smitty_545

Furhmann's Mill

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:40:16 GMT

To all that may care. As of 22:30 hrs , Oct. 28, 2007 Furhmann's Cider Mill is no more..:-( A quote from the Erie Times News: "Fuhrman’s Cider Mill, a 111-year-old landmark at 1218 East Gore Road, went up in flames tonight.

Fire companies from more than a half-dozen stations were called to the scene around 8:30 p.m. to find the mill fully involved, with flames shooting out of the roof.

Bob Mitchell, the chief fire inspector for Millcreek Township, said that it was unclear how the fire had started and how much damage the historic building had sustained, but damage was heavy.

More than 65 firefighters were still battling flames inside the building at 10 p.m."

Thought that you locals might be interested.

Deaf People....

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:51:02 GMT

If a deaf person swears in sign language......Do you have to wash their hands with soap?

We're Back

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:45:15 GMT

I can finally cross one of my goals off my list. Driving 7 hours in the middle of the night threw a hurricane.....Finally I can die happy..... Long story short, Karen and I made it home safely and in quite good time. Treated myself to updated GPS software and a new receiver. I'm sure that Karen will update in more detail at a later date.

Next weekend is still up in the air. If Dan can get me a new wheel for my car then Karen and I are off to Punxy Saturday to get it replaced. The one that I have on my car now is leaking. (Thank you incompetent tow truck drivers!) he managed to crack my one rim. gotta get that replaced. Figured while he was at it I'd have him get me a new door panel to replace the one that Karen put a burn hole in a few years back. Figure while I was at it, might as well see if I can get a new driver's seat. Told Dan to do his wheeling and dealing. Talk to you all later.

Why an I not supprised!

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:49:30 GMT

Well I'm not sure whether I should be complimented or anoyed.....And I quote "Well as of now we have nothing else for you to work on, you got everything completed about a month ahead of time. Would you be terribly upset if today was the last day of your contract?" Geeze let me think...A week to catch up on my sleep, try to get me schedule back to where it should be, bills are caught up and paid early, Karen is working....Let me think....NO, I don;t mind at all!!! finally some time to get the stuff taken care of that i needed to in the first place and just didn't have time. Really hard to schedule interviews when you're at work all the time... Not to shaby, finished off the week at 46.75 hours. That should keep me till school starts! Thank god for small miracles.

Not a Thang.....

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:20:18 GMT

Well, after two days of exhausting inventory. I like this place, but jesus, why the hell am I finding inventory tags dates 1944 (just tags mind you, not actual inventory). Oh well, hopefully I can get things back on shape for Monday. Today they are primarily adjusting onhands and finalizing count results.

As Karen said, she finally got a job! Congrats to her again. This week I sent out 4 resumes and have heard back from three. One said that the position was filled, two want to schedule interviews for the week of the 28th. Not to bad if I do say so myself. Who knows things might actually work out for once in my life. Don;t think i would know what to do.

Have a foursome fairly definate, golf, get your head out of the gutter! (Pat, Jacob, Myself, and Benny?)Should have a definate plan for tonight. Things are finally comming together. Unfortunately i have to go back to classes on 6 Sept. Out to be fun, pretty much guaruntees at least one down and out fighting match. No real reason just sick and tired of Penn State's Shit...Always fun, I love making their lives hell. Talk to you all later and looking forward to Sat. Night.

Updates

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:50:53 GMT

Well I've been sitting in my office trying to find things to do. So far I have done this and nothing. I saw a pie on the food network last night and thought that it looked really good, unfortunately with shipping and handling it costs $164.95. Think that I'll just try to recreate it myself. Believe it or not I am quite the accomplished chef. I just choose not to cook.

Well the weekend was awasome. Finally got some well needed R&R. I've been going straight since school let out and things have managed to arrange themselves so that there was something every weekend. Thankfully, Karen's family reunion has been cancelled for next saturday, so I am thinking of partaking of hitting a little white ball and putting it into 18 holes in the ground on Sat. Figure I might as well, I finally have some "extra" cash and can't remember the last time I played for "fun".

