I am terrible at this. I always start things with the sole intention to work on, enjoy, and ultimately finish things. But like many of my friends, I always seem to dive into things without always finishing them.
It has almost been an entire year since I updated this blog. Without a theme, direction, or cause, I had no drive keeping me on it. That is what I need, now; a direction; a desire; a drive. With no school to hold my attention and no real full time work schedule to keep my whole week busy, I need to find a way to build something from the bottom up. I have ideas. I have plans. I have a vague grasp on what I want my life to be...
I am going to workshop some ideas. Feel out something new. And start from scratch with a new blog. A year later, I close this blog.
Signing off- Michael Carrillo
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Shows in 2D
As I sat and watched the fireworks from Riverbend it made me think about how weird life is in general. I always have such a hard time thinking about how I am just a speck; one tiny little mind and heart beat in a sea of fleshy humans overpopulating a floating rock in the middle of a big nothing. I watched colorful explosions in the sky and even the physics of that made me feel odd. How the explosions were happening on a 3-dimensional scale, but from my point of view it looked like a flat plane with moving doodles; just a movie being projected on a giant dark navy sheet. When the finale of the show was finally done, a roar of cheers echoed throughout the valley created by the river. Thousands of people had come to see the exact thing I had just watched. And I could hear their cheers all the way across the river, which was at least a 2-3 mile gap of space. All of life is just odd. How everything ended up exactly like it is. How life changed from a few colonies of humans working together to make a home to the buzzing metropolises that now populate our small planet. It is just weird.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Early Morning Thoughts
As my final semester at UTC draws closer and closer, I realized that a question keeps being brought to my attention. For those of you who are talking to soon to be graduates, there is one question that drives us all crazy!
"So, what are you going to do next?"
Not every person who is graduating college has an exact plan for what they are going to be doing once they finally have their diploma in hand; especially in this economy. While the economy is slowly getting better, jobs are still few and far between. Those of us who have steady jobs will probably just keep their current jobs and wait for better opportunities.
The answer I always give is, "Well, I guess I will just be an educated server for a while. See what comes of it." That's whats nice about being an Entrepreneurship major. I can do anything I want with my degree. If I want to do something, I can just make my own business to do so. While the idea of just creating businesses to fit my fancy at the moment seems very unreasonable, it is a hopeful idea that keeps my wandering mind content.
From all of us graduates who currently have no plans, I am telling you to STOP ASKING!
"So, what are you going to do next?"
Not every person who is graduating college has an exact plan for what they are going to be doing once they finally have their diploma in hand; especially in this economy. While the economy is slowly getting better, jobs are still few and far between. Those of us who have steady jobs will probably just keep their current jobs and wait for better opportunities.
The answer I always give is, "Well, I guess I will just be an educated server for a while. See what comes of it." That's whats nice about being an Entrepreneurship major. I can do anything I want with my degree. If I want to do something, I can just make my own business to do so. While the idea of just creating businesses to fit my fancy at the moment seems very unreasonable, it is a hopeful idea that keeps my wandering mind content.
From all of us graduates who currently have no plans, I am telling you to STOP ASKING!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Lets give it a try!
For those of you who don't know me personally, I am a server at a fine dining restaurant located in downtown Chattanooga. Today on my break from work one of my fellow servers and I decided to try out the new competition in town.
Public House Chattanooga is a small restaurant located by the main entrance to Warehouse Row. The exact location is the corner of Market St. and 12th St. (A.k.a. Houston St.) The owner of the restaurant is Nathan Lindley, the brother of the owner of St. Johns. It is nice to see a little competition coming down to our side of town.
The restaurant itself is quite small. I believe I remember someone saying the interior seats somewhere around 80 with about 30 additional seats on the patio. When we arrived, the patio was relatively full with just a few other people dining inside. The decor is very simple. The white walls and furniture give the restaurant a very clean look. In the back area of the restaurant there are large curtains which can block off sections for larger parties to feel less crowded. The bar was very small, but had a very interesting look to it. Also, the wine machine looked very neat. It is a machine which holds the bottles of wine it is displaying and siphons the wine into spouts which can easily be poured. It has a cool look to it, but I would have to work it myself to see if the look was worth the maintenance.
