The Point of No Return

We all left Amp and now Eden's leaving too. Lol. Oh 545, how many of you we had at that disgusting seedy place with amazingly cheap beer! You will be missed.



Davie strip club settles lawsuit
Club Eden to move closer to State Road 7

Susannah Bryan

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

6:00 PM EST, November 2, 2009

DAVIE
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Club Eden won't have to leave town.

But Davie's only all-nude strip club will have to move.

Under a recent settlement, the club will have two years to leave its home on University Drive for an industrial zone west of State Road 7.

The Sept. 24 agreement with the town ends a federal lawsuit filed in January 2006 by YYBC Inc., the owner of Club Eden. The suit alleged the town's zoning rules were unconstitutional because they effectively banned nude dancing establishments from all parts of town.

While under litigation, the town allowed Club Eden to continue to operate at its building at 2101 S. University Drive, south of Interstate 595.

Vice Mayor Michael Crowley said he was pleased with the compromise.

The new site "is kind of off the beaten path, hidden in an industrial location," Crowley said Monday.

Town officials objected to the club operating so close to a school bus stop and residential neighborhood.

"I don't think [University] is an appropriate location," Crowley said.

Under federal law, Davie had no choice but to allow the club to stay in business, town officials said.

"Under the First Amendment, these are legal businesses," Town Attorney John Rayson said. "We wanted to take them off one of the busiest main drags in Davie and put them in a more appropriate location."

Some, however, wanted to see Davie battle it out in court.

"Stupid is as stupid does," said longtime resident Karen Stenzel-Nowicki, who fears a strip club might ruin the town's efforts to redevelop the transit-oriented corridor in and around State Road 7.

"Now they've set up a Las Vegas strip for the transit-oriented corridor," she said, referring to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. "They will have gambling at the south end and a nudie bar at the north end."

Club Eden closes at 4 a.m. but will close at 6 a.m. at its new location at 3050 and 3070 Burris Road. The deal also requires Club Eden to pay the town $100,000.

Salvatore LoFrisco, president of YYBC Inc., could not be reached for comment.

Had the town taken Club Eden to court and lost, it would have been faced with paying more than $200,000 in attorneys' fees for the plaintiff alone, said Daniel Aaronson, attorney for the club.

"A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever." - Dave Matthews

Guys always say they get Playboy for the articles...well this one would've been worth it. ;)

PLAYBOY: Miss Rand, your novels and essays, especially your controversial best seller, Atlas Shrugged, present a carefully engineered, internally consistent world view. They are, in effect, the expression of an all-encompassing philosophical system. What do you seek to accomplish with this new philosophy?

RAND: I seek to provide men -- or those who care to think -- with an integrated, consistent and rational view of life.

PLAYBOY: What are the basic premises of Objectivism? Where does it begin?

RAND: It begins with the axiom that existence exists, which means that an objective reality exists independent of any perceiver or of the perceiver's emotions, feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Objectivism holds that reason is man's only means of perceiving reality and his only guide to action. By reason, I mean the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses.

PLAYBOY: In Atlas Shrugged your hero, John Galt, declares, "I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." How is this related to your basic principles?

RAND: Galt's statement is a dramatized summation of the Objectivist ethics. Any system of ethics is based on and derived, implicitly or explicitly, from a metaphysics. The ethic derived from the metaphysical base of Objectivism holds that, since reason is man's basic tool of survival, rationality is his highest virtue. To use his mind, to perceive reality and to act accordingly, is man's moral imperative. The standard of value of the Objectivist ethics is: man's life -- man's survival qua man -- or that which the nature of a rational being requires for his proper survival. The Objectivist ethics, in essence, hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself. It is this last that Galt's statement summarizes.

( The rest of the interview )

Rarely do you get the chance to have a client that becomes a friend. I think that Alex was meant to come into my life...we talked about Transformers in our PMM...how can you not love someone like that?

Nicci: "So what made you decide to become a cop?"
Alex: "I don't know...it was just what I always wanted to do. Even when I was a kid and I had Transformers..."
Nicci: "...You'd always be the Autobots over the Decepticons."
Alex: "Lol, exactly! Wait, how old are you that you know about Transformers?"

( My favorite client )

That pretty much says it all.

So I went to heat up my taco meat tonight for dinner and realized that I don't have a microwave. Somehow, I've managed to be here for a full week and never realize that there wasn't a microwave in the kitchen. I guess since I haven't had to use it I just never noticed. Add one more thing onto the list of crap to buy now...

REDS are motivated by POWER. They seek productivity and need to look good to others. Simply stated, REDS want their own way. They like to be in the driver's seat and willingly pay the price to be in a leadership role. REDS value whatever gets them ahead in life, whether it be in their careers, school endeavors, or personal life. What REDS value, they get done. They are often workaholics. They will, however, resist doing anything that doesn't interest them.

