Rant: Can someone explain to me why a fucking Tennessee fan that makes shitty music is the celebrity guest picker for Carolina at Gameday today? Its especially disappointing considering we have several former players in the NFL in town and the most recent Medal of Honor winner is a lifelong fan and current student.
Rant: So much for a peaceful morning ride. I hate people who run red lights on bicycles. Even more so when they then tell me to get out of their fucking way.
Rave: Students brought me another snapping turtle. Time to have a party and cook a sauce piquant. Aquaponics is chugging along, but I found a small leak in the sump tank. A little silicon will fix it and then we can move back to adjusting flow rates. After the flow rates are ok, I'll pick up some bluegill and it'll be time to plant.
I just saved a bunch of money on a wedding, kids, and inevitable divorce. I also have a spare engagement ring, so the pizza guy might get a lovely surprise. Fuck. Just....just, fuck. Someone please post some sympathy tits.
So I do location audio for film shoots... independent stuff around Vancouver, nothing fancy yet. Anyway, I've been using a (relatively) cheap recorder/mixer, and have desperately been wanting to upgrade, because it sucks not having complete confidence in your gear. I was very happy, then, when I got a new one last week for this new shoot that started Tuesday. Several grand, top of the line, supposed to be the greatest fucking thing ever. Aaand here comes the RANT: Day 4 of the shoot, we're about 8 hours in with a few to go. Picture's up, actors are ready, and... uh, my mixer won't turn back on. Just fucking doesn't do anything. Nothing to trouble shoot, nothing to try, it just shit the bed. Luckily I had my old "less dependable" mixer in my car, so I switched to that and it worked great. My new mixer, which cost slightly over 10X as much as my old one, is now a paper weight until Monday when I'll have time to go in and throw it at the guy who sold it to me. (Not really, he's a good guy. I might say a swear word though.) What's this, another RANT?: "Oh, this mixer writes data to an SD card and a compact flash drive at the same time! Happy days, what peace of mind!" Except the data is all FUCKING CORRUPT AND WON'T OPEN!! My data recovery program didn't work on the SD card, so I'm not touching the compact flash drive. Just giving it to the director and she can try a professional data recovery place. Jesus fucking Christ. Less of a rant: It was not my fault, and the director understands that. Still really fucking frustrating. Almost a rave: Hopefully the data can be recovered; it says there are 8 GBs on the drive, so there is something there. But, if it can't, that was about the best 8 hours chunk of audio to lose. Still would be a royal pain in the ass (producer's wallet), but it wasn't too dialogue heavy and could be recreated in post.
Rave: Working at the NFL has been going pretty smoothly. Rant: Posting this while on the overnight shift on the news desk. Which is basically babysitting. Will try and sleep a few hours before 10am games start. Rave: Getting paid $26/hr to watch old episodes of LOST right now.
Rave Vegas went well, we swept the tourney, the goal differential was 25-4. Rant Playing goalie I tend to get a few bruises, this weekend I got two decent ones on my left bicep, which is all fine and well. Except as they start to develop they absolutely look like aerolas. Genuinely, it looks bad
RANT: There are a few things I thought I'd be doing today and waiting for my sister in law to deliver her dead 20 week old fetus was not one of them. RAVE: Gotta love my sister and sister in law for handling it with grace and a little dark humor. A sample: she delivered and the doctor said they couldn't determine the fetus' sex. The girls' response? "Oh, we had a hermaphrodite!" Don't let anyone tell you lesbians can't take a joke. RANT: According to doctors and nurses, this happens quite often. And yet no one talks about it. What a disservice to women, not acknowledging the real risks that still exist for every pregnancy. And special bonus, making everyone who miscarries feel all alone. Jokes aside, this fucking blows, my heart goes out to anyone who's ever been through it.
Rave: I got a raise today, and am finally making near what I should be making at the company I work for. It's about time. This is the first thing I have seen my manager do right in the year she has been in her position.
