Professional Communication 06/03/2008

Work was unbearably busy today.  Did you know everyone in the world comes to my bank to cash their social security check on the third of each month?  It’s true.

We had some customers arrested today too.  They were trying to cash a check for 2k that had some obvious red flags and one of our bankers was able to keep the customers attention occupied until the cops showed up and walked them out in cuffs.  Cool huh?

If nothing else, my Professional Communication course allows me time to IM, blog and spend some good quality time with Travian.  Just a few weeks left of this course.  Tonight we are writing a dress code for a company… Something like this sounds good. ->

Just so we are clear, Firefox 3 RC1 is the best web browser ever.  I can only imagine that the final product will be even better.

There hasn’t been much news in my life.  My parents are still dealing with their house, they are moving into a townhouse this weekend and that’s where they will stay for the next several months while their house gets fixed.

I guess I gotta do some work now.  Parting question: “What would the dress code be for your business if you were in control?”

-Josh

no more twitter updates

Is that okay?

Dads tornado photos

Here are the pictures that my dad took of the storm damage in Hugo.

http://picasaweb.google.com/glenn.schlick

 

-Josh

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-27

• Back to work today. Jeeze. #
• I’m having a bad day. It’s a fricking thousand degrees in this building today. #

Memorial Day weekend Update

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was good enough.  I think it could have been better if someone would have smacked Spielberg upside the head and told him to leave the Close Encounters of the Third Kind out of it.  Oh well, I guess it could have been a lot worse too.

So yeah… my parents house got hit by a tornado.  They are find, thank you for asking.  Sunday night after it hit I tried to get up there to help them but the neighborhood was being evacuated and I couldn’t get in.  We were able to get back into the neighborhood yesterday (after a series of cops told us ‘no, you can’t get in’ and us replying ‘yes we can’) and my parents faired very well through the ordeal.  The tornado made three holes in their house but from what we could tell there was nothing sentimental/valuable broken.

The scariest part for my family is that my father was asleep on the second floor about five minutes before the tornado blew it’s way through town.  If Mom had not been home to wake him up he could have been hurt… or worse.  It’s all speculation, but it’s still scary.

This picture is of the house directly across the street from my parents.  It’s completely destroyed, obviously.  House, garage and four cars (including the classic) all destroyed.

I can’t imagine having to rebuild your house from the ground up.  Hopefully the insurance companies for the community will fully support rebuilds and repairs, but that has got to be a lot of work emotionally and mentally to get back to where you were.  Forget this paragraph, I’m just rambling.

Best/only good news of today is that my next two college classes will be Intro to Visual Basic and Multimedia for the web.  I can’t wait to get back to classes that actually have to do with my degree.

-Josh

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-26

• Cops wont let me get to my parents. #
• I can’t even get text messages out to twitter. Cell phones are all jammed. #
• @sorrydad my parents are okay. But it was a close one, my dad was asleep in a room about 2 minutes before that room got destroyed. #
• @iiyoyoguy @docpop yeah, parents are fine. I’ll let them know you’re thinking about them. #
• @Aronj001 standing but not livable #
• My parents are getting back in to their house today, im going with them. Still not open to the general public. #
• http://Www.flickr.com/photos/joshparker #