Wordly Messages From Myles About His Life.
Yup, still alive. On 2nd shift and a skewed schedule [Thursdays & Friday's are my weekend]; keeping track of which day’s what is a little sideways. So’s keeping up with the odd here or there, with the few hours in the morning I have.
Be Seeing You.Yes, “long time no post”. To be PC, I’m not Asian or from Vietnam. Go figure.
I’ve experienced a great cresting of stress and release of stress relating to my job. Layoffs, insanity la a “The Crazies” via “Armageddon Now”, so on and so forth.
Good News: I have reached the “acceptance” stage of things. This means the following:
*Less alcohol; seriously. I now accept my work situation, its future, its current reality.
*I expect to be laid off; a broke government filtering to a broke military… means broke contractors… means Lockheed’s broke… meaning more lay-offs. Which are happening, and into the future.
*So, I prepare for such. And I am glad for that.
This also means that “I don’t care”. As much as I do, I can’t. I expect to be laid off; if I don’t I’m stupid. So… I continue to act as though as if I am employed but will not be in the near future.
Sounds crazy, but that’s the 1970S. Listen to ‘The Who’. Enough folks told me about my name-sake song for me to not ignore it. So there; I’m living it.
“A thousand miles away”. Go figure.
Be Seeing You.I’ve been doing alright lately.
A medical appointment got hosed this week, but I hope to be dealing with it this coming Thursday.
“Thankfully”, my work on Saturday will allow me to flex out the time for the dud Tuesday and the [hopefully real] Thursday appointment. That way, no holiday/sick/vacation time will be taken. Typical American; I still guarantee an early death.
My wife noticed how I labeled an important USB drive; ‘DataB4Lore’. I had to explane, to dubious results, that ‘Lore’ was ‘first’ with dubiously evil results, then came ‘Data’, and before both came ‘B4′ — the real prototype. Since this USB drive is intended to last beyond my Death, ‘DataB4Lore’ as a Label makes sense to me on a number of levels. Data of my life is contained within, I might like legends [lore] to be trumped [held 'before'] by truths [data], and so on and so forth. Legends might be nice, though. As would data [passwords].
Whatever. “You’ll be dead!”, a Star Wars character once said in Mos Eisley Spaceport once said.
I’ll show you his arm sometime.
Chopped off by a bagpipe-wielding Darth Vader on a unicycle.
Fuck you.
Be Seeing You.I’ve decided that my original assessment of my current work assignment was correct.
I am somewhere in the middle of ‘Apocalypse Now’. I continue to go up river, continue to encounter more and more insane situations. You wouldn’t believe it if I told you, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you did.
My only hope now is that the film isn’t set 50 years earlier.
Be Seeing You.My last pair of shoes lasted me 10 months. I find this profoundly unacceptable by significant, mathematical factors of order. I bugger the store and the brand.
I, in a timely fashion, asked a coworker of his pair of shoes. He spoke wisely of his own. I took note.
When the expected holes presented themselves in my own, I presented myself to the brand my coworker suggested. Several sub-selections were chosen as options.
I chose two pairs to try on. After pointing with my index finger and trying with my feet, I bought one pair.
I am, so far, happy.
I have also been corrected in what shoe size I wear. A calibration 10+ years in the making. Thank you, “grow into it” shoe sales guy from so far ago. As I go forward, I suspect, bugger you instead you frakker.
M$ Office 2k7 has decided to install on my virtual XP. Have yet to test it out, but I “trust” it enough to go with its installation working. It’s virtual, after all; who cares?
Related News: my wife and I have been watching the ‘Matrix’ trilogy. I have the Keymaker; what other power should I ever want? If you have moral objections to answering this question, never mind; it’s too late for you.
Be Seeing You.At work, I’ve been put on loan to another group that is months behind; I have yet to be given a specific assignment or task. I have therefore been reading up and updating personal spreadsheets for tax and investment purposes.
I’ve paused looking for some papers, but will resume shortly. I’ve also purchased a tutoring book to help teach myself a particular skill I’ve had growing desire to learn for years; of course, when a similar skill was offered me by one of my parents, I refused every step of the way because it was forced down my throat and in a manner which I found no pleasure. Sucks to be those who implement education wrongly, and to those who receive wrongly implemented education.
Began watching “Terra Nova”, and am enjoying it.
Be Seeing You.This year, I felt disinclined to watch the Superbowl. “Go Patriots”, of course, but I do have other things to do.
For example, I went to the movie theatre with my wife. The movie was decently good, and I got to see it with my wife.
I’ve also been tearing through everything trying to find specific papers. I believe I need them to sell a few items that they pertain to [nothing illegal with or without, really]. I can’t find the papers, and they’re obviously not anywhere I’ve looked 3 times each. Now, I have to figure out all the crazy-ass places I might have put these papers that they obviously shouldn’t belong. And that’s crazy.
I’m also considering moving forward without these specific papers, but it would be great if I had them. I think I’ll stop and sleep on it [again] on where they might be, now that I’m sure, or reasonably sure, of where they are not.
Be Seeing You.