Friday :(

Today was a bit slower than the other days have been. Emily was feeling ill today, but it was a fun day for just the two of us to spend some time together relaxing in the hotel room.

 
 

Emily did feel a bit better by dinner time though! So we got to go to the Asian Restaurant for some dinner! I got the stirfried lamb, and Emily got the sushi!

 
 

Its funny, Emily has had sushi every night except Thursday. Sometimes we go to dinner, then after dinner we stop by the sushi place for some take home dessert sushi :)

 
 

Hey the Lady knows what she likes right!

 
 

We only have a couple more days here, and can't wait to see you guys once we get back! But for now we are just going to soak in some more tropical sun!

 
 

Peace - Brian

Thursday!

Thursday was the best day yet!

 
 

We have really enjoyed the company of each other, and the new friends we have made!!

 
 

Today began with another amazing breakfast, and then a glass bottom boat tour from Capitan Crunch and his trusty sidekick Seaweed! They pointed out a lot of cool features of the reef to us and yes Cristy, you can tell Ella we saw Nemo!

 
 

After the boat tour was tome for some pool bar, and then a game of pool with our new friends!

 
 

It was a bright sunny afternoon and then the wind started to pick up so I suggested to Emily that we take the sailboat out! Oh wow, it sure was fun to go sailing again! I haven't been Since GG and I went to sailing camp back in boy scouts! WE were out in the cove having a great ol' time when all of a sudden boom! No more wind. :(

 
 

It took us nearly an hour to get the boat back into shore! But being the excellent sailors that Emily and I are we made it! And we got some pretty good tans to go with the experience!

 
 

Thursday night was another fancy dinner night for us! This time is was duck for me and Pork loin for Emily (because the pork loin was the only one that came with mashed potatoes (: )

 
 

After dinner there was a steel drum band , followed by a fire dancer, and then a bon fire on the beach! Emily and I shared a dance!

 
 

Then it was off to the hot tub with our friends!

Wednesday

Wednesday morning we got up nice and early so we could have breakfast before our amazing couples massage! What a great way to start the day!! We both loved it!

 
 

After couples massage it was time for some pool bar, followed by some pool volleyball! Emily and My team dominated, and won some more auction funny money! Hopefully we can put it to good use Sunday night!

 
 

After pool volleyball it was time to go catch the boat for a 2 hour cruise down to Pirates Cave. WE have some really good pics from the boat cruise that we will share later. ( I really need to get better at this blogging thing!)

 
 

After the cruise we went for dinner in the fancy restaurant! Emily looked stunning in her black dress! I had some excellent lamb chops that evening!

 
 

This place will come with a very high recommendation from me! The food is great! The liquor is top shelf! And somehow they have a staff of hundreds that are always friendly!

 
 

I hope someday we can come back!

 
 

We retired early again Wednesday. Sweet dreams!

 
 

 
 

Tuesday!

Tuesday morning I got up early and got us signed up for some of the events that required reservations such as: Snorkeling, catamaran cruise, glass bottom boat tour, and dinner reservations at the fancy restaurant, and best… our free massage!!

 
 

Then Emily and I had a little breakfast and set out for a stroll down the beach. Tuesday overall was a pretty relaxing day, mostly just switching it up between pool bar and sun tanning :)

 
 

We did meet some really cool people that day though! Justin and Ashley whom we then did almost everything else with this week.

 
 

Tuesday night was Casino night. We were playing roulette and Emily promptly put her 100 million couple bucks down on 00. who does that? Well she did, and it hit!

 
 

So when it came time for the auction, we pretty much had out pick of things with our couple billion dollars we had!

 
 

After the auction it was time for…the nude beach! JK! Bed time

Monday

Hi it's Brian again. Boy I have a lot of things to catch you up on!

Sorry we haven't posted in a while, we have been pretty busy you know! I guess I will just take you through a day by day rundown of events.

Monday…

I already mentioned the very scary bus ride to the resort…but I forgot to mention that we also were riding on the bus with 6 couples with a combined marriage experience of 33 years, and 11 days. There were 5 newlywed couples including us and a couple that was on their 33rd anniversary trip. WE made friends with all of them and did things with them throughout the week.

