Go Game

I think my Go has gotten weaker. I am not sure anymore the strings that held my groups together used to be strong! I never lost a head to head fight!!!! Now my groups are open to attack! The people that I used to play are no longer on. The people I play now have strange foreign moves to me. I do not know how to react! The moves they make do not even seem to be strong. I try to attack the weakness but it is like trying to grab at a balloon that has just flown from your hand out of reach. You try to jump because it is moving slowly away but you still cannot grasp it even though you may touch the string. And like a balloon when you are blowing it up you have to judge exactly how much air you can blow into it. If you blow to much air it will pop! Same with territory you have to judge your extensions and not open your groups up for attack themselves or all is lost.

We will leave with a profound go Proverb!

"Don't go fishing while your house is on fire"

Explanation: If your house burns down then you will have nowhere to cook your fish!

Weeee!!!

I am still reading Harry Potter... I must be one of the few people who has had the book for this long and still have not finished the book. Oh well...

Yesterday my friend Andy and his brother went out to eat. And on the way back his brother hit the curb when dropping my off. I guess they never really changed a tire before because they have triple A.. well I was gonna change the tire but I ended up not doing it because my brother decided to come out and jack the car and he jacked it up on the little guide rib that goes along the bottom and bent it. Oh well they called triple A and he changed the tire in like 5 minutes. Oh the fun.

Lazy... On so many levels

I can't be more blunt then that. I am a lazy person! I use all kinds of shortcuts just so I don't have to do the work all over again. I hate redundancy. I have been trying to keep up with posting on this blog but there is so much to post about that I end up not posting anything! I have tons of pictures to share but they take sooo long to load. Don't get me wrong.. I do work that I am given! I may end up putting it off if I don't sense any kind of urgency but I do, do the work. And if it is something I would have to do again! I make sure there is a quicker way... now this quicker way may take me a while to figure out that might have been quicker to just go and do it. But oh well! I like efficiency... I hate the fact that I was late by 5-10 minutes everyday! But what can I say I am lazy... SO a 10 second preview of what had happened over the weekend.

Friday last day! I posted that I believe....
Sat- went to air museum! was awesome. Took tons of pictures.. stupid SR-71 was blocked by another plane for good shots.
Went to gregs but he wasn't there had to leave for my sisters house. I got in about 12:00 had to wait 15 minutes for her to get off work.
Sunday - Spilled oil on myself! Doh I am a clutz
Saw the harry potter movie. Was a lot better then I expected. (i have doubts against any book that becomes a movie.) We had ice cream... pizza... ruby tuesdays not all in that order.
Drove back home which took about 9 hours.
Monday- Met my Dad's 35 yr old brother. Apparently he does drugs, has a suspended florida license, a 21 year old GF with a 2 yr old baby....
Tuesday- Got my hair cut! YAY! Met up with my friend Andy where we proceeded to drink some alcohol and then ate some chicken! The chicken sobered my up thought which is sad. Not eating a lot gets you drunk quicker.

Last Day

Today was my last day at work with ASA. Tomorrow I will be heading home for about two weeks. My first stop is overnight in Rock Hill, SC. This is where my sister is at. And then Sunday night I should be headed out again for PA.

Last day of work really wasn't weird or anything. It really just felt like another day. I did work most of the time trying to get the MTBUR out for the people before I left. They made a card for me I didn't read all of it yet. It seemed like everyone wrote something and it was very nice. They also gave me a framed picture of the group photo! Which was taken with my new camera. Except they decided to crop it and the people on the ends are in a tight spot.

Well that ends my chapter with ASA. The next question will be if I am going to work for an airline or not when I get out of school. I have arguments for both causes but I am not sure which is better. We will have to see how everything goes!! Because you know if some kind of opportunity comes up I will just have to jump at it on a heart beat. Good news now though is I have about a whole year of experience at an airline doing most everything there was to do on the structures side of the hill.

Fall Out

End of March

About four months ago, sometime in April, we got a new VP for Maintenance and Engineering as the current VP was promoted and we had a temporary promoted VP at the time. Anyway, right before this happened we lost one of our propulsion engineers. We are going to start with him because it seems important to note that he was getting tons of work thrown at him and I don’t think he liked his boss to much. Never the less it seemed okay that he was leaving, however at the same time there started rumors of going to Atlanta and closing Macon down because they were trying to get this brand new hangar up there.

