Archive for August, 2006
Today, Tuesday, is an important day for my future. I know I have 2 jobs locked in, selling insurance and working at ADP. I also have about 3 financial advising companies after me, not sure why though, no where on my resume does it have anything do to with finances or, “I’ve always really liked the stock market” or “I’m gay and like numbers”. Interesting anyways. I know a job like that could pay well, really well, once I start getting my clients and stuff, but I’m not really in a position that I can wait a month for that first paycheck, actually probably more than a month. None of those companies pay a salary. NW Mutual is ahead of Ameriprise right now. Apparently NW has one of the best training programs of any industry.
I am pumped about today though, job fair. I’m supposed to bring like 20 resumes and this will determine the fate of ADP. I have been down on working all the way at ADP. I timed it, it took just as long to go to my job interview at NW Mutual today. When you have to go downtown to work, vs going out of town, it doesn’t matter. In non-traffic times (11AM) it took like 45 minutes to get home from there. During traffic time (5pm) it takes 45 minutes to get home from ADP. Problem would be, in non-traffic times for NW it’d take prolly 30 min. and in non-traffic time it’ll still take like 40 min. ANYWAYS, enough rambling, the job fair will see if there are any other horses in the race.
Yesterday I finally got to go golfing. Linds and I golfed at Limekiln course. It was actually very nice. Starting at 4pm it is $20 and you can golf as much as you can before dark. We walked 18 holes. The course is divided into 3 different none-hole courses, I think that is like the Perem Course we golfed with Tony, and the red course, which we had to start on, was being airated and sanded. Putting sucked. Then the red course was much nicer. It was weird golfing 1. without Tony and 2. on a course that protected the green viciously. On every hole there was sand (sand sand, not gravel roads like O-town) and many times it was directly in front of the green. I never went in the sand, Linds did several times. Anyways, I shot over 100, it was ugly, but I drove pretty well, just my irons were awful.
Linds and I watched two AD episodes. Good stuff. For her birthday I preordered Grey’s Anatomy season 2. I like that show, if you haven’t seen it, check it out. I am looking forward to getting employed very soon, cause then I can buy AD S2 and The office S2.
Linds’ first day of school today, that means from here on out it’ll be busy for both of us.
Bought some books on Friday, A Good Walk Spoiled by John Feinstein. Follows various pro golfers around for a year. Pretty good so far. Also, The Majors, also by John Feinstein. Also bought a cocktails book and a bathroom reader golf book for Linds.
August 29th, 2006
I have had my first job offer. Selling insurance and getting paid only commission.
Could makes lots or could starve, it’d be a toss up.
Anyways, I did the video and uploaded some pics.
Pictures can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/94822850@N00/
I just have to edit the videos and they should be viewable.
I am getting lost beyond possible here in Philly. I missed my exit by SIX EXITS!! What really sucks is that Linds is much better at navigating than I am and I have to call her everytime I drive off to a job interview.
Miles, I know you want to live someplace warm, but get to know those maps really good, you and I just can’t survive in towns this size. The Milbank of Arizona, that’s what you should look for.
One good thing, I can listen to my books on tape. One problem, I’m so tense while driving in the traffic that I don’t compute a lot of what I hear. Oh well, still counts as readin’ right?
August 23rd, 2006
It took two days but we arrived safely in North Wales, PA. The only real hangup was in Chicago where we missed our exit and had to go into Chicago to turn around and get back to our exit. 2 hours later we made it through Chicago.
One cool thing: PGA Championship was in Midinah C.C. in Chicago so we saw exits just for PGA watchers.
I managed to drive all the way out there, so I listened to none of my books on tape. 20 plus hours of driving and Dad and I both made it the whole way. Chit chatted with Dawald quite a bit, chatted lots about golf. Makes me miss it already.
I will post pictures later of the Apt many of you will never see.
So we got to Philly, checked in, paid 2 months worth of rent, in which dad had to put money in my account, and we saw our place.
No lie, I felt sick to my stomach the entire move in. I was thinking, this place sucks, I miss home, we have nothing here, Linds and I are gonna tear each other apart, it’s F’in PHILLY!! And I want my Mommy.
As we finally got everything in I started to settle down more, arranging the Apt., making plans, seeing some local sights, and just figuring out my life. It’s weird, but this is part of growing up and something I kind of have to do. Dad and I found the grocery store, people were really nice, some local places, catholic church, target, walmart, malls, ect. All summer I have, in my head, created something I call, “Making it smaller” (not a reference to the wang) Like, I live in Philly, make it smaller, I live in North Wales, smaller, I live in English Village Apts and even smaller, Building 6. Way less overwhelming! I can handle this.
