RAVE: I took tomorrow of work. 1st beers at 7:30am, after a big BBQ bacon and eggs breakfast. Then a 1 hour drive out of the city for the purposes of shooting my closest friends with high velocity paint! 6 hours of drinking, shooting and eating meat. Then back into town for wood oven pizza and bar hopping. Enjoy work suckers!
Rant: My computer decided last night that it was going to be absolutely riddled with malware. I had pop-ups coming out the wazoo. Had to use Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard drive clean. Now I have to download a million programs again that I use regularly. Rave: I have an external HD that I was able to get most of my movies/episodes/random stuff on, so it's not too big of a deal. It's just a fucking hassle. Rave: Took Friday off for a friend's stag back home. Starts off on Friday afternoon with golf (including, thanks to someone in the wedding party, strippers to "caddy"). Then we move to the best man's house for a poker tourney and BBQ, and finish the night by going to as many bars as possible via motorhome. I haven't seen half the guys in over a year, so I'm definitely looking forward to it.
(Pretty cool) Rave: Here's what Helen Keller's signature looks like. I've got about a hundred of her letters on my desk right now. Edit: From Gator via rep: I didn't post it to be funny--and that is her real signature.
RANT: I'm the only one on my team that does any freaking work. I don't know how they can be so "busy" but are still on ebay whenever I walk by. RAVE: My boss knows how hard I work so I know my future looks more promising than theirs, even if they have 5-10 years more experience than I do. RAVE: I made a bunch of origami flowers for when Angela comes over next Monday. RANT: I'm not sure what to do with all of them. Do I make a bouquet? Spread them on my bed? Make a center piece for lunch?
Rant: So my roommate informs me that 4 guys were trying to break into our house the other night. Of course I wasn't home but it scared the shit out of her. Rant: Had to make a separate rant for this but fucking cops in this town are useless. I'm of course talking about when we got robbed in November and they didn't do shit. Even when we had the the trucks description and the fucking license plate number. But the cops said and yes this is a quote from the cop himself "no one wanted to admit to it" Really? How fucking stupid are you damn cops!
RAVE: I just got a call from the ex with her accusing me of "hacking" her email, because I sent her mom an apology email. Absolutely ridiculous, I couldn't even fathom doing that. Her main question was where I got it, which was easy because I know multiple people that work at her company. She couldn't fathom that I got it somewhere else. Why is this a rave? Because it shows me that she's feeling guilty about it, and will do anything to convince herself in her head that I'm a bad person and am wrong, which isn't the case. I'm feeling MUCH better about being broken up now. After I get my stuff back, I'm completely cutting ties.
Rant: I'm starting to like one of my friends girlfriends. We are continuously talking and txting and she is really cool and shit...this isn't good. Rave: Making 10.71 an hour to come to work and sit here for 6 hours today. I have done nothing productive and that is 100% on with me. I think I am going to start wearing headphones and trying to learn more german, since I am hoping to go to a German graduate school in 2 years. Rave: Not living at home this summer is great, even if I have to spend my own ass sitting money to do so.
RANT: Two Yankees legends lost in two days. Unbelieveable. RAVE: The retrospect that's on the YES network is like having my childhood flash in front of my eyes. I remember every moment, every player, and have chills with each interview. Righetti, Pags, Winfield, Jackson... Say what you want about Steinbrenner but he did a ton for baseball and set the bar high. You have to have respect for a boss who expected nothing but the best and constantly pushed for it. RAVE: My dad and I actually had a real conversation while watching YES today and shared some awesome memories of games that we watched and went to back in the day. Seems like that's the only time we can talk without fighting. Thanks, baseball!
Since I apparently can't rep you on this, as someone repped me after I got married, "welcome to the greatest club on Earth." It's awesome. Rant: I am sick and fucking tired of the "so when are you going to have kids?" questions from friends/relatives. You asked the question, and when you don't get the answer you like, don't jinx me by responding, "yeah, that'll change." No, no it won't. I'm way too selfish right now and my wife and I are having way too much fun with our free time. Why the fuck would either of us want to curtail that by the addition of a kid? In due time, yes, but not right now. Or in the next few years. Really Rant: In response to that question, I recently explained to a co-worker that I am hedging my bets just in case (condom + birth control). Because, you know, that has to work. She kindly informed me that she had her fourth child whilst doing the same thing..... FUCK!!!!! Rave: Finally got a therapy appointment set up to deal with the anxiety/stress-related side-effects from my brain surgery crap a few years ago. Should have done this as soon as I got home from the hospital, but hindsight is 20/20 and better three years late than never. It's been getting terrible in recent weeks and despite my general inclinations against seeing shrinks (stemming from a shitty childhood experience with, funny enough, the same lady I'm about to see), well, I'm glad I'm going this time around.
Rave: As I type this, my basement is flooding again. Why is it a rave, you ask? Well, because for the first time I can actually see where the water is getting in. It's coming in the exact spot I suspected, so once they replace the windows that should take care of the problem. Woo-hoo! *It's a good indication of how great the last six weeks have been that I'm raving about my basement flooding.
