I have spent almost $50,000 this week. I don't know if this is a rant or a rave. Even more $$$ to go....
Rant: Leave it to my sister-in-law to make a mountain/clusterfuck out of a molehill/pleasant evening. I give my brother one of my painkillers and suddenly she thinks that means he's going to go out and get a mountain of cocaine and meth and wash it down with a gallon of tequila. Some people just have no concept of drugs and how they work.
Rant: Had a dustup with my Dad a few months ago about religion (which I didn't even know was an issue for him, as we never talked about it when I was growing up). He's been frosty to me ever since. Rave: Got married in a helicopter over the Vegas strip on June 14th. Super happy. Rave: Even though we got married pretty quickly, the vast majority of our families have been supportive and welcoming. Rant: Most. My Dad and his (normally very supportive super-mom of a) wife have been downright assholes to us about it. To the point where I plan on not speaking to him again until they apologize. Which, since he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, means probably never. Unfortunately... Rant: They still have my cat. I'm worried that I'm going to need to bring police along in order to get him back. Rave: But my wife and new stepson are friggin awesome. I can't wait to finish up this last short hop in Qatar and get back to them.
Rave. Had a wonderful weekend of sex, beach, sex, food, and more sex. I needed that. Rant. The girl is awesome and I've almost completely forgotten about the last one I was meant to be with. I'm over dramatic about women. Too bad... Rant. I deploy to the shittiest part of the world in less than two weeks.
Rave: After five months of weight lifting starting as a stone-cold beginner I've just done 5x5 100kg squats for the first time. Sure there's a dude I regularly see who does well over that with 30kg less on his frame, but it still feels like an achievement for me to hit a nice round number. Rant: My ass muscles will be sore every time I get up tomorrow. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere... Rave: Pay rise in three weeks. It's kind of snuck up on me.
Rave: I don't know what it means but my 3rd sister, the one who has the quick and bitchy personality, seems to respect me a lot more these days. She talks to me differently. I think this started around my oldest sis's 40th when we went on a tubing trip. Maybe her seeing me in a social situation gave her a better look at how I am aside from her "little" sister? It is a very nice feeling in any case.
RANT: It's hot enough that the mountains beside my place are spontaneously combusting. Video I just took of part of the air war. Because it's a populated area, the lead plane flies ahead with the siren going like that to warn people of an imminent air drop. Then the following aircraft does the deed. So far there's been 5 different aircraft over 90 minutes. Finally brought in an Electra to put it out once and for all in about 6 runs.
Dear Coworker, When you text, instant message and call me twice within 3 minutes of sending an email, it's pretty clear that email was not the appropriate form of communication to select in the first place. Additionally, when I have failed to respond to all five of those attempted communications, I suspect sending a follow-up email will be equally ineffective and you'd be better served to wait for me to call you back. Which I would be happy to do when I am not on the phone with someone else.
Rant: One of my staff filed a grievance against me. I doubt it will hold, but I still have to go through the trouble of writing up a rebuttal to his conjecture and accusations.
Rave: Had my annual fitness test this morning and my run time is back under 9 min for 2.4km for the first time in around 5 years. That follows up a 20:00 min 5km on Saturday. Rave: Dad gets here for my birthday tonight, only get to see him once or twice a year. Rave: Beer!
Rant: Well my heart just about stopped today. Was moving tires for some of the equipment. The rims are 18"x33" the tires are something like 22" x 5' at 140psi. So there is something like 300-500 thousand foot pounds of energy in them, more then an average sedan hitting a brick wall at highway speeds. Was stacking them had two on the forks on there sides and some how they fell off, the top one weirdly lands on the edge and starts rolling towards a car. Luckily I had just put a pallet of 3 tires(18 wheeler size) right beside the car and somehow the tire hit that and glanced off without knocking the stack of tires over.
Rave: Work at Intel is fucking outstanding. I'm like an abused wife who ditched the bum and hooked up with Prince Charming. The people are smart, my boss is nice, (albeit cold and blunt, as she's a Russian emigre who says stuff like "I want work hard, ok?") and there is precisely zero of the bullshit that I had to deal with in the Marines. I'm picking up the job pretty fast, and I've already made friends because I know how to make macros in Excel, i.e. "How to Google stuff on VBA and copy-paste it into a function." Rave: Got back into the erg. It's miserable, but I've lost another five pounds and am hoping to lose ten more. 190-pound Me will be pretty good-looking. Rant: Girlfriend hates her job because of a retarded LPN. Apparently, the jail is replacing LPNs with RNs, and this cunt believes that if she makes things as shitty as possible, the RNs will leave. It's working. Rant: Dog clawed a hole in the wall. Fuck.
Rant: If I could do shit right the first time, my life would be 100% better. An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. I'm trying to finish up one course that I had to make up. I have to have this finished to receive my teaching license by what I assume is the 21st. I finished all the coursework yesterday, but now the instructor won't have it graded in time as she will be out of the office and she is saying that I still have yet to present . I have no idea what she is talking about as there is no presentation listed in any of the course material. Great. Wonderful. I have no idea how this is going to shake out.
Rant: The MMA messageboard I've been part of for like five years has disappeared. It was part of a bigger site that must have just gotten rid of it. This sucks, it was a cool place. The only good online community I've ever found, you know? Just... gone!
Rant: Day before my birthday and anything I've consumed today has come back up at a great rate of knots. Rave: It's good seeing my Dad.
Rant: With all of the various wedding talk abound here lately I have a great suggestion, for your friends/families sake please do not plan your ceremony to take place on a Friday night at 7pm, with a dry reception to boot. Oh you can bite me tOO. Jesus I'm a fucking half tard today.