I am back to normal, still no friends, but I have seen downtown with Dad and the crew and have experienced the train system, have driven around, riden downtown, and survived the ghetto, more comfort to come. Now my family is the East Coast relatives I never get to see, and my friends may be co-workers and Linds’ college friends.
There is no doubt I already miss some things:
- People hangin’ out at the house
- HDTV/DVR
- Golf!!!
- Friends
- Local Family
I made sure to by Brie and French bread with some red wine. I did just about get kicked out of the lick cause the guy couldn’t understand a SD license. Bitch.
I like how the place is organized and my room is getting better, still messy. I have a job interview over the phone tomorrow, a seminar with American Express, and then the next day I have another one in person.
My biggest problems so far has been the internet. We had it hooked up and it wouldn’t work at all! Pissed me off. We called Comcast twice and both times no one had any idea. Then tonight, 3 days later, it suddenly works. WTF! But hey, I got the net, I’m posting, Oh yeah!!
Tony, thanks for the text message, I laughed and showed linds. I miss everyone already. I just keep thinking, 2 years isn’t that long, that’s how long Schaef and I lived together but it doesn’t really seem like that. Now I just need a good job.
Anyways, everyone feel free to email. Don’t call right now, I’m super short of minutes, I have less than I normally do with less lenient time. No “Unlimited Nights and Weekends” and “Mobile to Mobile”. Instead all we have is 500 night minutes. In my opinion, we should’ve just gone phoneless for the last bit and seen what good deals they have out here. But we wanted to be organized and now I have less minutes and a bigger bill. Yippee.
I do look forward to everyone posting more. Like you MOM! Mrs. “I’m gonna post probably more than any of you!”
That’s all I got.
August 21st, 2006
The other day I heard a song on the radio that brought me way back to when I was probably a 5th grader. That song has inspired this post.
This is my history of music listening:
Very young Miles and I got very interested in the Oldies. We would listen to all of mom and dads records and some of our favorites were “Wild Thing” “We Will Rock You” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” you know, catchy songs from the 50’s and 60’s. At this time I also really enjoyed Bill Cosby, especially the Ark sketch.
After this phase, and a baby molly throwing the record, “Wild Thing” down the stairs breaking it, we moved on. Christian music, 101.5 was our station and we’d listen to it on our clock radios in our room and on the way to school. Some of our favorite songs were, “Jesus Freak” and songs from Jars of Clay. We really weren’t allowed to listen to newer music because it was dubbed dirty or whatever and also at this time MTV was forbidden. A hidden channel on the TV, even. I remember once at a piano lesson I was particularly wound up (2nd grader I believe) and tried to impersonate someone I had heard on the radio at 101.5, asking, “you know who that was?” and thinking back on it, I realize that I was soooo dumb.
From Christian came country. Miles and I for about a year were really into country music, many of our classmates listened to it so we started listening into the countdowns on Fridays. Some songs of the day were, “Fishin’ in the Dark” “Two hearts Beating” “Buy me a Mercury” “Chattahoochie” and most importantly, “Friends in Low Places”. Two stories about country:
1. Mom was really excited we liked country and would tell people, “Yeah, Miles and Bryce are really getting into country music now” and she told her old college roommate this and Nancy gave us a framed poster of Garth Brooks. To tell you the truth, that was enough to quit liking country for a long time.
2. Miles, Dirk, and I were stuck in Doland. Not sure why. So we went to the backroom of this cafe in town where there is an arcade and a pool table. In the corner was a jukebox with all sorts of crappy music, excpet “Friends in Low Places”. We put like $5 in the jukebox and just put that song. I think we listened to it like 10 times.
So, we emphatically quit listening to country and got into more of pop music. This is when we developed the art of “Taping off the radio”. We would listen to the radio for hours with a tape ready to record hoping to listen to a song. I remember listening to “Rick Dees and the Weekly Top 40″ every sunday night on 102.5. The internet at this point was BRAND NEW to us and we sometimes would go to Rausch Brothers to check to see what the top 40 was so we could wait with more of a purpose. We have tapes and tapes filled with this music.
Also at this same time I got into the Beatles like crazy. I was about a 6th grader. We had the Blue and the Red album, greatest hits albums basically, and I loved the oldest stuff. Then, in our Christmas card mom even wrote that Bryce is really getting into the Beatles. I was embarrassed, this was back when I was still able to be embarrassed, and I decided to start HATING the beatles. I was emphatic with my hatred.
Also in 6th grade I was first introduced to music with cursing, specifically Green Day’s “Dookie” album. Some very catchy songs with some disgusting lyrics. Jesse Bjornson introduced me to it at the same time I was introduced to Weird Al’s “Bad Hair Day”. A few days later I heard, “White Zombie” and was horrified.