REDS like to be right. They value approval from others for their intelligence and practical approach to life, and want to be respected for it. REDS are confident, proactive, and visionary; but can also be arrogant, selfish, and insensitive. When others interact with you, as a RED you respond to them best if they are precise, factual, direct, AND show no fear!

http://www.thecolorcode.com/index.html

The past 2 days have been a bit weird for me in terms of feeling like wanting to kill somebody. The weasel in the Boca office who compltely's tried to steal my connection into the Davie FD, even though I've done all the work has been stonewalled by the FVP in Boca. It's funny, though...b/c as much as I want to kill him, I now want to send him flowers or something equally cheesy. B/c of him, I have b/c incredibly more energized...almost like I've been hit by an epiphinany of how I want my practice to look in the future and i have to stop being so freaking scared to reach out to people that I know and get them as clients. I need to stop being such a........I don't even know what word to use.....but I know what my goals are for the rest of the year, I feel that even though they're lofty I can definitely reach them, but I hve to stop being such a push over w/my clients and actually be the person they paid me to be.

Charles and Nadia are in the line of fire.....

I have time scheduled w/Paul tomorrow to talk about strategizing, b/c I'm no longer going to sit on my ass and be lackadasial about getting people in the door. This is pretty much my last ditch effort for this career and I'd rather go down in a freakin blaze of glory than go out w/a wimper. I know Paul'll be behind me 100% whatever I need, so I'm going to push forward w/an incredibly hard pace and knock all this stuff out until I'm a force to be reckoned w/. Whoever this Steve guy in Boca is better watch out...b/c Nicci's on the warpath and he's going to be blown over if he doesn't get out of the way.

Tonight we (Zack, Rachel, Carey, Justin, Christian, B2, Justin's friend Adam, and I) went across the street to Kavanaugh & Morrisey's to do karaoke. It was such a good time. At first, Zack and Christian were a bit hesitant to go and sing, but after a while they came around. Our big group number, Bohemian Rhapsody. :) I had such a good time, hopefully, we'll be able to do this every couple of weeks, if not every week. It's a nice way to get out of the office and really just enjoy ourselves. :D

Work the past three weeks has sucked hardcore. Yesterday I was so frustrated that I was going to shoot myself or someone else, so I left early, around 9 (yes, 9's early, b/c I don't usually leave work until about 11), and went to the gym. I felt so much better afterwards and today was a really good day, with the rest of the week only looking better. :) Tomorrow we have marketing college and then happy hour, and then Friday we have marketing college till 12 and at 2 our whole office is going to the beach. :) Saturday I'm meeting up w/Justin, Barbara, Rachel, and Bryan (B2's boyfriend) to watch the Gators play in the Final Four. Watching the Gators play was how I spent last Friday night and Sunday afternoon and was seriously the only good point in my week last week.

This thing is really cool :D

Tonight the Florida Gators proved all the sportscasters, Gator haters, and naysayers wrong and did what Gator fans knew they could do all along - WIN A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!! 10 years after the first one (1996), during the 100th year of Florida football, in the same year as the UF basketball national championship.

Today was all day phone clinic...we could leave at 5:30 if we'd set a minimum of 13 appts with a minimum of 5 PMMs. I was all about leaving early tonight, b/c of the game being on, so I hit the phones hard and by lunch had scored 12 LNLs. After lunch, I took care of busines again, scored another LNL and 5 PMMs.

I left at about 6:30 (had to send out some letters) and set off for the Original Steak House. I was going to meet Justin there and had invited Angela to join us. Then Justin's friend came and soon we had a nice little group and seats at the bar that Justin had fought valiently for. Being surrounded by other excited Gators was a lot better than watching it in my living room by a million times. Watching the Gators CRUSH the Buckeyes 41-14 was more than I ever hoped for. I had believed, like any true fan, that we'd win, but was prepared for the possibility that we wouldn't. The Gators picked apart Ohio State like they were a division 2 team and played the best football I'd seen from them, probably ever. The Gators not only showed that we deserved to be there, but that WE were the best team in the nation. As the clock ticked down to the last 6 minutes, it was just me and Justin left (Ange and Justo's friend had gone home) and we saw UF close all hopes of Ohio getting the ball back when we secured the first down w/3 minutes left. At the end of the game, celebration ensued like crazy. People were cheering and hugging and singing and chomping and it was insane and absolutely amazing!!

Wednesday was officially my fourth week of working at Ameriprise and all things considered, it's been going pretty well for me. The people in the office are amazing, everyone's nice and really helpful, even if I'm asking them a really stupid question right in the middle of their most productive phone time, so minus the early mornings and late nights at the office (which I'm finally becoming accustomed to) things have been going well.

