Green Energy?

Does anyone in the San Diego area know if there are any green energy options available? I've contacted SDGE and they don't provide any, but I know in some places you can choose a different provider. However on the state of California website it says the ability for customers to "purchase electricity from an Electric Service Provider instead of regulated electric utilities, was suspended on September 20, 2001."

Another public transportation story

This could very easily turn into a "strange experiences of public transportation" blog. This morning on my way in, there was a guy on my bus wearing pants with shorts on top. It was weird. He was a little freaky, but didn't seem like he was out of his mind. Hmm.

A new perspective

I've written about my discontent with work here and here. I had decided a while back, that although I don't feel it is the right place for me right now, that I would stick with it for now because I have some important things coming up, like a wedding and a honeymoon. Which means I need serious money, and a place that will give me 3 weeks off.

But now the new twist is this. My boss is fairly confident that within 2 years the company will be bought and taken public. Which means... if things go in that direction it would be VERY MUCH to my benefit financially to still be an employee at that time. Sooooo, maybe I will change my timeframe. Either struggle with figuring out a career path, or suck it up for a couple years, and then not have to worry about a career path. Hmmm. Nice to think about, eh?

What do you say?

If you read my blog with any regularity, you know my feelings about God. If you don't, here are my feelings:

I don't believe.

So, I find myself throughout each day saying, when someone sneezes, "Bless you". And it bugs me. Each time I say it I think, "Well, I don't mean it, but if I don't say it, I'll come across as rude."

But that's not even the point of this post. This weekend, as I was walking away, someone said, "God Bless." I understand that they mean it in the nicest way possible, but my problem with that is this: Because "you" believe in God, it doesn't not mean everyone does. I don't believe, however I understand that most do. In fact, most people who don't intimately know me, would probably be shocked to know my real beliefs. However, on a daily basis I hear people make assumptions about my faith, directly and indirectly, and while I have no problem with theirs (well ok, I do a little), I do not like it when people assume, nor do I like it when they flaunt their beliefs, because I know people would think differently of me if I flaunted mine. I don't tell people I think their belief is ridiculous, nor do I think they would appreciate it much if I did. So why do I have to put up with them flauting their beliefs?

Ok, so maybe I'm a middle class white guy who's been fortunate enough to live a for the most part easy life, but this is one thing where it truly bugs me for people to make assumptions about who I am and what I believe by the way I look.

If you don't believe in God, what do you do when someone says something to you under the assumption that you share the same beliefs? If you do believe, why do you assume everyone does?

I respect your right to believe, why do you not respect mine to not believe?

10804

That amount of feet I ascended to on my hike this weekend. Did San Jacinto Peak, total of 16 miles round trip. My legs and ass hurt.

Overheard on the bus on the way home

"You ever heard the saying 'The blacker the cherry the sweeter the juice?' Well, it's true."

I have mentioned in previous posts about public transportation is that it has the stigma of being for low income. Well to be honest, that saying above doesn't have anything to do with income, but let me tell you, there were some ghetto people on the bus tonight. And about the low income, it really is true on my route. I live in a decent area, between downtown and a shady area, which means my bus goes in between. Most days I am the whitest boy on that bus.

I heard today several n-bombs, and plenty of ghetto talk.

An Incovenient Truth

Go see it

The plus side to taking the city bus

Is that I haven't put gas in my car for over a month.

Rise Against Video - Watch It

Well done.

Watch this video for Rise Against - Ready to Fall

Raw version (warning... graphic and will make you want to cry)

Normal version

Toiling yet again

Back to my usual topic of work restlessness. I have mixed feelings about my boss. I understand that he's created this company out of his passion for what he does. But it consumes him, and is his priority, and takes precedence over his own life and his family.

I like working with him and I like working for a small casual company, but lately his passion has been irritating me. All he ever talks about is how he wants his employees to make work priority, how everyone needs to be more productive, and all the while I'm thinking about the end of the day and the time when I can leave.

Even though he's never said it to me, I know he probably thinks I lack dedication, since although I put in a full eight hours every day, I rarely do more. It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that work is secondary to life for me, and I don't think someone like him will ever understand it.

He spends so much time trying to get people to share his vision, and while he's got a core group of people who are good workers, I know he wishes we were all more passionate, and that's where he's wrong. Perhaps he will find people willing to spend their days and weekends working with him, but I won't be one of them. Of all the things about work, his desire for more is what bugs me most. The fact that he doesn't seem to respect people's need for balance. I leave each day feeling guilty like I'm cutting out early, after working a bit over 8 hours, and that is a feeling I hate.

And to compound that, each day while sitting in the office I feel life slipping through my fingers. And I don't even have it that bad...