I need my shine back

Not moonshine either, though I do take donations.

I spent the day with a sharp young lad who was all of 32 years old. He was proud (rightfully so) of his accomplishments in what is a relatively short period of time in which to become a manager. Being a year older I [...]

The fruit which hangs low

I’ve never worked hard core sales before. Technically I’m not now. I’m salary, my sales force is straight commission. That’s a tough gig, any way you slice it. You could be selling jugs of water in the desert and still hit hard times.

Today was a crash course in training. I’m [...]

Tomorrow is the big day.

I start At LZY Boy tomorrow. I’m more agitated than anything. Anxious to be in there, worried about what I will find, excited by the potentialities. All that jazz. I’m so many different emotions I don’t really feel any one, kind of an amped up neutral.

For 2 days I have been [...]

Keep on keepin’ on, Brokaw

Sorry, but I most indulge one of my anger driven rants yet again. As a news connoisseur I am very critical of what makes it to the TV screen. I’m not talking about what makes it onto Entertainment Tonight or other fake news infotainment shows. No, I’m talking about supposed real news [...]

Recent forays into that which I call tastefull (and you might call shite)

The wife thinks I should post something positive. I considered that statement for a while and realized I am a condescending shit, and that I tap my creative spicket while being so. That doesn’t sound like a good thing, but it is what it is. Anyway, one positive I can write is about recent purchases [...]

Pockets of indegestion

Someone recommended Hot Pockets Minni pockets -I think they are called peperoni bites or pizza bites. This person so loved these gastronomical fetes of accompli that he could do nothing but sing their praises. He spoke of them in almost reverent tones, extolling everything from their price (how inexpensive they are!), their bite [...]

Another slice from the loaf that is my past

We all have secrets. It is the nature of human beings to keep a part of ourselves hidden away. Families are no different, but what if there was a spy in your family? A turncoat that spread the family dirt at every opportunity. That was me. That’s still me. Here’s [...]

I made furniture!

I collect wooden wine crates. I like boxes in general and wine crates have character, are multifunctional and just neat in general. I’m not a big wine fan, I just love the wooden box they come in.

So I have a bunch of these boxes. Most are full of books, but I also [...]

BOYSCOUT LOST IN WOODS FOR THREE DAYS WHERE HE POSSIBLY FACED ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH BY RAMPAGING BEARS AND NEARLY ARTIC WEATHER. 24 HOURS OF WALL TO WALL COVERAGE TO FOLLOW!

The kid was found. Following this was some of the worst non-informative footage was displayed for hours on end. Kids getting lost in the woods are the next kids falling down a well. Russia has started to sever its relationship with Iran -which means Iran has no one to build it’s nuclear [...]

Allow myself to explain.. myself.

I have painted a bleak picture of my childhood, and appropriately so. My ‘story’ is something you might see on Lifetime or, as I use to say –an ABC After School Special, the kind I used to watch when I was a kid (many starring a young Jodie Foster, go figure). I am [...]