I'm an asshole

Well that's what I said I was. But, I only speak the truth...well what I see as the truth. Some people don't like that, so I got to watch out who I talk to. I was talking to a good buddy / co-worker just about some shit going around the office. That was when I said, "Damn, I sound like an asshole." The reply to that was, "Better to be a truthful asshole, than a lieing asshole." So there you have it.

I'm an asshole, but I wont lie to you :P

That came right after I got asked if I could take the bag of shredded paper out, and I said "no" and walked away. Now, for the longer version of the above story.

The time: about 1535 (3:35pm PST)
The Place: The office

So I'm sitting in the break room drinking some water out of a waxed paper cup. By the water cooler. You know, shoot the shit say hi that king of junk. When she came in!!! It was the the phone answerer chica, no biggie. She was just passing along the message that, I'll call her, Lara wanted to see me when I was done with my break. So to that I continued to sit on my butt in the break area. She did say "after your break" after all. Well it wasn't 5 min. later that I got a call on my 2-way (walkie talkie kinda dealie) from the guy that works next to her. He said that she wanted to see me.

For those of us playing along at home, this makes 2 people that told me that she was looking for me. So I thought it was something important. I got up from my seat and went to see what she wanted.

I go back there, she is siting sideways in her office chair. Leaning up against the back of it. All cute like, or trying to at least. Well that is when she asked if I could take a bag of shredded paper out. Ok so it was full, I'll give her that much, but holy cow! it is simple shredded paper not even that big of a bag. A kinda small trash can full of shredded paper.

Now the first that went through my mind was, "holy fuck, she isn't trying to pawn off her work on to me and think she is going to get away with it because she's a girl...!" She is only 19, and this was at work so I didn't say that. Just wanted to ;)

What I did end up saying was short, simple, and to the point. "No."

Then turned around and walked out.

The lady that sits across from her said, "well that wasn't nice." These shoes just kept on walkin out.

When I seen my co-worker buddy of mine, I told him this story and he just laughed.

About 30 min later the guy that I've been calling Mike walks out to the warehouse and tells me that I owe her an apology and need to take a bag of trash out. I asked him if he was kidding. He said "no, why?" or something like that. So I told him the story...

He said that, "she had some dental work done and wasn't feeling good. "
Me, "well if she isn't feeling good enough to take a 3 pound bag of shredded paper out, she shouldn't be at work."
Mike, "So are you going to apologize?"
me, "Fuck that!" I really did say "Fuck that" to a supervisor. I so rock!

He though they were just joking with him, he didn't really know that it happened and that I really did say "no" to a girl.


Mike thought that I would have been nicer, being that she's a girl and all. I just told him that I'm equal and would have said the same to you. In fact I did tell him that I "[didn't] like doing bull shit work" and I was still a temp when I said it too.

So yeah, I'm an asshole :P

The guy that paged me on the 2-way ended up taking the 2 bags out, because he is such a nice guy.

Now if I was already back there, and she would going to help me and not just sit on her ass. Then yes, I would have helped her. But when she had 2 people looking for me and then just sit there and point to it. Yeah.....Fuck that!

Lack of sleep FTW

FTW = For The Win...who'da thunk it?!

Anyways, about 4 and a half hours. weeeeeeeeeee

That's what I get for not rolling out of bed 'till noonish.

I can't wait

it hasn't even been a week that I came up with the idea that I was going to go to that school. Now I can't even wait to go. I don't think I have ever felt so good about something, not even the Air Force. I just want to make sure I do something "cool" with my life. I don't want to just sit around and watch life go on by. Funny how I spent my weekend being a hermit doing just that.

I remember talking to my friend over in Reno this past weekend about it. He said, "Cutting metal with fire, how manly is that.....and you're doing it underwater!"

WoW...if you like college football, I just watched the Boise st. Fiesta Bowl. Good stuff.

I want to go.
I want my car paid off.
I want out of here.
I want to do something with my life.
I want to make something out of my self!

oh to be a hermit

So I was asked why I like being a hermit.

I'm sure I can give you some reason, or maybe they are excuses?

It is simple, I'll give you that much.

It doesn't mean that I don't like to go out. Y'all know I've had some very full weekends these past two. The only thing I've done this weekend has been playing City of Heroes, washed clothes, oh I did get my El Camino running better than it was. That was good. It ended up being a $80 fix and not $200 plus. So I got all dirty and banged up my finger. Oh yeah I ended up cooking a total of 6 hot dogs, a cup of soup, and a few other little things.

no beer or vodka or anything else. Just Pepsi and some milk.

so yeah, I know it's not much of a post. It hasn't been much of a weekend.

YaY for Summit Racing

So the parts that I ordered for my El Camino came in. I didn't order much, just some new spark plugs and spark plug wires. So now I'm off to get a hair cut (yes...just one...har de har har) and then I am going to my Grammy's.

So far that is all that I have planned this weekend and I like it. I even had to take out some doing nothing in order to find time to do this.

I'm going to do it!

I'm going do dive right in (pun intended) to underwater welding. I found the school I want. I even got a call from them today. There is just some stuff to fill out to see if they will even take me. If all goes well I plan on getting my Associate of Science degree. Seeing that they only have classes twice a week, I'll be able to work part time. Not any of this working 47 hour weeks and trying to take a night class bull shit. It works out even better, because I was starting to look for a new part-time job so I could start taking classes during the day. Now I don't have to do that...just yet.

So right now I'm thinking sometime around March or April I'll end up moving down to LA. That's only 400-500 miles ('m guessing), no biggie :P I should have my car paid for by then. Then I'd just have to worry about rent and stuff. This might just work out just fine.

I think sometime in February I'm going to take a drive down and check out the school. I'm thinking on a three day weekend and take a day off...weeeee four day weekend!

So I just gotta tell my would be roomie, that unless she plans on moving to LA (yeah, I really don't think so). I don't think we're going to be able to be roomies.

It has been almost 2 years that I have been out of the Air Force, it's time for a change...

There I was, getting my clothes out of the dryer

So I was almost ready to get some sleep. When I remembered that I had to clean the junk (clean clothes) off of my bed. The only thing is what I found out when I went in to get my clothes out of the dryer.

Well the first thing that shocked me was the fact that there was someone else in there. They were at the computer looking at someones pictures. Then my brother turned around. And what is that in his ear?!?!! My brother, who is going to be 20 in may, pierced his ear. I took all that I had not to call him an idiot. Oh...but his "potential roommate" had one too. So my brother who has no income of any kind is going to rent my parents house. I can only see bad things coming from this. ONLY bad things.

But hey, at least I know I will never be that big of a mooch on my family. I wouldn't be able to sleep with my self at night if I was.

Called in Sick

Yeah it's not that I wasn't able to go to work today. I'm sure I could have dragged my self on in. I just knew what I was going to be stuck doing today. I just knew what I was going to be stuck doing today and that is installing window blinds in some brand new (ie: not heated) apartments. That was a big turn off for me to want to work today.

So I called in sick and didn't get out of bed till 1:00pm!

I think I might be coming down with something

But I'm not to sure what it is I got. So here is a list I came up with.

• Bird Flu
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• leprosy
• Chicken Pox
• Small Pox
• Mad Cow
• black plague
• pink eye
• brown eye......woah.

I think that just about does it. If I can think of anything else I'll be sure to post it on up. Yeah I'm in bad shape. or something like that.

On a better note though, I am buying some parts for my El Camino.

Texas, Hold 'em?

So I made it back. About 550 mile round trip. It took about 5 hours to get there, and only 4 and a half coming back. I didn't leave till a little after 1pm Saturday afternoon. That means that it got dark on me while I was in the mountains. Yeah, I had a little fun with black ice, but at least I was going slow and so nothing happened. I was also taking my time going up, so I stopped to take some pictures of the view from the road.

The last time I seen my friend was the Warped Tour of 2005, was on the 4th of July. I can't even remember when the last time I seen the rest of him family. It is cool knowing someone for that long and the rest of their family too.

So Saturday night we just kicked back. Went to the casino had 2 beers did some bullshitin' then ended up watching the Night at the Museum. After that we just headed back to his casa.

So that's all for Saturday now on to Sunday.

For breakfast we just wanted something nice and simple. We ended up going to IHOP. It wasn't that bad, right on par for IHOP meals. Then back to his 'rents house and watched some movies.

well lets fast forward to later that night...

We ended up going to the Carson Valley Inn. Well, every time we go up there that is were we go. We get there around 6:00, play some video keno / poker. I hate video slots. I spend enough time in front of a computer monitor at home I don't do the same then stick money into it too. Long story short...I put in 60-80 between a few different machines. I even put in $20 in a nickle machine and couldn't even get the cocktail waitress to come by so I could get my damn drink. My friend on the other hand...I think he won$400-$600. I know he got $400 sitting at the machine right next to me when I couldn't get the waitress. So, that put a crimp on my night so far and it wasn't even 7:00 yet.

7:00 rolls on by and we have dinner with his sister and brother-in-law (see I know his whole family just about). His dad ends up getting the dinner comped, so that's all good.

Oh and Sunday night I was planning on just drinking beer, only it didn't work out that way. I didn't even order one beer. I was drinking Grey Goose and Red Bull. That's about an $6-8 drink if you order it at the bar. I was just tippin' the waitress. I think I must have had 6 of them through out the night.

Well I was kinda bummed out by not winning, so my friend gave me $100. So I was going to use that as my buy-in for when we went down to the poker room. Keep in mind I never played Texas hold-em before, let alone any card game for that matter.

Well, I ended up doing a lot better than I thought I would. I must have been down there for 4 hours or so. I was down there to see the ball drop and everything. The 4 of us started off playing at the same time. My friend even had to buy some more chips, then just got up and left with no chips. Me on the other hand, I was one of the last people at that table and had to move to another full table. Shortly after that Nate (my friends name...got tired of typing "my friend") came back down to see how I was doing and if I was ready to go. Well I walked away from the take with $149 in chips. So I gave him his $100 back and all was good.

So all in all I ended up having a very good night. So much better than last year was.




p.s.:My new year resolution was to not lose at poker, so far it seems to have worked.