Rave: Today is my last day to be 31 years old! 32 years ago my mom was calling Pops in the middle of a big meeting. "HUSBAND! COME HOME! I THINK I'M HAVING THIS KID 3 WEEKS EARLY!!" And so began my habit of interrupting important things and being obnoxiously early to events. 31 was an awesome year. Kinda bummed to see it go. Bah: I'm working all weekend. It's not that my birthday is a big deal...I just want to properly drink my face off.
Rave: ANZAC Day was awesome yesterday. Started drinking at 6:30am and walked home 5km at around 11pm. Pretty certain I bombed a couple of hook ups as well because I'm as blind as a bat.
Rave: CancerCon was a huge success. My brother and I have gotten properly wasted every night, meanwhile every morning I've had to wake up at 530 to go serve the community. How I've managed to do both for 4 straight days is a testament to my commitment to drinking and not letting little things like community service and sleep get in my way. CancerCon was also great. I've begun to realize despite my brothers experiences and despite my knowledge of cancer and cancer treatment, I will never really have a clue what its like to have cancer unless (God forbid) I get a cancer Dx myself. Rant: TiB sadly escaped any plans I had for owning it. No midgets, a few amputees, but no midget amputees. Dam shame almost
Rave: Mexico was great, weather was 28-31 degrees nice and warm but not unbearable. Rant: Got sun burnt to hell on the second day there and was very diligent about putting sun screen on, guess not enough. Rave/Rant: The market in playa del carmen as nice enough for an Americanized market. We didn't have alot of time since this was a destination wedding i was dragged to it($1600 for my wife, $2000 for both of us) so we didn't have time to find a nicer market, the price of booze there was more fucking expensive then it was back home. Rave: The Tulum ruins was very nice tour. Rave: Golf on the par 3 course was great. Rant/Rave: I was staving so i had some food at the cancun airport and it was contaminated ... but it was on my way out of Mexico so it didn't ruin my trip. Spoiler: TMI For about 20 hours i could of shit through a 2 micron filter and there wouldn't have been anything caught, I was shitting pure fucking water. Rave: The view was great.
Rave: Exhilaration! I got a new MacBook Air today and after not having a laptop for the last three years, this is glorious! I haven't actually posted much because it's so hard to do from my phone or iPad.
RAVE: New tattoo today RANT: Holy mother of Christ it hurt, none of my other tattoos were more than mildly irritating, I won't be getting my other calf tattooed.
RANT: Since when did a flippant, "well, I didn't know that" become an excuse for acting like a stupid cunt? I'm in the process of hiring some staff, and the Director of Marketing sends out a huge "this is the wrong thing to do, we should do _____ instead" email to founders/directors, in a very bitchy and passive aggressive manner. She then gets shot down hugely over the span of a half hour and 10 emails, with her final reply being, "well, I didn't know that... I'll shut up now." She's proceeding to then make snide comments about "still think it's wrong" and "I didn't know that" one-on-one to people in the office. WELL HOW ABOUT YOU FUCKING ASK FOR RATIONALES BEFORE YOU COME OUT PUBLICLY, ALL GUNS BLAZING, AGAINST IT? Would it have been so fucking hard to pull me aside, privately, and ask, "Hey Nett... what's the thought behind hiring these skill sets?" I would have been happy to lay out the deal to you. The one that the CEO, other involved Director, and the entire development team had input and consensus on... but nope, you do stupid shit that makes you look stupid, so you go cry and get pissed at me because due to the transitive properties of being a stupid fucking cunt, it's my fault. What. The. Fuck. Meanwhile, she has no idea that everyone is losing respect for her and she's slowly but surely being left out of high-level discussions and decision-making processes that don't directly involve her... not consciously, but subconsciously those involved realize she adds nothing of value so they don't seek her out for her opinion, and yet she feels she has to be involved in everything. This is not going in a good or healthy direction.
Rant: I had to testify for 2+ hours today in a trial for my old job that I quit 3 months ago. Also rant: I think I get paid something glamorous like $17 for wasting a whole day to testify. RAVE!! I (think) I have completed all the obligations for my old job and I'M FREEEEE! It feels like a miracle and I already have an acupuncture treatment and massage scheduled next week. Rant/Rave? I am DRUUUUUNK right now.