Once we arrived at the resort, they "Welcomed us Home" and got us checked in and our bags were waiting for us in our rooms.

The room is amazing. Our bathroom is Huge and we have a really nice porch with a hammock! Emily was very excited about the jacuzzi tub!

After we got unpacked, we decided to go find a bar to start making the most of our all inclusive investment. We met a couple other couples at the bar, and Emily immediately invited them to dinner. She went over to the greeter at the restaurant, and he said "Table for two?" to which em replied, "No, eight, by the beach please!" Emily has been very bold and outgoing on this trip! It has been a lot of fun!

After an amazing dinner, we had to try out the pool!! And then retired pretty early since it was our first night.

A good Photo Host?

Hi! Its Brian this time. So we Arrived in Jamaica yesterday! Somehow the line for immigration and customs was relatively short. I think we got through both in under a half an hour.

Once we got through customs we were directed toward the couples resort lounge and check in. And as promised we were greeted with a smile and a red stripe!

We then got on board our rickety tour bus with our death defying driver, Michael. As it seems, traffic laws are more just traffic suggestions in Jamaica! I have no idea how there were no incidents :)

On the plane ride over Emily read the manual to her new Camera, so she was very excited to try out her skillz! And I must say, she is doing a GREAT job! Hopefully I can find a decent photo host so that I can post some of these amazing pics she is taking! Any suggestions?

Well we are off to breakfast now, So I will type more up later.

Peace!

The beginning of something great!

Hey it's Emily! It's 6:30 am and Brian and I are at the airport sharing a cinnamon roll and trying to decide where we would like to go today. We ruled out the Florida Keys, Aruba sounds nice, but no. Key largo would be alright. Maybe Bermuda? Or the Bahamas? After much debate, and reading our plane tickets, we decided that Jamaica would be the perfect spot for some relaxing fun!

Yesterday was a good day. So far, I LOVE being married! I love every minute of it. So sorry to disappoint all of you out there who say marriage sucks.

Anyways, yesterday. We got up, chatted with the neighbor, and then went to mass. We said goodbye to Aunt Sarah, Uncle Rich, Peter, and Emily. Then it was off to Panang with Sue for one last round of curry before the trip. Then we ran some errands and tried to get where we wanted to be on packing before we went over to Joe and Cristy's! That was a blast! They were nice enough to agree to watch Sampson for the week AND feed us a farewell steak dinner with home grown veggies (fried up the way we like them). We have some amazing friends. After dinner we settled the girlies in their beds and then played a super fun game. It was good clean fun for everyone :) After that it was back to Sue's to say goodbye to her and Aunt Grace (and pick up a few things we forgot) then it was back to packing. Finally

Brian tried to get me to settle down and go to sleep…. I was too excited!!! But we finally fell asleep and got a 3 hour nap before getting up to head to Jamaica! Almost time to board, there will be more to come!

A work of Fiction

This is a story that TJ wrote. All characters depicted in this story are purely ficticious and any resemblance to anyone alive or dead is purely coincidental.

Ok, so I promised a story. Here goes nothing:

Once upon a time in a castle far, far away, there lived a beautiful princess named, Miley. Miley had a great life. She hung out with little people, scrubbed floors for her evil step-sisters, lounged around in the castle with a tiger, helped her aging father run a book store, and all the other crap that Disney has forced on us as "princess activities" for years. Anyway, Miley had a great life, but something was missing. Miley was alone and had not found her prince charming. Yeah, I know! You would think with all the crap she was busy with, she wouldn't be so lonely. But alas, Miley was saddened by her loneliness. Everyday she'd think, "When, oh when will a handsome prince come to my castle and save me from all this loneliness???". And every day Miley's step-mother would yell, "Shut the hell up and get out of the bathroom!" So, minutes turned into hours, hours into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, years into decades, decades into meaningless anniversaries, meaningless anniversaries into unnecessary divorces...wait, what story are we in? Oh right! Days turned into weeks, weeks to months, and months to years, and Miley still remained loveless in the castle. Until one day, while trippin' balls and "frolicking" in the meadow with talking animals, a handsome prince galloped into the meadow close to Miley. Miley was struck by his, shall we say, "glory". The Prince was tall, rugged, strong, but with boyish good looks. (Seriously, I'm not into guys, so describing a beautiful dude is kinda tough for me.) Let's just say he was everything that Miley could have ever hoped for or wanted. He was, of course, Prince Otto from the land of St. Hoogeville. Prince Otto was, quite possibly, the greatest man anyone had ever known. Really, who doesn't like Prince Otto once they meet him? Prince Otto's exploits were known around the world. He was the slayer of the Bottle-Nose Sloth Dragon. He had survived an attack from the Salad Bar Monkies, and had tamed the Great Grill Troll single-handed. Miley had heard the legends, but never believed that she would one day meet the great Prince Otto. As the wind blew threw his flowing locks of curly, blonde hair, he looked at Miley and winked, and smiled. He then said, "Hey babe. Whatcha doin'?" It was love at first sight...and that's that. I'm not going into any mushy stuff. It's bad enough that this story has made it to this point. Now fully in love, Princess Miley and Prince Otto mounted Otto's trusty steed, Duke, and road off toward the Castle. They were going to be nice and at least let the step-mother and sisters, the aging father, the height-challenged gentlemen, and the tiger, know that they were going to ride off together and live happily ever after. It's just common courtesy. Anyway, when they got to the castle they found only the evil wizard, Trang. Trang was fiercely opposed to the rights of height-challenged gentlemen, and he hated Princess Miley for associating with them. As Miley and Otto approached, Trang said, "Because you have spent time with these little people in pointy hats, I will punish you...for some reason." He then waved his wand and summoned the most fearsome creature in all the land: Sampson the Yelping Destroyer! Sampson was 300 feet tall and, let's face it, a real dickhead. He yelped and snapped his powerful, grotesque jaws at Prince Otto and Princess Miley. To make him even more angry, Trang blew massive amounts of wind into Sampson the Yelping Destroyer's face. This angered Sampson the Yelping Destroyer and he hunkered down and prepared to pounce on Otto and Miley. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha! You will perish at the paws of Sampson!", said Trang. Miley and Otto knew that the only way they could ever be together was to turn around and run away as fast they could. But for some reason, they decided to stick around and fight Sampson the Yelping Destroyer. Prince Otto tried fighting Sampson first. He unfurled his might sword, stepped confidently toward Sampson and then jabbed at his soft under-belly. Otto forgot that Sampson was 300 feet tall and completely wiffed with his sword. Sampson swooped his might jaws down and ate Otto in one gulp. This stunned Princess Miley. She didn't know what to do. The love of her life had just been eaten by a creature that was strangely, and overwhelmingly cute to her. She couldn't possibly kill Sampson, he was just too damn cute! Duke, being ever diligent, realized that Miley had just been stupified by Sampson's Cuteness Charm. This jolted Duke into action! Duke sprank to his feet (he was tired and lying down), charged at Sampson and jumped like he had never jumped before! This, unfortunately, did not work out well for the trusty steed Duke. Sampson knocked Duke down and then proceeded to violate him from behind. Duke, although being noble and gallant, was very lazy when it came to getting away from Sampson's violation. Duke struggled for a while, but then finally gave up. This meant that over-coming Sampson the Yelping Destroyer, and at the same time getting back the love of her life, was solely on Princess Miley's shoulders. Princess Miley knew that there was no way she could defeat a 300 foot tall monster. She had to figure out another way. That's when she finally realized what needed to be done! Princess Miley calmly walked over to Trang and kicked him square in the nuts. This instantly made Sampson the Yelping Destroyer spit out Otto and then Sampson disappeared. Miley did not realize that the fight was over, so she kicked Trang square in the jingle bells 40 more times. "How did you ever figure out Sampson's weakness???", moaned Trang. "Weakness? I just wanted to kick you in the plumbs for being such an ass to me and my boyfriend!" At that moment Miley realized that she had defeated Sampson the Yelping Destroyer and had saved Prince Otto. Also, Duke had come back after running away like a crying little pussy. So as the sun set in the distance, Prince Otto and Princess Miley rode away toward a new life of happiness and love. They kept saying something about July 16, but I couldn't really hear them over Trang moaning about his aching crotch.

