sixers and coast

went to the sixers/blazers game the other night...sixers lost in the last 20 seconds... the game was dope, too, the score was back and forth the whole time...

yesterday we went to the coast and the tilamook creamery... ate amazing ice cream, cheese, fish and chips and saw the breathtaking goonies stones, or whatever you want to call them...

jobs food holidays

had my interview at the 3rd largest comic company and passed on the offer as the finances just weren't there. i was willing to take a cutback, even by $10-$15 K more than I was looking for, but it was a lot less...entry level money... oh well..

selling email and instant messaging archiving/compliance - here i come! it should be an east sell, as it's required by the SEC for my targets. i was told that right after they check references, that they'll be making me an offer.

for the holidays, melenie's mother is here with us and whenever she visits it means tons of great cooking! we all went to my aunt jean's for xmas and chris made homemade eggs benedict. they were the best i've ever had...we brought the latkes, also a side of home-grown blueberries and it was an amazing breakfast. oh, the best part was the Ramos Fizz's! a couple of sleepy hours later and a huge turkey dinner was served...i received some cool gardening tools and seeds, we gave some cool presents too, made kippy a scratching post which she has yet to use, and there's my jewish christmas.

chipolte is the bomb and two blocks away. mission style burritos. sucks there's none back home for my peoples. 55 and rain on and off here.

i want to take this time to give a shout out to my boy tim tizzle who just got engaged. sorry ladies, he's all taken as of last Friday. tim, it's all downhill from here. welcome to a new life of visiting invitation stores, selecting colors of tablecloths, flowers, tons of family arguments and more. look out for the food tasting, though. that part's pretty fun. another congrats on the house. email me the address, i want to google earth it.

more to come....

merry hannukah

and happy christmas. a delightful kwanzaa. latkes for me over jeannie and chris' house today...we're bringing them. mel's mom is here. i have an interview tomorrow and an interview tuesday and i already have one company who called me yesterday to offer me a job. life is grand.

syriana/jobs/snow

did y'all see Syriana?

we peeped it yesterday. pretty good movie...makes the U.S. government look mad shady, too...some parts i was kinda lost and dragged on a bit, but it caught up in the end. all in all a decent movie on a topic normally where much distance is kept...




next up: snow. we got some snow in portland which is kinda nice, but it's getting washed away today with lots of cold rain. we brought a new couch in from goodwill the other night, large and green and nice for $35. borrowed their furniture dolly and rolled it home from 13th st. to 7th st. and two blocks north. see pic to left!



jobs: took the job doing door to door sales and left in a week. not happy with it. too cold. couldn't make a sale. frustrated. interviewing now with a large comic book company for a marketing position, an inside sales position at a high-tech financial software company and two marketing/PR companies. so the future looks bright.

mel's mom is coming on saturday until new year's day. it will definitely be nice to have some company from home. who's next?

we have a dope new webcam and mic so if anybody out there wants to talk, just holla.

drinking lots of coffee and wine and eating better than i have in ages,

paul

flying over mt st. helens and mt. hood

today our super cool new uncle chris took us flying. he has his pilot's license and rents a plane every month or so. well today, we were his guests and he took us flying over mt. st. helen's and mt. hood. it was breathtaking..gorgeous...so incredible that i've decided i want to take some flying lessons. i actually got my first today, as chris let me man the wheel for a little bit! below are pics. also, melenie got a job the other day teaching pre-school, so we both now have jobs!!! more in a couple of days about how my sales job is going...

peace from p-land,

paul and mel

jobs

so i got a job offer yesterday! and i decide to take it, and right as i'm about to call them and tell them i'll take the position, i wake up this morning and have an email in my box from a cool marketing company that would like to interview me tomorrow. and i have a 2nd interview next week... two sales positions and a marketing position... i think i want to get into sales though...the first sales position, i'd be head of this region, by myself, make my own schedule, door to door sales, but with companies, selling internet advertising...a craigslist competitor....decent offer, financially speaking though... not sure about the others though, as they're not on the table yet... i'm about to say yes and test out the waters...you never know, since it's a startup and it could blow up...with me as the first hire...on a side note, i want to give a big ol shout to anybody who provided me with a professional reference!

on another note, westbrooks out for the season and the birds had the worst game ever on monday night. hey, at least it snowed in philly though,right?

gmail

Gmail is down right now and it's pissing me off!!! also, 2nd interview this morning went well, i think, for a sales position at a new website similar to craigslist. melenie and i roasted a chicken with tons of veggies and it came out amazing. p!

pics for monday.

pork chops

i like pork chops better than steaks these days... man if you cook up a really good bone-in pork chop, it's like eating a piece of nonkosher heaven. my forefathers would kill me.

last night i made such an amazing meal. pork chops with braised pears, roasted garlic and chive mashed potatoes and sauteed zucchini. first, take a bulb of garlic and chop the bottom off (the flat side). drizzle open cloves with some olive oil. put the top back on and wrap in tin foil. pop in the oven at 400 degrees. now rub two fat chops with some brown sugar, garlic salt, black pepper and rosemary. let that marinate for awhile. slice up some potatoes and boil for about 20 minutes. crack a beer. pan fry the pork chops in bacon grease (my new thing is cooking anything in bacon grease. i save it in a glass jar in my fridge). after about two minutes on each side on high, add some chicken stock, some beer, sliced pear, a little bit of strawberry jam, and let it simmer. back to the potatoes. drain when fork tender. place in a big bowl. add a couple tablespoons of butter and some milk or cream. chop up some chives. check on your garlic. it usually takes about 30-60 minutes for the garlic to be perfect. i know this is a wide range, but i sometimes up the temp to speed it up. check on it. when it's a light brown color, take it out and just squeeze the cloves into the potatoes. add some salt and pepper and mash them all up! flip the chops. smell that amazing aroma! lastly, drizzle some olive oil, add chopped garlic and sliced onion in a pan. when onion is translucent, throw some sliced zuchinni in and toss around a little bit. i'm digging my veggies just heated up a tiny bit these days. they retain more nutrients like that. so just like a minute or two on each side is good for me. voila! now serve like so: potatoes on one quarter of the plate. pork chop on top of 1/2 of potatoes. sauce with lots of pears on top of chop and taters. zuchinni on other side of plate.

mangia!

ps - another interview today for a sales position with a dot com similar to craigslist.