact that I'm a guy of high morale and a very protective person where I will not hurt anyone, in anyway, shape, or form. If you check out the rest of my site you will find that out. I'm honestly surprised she did that even after her friends told her not to but I guess she knew somehow she could trust me and she did and is still alive and unharmed. ;-)
She is a very nice and sweet girl and we will be spending more time together in the future. Right now we will remain good friends until maybe some day, something will progress but for right now, I'm not going to rush anything because I like it the way it is and don't want to screw up what could be a great relationship for years to come, instead of a few weeks like the other shitty ones I had. I think she is cool and she thinks I am cool and I'm cool with that! lol!

Now I will leave it like that for now and see how everything goes. Hopefully it won't get jinxed like everything I post here does.

On that positive note,

Justin

Another problem fixed, another problem goes in place of the former

2007-01-18T14:03:00.000-05:00

Well, here I am, in my room, on my day off. I had an appointment in Stuart to take care of someones Ipod but and make some fast, easy cash.... my car wouldn't start so now I'm just sitting at home, listening to loud rock music, being pissed at the world and the shitty life I have.

I guess it all started when I noticed some ants in the car a week ago. I vacuumed the whole car out and bug sprayed all over. I thought it was all over but, like always....... I was wrong.

Getting in my car to head home after work yesterday, I noticed a lot more came back for the attack. I headed to Wal Mart to get a can of bug spray and a bomb thing to bomb the bitches. After heading home, I let the bomb loose and let it do its thing. I went into the car a couple hours ago to head to Stuart and saw what a wonderful job it did. No ants in site, or at least live ones. I was quite proud of the annoying task I accomplished. That was... until I tried to start my car. Looks like it may be a dead battery again, just like the other times when it "chooses" not to start. I say chooses because it honestly has a choice whether it wants to start or not and this time it chose not to. Could it be because I bombed the inside with that bug eliminating killer? Maybe he didn't like that. But I took care of the problem it had. Maybe he wanted to have the ants in the car to keep him company or wanted some pets. Or maybe he wanted to turn himself into an ant farm, instead of being a car because we both know he hasn't been doing a good job of that lately. Oh, one more thing to note too, on the way home from work, the radio and cd player were acting oddly. I realized it was because the headlights and fog lights were on. I turned them off and the radio and cd player worked fine. But when the lights were on, the car chose to make the cd player act like it was possessed, which it is and the car anyways.

Maybe I bought the wrong kind of bomb..... I wonder.
I'm starting to wonder why that guy got rid of it. Now I think I know. The car is cursed and acts like the real car from the tv show but in a negative way. I try to fix the problems it has but another one ALWAYS pops up after it. Could it be a "Knight Rider" curse with them all? I know it's not the Trans Am causing it. There are quite a few people on that Knight Registries who have similar problems as well.

I'm honestly ready to throw in the towel and I know everyone will be happy if I did because everyone wants me to get rid of the damn thing. But everytime I think about the money I spent for the car and trouble my uncle and I went through, I know the money I get for it will not do me justice and the car justice for that matter.

I hope I get a pretty decent tax return in a few months so I can buy a "regular" car and set this one aside from being my daily driver car until I actually get some decent money coming in to take care of the problems it has and to break the curse it has on it once and for all!

What a fantastic new year this has been so far!!! (in case you didn't know, that was sarcam)
Time to make a phone call to see if anyone would help me with my problem, even though I help everyone else and I should at least be given a helping hand in return but...... you know the story!

Until the next bull shit hits the fan and smears on my face to the point where I get disgusted again,

Justin

Happy new year!

2007-01-10T01:26:00.000-05:00

So, it looks like it's the new year again. Time to get my act together this year because last year I obviously did not. Nothing much new is going on this new year so far.
I'd just like to mention one interesting thing which happened to me on the way home from my friend's house though: I was turning the block my house was on and felt a nice, cool breeze, even though my windows were closed because it was a tad chilly out tonight. I looked through the rear-view mirror and could not see a thing. I then looked over my shoulder and...... sure enough..... my trunk decided to open on it's own! Good thing I was already home and on a side street. How and why did this happen? Probably because the car has a mind of it's own like I've been saying for the past two years. I parked my car, closed it, tried to open it with my hands and it didn't so I just drove around some more for a bit to see if it would happen again. It did not so I just parked it and went inside..... disgusted at another problem with the damn car. Hopefully this BS won't happen again on my way to work tomorrow!
On that note, nothing much worth mentioning is going on so I'll leave it at that....

Have a good night everyone,

Justin

A retail salesman's dream come true?

2006-11-30T03:05:00.000-05:00

I'm sure most, if not all, retail salesmen or salesmen in general have the same dream, which rarely, if ever, comes true at all: A salesman always has the fantasy of helping a fantastic looking girl and, somehow, outside of the workplace, ends up getting together with the girl, which leads to better things and, perhaps, a foreseeable future with this girl.

Well, my friends, this is the second fantasy come true for me, which guys always have but never end up having their fantasy fulfilled. The first which came true for me was the "stripper incident." I don't think this has been posted on my blog or site yet but it will one of these days.