Saturday, spent most of the day with Karen and Morgan at my house just doing odds and ends. just Relaxing. Made good use of the grill at home and then headed out to the JAD PAD(TM). I just realized that it is going to become the JADZ PAD, but I digress. After complaining frequently about the lack of a social gathering place at cheap hotels, Tim and I proceeded to start a bonfire. I have determined two things about this. Between Tim's fire like breath and the fact that I like to hold things that are on fire we are quite tactile when it comes to starting fires. We should go into the arson business. That was a good time. Thinking about finding some more wood and trying again for this weekend.(Who Knows).

Sunday, had the Annual Zukor Club Golf Tournament(The Ball Buster). Dad and I play in it every year. Unfortunately, once you are in you are in. Nothing is more fun then playing golf with a buch of inebriated people. The highlight of the tournament was when Laura (never met her before, and my god was she plastered), decided that she absolutely needed a blue shirt. Her's was green...Off came her shirt and she went chasing after this guy that was wearing a blue shirt. Titties and golf, what a great idea! I have never laughed so hard in my life. Ended Up par for the course.

Well thats about all from me for now. I'm sure that I'll check back later. i think that i might take a long lunch. Talk to you all later.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:03:13 GMT

Well I've been sitting here since 7:00 this morning working on absolutely nothing. I'm waiting for the temp IT guy to allocate permissions so that I can actually accomplish something today. Had it confirmed yesterday, my intership ends officially 1 Sept. 2006. Oh well, I'm starting to get really tired of this stuff anyways. I'm starting to look at things from a business point of view rather then an engineering one. Lord knows I can't let that happen, I enjoy making fun of business majors too much!!!!!!

Hot Damn!!!!!!

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:43:41 GMT

This is the best friday yet. According to the Bob and Tom show(which I rely on for 90% of all pertinent information), today is No Panty Friday. I am now going to go and start a converstation with my coworker about this. She's nice.....:)

Just updates

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:50:47 GMT

Well finally back in my office after having a long day yesterday. The air conditioner in my office went out yesterday. Apparently someone, opened the vent to the shop and the A/C couldn't keep up with all the extra humidity. Caused the unit to freeze up. Sent the interns home at 09:30 and I called it a day at around 10:00. The A/C was off for only about 45 minutes and my office was already becoming a sweat box. The good news about this was that I got to spend the day with Karen and Morgan.

Got a phone call from home yesterday that there was a beeping coming from my computer. Stopped home to check it out. The Battery Back-up that I have hooked up was fried. Took it all apart, the battery is good. The only problem is, when I plug in the computer the system goes directly to battery. Checked the battery, that wasn't the problem. Right now, I have my computer running through the surge side of the UPS and the UPS is turned off(Yes, my computer is getting power with the switch off). So, now I need to buy a new UPS. Oh well. Life will go on.

Went swimming yesterday, the water is up to 85°F. Spent a good amount of time in the pool. Welcome relief from the heat. Karen and I finally made the time to go off and look at Party City for invitations and other misc. items. I came up with a descent idea for a cake topper. I'm a firm believer that you pick the topper, then design the cake around it. karen is of the opposite, get the cake, and have a topper that is appropriate. I've decided on a crystal topper and I have the components to make a LED to put into the top of the cake to shine up into the topper. I personally think that this would look really neat. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. (http://www.lenox.com/cat/index.cfm?fuseaction=prod&cat=wed&subcat=cake&pid=6113&kf=117) Check out this webpage to see what I've chosen. Gotta admit, at least I still have good taste.

At work we made the numbers for last month. On Monday, we shipped 1.7 million. This put us at $6,273,000 for the month of monday. We exceeded, our goal by almost $650,000. As a reward, they are providing us with lunch (A full sub from Teressa's, chips, pop, and dessert :). This I have to admit, isn't a bad deal at all. Well gonna get back to work for now. Talk to ya all later.

Boobs

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:00:17 GMT

I heart Boobs!!!!! The only post for the day.

-Mike

Emails

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:22:18 GMT

So it just occured to me that I no longer have most of my friend's email addresses. I lost them all when I restored my computer. Now this in and of itself is not bad, however, I restored my computer back in April. Its been a while since I've used email. Just email me and let me know who you are. mjs545@psu.edu. Thanks a bunch. Zvee Gets.