The prices for lunch are about the same as the prices for our lunch at Table 2; between 6-10 dollars for full lunch entrees. They offered a decent selection of salads and a few different meat entrees including Mahi Mahi, Short Ribs, and Fried Chicken that is brined in sweet tea.
Water is served "french style" in a large refillable bottle with no ice. I personally didn't notice that there was no ice until it was pointed out to me. While it did not bother me, my friend was very unhappy with it. For my meal, I got the Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich with Herbed Fries. My friend got the Grilled Mahi Mahi with Stone Ground Grits and a Mixed Green Salad. The Mahi Mahi was the driest piece of fish I had probably ever tasted. If I were to guess, it seemed like the fish was frozen, not fresh, grilled earlier, and kept in a warming drawer where it lost all its moisture and flavor. The Stone Ground Grits had almost no flavor to them and had to be seasoned by us to make them good. My Chicken Club Sandwich was a large tender chicken breast with with cheese melted on it. There was the standard bacon lettuce and tomato and was served on a large croissant. The Herbed Fries were shoe string style fries. While the sandwich was good, I could have taken Steak n' Shake fries and thrown pepper and parsley on them myself. But, I can't be too critical. Afterall they were just fries.
Service was good. Nothing over the top. He was there when we needed him, but he wasn't over crowding us either. Seemed knowledgable enough to get the job done, but we didn't have many questions for him either.
Overall, I have to give Public House Chattanooga a resounding "Ehhh..." Not great. Not bad. Just... food. I will have to go for dinner to get the full experience, but as of right now it isn't a place I have to go back to. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this restaurant in the coming months.
-Mike-
Public House Chattanooga is a small restaurant located by the main entrance to Warehouse Row. The exact location is the corner of Market St. and 12th St. (A.k.a. Houston St.) The owner of the restaurant is Nathan Lindley, the brother of the owner of St. Johns. It is nice to see a little competition coming down to our side of town.
The restaurant itself is quite small. I believe I remember someone saying the interior seats somewhere around 80 with about 30 additional seats on the patio. When we arrived, the patio was relatively full with just a few other people dining inside. The decor is very simple. The white walls and furniture give the restaurant a very clean look. In the back area of the restaurant there are large curtains which can block off sections for larger parties to feel less crowded. The bar was very small, but had a very interesting look to it. Also, the wine machine looked very neat. It is a machine which holds the bottles of wine it is displaying and siphons the wine into spouts which can easily be poured. It has a cool look to it, but I would have to work it myself to see if the look was worth the maintenance.
The prices for lunch are about the same as the prices for our lunch at Table 2; between 6-10 dollars for full lunch entrees. They offered a decent selection of salads and a few different meat entrees including Mahi Mahi, Short Ribs, and Fried Chicken that is brined in sweet tea.
Water is served "french style" in a large refillable bottle with no ice. I personally didn't notice that there was no ice until it was pointed out to me. While it did not bother me, my friend was very unhappy with it. For my meal, I got the Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich with Herbed Fries. My friend got the Grilled Mahi Mahi with Stone Ground Grits and a Mixed Green Salad. The Mahi Mahi was the driest piece of fish I had probably ever tasted. If I were to guess, it seemed like the fish was frozen, not fresh, grilled earlier, and kept in a warming drawer where it lost all its moisture and flavor. The Stone Ground Grits had almost no flavor to them and had to be seasoned by us to make them good. My Chicken Club Sandwich was a large tender chicken breast with with cheese melted on it. There was the standard bacon lettuce and tomato and was served on a large croissant. The Herbed Fries were shoe string style fries. While the sandwich was good, I could have taken Steak n' Shake fries and thrown pepper and parsley on them myself. But, I can't be too critical. Afterall they were just fries.
Service was good. Nothing over the top. He was there when we needed him, but he wasn't over crowding us either. Seemed knowledgable enough to get the job done, but we didn't have many questions for him either.
Overall, I have to give Public House Chattanooga a resounding "Ehhh..." Not great. Not bad. Just... food. I will have to go for dinner to get the full experience, but as of right now it isn't a place I have to go back to. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this restaurant in the coming months.
-Mike-
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
And So It Begins...
I don't even know what I will be using this space for, but I will find something...
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