A few years ago, back in the PI days, I used to go to a local strip joint (not full-stripping, may I mind you because that's not allowed in PSL because this is the Losers town who can't get the full things in life but that's another topic). After going to the strip joint for a few days, I was introduced to this stripper girl. We started having nice conversations and I was paying her bills a little during that time. lol! One thing led to another and I ended up taking her home, well, actually, going to her home one night and one thing led to another for a few days and then..... she decided to be just "friends" (which was stated clearly on my voice mail right after I got out of the prison) And that was the end of that but it was still a fantasy fulfilled, which most guys don't have the luxury of having.

Now onto the main focus of this post: the salesman fantasy.
Like I said above, it's a salesman's dream to assist an amazing looking girl and end up being with this girl, somehow, outside of the workplace. Some salesmen act all flirtatious and end up getting their number or giving the girl their number but I find that unethical and immoral as a salesman. After all, you're working for a company and are supposed to act and be professional. Being flirtatious is not being professional. A guy who used to work in my area did that to a fathers daughter (of all girls) and ended up getting switched to inventory. He finally left the store. If he didn't, I would have gave his ass a reason to leave.

It all started Sunday (the 26th) when I was working in my usual PC area. Being the so-called "supervisor" when my supervisor is not around, I usually walk around the PC area to see how everything is going and to shadow a few of my fellow associates to see if they are recommending everything, seeing if everything they are saying is not BS, and chiming in to add in stuff they missed, such as some stuff missing from explaining the Geek Squad service and/or the service plan. I ended up shadowing a very good associate and friend of mine a little, who was helping out a very nice and, obviously, attractive girl in the area with a laptop. We starting doing sort of a team sale where he would mention something and I would chip in with my thoughts about it and recommendations. A few minutes later, he went to get the laptop and I was alone with customer. We started talking for a bit about where we were both from, why we were in this part of FL, what we want to do career-wise, and many more interesting to nobody but ourselves kind of stuff. The other guy came back with the laptop and I ended the conversation with a quick introduction to myself and got her name (which is a pretty unique and sweet name, btw) and shook her hand and ended it from there. Now, some may say that was being flirtatious but I would think of it as a normal conversation to kill time while the other guy was looking for the laptop. I did not ask nor did I give my number or receive hers. I actually was not even thinking about that sort of thing anyways. She went up to the front with the other salesman and the sale was completed up at the front. Another thing to mention, which kind of has to be pointed out was the fact that she was with two guys as well, which is why I was not really trying to hang around with her anyways because I assumed one of them was her boyfriend. Nothing else really happened during that day.

A day passed and I check my wonderful MySpace account like a lot of cool dudes do and came across a message in my inbox from a girl who kind of looked a little familiar. It turned out it was the girl I had helped out that day with the laptop. She wanted to go back to the back the next day and thank me for helping her. I was pretty damn surprised and also excited, in a way, with this message. After all, this was some cute girl I met for the first time at work and she just, out of the blue, sends me a message on my doofusy profile. I'm usually sending the girls the messages and never getting a response back. This is the thing I thought would never happen in my dull life. She also said some positive comments regarding my profile as well, which I was surprised about too. Long story short, we have been chatting online back and forth for a couple days now and things have been going great so far. One thing I'm going to do is take it slow this time because this is one fantasy I want to last longer than a week!! I'm actually, after thinking a considerable amount, at the time of my life where I'd like to have an actual relationship with a girl and not the "one night stand" kind of things anymore. Even though we have not gone on a date or anything yet, she seems like a pretty cool girl so far, one of those rare girls with beauty and brains. ;-) I give her the credit for saying that one though because it fits her description perfectly. Oh, and I ended up making an ass outa me and not u because those two guys were not her boyfriends. That should be a lesson to all of you out there who still make assumptions without getting the facts first!!

A couple more things I need to focus on controlling is to not get all emotional like I did with the girls in the past, not to be too caring about her yet because she is not my girlfriend and it is too soon to tell whether she will be or not, and there are some more things but I do not know if those other things are actually good things or bad things which is why I will not post that stuff here. ;-) After all, I can't reveal all of my secrets because there will be too many guys trying to act like me and not like themselves!

So, that is a major update I figured I'd share with the 4 of you reading this. I hope everything goes well this time around and not blow up in my face like all of the other fantasies I had in my life so far; girls, job, car, etc. There has to be a time in my life where I can actually get something where it doesn't turn out to be a lemon or make me more broke than I already am, or someone who I can actually care for and not screw me out of $1000's of dollars or put a big ass knife in my chest after being with this person and sharing my heart and sole with this person, only after having everything I gave just thrown back at me like it's that last drop of orange juice in the container nobody drinks because it's left with that nasty bitter pulp! I could have had a better analogy but it's almost 4:30a now and I'm ready for bed.....

On that note, have a great night and I'll keep you guys (even though only 4 or 5 of you) updated!! Feel free to leave me any comments, complaints, or tips!

Later,

Justin

PS> It took 5 years for this fantasy to come true! The other one I had took a week so maybe this one will last longer. Time will tell...

I guess I got F'ed up the A again!!!!

