Jabulani Jonny

Alright, well the text and the link worked. The title did not. I’ll fiddle more. This is too cool. Now when days are slow at work, I can blog like the rest of the free world.

Edit: Hmmmm, pic didn’t work, title didn’t work. Time to get out the thinking cap.

Hey all, well I’m trying out Writely as a way to update my Blog from work since Typepad gets blocked by our firewall. Don’t you just love corporate america. This is put out by Google as part of their online office suite (sweet) which includes Google Calendar and Google Spreadsheets, both very cool apps themselves. This is a pretty cool interface and idea if you haven’t fiddled with it yet. Basically it’s an on-line word processor that has some blogging tools and allows you to view, edit and share a myriad of word processing type files, ie. Word files, PDF, ODT, etc. It auto-saves every 10 seconds and there are just a ton of cool features. So, I’m gonna keep this short to see if it works. If so, I’ll have a much easier time keeping my blog updated.

My wife is an alien.  Although sometimes she acts "other-worldly" she’s originally from South Africa, which, last I checked, is just on the other side of the globe, not the Solar System.  All that to say, it’s taken us 6 years to get to where we are this morning.  Really more than that if you count all the time and money that she put towards it before we got married.  This morning we head to the beloved INS office in Atlanta for my woman to take her citizenship test and interview. 

It has taken this long and lots of freakin’ money, but she’ll now be able to say the Pledge of Allegiance with conviction.  Speakin of which, yesterday she was learning the "Star Spangled Banner".  Ok right now, recite it word for word.  Do you get stuck?  Are all the words correct?  You can check here .  It was pretty funny as we were walkin’ down our favorite dirt road taking Barley for a walk we were singing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of our lungs.  It was hilarious cause Snee, I’ll use that to refer to my woman, was filling in words she didn’t know with whatever sounded right and it was a catastrophe.  We finally got her straight and she can now sing the Star Spangled Banner complete with the final tag line…"Play Ball!". 

Wish us luck!  I’ll fill you in this evening.  When I say "you" I pretty much mean the one other person that’s reading this blog right now. 

That’s what the day was like.  Before today, there was yesterday.  Yeah, crazy I know.  I stayed at work until about 8:45, that’s pm, to work on a couple loans that I had to take in today.  Rush deals that had some decent complexity to them.  Can’t go into details cause that whole privacy act thing.  Anyway, I got to work at 7:15 and started working on them again for loan approvals which was at 9:00.  What this process involves is basically you get a loan request and do a whole bunch of financial analysis and general investigation into the deal, then you take it in front of our loan committee and they try to chew it apart and make sure you know what you’re doing.  It can be pretty trying at times.  Today was a little trying.  Parts were pretty difficult, but I came out on top. AAAAAahhhhhh!!! Elation.  I mean, it’s like fighting this mini-battle every week.  You prepare and crunch then you take it in and fight for it.  When you win, you get pats on the back, "Good Job!" they say and everyone’s happy.  When you lose, you might walk out of there looking like a moron.  Thankfully I haven’t had one of those.  So that lasted until about 11:00, then lunch with a customer, then hanging out.  Sweet blessed Friday afternoon!

On Friday afternoons it gets slow around the office so I usually bring my laptop in and my buddy John and I play some kind of game, ie. a first person shooter game.  We started with Far Cry, then Fear then Call of Duty 2 and now we’re playing Half Life 2.  Talk about a fun Friday afternoon.  Well today, after playing we decided to walk down the street to Scruffy Murphy’s and grab a tall glass of something cold and sudsy.  Nice.

Then John fills me in that he’s moving.  SUCK!  Dangit.  He’s taking a position with another Synovus affiliate.  It’s a great opportunity for him, but I’ll definitely miss that guy.  Ooops, dangit, got a run right now, but in my next post I’ll tell you more about John and why he’s a stud and why I want to be like him.  Peace

Hello world.  Well this is my first foray into blogdom.  My friends made me do it, at least my tech savvy, mostly have Macs, rag on me and my PC friends.  There’s something about all that that sounds oxymoron-ish, but I can’t tell what’s throwing it.  I hope they come and visit my site, you’ll find links to theirs on the side over there.  I check theirs out because they lead interesting lives, I think anyway.  My closest friends have kids, which is darn good material for a blog.  I mean, who can pass up seeing cute pics of kids and the funny things they do.  Well you won’t get that here, so get over it.

What you’ll get here is a blend of music  (I play in a few bands and provide audio production work on the side), pics of cool places (my wife and I like to travel and be outdoors), some prose and poetry and the list goes on.  Some of these categories will inevitably let you learn a little bit about me and be rather introspective, others will be bizarre, not unlike all the other blogs that you sift through in a day’s time.  So, I’m not sure how you came by this page, but thanks for stopping by.  I’ll try to make it worth your while.  It is just getting started so there will be some empty spots until I get it filled.  Keep an eye out. 

This blog comes at an interesting time in my life.  I’m 31 years old, I am a commercial lender for a fairly large bank in Georgia, with plenty of perks, a great company and a great group of folks.  I really enjoy it, but it’s completely opposite from my personality.  I’m a musician, I’m probably borderline ADD or at least used to be.  I was an absolute nut through all of my school years, and now I’m a banker.  I go to work at 8:30 and get my coffee and try to focus on basically doing accounting homework for the day.  Sounds fun I know, but really it is pretty challenging and when you get everything structured and approved, you feel like you kind of won this little battle.  That’s good for me.

So that’s what I do during the day…to make money…so I can play.  What I do to play will have to wait til my next post.  I’ll definitely try to keep this thing rockin’ along so come back when you get a chance.  Peace love and jabulani.