yikes

I've just lost one of my favorite perks at work.

My boss decided he wants to close the comic shop at six instead of seven, so that kills my one-hour lunches. I oh so treasured my one-hour lunches.

None of the rushing, none of the stress. I could eat at a sit-down restaurant any day I chose. Now it's either pack a lunch or break...
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Gaahhh!!!

I'm older!!

Only four more years til I can't trust myself! (bad joke)

I did have, if not a rollicking good time, then a highly acceptable birthday evening.

Storey, our dearly departed (actually just defunct) Maxwell_Demon and I went to an exceptionally good family owned italian restaraunt for dinner, then had drinks at a fine Rockabilly/Blues bar, hit another bar where I ran...
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Must-update-journal!

I've been spending my time alternately dealing comics to couch commandoes, Star Wars miniatures to armchair galatic generals, directing frazzled housewives and grandparents to find barely-described toy items at Toys-R-Us and begging with my insurance carrier.

I've been successful with all but the last. They told me right out that they wouldn't cover my unlucky posterior. Curses!

Where's my loyal army of paratrooping badgers...
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Long time, no update.

Well, let's see . . .

Still working my second job at Toys-R-Us. Not much fun, but it's burning callories.

Oh, and I just got a letter in the mail from my car insurance carrier telling me they 'can no longer cover me with their company.' Damn, but that's irritating. I've got three accidents in the last three years and two...
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It happened again!!

More Goddamn jailbait!!

I meet a girl who works late shift at the Toys-R-Us I'm working parttime, and we chat some and seem to be getting on and I find out she's still in high school!!! I'm cursed I tell you!

(For those that are just joining this cosmic joke on me, the previous and only girl that I hit it off...
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--Insert downtrodden-Soviet-Narod (common folk) music here--

I have decided to increase my generated income and have become an seasonal employee of Toys-R-Us. I've been given the dubious honor of being one of the few short-term employees given a job requiring any real brains. I get to process opened/damaged/returned/etc. merchandise and determine if it can be salvaged and restocked, or if not, return the merchandise to...
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I don't know if I'm experiencing an existential crisis, or if I'm just depressed and detached at the moment. Here goes.

Whenever I actually think about how I operate and/or interact with the people in general I feel that I'm always on the 'outside looking in' (please pardon the pun). I'm generally aloof, disconnected. I virtually never feel like I'm part of what's going on:...
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I'm sore! Achy! Worn out! And it didn't happen in bed! Aargh!!

Seriously though, Storey and I just helped Velvet_Night salvage her stuff from her apartment that she is vacating. Her ex had himself a little temper tantrum and trashed their place. The three of us spent a few hours cleaning the place out.

On the upside, I got to play with a fun-loving and...
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I'm bored!!!!
Incredibly bored!
Biblicly bored!

I was so bored today at work that it wore me out. I wanted to scream obscenities just so I had something to do. Ugh.

In other news, I went to the SGCO Halloween party this last Saturday. Hell of a lot of fun!

The Crispy Family Sideshow was there and they did all the classic acts. Precision bullwhip...
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I went and spoke with a banker today and you know what? They all don't appear to have come out of movie featuring Eastern European undead beings!

I got told that (basically) I have to have $250,000 worth of stuff in order to get $250,000. Sounds like a paradox to me, how about you?

Just watched the Farscape mini-series. (How can you even call it...
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I had a rollicking good time last night.

Storey, Dragonchylde and I made an evening of it. Dragonchylde came down from Ft. Collins and the three of us went to the mall to hit a Hot Topic for shoes (I think). We were there for a while. On of the clerks remarked that I looked real excited to be there. I demured on that...
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Welcome K-Mart shoppers, today's Blue Light Special is on fruit cake, vintage 1982. This fine holiday product is available at $3.74 a pound and is the perfect gift for the loved one who needs a doorstop. It also make a lovely dessert or makeshift sandbag.

It's been an uneventful couple of days but this last evening I went and hung out with my usual running...
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