Monday, June 29, 2009
yo yo...
-so the surfer controller thats moving to australia that looks like ric flair i blogged about a few posts ago is prolly the coolest guy ever and i wanna be his protege. we get along pretty well, i think im his fav of the n00bs. He's really loud and always talking, whether its just singing or messing with people. He said this is the bes job for him cuz you can't tell him to shut up, he has to talk. Today there was a plane whose callsign was tata, and he he was calling them titi, and last week there was a plane whose callsign was blue streak, he called them brown streak...after 3 days he siad the pilot finally said confirm that we are blue streak...he replied "we need to confirm, what exactly is the color of your streak?" he came into work today an hour early to get credit hours, and wound up falling asleep in the break room. he also gave a pilot the business today for not descending fast enough...he's pretty much my idol
I think the guy who will wind up being my trainer(not sure yet, its one of 3 but one has a trainee already, so it will prolly be this guy) is reallly cool too. He has hair that looks just like the jokers, except brown with blonde highlights, and wears thick dark rimmed glasses. He's a hardcore hiker and mountain climber, and apparently also is a millionth degree blackbelt and competes in competitions, he's really cool
-i'm working on improving my posture. i'm starting with jsut walking for now. ive always known i needed better posture but lately noticed this dude at work who kinda slumps and it makes him look loserly, so ive been concentrating on walking with good posture. can't do sitting yet, its just too much fun to slump
another installment of food fight(new name,tryin things out)
Deep Fried Cupcake With Chocolate Syrup And Sprinkles
(another simple but good)
Sausage Egg And Cheese On A Chocolate Glazed Donut
(i think i may actually like this, dont expect it to get votes tho)
Loosiana Gator Dog
A butterflied Wagyu beef frank stuffed with a melted 3-cheese blend, topped with a tequila-spiked three-bean alligator chili and finished off with sour cream, freshly chopped chives, and crushed Fritos.
(delish, if it doesnt fall apart)
Spaghetti Meatball On A Stick
Strands of cooked spaghetti worked into a meatball, dipped in dough, deep-fried, then topped with marinara sauce.
(my dream)
Meat Cake
Meatloaf with potatoes and ketchup for icing.
(i like meatloaf, i like cake)
-so the surfer controller thats moving to australia that looks like ric flair i blogged about a few posts ago is prolly the coolest guy ever and i wanna be his protege. we get along pretty well, i think im his fav of the n00bs. He's really loud and always talking, whether its just singing or messing with people. He said this is the bes job for him cuz you can't tell him to shut up, he has to talk. Today there was a plane whose callsign was tata, and he he was calling them titi, and last week there was a plane whose callsign was blue streak, he called them brown streak...after 3 days he siad the pilot finally said confirm that we are blue streak...he replied "we need to confirm, what exactly is the color of your streak?" he came into work today an hour early to get credit hours, and wound up falling asleep in the break room. he also gave a pilot the business today for not descending fast enough...he's pretty much my idol
I think the guy who will wind up being my trainer(not sure yet, its one of 3 but one has a trainee already, so it will prolly be this guy) is reallly cool too. He has hair that looks just like the jokers, except brown with blonde highlights, and wears thick dark rimmed glasses. He's a hardcore hiker and mountain climber, and apparently also is a millionth degree blackbelt and competes in competitions, he's really cool
-i'm working on improving my posture. i'm starting with jsut walking for now. ive always known i needed better posture but lately noticed this dude at work who kinda slumps and it makes him look loserly, so ive been concentrating on walking with good posture. can't do sitting yet, its just too much fun to slump
another installment of food fight(new name,tryin things out)
Deep Fried Cupcake With Chocolate Syrup And Sprinkles
(another simple but good)
Sausage Egg And Cheese On A Chocolate Glazed Donut
(i think i may actually like this, dont expect it to get votes tho)
Loosiana Gator Dog
A butterflied Wagyu beef frank stuffed with a melted 3-cheese blend, topped with a tequila-spiked three-bean alligator chili and finished off with sour cream, freshly chopped chives, and crushed Fritos.
(delish, if it doesnt fall apart)
Spaghetti Meatball On A Stick
Strands of cooked spaghetti worked into a meatball, dipped in dough, deep-fried, then topped with marinara sauce.
(my dream)
Meat Cake
Meatloaf with potatoes and ketchup for icing.
