I have nothing to say, but, as I have probably said before, that isn't going to stop me.
Shit is the same as ever. Work all week, sit on my ass on my day(s) off. Except I am stuck working with another guy this summer, which is cruel as my helper could be working with someone else, and my boss knows I prefer to work alone. She normally accomodates me there, but not this summer for some reason. The guy's alright, it's just that one of the main good parts about my job was working alone all day. I could just zone out, listen to some audiobooks, and not be all that conscious of the boring ass nature of my job. Now I have to talk to a guy all day, adjust my pace to his instead of working as fast or slow as I am in the mood for.
At least the summer is over, and the weather has been really mild the past couple of weeks. If it stays like this for the rest of the month, I will not mind. Working outdoors in August is normally unbearable. Just drenched in sweat, slowly cooking all day. The rain hasn't been too bad either this season. Hopefully though, this will be my last year in this particular line of unskilled labor. Barring some kind of financial disaster, which wouldn't really surprise me, I hope to move myself into some part of NYC either in the winter or early spring. (Or somewhere else. I've never been particularly excited about moving to NYC, it's just the closest city, and seems the likely place I'll end up. Seattle always seems like a nice city to me, though I've never actually been there. I liked Chicago during the little time I spent there, but I dunno about their winters.) The main barrier to that being my complete lack of connections in the city to get a good job and really only one useful reference there. If anyone knows someone looking to hire a guy who doesn't have any particular skills but isn't a total idiot (preferrably indoors), I'll take any help I can get. Though as I said, it won't be for several months yet, so that is a pretty pointless request. Just keep me in mind if you hear of anyone looking to hire someone to sit on their ass all day not doing too much for a lot of money. Breaking in recliners or beer quality testing or something.
Ehh, I think that's about it. rock over london, rock on chicago.
Shit is the same as ever. Work all week, sit on my ass on my day(s) off. Except I am stuck working with another guy this summer, which is cruel as my helper could be working with someone else, and my boss knows I prefer to work alone. She normally accomodates me there, but not this summer for some reason. The guy's alright, it's just that one of the main good parts about my job was working alone all day. I could just zone out, listen to some audiobooks, and not be all that conscious of the boring ass nature of my job. Now I have to talk to a guy all day, adjust my pace to his instead of working as fast or slow as I am in the mood for.
At least the summer is over, and the weather has been really mild the past couple of weeks. If it stays like this for the rest of the month, I will not mind. Working outdoors in August is normally unbearable. Just drenched in sweat, slowly cooking all day. The rain hasn't been too bad either this season. Hopefully though, this will be my last year in this particular line of unskilled labor. Barring some kind of financial disaster, which wouldn't really surprise me, I hope to move myself into some part of NYC either in the winter or early spring. (Or somewhere else. I've never been particularly excited about moving to NYC, it's just the closest city, and seems the likely place I'll end up. Seattle always seems like a nice city to me, though I've never actually been there. I liked Chicago during the little time I spent there, but I dunno about their winters.) The main barrier to that being my complete lack of connections in the city to get a good job and really only one useful reference there. If anyone knows someone looking to hire a guy who doesn't have any particular skills but isn't a total idiot (preferrably indoors), I'll take any help I can get. Though as I said, it won't be for several months yet, so that is a pretty pointless request. Just keep me in mind if you hear of anyone looking to hire someone to sit on their ass all day not doing too much for a lot of money. Breaking in recliners or beer quality testing or something.
Ehh, I think that's about it. rock over london, rock on chicago.
So, I just saw the beginning of a commercial for a bicycle with an automatic transmission. And, at first, I though, which kind of amazing idiot would pay money for something like that. Then I remembered how many times i have laughed at jerks I've seen riding bikes, peddling like crazy, but barely moving because they didn't know enough to switch gears.
Of course, the infomercial doesn't look at it that way. It's not that people are too stupid to grasp such a simple concept. One that could be figured out with trial and error in five minutes, like I, and I am sure plenty of other people did when they were about 8 years old. No. It's that bikes are just SO darn confusing.
How the fuck are we, as a country, going to get by when people who are too dumb to realize that when you shift one way, it gets easier to pedal but you go slower, and if you shift in the other direction, you can go faster, but it's harder to pedal, are allowed to vote? And not only that, but they are willing to spend MORE money on a crappy bike because it means they don't have to figure out how gears work.
We're doomed.
Of course, the infomercial doesn't look at it that way. It's not that people are too stupid to grasp such a simple concept. One that could be figured out with trial and error in five minutes, like I, and I am sure plenty of other people did when they were about 8 years old. No. It's that bikes are just SO darn confusing.
How the fuck are we, as a country, going to get by when people who are too dumb to realize that when you shift one way, it gets easier to pedal but you go slower, and if you shift in the other direction, you can go faster, but it's harder to pedal, are allowed to vote? And not only that, but they are willing to spend MORE money on a crappy bike because it means they don't have to figure out how gears work.
We're doomed.
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George Carlin, whatta guy.
So, the other day, I was at this guys house to clean his pool, and I see this chipmunk chilling about two feet from where I was going to be standing in a moment. Nothing out of the ordinary there, I am always seeing chipmunks. However, when I get really close to it, it just sits there. Which is rather out of the ordinary. Chipmunks are pretty skittish. So I go to shoo it away with my foot, and it just sits there. At this point I notice that it is missing a large patch of fur on its head, and the skin there is black, and though I can't see it well, the other side of its head appears to be the same. It was weird.
Sometimes, a day goes by very quickly, but in a terrible way. LIke, every time you look at a clock it feels like an hour has disappeared somehow. But at the same time, at the end of the day, the morning seems like it was a week ago. I don't like feeling exhausted but feeling like I got basically nothing done at work, and still having something like 4 jobs left to do when I go home. I really can't wait for memorial day to be over. If for no other reason that I will not have to answer the question "Will it be ready by memorial day?" again for slightly less than a year. It's not like it's warm enough to go swimming yet anyway. Fucking whiny ass bitches. You should feel lucky that I don't just take a shit in your pool and nap in my truck for an hour.
