Additional casualties of today’s fall down. I’m missing my left shoe and sock, and the ambulance guys had to cut up my left pant leg. I’m glad I’m wearing boxers.
Monthly Archives: April 2003
6:29 am trying the later launch…the extra 30 of sleep is a good thing, i know that. Up a bit later tonight because of D and Ciara’s birthday party at the fibber island annex (Polly gone mad)
6:48 am this is the crunch time- to get there by 7. I’m assured that it is, though I’ll be more comfortable once confirmed.
7:01 am made it, just enough time to buy a ticket and hop on. Contact HR about the discount program. Also, pick up shampoo, TP and petty cash on the way home. This week, get another pair of pants, 2 pr. Socks,2 shirts, underwear. Dreamt last night of losing a tooth… All that was left shaped like a moth’s. Wing made of enamel. It was sore but not painful.
7:53 am in with time to spare, even though the cab from the train station didn’t take plastic, so we had to side track to a nearby ATM. Brett and Jeff both came in shortly after me…. good to see early starters!
12:17 pm at the hospital. I tripped over a power cord, landed on my left knee, and managed to further knock my back out of whack.
12:42 pm just had a fit of hysteria from being strapped down for the last 2 hours. My nose is now full of mucus, and i can’t get any tissues. I hate this. I want out now. At least my arms are free, but i still feel trapped here.
2:05 pm out of radiology… Unstrapped at last. Waiting now for what i assume is a shot of an anti-inflammatory.
2:17 pm no shot? Just a prescription for vicodin and a referral to another doctor. Good grief. The referral is for a Delray doctor…I’m also not to report back to work until Monday. I need to Call Donna (xt 102?) re: workman’s comp docs
4:04 pm waited about 2 hours for a cab to the tri-rail… Gave up, went to the bus stop, and got ride there in under 5 minutes. Lesson learned? F yellow cab in Delray Beach and hooray for palm tran.
4:28 pm boo for tri-rail’s 20-minute tardy train and ticket machine that can neither read my visa card, and gives 17.25 in change back to me in Susan b Anthony dollars.
4:39 pm “boarding in approximately 10 minutes ”
4:51 pm aboard. Hm. Days like this (Years like this) make me disbelieve in a “non- reincarnation” one-life karma. I will admit that 2000-now has been mostly great. January 2003-now has been mostly poor save for a few delightful bright spots. I foresee more good than bad in the year to come. A new job, some new friends, and good thoughts are there.
6:04 home! Cute kids on the train… entertaining teens on the way home from school. I found out the mystery package is a returned Christmas box I sent mid-December. I wonder now if all the Valentine’s Day prezzies made it?
More Lustful than Wrathful .. that’s a good thing, eh? (meme du jour)
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the First Level of Hell – Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Moderate |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very High |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Low |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Moderate |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test
I am Ned Flanders!
Which Simpsons Character are YOU?
The boobah zone. – Mucho fun, if you’re on some form of medication.
Saw MRE on the train this morning.. he seemed the same. His news was that he thinks that the Finn will quit soon, because she hates it there. I was surprised to see him talking smack about the Finn, though.
I doubt that’ll happen… I think odds of Chupa quitting to go to work for the main office are better. I should start a pool.
MRE hated it that I pointed out if Kev quit tomorrow, they’d sink, no questions asked. He replied “well, if me and Riker both quit…” He didn’t get the point that he was redundant. Kevin is really the only thing holding OPs together… Sappho and Island boy would just leave if any real nonsense caused Kev to stop coming in.
I’m hitting the sack. Early rising again. Night, dear journal.
Gossip: The Finn took her Lexus in for service and got a rental. Sometime yesterday someone drove through the parking lot and bashed in the back passenger window to steal a purse she had back there. The purse was empty so she lost nothing. I can’t believe someone could do that in broad daylight. They completely shattered the window and no one saw them. She was lucky it was a rental and not her car.
Karma, Karma, Karma.
6:12 am
it looks like i can catch the 625 55 in, and take the 650 22 to tri-rail.
That’ll save me 25 minutes in the morning. I’ll try it tomorrow.
This morning i help out in production (getting it more accurate and automated.) and then I dig into my new desk… Make sure all the tools i need to get installed and accessible.
Brought an ancient copy of mm with… No zip4ing, but other functionality couldn’t hurt.
Note to bring access books for Nadia
6:58 am did they just say train is going to be late?
6:59 nope
3:58 pm altiris client service winky, bring in macro recorder tomorrow to help folk reduce errors.
5:32 pm train soon. I’m very tired, missed lunch today. First meal should be taken sooner than 12 hours after waking
5:37 pm actually headed south at a decent hour. Back’s still a bit pinched- anti-inflammatory doesn’t seem to be helping much. Got a combination of moods lately… Despair, anger, relief, concern, good fortune, amazement, kind… “I’ve change my hairstyle, so many times now, I don’t know what I look like…”
6:30 – in the door.
Have you ever turned down a free sticker?
6:04 am I’m on early morning duty at the bus stop… I think that I’ll be able to grab a later one and still make the 7am train.
if i can negotiate starting a half hour later (and leaving a half hour later) i can save a lot of travel time. I’ll ask after I’ve plotted some other routes an deduced the best
6:20 am just before sunrise-cobalt blue sky-hint of rain watching the city wake up a la- dandelion wine
6:26 am distraction caused momentary surge of panic due to loss of bearings and neighborhood looking differently at twilight.
7:02 am
I’m craving a newt-rassle and a bed nest.
7:22 am
2 of the most boring people on my left … Had a brief “what if they are going to JKG? What if they are on my crew? Could I manage people that are gray drones? ”
I’m confident that my people will be cool. What will I encounter?
5:28 pm well, I’ll keep taking the 7am train in, and arrange to head out earlier.
Work was pleasant… Josh (head of the warehouse / fulfillment) is a nice guy, from near the old neighborhood up north – still has a Brockton/jersey accent.
Nadia is very nice, and seems happy to have me aboard as her leader.
Brett was out today because he’s a Jehovah’s Witness pastor.
Brad left early or doesn’t stay until 5… I’ll know more tomorrow.
5:44 pm Train is 30 min late…still waiting.
I need to remember to bring copies of mysql, vb, and lappie tomorrow
6:20 pm train arrival
7:20 arrived home
Tweaked my back a bit today. Started feeling it about 2pm. Mark took me out to lunch at sals (where I dined with ldy and penguinboi), and the pizza was good.
A parcel came in the mail today, but wasn’t left for me. I signaled the postman to bring it by again on Saturday… I wonder what it is? I’m not expecting anything.
Unknown packages… I’ll hope for the best.
floaty-skull
A little light headed yesterday, and the feeling has returned today. Maybe the different dosage / new medication?
When I checked my CD/DVD this morning (to play that music) W2k said it was gone. I rebooted a few times, to no avail.. Something happened to the driver. I reinstalled it and everything seems fine now 🙂
Sakes, what would I do without that device? Really the only way I install software…I can’t recall off the top of my head last time I used the floppy at home.
Plus, I need the cd as a key for most of my games. I suppose that I could download the CD-keys, if something happened.
There’s also the thing about watching a DVD on monitor #2 while your working on a programming project in monitor #1… I wonder how Tron 2.0 is coming along? Whoops, that’s a video game. I was looking for Tron Killer App, but maybe it’s stillborn?
Skipping the seafood fest, because of rain.
From ananova – Teeth from corpses being sold as new dentures
Continue reading floaty-skull
Want to join me Wednesday for a scoop of ice cream? It’s Free.
Would Wolverine really eat a “Berry Rampage sundae?” I admit, the others sound tasty.
Though promoting Halle Berry with Oreo cookies is pretty funny in my not so politically correct opinion… I think it’d be appropriate to rename them Ororo-cookies.
Tomorrow is my First Real work day at JKG… get to be up bright and extra early, just to make sure no tardy-whoopsies happen. I will have it timed perfectly by the end of the week.
The CD that Danny got me is quite nice. I don’t know if I’d call it “new age”. It’s a good length for a music album, 50 min.
The Mint’s changing the nickel to remove Monticello and add instead a commemoration of Lewis & Clark / Louisiana Purchase. I wonder why they chose that one again, considering that they already did the Sacagawea dollar. I guess because Jefferson was a big supporter of L&C?
Random Mint info – The Secretary of the Treasury is allowed to change the appearance of a coin once every 25 years without congressional approval. (Get congressional approval, and you can do it as much as they allow)
Ugh, brother woke me up from deep sleep nap. I was in the deepest depths, and he must’ve knocked a great number of times before my ears registered someone was at the door.
I’m still trying to shake off the effects of being yanked out of that slumber…trying to get the pieces of my brain to defog.
mskaren911 reminded me that the seafood fest is this weekend.
Conch Fritters!
Had a nice Day with Danny today. He came over, I showed him There, then had a spot of lunch near my house,(He had eel, from the sushi house, and I had veggie max form blimpies, as we people watched the Fort Lauderdalians…(Is that the plural?) for a while before driving up to pompano with the intent of loking for a DVD for Janet’s buddy Dick’s 61st birthday, and just hanging out and talking.
I gave Dan his Sumo-micropet, and a centepede-woman rubber toy… he got me a pair or swell t-shirts and a CD of Celtic music form the area he was visiting in NC. one of the shirts has a great image of a tree atop a man’s head and the root system as his beard, and another with a history of backpacks. Classic Scotto colors, sort of a faded brown and earthy green.
All in all a good day, save for the crashing smashing of my nap.
I’m going to complete today’s festivities by ordering some delicious takeout. from where, I know not, yet.[update= settled on downtown pizzeria.. they deliver until 4am, so I can call whenever I get hungry]
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distractions
eblots – someone using the palm to make home-grown internet therapy. I wish I’d thought of making the page.. I tired the same thing in my journal a few years back.
Anagram Anything Scottobear = reboot cats (look out, newt!)
Find out what your phone number spells.
Sam Brown’s Drawings send him a title, and he’ll draw it
How to do stuff / More how to Do stuff
see what folks are searching for on Metacrawler, Google and Yahoo.
You are where you live how junk mailers view you.
Bro,
The world does not owe you a living.
Even if it’s been mean to you before, and you think you’re due a break, it ain’t gonna happen out of some sort of magical instant karma. Especially since I think that you brought a lot of that strife on your own head. Trust me, I think you’ve pulled enough nonsense lately to get every bone in your body broken, and still be behind in “debt of grace”.
If someone that’s screwed you over in the past helps you out, say *thank you*, not *well I was due*. Especially if that person is your mother.
You’re not too good to work at McDonald’s.
You’re not too good to shovel shit, if it pays the bills.
Nobody is.
Honest work is something that’s a reward in itself. Running around, playing fast and loose, hanging around with folks that take the easy way is just going to get you that much closer to the street. Count how many of your “associates” that have been to jail this year. I know of four off of the top of my head. Some people can pull that kind of lifestyle off, for a little while, anyway. You can’t. You don’t have the skills. If you think that you do, ask yourself where your apartment is, ask yourself where *anything* of monetary value you once owned is.
Get a real job, even if it’s minimum wage. I know that $5 an hour is crap, but it will pay rent, feed you, and keep you out of jail. Moving to another town isn’t going to make it easier. If you can’t find a job in or around Fort Lauderdale / Miami / Boca, you sure as hell aren’t going to find one in Tampa. If the unemployment office is busy, you keep redialing. You sit and wait 8 hours in line, surrounded by people you don’t want to be around, if you have to. If you don’t have a real job, spend a *minimum* of 8 hours a day looking. You can get a crap job in telemarketing in 5 minutes. while making the money from that crap job, you’ll have a roof over your head until you find a job you want. It’s called work, because sometimes it’s not fun.
You’re in the situation you’re in because you screwed up. Nobody screwed you over. You made bad decisions. The landlord isn’t a jerk for expecting to get paid his rent on time, every time it’s due. That’s how economy works. It’s not your roommate’s fault that the rent didn’t get paid on time… his name’s not even on the lease. Take some responsibility for your screw ups.
You’re a big boy. 30 years old. Stop whining, and do something about your life. Stop blaming everyone else but the one person you know is responsible for you life. stop blaming anyone and move on.
I know that seeing other people on easy street seems unfair, but fair isn’t part of life. There are a billion people in this world that have is a lot worse, too. Your life is about you, not them.
Don’t you dare say I don’t understand what it’s like, because you know I do. The only person in this world that *owes* you a living is you. Everyone else that helps you is gravy. Appreciate it.
You’re a good guy, and if you put your mind to it, you can get your act together. The time for whining is over. In short, get off of your butt, and do what you know is right.