Rant: My wife is pregnant with our first child and is due in the next couple if weeks. Why is this a rant you may ask? I am very happy that she is pregnant, I just hate every person in this world that has kids and takes absolute glee in telling us that our life is over. Every possible opportunity, a reminder to enjoy the last moments of free time and the peace and quiet because we will never get another ounce of silence until the day we die. Believe it or not, we did know what we were getting into before she got pregnant and we even understand that our lives will be more hectic and may change to some extent. Fuck you and your shitty life, mine will be fine even after the baby is born. My life is not over, yours is if you tell me how much having kids sucks again while your wife pops her 6th out of her gaping maw of a vagina. If it sucks so much, stop having whiney, pissy, annoying, little shit faced kids and teach them to shut their mouths, respect their elders and act like normal human beings. Fuck.
RANT: Studied the wrong shit for my flight earlier today, so I didn't know half the stuff I was supposed to. Fuck me for being a complete fucking retard. Rant/rave: Kind of got a by for the day and was given the benefit of the doubt. Get to redo the brief tomorrow, but this is definitely NOT how I want my flying career to start. Rave: Something clicked in my head and I realized that I can't half ass this stuff and slacking is not an option. Spent a solid 4 hours today studying what I was supposed to, and then some. I'm gonna be fucking ready tomorrow. Rant: There's a lot of shit I have to know, and most of it I have to be able to recite verbatim... like books worth of stuff. Gonna be a long, hard road ahead, but the little golden wings I get are gonna be so worth it.
Rave: Civil engineering is the only legitimate profession where women will walk up to your desk and ask you if your member is classified as slender or stocky. Rant: It's really hard to answer them while keeping a straight face.
Rant: Said rant concerns a friend and infertility. It has the potential to piss people off, so I'll use the spoiler tags. Don't read this if you don't want to. Spoiler Two friends are trying to get pregnant and have been trying for well over a year. Almost 2 now. They're dealing with fertility issues and the woman is starting to become quite bitter and intolerable. She's actually proclaimed that her infertility is WORSE THAN CANCER because she didn't CHOOSE to be infertile. All forms of cancer are now voluntary, apparently. My wife asked her if they'd ever consider adoption. It's absolutely not an option. The woman said that she refuses to raise a SECONDHAND child. She explained that she wouldn't adopt a dog from a pound, so why should she adopt a kid? Asinine. Look... I understand that this is very hard for her. I've sympathized as much as I care to. Her only goal in life is to be a mother and she hasn't been able to accomplish that goal. That sucks, but she really needs to tone down the attitude. Worse than cancer? Fuck. Walk up to a woman who's been diagnosed with breast cancer and tell her that it's her own fault for CHOOSING to be stricken with the disease. Adopting a child is equal to adopting a dog? Stop being an asshole. That's an entirely unfair comparison. Just... I don't know. Fuck off and find a way to maturely deal with the problem already. You're pissing me off.
Rant: Back from vacation. Rave: Vacation was amazing and sooooo fucking relaxing. The weather gods heard my complaints about being a tour guide and gave me 4 interrupted days of THICK fog. Why was I happy? Because my friends only wanted to go sailing to look at fucking islands and get some sun. If they couldn't see shore they didn't want to go out. That created lots of free time. Rant: My boss is a cunt. Explanation in the spoiler if you're bored and want to read a long ass rant. Spoiler My boss is a cunt... I just landed a large aftermarket automotive component/tuning company as a customer. My boss informed me semi-jokingly that we've offered a price reduction in trade for some products from customers in the past. This isn't actually all that odd as we've sold equipment to Whirlpool and received a trailer full of washers and dishwashers which we then sold at less than manufacturing cost to our employees. Guys got new appliances for super cheap and we as a company still made a profit on the equipment sale. Since my boss is also a car guy he would definitely be more than willing to take say... a RUF Porsche or BRABUS Benz in exchange for a discount. Since I'm also a car guy and was in a joking mood I mention that since I get a commission on all my sales I would technically be entitled for a certain amount of time with the car. Also that since I wouldn't want it in the winter, that we'd be splitting up a lot of summer weekends. He looked at me like I twisted his balls and said, "that's not the way it would work", as he stomped away. This asshole is such a selfish do nothing prick that he honestly thinks I'd want to "share" weekends with him? Fuck him. I'll just work my own side deal where I get my OWN car and still collect a FULL fucking commission. Cunt.
Rave: Rob Zombie, Korn, Hatebreed, Five Finger Death Punch and Atreyu on Sunday. One of my friends is working one of the gates and promises to not be very thorough in the pat down. Hooray contraband!!
????: So I finally talked to the guy about the internship at the recording studio on the phone, and he didn't seem terribly enthused about the whole idea. Granted when I met him he was a rather quiet guy, but still. Anyway, I'm meeting with him on Monday and hopefully I'll be able to get in there and work for a month and a half. Hopefully. If this falls through I'm going to be so pissed.
Mild Workplace Rant: There's a specific woman on a specific floor who I deliver statements to. One type of statement and only one type. Been doing so for just over a year. Every goddamn time I take something to her, I'm treated to the same response: "Oh. What's that?" Every. Fucking. Time. Does she just not know what else to say? Fuck. Just thank me and leave it at that. That'll work.