(i like meatloaf, i like cake)
Sunday, June 28, 2009
yo yo...so the website is probably top 5 best websites ever. new game. i will post a few pics in a post and we all vote and discuss which is best....i should really make the groupings with more effort but im just browsing and picking which ones i like...round 1
FlapJack Fiasco
"Layers from bottom to top: pancake; cookie dough; pancake; peanut butter and jelly; pancake; chocolate and bananas; pancake; caramel, oreo, marshmallow, sprinkles, M&M’s; pancake; caramel buttercream frosting granished with Trix cereal."
(it would be perfect if the trix were m and m's)
QUadruple CHeese Pie
Bacon mac and cheese pie with Cheez-It crust topped with toasted cheese doodles and Cheese Whiz.
(as long as this isnt too crispy and salty it has great potential)
Deep Fried Peanut Butter And Banana Sandwich
(simple but good)
Churro Relleno
Deep fried dough stuffed with cream and dipped in chocolate.
(this looks like somethign i could only have one of but i'd enjoy it greatly)
Totchos
Tater Tots covered in ground beef, jalapeño peppers, cheese, salsa and sour cream.
(i would wreck these)
maybe i'll tkae some time and make categories based on meals or food categories
FlapJack Fiasco
"Layers from bottom to top: pancake; cookie dough; pancake; peanut butter and jelly; pancake; chocolate and bananas; pancake; caramel, oreo, marshmallow, sprinkles, M&M’s; pancake; caramel buttercream frosting granished with Trix cereal."
(it would be perfect if the trix were m and m's)
QUadruple CHeese Pie
Bacon mac and cheese pie with Cheez-It crust topped with toasted cheese doodles and Cheese Whiz.
(as long as this isnt too crispy and salty it has great potential)
Deep Fried Peanut Butter And Banana Sandwich
(simple but good)
Churro Relleno
Deep fried dough stuffed with cream and dipped in chocolate.
(this looks like somethign i could only have one of but i'd enjoy it greatly)
Totchos
Tater Tots covered in ground beef, jalapeño peppers, cheese, salsa and sour cream.
(i would wreck these)
maybe i'll tkae some time and make categories based on meals or food categories
Friday, June 26, 2009
yo yo...so all the supervisors for my area are very nice and i really like them, i think it's most of them look exactly like actors that i recognize so it makes me feel comfortable
one looks just like the bad guy from The Negotiator and the dad from Boiler Room
one looks just like comedian Jeffery Ross
and one looks just like Rob Corddry from the Daily Show
Another one looks like a really cool instructor from OKC, and he is the supervisor specific to my "team"(everyone has different day off schedules, mine are thurs/fri for now, so eveyroen with those days off are a "team")
The Rob Corddry supp told me good job yesterday because i caught a mistake. Normally working flight data for LA arrivals is very easy, hard to screw up. One of our tasks is to input weather into the computer every hour. LA's weather updates automatically, so we just tell the controllers when its updated. Santa Monica will send a strip with the weather, that i put in. Hawthorne(an airport just south of LAX) will call and read it to me. So Santa Monica sent over their weather and their altimeter setting seemed a little off, not majorly, but did seem a little askew, i showed the supp, he said hmm, call them and make sure. i did and turned out it was a typo, so he said good job.
Also i like to wear ties, and i get such crap for it, in a joshing kinda way. Supps always make jokes about me wanting to take their jobs, other controllers always try to make jokes, but its all in good nature and i make them back. The other day i dressed like they did in resevoir dogs, except no one saw the movie so when they made a comment and i mentioned the movie they didnt know wat it was. It's really terrible. I'm really tempted to wear a tuxedo into work. But once the dress code changes(hopefully) after the contract negotions in washington are done in the next few weeks i will so never wear dressy clothes again.
also, went to movies for first time in a while. saw transformers 2. will probably not go back to the movies for some time
one looks just like the bad guy from The Negotiator and the dad from Boiler Room
one looks just like comedian Jeffery Ross
and one looks just like Rob Corddry from the Daily Show
Another one looks like a really cool instructor from OKC, and he is the supervisor specific to my "team"(everyone has different day off schedules, mine are thurs/fri for now, so eveyroen with those days off are a "team")
The Rob Corddry supp told me good job yesterday because i caught a mistake. Normally working flight data for LA arrivals is very easy, hard to screw up. One of our tasks is to input weather into the computer every hour. LA's weather updates automatically, so we just tell the controllers when its updated. Santa Monica will send a strip with the weather, that i put in. Hawthorne(an airport just south of LAX) will call and read it to me. So Santa Monica sent over their weather and their altimeter setting seemed a little off, not majorly, but did seem a little askew, i showed the supp, he said hmm, call them and make sure. i did and turned out it was a typo, so he said good job.