2006-11-24T03:22:00.000-05:00

Yes, before I start, it has been a month since I updated this and I have not updated my site(s) at all yet as well so shut it! In the words of my momma, "It will get done when it gets done!" To this day, I still have not understood that whole catch-22 statement; I kind of understand what it means but it's one of those statements which honestly, well, has only one purpose and that purpose is to give a response back to the person who asked the question, which, leaves the person with no way to ask any more questions as far as a time frame goes because, although not exactly, it does answer the question as to when the said task at hand will get done and that is.... when it gets done!! Got it? Good!! Now, on to the reason why I am posting an update to my blog at 3:25AM...

As you all know (unless you were living in a cave for the past 50 years), today is Black (or Green) Friday. This is the day (in case you were living in a cave for the past 50 years) after Thanksgiving, when all of the retail stores open up at 5AM and have a selection of stuff for pretty cheap, usually instant rebates, some instant and mail-in. As for a person being in retail, this is a day all of us dread and wish it would just fly by, which it usually does. This is also the day where each store, such as Best Buy, has to make a budget which is $750,000+ in one day!! That is just staggering. This is also a day where a bunch of cheap asses wait in line way before the store opens to get one of those good deals in the paper. I, unfortunately, was (until now), one of those people. I think this was one of the most all time low things I have hit in my life to this day. Let me give you a rundown on the situation:

It was Wednesday night, the day before Thanksgiving when I (and 20+ other associates) was working until 2:30AM to get the store ready for this wonderful day. I saw the front page of the ad and saw a HP laptop on sale for $379 (model DV6103NR). Normally it is $749 so if you do the math, it' a savings of $370!! When you look at the specs of this laptop, you'll know it's a sweet deal. I still kick myself in the ass for spending $799 for a Gateway laptop with a celeron in it a year ago. I knew that would be a good laptop for my uncle because he needs one. Now onto the next day...

The next day, I showed him the ad and he was looking at some other stuff as well, such as a big plasma tv w/ over $1000 off the price and a few other things. The main things he wanted to get and what I wanted to get as well was on sale from 5AM-12PM. I decided to volunteer to wait in line before the store opens because it would be a fun experience for me, I don't go to bed until early in the morning anyway, and I just wanted to get my damn hands on those electronics so we all could be happy!!

The time ticked away and I decided I wanted to get there by 3AM, two hours before the store opened. At around 2AM, I was looking at the clock in my room and started to get this nervous, gut feeling, a feeling like I get sometimes when I pour more than one of that Fire sauce on a taco from Taco Bell, but not quite. It kind of gave me a picture in my head with the store and some kind of image as to how crowded it was at already, or at least going to be very soon. It was a little more than two hours before the store opened but I knew, for some reason, I had to get my ass in gear soon.

At 2:15AM, I decided to get a move on it so I gathered what I needed and got in my car and started on this journey; a journey with an unsure outcome. A journey with dedication, a focus, a meaning, and a wanting to succeed in. I was on my way, driving in semi-empty roads, to go to Best Buy (the store I still work at and would have to be back at 5PM) and stand in line with the rest of the crowd, which, should, I thought, be small at this early of a time.

At approximately 2:30AM, I was turning into the road to go into the parking lot. I took a glance through my darkly tinted passenger window and noticed a few cars already parked in the lot. I then made a right turn to pull into the store and, to my astonishing amazement, I already, 2 1/2 hours before the store even opened, saw a line. Actually, this was not a normal line like any line of people; it was a line of hordes of people with heavy coats, chairs, sleeping bags, pissed off looks on their faces, and very impatient people. I took a slow ride in KITT and looked to my left through my darkly tinted driver side glass at all the people, who stared back at me (or not believing their eyes they saw KITT from the TV show but that is beside the point!) until I was at the end of the store, "Linens and Things" (way past Best Buy). I turned into the parking lot, took a deep breath, looked around, and just could not believe what was going on around me. I, honestly, started to get a little freaked out now. Seriously, how important in a persons life is it to spend a whole Thanksgiving waiting outside for some electronic device, such as a TV, PC, MP3 player, or whatever it is? Just to get it for cheap? Do they not have a job where they can afford these items? If that is the case, shouldn't that money be used towards something else in life, like, oh, I don't know, food, gas, clothes, and other necessities?? If money is not the issue, why, in a persons right mind would they wait way before a store opened? I thought waiting a little more than two hours was long enough but to get there at that time with a line already a few hundred yards long, and over 200 people filled? Come on now, that's just some crazy shit!! So, to cut that part short because there is really nothing more to add to that, I just drove right where I came in, and watched as a Martin County Sheriff car drove in next. lol!! But honestly, how important in a persons life is it to get an electronic? Don't get me wrong now; I'm an electronic freak myself but there is no way I'm waiting in line over five hours for something. It's just a waste of valuable time life, which can never be replaced or bought, unlike those pesky electronic gizmo's.

On the way home, in the quite roads, I decided to top off my gas again because I didn't remember when the last time I filled it up was. Looking at the price on the sign, which has been going up again these past few months, I let my car have it; a whole 4 gallons, totaling around $10.00! I guess that was all it needed and all I needed to burn off on the way home, which will be explained now.

