Pass The Brass

Man, this place really is depressing!!

Werk…. such a beautiful commodity in today’s retarded economy. Just having a job with some kind of income, be it a measly minimum wage or what-have-you, is such a great thing that we are now forced to put up with stuff that we normally wouldn’t. Overqualified people are stooping down to grab up jobs that us lower fiends are scrounging for and they get it because they need a job like we do….but they have a shnazzy degree. Dag.

So lately I’ve been bustin my ass at my job building sheds and Ive most definitely turned up my speed in that I actually finish my sheds by days end, and still I get the foreman on my ass about speedin it up. DOH!! I will admit though, these last few days have not been kind. Tuesday was not so hot and Wednesday was just a disaster. Anything that could have gone wrong…did go wrong. I was hatin my life by the time I finished that piece. Today was a VAST improvement on speed and quality, but I had one nice lil hang up that amplified at the end and of course the ole foreman givin me beef. Good times though. At least I’m collecting a paycheck and paying bills with said paycheck.

So uh…yah….this is really turning out to be a venting post but I tried to keep it not-so-much. OH HEY!! I have a brighter note!

So my buddy from work plays in a local church softball league and he invited me to come hang out for one of the practices. I’ve been goin to em since and I actually get to participate. I can’t tell you how great it feels to be able to play baseball. I don’t care that it is softball, it’s still the same sport, just a bigger ball. HAHA!! Either way I’m lovin being able to participate and I’m thinkin’ if I stay long enough, I’ll get a formal invite from the coach to actually play for em. That would be the freakin sweetest!!

Anyway, have fun workin, all you werkin folk, and for those of you who are not as fortunate to hold a job right now, may the Lord watch over and provide for ya. Peace out folks!!

So I landed a job. YAY! Nuff said…next post please.

…eh…I shouldn’t waste this precious commodity known as Interblag Space. I think we could all benefit from a lil frugality here and there. ;D
So yah…it’s been a few months and a whole lot of nuthin passed in that time, but a few things did happen. I’ll make sure I prioritize them on here so you can read the good stuff first, and just skip the other boring stuff if you want.

1. I STILL LIVE IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT!!!!

I figure I oughta get the most important and life affecting aspect of my life on out there in the shunshine so that it may flourish and grow to be my biggest cliche’ yet. I get all the girls with that icebreaker. My humble abode is still rather droll and un-amusing but I get by down here in this cold dark dungeon. I kid….I actually sleep right next to the boiler so it’s actually quite hot down here. Reminds of the time I spent down in Hades…hmm…not so good memories there.

2. I BOUGHT GUITAR HERO METALLICA!!!

This one here is up there with the good stuff simply because it is quite possibly one of the greater life choices I have ever made. I can see a long and illustrious career ahead of me simply because I made this ground breaking decision to better myself for the sake of Metal. \mm/ Long may it reign.

3. I LANDED A JOB!!

This one’s pretty important in that it really allows me to fully better myself by receiving paychecks every so often and then going and immediately blowing them at the local bar. I really can’t say enough about it. It truly is the spice of life…the bars I mean.

So I dropped an app at a local lumber yard here and got a call from their other branch asking if I wanted to come in for an interview. I made em work for it, but I eventually agreed to go. (read “said yes before they even finished asking”) So now I build sheds for a living. These are somewhat smaller scale sheds, but lately we’ve been expanding the inventory and building massive houses made entirely of toothpicks, but those are a special request and don’t come by too often. Good thing too….we killed 4 whole massive sequias just to make one house. I tell ya….I never wanna whittle a whole tree into toothpicks again. That was a royal pain in the arse. Fo sho.

4. I STILL DON’T HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE!!!

To be completely honest I have been jumping back into World of Warcraft if only to pass time without me going out drinking at bars and spending all my money on the night life. When you make the evening news for streaking downtown you tend to lose sight of the more important aspects of binge drinking….like not doing it. “Moderation” is a great word except when it comes to cookies and milk. And then “Hindsight” comes to mind after that.

