Rant: I wish I could reach my arms through the phone and throttle the shitty clinic receptionists that manage to make Monday morning even shittier. Rant: Trying to put my worst month yet (sales-wise) on the job behind me. I could make this a halfhearted partial rave because July is indeed a new month and I've got a clean slate, but I'm calling the same leads and staring at the same list and have to dig out of the same hole. It's all much easier said than done. Rave: I'm not strictly paid commission. That is a rave right now. Rave: My girlfriend will be up here this weekend. About damn time!
Rave: Out of work already. Tomorrow off and I'm going to a barrier island to see some wild horses with a lady friend. Rant: 24hr Duty on Wed. Rave: Infiniti is hooking a brother up like a mofo! Spoiler My clutch is on its last leg and doesn't want to live anymore and because of that, my gearbox is a little messed up. I had to put a lot of weight into pulling the stick into reverse, then push it into 1st gear this morning because I don't think the clutch wants to engage anymore when it's cold. Because of this, I called the closest Infiniti dealership, about 100 miles away, and they arranged to have a loaner car towed to me, swap my car for the loaner, bring my car to the dealer to have them fix it all, then tow my car back, swap, and bring the loaner back. The cherry on top is that the service guy told me that everything is covered under warranty, which means that I pay 0$. The smaller cherry on top of the normal cherry is that my warranty expires at the end of this month, which means that all my problems will be fixed for free right before the expiration date!! Bad part is, any other work won't be covered unless I buy an aftermarket warranty. Rave: Thursday off and Friday is a half day where we are having a dodgeball tournament as a squadron. Then it's the weekend.
Rant: My daughter is a shitty superhero. Her only power is to know when my head hits a pillow, so she can wake up from a deep sleep to make sure I don't get any sleep myself. Rave: I got a TON of gaming time in. I gave in and bought Skyrim a few weeks ago. That game is a god damned time suck, but at least it keeps me sane when I am rocking my daughter to sleep for two hours at 3 AM.
RAVE: Just got back from lunch with my wife and kids. If I had known teenagers were so much fun we would have had kids earlier. We laughed almost the entire time.
RANT: If you clean some dirt off your ceiling it just makes the whole ceiling look dirtier. I'm trying to hide it with an artful 'dirt ombre' gradient... RAVE: The guy I'm seeing just ordered me the njoy pure wand (seriously, google it) I've been salivating over. Ho-ly Shit.
Rant: The weather forcast for the rest of the week and weekend: 94, 96, 97, 84, 84, 83. Soo... Any of you Canadian TiBers have any recommendations for where in Canada I should move to?
Rave- An ex-employee of mine sold ip to a competitor and today I got my payback. Fuck me, right? She had been with me a couple years and had a fair amount of access to the office and robbed me blind- all her customer's contracts. Luckily, I havebackups. I stole her largest customer out from under her today and got her removed from their system within 3 months. The customer doesn't know this, of course. I let her bullshit do the talking.
Rave: Got a job offer, supposedly. Rant: Goddamned bank sent me a replacement debit card that expired THE MONTH THEY SENT IT. So, I had a debit card that was valid for three weeks. How long to get a replacement card? Three weeks. Double Rant: Leaving SC for a while on Thursday, and I'll be doing it without the comfort of access to a Goddamned bank account in my pocket.
Rave: The girl went to her gyno yesterday and on top of reporting that everything is fine, she also said that the doc is putting her on different birth control. So why's this a rave? She went in to the doc and said that her libido is shit and she wants to improve it. It's something that she's talked about with me for a while, because she's always had a very low sex drive. I never gave her a hard time for it, but I have mentioned that it's something that she might want to ask about since it is affecting our sex life. Here's hoping for a gradual shift over the next few months.
Rave: One of the perks of working for a university is the tremendous tuition break for employees and immediate family. I can take a graduate level class for $150 plus instructional fee if there is one. I'm thinking about taking the necessary classes in neurofeedback so I can get certification. With that, I can be a part time provider, pick up some extra cash and later, incorporate it into my eventual private practice. For what my out of pocket would be, I'd be nuts not to. My wife is currently using NFB to address her sleep disorder and depression and the change after only 3 weeks is amazing.
Rave: I was surprised with tickets to see Slipknot, Slayer, Anthrax and a few other bands Sunday. I like this boy.
Rant: Going over the "parenting agreement" today. Fun! Rave: The ex has my daughter for most of the day(she's still sleeping at my house), so for once I can go out! And talk with actual adults in an adult setting! More fun!
Rant: A/C in the office shit the bed earlier today. It's 80+ degrees in here, I'm in a suit and tie, and I'm sweating like a whore in church. Rave: The pool is all set and I'll be jumping in that bitch in t-minus 1 hour.
Rant: One of my best friends keeps posting pictures on Facebook of the food that he and his new girlfriend eat. It really makes me question if I want to stay friends with him. Rave: I am excited to have a paid day off and baby back ribs on the Big Green Egg tomorrow, but everyone I work with is complaining that July 4 falls in the middle of the week this year. I don't know if they're ungrateful or if I just worked in retail for too long.
Rant: My daughter fights sleep like Tyson fought Holyfield: dirty. She screams, poops, screams more, and refuses food because she seems to know she'll fall asleep as soon as she is done. Nothing like 3 continuous hours of screaming to make me consider NOT having a 2nd kid.
RAVE: Don't have kids. RAVE: All moved in with the GF. RANT: Now have to unpack and find room for all my shit.
So continuing with the kids theme Rave: Dont have kids. Rant/Rave: One of my wife's friends just had a healthy baby boy yesterday, and she went to the hospital today and held it, which leads to the rant. Rant: The wife really really wants a kid now.
Rave: Getting to spend a lot of time with the kid. Now I know why poor people have so many, they're a great source of entertainment. My older brother said his favourite age for kids tended to be around 8-10 months, so I still have that to look forward to. He's a father of three, not some kind of pervert (that I'm aware of). Rave: For the sake of being a cunt: he hasn't been the cause of a sleepless night since I don't know when. He did have a sleep disturbed night the other night, but enamel's trying to break through his flesh, I think he gets a pass. Rave: He can crawl now. At least in a manner of speaking, but he can move around the floor deliberately in kind of a seal-like fashion. Meaning either he's got an ugly as fuck scarred face, or he flops forward around the living room, you decide. Rant: He can crawl now. And he seems to love cables. And my cheap 'entertainment cabinent has no doors on it. Rave: Easy solution, just stick him in his bedroom, no cables there. Problem solved, and I don't have to think about it any more. *dusts hands*