January 9, 2005

• Friday

  I met up with Jen, Wayne and Shane at Jen's house.   We ended up watching four episodes of "All In".     

  Saturday

  I picked up Esther and we went to Irvine for Mimi's house warming party.   When we got there, the guys were playing Texas holdem and the girls were congregating in the kitchen.       After the first round of holdem commenced, they started up another game and I was able to join in.    I hit one big pot with a flush and it went down hill after that.  It's a good thing we weren't playing for money.    

  While we were playing holdem,  Dave and some of Mimi's friends were playing Mario Cart and  Mario Party for the Nintendo Gamecube.  They were playing on this huge plasma screen and it looked nice.    

  Anyway, so after I lost in holdem, Esther and I planned on going to this Vietnamese sandwich shop that's open 24 hours.    However, we weren't able to get directions so that didn't go through and decided to leave.  I would just like to thank Mimi again for inviting us over to her awesome place.     It's a really nice house.   

  Sunday

  Not a lot happened today since it poured like crazy.     I stayed in for most of the day but did make it out to the gym for a bit.     My family will be going out for my grandfather's birthday in a short while but that's about it.

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  First Day
  

  Tomorrow I will start my first day at my new job.    I haven't really talked about it much because I had to have my employment history verified and it took forever.  For those who don't know, I joined a started up company back in August but it dissolved after a month.  Since it was a start up, I was paid under the table with personal checks and had no proof of ever being employed.  So if one was to check my history, it would show me quitting a job back in August and that's it.  I had a hard time getting a hold of my former employer but once I did, he was more than willing to do the verification. 

  Ironically, the one problem I had was with Pacific Sales, which I thought would be the easiest of all to verify.   Pacific Sales only verifies by fax so I figured it would be a quick and easy situation.   Fax it, fax it back and we’re good to go.   That wasn't the case.   Three days after they faxed it, I got a call telling me that they are having a hard time getting a hold of them.   I called my old boss on this and it turns out that the guy that supposed to do it just didn't do it.   What a bastard!   Fortunately, my old boss was able to talk to one of the owners and he did it for me in no time at all. 

  So now everything is (hopefully) okay and I should be all set to go.   

  • 8:42 pm
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