Damn he's good

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:43:04 GMT

So the higher ups are better at this game then I. I formally admit defeat. I changed the meeting to yesterday at 2:30. Showed up for 10 minutes then he asked me if we could do lunch with some VP. Damn....I can't top that. Oh well, lunch is at 12:00 either at Valerio's or Applebees(my choice). Wish me luck. Appearently the numbers that I thought we were going to make are being held up by missing parts (go figure). As of now we are just shy of 3 million. Gonna be a long week after all. Thats about it for now. Talk to ya all later.

Phone Case

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:34:49 GMT

Molly,

Since, I don't have a number or last name for you I figured this would be the easiest. Please verify that in you account a refund was issued in the amount of $23.95 USD. Just let me or Karen know. Thanks.

-Mike

Waiting

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:24:24 GMT

Well sitting here waiting for my meeting with the VP. Was supposed to be at 10:30 and he psuhed it back to 1:00. I decided that I will play his damn little game and pushed it back to 2:30. We'll see who wins....No, I really don't have anything to do at 1:00, but I like things on my terms....

I've maaged to pull a cool 2 million out of my ass since last Thurs. This should help to appease the PTB...(Powers that BE). All thats left if another 2.5 mil and a whole week to do it. I was informed that i have until 7/31/06 at 11:59 to make the numbers. Shouldn't be to hard to do. Think I'll worry about it on Wed. or Thurs.(maybe)

I appoligize for not making it out to the JAD pad on Sat, but Karen and i had a nice time together alone. Enjoyed seeing the new Pirates movie (the disney version, not the HD porn:(). Hopped that everyone had a splendifferous weekend and will see some of ya'all on Wed. Thats about it. Gonna get started on my proposal. As always, via condium.

Me and my big mouth

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:35:37 GMT

Great, make one off-handed comment about the company not knowing its ass from a hole in the ground....and the next thing you know is you have a meeting with the production supervisior so you can explain how implimenting an RFID Telemetry System can increase their productivity by 62%. Gonna have a long weekend. God I love this!

On the good note, yesterday I managed to ship a $500,000 to Russia. At least now I only have to come up with another 3.5 million. Yeah!

-Mike

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. [Ezekiel 25:17]

God I hate Wednesdays

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:51:13 GMT

Well today has been one hell of a long day already. Finished lunch at 13:00 and have been checking actual on hands for the entire morning. Still no close to a solution then when I started. Along with checking onhands I get the privilege of writing job orders that were cancelled for no good reason in the first place. Half are the parts that I need were scheduled to be manufactured and then cancelled for god knows what reason! Here it is 2/3 the way through a month where the shipping goal is $5,628,517.00. As of this moment we are at 1,600,423.00. So all I have to do is figure a way to pull $4,000,000.00 out of my ass to keep the higher ups happy. So looks like a long as rest of the week. Oh well, thats why I'm making the big bucks...... The interns are having a blase checking,rechecking, stock, while I continue to make more. This place amazes me that it somehow manages to turn a profit. Gotta love business. Thank God I'm an engineer.

Enough of this tangent, time for the point of the post. What the hell is the point of a Wednesday? It just there...You can't even say your 1/2 way done with your week until Wed. has come and gone. Thursdays you can say its almost Fri. and Fri you can say its almost the weekend. Enough is enough. Gotta get back to fabricating 4 mil worth of parts. Cheerio.

-Mike

none

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:45:37 GMT

After a detailed study, 10 out of 9 people prefer that I wear pants.

Updates

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:31:45 GMT

Sitting here at my desk trying to deceide what I should start on. ONe of the jobs that I spent all of last Friday getting together to get shipped is back on my lists of things to do. Someone over the weekend deceided to take that parts that I had to "aquire" and put them towards a different job. Talk about a waste of a day. Oh well, gives me something to do.

Karen is off on her interview, hopefully things will work out for her for once. I have a fairly descent feeling about this one though. I'll let her post more information later. I know she's planning on spending some time with the "tot" but I'm not sure about what her plans are.

Yesterday I was quite proud of myself. The engineers here were having alot of trouble getting their LabView Program to work (it;s an engineering simulation software), none of them have had any formal training on the subject. Told them to let me take a look, after 10 minuted of hemming an hawing they deceided that it wouldn't hurt anything. After about 15 minutes of playing with the program I realized that the program was fine, but they had misconfigured the card. Clicked three switches and it was off and running. After much congrats they deceided that I would be the go to man for all Lab-View issues. Appearently that had been trying to get this thing to work for almost a month. Gotta love engineers, it doesn't work, but by-god why the hell would we call tech-support.

