Archive for category Day to Day
So Yeah…
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on January 5, 2010 4:49 pm
Let’s get on with it already….kinda tired of this place….
Fake New Year’s Wishing
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on January 4, 2010 9:52 am
I LOVE how folks start off with ‘Happy New Year’ or ‘Happy 2010’ before launching into their problem….
Either wish me a Happy New Year because you mean it and move on, or just ask me a question. Don’t sugar coat it….it makes it feel fake.
Anxiety
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on January 3, 2010 8:03 am
it has developed over the years, and has been worse in the last couple especially. I came to realize it about six months ago, and it takes all my willpower to handle it. needless to say it sucks.
Happy New Year
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on January 1, 2010 1:36 am
From Dallas, so I still have 30 minutes, but Happy New Year to all y’all monkeys out there!
And you too Rich!
This is Why I Can’t Have Nice Things
Posted by RnR in Day to Day, Random on December 3, 2009 5:07 pm
This picture shows my cracked and broken soul…..
You see what I did there? 😉
In recent years, and the Wife can attest to this, it has become difficult for me to keep a pair of dress shoes for more than 6-8 months. I am not exactly sure why this only seems to affect dress shoes, but my sneakers (or tennis shoes as the Wife calls them) seem to last forever. It might be the way I sit at work, or the fact that I tend to fidget by moving my legs throughout the day. All I know is that I can put a pair of dress shoes through the ringer! Within two months of purchase they end up needing a good polish, sometimes some coloring as well. By six to eight months the soles are gone. If they make it to a year, I cannot wear them on rainy days, or my feet will be soaked.
I just don’t know. The only pair that ever seemed to hold up well was a pair of Clark’s that the Wife bought me years ago. They made it from about 2004 to 2006. Granted they needed and received much maintenance, and it was only after I was sliding all over the place in them that I finally got rid of them, but they seemed to make it the longest. Haven’t been able to find a suitable pair since.
So the saga will continue, as I, The Destroyer of Shoes, continue to try and find the pair that can handle my sheer awesomeness. Or I could just stop fidgeting….whatever comes first.
One last note, for some reason, the Wife doesn’t think that this pair of shoes that i own are suitable for the office. I tend to disagree. 😉
The holidays
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on November 24, 2009 4:49 pm
In the past several years, many factors have coalesced at the same time continuously to make me apprehensive to the holiday season. A bit of work, a bit of family, a bunch of the blatant materialism. It becomes tiring. Add to that dealing with the general air of entitlement and grumpiness displayed by others, it just makes me want to hole up in my apartment and come back out sometime in March.
What happened to just getting together for food and spirits; eating, laughing and drinking; making merriment?
I don’t know how to find a solution to it. On the one hand, I’d like nothing more then to tell everyone to go take a long walk off a short pier. However, they’ll end up taking it personally. On the other hand, I can bust my ass to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, none of them will be, as I doubt any of them can be happy with my effort and can only find happiness in what they want FROM me. This leads to a reiteration of the sleeping until March idea….but then they’d be mad at me for not calling.
I’m mostly just rambling, and letting this all out in “stream of conscious”.
I really just wish I didn’t feel so miserable during this time of the year anymore….
Warm Fuzzy Feeling
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on November 20, 2009 10:34 am
It’s always a good sign of high quality craftsmanship and good business decisions when the new utility that you are required to use for your job, which also is used for tracking your work, crashes when you try to use it every time.
Is it me?
Posted by RnR in Day to Day on November 19, 2009 2:09 pm
If the people you work with are making a procedure overly complicated, and you ask the question (because it seems like common sense to you) as to why this is being made so complicated, is the correct response from said co-workers supposed to make you feel like you are the asshole?
I think I now know what the kid who noticed the emperor wasn’t wearing any cloths must have felt like….