Now that I'm 30, there's few changes I have to make to my life, because that's what adults do.

• Stop going to bed at 4am: It's unprofessional. People will think I'm much more professional if I wake up at 6 or 7am and sit in rush hour traffic until 10. This way, when I finally start working at 11 after downing a double tall latte or two, they won't look at me and say, "Just got out of bed?" They'll see an obvious unrested, wired, wage slave and think "Now there's a guy who's got his shit together.
• Think about buying a house: Living with a roommate is something college kids do. What I really need to do if I want people to respect me is tie myself down financially. Having the ability to just go where one pleases is a sign of immaturity, and it's time I move beyond that.
• Get a car: Not in the mid-life crisis way. I'm talking about something practical, dependable and family friendly. Like a Cadillac Escalade.
• Get a haircut and a real job: I'm going bald anyhow, and keeping a 9 to 5 really shows how mature one is. Only a true adult is ready to give up looking for the life he or she wants and accept a life that pays the bills even if it means 8 hours a day with people he or she secretly wants to murder.
• Hang up the chick habit: A girl's not a tonic nor a pill. I need to switch to alcohol: the drug of choice for grown men who otherwise despise their 9-5s, their houses, and their jobs.
  

Labels: Bullshit, Work

Nick has made the comment that my life is incestuous in that my clients are often my friends and the places I hang out are businesses that I have contracts with.

Further proving his point, we're also doing the POS for Rickshaw (one of my new favorite spots in Beijing). I've mentioned COX before - Rickshaw is owned and operated by the same people.

So, they specialize in very authentic Buffalo wings, which makes the irony even deeper for me. I actually killed off some homesickness today with some of their wings with celery and blue cheese. I did this while working on a POS for Q Bar (down the street) and while Trevor was talking POS business with the manager.

Somehow, life manages to stay fresh. I'm so much more comfortable with this than I would be with a desk job in which I'm doing the same thing every day. What?

Yeah. Nick has a point.

Labels: Drinks, Work

So, yeah. It's been some obnoxious amount of time since I've posted anything. What happened to Kenn World? What happened to Beijing Adventures?

Well, the long-enough answer is ARD and Q Bar.

ARD is, if you're not familiar, a (or rather, THE) German broadcaster. We updated their bigger-than-I-realized office (read: laid a bunch of cables, designed some new port thingies and installed some hardware) in preparation for the 2008 Olympic coverage and all of the new employees it will bring.

Q Bar, if you're not familiar, is the bar that I've spent the most time at. Ironically, the project we did for them (a custom point-of-sale system), has kept me almost completely away from them (read: I've been there three times for relaxtion since starting the project, once on business).

The ARD project is mostly done, and so is the POS.

Hmm. It feels good to be blogging. This is the first time since February that I've not felt guilty for not working.

Maybe I can even get Jim Boyce to start reading again.

Labels: Drinks, Work