It was now 3AM and I'm just sitting at the stop light on the PSL Blvd/Gatlin intersection when a Mustang came up to the left lane next to me. I started to get another gut feeling again, although a little smaller than the other one with the Fire sauce. I noticed he was revving up his motor and stepping up a bit. I knew what he wanted from me and KITT. I stepped up as well and focussed on the light. He was stepping up a little more, as did I. The light turned green and I gracefully put my foot on the gas and he did the same. He started to get ahead a little so, I did what KITT would normally do at this time, I floored the shit outa the pedal and took da fuck off down PSL Blvd and the Mustang was shifting gears trying to catch up but........ it was too late; his ass was way behind! I honestly did not think I would have made it passed him without KITT doing the shifting game he always pulls on me at times, where I usually have to take my foot off the gas in order for it to not conk out but this time... this time... KITT was all power, baby and that, my friend, was actually a great way to end that worthless, yet adventurous journey!

Until next time,

Justin

Damn, seems like it's been a year since I updated this baby

2006-09-28T22:39:00.000-04:00

Updates..... updates..... updates!

Let's see......where do I begin?
First, some good news; I resigned from the sexurity job on August 31st, 2006 and boy do I love it!! I am now working full-time at Best Buy and only Best Buy and so far it's been ok. I usually close and usually leave the store close to 11PM but for the past couple of weeks, I've been opening a few days a week and leaving at around 5PM.
Now, after work, I get to go home and sit on a comfortable chair or relax in my bed while catching up with emails on my laptop.

Bad news... I'm now getting less money every 2 weeks because of the one job but I at least have some money left over so it's not too bad.......yet. I am, however, working on a way to make some extra money, even if it's $100 or $200 a week or something. I'm considering trying out one of those "make money at home while using the PC" kind of things but I'm going to sit down one day and do my research again about it. Also, season is almost here so more overtime for me!

And finally, after 2 years, I sent a post to the Knight Registries forum: click here

Other than that, nothing much else is going on. The car is doing the same. Oh, and speaking about the car, well, read that post I sent to the list for more info about that!

Now that I'm down to one job, I should finally be able to update my site(s) soon. So far, it hasn't happened but hopefully I'll get to it soon.

Until next time (hopefully it won't be a very long time),

Justin

10 cents for a fucking extra pack of Mc.D sauce now!!

2006-05-06T03:29:00.000-04:00

Ain't that some shit! I just saw a notice a couple days ago on the drive-thru window at Mc. D and it said it's now 10 cents for an extra packet of sauce. It's some new "policy" they have now.
6pc of mcfuckets = 1 packet
9pc of mcfuckets = 2 packets
and so on......
If you would want an extra one, fork up 10 cents because we can't be giving all our small ass packets out anymore like they grow on trees! What do I say to that? I tell them to shove the packets up their fat asses and go fuck themselves!!

I just thought I'd get that outa the way before I continue on to some nonimportant shit. I finally got a new alternator last week. It's a custom one with double amps or whatever it's called. It cost $200 from some custom place. I thought it would have been more for something like that but the price wasn't too bad.

I don't think I mentioned this in the previous post but a couple months ago, I got into another...... (literal) "fender bender." It was on a night on my day off, just about to head over the bridge to get to my shitty sexurity job. Some dumb fucktard decided to make a u-turn from the other side of the bridge and, instead of going into one of the other 3 lanes, he goes right in front of me in mine, all the way on the right side, yet he had all those other lanes to the left of me. Ain't that a kick in the damn pants! So, since he was too close to slam on the brakes, I decided to quickly switch over to the left lane and then I hear a crunch sound and...... bam! I side swiped some bitch in, get this, a FUCKING SUV!! Long story short, the side-rear corner of her suv got a few scratches and my driver-side fender got squished da fuck in! So yea, another bitch in a SUV. Too bad KITT doesn't have his MBS (Molecular Bonded Shell). That situation has been taken care of a while back but, after finally having my uncle pull the fender out a bit so I can open the door fully, I have yet to get a new fendert. I tried ordering a couple online but they were sold out. Bastards! I was planning on getting my nose and stuff by the end of last month too but that didn't pan out either. As soon as I get the fender, I'll contact the dude again because it's been a long while now.

I worked for around 80hrs this week. I thought that was quite phanominal because it's been a while since I worked at BB for more than 20hrs, let alone 33 this week. Next week will be around 30. On a side note, most of, actaully, all of the full-timers in the PC section are gone or will be gone soon. A couple switched over to the new Best Buy for Business we got going on and some got other jobs and some are moving away so there will be only 1 full timer left. I'm considering taking a full-time possition so I won't have that long to pay my shit off. It should only be 10 years at that rate! ;-)

Oh, and I almost forgot....... I am now a College Graduate! Woohoo for me!
I honestly thought I would have to take the class again. I got a 64 on the 1st quiz, 76 on the 2nd, 55 on the 3rd, which is a 65 average. I needed to get at leat a 85 on the final to get by with another C. I shockingly got a 92 on the final, brining my grade to a B! Ain't that some shit? Even the professor was impressed.
On another good side note, I might have another long awaited chance to hang out with another cutie. It's nothing serious, just kinda a new cool friend girl to talk to and hang with when she's in town for the summer. But, to me, hanging out with anyone in my work-filled life is a big thing..... so I honestly can't wait and it should be fun!

