cimmerian

It's not everyday that random vagrant women solicit me for sex while I'm at work. It was pretty weird. I am certain she was not a prostitute, rather she was crazy. Or maybe on drugs. Or both.

Now I'm actually getting down to 40-hours per week. Could the woeful economy finally be affecting me?

Apparently I owe the IRS money. That's not a first, but it's the first time in a long time.

I'm back to a five-day workweek, yet I'm still getting well over 50 hours a week.

My life right now is baby showers, birthdays and work. I can't even make it to the baby showers.

As a truck driver, I am getting a preposterous amount of work. D.O.T. Hours Of Service regulations state that a driver cannot work more than 80 hours in 8 days. Because of my rotating work schedule my days off are frequently 7, 8 and 9 days apart. I usually get to my day off with around 3 to 5 hours of available drive time and...
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I have a pile of books to read.
I'm in the middle of "Ancestor's Tale" and "God: The Failed Hypothesis."
And more awaits me.
Climbing Mount Improbable
Unweaving The Rainbow
A Devil's Chaplain
Iconoclast
The Red Queen
God Is Not Great
Traffic

I just saw Watchmen tonight. My opinion is that it's a great date flick. There's superheroes, violence and sex for the guys, and...
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OK, so maybe I am not so there. I can't seem to talk anyone else into going. And having seen them twice last year, (from the pit no less), I don't feel like justifying the cost of taking a day off work and driving over 300 miles to see Maiden again. I may still go, but my enthusiasm is curbed somewhat, mostly by the inability...
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And Iron Maiden finally returns to Florida. I am so there.

Sirius Satellite Radio is really like a drug. Once you start using it you need more of it. Then nothing else matters in life, just your favorite stations. Soul Town, Liquid Metal, Real Jazz, Chill, Boneyard, Willie's Place... Some folks just use it for the Stern, hell, some folks use it for On Broadway or 1st Wave. But all that commercial free music just does...
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My friend just moved from Tampa to LA, and I drove him out there. It took just over three days in a rental truck that was governed at 69mph. That was kind of rewarding to get it done, driving across the country is one of those things I've always wanted to do. And now I've got a place to crash whenever I'm in California.

Most of my friends and family are scrounging for any work they can find, meanwhile I'm swamped with more work than I've had in years. I've never been so thankful for work as I am these days. I just cashed my biggest one-week paycheck ever last week.