Naturally, after weeks of normal, albeit cool weather, it turns to shit literally two hours before I need to hop on a flight back home when I have work waiting for me tomorrow. It’s been two months since I last traveled, which is the same as two years for some, and already I’m sick of flying again. I get it when employees are stressed, overwhelmed and exasperated, but it’s never any excuse to lie and make shit up to someone who is pretty familiar with the whole process. Regardless of their bullshit, I’m through security on my own accord because I’m fucking brilliant. But fuck all this ill timed Mother Nature bullshit.
Month: December 2010
Pimp my netbook: The quest for the appropriate gelaskin
So here’s life in a nutshell – I make tentative plans to go up to Virginia this weekend; see my sister, nephew and brother-in-law, and then go up to NOVA to see my family, and some friends. Elapsed timeframe, would have been three full, maybe four full days, since I wasn’t technically slated to be working anywhere at the time. Apparently, somewhere along the line I forgot that when I make travel plans, work opportunities spring up out of the blue like mummies popping out of sarcophagi, and now my travel plans have been slightly derailed, slightly modified, to mostly omit the whole Richmond part entirely. There will be other opportunities. All this being said, it’s back to WCW for a few more days, and a potential, slightly lengthier opportunity starting next week, if I’m lucky. I’d post the Bret Hart image again, but I didn’t like the overall load time of the animated GIF on my brog.
Since Thanksgiving, I haven’t played Left 4 Dead, or even rogged into my XBOX account. I literally have been playing Final Fantasy Tactics on a regular basis since, and have since gotten my core group of characters to level 99, and am slowly gradually making my way through the storyline, all while completing as many side-quests and missions as possible and growing frustrated with the now-unnecessary random encounters that take no less than 5-15 minutes a piece.
While I’m waiting for my laundry to dry, since if I go downstairs, the Piss1 will inevitably be fired up, and my ass will be planted playing more FFT, I’ve opted to stay up here and actually write; I had some sparks of inspiration over the weekend, stemming from the surprising actual victory of Virginia Tech over Florida State for the ACC championship, but that fizzled out quickly, and I might be a tad burnt out on writing about sports for the interim. So, the topic of the day is that I want to get a gelaskin for my netbook, so that everyone who sees me on it can get an idea of how to prematurely judge me based on my choice of hardware artwork. That being said, it’s been a little more difficult of a selection process than I had imagined; I had almost considered going with one of the pre-made skins, but leave it to me to not be contented by what’s readily available, and desire my own. Although there was a pretty snazzy skin of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night that I’m quite keen on, but that sets me up to be an “artsy” type of person that would likely run into a person who knows way more art history than I ever cared to have paid attention to in school.
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Maybe tomorrow
Ever have one of those scenarios, where we know we’re running out of [insert toiletry] and so we acquire more, for when we inevitably run out? But then, what we have left of said toiletries, seems to last forever, and we’re left wondering when the opportunity will present itself to when we can bust out the new [tube, jar, bottle] and have a fresh new change in the mundane?
I bought a bottle of shampoo and a tube of toothpaste three weeks ago. What seemed to be “hardly any left” of both respective products don’t seem to be running out, no matter how rolled up the tube may be, or how upside down the bottle is. At this point, I just want a change in both, but can’t bring myself to just up and toss the remainder of both, because, that would be wasteful.
Conclusions from World Championship Wrestling #2
For the last seven business days, I was back working at WCW, but this time in the Power Plant, and not for Saturday Night. This was very pleasing to me to simply be back there, and I’m admittedly a little sad that my second go-around is over after just two weeks, and not like the 15-month stint the first time around. But regardless, I enjoyed my time back on familiar grounds again, and who the hell knows what lies ahead for my wacky freelance career that doesn’t seem to end.
But anyway, without giving up too much information, basically, I did a ton of research for pretty much every NCAA school. I’ve learned of schools that I didn’t even know even existed, as well as discovering the various mascots and colors used throughout the country’s vast network of colleges. And here are some conclusions from my recent assignment:
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Grumble grumble
It cost me $41.82 to fill my gas tank today. I haven’t seen a $40+ gas fill up since the gas crisis of ’08. But I guess I should be fortunate that I didn’t have to covertly go out at midnight to get the fuel, so I didn’t have to wait in any egregious lines. But still, in a time when I’m literally scraping by, feeling the noose tightening at all times, and struggling to make ends meet, such a sight is kind of mortifying.
I like cold weather
Not a lot of people do, which is puzzling to me. I hate being hot, which is ironic, considering my love of baseball makes me have to endure 100 degree weather from time to time. But I love that this time of the year, temperatures appropriately drop, and I don’t mind being outside so much. I like the feeling of long sleeves and warm clothing, and the instantaneous warming of stepping inside from the cold. The same cannot be said when we’re all hot, sweaty and miserable feeling going into an air-conditioned structure. But most importantly, one thing I really love about this time of year is when I get to utilize the heated seats in my car, which does an excellent job of fighting off the morning chill.