As for me I'm thinking about taking a 1/2 day and leaving sometime afternoon. Still not 100% sure about this option though. Like the idea of having the money, but like the idea of being in this office less.

Tim, hi. Happy B-Day! Just give me a call and let me know what you want to do.

Thats about all from me for now, gotta get back to staring at numbers and trying to figure out why things aren't were they are supposed to be.

Stupid People

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:56:29 GMT

So I have spent the last 3 hours working in 105° heat looking for parts that were supposed to be here two weeks ago. Can't find the parts, the system says that they are all there, but alas not on the shelves. I have walked around the 450,000 sq ft. factories a total of 12 times.....I had to do some more checking...They were used and in a meter that was in use in the Gulf of Mexico...Someone forgot to release them to the order. If people would just figure out whatto do and when to do it things would be fine.

-Mike

Update

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:49:00 GMT

Figured that since now I am working I had better start posting more. Things are going fairly smoothly. Had a meeting in Lake City this morning to find out why he only shipped 25 of the 500 parts that were orderd. Have another meeting at 2:00 in Ripley. Same deal different company. Finally getting my office set up the way I like it. Waiting for Tech-support to get my voicemail up an running. Can't have clients calling me and not getting my voice....Other then that things are all the same. Have to get back to work and try to expidite 500 shaft berings from Mexico by a week. Some stuff different day. Talk to ya all later.

-Mike

posting

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:51:32 GMT

Well since it has apparently been four months since my last posting I figure I might as well take a moment and type some stuff. Life's about the same, Karen and I are doing just fine, Morgan loves her new glasses.

Alex, once again I want to apologize for being an idiot. I fully expect you to smack me upside my head.

Went to an interview this afternoon at 1:00, stayed 20 minutes, called my at 1:40 to tell me they wanted me to head up the "Procurement" department. Get my own office and company car and expense account. The position is only going to last till School starts back, but for now its about damn time. Tomorrow I get to go pee in a cup and let them try to figure out what drugs I should be on. Fortunately me recreational pharmaceutical usage in down to nothing as it has aslways been. Well I think that enough for now, don't want all of you to get spoiled and start to expect me to post "regularly". See some of you Wed. and the rest sometime Sat.

"Never shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river. The Three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful striking hammer of God...And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand...that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth unto Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, In Nomine Patris, Et Filii, Et Spiritus Sancti."

Is it bad that failure doesn't even phase me anymore?

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:53:45 GMT

Well since its been pointed out that I haven't posted in 10 weeks I suppose that I might at well take a few minuted to update anyone who cares. Woke up this morning and got to class ontime. The whole time trying to convince myself not to skip out. Got there got a retest back with a score of 11/20. This of course is right along with par for the class. The high was 15. Starting to get tired of being rapped, although I have to admit it has been happening so often this semester, I don't even feel it. So far this semester I havn't passed a single test. All I know for sure is if I fail a single class this semester it means that i have to add another year and there is no fucking way in hell that i am willing to do this. So if I don't pass then I'm done. To hell with a bachelor's. I'll take an associates and flip out on the system. On another note mom got aditted to St. V's yesterday with pneumonia. She's doing fine and should be released either today or Mon. Won't know for sure till later. Oh well. I don't have class again till 13:00 so I'm going to take off and find something to do.(Thinking about lunch). Tomorrow I've got to change my brakes and rotors as well as rotate my tires. After that head down to the JAD pad for out weekly (killing spree). Well thats about all for now until I can find something else to bitch about.

-Mike

My new favorite song

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:09:38 GMT

http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php

Satan's Putting on his sweater!

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:06:47 GMT

Well as it is a cold day in hell (must be because its warm in Erie!). Figured I would post real quick. Started work today. Gonna be interesting. They seem to expect an awful lot out of me. Already have three different projects that i am running. School was going well, but as of now I have no idea how much longer this trend shall last. Oh well, either work or school, not both. Talk to you all later.

-Mike

ONLY IN NEVADA

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:32:49 GMT

While browsing the web, I came across this law still in the books in Nevada...

It is illegal for any member of the Nevada Legislature to conduct OFFICIAL business wearing a PENIS costume while the legislature is in session.