Also i like to wear ties, and i get such crap for it, in a joshing kinda way. Supps always make jokes about me wanting to take their jobs, other controllers always try to make jokes, but its all in good nature and i make them back. The other day i dressed like they did in resevoir dogs, except no one saw the movie so when they made a comment and i mentioned the movie they didnt know wat it was. It's really terrible. I'm really tempted to wear a tuxedo into work. But once the dress code changes(hopefully) after the contract negotions in washington are done in the next few weeks i will so never wear dressy clothes again.
also, went to movies for first time in a while. saw transformers 2. will probably not go back to the movies for some time
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
yo yo...im blogging from work on break. I started on the Floor(control room) yesterday. Its much more fun being in the control room. Right now im in the process of being checked out on the flight data position, should be checked out by end of the day. LA Arrivals(my area) has the easiest flight data position. Normally flight data works the computer tahts tied into the national database to put in flight plans and issue clearances, but since arrivals doesnt have any of that all we do here is give out strips.
Basically Each flight gets a flight "strip", a little strip of paper with boxes and info in each box(callsign, type of aircraft, destination, altitude, speed, etc). So we have to recognize the fixes on the strip in order to determine which sector we hand it to(there's 4). So its pretty easy and very laid back. We get 25 min breaks every hour...its sweet.
My trainer is really badass too. He looks like a combo of john tesh and rick flair, and he's very talkative and funny, plays lots of pranks. An older, only-flight-data guy from another area came over to tell the other trainee about a mistake that was really santa monica towers fault, so he went and yelled at him, and the next time that situation came he had us put in the weather wrong on purpose to annoy him. He also told me a story about when he tea-bagged another controller while he was sleeping during a break.
He's also moving to Australia in the fall. He applied a few years ago to a worldwide call for expereinced controllers in Sydney, and he just got the job, its a big deal apparently. He's been to Austrlia 39 times and loves it and surfs a lot and has a bunch of friends there so he's excited....its pretty cool. I'm eating edamame during work. that is all
**edit**
my trainer is hardcore into surfing, so i was asking him about how to get into it,sharks, etc. Apparently many of the controllers, many whome are older late 40's men, surf, which is neat. A bunch if them have dogs too, actually the three i talked to dogs about all have labs. Me and my trainer talked about our histories and stuff and he thinks that i'm a very quick learner and said that he remembered my first day that i asked a lot of questions, very interesting ones he never thought about, and said that he definitely thinks I have what it takes to make it
Basically Each flight gets a flight "strip", a little strip of paper with boxes and info in each box(callsign, type of aircraft, destination, altitude, speed, etc). So we have to recognize the fixes on the strip in order to determine which sector we hand it to(there's 4). So its pretty easy and very laid back. We get 25 min breaks every hour...its sweet.
My trainer is really badass too. He looks like a combo of john tesh and rick flair, and he's very talkative and funny, plays lots of pranks. An older, only-flight-data guy from another area came over to tell the other trainee about a mistake that was really santa monica towers fault, so he went and yelled at him, and the next time that situation came he had us put in the weather wrong on purpose to annoy him. He also told me a story about when he tea-bagged another controller while he was sleeping during a break.
He's also moving to Australia in the fall. He applied a few years ago to a worldwide call for expereinced controllers in Sydney, and he just got the job, its a big deal apparently. He's been to Austrlia 39 times and loves it and surfs a lot and has a bunch of friends there so he's excited....its pretty cool. I'm eating edamame during work. that is all
**edit**
my trainer is hardcore into surfing, so i was asking him about how to get into it,sharks, etc. Apparently many of the controllers, many whome are older late 40's men, surf, which is neat. A bunch if them have dogs too, actually the three i talked to dogs about all have labs. Me and my trainer talked about our histories and stuff and he thinks that i'm a very quick learner and said that he remembered my first day that i asked a lot of questions, very interesting ones he never thought about, and said that he definitely thinks I have what it takes to make it
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I will never understand how people can be verbally provoked to the point where they will actually hit someone. Can someone really say or do something to you that will enrage you to the point of actually physically attacking someone else? What got me thinking about this is the recent altercation between Perez Hilton and will.i.am/his (will.i.am's) manager which you can read about all over the Internets. Now, sure, I agree that Perez Hilton is a churlish twat that probably deserves to have a lot of things happen to him, but should that really include being the recipient of an ass-whooping? I doubt it.
