asi es la vida

I now have 3 SIM cards, 2 for work and one personal. My new work SIM has 3G internet enabled and I did a bandwidth test yesterday and got 700kbit/second download speeds. I am very excited about that because now when my regular internet dies, it won't even phase me. I'll just hook my phone up via Bluetooh or USB (for faster downloads). It works like a charm too.

The last intern left today, she gave me 5 cookies. I ate all of them. I wish everybody would suck up to me like that... I also stole her badge clip because mine was almost broken. I almost feel like I just robbed the grave of somebody because she just left and all and I'm already picking over her things. I didn't talk to the interns that much, but today I was reminded again about how much of my life has passed and how much I miss college life. If I could take their place I would. What's the rush in life?

I made an offer on a lot to build a house on today. My Realtor expects that they'll give me a counter-offer because mine was low. We'll see. I hope they just need money badly so they'll accept anything. The lot has been on the market for awhile and they are also selling their house, so I think that I'm in a good position. We'll see, we'll see. Nevertheless I'm taking my first step (again) towards building a house and I hope this time it'll all work out!

Oh those interns

Today, they made their own fake news bulletin. (click the image to read)

Meet the interns

So apparently I'm going to mentor one of the four interns for our team. Well that's great because I totally am bogged down with my 30 min of daily work. I swear I can't tell how old kids are these days because I could've sworn they looked my age. However, they are all high school graduates. So I think I am starting to get the old man syndrome where I think I look younger than I really do.

Another weird thing is that none of the interns look like computer-types. They look like the cooler crowd or at least non-geek crowd. I miss the good ol-days where I was surrounded by a bunch of nerds in high school. Also 2/4 of the interns are females, and there was definitely not a 50% male to female ratio in my school. Times are changing, and for an old dog like me, I think it's time to throw in the towel and start yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

Old Man Gripes:

1. Kids these days need to eat more
   
2. What ever happened to the good ol' nerd engineer?
   
3. Those interns are all making too much for their age
   
4. GET OFF MY LAWN