Day In The Life of Baz

Today I got tagged by Lava for 8 random things about me. Here’s how it goes: You spit eight (8) personal facts about yourself and you tag eight (8) other bloggers with it. Here we go:

1. Like Lava, I like dolphins too, but on a plate next to some rice and potatoes. Yumm
2. I thought I would like a job doing something I like, but I realized that I just don’t like work period.
3. I have absolutely no furniture in my apartment. I really don’t see the need right now.
4. I’m in love with the color blue. Almost any shade and I’m there, but if I had to pick, it would be navy.
5. I just fell in love with AutoHotKey. Excellent tool. I guess I love it because I’m lazy.
6. I’m lazy. Yes, I really am. Actually, I just like the quick, short, efficeint way around things. I’ve never been one to reinvent the wheel.

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Today at about 1:16 PM, don’t ask me where they got the time from, but today was officially the first day of summer. What’s special about today? It’s the longest day of the year. I was sitting in the break room at work, when one of our employees came out with some ice cream cones, syrup, whipped cream, and of course ice cream.

This was our “First Day of Summer” celebration. One good thing about the longest day of the year is that it’s all down hill from here. I can’t wait till the nice short days of fall come around. I hope they bring some cool weather with them. One good thing about today is that it was very cloudy out today and I think a lil’ bit rainy too, so it wasn’t hot. Right now, I’m not a big summer fan. Since I’ve graduated and work full time, I get ten (10) vacation days a year; that’s it. So no more summers off. All that happens during summer is that I see all the other happy folks that don’t have anything to do while I’m on my way home from work. And of course there’s the heat.

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Why would Michael Weston get fired from the CIA? In the new USA Network show, Burn Notice, this guy gets fired from the CIA and then gets burned. Everyone is after him and he goes into hiding trying to escape.

But back to the matter at hand, why would one get fired from the CIA? There are real life CIA termination stories ranging from leaking information to blogging. But Michale Weston doesn’t seem like the type to sell secrets; I don’t know, he strikes me as a good guy. And in the ads I’ve seen, he definitely doesn’t look like he’s trying to rush home to get a post off.

But, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) seems like the type to bend the rules not break them. And seeing Jeffrey Donovan in a few other roles (Hitch is the latest one I can remember) he strikes me as a “sleeping with the enemy” type of guy. Yep, I’d be willing to be that he bedded the wrong woman at the wrong time, and his bosses got involved. Now, we’re talking about the enemy here, so that’s like treason. You can’t just suspend someone for that; so he got burned for sleeping with a woman (pun very intended).

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After reading this article I sat and thought for a minute. I thought about the things that I do personally and I wondered, am I frugal or am I just a cheap bastard? I never had a lot when I was growing up, so this has taught me to appreciate the little that I have, but I to wonder sometimes, am I going to far? I mean, I’ve never had much disposable income. From primary school I got a scholarship to go to high school. This scholarship consisted of free books and $50.00 monthly transportation allowance. Luckily, my mom worked next to the school so I never had to use this on transportation. So what did I do with it? Stuck it in the bank. Yep, at ten (10) years old, I stuck money in the bank. So, I’ve grown up handling money very carefully.

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I got home today and fired up MS Money to do my lil’ balancing act. I have direct deposit to my ING account, of course, so I checked my account and noticed there was a rather large sum of money deposited lately. It could be nothing else than my paycheck. Now I also have an auto paycheck thing set up in MS Money, which enters automatically on the 1st and the 15th of the month.

So I downloaded my statement from ING in order to reconcile the transactions, but something was wrong. It didn’t add up. But that was a good thing. It was $100.00 more than what I expected it to be. Pleasantly surprised, I logged onto PayChex.com (yep, we’re high tech, aren’t we?) , and checked my paycheck (lol, check paycheck :)). There it was, $105.00 in overtime and about $5.00 more in taxes, for a net increase of $100.00.

Yep, I love over time, don’t you? I guess working on the weekend and staying working later to meet deadlines has it’s perks.

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