In other news, be on the look-out for the word "ersatz". It's running rampant! I've seen it in at least three articles in the last 2 days and it was also the Question to a Jeopardy Answer yesterday. Be wary an ersatz takeover...
In other news, be on the look-out for the word "ersatz". It's running rampant! I've seen it in at least three articles in the last 2 days and it was also the Question to a Jeopardy Answer yesterday. Be wary an ersatz takeover...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
yo yo...i am SO annoyed right now. (warning more torture talk)
so on the episode of 24 i was jsut watching jack bauer discovered that one of the senate members chief of staff was in kahootz with a terrorist who was known to be plotting a large scale attack within the hour. his level of kahootz was 100% confirmed.
jack started torturing(just electrocution, nothing major) the guy to get the info, and he JUST started spilling when the president and the senator intervened and ordered him to stop. Now, the senator is spearheading a campaign to have jack indicted for his use of torture, so he is joe no torture no matter what. the president(frumpy twat) stopped jack before he could get the most important part of the confession, and thought she could get him to talk by offering him immunity(no dice) or threatening to charge him with treason. WHOA!!!! then of course he asked for his lawyer and didnt say another word. so, this leads me to my next point...in this situation there are three possible outcomes...lets examine.
(all situations assume he gives info, which was not the case)
1. Jack uses a tazer on him, guy gives info
2. President gives a TERRORIST immunity
3. President charges him with treason, he gets put to death anyway
now, here are the differences, and lets see if it makes sense.
1+2...ASSUMING he gives up the info after getting immunity(which in the show he didnt) u get the info either way, but in one case u have a terrorist who was electrocuted, and the other case you have a terrorist free and roaming the streets...that's what it comes down to...HOW can you justify that being better??
3. this case shouldn't even matter because if it went that far that means he didnt talk and the plot got carried out anyway, so many die...PLUS you're killing someone anyway...PLUS you're costing taxpayers a ton of money
I am actually rooting for the terrorists now so far, until they apologize to jack
in other news
- My ipod wire got caught on poles and parts of machines SO many times today at the gym, i was one instance away from committing a movie worthy act of violence
- I discovered the perfect combination for a cheat meal...everytime i decide to eat whatever i want in a meal its very stressfull...you want to satisfy as many tastebuds as possible, but you have money+appetite to consider...nothing worse than not being able to finish you're food...and you always regret not eating a certain junk food category...tonites group is very good
-Pizza
-microwavable brownie/ice cream sundae
-twizzlers
this covers grease, chocolate, ice cream, sweets, small snackable things...i was gonna go with sour patch watermelonsbut i really do love twizzlers...you can eat them so many different ways...big bites, tiny squirrel bites(my fav), in a highly chlorinated pool( we all know who you are)
so on the episode of 24 i was jsut watching jack bauer discovered that one of the senate members chief of staff was in kahootz with a terrorist who was known to be plotting a large scale attack within the hour. his level of kahootz was 100% confirmed.
jack started torturing(just electrocution, nothing major) the guy to get the info, and he JUST started spilling when the president and the senator intervened and ordered him to stop. Now, the senator is spearheading a campaign to have jack indicted for his use of torture, so he is joe no torture no matter what. the president(frumpy twat) stopped jack before he could get the most important part of the confession, and thought she could get him to talk by offering him immunity(no dice) or threatening to charge him with treason. WHOA!!!! then of course he asked for his lawyer and didnt say another word. so, this leads me to my next point...in this situation there are three possible outcomes...lets examine.
(all situations assume he gives info, which was not the case)
1. Jack uses a tazer on him, guy gives info
2. President gives a TERRORIST immunity
3. President charges him with treason, he gets put to death anyway
now, here are the differences, and lets see if it makes sense.
1+2...ASSUMING he gives up the info after getting immunity(which in the show he didnt) u get the info either way, but in one case u have a terrorist who was electrocuted, and the other case you have a terrorist free and roaming the streets...that's what it comes down to...HOW can you justify that being better??