Even the phones have been ok and I've gotten much better at talking to people so they don't think I'm a telemarketer, but am telling them about crap they wanted info on in the first place. Eventually, though, it was going to catch up to me. Every night I spend about 3 hours calling people who have requested that we contact them about financial planning information, only they're retarded and don't remember ever requesting it, so it mostly turns into me convincing them that yes, they really did request it, and yes, I can definitely help them fix their financial problems. I've pretty much gotten accustomed to people not answering their phones, hanging up on me, and occasionally (although it's only happened once or twice) yelling at me, so I just ignore it and move onto the next person. Tonight, though, something snapped and I reached my limit. Let's go back to that time...it's about 5pm on Thursday....

*cool looking back in time stuff - like mist or something - happens*

There I am sitting at my desk excited b/c I finally have a PMM this week that's going to come in at 5:15. I met him at the lunch, he was interested and excited, I talked to him on the phone and set the appointment and viola! I have a client, right? Well 5:10 rolls around and Paul wants to leave, except Patricia and I have appointments, so I tell Paul to have Marcos cover mine b/c he said he'd be fine w/that, and Matt and Melissa definitely want Patricia to reschedule her appointment so that we can all leave early, but Patricia won't. Anyway, I figure I can probably set another PMM or 2 while I'm waiting, since I've had really good luck this week (14!! Holler at your boy - as Chris would say), so I start dialing. After a lot of machines I look up at the clock and realize that it's 5:20...ok, so maybe Johnny got stuck in traffic. 5:30, uh, maybe he's lost, so I do the concerned phone call and find out his phone's off. Crap. 5:40, there's no way he's showing, so now I'll be on the phones till 8 and I'm in a really pissy mood, b/c unlike my other appointments this week, I figured that he'd actually show and he hasn't and now I'm sure my ears are turning bright red.

The next phone call I make I ask for David, some girl answers and says hold on and then totally hangs up on me. Since I'm in a pissy mood (which I'm able to completely hide when talking to people) I decide to call her back and use the "ah, we must've gotten disconnected" line. This time, David answers and says his phone service is crappy, sorry for the disconnect. I go through part of the process trying to find out what he wanted to know about from the lunch and think that I'm actually starting to pull him in when he hangs up on me...in the middle of me talking! I was so pissed that I hung up and said "what an asshole" really loudly and Melissa stood up and looked at me and I just said "that guy was such an asshole, argh!" I wanted to punch him in the face, b/c he could've just said he wasn't interested, but no, he had to be a jerk. Then, some old lady completely lied to me about her husband not being home...the same one who told me he was in the shower and I could hear her talking to him in the background, yet didn't hear any water running. I swear...people are so stupid sometimes. Anyway, I went through some more calls and got equally bad responses until I see Johnny's number pop up. Apparently his sister-in-law had surgery 2 days before and was released the day before and he had to take her to the ER for heart problems she was having. Normally I would've figured it was just some lame excuse, but he appologized about 50 times during our 5 minute call and he rescheduled for the next week (I happened to have one time slot available...ok, I had a ton, but made him think I was booked), so that made me a much happier person to know he hadn't just blown me off.

So the next guy I call tells me that he's not interested in reducing taxes b/c he doesn't pay any. He doesn't get an income....
Me:"Oh, ok. Do you live with someone?"
Guy: No, I, uh, live in my car.
M: Oh, so is this your cell phone number, then? (I know he's lying and at this point decide to just play along and completely ignore what I'm actually supposed to finding out from him).
G: Yes.
M: Well you must have some kind of incomce if you have a car and a phone.
G: Uh, I get money from the streets.
M: Wow, you must do pretty well then since you can afford a car and phone.
G: Well, my car's old.
M: But you still need gas, right? So do you have money to put gas in your car?
G: Yeah, but it lasts for like a month.
M: Wow, that's pretty impressive, you must not drive very much. Well, since you don't have any income I can't really help you out, but if you ever do get some, go ahead and give me a call. I'll let you go now, ok?
G: Oh, um, ok.
M: Have a great evening.
G: Uh....thanks...

Me: *laughing after hanging up the phone.*
Melissa: Did you just ask that guy if he has money to buy gas?
Me: Yep! He was obviously lying so I thought I'd have some fun. *smirk*

That guy was probably so confused and that put me in a great mood. 100 dials later, still no PMMs, but Paul let us leave at 7:30, so I worked on some casework until 8:45 and then went and bought some stuff at Target and Office Depot.

Now, it's time for bed. I get to sleep in later tomorrow, but I have to run by the office real quick to see if they have my paycheck or if it's been direct deposited and then pick up some LNL numbers, b/c I need to find out what the guys ordered so I can go get a detailed receipt from Skyline Chili since I forgot to get it when I left there today. Tomorrow we're meeting at Mike's for "business planning," aka a BBQ and some fun times so I'm looking forward to it. :) Saturday and Monday we have off!!!

