all your hard work will soon pay off

claims the fortune cookie i got at lunch today. do i believe it? maybe. still not wanting to get my hopes up though. seems like every time i think the work is over, it just comes back again. and even when it's not work, it's any number of other things.

like tonight when i was actually going to get to come home from work at a decent time there was the massive storm that kept me at work another half hour or so. and when i did get home, the power went out so i couldn't make dinner. so, of course, i sit out on my deck having a couple beers and reading... then come in and lay down on my bed for a minute and pass out for a couple hours (couple beers on empty stomach probably not so smart). i wake up feeling like i crap like i always do when i take a nap like that and now i probably won't get to slelep forever tonight.

so yeah, hard work paying off? let's hope so, but i'm not getting my hopes up.

24 hours and counting...

is how long i've been at work so far... what's wrong with me?

yet another long day

so did another 15 hour day... ended smoothly when, on my way to dj's dugout to barely make last call, i got pulled over for speeding... yes, wonderful. thankfully, i only got a warning. but still very irritating, especially since it meant i didn't make it to dj's in time to meet jon for that last call. and since i get to do it all over again tomorrow.

but, i did come home and have that beer while i watched the tivoed daily show and then continued on with a few sportsnight's. oh how i do love that show.

30 days

after driving home in my nice car listening to my mp3 player, i cracked open another pricey fancy beer (after going out to pricey fancy dinner and then drinking more pricey fancy beer while we watched the team america dvd on terry's big screen tv) to sit in my wonderful leather couch and watch my tivoed 30 days. the new series from the guy who did supersize me. this episode was on living on the minimum wage for 30 days and how they barely made it. yes, i'm sure it was a slightly more dramatized version so it would make good tv... but i bet for many people it's still worse than what they showed. just sickens me. and makes me sad at the same time. and yet, what will i do about this? nothing. which sickens and saddens me even more. and to think, i was complaining about working almost 60 hours this week while only being able to charge 40 since they cut off overtime... stupid mother fucker who doesn't realize how good he's got it...

too too long day

after the 19.5 hour day, the noose someone at work made out of the mini-blind pull cord seems rather inviting

some people

so on my way back from lunch i passed this incredibly fat guy driving some beat up old car smoking his cigarette like it was the greatest thing ever... and while he was hooked up to one of those oxygen nose-breather things... yeah, super smart there. let's smoke while we're hooked up to oxygen. it's not like oxygen if flammable or anything. or that smoking probably got him the oxygen hookup in the first place. yep, real smart buddy.