class HumanResources
{
    private double revenue = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[“InitialStartupCapital”];          

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        while (revenue > 0.0)
        {
            if (DateTime.Now.DayOfYear == 1) // first of the year
            {
                ChangeBenefitProvidersAndMakeEmployeesFillOutPaperwork();
                Console.WriteLine(“We’re excited to offer these new and exciting benefits!”);        

                // calculate new revenue
                revenue -= ThisYearsRevenue() - LamePartiesFund() - DiversityFund();
            }
            else if (DateTime.Now.Day == 1) // first of every month
            {
                PlanLameParty();
                Console.WriteLine(“We’re excited to offer these fun events this month!”);
            }
            else if (DateTime.Now.Month % 3 == 0 && DateTime.Now.Day == 15) // quarterly
            {
                MakeEmployeesFillOutMeaninglessGoalsAndBaseTheirBonusesOnThem();
                Console.WriteLine(“We’re excited to help you succeed in your career growth!”);
            }         

            Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromDays(1)); // sleep until tomorrow           

        }          

        Console.WriteLine(“We’re sorry, you’ve been laid off.”);
        return 0;}
    }           

It all started out with $50 that my roommate Andy owed me. While we were driving to get some delicious Chipotle, Andy remembered that he owed me money from when I sold him my old phone and jokingly asked if I wanted to be paid in scratch lottery tickets. I laughed and told him, “yeah, why not?” and then we ate our huge chipotle burritos(mine of course had no beans because that would just be gross). A couple weeks later Andy was headed to the bank and said, “Are you sure your really want $50 worth of scratch tickets?” I had almost forgotten about it, but still stuck with my first answer. I told myself it’d be like an experiment or at the very least a good story. So a few hours later Andy walked into my room with $50 worth of scratch tickets.

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Just got back from a business trip to San Francisco for the CTIA conference.  It was my first time to the Bay Area and I was impressed to say the least.  There were so many places I wanted to see and take pictures of, but I only had a few days there which were mostly filled with meetings/conference doings.  I was able to get a little time out exploring though, check out the photos

Ok, so those that know me know that I like to make fun of the whole global warming thing.  I think it’s slightly comical how much misleading goes on, on both sides of the argument.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the environment, I really do(camping, whitewater kayaking, etc.).  But here’s the thing; “saving” the environment is great insofar as it pertains to humans using it and enjoy it.  There seems to be this sentiment going around that we’re doing it “for the environment.” As if the environment is more important than the people living in it.  We obviously need to think about the environment and how we impact it for our children, but it’s just crazy thinking that a tree or rock or field is more important than a person.

This shirt that was given to me by a friend sums up my feelings on the matter.  It’s could go either way, you decide.

Cliff Jumping Allstars

Tubing Carnage

If you’ve never experienced the fun that is Lake Powell, you’re definitely missing out. It’s pretty hard to describe in words exactly what its like so I’ll have to let the pictures do the talking. I can say though from all the questions that people ask me, that it is not like Lake Havasu. No, there are not party boats tied up together with drunk college girls flashing everyone and then falling in between the boats. Don’t confuse the two, they are very different. Ok, on to the pics, check them out here

In choosing a new domain for my site I thought long and hard(not really that long) about something that would be somewhat meaningful and not just my name.   I think I must have been in a very emo mood when I thought of it, but this is what came out, “the road goes ever on and on.”  Its a reference to a poem in The Lord of the Rings that I really like.

The Road goes ever on and on
     Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
     And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
     Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
     And whither then? I cannot say.

In a slightly corny and sentimental way, it describes how I try to look at things.  Trying to see the excitement of the unkown mixed in with the small details of each day.

So my old hosting company dissapeared somewhere into the abyss of the internet taking my old domain with it.  Whatever you do, do not believe anything that BftGlobal says.  I guess you won’t ever come to a point where they are trying to sell you on something though, they really have dissapeared into thin air, jerks.  I can’t even link to their site to bad mouth them because it doesn’t exist anymore.  So, lesson to be learned from all this…choose a hosting company that actually owns the servers that they’re hosting your site on and not just leasing them from another company.  Once my nicklamb.net domain returns from the abyss, I’ll be able to point it to here.

 With that being said, welcome to my new site.  An explanation of the name will be soon to follow…