Today's National Days: MUTT DAY: Go give a pup a scratch. RASPBERRY CAKE DAY: I don't think I've ever had raspberry cake but I bet it's good shit. ADMIN APPRECIATION DAY: This should be weekly, unless yours is a DB then fuck it. TALK IN AN ELEVATOR DAY: No idea why there is a day for this. Now if it was NATIONAL FART IN AN ELEVATOR DAY I'd totally get it. In other news, it's fucking hot here. Thank God the house has forced air. I feel like a queen.
I find out in 45 minutes if I get a new job that might pay almost $10k per year more than what I am making now, and it has benefits(medical and 401k) which my company dropped this year. This could be the start of a fantastic weekend for me.
Speaking of elevators... I've spent 90% of my life living where the nearest 3 story building was at least 50 miles away and apparently I never learned to elevator. What I do when waiting for an elevator, is move towards the elevator that signals it is going the appropriate direction and stand clear of the door for a few seconds after it opens. This is wrong. Right now my work buildings are full of people that are experts at using an elevator. What you're supposed to do is the moment the door starts opening is to start walking in. Fuck the people that might want to get off the elevator. Fuck them right in their asses. Bonus points are apparently awarded for staring at your phone the entire time you're doing this and then start pushing buttons for floors in the opposite direction that elevator is heading. God I hate people.
Can you turn the music down, I am on the phone with my drug dealer. Yep it is a full moon. These 2 aren't happy about Mutt day, they are purebred bitches.
The correct response is a proportionate response. If they rush you as you're leaving, then you rush them back... lead with your elbows. Works for me. Sure, I become "that guy" in the office building, but they learn.
It was 105 Fahrenheit here today. Fuck. Me. I was out humping 162' of direct burial 1-0 cable into one and three-fourths inch PVC pipes, gluing it and keeping going with my two co-workers. Thank gods for our excavator coming in to dig the hole, if we'd have had to do that by shovel with all those rocks and the pig carcass. (no, seriously, homeowner buried a dead sow there, two years back. Still stunk up re-entry into the air) I'm damn glad that tomorrow all we have left to do is wire up and install the bulbs of the yesterday-hung florescent lights.
For Mutt Day, some of Blanco (the white dog, a German Shepherd/Siberian Husky mix) and Arctic (7/8 North American wolf/Alaskan Malamute) back in the 70's, my friend David's dogs then. Last one is his current litter, Irish Wolfhound, Alaskan Malamute and North American wolf crosses. Cuter than buttons. Good crossbreeding.
One more week until I get a day off. Fuck. If I make it through the week without ripping some asshole's phone out of their hand and throwing it against a wall, I deserve a fucking medal. Also, after work tonight I had to wait for 3 elevators before one stopped that wasn't full. This wouldn't be so annoying except that I work on the top floor. Every single one of those assholes got on an elevator that was clearly going up, to go down. And just to make matters even more annoying, the elevator I was on stopped at the 2nd floor to let a guy off. 5 people got in and pushed the button for the TOP floor. When we got to the first floor they just stood there in front of the Goddamn door like idiots. I finally shoved one out the door so we could get off. I may need to stick a bottle in my desk to get me through this week. This just seems somehow appropriate: