8/30/2005

Pop hits in the year I graduated

I got this from Mitch who got it from Sheila who got it from Michele who got it from Johnny Bacardi who got it from Wilwork's LJ

A. Go to http://www.musicoutfitters.com.
B. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function.
C. Bold for the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

Most of the ones I didn't do anything to, it wasn't because I don't LIKE them, I'm just sick of them since I listened to an all 80's station a lot while it was still on the air in Minneapolis.
I remember 1986 having far more songs I liked. I might do 1986 tomorrow night.

1988
1. Faith, George Michael
2. Need You Tonight, INXS
3. Got My Mind Set On You, George Harrison
4. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley
5. Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses (guy who lived a few dormrooms down from me in my freshman year at college spent weeks trying to play the riff from this song, over and over and over and over starting in the fall. He wasn't any better in the spring)
6. So Emotional, Whitney Houston
7. Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Belinda Carlisle
8. Could've Been, Tiffany
9. Hands To Heaven, Breathe
10. Roll With It, Steve Winwood
11. One More Try, George Michael
12. Wishing Well, Terence Trent d'Arby
13. Anything For You, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
14. The Flame, Cheap Trick
15. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car, Billy Ocean
16. Seasons Change, Expose
17. Is This Love, Whitesnake
18. Wild, Wild West, Escape Club
19. Pour Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard
20. I'll Always Love You, Taylor Dayne
21. Man In The Mirror, Michael Jackson
22. Shake Your Love, Debbie Gibson
23. Simply Irresistible, Robert Palmer
24. Hold On To The Nights, Richard Marx
25. Hungry Eyes, Eric Carnen
26. Shattered Dreams, Johnny Hates Jazz
27. Father Figure, George Michael
28. Naught Girls (Need Love Too), Samantha Fox
29. A Groovy Kind Of Love, Phil Collins
30. Love Bites, Def Leppard
31. Endless Summer Nights, Richard Marx
32. Foolish Beat, Debbie Gibson
33. Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Whitney Houston
34. Angel, Aerosmith
35. Hazy Shade Of Winter, Bangles
36. The Way You Make Me Feel, Michael Jackson
37. Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin
38. Make Me Lose Control, Eric Carnen
39. Red Red Wine, UB40
40. She's Like The Wind, Patric Swayze
41. Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi
42. Kokomo, Beach Boys
43. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That, Elton John
44. Together Forever, Rick Astley
45. Monkey, George Michael
46. Devil Inside, INXS
47. Should've Known Better, Richard Marx
48. I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, Chicago
49. The Loco-Motion, Kylie Minogue
50. What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield
51. Make It Real, Jets
52. What's On Your Mind, Information Society
53. Tell It To My Heart, Taylor Dayne
54. Out Of The Blue, Debbie Gibson
55. Don't You Want Me, Jody Watley
56. Desire, U2
57. I Get Weak, Belinda Carlisle
58. Sign Your Name, Terence Trent d'Arby
59. I Want To Be Your Man, Roger
60. Girlfriend, Pebbles
61. Dirty Diana, Michael Jackson
62. 1-2-3, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
63. Mercedes Boy, Pebbles
64. Perfect World, Huey Lewis and the News
65. New Sensation, INXS
66. Catch Me (I'm Falling), Pretty Poison
67. If It Isn't Love, New Edition
68. Rocket 2 U, Jets
69. One Good Woman, Peter Cetera
70. Don't Be Cruel, Cheap Trick
71. Candle In The Wind, Elton John (yeah yeah, I know. I think it's a pretty song. stfu, ok?)
72. Everything Your Heart Desires, Daryl Hall and John Oates
73. Say You Will , Foreigner
74. I Want Her, Keith Sweat
75. Pink Cadillac, Natalie Cole
76. Fast Car, Tracy Chapman UGH!
77. Electric Blue, Icehouse
78. The Valley Road, Bruce Hornsby and The Range
79. Don't Be Cruel, Bobby Brown
80. Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys
81. Piano In The Dark, Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito
82. When It's Love, Van Halen
83. Don't Shed A Tear, Paul Carrack
84. We'll Be Together, Sting
85. I Hate Myself For Loving You, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
86. I Don't Want To Live Without You, Foreigner
87. Nite And Day, Al B. Sure
88. Don't You Know What The Night Can Do, Steve Winwood
89. One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston
90. Can't Stay Away From You, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
91. Kissing A Fool, George Michael
92. Cherry Bomb, John Cougar Mellancamp
93. I Still Believe, Brenda K. Starr
94. I Found Someone, Cher
95. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS
96. Valerie, Steve Windwood
97. Just Like Paradise, David Lee Roth
98. Nothin' But A Good Time, Poison
99. Wait, White Lion
100. Prove Your Love, Taylor Dayne

8/18/2005

Blogging about work Pt. 2

So on the day before my last day, I scoured our CRM system for email addresses of all the customers I loved talking to, and sent them home. In the evening of my last day there, I sent 49 people the following email.

Blogging about work

Not a good idea as we all know.

Guess what? I GOT LET GO A MONTH AGO!!!

So I'm gonna blog about work.

My peer coworkers were the god damned BEST bunch of coworkers I've ever ever had. They're all awesome

The management politics and blinders and ego and sensitive egos are amazing. It was an eye opener working there and talking to people who were in the gossip circle and heard the good dirt.

Sometimes I wonder just how in the hell the stupidest, most unpragmatic people (like, sometimes, SALESPEOPLE) achieve management levels in the company, and those of us with a good head on our shoulders are always stuck at the bottom of the shit pile (IT/Tech workers, usually)

*insert Howard Deaniac meltdown scream here*

I start Monday at a company that makes yearbooks and class rings. I will be a short term contract, working in a crush to get all their remote salespeople's laptops upgraded from 2K to XP. There will be some phone support but there will be some hands on too. The guy I interviewed with told me that he'd probably have me concentrate more on the laptops that get sent to them for upgrading. Yay!

Not like it will be difficult. He said they send them a DVD with an XP image on it. They dump their save data to a removeable backup device, boot to the DVD, it lays down a new image, and then they restore from the backup device and away it goes.

Only thing is they all own their laptops and therefore are all local administrators. And we all know what happens when you give sales people local admin rights, don't we....