Rant: Christ that shoot couldn't end soon enough. The DOP (head camera guy) was such a condescending prick and made each of the six 12-14 hour days their own unique stressful hell. Of course my gear breaking down only made it worse. Stuff like this really makes me reconsider this career choice, but my 20's, which are 75% over, have been a series of false starts and changing my mind career wise, so I'm really trying to give this a chance. Sometimes it's fun if you're working with cool people and shooting in fun places, but even then the hours are ridiculous. And it seems like it's not that uncommon to work with/under people like this DOP who are dickheads that make you feel like shit. Rave: Ah well, such is life, right? I'm not strapped for cash at the moment, I'm healthy, I live in an awesome city, and I have several really good, close friends who all live close by. I've got a lot going for me I guess if I can stop focusing on the negatives.
Rant: Another overnight shift on the newsdesk at NFL... Rave: The Dennis Allen firing news came while the person who hands off to me was still here, so he handled all the Breaking News protocol. Glad it didn't happen while I was here by myself for the first night. Rant: I'm nervous as fuck about the A's-Royals game and don't know how I'm going to sleep when I get home. I covered the A's the first half of the year before I got my new gig and the last few months have been devastating to watch them implode. Glad I have the day off so I can booze it up during the game. I'll be heartbroken if they're one-and-done given all the expectations.
Rant: Dear Unborn Daughter, I will buy you a pony (when you're older) if you stop punching me in the cervix. Sincerely, Mom
Rant This is not how I wanted to wake up on my day off. My sister drowned last night in her bathtub and they found her and didn't know how long she had been under. At the hospital now. FUCK.
rant. my boyfriend of two years decided we should break up last week . ok fine. sure I love him but he has made it clear that he is no longer interested in me. fine. this is the longest I've gone without sex in well two years. I'm freaking horny as Shit. I don't want to just go out and get some strange. ugh he's being so Shitty. maybe I wouldn't be as upset about it if we didn't have a kid together, but we do. I need his cock too bad we didn't make that mold a cock when he suggested we did. but then again I don't want to do all that myself. stupid break up Shit. this is the first time in years that I've been single. I'm not sure how to be. plus I love him still. idk what imma do. stupid vagina.
Rant: I thought every account had to go through an aptitude and typing test before they could post.....
Rant: Women who cheapen themselves to the point of being an illiterate whore as an obvious grab for attention.
RAVE#1: Found out on Friday that we will only have to bring 3k to the closing table for the new house we're building. This is a rave because the house will cost just over a million to build. RAVE#2: Because of rave #1 my wife and I decided to hit the casino Friday night to have a few drinks and play a little to celebrate. My wife hit an $8000.00 jackpot on one of the video poker machines and I took one of their blackjack tables for $11,700.00. Not a bad night if I do say so myself.
RANT: Girl I was talking to essentially ended things because she's too busy with work and other things. I'd be inclined to doubt her honesty if it didn't match her patterns of unavailablity and not making whatever we were working towards a priority at all. Its just frustrating, she's a really awesome girl that had a personality that really appealed to me, but something was always just off. I also just cant process how people "dont have time" for relationships. She doesn't work 80 hours a week, she's ambitious and has alot on her plate, but shit is just silly. She gets tossed into the scrap heap with the other 3 girls in 2014 that I was really excited about who vanished or fell off for spurious reasons. I present this as counter evidence to every bullshit internet article about how guys are at fault for modern dating taking a "turn for the worse". RANT: Its getting cold as fuck in Chicago, people are already joking, but not really, about hibernating, on the heels of a mediocre summer weather wise. This shit sucks. Can't wait for all the statuses about just wanting some SO to snuggle with when those same twats wont go out cause its cold. Why do I live in the fucking Midwest? RAVE: 3 day week next week with the federal holiday on Monday and heading to LA on Thursday night. Lord knows I need it
RAVE: Participated and finished my first Spartan race over the weekend. Also honestly did a lot better than I expected. Would have posted an even better time than I did, but I promised the girlfriend that I would stick with her the whole way, which I honestly think helped her out quite a bit. RANT: The fucking weather in Ohio can eat a bag of smashed assholes. It was like some Hunger Games shit out there... In a 30 minute period we went from sunny, to cloudy and rainy, to hail and then back to sunny again.