As a 7th grader my music turned 90 degrees and I got into ganster rap. That’s right. West Side only. I developed a hatred for the East Side rappers. Had thug love for 2pac. Had pictures of West Side Rappers even in my locker in 9th grade, specifically the picture with 2pac, Dre, Snoop, and Suge Knight. Some songs of this day were “California Love” “Gin N Juice” “Nothin’ But a G Thang” “Lodi Dodi” and others. This fad basically lasted until I was a Freshman in high school. At the time we still weren’t allowed to listen to any music with cursing so I remember Miles and my attempt at editing “Gin N Juice” so there would be no cursing. We were somewhat successful until the end when I thought it was all finished cursing and they go, “Sippin’ on Gin n Juice….Beotch…With my mind on my money and my money on my mind” And we were like, “HECK!” Forgot about that beotch in there. I also remember coming to cross country practices with the ganster rap blaring and once we got close enough we’d turn it off quick so no one would make fun of us.
For me it was the rap thing, Weird Al in a much bigger way in high school, and pop music. VERY little country, no christian music, occasional classical, and more and more stand up comedy. Then came the documentary on the Beatles on NBC, which I now own. Mom and I were watching tv and on NBC was this beatles documentary that went all week and was the chronology of the Beatles. Specifically I remember the “Shakin’ a baby” song and hearing John’s voice. I was shocked that they had sung that song and curious how john made his voice like that, ends up it was cause of a long day in the studio and he had lost his voice and that was just how it sounded for the album, so he’d try and recreate that voice for concerts. From that moment on I was a Beatles fan again.
My senior year I also got really into Metallica. Not all metal or hard rock, just Metallica.
Then in college I kept liking everything I had already liked, but got very streaky with my music. Ben Folds, stand up comedy galore, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Books on Tape, Classic Rock, New Alternative, I was giving a lot of music a chance and some I liked, some I tried really hard to like (Bright Eyes), and some I didn’t like. I also got into country a little more thanks to Lindsey and the Marshall friends who all listened to country alot.
And that’s the Bryce Rausch History of Music Autobiography.
August 9th, 2006
So I was weeding out letters in dads stencil in his office this morning and dad has the food network on the television. Got me thinking the following:
They always love the hell out of whatever they made, right? I mean, it’s always, “Yummy in my tummy, BAM BAM, That shitz good!” Then they immediately put it away and the shows ova. So, 1. you never see them eat the entire thing. How much of it was actually any good? Through editing how often does it turn out wrong and they just re-tape the end product?
Now here’s what I thought would be awesome. A cooking show with Chubby Cheeks Chester. How awesome would that be.
“And here’s our main dish, the Broccoli with calarmi sauce on a ….”
“Gay! It’s green, no way am I trying that crap.”
Or.
“Ok…this is gross, Tootsie wouldn’t even eat this. This is gay”
Or.
“Why would I ever eat something that isn’t BBQ ribs?”
That’s all I got.
August 2nd, 2006
Job Search:
I am still looking all over for a job in Phili. One thing that hurts me is my address, I can write in my Monster profile that I’m looking in Phili but my address on that and my resume is SD. I should change that.
So far the top contender, and the one that makes me the most excited, is Bristol Myers-Squibb. It’s pharmaceuticals and my cousin Sarah says it is very lucrative but difficult because you have to keep learning about the products coming out. Lucrative = $55,000/year, bonuses, incentives, and a company car. That would be very very nice. I am trying not to get all caught up in that excitement because I doubt they’ll hire me with my lack of experience and all. Sarah is doing everything she can to help me though, even gonna set up an interview with a sales rep/manager in Phili once I get there. Pretty sweet, huh?
Work:
Working for dad is has always been challenging, cemetary lettering is not an easy job. Monday proved to be the suckiest ever. We have this mosoleum that every inch has to be rough feeling, the roof, pillars, base, everything. It was 100 degrees all day, while blasting you’d be pelted with sand deflecting to your legs and arms. Luckily Jim got there and I became a gofer for them. Then I had to do the roof and while blasting I see a rain drop fall, then another and more and more. It POURED. Molly, Dad, Jim, and I were all just soaked. Unfortunately so was my blasting pot, we forgot to cover the top and water seeped in. When sand and water mix, it’s basically cement. My blasting pod was done after that. The next day we had to reach inside and pull out all the went sand, probably 50-100 pounds of it. Then we had to take out the base and dry it up so it’d work again. Rain is the worst thing that could’ve happened.
Misc:
Boy’s party is this saturday, I know Linds works until 2 so the party probably will start around 3.
Bocce ball tournament?
Discuss
August 2nd, 2006