Rave: Giving my two weeks notice today. Just spoke to one of my bosses who was happy that I'm doing something I think I'll enjoy and that will pay better. One down, one to go. Hopefully the other one goes just as well. ETA Ravier: Both talks went great. Very relieved.
Rant: I woke up at three this morning and literally exhausted every tried and true method of going back to sleep. Rave:? Got really frustrated around 4:30 so I got up and went for a three mile run so at least the time was spent productively. Rant: I'm really tired.
RAVE: Muse continue to be one of the best live bands despite lackluster new material small rant: I wish they'd drop the random brostep influences near the end what was that.
Re: Rant & Rave Thread Rave: Bought tickets for http://www.goodvseviltour.com/ Fucking pumped. Between this, Tommy Tiernan on Saturday and Book of Mormon in May, it's going to be a very entertaining few months.
Re: Rant & Rave Thread Rave: And Great Big Sea in July! Rant: I am throwing an obscene amount of money in Ticketmaster's direction.
Rant Procrastination. Yeah, what a terrible habit. My ONE paper that I have to do is due Friday, and I don't even know how to begin. Rave Indians home opener was Monday, random girl grabs my ass at bar, after a few rounds of beers, we're in bed. Pleasantly surprised. Rave Start back at my old job on Monday
Rant: Of coooourse the house we get serious about is a "pre-foreclosure" that is trying to be sold in a "short sale." First of all, it is not a good sign when I am googling all these terms. Second of all, fuck me.
Rant Finding a solid IT Director is not an easy task. The market is saturated with sycophants, spineless cowards, or all around incompetent fools suffering from the 'Peter Principle.' I shit you not, it's not an easy hire. I've come across a handful of people who weren't just empty suits regurgitating buzz words. Well we found a good one. I actually interviewed the person who would be my boss, grilled the shit out of them, and they passed with flying colors. The dude actually got IT. Just got news today that for reasons I wont disclose the hiring process was hung up with a silly and entirely un-necessary bottleneck resulting in him taking another offer. Rant Fucking pissed.
Rave: Application for University has been sent in to the Astronomy program. It will be my second undergrad degree, and I won't be done with the program until I am 32, but I will be out with a masters as well.
Rant: I am a patient man, in fact, one of the most patient people I know. My patience for many things is coming to an end. I'm going to explode if I don't keep a tight reign on things, and if I don't, I'm likely to piss off a great many people in my life. This is not a good thing.
RANT: I'll be seeing a podiatrist very soon, I have developed fucking BUNIONS, which I always thought was for old people. My feet have been killing me, even in my sensible shoes and I finally started googling causes. I've had surgeries but never anything involving plates and screws in my bones. I'm getting the willies just thinking about it. Rave: I have great insurance, a referral to the best foot doc in Denver and a cool boss. It isn't that bad. Rant: Some odd things in my paperwork have prompted me to investigate a loved employee. I think I am gonna have to fire her if I find more evidence of business abuse. I am not excited about this. Fuck. Why do people have to try to hustle and essentially steal?
Rave: wife accepted a position as Director of Marketing and starts next week so we get to bank most of her severance. Rant: I'm really starting to hate my job. Butted heads with my boss last week and was probably more frank than was prudent. I can see why I'm the third person to hold this position in the past 2 years. Time to start looking. Ten years to retirement.
Rave: Tonight, I get to leave work early (at 9:30!) and go Home home to sleep for a few hours before waking up and going up to Montreal for a long weekend with my dad. Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I need a break so goddamn badly and Montreal is one of my favorite places and I haven't been in a few years. Even though the weather looks pretty shitty this weekend, I'm still extremely excited. Rave: And that actor slash model friend of mine who invited me to that party where I pretended I was an Italian actress as a defense mechanism (I know you keep track of these stories) posted a photo to Facebook this morning of him in his underwear from the front and totally naked from the back. So, I think it's going to be a good day.
Rave: Finally, a local powerlifting gym in my area. I contacted them and was invited to go deadlift tomorrow. I am very excited.
Rave: Series 6 exam passed! Took about an hour to get through and then the longest ten seconds of my life to get the results. Beats the bar exam though (Two days to do, three if you do two at once, then *five months* to get results). Rave: Virginia trip starts tonight. I have 6 meetings down there that could generate business plus seeing a bunch of friends! Rave: Colorado trip is shaping up for summer. Need to find more individual people to meet with to make it profitable, but looking forward to seeing friends out there again.
Rant: Car shopping. It's awful. I have no idea what to do. Do I get the older, more mileage better-known reliable car, or the newer, less mileage, but maybe not known to be as reliable car? My daughter is just excited about the whole ordeal, so she'll take anything. She's been real great though about if I'm hesitant about something listening to my reasoning. She's a great kid. Rantier: For the first time, I blatantly caught a guy checking out my daughter at the car dealership. He looked to be in his thirties, so when our sales guy asked how old she was I said extra loud, "She's 17!" I hope I made him feel like a perv, but probably not. It still made me feel better. Plus, I'm going to buy her lots of turtlenecks. Girls like those nowadays, right?
RAVE: Had an awesome night in the field. Long story, but the day started out involving a search with the narcs and yielded a treasure trove of syringes and drugs, along with the probie blowing a .025 on the breathalyzer. Day ended with me tracking down one of my offenders in a ghetto apartment complex (completely on a whim) and let him walk himself right into an arrest. Silly boy, don't you know angry females will tell me every dirty little secret you've got? RANT: Tomorrow's my last day in this office before I transfer to my new office. The change is very welcome and I am very excited, but there are people I'm going to miss like crazy (the officers I do most of my field work with are cool as shit and hilarious) and not working closely with the boyfriend is gonna be tough. Plus, smaller circuit equals not as much cool shit as above. RAVE: I kind of like the idea of establishing myself again in a new circuit and immersing myself with new law enforcement officers, judges and DA's. In this new circuit, I'm pretty much the only one certified to do gang validations and won't have anyone hoarding the gang intel or trying to be the top dog (one of the supervisors in my office is notorious for doing this). So, bring on the new!