Rant: I was in a shitty mood with my girlfriend on my birthday when we were out of town visiting her parents last weekend. I did turn my day around and we ended up having a good trip but I still feel bad. Rant: Yesterday I saw my neighbor who unplugged my refrigerator in the basement (letting my 20+ lbs of venison in the freezer go rancid). I asked him if he remembered using my extension cord ("Yeah") and if he plugged the fridge back in ("Oh. Uhhh... oops"). Dumbass. He can move it out of the basement now after ruining it. Rave: Signing the lease for the house tomorrow. So glad to get that secured. Rave: I was planning on going turkey hunting with a friend this weekend but that has moved to next week, which is even better because it coincides with fishing opener. A cast and blast weekend in northern Minnesota? Smoked turkey and fresh fried walleye together with home brewed beer? Yes please!
Rave: Our yard is looking pretty good this year! Rant: ^ 6,400 pounds of mulch shoveled in various places, an unknown thousands of pounds of stone border placed by hand, a couple of trenches with small pipe and diversion ditches dug with a shovel and pick to reroute some runoff... will do that to a yard. Rant: Our driveway is 745 fucking feet long, very few people will see it. Therefore, I feel like all that work was a bit unnecessary. My wife wanted it done anyway and I'm afraid this will be a disagreement that will last our entire lives and I will lose every Spring.
Rant: I love my job I really do, my direct boss is great. But pretty much everyone else(his bosses, the foremen, 3/4 of the mechanics/electricians) suck. The head boss for the entire site is a micromanaging idiot, he has no idea about me/my bosses job(inventory/warehousing) but he keeps trying to tell us how to do our job all the time. The superintendent of maintenance is an ex fishermen that got his A+ cert while on EI(unemployment insurance) and got the IT super job with no experience just the cert, he was friends with micromanager. Then he transferred over, and has no idea how to run a shop, and no idea what preventative means in preventative maintenance. The assistant super of maintenance is actually a really nice guy, he gets that he doesn't have all the answers and if he doesn't know something he will ask what do you think the best way to do something is. The mechanical foremen are ex mechanics that used to work on this site, so you would think they would get how to do there job, but now they just turned into company yes men. The electrical foreman, I like one, the other one doesn't do any work. The mechanics/electricians make 100-140k a year, and all the do is bitch. They have easy jobs, but they still bitch and take there sweet time doing there jobs and half ass it when they do.
Not sure: My wife took my son with her parents to see my brother in law's college graduation. They'll be gone for 6 days, so it is just me and the 3 year old. I'm basically a single father for a week. Rave: her first day of daycare/preschool today. She did great and immediately jumped in and started playing. Rant: I am a whinny bitch and didn't handle it as well. I think Someone is slipping me estrogen. Rave: get to sleep with the lights off for the first time since the 2nd kid was born. He sleeps in a bassinet in our room and my wife insists on keeping the lights on dim. Consequently, it sucks, and I barely sleep. Now I get 6 days of sleep without lights on. Rant: I like my wife, and therefore miss her. Again, apparently I am super emo about this whole thing. Rave: 3 year old sleeps through the night like a champ, so once she is in bed, the house is mine, and I can actually play some video games this weekend. Rant: fired up Dark Souls 2 on Wednesday and played 10 minutes before getting dizzy and motion sick. Will take lots of motion sickness meds before I play again. Rant: need to mow the lawn, but it is 40 degrees and windy as fuck. Rave: For the next 5 hours I get the house to myself. TL;DR: I have no idea how to feel about being a single father for the next 6 days while my wife and newborn baby are out of town.
I don't know what this is but, today of all days, today the day I go meet my loan officer dude man, is National Honesty Day. I'm either fucked or ecstatic. Time will tell.
Rant: Decided to order the bridesmaid dress in the size I was ten months ago. Rant: I've eaten much more since then. Rant: The wedding is next weekend and I just figured out this fucker won't even come close to zipping. This is beyond Spanx. I am so fucked.
Rave I've been offered a chance to interview for a position that would put me at a board level position and would also give me a percentage stake in the business. Rant I've only recently started in a new role, and have a baby on the way so my wife doesn't want me to even think about it. It's an opportunity that doesn't come around that often though and I feel like it'd be stupid to pass up going and finding out more about it.
Rave: starting a new second/replacement job soon. It's still a serving job but I'll be at one of the highest grossing restaurants in the area. They are always busy. 20 minute wait at 3pm on a Tuesday, what what? Doubling my income in 3...2...1...