My threshold for keeping up with writing in multiple blogs has been reached. I can't do it anymore, and so I have consolidated. I won't be leaving here, but rather linking my personal blog on wordpress.com. Generally, it will be a focused, topic-based blog. I'll still write here in a very candid way, but generally my posts will link to The0therDavidBrin Blog.
Take care and see you guys around the site.
Take care and see you guys around the site.
Not really much going on.
Got my computer working the way I wanted after a few days of fiddling and finally using the right disk to install bootcamp/windows properly.
Just been doing a bit of soul searching and realizing what I want/need out of life, and how strange of a place I find myself in just of late. Sort of this strange middle ground on a lot of fronts, this potential of being that is simultaneously comforting in knowing what's next and disconcerting in the uncertainty of some aspects of it all.
I found myself in a convo with one of my coworkers the other day about how I don't have kids, and how I should ... and the same employee telling me in broken english (she's from Honduras) that god and the church would not like my tattoo...so mixed feelings on all of that but what I walked away from it all with was this sense of diminishing time, diminishing opportunity, and the need to ... get out and see things. Which is why I've been spending so much time at the museums on my days off I guess. Walking around DC and experiencing and such. Just need to find my niche and find someone to roll with that doesn't mind a little white trash rockin out to Kid Rock on sunny days and movie watching on rainy ones. Find my stride, find someone who doesn't mind it and can keep up.
Dear gods,
please return my life to me. My karmic debt has been fulfilled.
Regards,
me.
Got my computer working the way I wanted after a few days of fiddling and finally using the right disk to install bootcamp/windows properly.
Just been doing a bit of soul searching and realizing what I want/need out of life, and how strange of a place I find myself in just of late. Sort of this strange middle ground on a lot of fronts, this potential of being that is simultaneously comforting in knowing what's next and disconcerting in the uncertainty of some aspects of it all.
I found myself in a convo with one of my coworkers the other day about how I don't have kids, and how I should ... and the same employee telling me in broken english (she's from Honduras) that god and the church would not like my tattoo...so mixed feelings on all of that but what I walked away from it all with was this sense of diminishing time, diminishing opportunity, and the need to ... get out and see things. Which is why I've been spending so much time at the museums on my days off I guess. Walking around DC and experiencing and such. Just need to find my niche and find someone to roll with that doesn't mind a little white trash rockin out to Kid Rock on sunny days and movie watching on rainy ones. Find my stride, find someone who doesn't mind it and can keep up.
Dear gods,
please return my life to me. My karmic debt has been fulfilled.
Regards,
me.
Something wicked this way comes...
3.0ghz dual core intel processor, 4gb ram, GEForce 130 graphics with 512mb onboard, 24" monitor, flipping sweet...
So now...i can game, write, and look at SG in big screen all at the same time...
I'm never going to get anything accomplished...
3.0ghz dual core intel processor, 4gb ram, GEForce 130 graphics with 512mb onboard, 24" monitor, flipping sweet...
So now...i can game, write, and look at SG in big screen all at the same time...
I'm never going to get anything accomplished...
I feel like i've been a terrible virtual friend lately...
I haven't fallen off the radar so much as I've just been super busy and exhausted with this new job and trying to get settled into some sort of schedule/routine and still find time to enjoy the finer things in life...
I've found a great place for sushi within walking distance of my house.
The Crazy Dragon Roll - traditional Dragon Roll (eel and avocado) with the fried shrimp rolled into the middle. Place is small, the owners are fantastic, and it's like a traditional Hibachi too so a great time to boot. The sushi guy already is starting to recognize me.
i've also started to go out to the museums and such on my days off. I wandered around a fantastic asian art exhibit while I was down there and did a lot of the "tourist pictures" that you never do when you're a local, but fuckit, i'm new again
A great shot of the sculpture garden area breezeway
a fantastic asian vase
Another shot of the sculpture gardens
Best guess is that they were weebles, back in the day, when our folks had to hike uphill both ways five miles to get anywhere...Stone Age Fisher Price
Coolest thing ever...
My favorite pic that I took
More to come as I have the chance to get out and explore.
I haven't fallen off the radar so much as I've just been super busy and exhausted with this new job and trying to get settled into some sort of schedule/routine and still find time to enjoy the finer things in life...
I've found a great place for sushi within walking distance of my house.
The Crazy Dragon Roll - traditional Dragon Roll (eel and avocado) with the fried shrimp rolled into the middle. Place is small, the owners are fantastic, and it's like a traditional Hibachi too so a great time to boot. The sushi guy already is starting to recognize me.
i've also started to go out to the museums and such on my days off. I wandered around a fantastic asian art exhibit while I was down there and did a lot of the "tourist pictures" that you never do when you're a local, but fuckit, i'm new again
A great shot of the sculpture garden area breezeway
a fantastic asian vase
Another shot of the sculpture gardens
Best guess is that they were weebles, back in the day, when our folks had to hike uphill both ways five miles to get anywhere...Stone Age Fisher Price
Coolest thing ever...
My favorite pic that I took
More to come as I have the chance to get out and explore.
I love this job.
As a restaurant job it's so basic it's deceptive in thinking it's easy. But they've stripped away all the bullshit and let managers focus on the one thing that really matters: Putting out a quality product and ensuring an awesome guest experience....
But part of the training i was NOT expecting - i.e. i was so excited i got the job that I didn't bother to ask about the training - is that the first three days of training are 8am - 11:30 pm or so...
Three 15-hour days in a row, and then a 12-hour day, and then a test-and-done day that's about two hours. Holy crap.
And the first day we pick a station and stick with it. I picked fry station...i have bruises on my hands along the bases of my thumbs from shaking wonderfully amazingly greasy baskets of fries for seriously 15 hours today. I can't close my hands, and I think I burned my arm near my elbow pretty bad on a heat lamp...
And I could not be happier with a job. It's going to be a lot of hard work to get to where I want to go...but it's achievable. And it felt good being asked by other district managers if I was the new GM and actually be excited to see me and enthusiastic about the proposition of me being in charge of a store.
I feel achieved. I love coming home and having my own space, and the only thing I have to answer to is the cat, who irregardless of having been away for so long today and needing fed...was happy to see me.
Now to start getting paid and pay some bills.
As a restaurant job it's so basic it's deceptive in thinking it's easy. But they've stripped away all the bullshit and let managers focus on the one thing that really matters: Putting out a quality product and ensuring an awesome guest experience....
But part of the training i was NOT expecting - i.e. i was so excited i got the job that I didn't bother to ask about the training - is that the first three days of training are 8am - 11:30 pm or so...
Three 15-hour days in a row, and then a 12-hour day, and then a test-and-done day that's about two hours. Holy crap.
And the first day we pick a station and stick with it. I picked fry station...i have bruises on my hands along the bases of my thumbs from shaking wonderfully amazingly greasy baskets of fries for seriously 15 hours today. I can't close my hands, and I think I burned my arm near my elbow pretty bad on a heat lamp...
And I could not be happier with a job. It's going to be a lot of hard work to get to where I want to go...but it's achievable. And it felt good being asked by other district managers if I was the new GM and actually be excited to see me and enthusiastic about the proposition of me being in charge of a store.
I feel achieved. I love coming home and having my own space, and the only thing I have to answer to is the cat, who irregardless of having been away for so long today and needing fed...was happy to see me.
Now to start getting paid and pay some bills.
Hard to believe that it hasn't been that long since making the transition to Northern VA. I look at the last blog and it feels like I posted it a year ago. Not even two weeks.
It's good to be here, on my own, under my own terms. It's good to be out from under preconceived expectations and a past full of setbacks. It's time for a fresh start, for change, and for me to focus first on getting my career straight and second on getting my life back in order.
Today, I had the worst sense of ... I can only describe it as vertigo and loss. I am watching an anime called Vexille: Isolation. It triggered this horrible feeling of mortality. The movie takes place in 2077, and there's a book included with an interview with the director talking about how there's not a lot of chance of the events in the movie happening before that year, which got me to thinking how old I would be in 2077...99. I dunno how to explain it any better than that. Creepy, this whole dying slowly thing...
Enough of that.
picture time:
Beer and Sushi - dinner the first night.
The Wall of Doom...or rather, all of the things I was never really allowed to put out due to being married to someone with a phobia for knickknacks and anything "strange."
Sitting in DC traffic, trying to get here.
Travel Nexus...or The King Street Metro Station.
It's good to be here, on my own, under my own terms. It's good to be out from under preconceived expectations and a past full of setbacks. It's time for a fresh start, for change, and for me to focus first on getting my career straight and second on getting my life back in order.
Today, I had the worst sense of ... I can only describe it as vertigo and loss. I am watching an anime called Vexille: Isolation. It triggered this horrible feeling of mortality. The movie takes place in 2077, and there's a book included with an interview with the director talking about how there's not a lot of chance of the events in the movie happening before that year, which got me to thinking how old I would be in 2077...99. I dunno how to explain it any better than that. Creepy, this whole dying slowly thing...
Enough of that.
picture time:
Beer and Sushi - dinner the first night.
The Wall of Doom...or rather, all of the things I was never really allowed to put out due to being married to someone with a phobia for knickknacks and anything "strange."
Sitting in DC traffic, trying to get here.
Travel Nexus...or The King Street Metro Station.
holy crap...
so...I found a place to live. I am going up Tuesday to Alexandria, VA to sign for it, and then hanging out in the area a bit, for a couple days between there and Hampton, VA and getting things finalized with a moving truck and coordinating with Pops to get me moved... Then going Friday (when the money clears to the account that had to be taken from a retirement fund
) and picking up the keys, then driving BACK to Hampton, grabbing Dad, and driving down to Charlotte. That next day picking up the truck and then packing...and likely driving BACK to Northern VA ...
unloading, dropping off truck, then driving dad BACK to Hampton, likely staying overnight and then driving HOME.
holy crap...
so...I found a place to live. I am going up Tuesday to Alexandria, VA to sign for it, and then hanging out in the area a bit, for a couple days between there and Hampton, VA and getting things finalized with a moving truck and coordinating with Pops to get me moved... Then going Friday (when the money clears to the account that had to be taken from a retirement fund
) and picking up the keys, then driving BACK to Hampton, grabbing Dad, and driving down to Charlotte. That next day picking up the truck and then packing...and likely driving BACK to Northern VA ... unloading, dropping off truck, then driving dad BACK to Hampton, likely staying overnight and then driving HOME.
holy crap...
Sitting in a hotel room in Northern VA watching cable somehow makes me feel like I'm having a normal life...
let's hope the job actually comes through so the feeling can continue...
let's hope the job actually comes through so the feeling can continue...