So there’s my life in a nutshell. The sun has been coming out more and more lately so now I shall begin working on full body tans with no tan lines *wink wink* and brewing some good ole Southern Sweet Tea. I need to find a good jar and I hear a friend of mine up here has some tricks that I would like to learn. If any of you Southern Belle’s wanna chime in I would LOVE to hear how you brew yers and what you use. McDonald’s Sweet Tea is only really good when yer slightly toasted. (read “shammered”)

Oh hey! I got teh Hi Speez Innerwebz in my lil dungeon so now I never have to leave. =D and I can type on here more often. I don’t have any crazy drunken or otherwise out of my element stories to tell. Gimme a few more months and I’ll see what I can cook up.

Until next time my faithful(bored-out-of-yer-minds) readers!! Laterz!

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Yah…sorry bout the lack of updates. My PC is at my bros house cuz my innernets connection at my folks house is less than desirable. I realize I could potentially post from my laptop but uh…well I just dont want to punch in the wacky password for this site…not that I remember it at all….

Just a lil tid bits update for ya though: Christmas was spent rockin out on Rock Band 2 that we got for the kids, and then New Years was spent shooting bottle rockets at each other. Good times were had by all.

Job wise: Weeellll….good news is I heard the Sheriffs office is tryin to fill 15 slots as opposed to the local PD only needin 5, so I’ll be droppin an App in there fo sho! Other than that I am slotted to test for the local PD in Feb which sux for me cuz had I turned in my app sooner I woulda made the Dec testing and been over and done with it. Now I gotta freakin wait. So yah. There’s that.

Oh hey! I’ve been goin to the local McD’s here and one MAJOR difference I have noticed between the McD’s here and the ones over South/Easternly is that they don’t have the dreaded “Compression Station” at the end of the burger line. So all the burgers I get here actually look like burgers and not pancakes. =D Sadly no sweet tea which irks me but I can cope.

Overall things are still very chill. I have a few snow stories cuz so far thats all Ive been doin is shoveling peoples driveways and stuff. We have had a freakin TON of snow here lately so it’s been pretty busy. Apparently snow clearing is a VERY lucrative business round these here parts, more so this year because of the record snow fall, a lot of roof’s are getting damaged from the weight so they pay good money to get em cleared. I’m tryin to jump in with some crews and earn a few bucks that way. Not bad work at all really.

I just spend most of my time running errands for the fam, hangin out, drinkin a few beers, and just being an all around useless guy. Im pretty sure my parents are sick of me living there already so I need to hurry up and figure out some rearrangements when it comes to livin sicheeashuns. No mansions will be involved sadly. To be honest I’m missing my cozy little barracks room. *Sshhh!! Don’t tell the Army!!*

Well, its late at night here and Im gonna go crash so I will catch you all on the flippity flop.

Merry Belated Christmas to all you folk and I hope you all have a better year in ‘09. Love, peace, and chicken grease!!

When I first pulled in I was still in the mood that it wasn’t permanent. I still don’t think I’m totally out of that feeling. Nothing here feels permanent. Well…there’s a few things that seem to remain constants. Family never changes.

I knew coming home would be rough, but I continued to tell myself that no matter what kind of hardship or struggle I came to it was nothing compared to the fact that I was free of the daily regiment of the Army. I’ve gotten alot of my freedoms back. I can choose to stay in bed when that 6am alarm goes off without the repercussions that the Army would choose to dish out. I can walk outside and decide it’s too cold to run and aim for tomorrow instead. =D

Well. Here I am 2 weeks in and the reality of the situation is just now starting to kick in. I think the biggest kicked of all of the reality checks here is the simple job security one. I was never worried about the medical dental stuff simply because I never used them except for the mandatory checks. I’m just healthy I guess. But the job thing…the steady in-flow of cash…yah, that’s a kicker.

Nothin like bein without a safety net to test the faith.

ONE MORE WEEK AND I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!!

SMule: Ocarina [Zeldarian] from SonicMule, Inc. on Vimeo.

Today I will be kicking off my final days here as I begin clearing. Technically I don’t pick up my clearing papers till tomorrow, but there are base level things I can get rid of while Im here. I’ve got a good handful of errands to run so no time to waste!

For some reason I am really angry right now…I can’t imagine why though.