3. this case shouldn't even matter because if it went that far that means he didnt talk and the plot got carried out anyway, so many die...PLUS you're killing someone anyway...PLUS you're costing taxpayers a ton of money
I am actually rooting for the terrorists now so far, until they apologize to jack
in other news
- My ipod wire got caught on poles and parts of machines SO many times today at the gym, i was one instance away from committing a movie worthy act of violence
- I discovered the perfect combination for a cheat meal...everytime i decide to eat whatever i want in a meal its very stressfull...you want to satisfy as many tastebuds as possible, but you have money+appetite to consider...nothing worse than not being able to finish you're food...and you always regret not eating a certain junk food category...tonites group is very good
-Pizza
-microwavable brownie/ice cream sundae
-twizzlers
this covers grease, chocolate, ice cream, sweets, small snackable things...i was gonna go with sour patch watermelonsbut i really do love twizzlers...you can eat them so many different ways...big bites, tiny squirrel bites(my fav), in a highly chlorinated pool( we all know who you are)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
yo yo...so today i was running during ym lunch break ( i move up my mornign snack and eat lunch 30 min before lunch and run during lunch, for now at least) and thinking about how different songs effect my emotions and level of pumped-upness. There are certain songs that when they have a good beat and the singer is singing in a range thats really good for me and has some nice dynamics in it that i have to fight the urge to sing along while running. For instance i love singing to the song "Like a Stone" by audioslave, great song. There are other songs that are just so great that i don't even want to sing along, i just imagine myself sitting in front of the singer with my elbows on my knees in awe watching them sing. Example, One by U2. That song is so goddamn good, it pumps me up like nothing else just hearing Bono's energy and heart that comes through when you hear it. There are a lot of U2 songs i like to sing to, but for some reason that one I just like to listen to, its really terrific. Then i was listening to Maryilyn Mansons cover of sweet dreams, that one just makes me wanna play rockband drums to.
I really like san diego's accessibility to bicycling. I could probably survice a while here without a car, well if my work was in a different place, i COULD ride to work but it'd be annoying, besides work i can def live without a car, and usually do bicycle places.
Also, i was thinking about torture while watching 24, and thinking about what it takes to be untorturable. I think to someone that is untorturable what you would have to do is do something to them that not only inflicts lots of pain, but causes permanent damage. For instance you can waterboard or electoshock someone all u want, but when ur done they'll be back to normal. Now scraping out an eyeball....hurts AND ur blind afterwords. SO, the torturee has to think to himself, "can i withstand the pain AND can I live blind?" makes the decision a lot harder...prolly better off to just tell jack what he wants to know...
Also i never got to see the Bodies exhibit in NY, but it just came to SD for a limited time! also, i hear NY hasn't had summer yet? suckers.
I really like san diego's accessibility to bicycling. I could probably survice a while here without a car, well if my work was in a different place, i COULD ride to work but it'd be annoying, besides work i can def live without a car, and usually do bicycle places.
Also, i was thinking about torture while watching 24, and thinking about what it takes to be untorturable. I think to someone that is untorturable what you would have to do is do something to them that not only inflicts lots of pain, but causes permanent damage. For instance you can waterboard or electoshock someone all u want, but when ur done they'll be back to normal. Now scraping out an eyeball....hurts AND ur blind afterwords. SO, the torturee has to think to himself, "can i withstand the pain AND can I live blind?" makes the decision a lot harder...prolly better off to just tell jack what he wants to know...
Also i never got to see the Bodies exhibit in NY, but it just came to SD for a limited time! also, i hear NY hasn't had summer yet? suckers.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
yo yo...been trying to post last couple of days but blogger was screwy...been a little while so i'll just post some thoughts
•there are some cars i don't get why anyone would buy...cars such as a bmw 7 series...you have the 3 and 5 and 7, all are sedans(tho 3 can be coupe) and the price difference doubles between 3 and 7, and for what? a slightly larger engine, uglier and clunkier? yea maybe u want a full size sedan instead of a car the 3 size but to pay 80k? many other cars i'd rather have for the money
•i like 24 and i love torture
•im nearing done with my flight data class and then will start working flight data position on the floor, mad stuff to memorize...its funny how in OKC we had to memorize things adn i was like oh man but it was SO small compared to what we need to know now....
OKC- 1 airway
4 airports
3 mvas(minimum vectoring altitude)
4 frequencies
SCT(my area has less than others) - a billion airways
-57 airports
-many mvas
-for my area about 10 frequencies, VHF plus UHF
•its funny talking to controllers cuz u have to get used to just stopping and starting conversations on a dime when a plane calls
•ive been biking a lot. biking pwns running or jogging cuz u can get the same workout but cover a lot more ground...so better scenery, and you can use it as a form of transportation. biking is also pretty big here in SD...there are bike shops ALL over...i could easily get by without my car for a while, going to work would be hard, but besides work i def wouldnt NEED my car...i even food shop without it most of the time
•in Target yesterday i overheard a worker informing another worker that there was a missing child...the worker asked the child's name and the other worker informed him that the parent didn't want to give the name....
•I can't wait for businesses to stop using PCs
•there are some cars i don't get why anyone would buy...cars such as a bmw 7 series...you have the 3 and 5 and 7, all are sedans(tho 3 can be coupe) and the price difference doubles between 3 and 7, and for what? a slightly larger engine, uglier and clunkier? yea maybe u want a full size sedan instead of a car the 3 size but to pay 80k? many other cars i'd rather have for the money
•i like 24 and i love torture
•im nearing done with my flight data class and then will start working flight data position on the floor, mad stuff to memorize...its funny how in OKC we had to memorize things adn i was like oh man but it was SO small compared to what we need to know now....
OKC- 1 airway
4 airports
3 mvas(minimum vectoring altitude)
4 frequencies
SCT(my area has less than others) - a billion airways
-57 airports
-many mvas
-for my area about 10 frequencies, VHF plus UHF
•its funny talking to controllers cuz u have to get used to just stopping and starting conversations on a dime when a plane calls
•ive been biking a lot. biking pwns running or jogging cuz u can get the same workout but cover a lot more ground...so better scenery, and you can use it as a form of transportation. biking is also pretty big here in SD...there are bike shops ALL over...i could easily get by without my car for a while, going to work would be hard, but besides work i def wouldnt NEED my car...i even food shop without it most of the time
•in Target yesterday i overheard a worker informing another worker that there was a missing child...the worker asked the child's name and the other worker informed him that the parent didn't want to give the name....
•I can't wait for businesses to stop using PCs
Monday, June 08, 2009
yo yo...so i just came from the SD sheriffs station(actually a big nice building)to interview for my concealed weapons permit...in the pre interview the lady told me i wouldn't pass cuz i didn't have enough reason...what she basically told me was that i needed a SPECIFIC threat or reason why my life was in danger...
i never spoke more eloquently and intelligently in my life with these dumb people...i twisted their words to show what they were saying contradicted common sense to the point where they said i'd have to ask an attorney...tho i might have found a loophole
one example she gave me was if i had a restraining order on somebody...so im thinkin i can file a restraining order on someone, not press charges, then reapply...Plan B is to get a guard card(become a licensed security guard and just not get a job as one basically)Also wat annoys me is in california, beleive it or not, it is legal to OPEN CARRY a handgun so long as its unloaded(so you'd carry with an empty magazine and have a loaded magazine in ur holster, not attached)...so i proposed to them the scenario that I want to protect myself, they feel i don't have just enough cause, and now am forced to OPEN carry which puts me at greater risk? they couldn't answer how that makes sense...she also tried to tell me they are liable when they issue carry permits, but couldnt answer how someone having a restraining order out makes them less liable...i tried using the reason that i work at a 24 hr staffed facility and am forced to do daily activites at odd hrs etc etc, she said well there are many people who work 24 hrs(i wanted to just yell at her "and THEY should be able to carry too!")...
I am contacting a lawyer tommorrow through my union(cuz its free!), this is SO not done...
i never spoke more eloquently and intelligently in my life with these dumb people...i twisted their words to show what they were saying contradicted common sense to the point where they said i'd have to ask an attorney...tho i might have found a loophole
one example she gave me was if i had a restraining order on somebody...so im thinkin i can file a restraining order on someone, not press charges, then reapply...Plan B is to get a guard card(become a licensed security guard and just not get a job as one basically)Also wat annoys me is in california, beleive it or not, it is legal to OPEN CARRY a handgun so long as its unloaded(so you'd carry with an empty magazine and have a loaded magazine in ur holster, not attached)...so i proposed to them the scenario that I want to protect myself, they feel i don't have just enough cause, and now am forced to OPEN carry which puts me at greater risk? they couldn't answer how that makes sense...she also tried to tell me they are liable when they issue carry permits, but couldnt answer how someone having a restraining order out makes them less liable...i tried using the reason that i work at a 24 hr staffed facility and am forced to do daily activites at odd hrs etc etc, she said well there are many people who work 24 hrs(i wanted to just yell at her "and THEY should be able to carry too!")...