Dictator- ENTJ 63% Extraversion, 53% Intuition, 66% Thinking, 86% Judging

Have you no soul? It's clear you have no heart and that your blood runs cold, but really, do you have even one redeeming factor? Sure. You're a natural born leader. So was Hitler. You just don't like people, do you? You don't play games. You take charge. And there's very little room for mistakes in your world. You're forceful, intimidating and overbearing. Heard of the word "patience?" Trust me, it's a word and it's something you're sorely lacking. Believe it or not, you're not always right. Learn to have some patience for those who think differently from you, knobflap. From the way people's knees knock when they see you, you should have realised by now that you're not exactly a "people-person." You're more of a "people-eater." You just ain't tuned into people's feelings and probably couldn't care less whether you were anyway. Maybe you're not from this planet but the rest of us are. Sure, you're intelligent. So what? You have some semblance of power. Big deal. At least people LIKE the rest of us. ***************** If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this. ***************** The other personality types are as follows... Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on Extraversion You scored higher than 32% on Intuition You scored higher than 81% on Thinking You scored higher than 98% on Judging

Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

you are aqua #00FFFF

Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is very high - you are all about getting things done. The world may think you work too hard but you have a lot to show for it, and it keeps you going. You shouldn't be afraid to lead people, because if you're doing it, it'll be done right. Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.

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Omg, I am so exhausted, so this is going to be short and sweet. I got up at 8:45 so that I could get ready and go w/mom to pick up the rental. I only have to pay $27 a day for a full-size car (a Taurus, which just screams business person rental car...and cool mobile ;)). I left straight from there to go to Amp and get ready for my meeting w/Mike. I sat in w/him today on his Solution meeting, which really made me realize how much stuff you have to know to do this job, but his PMM was cancelled. :( After that was over, I hung out for a bit and challenged the Crispers bowl. Around 2ish Mike and I left to go fishbowling. We went to practically every restaurant on my list (I wanted to save Pizza Loft and Landlubbers to do w/dad since he knows the owners and thought that might be easier). We tentatively placed 2 bowls (Tommy's and Dragon Gourmet Buffet, which used to be Dubarry's) so I have to follow up on those tomorrow. I also have to drive around to all the other restaurants I didn't hit and try and place bowls there. Since we spent a good 2 hours driving around, going into places, and stuff I was able to pick Mike's brain a lot and learned a TON. It was funny, b/c we found out that we both went to Seminole Middle for 8th grade - he thought I looked familiar (of course I checked my yearbook tonight...he still looks about the same :D ). After hitting the last places on my list, we went back to Amp where he gave me some business cards to tape on the bottom of my bowls. On my way out I ran into Jason, so we talked Series 7 stuff for a while and then I came home. We ate dinner and went over to Grandpa's and Grama's and helped set up the DSL and watched Dancing w/the Stars. They also agreed to come in for me and I promised I wouldn't be pushing anything on them, that it was just for practice. While I was there I almost fell asleep a million times b/c I'm seriously exhausted. It's currently raining really hard and lightning's flashing and thunder's booming, so I should probably get off...I'm also looking at all the emails I need to answer (4) and the number I'm actually going to answer (0)...I'm exhausted, my feet are killing me, and I have a huge bruse on the left side of my chest from the seat belt...I also get to go out fishbowling again tomorrow and I'll probably trade in the rental car for a smaller one.

So yesterday I went into work around 5 and got my official appointment book. I talked to Paul about stuff like setting appointments and fishbowls and scripts. He also set me up with Mike who has 2 appointments on Wed - a PMM and a Solution - so I'll get to sit in on those, which will be absolutely awesome to see up close. After the appointments we're going fishbowling so I'll be able to set lunches right away once I start working. Then Paul set me up with Matt to y-jack (connecting our headsets so I could hear what he and the other person on the phone were saying w/o them knowing I was listening). Sadly, I didn't get to hear him go through the script, b/c people either weren't home yet or weren't answering their phones.

( the rest of my Ameriprise stuff...and my car's dead )

Happy Birthday to me!! I passed the Series 66 last night, which means NO MORE TESTS!!! Best. Present. Ever! ;)

I'll type more later.

Who would've known that one post would've started a wall war to end all wall wars. especially one that was so much fun! First post that started it all:

Me: Brandon, all I can say is that you provided me with the most amusement EVER during MAIB.
PS. It's officially been a year since Ireland...it'd be really cool to get that list sometime soon. ;)

Brandon: I know, I know. The List. Its SOMEWHERE in boxes from moving from Gville, and I have looked for it a few times, but to no avail. I will check again tonight!

Me: Last I remember, the list was in your LV notebook. Only you would have an LV notebook, Brandon. :) And thanks for looking. :)

( It all went downhill from there. ;) )