Welp, time to change outa my BB clothes and into my sexurity ones!! I'll be updating this again sometime this month...

Until next time,

Justin

Another fucking day, another fucking dollar!

2006-04-01T00:02:00.000-05:00

Looks like it's been 3 months now since I updated this piece of shit where I used to make it a habbit to update every week, then month, now I could actually care less anymore. After all, what news is there to know about me these days? I work, sleep, work, sleep, and work some more. What a fanfuckingtasic life of mine. Well, here's another shitdate, if you actaully give a fuck. After all, it's only 1 person who reads this thing anyways. The rest are people who find this page from some search engine or some other dumb asses who leave stupid "annonymous" comments and don't even show themselves, nor do they even go back to the site for the answers they asked, which I can't answer to them because they leave no contact information! And the last comment was some dumb ass saying to IM this person for free porn pics and when I decided to IM the dumb ass, who has a "feminine" screenname and who has a pink font, the person said it was some other dumb ass who did it and the person I was chatting with some some dude from another country, with a girly ass screenname and a pink ass font color! And, of course, when I confronted him about said subject, he told me I was being predjuduce! Ain't that some shit?

Now, on to the shitty updates....

I got the lasks fixed on my engine. WOOHOO! Now it doesn't leak anymore. But I am getting some oil-leakage on the bottom so I have to go back to where I got it done to tell him to fix that shit. Next will be the replacement of the altinator and then I'll probably be getting that digital gauge cluster from Dakota Digital I wanted to get back then but was too expensive but am getting it anyways because the analog ones are close to that price anyway and look shitty. That will be in a couple months.

I spoke to Don from Advanced Designs in Automotive Technology. The nose was built but not completed the last I spoke to him through email. I'll be sending another soon to see how far away it is from being complete. I can't wait for that so I can get the outside of the car looking good, even though it will be a few months until I get it redone anyway.

As far as class goes, it's going ok. I passed the recent quiz I had. There is one more quiz and then a final, which should be no prob. After that's done, I'll be getting my degree in the mail. I've been thinking about what I'm going to do after that and I think I'm going to see if I can get the A+ cert during the summer and take computer classes in the fall for a possible degree in computer science or some bull shit like that because I really need to start doing something with my shitty life and self.

I've been working at my shitty sexurity job 7 days a week for a couple months until this comming week. I'm glad it's over because it was starting to suck ass. There have been days where I had class in the morning and besy buy in the afternoon and I had to do that a few times with no sleep in 24+ hrs. Now that Best Buy spliced the hours again, I won't be working there that much now. The paycheck I got from the sexurity job wasn't bad but working 56hrs a week behind a gate, come on now! Funk that!

I don't know if I mentioned this in my previous post but we got an eviction letter in the mail saying we have until the end of June to pack our shit and get out the house. I was kinda pissed and happy at the same time but now I'm just pissed. My uncle was looking at quite a bit of houses for me, him, and my other uncle to move into, which was cool. He was mentioning some nice ones too, bigger than the one we are currently in. It seemed all good at first until.... he realized how much the taxes would be each month on the houses! So much for trying to find a decent house to live in and be fucking happy like the assholes out there who screwed uss many times, yet have fantastic lives and nice houses to spend it in! How fucked up can life be these days? God for fucking bid you help people who need help, even though you get fucked anyways, yet nobody helps you and your life just continued to suck ass with no end. Sure, you think life starts to get better again and improve a bit until..... BAM!! Take that, fucker!! Life is just in the shit-hole again. So much for a fucking new year! It's already close to the middle of it and nothing but bullshit has been happening. And, surely, if I keep my fucked up mind in the gutter, it will get worse. But can it get better? Who da fuck knows? Do I actaully give a fuck anymore? Not really. All I want is a good enough paying job to pay off my shitty ass debts and fix my car..... fuck all that other life-fullfilling bull shit right now, fuck it to hell!

I guess that's all I have to say for now. To all the assholes out there, GO FUCK YOURSELVES!! That comes straight from my damn heart!!

Taco Bell really is Toxic Hell

2006-01-22T07:41:00.000-05:00

First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys Dummies...
It's another month since I updated this thing so here I am again, updating it, on my Birthday too, of all days!

Now onto the new year... so far the year has been sucking ass but I'm getting through it so far so it's all good. After all, look at all that bull shit I dealt with last year..... just bull shit after bull shit!

To start off the new year, I decided to get the tranny leak on the Knight 2000 checked out. Long story short and $2300 later, the tranny is now rebuilt, along with a couple other things I needed on the bottom of the car. Now it's zooming around like a, uh, Knight 2000 should be zooming around. It's like a whole new car! Now if only I knew how fast I'm going...