I am contacting a lawyer tommorrow through my union(cuz its free!), this is SO not done...
Sunday, June 07, 2009
yo yo...so last week i was speaking to mark on his birthday and he told me how him and Jay(Thomas, his cousin) were going to vegas and he asked how far away i was from it...im not far so we planned an impromptu vegas trip...they came in wednesday and i came into vegas thursday night after work...i met them at New York New York(where they were staying) and we bolted immediately to the Wynn to eat massive amounts of food. We were kinda short on time...not getting seated until 9:50 and food stopping at 1030 but the buffet was great...we went down to fremont street and gambled..i finished the night actually up about 150....of course after the next day i ended up down the same amount...meh...i still spent way less than my planned limit....i love pai gow...
next day we had an awesome buffet lunch at Paris...i tried to get the lady running the crepe station to make me a crepe inside of a crepe...like a crepe filled crepe...she didnt understand and just gave me two...ugh...I dropped Jay and Mark off at the airport friday night and then bounced...on the way home i stopped in Lancaster and crashed the night at my friend Don's house from oklahoma city academy...he works at a radar facility on edwards air force base...left this morning and am exhausted...barely got any sleep last few days
all in all the trip was short(for me)but very fun, weather was pleasantly mild, its always fun hanging with Jay, and mark too i guess...
next day we had an awesome buffet lunch at Paris...i tried to get the lady running the crepe station to make me a crepe inside of a crepe...like a crepe filled crepe...she didnt understand and just gave me two...ugh...I dropped Jay and Mark off at the airport friday night and then bounced...on the way home i stopped in Lancaster and crashed the night at my friend Don's house from oklahoma city academy...he works at a radar facility on edwards air force base...left this morning and am exhausted...barely got any sleep last few days
all in all the trip was short(for me)but very fun, weather was pleasantly mild, its always fun hanging with Jay, and mark too i guess...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
yo yo...havnt posted in a few days so i'll update what ive been doing....still doing classroom stuff until next friday...memorizing a lot of stuff for tests...every airport, navaid, airway(highways in the sky..there's lots...go to skyvector.com if u wanna see)...then our class will break up into the individual areas we're all working so the stuff we learn from their out will be specific to our areas...the areas at our facility are
Los angeles departures
Los angeles arrivals(where i'm assigned)
Burbank area
Coast area
San Diego area
Empire area
from what a lot of controllers and people have been telling me my area is the best and has the quickest checkout time...where other areas have to deal with small little private planes, air carriers, business jets, student pilots..arrivals, departures, helicopters my area pretty much only does air carriers, because we're only doing planes going into LAX...
in 2 weeks i start flight data class, then start on the floor working flight data for real the next week...basically there are strips of information for every flight, has all the info about the route its going, altitidue, etc....flight data organizes these strips, updates weather information eveyr hour and may create flight plans for people taht call requesting them
whats good is my sector never has to create flight plans, so we're pretty muych only going to give the strips that come in to the controllers at the scopes and update weather
here's a screen shot of flight publication , basically has all the info a pilot or controller will need about an area
Los angeles departures
Los angeles arrivals(where i'm assigned)
Burbank area
Coast area
San Diego area
Empire area
from what a lot of controllers and people have been telling me my area is the best and has the quickest checkout time...where other areas have to deal with small little private planes, air carriers, business jets, student pilots..arrivals, departures, helicopters my area pretty much only does air carriers, because we're only doing planes going into LAX...
in 2 weeks i start flight data class, then start on the floor working flight data for real the next week...basically there are strips of information for every flight, has all the info about the route its going, altitidue, etc....flight data organizes these strips, updates weather information eveyr hour and may create flight plans for people taht call requesting them
whats good is my sector never has to create flight plans, so we're pretty muych only going to give the strips that come in to the controllers at the scopes and update weather
here's a screen shot of flight publication , basically has all the info a pilot or controller will need about an area
