Rant/Rave: I'm being transferred to the most stressful unit of my work the week of Thanksgiving. I like challenges. I just don't want to be there during the holidays. The holidays are stressful enough as it is without people who have one foot in the grave (and the other on a banana peel) and the neurotic nurses on power trips who come with them.
Rant: At dinner with my divorced parents. Mom: I don't really like Georgia O'Keeffe. I always found her flowers too...I don't know...brassy? Dad: Well, you know they're not really flowers, right? I'm not sure whether to be more annoyed with my creepy father or my mother for not liking Georgia O'Keeffe.
Rave: finally got fiber hooked up to the house. After years of living in the country with .5 mbps internet, 40 mbps download/10 mbps upload looks like some space age shit to me. This will greatly assist my porn watching. Rant: idiots said they couldn't run power from the telephone pole (with a bunch of breaker boxes and outlets) to the fiber box on the house because they "aren't electricians, we just hook up the fiber." So I got to dig a ditch and bury about 50 feet of 1 1/4" sch 40 pvc to run an extension cord. Redneck workouts suck.
Rave: Had my best guitar lesson. We were playing Blue Bossa, and I finally made some connections with scales over chord changes that hadn't made sense to me in the past. Now it does. Rant: I wrote last week about a young lady, a fellow dog walker, that I thought might be in to me. Bumped into her again today and felt even more strongly she was in to me. Why a rant? Because I can't put myself in a position where I have to say no, because I'm not sure I would. So have to change up my schedule to minimize the chance of seeing her. I really enjoyed talking to her, so that sucks.
Rave: I've been playing with an amortization calculator on my property payments and at the moment I'm set up with a 30 year mortgage. But, it's a little more complicated then that...it's 30 years with a 5 year balloon that then wraps into a 25 year mortgage, and fuck that noise. I'm treating the mortgage as a 5 year deal, not 30. $200 a month extra on principle cuts it down to 55 months. I can make those payments standing on my head. Unconscious. So that is my minimum payment. $500 a month extra on principle and it's down to 27 months. I can actually do this without putting a crimp in my life. IF nothing comes up. I just have to hope my 16 year old truck that has decided to start throwing a Check Engine light at me every day can make it 2 more years. I'm going this route as long as I can to knock down the principal as quick as possible. If worse comes to worse, I've turned baseball cards into a vehicle more then once in my life.
Rant: I made it 5 interviews deep with a company, and today the decided that I didn't have enough experience. I think this is why people join pyramid schemes. So much easier. That was probably 12 hours of time off wasted. But they did buy me a coffee at one of these interviews. I've got to look at the bright side. Rave: Luckily at my current job, I am compensated very well. They give me tons of vacation, and lots of flexible work arrangements if life warrants it. But the job I was interviewing for would have stimulated me much more. Oh well. There is always next time.
Rant: I love what I do for a living, but I hate the place I do it at(bosses are fucking retarded) and the people I work with really don't give a shit and makes it hard coming to work when they are always bitching and don't do there job properly.
Rave: After a month of waiting, I finally got my new phone. An iPhone 6s+ with 128 megs. That's right, bitches, I rule! One of the few times I actually have the latest and greatest in my life...
lol. Rave: Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and is right around the corner. Rant: The days leading up the holidays start crawling at a snails pace.
Roughly a month ago my wife and I were having a celebratory breakfast/dinner at the waffle house*. She had just told me she was pregnant. It was a glorious time. She was knocked up the first time we tried! Many friends had to try for months or years to accomplish this. This morning we ate at the waffle house again, after spending the morning at her OBs office learning she has had a miscarriage. It was like a shitty movie that girls love and guys hate. Sad music coming from the jukebox and all. I never knew how much I wanted to be a father until this all started happening. I was so excited to build a nursery and wear my kid in one those backpacks while I went for walks. I had visions of teaching it to ski, and having the perfect golf buddy. I feel oddly like we will become closer because of this. But it still sucks. The end message here is go out and enjoy life. That makes days like today much better. It's a dark time, but life was good before, and it will be good again after. This is just a little blip. I only post this here because we never told anyone, and I'm sure as shit not looking to relive this morning by talking about it. But I needed to tell someone. I've been a negative nancy on this board for a long time. For that I'm sorry. And with that said, thanks for giving me a place to express myself behind the curtain of anonymity. *She works midnights so her dinner is my breakfast, thus we end up at a place like this often.
Rant: This isn't the same type of rejection as what Clutch described above, but it is next level. Last Sunday my karate/kickboxing class threw a surprise birthday party for our coach. I had heard them talking about it but didn't know exactly when it was, but then the Facebook photos from the party started popping up. I am pretty sure that I was the only person from our classes who wasn't invited. I even went to the open session on Sunday morning and did sparring with the person who hosted it and some of the others who went, and I still didn't even receive an invite. I was constantly excluded from things when I was in high school and college, in both my personal social circles and from social events that were organized by student organizations that I belonged to, but this one feels, well, next level. And all of these people are the ones who added me as a friend on Facebook, too. Maybe it was an honest mistake and I am overthinking this, but it really would have meant a lot to me to be there. Rant: I am loving doing martial arts again, but holy crap has my appetite exploded. I have usually stuck to weightlifting in the past since cardio has always done that to me, but I still wasn't expecting this since the workouts really aren't overly intense. The problem isn't just my appetite, but my craving for junk food also seems to go up. I am pretty sure that I have actually gained weight since I started. I need to find a way to control what I eat. Rave: Tomorrow will mark the end of the big project that I have had to do in my operations management class, in which my group members and I are in charge of running a fictitious organization and competing against students in other MBA programs. This has been the most time consuming thing ever, though we currently are in 1st place. I have to take 2 capstone classes plus one other class to graduate in the Spring, but I am going to do my best to get all three knocked so it can all just be over with.
RANT: Moved at the beginning of the month, and am still waiting for them to get my Internet working. It's been 12 days without internet at my new place, and I've melted the data plan on my cell phone as a result. RAVE: My cell phone provider, Telus, is giving me free overage for this month. Turns out that I have a "loyalty plan" with them because I've been a customer for 18 years (which results in a killer < $60/month bill), and they can't just add extra data a-la-carte, so they're just going to credit me the full amount that I go over at the end of the billing cycle. It's not like I'm downloading Fallout 4, but it's good to know that I'll be 2-3G over this month and I won't have to pay the normal $50/GB.
Rant- Cracked my phone's screen. Fucking a. Got about two years out of it though plus it is still workable.
Rave: I scored a pair of Chevy Vortec cylinder heads for $40 yesterday. They're cores that need to be rebuilt, but I was planning on doing that and installing larger valves and upgraded springs anyway. These are going to be the basis of my Trans Am's new engine, either a 350 or 383. I'd really like to do an LS swap, but there is no way I can afford that anytime soon. Anybody who wants specifics about the build I'm going to do, or wants to know what the hell Vortec heads are and why they're so special, message me.
RANT: I've been in Louisville since 11/4 and unless I work out something I'll be here through the 21st. This is the longest trade show I've ever worked and its killing me.