End of April

Anyway the next person to go was the only reliability engineer left, the other one left in December before I came back. Why did I not start there? Well it seemed to distant and not relevant. So I asked the Reliability Engineer why he was leaving and he said it was because of all the rumors and the fact that Kenny actually left got him thinking about whether or not it was time to go. He was hired by delta and is working in one of their labs in Atlanta. If we were going to go to Atlanta anyway, why not get a higher paying job there right? Well about two weeks before he left is when we did get our new VP. This guy is strange to me, I don’t know if he knows how to soften anything. Basically he said if we don’t improve our maintenance we will no longer have a job. Though he included himself in this category how are you supposed to have people take this?? At this point I am not sure if the reliability engineer had left or not but he also informed us officially that they wanted all the Directors to go to Atlanta. What this means, however, is that all the support staff directly under the Directors will also be moving to Atlanta. They project having the hangar and moving to Atlanta as early as 6 months from then. No clear plan.

End of May

Next person to go was actually a transfer down to the floor. So he is still with the company just no longer in our department. This seems okay we didn’t really lose someone but it sure felt that way as he never comes up to visit or anything. I suppose he is really busy working on the aircraft and all. This guy was the Six Sigma Project and Trax Manager for the engineering group. Hmmm maybe they should hire someone soon? They end up giving me all the Reliability Engineers responsibilities which encompasses what used to be done by two people back before December.

End of June

Well this seems okay only down two actual engineers and a support guy. This next sweep hit really hard. Three people left in within a week! We lost both of our System Guys and a structures guy. The Structures left at the end of June (the last Friday of the month) and the Systems Engineers left the 3rd of July right before a Holiday… The reason these guys left is because we were definitely going to Atlanta. Well they saw this as an opportunity to move to where they want. The structures engineer stayed at a local company around here. The two systems went out of town, one to Continental in Houston where the rest of his family lives and then the other one went to Ohio where his relatives live, working with skybus.

End of July

Well this is not the end. So far we are down 6 people from June… one other from December. Almost at the end of July our director called us into a meeting to tell us the Manager of Engineering is going to be retiring from ASA and working on part time contracting with Delta for a couple of years and then officially retiring. This was the biggest shock of them all. The fact that our boss also wanted to make more money then what ASA was willing to give when we moved to Atlanta! It probably isn’t all about the money though as it seemed to me like he was being overwhelmed with work here. Coming in at 7:00 am and not leaving to 7:00 pm on some days it seemed. So here I am at ASA going to be working a week after my boss has left…. This is just so weird.

Not done yet.

There is also this SoCal blonde from Prescott’s Embry-Riddle who also works in the department. She also has decided to leave the company and will be leaving the Monday after me. She also has gotten a job at Continental in the interiors department. Her reason for leaving was pushed over the edge when our boss decided to leave....

And of course I will be leaving this Friday.

Memphis, TN: Ginger's Wedding

This weekend I went to my cousin, Ginger's Wedding. Most of my Dad's Cousins live in Tennessee which is where the wedding was held as you can guess from the title. Memphis is kind of cool. Their Airport though is really weird.

Well I am slow what can I say!!! To recap the day as best I can remember it... it was a long day I suppose. I got up at 4am for some reason half an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off. I took a shower and I was still way to early to leave for the airport I didn't want to go back to bed or anything so I thought to myself to just go to the airport, I can read there. (I still haven't finished the hairy potter book)

Anyway I get to the airport took a picture. Got to Atlanta at some early point that I had 3 hours before my flight to Memphis. I decided to go to concourse E where there is a bookstore there that in my opinion is the biggest one in the airport. I was looking for a specific book "A Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clark. This book is really good and I want my roommate to read it but he won't buy it. No book was there I thought it was there last time but didn't know if my roommate would read it at the time. The lady said there was a Bigger bookstore on Concourse D... well No it was not bigger and I had to wait for it to open too.

Next I know that between concourse T and A... hmm T&A... Oh wait ya umm there are statues and pictures of the African culture. I think they are trying to say something about atlanta but thats just me. So I decided to take some of these pictures.


Well this is all before 9am in the morning. Then I get on the plane as one of the last seats. Get to the Memphis Airport (see above picture) which is designed really weird. Don't really do to much till the wedding I ended up sleeping. We shopped for a gift using the gift registry at some expensive store. The wedding started at 7pm... at this point I have been up for 12 hours. I take some pictures at the wedding. Most turn out bad because my dad told me not to use flash till the end. I like this picture the best...

Almost immediately after the wedding everyone went to the reception which is about 15 minutes away. The reception was where things got weird to me. The food was what they called a "potato bar" really just think of a glass with mashed potatoes and then taco toppings. Thats the potato bar. The speeches were almost touching the Husband told a story I had heard before. I think it would have been nice to have someone there that remembered me except my immediate family... Later in the reception they brought a bunch of sorority sisters forward and they decided to have some chug drinking chant and passed the pitcher around... AT A WEDDING!!!! WTF???????? Well this is where I started to want to go home now. I am done... stuck up sorority sisters for brides maids and Fraternity brothers for the groomsmen. All probably have gotten together to have matches for each other before hand.. because thats how they work. They make sure that each person has someone as a match. What does this mean I don't know nothing really I could always ask someone to dance except that they did not like to dance and keep dancing they would only pick very specific songs to dance too then leave the floor then the older women would come on the floor dance and trade spots... All I have to say is that Friend weddings are probably going to be better then Family weddings. I will have to give warnings to my cousin who is getting married. I am supposed to be the best man. Oi... If you want more pictures let me know. If not thats fine by me, it just takes so long to load them!!!

Dattebayo Staff Arrested at Otakon [UPDATED 7/27]

This one will be short. I am posting this story from a web site that I get Fan Subtitled anime from. Hopefully posting this too will not get me shot.... This is on their website in the press release section, Clayfoot is not entirely sure this is real... They have been known to pull pranks but I HOPE they do not pull one that sounds as serious as this one.

"2007/07/22

Baltimore, MD USA
Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:10PM EDT

Today at 5:57PM five members of the Dattebayo staff were arrested at the Baltimore Convention Center as they prepared for their panel as part of the Otakon Convention. Four uniformed police officers, along with legal counsel of a complaintent company, approached the stage shortly before the presentation was to begin. Witnesses said that along with the arrest, the officers seized the laptop of one of the group members, which was intended to be used for presentation purposes.

The officers, as well as the lawyers, would not respond to media inquires regarding the reason for these arrests beyond stating that they stemmed from the illegal reproduction of copyrighted works.

The panel, which was originally called "Fansubbing/Manga Scanlation" was recently renamed to "Dattebayo Fansubbing". Experts speculate that this may have alerted authorities to the location of the group members and left an opportunity for this course of action.

Witness reactions varied including one Richard Sequoa who said, "I just can't believe something like this could happen at our convention." Another witness, a Judy Hibertson, said, "I'm glad. This is what they get for their constant trolling. It's just not funny!"

When asked to comment, group member Interacti said, "I've been told by my lawyer not to say anything because of the sensitive nature of legal matters however this has been a trying experience and I'm glad my new cell-mate "Spikes" has been there to comfort me."

Update: July 22, 2007 - We've recently received further information that the arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday morning. We will continue to update as details are forthcoming.

Update: July 23, 2007 - Good news, the arraignment was rescheduled on short notice for early this morning. Naturally the staff plead not guilty. It just got done and the staff was released on bail. Pre-trial will be in two weeks. When asked for comment interactii had this to say, "<~interactii> MY ass is kinda soar". The staff is very grateful for the support that we've received via the feedback and chat room.

Update: July 24, 2007 - This afternoon state police arrived at the homes of several of the staff members who were arrested in Baltimore this last weekend. There they exercised a warrant to search and seize any electronic devices with the ability to copy, modify or redistribute audio and/or video media of a copyrighted nature. As such, several computers, hard drives, and even a few VCRs were seized during evidence collection. This has proven especially hard on one of the staff members who operates a home business and utilized their computer daily in that operation.

Update: July 26, 2007 - Late this afternoon, following the earlier searches of several staff members' homes, the state police arrived at the homes of the remaining members who had been arrested in Baltimore this last weekend. However, when they arrived at the home of one of the staff members they were surprised to find that the member had removed all the hard drives from his computer and they now lay in pieces in a garbage bag. Frustrated officers then began to yell at that staff member and accused him of destroying evidence. When the staff member met their response with silence they decided to take him into custody. Family members looked on in shock as they tasered this individual repeatedly despite him not fighting back. Suddenly, the staff member began to convulse on the floor. Doctors would later say that the individual had suffered an epileptic seizure, possibly resulting from the repeated tasering. Officers claim they then mistook these convulsions for an attempt at escape and one of the officers fired his firearm, injuring the individual. The injured staff member, in handcuffs, was later transported to a local hospital where he is now in critical condition in the ICU. The member's identity is not being revealed, on the request of his family. The staff member's lawyer has already been contacted regarding this incident. More details are sure to follow, and we will attempt to keep this story updated as details are forthcoming.

Update: July 27, 2007 - This morning at 02:43, Dattebayo staff member ImpSyn, also known as David Pryor, age 29, was pronounced dead. His death comes following a gunshot injury inflicted by a state police officer during the execution of a search and seizure warrant on his home yesterday afternoon. David owned and operated a small website design company out of his home. He leaves a wife and two children, ages 5 and 3 respectively. ImpSyn recently joined our staff when we were recruiting for an opening in the finish editor position. Despite only having worked on a few episodes of our popular releases, he was eager to meet us and join in on the panel at Otakon this year. His family initially requested that his identity not be given on this website, however in light of recent events they have reversed that decision. Currently his funeral arrangements are in planning. David's lawyer has been updated regarding this issue and has assured us that appropriate legal action will be taken, however at this time additional details cannot be released.


YHBT"

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