The Times They Are a'Changing

James Brown was one of the best showmen that ever existed. Watch him on youtube, he was 50 and moving so fast the flash would have a hard time keeping up with the foot work.

Yup, that man certainly was a sex machine, just ran out of gas.

James Brown

(May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

I digress.... I wanted to partake in some post rapture looting, unfortunately that didn't pan out. I guess there's always 2012. 

I digress again, I suppose the question on everyones mind, or all 36 of you that read my blog, how do I know that times are a changing for myself and the free world? Estoy contento. I don't need anything, wants are there but the sobering truth is no matter how bad the economy is or how hard the job search is, the fortuitous string of fortunate events that have led me to this place and continue to occur (albeit less slowly than my impatient self would like) on a daily basis. 

Bette Middler would say God is watching us from a distance, Religion is a highly personal thing, and who am I to tell you what to believe blah blah blah blah. A better question is fate vs. free will. I for one believe it is 100% free  will, but the world is such a small place and our interpersonal places, habits, or "rounds" as I occasionally refer to habitual and ritualized frequenting of different locations for social interaction. 

Regressing.... fortunate events, I feel it in my bones that a big change is coming for me. It doesn't hurt that I'm loading the odds in my favor and the chance of change. Plus the fact that is is an eventuality doesn't hurt either. I mean I'm not going to live in Naples for long, I mean there's definitely a fire lit under my ass. Also regaining my fighting spirit, got the wind knocked out of me and while its something I don't like to admit its nothing to be ashamed of. Everybody hurts, sometime....

Man whats up with this, it seems that every post has a theme, and this one is music, but mostly bad. This must be remedied.

Beatles- Everyone's favorite band. 

The Doors

(I tried to replicate Jim Morrison's fashion sense)

*SERVER ERROR*

Oh well, you get the point.... Also check out The Black Keys, my new favorite. 

Do I use my blog as a podium: Yes, it is my digital soap box. If you don't like it, why have you read all this? Am I trying to make the world a better place: yes, I was asked that at work by a guy that is in the army studying to be a doctor. He looked at my brochure and asked me if I was trying to save the world. Yes, one step at a time.  The brochure is being printed by NCH and distributed as well as translated into Spanish and Creole. 

I can feel it in my bones, a big change is coming. 

Epic Systems Fail.....

No it wasn't the 2K computer crash, or the web 2.0 bubble popping in everyones face, it was my  notification from Epic Systems that my employment opportunity was an epic fail. This would be of little recourse as I have been actively seeking employment for some time, and received hundreds of rejections, some from employers, some not, but I've also been on the dating scene for a couple years now so that doesn't phase me. However I had gotten the farthest with this application process.

Employee reviews here:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Epic-Systems-Corporation-Reviews-E35163.htm

Oh! The figurative dagger through the heart, and I was growing fond of the idea of Wisconsin winters and writing about health informatics. Alas, must reboot the system. I am going to be doing some work integrating NCH's ElectronicMedicalRecords or EMR system with the Women's Health Foundation which will get my feet wet.

Applying to Arthrex, a local joint manufacturing company, this isn't California so I must be talking about Hip replacements. They are growing and as a reasonable individual I wouldn't believe it to be outrageous to think I would be employed there. However, I really really really want to get out of Naples/Ft. Myers/Estero/ Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale and don't want to go anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line.

Philly seems like a nice city, I have family and friends in the area and a really cool potential roommate if I want to move up there in August.
Companies headquartered around Philly include but are not limited to Accenture, Deloitte, Adelphia, Shire Plc. and many others. It would be a welcome change, but I've found the more plans I make the less they materialize. So I suppose the plan for the immediate future is continuing the job scavenger hunt. Hope I land a good one.

The happiest place on earth... Or is it?

Upon my recent journey to the lair of the insidious rodent by the name of Mickey, an obvious slant against the Irish, I visited spaceship earth. There, the entire history of the world was laid out to me in about 120 seconds flat. We proceeded with our trip around "the world" beginning at Canada.

Oh Canada.... you didn't look like this in real life, but I suppose that you can't have your maple syrup and ... drink it too.  Before heading over any bodies of water we reached the UK. They had the a Beatles cover band and beer, sounds about right.

We had lunch in France. I've been to France, the food is good. Unfortunatly, everything comes from a big kitchen where it all comes out of the same tube. Or at least that's what I imagined after sampling cuisines from around the magical world of Epcot.

China was surprisingly empty, I suppose that one baby policy really worked.... Wouldn't want to check the pond out back.
The rest of the world was lack luster, Germany and Sweden seemed the same. And then came time for the fireworks.
Mexico was spot on, crowded, and the line for margaritas was a mile long. Oh yeah, we tried to get ice cream and a lady told us how stupid we were for not knowing they only had soft serve. She has to go to a couple hours of training now, to make sure shes the happiest person serving ice cream.
Goodbye wonderful world of Disney, and stay classy