THANKSGIVING RECAP: The Day After

Hey People

Well its Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and this is a kickback kind of day. This post is a recap of yesterday. Woke up in the morning and had to go to my office for a second. I needed to go over changing the server tapes with Francie because I was going to change them today. After that I got a call from my Mom. Talk to her for a few minutes. Seemed like she was going to have another good Thanksgiving, letting me know what Dale is taking over Wiley's crib. That hurt (the first year I haven't had Dale's Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner). So once again I was feeling home sick. Luckly for me, the Hubers called me over for Thanksgiving. I got to meet their daughter Valerie, son in-law Ben, and grandson. Dave, Val, Ben and I went for a drive up to this park where we learned a little Maryland history. It was beautiful up there. After that we came back and had a good Thanksgiving dinner. Now this was special to me because I didn't think I was going to have a Thanksgiving dinner this year. After the dinner we played a game called Sequence. This is a game Maria, Dave and I play all the time. We played two games and my team won both games of course, LOL. Then I got a call from my cousin Tony and talked to him, my Dad, my Uncle Balvino, my Aunt Cathy, my Grandma, and my cousin Dave for a little while. It seemed like their having a great and normal Irizarry Thanksgiving, once again feeling more homesick. Now, I loved being with the Huber's on Thanksgiving, but to me, there's nothing like being home for the holidays. Nothing like it. After talking to the family and hanging out with the Hubers, I went back to the crib and had a couple drinks with a neighbor and friend of mine (The shot was for the Irizarry's back home). Overall, to me it was a great day, which the good Lord paved the way for me to have and I Thank HIM so much for. But next year, I'll be back to kick it. Peace!

*Special shout out to the BVS Unit 275, Keep it cracken always!

JCI,
BVSer, Unit 275
Information Services

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 2007

Happy Turkey-Day ya'll!

I hope everyone stuffs their faces, enjoys watching the football games, gets their drink on (not to drunk of course, LOL) and just have a great f-n day. For me, this is the first thanksgiving I am not going to be with my family. Its really tough but I think I can make it through though (might not be sober though, LOL). Not much going around here today, maybe going to the Hubers (older BVSers) apartment to hang out and then Im not sure after that. I just look forward to next year for sure. Peace!

JCI AKA "The Kid"
BVSer, Unit 275
Information Services

Quote of the Day! #1

"Keep the good LORD in your life, ALWAYS, because HE is good."

JCI

Busy Days!

What up Ya'll:

Its been a few days, but its been a very busy few days at work. This has been the most productive week at work to date and it feels good. Although there are some things that I'm not crazy about but I am happy to just be busy. Been spending a lot of time with David and Maria Huber around here. David and Maria are an older BVS couple serving as hosts to the Zigler building here at the center. They have become my closest friends here next to Francie. Lately, I have been burning more movies lately. By the time I finish my first year here in BVS, I will probably have more movies then I do back home. That saying a lot because I spent over two years building my collection back home. This past Sunday, the Hubers invited me to the Westminster COB. This was my first time going to this COB. It was a good service. Seemed like Union Bridge COB to me. Thanksgiving is upon is in a couple of days. This is real tough for me because this is my first Thanksgiving away from home and Thanksgiving is one of my two favorite holidays of the year. I was back at home, we probably be at my Uncle Domingo's getting our grub on and watching the game. Tradition for the great holiday of course. Next year, we hope to have it at our house and hopefully I will make it back home then so I don't have to feel so depressed about not being home at Thanksgiving. I talk to my good buddy Glenn on Sunday night. Everything is still good at the church. I am thankful that they still continue to think of me and they haven't forgotten me yet. I have been out in my project for three months now. A total of four months altogether including orientation, but I reached the three month mark and I feel great about it. Usually, when I am at a job for three months I have good luck in the job. Most of my jobs after three months last at least or over year. I may be in a different situation from my previous employment but I still think that the three month period is important to me. Next week is going to be interesting because Francie is taking a vacation for the whole week. That means that I will be running the show with a little help from Wolfgang, who helps us at least 10 hours a week. He'll be helping with more of the administrative duties where I will be taking care of all the technical duties. This will give me a good chance to see what I know and how I do by myself and if I can run an IS department for a short time. Well I guess I will see ya when I see ya. Peace!

Jay AKA "The Kid"
BVSer, Unit 275
Information Services

What a work week!

Whats up Everyone!

