OK so as promised, here I am blogging about every month that passed since my last blog (dated April 2008). Before anything else, I just want to mention one thing. What's good here is that you can actually change the date of every post. Even to a date when VOX itself didn't exist. The question is whether or not to do it since it may confuse the (total of) 2 readers that I have. But it's a good way to keep track of what happened in a nice and chronological manner. Especially if, like me, your main reason for blogging is simply documentation.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is why I blog. Not to entertain you, not to show you how amazing and witty and funny I am (although I am), but merely to document the many complexities of my adult life. A journal you might say. One might even call it a diary. Though I prefer "journal" since "diary" is kind of a feminine way to put it. It's also a huge stress reliever. A form of release. No matter how negative a particular event in your life may be, reading it as a blog entry simplifies the complexities of the situation. Blogging, one might say, is a good way of learning from the past. From yourself. Taking the good, and leaving the bad. And if you ask me...
"...that's what life should be all about." ._.
(Cue sentimental background piano Music)
or
[ insert eye roll here ____________ ]
Anyway, let's begin. In May of 2008 I was still employed by National Oil Well Varco. They're an oil rig manufacturer and my main job was to track down, chase, and document parts for production. If one little tiny nut or bolt was late, the whole Oil Rig (which costs millions) would be late. So that was what I was doing. Chasing parts for tens of projects that are already late. They're ALWAYS late. I'll leave it up to you to paint a picture of the stress level involved in a job like that. All this from a job position that they advertised as "entry level". Pffft.
That was my desk. It was a pretty big cubicle for an "entry level" person like me. And I put pictures to relieve the stress and also a little Bonsai tree. Boy did I loved that tree. The pot consisted of the bonsai tree itself, and a little old Chinese fisherman with matching fishing rod and a little fish on its line. Half of the pot was for the tree and half you could put water on. Like a mini "lake". That little bonsai tree made me look forward to going to work, believe it or not. During weekends I would find myself thinking about it, wondering if I watered and fertilized it enough to last the weekend. Bonsai trees are very fickle, you see. It's very hard to take care of one if - like me - you don't know what you're doing.
Anyway, have any of you tried VOX Mobile? Since my Nokia N95 is the driving force behind me blogging again, I tried it out and it works like a charm. After taking (awesome) pictures on my phone, I would open the application and it would publish the photos right on Vox. And if you don't put titles, it saves the file using the date the picture was taken. Yet another way for me to document the events in my life chronologically. It's the reason why I can go back to a particular month last year and blog all about it. I don't have a pornographic photographic memory like some people do.
And that's about it for May of 2008. I was still working a dead end office job that I didn't really like. I was pretty much channeling Jim from "The Office" every single day. That's honestly what it felt like.
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