By phil on January 2, 2010
Since I said I wanted to start simplifying my life, I figured I would tackle the easiest things first.
I am limiting my online presence to only a handful of social networks, one instant message network and reducing my email accounts as well.
Posted in Me, Social Networking
By phil on January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!!! 2010 is here and I hope it will be a great year.
Looking forward to the new year, I am going to apply several concepts and ideas. Whenever I am thinking about doing something or taking on a new project I am going to ask, “Is it a Hell Yeah idea or project?” [...]
Posted in Holidays, Me
By phil on January 25, 2009
UPDATE 1/26/2009 -
Visit: iPetitions.com, savecfcinhalers.org
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In case you didn’t know as of December 31, 2008 you can no longer buy any prescription inhalers that use CFCs to eject the medicine. The FDA is also expected to phase out the over the counter (OTC) asthma medicine that uses [...]
Posted in Me, Thoughts, Warnings
By phil on August 11, 2008
Since last week Verizon workers have been working without a contract, the union and the company have both been at the bargaining table and stopped the clock on the contract expiration date.
Well today (Sunday) according to our local website www.cwa1101.org, Verizon and CWA have reached an agreement. If you look back at my post from [...]
Posted in Job, Me, Thoughts
By phil on August 4, 2008
As I suspected there is no strike as of yet against Verizon. If you have followed my blog you know I work for Verizon and our contract expired August 2, 2008. Everyone at work said that we were going on strike and it could be a long one, etc. I was the only one who [...]
Posted in Job, Me, Thoughts
By phil on February 6, 2008
Now I feel real old… After visiting the day counter page I found that I am 15,222 Days  — or –  2,174 Weeks and 4 Days old.
:(
That puts things into perspective no?
How many days old are you?
~Phil
Posted in Fun, Me
By phil on February 1, 2008
Today February 1, 2008 is my 20th anniversary with my employer. I can hardly believe it has been 20 years since I started working for Verizon. I have been through 4 company name changes since I started, New York Telephone, Nynex, Bell Atlantic and now Verizon.
I was going to write a rant about not being [...]
Posted in Job, Me
By phil on January 3, 2008
Well not really a new me… As you know I have been working on me for the last several months and I have to say I actually made it through the holidays without adding pounds. I am still at 195lbs and feeling good about it. If you remember I started at 224lbs and worked my [...]
Posted in Me, Thoughts
By phil on November 7, 2007
It’s not like I don’t have enough to do in my life right now, I decided to take an online college course.
Since my job pays for the tuition I figured why not expand my knowledge. Also since I am such a geek I figured this would fit in just fine with my existing knowledge. I [...]
Posted in Me, School
By phil on October 8, 2007
Just thought I would update you all on my progress with the weight training/loss. Remember my original post I wanted to lose some weight. I started at 224lbs on August 15 and then about a month later I went down to 210lbs and now October 8 I am down to 201lbs… YAY!!!!
My plan is to [...]
Posted in Exercise, Me