ramblings on about work
if you don't care to hear about my work gibberish, you can skip this entry. i won't take it personally. ;)
it's really weird working in hmb. it always seemed like a totally different world, not even remotely a part of the rest of the bay area. for one thing, you have to drive over this massive, windy, twisty, mountain road to get there. and all the times i've gone, it's been a weekend and it's taken well over an hour. but yet, there's a certain small coastal town charm about it. so with all this charm, how could there be such evil people?! apparently, the rchc fought for 30 years to build a hotel in hmb, and finally they won and voila, rchmb was born. but the locals did not like this idea at all. they didn't like all the traffic it was creating in their quaint little town. well, i can understand that, but what about all the extra business we've brought to all the local businesses? or the hundreds of jobs we've created for the townspeople? you wanna know how much the city of hmb hates us? the post office refuses to deliver our mail to us. we have to go to the post office, drop off our outgoing mail, and pick up incoming mail. the police? yeah, they regularly station themselves, hidden, waiting to pull our guests over. even our poor shuttle van driver has gotten pulled over for not making a complete stop, which i hear is a lie that the cop made up. then all the passengers got tickets for not having their seatbelts on. yes, since then i've been buckling up, even tho our trip is about 0.2 miles. if you ever get pulled over in hmb, don't EVER say you work for the rchmb, or else for sure they will find 3 things to ticket you for. sheesh. and the pizza places? yeah, they all refuse to deliver to our specific location, but they'll deliver to the houses that are just 50 yards away from us. i just don't understand this hostility. i understand that ecologically, building a huge golf and spa resort isn't exactly the best thing for the california coastline, but hello, what about all the millions of acres being consumed all over our country by urban sproul?! i'm not saying it's justified, i'm just saying it's lame that hmb is still holding a grudge, 2 years after the hotel first opened. *sigh*
normal days, i like my job a lot. the people are great (for the most part, most of the time), the duties could be better, but i realize i have to start somewhere, and well, our perks are fantastic. but days like today, where i am just giddy, well, it makes me really love my job. :) i promise, i'll tell you all about it after i get back from hawaii. *whee*
okay, that's all the work talk i can handle. ;) i'm at home now, work is behind me! just looking forward to a fabulous weekend. my roommate is surprising her boyfren with a warriors game for his b-day! not just any warriors game. she invited 15 people to join him for a thunder birthday bash, where the warrior mascot will visit the b-day boy and he gets his name lit up on the score board and lots of fun free stuff and food. :) how sweet, i can't wait to see his face!! oh! that reminds me!! so after the whole dropping of the cybershot incident, w took the camera to best buy (thank gawd for extended warantee). they said it would be ready on 2/16. well, turns out they had to send it to LA, who had to send it somewhere on the east coast, and we were really worried we wouldn't have it in time for our trip (he even bought a 128 MB memory stick just for hawaii!!). well, it's ready, and it's back, waiting for us. *phew* that was close. so i'll definitely take it to the game to take pics of his reaction! haha, should be fun times.
if you don't care to hear about my work gibberish, you can skip this entry. i won't take it personally. ;)
it's really weird working in hmb. it always seemed like a totally different world, not even remotely a part of the rest of the bay area. for one thing, you have to drive over this massive, windy, twisty, mountain road to get there. and all the times i've gone, it's been a weekend and it's taken well over an hour. but yet, there's a certain small coastal town charm about it. so with all this charm, how could there be such evil people?! apparently, the rchc fought for 30 years to build a hotel in hmb, and finally they won and voila, rchmb was born. but the locals did not like this idea at all. they didn't like all the traffic it was creating in their quaint little town. well, i can understand that, but what about all the extra business we've brought to all the local businesses? or the hundreds of jobs we've created for the townspeople? you wanna know how much the city of hmb hates us? the post office refuses to deliver our mail to us. we have to go to the post office, drop off our outgoing mail, and pick up incoming mail. the police? yeah, they regularly station themselves, hidden, waiting to pull our guests over. even our poor shuttle van driver has gotten pulled over for not making a complete stop, which i hear is a lie that the cop made up. then all the passengers got tickets for not having their seatbelts on. yes, since then i've been buckling up, even tho our trip is about 0.2 miles. if you ever get pulled over in hmb, don't EVER say you work for the rchmb, or else for sure they will find 3 things to ticket you for. sheesh. and the pizza places? yeah, they all refuse to deliver to our specific location, but they'll deliver to the houses that are just 50 yards away from us. i just don't understand this hostility. i understand that ecologically, building a huge golf and spa resort isn't exactly the best thing for the california coastline, but hello, what about all the millions of acres being consumed all over our country by urban sproul?! i'm not saying it's justified, i'm just saying it's lame that hmb is still holding a grudge, 2 years after the hotel first opened. *sigh*
normal days, i like my job a lot. the people are great (for the most part, most of the time), the duties could be better, but i realize i have to start somewhere, and well, our perks are fantastic. but days like today, where i am just giddy, well, it makes me really love my job. :) i promise, i'll tell you all about it after i get back from hawaii. *whee*
okay, that's all the work talk i can handle. ;) i'm at home now, work is behind me! just looking forward to a fabulous weekend. my roommate is surprising her boyfren with a warriors game for his b-day! not just any warriors game. she invited 15 people to join him for a thunder birthday bash, where the warrior mascot will visit the b-day boy and he gets his name lit up on the score board and lots of fun free stuff and food. :) how sweet, i can't wait to see his face!! oh! that reminds me!! so after the whole dropping of the cybershot incident, w took the camera to best buy (thank gawd for extended warantee). they said it would be ready on 2/16. well, turns out they had to send it to LA, who had to send it somewhere on the east coast, and we were really worried we wouldn't have it in time for our trip (he even bought a 128 MB memory stick just for hawaii!!). well, it's ready, and it's back, waiting for us. *phew* that was close. so i'll definitely take it to the game to take pics of his reaction! haha, should be fun times.
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