Before getting the tranny fixed, I decided to get the taillight bulbs replaced so I don't get pulled over anymore because of the "dimness" of it. I found some bright blue bulbs at Walmart so I picked up some of those. I put most of them in while working at the security booth and.... they were brighter. I needed a few more to finish off the taillights. I bought more on the way home and installed them later on that night, at the security booth again. After installing them and trying to get them all the same brightness, I realized the signals didn't work!! Long story short and after replacing those with the manufactured spec's ones...... and taking it to Goodyear to check out, I neeeded a new flasher switch. Now my flashers worked!!! Woo hoo!! I thought it was all good until I showed my friend Bob how bright they were at his house and tried the blinkers and brakes at night while I was over there and found out..... the brake lights did not work while the headlights were on, nor did the signals!! So, I've been driving around at knight for a few days with no brakes and signals. Sheesh! Talk about the risk of getting my ass rear ended!! Not knowing what was wrong, I took it back to Goodyear and they too did not know what was wrong, after doing a free courtisy check. I then took it to some mechanic behind Bayshore and had them check it and.... to sum it up..... I had the taillight bulbs in backwards!! It was kind of surprising because I did not know there was one way they were supposed to go in and having them all in backwards was just odd! So, it cost me $35 to realize that!! At least I don't have to worry about the bulbs for a while!

Some more good news... I have started working for the Squad now, the Geek Squad that is. I started right on my Birthday! What a nice present that was!! I will be working there again this comming Sunday. Right now I'm doing both possitions until I transfer over. When I started the job at BB, it was something I thought about then swayed away from it but I had an opportunity so I took it and here I am..... on my way to being in the Squad. I'm probably going to switch over there for good, not just because the pay is a little better, but because it's what I'm mainly good at.

I started typing this up on my B-day but finished it on the 28th. There is more to write about but I'll do that on my day off because I'm just too tired to type.

Later,

Justin time to watch more Nowhere Man and drink some gatorade!

PS. I'll continue off next time about the Toxic Hell thing!

Pretty annoyed!

2005-12-15T23:12:00.000-05:00

I received another "Anonymous" tip, er, message from another person last knight regarding some rather "personal" information regarding my life. To whomever sent that and the others: How do you expect me to reply to your dumb ass?? You leave no email address or nothing! The next time you think about adding a comment or two, leave a reply email address so I can get back to you! If you don't, don't bother leaving a comment at all because I am NOT going to post a response to you through this. I was going to let it slide but I just received a comment regarding my "personal" life which needs to be investigated further but how can I do this without any contact information?? I doubt the "Anonymous" person will read this because he's been looking at my earlier posts....
That's all I have to say about that......

knight,

Justin

Not worth updating with all the negativity

2005-12-08T00:44:00.000-05:00

One of the main reasons why I haven't updated this blog in a long while is because there is nothing to update, except for a lot of negative bull shit which has been happening these past few months. Why? Beats the shit outa me! Seems like it's been spreading for a while now in the family and my close few friends. The only reason is just because of lack of time....
One of the main reasons, besides trying to pay off the shit load of debt I owe, I got the job at Best Buy was to meet people and hang out with a few girls but all the guys I work with in my section just go home and play their video games and..... drink, which I don't do and have no intention of ever doing so funk that! As for the girl thing, there were a couple when I started but they moved and quit, now there is none really worth the effort, possibly because my standards are kinda high but I believe they aren't that high. There is one girl who I saw at the last meeting working at the registers but I haven't seen her since then and have no clue what happened to her so.... funk that too! I thought we'd be getting decent girls this season but, of course, I was wrong and that would have been just too good of a thing to happen in my shitty life!!

A tad of good news which isn't that good because I had to shell out a shit load of money..... I ordered a new nose, nose grills, blackout cover, and scanner for the distressed Knight 2000. I ordered the one here. The reason why I picked this one between the 3 other worthy companies is because I did some research and actually emailed the guy a few times back and forth and he seems reputable and he knows what he's talking about. I also ordered the grills and black-out cover from him too. I ordered the scanner from here for reasons which can be explained at the site itself! By the time I will receive them both will be towards the end of this month. Who knows how long it will take to have someone install them though.

A couple months ago, I got 4 new tires for the Knight 2000 because the other ones had no more traction and were shitty ones anyways. I had to have them special ordered though because Goodyear didn't sell that odd size anymore.

I got tired of the silver/gray color cover on my craptop so last knight I decided to paint it black, which came out decent. The upper part of it looks kinda shitty because I tried to remove a hair on it while it was wet and, after a little of scraping the paint off and repainting it, it didn't turn out as good as the rest. I may give it another coat in a few days. Other than that, it's all black now and that's all I really care about. Call me goth, call me a freak for having everything black but that's just how I am; black car, black clothes, black craptop, black boots, black belt, black craptop case, black flashlight, black tv, black bath towel, black hair brush, black girlfriend (HA, couldn't resist! A girlfriend of any color would be fine anyways but that's not going to happen anytime soon)..... more black comming soon!

One more good thing to note: I regestered for that Intro to Courts class I've been meaning to take for quite some time now to take care of that shitty 1 credit I have left which is holding me back from my degree. I also applied for graduation so I'll be getting my degree in January of 2006. It took me 5 years to get a 2 year degree but at least I'm finally going to get the damn thing so I can take it and shove because it's not going to do much good anyway with the career change I have in mind now, which I'll get into next time. HOPEFULLY that class doesn't get canceled like the last time!! That would suck major ass!

