Enough, already
It’s 0536 as I sit here and begin typing this.
I’ve slept maybe half an hour all night. This isn’t due to my usual sleep problems which were well documented here, and here, among other places. No, this time it’s because of the damn heat and humidity. I kept a fan blowing directly on me all night while I tossed, turned, and played games on my cell phone. I’ve given up for the time being, and have decided to busy myself updating this here page at which you are looking.
I’ve had enough of the heat. I’ve had enough of the humidity. According to my iGoogle™ page, and the Weather Channel application in my phone, it’s supposed to at least be raining right now, if not storming. Well, where is it? I could use some cooling rain about now. Summer is over, if not in date, at least in theory, and there is no excuse anymore for this steam bath I’m experiencing. A man shouldn’t have to drink a retro cola at this hour in an attempt to make himself comfortable.
I gave up on playing games on my phone around 0500, and just lay there in the bed, thinking. I’m not depressed, nor am I in a bad mood by any means, but there are a lot of things right now that I am tired of, and it’s been a good while since I’ve let go and had myself an old-fashioned rant here on this blog. My last entry was a rant, but it was about one specific thing. The heat and the humidity were only the beginning of this one, folks. Strap yourselves down; this may be a bumpy one.
The whole Ground Zero Mosque thing. I’ve been racking my head over this ever since it started. I’m not a Republican, and I’m certainly not a Democrat, as I’ve stated many times previously. What that means, boiled down, is that I don’t have either conservatives or liberals telling me what to think; I have to do my thinking for myself. Religious freedom for all, or a slap in the face for Americans? A monument to a terrorist victory, or oppression to Moslems? I don’t care about the arguments anymore. I don’t care that out of the 3,000 plus deaths on September 11, 2001, many were also Islam. NObody should have died that day for that reason. Many of them were Islam? They didn’t mind dying for that cause, from what I know of them and their religion. So, I’ve made my decision. For what it’s worth, I don’t want the damn thing there. I know it’s out of my hands, but mine is a strong NO vote on the construction. That’s it. End of discussion.
Onward and downward.
The economy and the unemployment rate. I spent 7 months of 2009 being unemployed. I tell that to anybody and everybody, ad nauseum, every time the topic is brought up. I landed a great job about a year ago, the best job I’ve ever had. I lost it about a month and a half later due to circumstances that may have been under my control, but weren’t, for whatever reason. I found another job almost immediately, and I’ve been working at it ever since. I make a decent wage, and we were recently given a raise. Great stuff. The problem is, even with the decent wage, I still don’t get enough hours to make my current ends meet, let alone get caught up at all on stuff that fell behind in 2009. I’m looking for additional work to supplement what I have now, and not finding any. I’m trying to advance at my current workplace, to no avail. I’m currently looking into schooling to help me advance, and having trouble with that simply because I can’t do basic math to save my life or anybody else’s, so schooling is on hold for the time being. I’m sick to damn death of being flat broke the day after payday every two weeks and not even having made a dent in any of my bills. I know a lot of people who are having similar problems. A lot of my own problems in this area are due to unfortunate decisions I made when I was younger; I don’t dispute this. I was incredibly stupid when I was younger, and didn’t really care about how my decisions affected me or anybody else. But now that I’m honestly trying to do better, it doesn’t seem to make a bit of difference.
NOT SO QUICK EDIT:
I deleted the final portion of this entry. I was tired when i wrote it, and after a nap, realized that it probably isn't the best way to go about this. I just know that the wrong person is going to get the wrong idea, and I don't feel like dealing with that right now.
Self-censorship. Gotta love it.
I’ve slept maybe half an hour all night. This isn’t due to my usual sleep problems which were well documented here, and here, among other places. No, this time it’s because of the damn heat and humidity. I kept a fan blowing directly on me all night while I tossed, turned, and played games on my cell phone. I’ve given up for the time being, and have decided to busy myself updating this here page at which you are looking.
I’ve had enough of the heat. I’ve had enough of the humidity. According to my iGoogle™ page, and the Weather Channel application in my phone, it’s supposed to at least be raining right now, if not storming. Well, where is it? I could use some cooling rain about now. Summer is over, if not in date, at least in theory, and there is no excuse anymore for this steam bath I’m experiencing. A man shouldn’t have to drink a retro cola at this hour in an attempt to make himself comfortable.
I gave up on playing games on my phone around 0500, and just lay there in the bed, thinking. I’m not depressed, nor am I in a bad mood by any means, but there are a lot of things right now that I am tired of, and it’s been a good while since I’ve let go and had myself an old-fashioned rant here on this blog. My last entry was a rant, but it was about one specific thing. The heat and the humidity were only the beginning of this one, folks. Strap yourselves down; this may be a bumpy one.
The whole Ground Zero Mosque thing. I’ve been racking my head over this ever since it started. I’m not a Republican, and I’m certainly not a Democrat, as I’ve stated many times previously. What that means, boiled down, is that I don’t have either conservatives or liberals telling me what to think; I have to do my thinking for myself. Religious freedom for all, or a slap in the face for Americans? A monument to a terrorist victory, or oppression to Moslems? I don’t care about the arguments anymore. I don’t care that out of the 3,000 plus deaths on September 11, 2001, many were also Islam. NObody should have died that day for that reason. Many of them were Islam? They didn’t mind dying for that cause, from what I know of them and their religion. So, I’ve made my decision. For what it’s worth, I don’t want the damn thing there. I know it’s out of my hands, but mine is a strong NO vote on the construction. That’s it. End of discussion.
Onward and downward.
The economy and the unemployment rate. I spent 7 months of 2009 being unemployed. I tell that to anybody and everybody, ad nauseum, every time the topic is brought up. I landed a great job about a year ago, the best job I’ve ever had. I lost it about a month and a half later due to circumstances that may have been under my control, but weren’t, for whatever reason. I found another job almost immediately, and I’ve been working at it ever since. I make a decent wage, and we were recently given a raise. Great stuff. The problem is, even with the decent wage, I still don’t get enough hours to make my current ends meet, let alone get caught up at all on stuff that fell behind in 2009. I’m looking for additional work to supplement what I have now, and not finding any. I’m trying to advance at my current workplace, to no avail. I’m currently looking into schooling to help me advance, and having trouble with that simply because I can’t do basic math to save my life or anybody else’s, so schooling is on hold for the time being. I’m sick to damn death of being flat broke the day after payday every two weeks and not even having made a dent in any of my bills. I know a lot of people who are having similar problems. A lot of my own problems in this area are due to unfortunate decisions I made when I was younger; I don’t dispute this. I was incredibly stupid when I was younger, and didn’t really care about how my decisions affected me or anybody else. But now that I’m honestly trying to do better, it doesn’t seem to make a bit of difference.
NOT SO QUICK EDIT:
I deleted the final portion of this entry. I was tired when i wrote it, and after a nap, realized that it probably isn't the best way to go about this. I just know that the wrong person is going to get the wrong idea, and I don't feel like dealing with that right now.
Self-censorship. Gotta love it.
posted by Bill | 06:47
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