The End

Found this one woot.com blog today.

I am not sure how you can be this bad at something and think that you are good.

I am a fairly harsh music consumer as many of you that know me already know. I am prone to get pissed at people that urban yodel the national anthem, people that sing the national anthem too slow, and i am constantly complaining to Emily about how the choir at church slows down the tempo some times 50% from the time they start the song till the time that they end, but this is just absurd.

How can all three people in the band be out of tune with each other? the singer is flat, the guitar is sharp, the drummer cannot keep a beat.

This is the most epic fail of music i have ever seen.

Unless of course they meant it as a joke. Then EPIC WIN!

Does this work?

CP2 - CH17 - Problems

Problem 17-24

 
 

• Facts
  
  • 
    

Service Department	Maint	Computing	Etching	Finishing
Maint (hours)	0	1000	1000	8000
Computing (minutes)	240000	0	840000	120000

• Maint budget
  
  • $96000
    
• Comp Budget
  
  • $500000
    
• Etching
  
  • $400000
    
  • 20*2000=40000 man hours
    
• Finishing
  
  • 640000
    
  • 80*2000=160000man hours
    

     
     

     
     

• Calculate rates using the direct method (To do this method you are making the assumption that the service departments are completely independent from one another)
  
  • Maint
    
    • 1000/9000=0.1111 to etching
      
      • .1111111*96000=$10666.6656
        
    • 8000/9000=0.8889 to finishing
      
      • .888888889*$960000=$853333.33
        
  • Computing
    
    • 84/96=0.875 to etching
      
      • .875*$500000=$437500.0
        
    • 12/96=0.125 to finishing
      
      • .125*$500000=$62500.00
        
  • Etching is = 400000+10667+437500=$848167
    
    • 848167/40000=21.2042 per dlh
      
  • Finishing is $640000+$85333+$62500=$787833.00
    
    • $787833.00/16000=$49.24 per DLH
      

       
       

       
       

• Calculate Rates Using Step Method (to use this method you are making the assumption that there is one reciprocity between service departments in this example that the computing department services the Maint dept but not vice versa)
  
  • Allocate computing
    
    • Maint
      
      • 240/1200=0.2
        
      • $96000+.2*500000=$196000.00
        

       
       

    • Etching
      
      • 840/1200=0.7
        
        • 400000+.7*500000+.1111111*196000=$771777.7756000
          
        • $771777.7756000/40000=$19.29
          

        
         

         
         

    • Finishing
      
      • 120/1200=0.1
        
        • $640000+.1*500000+.888888889*196000=$864222.22
          
        • $864222.22/160000=$5.4
          

           
           

• Pool the Service department costs (assuming reciprocity between multiple service departments)
  
  • Step 1 Reciprocal Table
    
    • 
      

From	Maint	Comp	Etch	Fin
Maint		.10	.10	.80
Comp	.20		.7	.10

• Step 2
  
  • Reciprocal Equation to pool service costs
    
    • M = $96000+.2C
      
    • C = $500000*.1M
      
      • M=$96000+.2($500000*.1m)
        
      • M=($96000+$100000+.2M)
        
      • .98M=196000
        
      • M = $196000/.98=$200000.00
        
      • C=$520000
        
• Maint = $200000*.1=$20000.00 to Etching $200000*.8=$160000.00 to finishing
  
• Computers = $520000*.7=$364000.0 to etching $520,000*.1=$52,000.00 to finishing
  

   
   

1. Etching = $20000+364000+400000=$784000.00
   
   1. $784000.00/40000=$19.6
      
2. Finishing = $160000+52000+640000=$852000.00
   
   1. $852000.00/160000=$5.33
      

       
       

       
       

       
       

1. PROBLEM 17-27
   
   1. Calculate the plant wide overhead rate for travelcraft inc. for the coming year using the same method used in the past
      

       
       

      1. 36800 power+8000 maint=44800
         
         1. Molding = $42000
            
            1. 500 dlh
               
         2. Component = $32400
            
            1. 2000 dlh
               
         3. Assembly= $45200
            
            1. 1500 dlh
               
   2. 164400/4000=$41.1 per dlh overhead