That's it for now!

Knight,

Justin

Wow, it's been the longest so far!

2005-12-07T04:29:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to say I received an "Anonymous" comment to this old post
I do not know who sent it but he/she asked some questions, which I can't answer unless I have some form of contact, like an email address. If not, the questions will not be answered. Hopefully the person will read this. I know it's been a while so I'll do us all a favor and update this thing later today, after I go to bed.

Later,

Justin

All work and no play leaves J with some dough but no hoe to spend it on.

2005-10-21T18:40:00.000-04:00

Welp, now it's been close to 3 months since I updated this thing. Why? Because of what I said above. I got that job at Best Buy a few months ago so I'm working there in the afternoon to night and straight from there, I go to my other job until 0700. The only thing I've been able to do at home is sleep and shower. Sure, I have Monday and Tuesday knights off from my security job but by the time I leave Best Buy it's close to 10PM so by the time I get home, shower, change it will be too late to go out anyway until a few days ago..... ;-)

I don't remember if I mentioned Myspace at all in here. If not, I'm going to now. It's kinda like an online dating service but more of a site where people search for other people, usually between the ages of 18-30, and add them as "friends" and send messages back and forth. It's has gotten pretty popular in the online community. I added some "friends" since I had my page about a year ago and had some interesting conversations with some girls. I, of course, was never able to meet and of them in person because I'm such a hipster doofis until just recently...

I'm not going to go into such great detail but, to sum it up, I added a cute girl who lives in my area as a "Friend" and we started exchanging messages back and forth. We started chatting on Yahoo's messenger one knight. One thing led to another and I got her Direct Connect number and we PTTed for around an hour or so on our phones. Then we made an arrangement to meet at the Stuart Ale house the next knight after I got off work. I met her at around 11PM in the Ale House and she was much more of a cutie in person than in her pics! I was pretty shocked and surprised in a way. We sat for a bit and talked and walked around and danced a bit. She also introduced me to some of her friends, of which the first I already knew for a long time, surprisingly.

Nothing else really happened that knight, except on the way home, I noticed some man in a white car doing around 25-30 in a 45 when I was doing, well a bit faster but I don't know for sure because I don't have a speedo! He had his hand hanging out the window and his head was on the steering wheel, as if he was asleep. I, being a dude with a cop-type of personality got a little concerned so I started to slow down and think about what to do. I was going to make a U-turn at the next light but he would probably have passed by if I did that so I went to the next light and stayed in the turning lane for a bit. The lights turned red and mine was green or yellow. He stopped in the lane next to mine and looked awake. I asked, "Are you ok?" He didn't really here me that good so I asked again, "Are you ok? You looked like you were asleep back there." He, after me repeating myself 3 times, said, "Yea, I'm OK. Thank you." The light turned green and I started to drive off while looking at his car in my side-view. He still drove a bit slow. I got up to the next intersection and the light was red, then it turned green and I made my left turn and I looked at him a bit because he was in the other lane and he looked at me. I continued on into the moonset... That's the interesting story of Justin trying to save the day! ;-)

Ah damn! I was just trying to do a spell check and the rest of the stuff went bye bye because it refreshed the page!

I'll continue it later at my security booth.....

Until later,

Justin

Hacked site!

2005-07-29T02:40:00.000-04:00

I was going through Masteryin's Masterlinks again to eventually put on my site like I wanted to do 5 years ago when I came across this computer site, . I had in my links list because it had some interesting info but now, after a year or so of not checking it out again, the site has been hacked. It's pretty cool though because I never actually saw a "hacked" site before.

Welp, that's all I gotta say about that!

Later,

Justin

Over a month now!

2005-07-25T03:25:00.000-04:00

It's been over a month now since I updated this thing.
A lot has been going on since then, mostly negative but it's all good. It's all gotta do with that yin-yang, remember? You can't have the positive without a little of the negative to go along with it!

So, in a nutshell, here has been what's going on...

Just to back it up to a month ago: I FINALLY took that psychological evaluation on 6/9/05. On the following week, I had an appointment with Mr. Lawson (Academy Director). Apparently, I passed the polygraph, which I thought there was an "issue" with. Not so good news is, I got a "2" on the psych test, which is not failing but borderline and requires a written letter from Lawson for me to sign saying we had "the talk" about whether or not I still want to go through with the academy and pursue the career as a police officer. The score is between 1-5, with 1 being the failing grade. Apparently the test said I was depressed, have no family support, and have a possible future of using narcotics/alcohol probably because of my drunk ass father. I'm not going to get into as to why it (the test) said what it said because you all can probably figure that out on your own. So, with that score, my WHOPPING 3 tickets, and a car accident which happened way back when I had my Neon, which wasn't even MY fault, there is a strong possibility a Department may not hire me. More on this situation will be discussed on a separate page within my site REAL soon.