The last few days here have been pretty exciting for me as regards to work over here. My normal day would include having accomplished between one to three tasks a day, spending most of the time in my office. Not complaining though. Techs and Admin's that work in an IS department know what I am talking about. On Friday, I started to do the fixed assets on the computer that took most of the day. Fixed assets are records of all the inventory that we have from New Windsor to Elgin. For the last couple of weeks, I had recorded all the hardware inventory here at the center. Now I just had to make sure there is a record of it in the fixed assets system. Then on Monday, it was more of the same on the fixed assets. That took another day. On Tuesday, Francie and I set up 4 PC's for the Brethren Disaster meeting that are taking place today and tomorrow. Today we setup 3 laptops for them. Todays was an interesting day though because it was the first time Francie was in a bad mood but still had a lot of fun working with her anyway. We had to install a printer in the warehouse for the Material Resources crew. That was really fun (yeah right!). We spent all dam morning trying to feed paper into this printer and made sure it printed right. That really sucked but it was a job. Like I told one of my friends here at the center, "even though a job may suck and irritate me, I still still love it". I gives me something to do. Better to be pissed off at something, then not have anything to be pissed off about. LOL. The rest of the week is going to be pretty busy and I can't wait either.
This past weekend I got a chance to watch the movie "Transformers". What can I say but it was freakin Awesome. That movie kicked ass and I can't remember a movie I cheered through the whole movie. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it to all your friends and family to check it out. You won't be disappointed.
Anyway, I feel that there are a lot more things ahead to talk about. There is more work to talk about and inform you all in what actually goes on in the best department to work for: Information Services. Peace!

Jay, AKA "The Kid"
BVSer, Unit 275
Information Services
Church of the Brethren General Board

Spiderman 3!

Whats cracken people:

Last night after work, I watched Spiderman 3 from a DVD I rented. I'm writing this post to let people know that I recommend to watch Spiderman 3 they haven't seen it. It was a very cool movie. I look forward to more movies I haven't seen yet. Peace!

Jay AKA "The Kid"

BVSer, Unit 275

Information Services

Church of the Brethren General Board

Jay & The Saylers

(L TO R) Elaine Sayler, Jay, Adrian Sayler

IM BACK!

What up Everybody!

Sorry its been a while since I last wrote. I at least try to write once a week but I have been lacking lately. I will jump back on it though. Let’s see, last Sunday (28 October) I said goodbye to two of the older volunteers here, Adrian and Elaine Sayler. The Sayler’s are from Kansas are not sure if they are going to be returning back to New Windsor. They have become one of my closest friends here. Adrian always gave me a lift into town if I needed to hang out at Target or Wallmart. They are the sweetest couple in the world. I’m going to miss them very much. But they will be doing their thang back home.
Work as been going pretty good lately. Still trying to stay on top of the technology world here. Just recently finished up the hardware inventory around the campus. Then I worked on a couple of laptops to clean them up. Also had to install a couple of old Dell Optiplex’s to replace one last Dell Dimension. I got most, if not all the old Dimensions laying in my office. I will send a photo of my office to one of the staff IS people there in Elgin, Ill just for the heck of it (She’ll know what I am talking about.) I just came back from a three day weekend. The last of my comp days from my Elgin trip. This is a new week so I plan on coming up with different things for the IS department for me to do.
The weather has gotten colder lately, which I am happy to say. The people here say that we had one of the warmest October’s here in a real long time. I was wishing for cold weather to come a lot sooner, but you know what they say, be careful what you wish for because you just may get it. Today it is really windy and cold.
This past weekend I took a trip to Pennsylvania. I went on a bus tour with the Westminster COB members and we went to Germantown, PA for a visit. Then we went to Harleysville and spent an hour visiting this cemetery and an old church building. This was part of the Church of the Brethren’s 300 Anniversary. Most of the trip we were on the bus. We came back and ate at the Old Country Buffet, which is the same as the Hometown Buffet in Turlock or Modesto, just different names. The trip was ok, but it was cold. The cold I remember when I first came to the east coast back in 1995. I came back and called my Mom up talking about send me another jacket because the cold is coming to New Windsor soon.
Everybody at the center is good and still doing there thang. I have a couple of more friends that are leaving sometime next week to head back home, but they are coming back in March so its cool. Probably not going to miss them to much like I am going to miss the Saylers. We got a new BVSer here name Alex. He is 20 years old and just finished his orientation in October. His project is in SERVE, International, here at the center. Alex is also my next door neighbor so its cool having him around. Thanksgiving is coming soon and for the first time in my life I am not having dinner with my family. Its going to be a tough time for me, but at the same time, I am hoping to go to DC and visit some of my unit members there. Their like family to me as well so that will be cool. Well I guess that’s it until next blog. Peace Ya’ll!

Jay, AKA “The Kid
BVSer Unit 275
Information Services