I got some mechanical stuff done on KITT. Now he doesn't sound like a diesel truck and I don't have to turn him off when I go through a drive-thru. There was a big hole in the exhaust manifold which caused it to sound awfully loud. Now it's as if KITT is in "Silent Mode" now. The dash works (well, lights up) again and I got the cigarette lighter fixed too. Next up will be the brakes, transmission (leaking but temporarily patched with some leak-stopper liquid), and I have to see where that leak on the engine is coming from. Hopefully it won't be something major.

will continue tomorrow, maybe,

Knight,

Justin

Now it's tomorrow!

I decided to save this as a draft and work on it more this way.

Now that I've been sitting here and thinking about what else to say.... I have nothing more to say. Oh, I added a link on my Knight Rider sub-site to my conversion on the Knight Replicas page. Check it out! There will be more stuff added to my site soon because it's been a year now since I made any major changes.

Until next time,

Justin

PPS

2005-06-08T23:31:00.000-04:00

I'm just always in a rush because I have so much crap on my mind these days, it's just screwing with my head. One more thing I noticed about my blog was this site here: http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showthread.php?t=925183&page=17&pp=20 Scroll down it a bit for a pic of... well, you'll see! Too bad it's in a different language and I don't know what it's about.

PS

2005-06-08T23:30:00.000-04:00

A note about my blog:

I thought there were only a select 3 or so people who actually read it but I was wrong, there are probably thousands. I just got a an email a few days ago from someone (2nd one) who was looking up reviews about the EyeQ speed reading program and, while doing that, he came across the post in my blog about the times when I was using the progam. So, I replied to him and told him a bit about it; hopefully it steered him the the right direction. I'm glad he brought that up because I totally forgot about the program. I'll be using it again when I'm at the security booth!

Welp, knight,

Justin

Here I am again...

2005-06-08T22:40:00.000-04:00

I guess I didn't hold my promise of getting back to this the next day, which is why I don't make promises. Nothing much new and exciting is going on lately except for the bad shit...
A few knights ago, on my way home from work, my dashboard took a shit on me (not that it was working that good anyway); it just went dark and made a ding ding ding sound, as if the headlights are left on with the keys out. Also, the gauges on the side are all out too. So, now... it's just darkness. I don't know when I'm getting that fixed because I just don't have the money right now. So, now I'm really taking my life into my hands with KITT, who is supposed to preserve human life but now I just don't know. Other than that, I'm still here, working yet broke, alive, with not much of a life but it will all be changing..... soon!

I'm going to check out my site now and see what stuff I can put on it.

Until then, have a good knight,

Justin

Damn, been more than a while!

2005-05-30T04:21:00.000-04:00

I didn't know it's been that long but, then again, I had a feeling it would be. Aparently I haven't been keeping my own promise of keeping my blog updated at least once a week but what can I say? I've been a busy man these days. I'm a security officer at nights from 10:30p-7:00a and sometimes in the afternoons. When I get home, I'm just pretty tired from lack of sleep these past weeks.

*I'm back*

I started this update at 3:37a and now it's 4:06a. Why the heck is that, you ask? Well, I had to take a much needed pee and I just realized I had not cleaned up "my" bathroom since the wonderful cousins left the abode. So, while noticing the many hairs of the wonderful relatives, I decided it was starting to sicken me and, after taking my needed pee, I wiped the toilet, outer tub, and sink down until it shined like it did before they moved in. ;-) The tub will be tomorrow's project. After I completed the necessary clean, my nose started to bleed, which was quite odd because it hadn't bled in such a long time; I assumed it was because of the cleaning supplies. I should have turned on that ceiling vent thing but it hadn't dawned (dawned? Is that my mommy's word?) until my task was completed.

Well, it's past 4AM now and I have to wake up at a little before 10AM to head to Fort Peezy to help someone out with his PC, which I don't want to do but I gotta keep clients happy! I will post another update about other stuff going on with my hectic life tomorrow; surely I say that all the time but I mean it this time!
One quick thing to note is I added pics to my Knight Rider Conversion sub-site. Check it out! More pics, as soon as I take them, will be comming soon... or later.

Knight,

Justin

Here he is!!

2005-05-06T21:00:00.000-04:00

It's been quite a while. I try to at least update this once a week but, as you can see, that never pans out.

So, where have I been? Welp, I quit that shitty lost prevention job and got a new one at Vought Aircraft doing security at the gate. It's not that bad of a job, considering I'm working mostly knights, from 2230-0630 (10:30p-6:30a for you's who don't understand military time).

As far as KITT goes, some bitch backed into his nose and now he needs a new one. He can't just get a nose job, he needs a new one. I got the check for it from the insurance company. Now I'm waiting to see what is holding the body shop up. I called it again (2nd time) and have not gotten a call back. It's shit like that that really pisses my penis off! All I want is for the dumb ass to order the part already because it will take a few weeks for it to be done and shipped out. Then another 2 days to get on my car. So... long story short, it will probably be a little more than a month to have my baby looking good again. I think while I'm waiting for that, I might as well take care of the speedometer, fuel guage, and other stuff in the inside. More updates on my car in that regard and all other will be posted on my Knight Rider Conversion page.

Well, I got an hour to kill before I gotta head to work. Maybe I'll update my Knight Rider sub-site some more because I haven't updated anything on my site in quite a while and I'm starting to miss doing it.

Later,

Justin