Life is filled with disappointment. Waking up and realizing the young lady from the intoxicated night before is actually a moustache bearing man named Phil could indeed be the start of a very disturbing day. Possibly even more disturbing if your name was Phil as well, or perhaps that he was also your 3rd grade math teacher. All of these things ( Read more... )

And with that the King of inflammatory statements, a veritable hemorrhoidal blight on the backside of social gatherings everywhere, has struck again. This may be why I find myself invited to less and less parties, and even fewer “Oh we must do this again.” open invitations. However I wish to explain, and as I am writing this into my journal there ( Read more... )

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I would like to say that it is because I have been busy looking for another job, or perhaps volunteering my time to help people less fortunate than me, or best of all I won the lottery and have spent the past month lying naked and drunk in the back room of some exotic strip club loosening the restrictions on ( Read more... )

Ah! The great American tradition that is Superbowl. Beer drinking, festivity, restaurant closing, the bars are packed, a hushed silence of expectation descends on the land. Oh yeah and some sort of football game is played in between commercials. I love this country, and mostly for the wrong reasons.

I worked a shift as a waiter tonight for ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when I’m sitting listening to the drivel of conversation that leaks out of some of my regular customer’s mouths, I have to wonder:

“How did these people end up on such a different path than mine.?”

What choices did I make or perhaps not make that have made my life so fundamentally different from theirs? I know that some of the people who ( Read more... )

I hate Christmas. Actually let me rephrase that, I am indifferent to Christmas. What I have come to despise is the automatic assumption from at least 8 people a day that I should be enjoying Christmas.

“But it’s Christmas. How can you not be having fun?”

This question, which seems to occur more often than a fart at a bean factory, is the source ( Read more... )

So having returned home after attending the OTT in Arizona I have worked 23 hours in two days and magnified the effects of the sore throat and general cold shit that I picked up traveling. I have the next two days off however, and barring any unforeseen wine tastings lurking on the horizon, will spend them recouperating and thinking about ditching ( Read more... )

One of the most tedious and pointless aspects of my job is the accounting. I do the “books” for the servers. I make sure that what they turn in is correct and that the money they owe us or we owe them all balances out. I have this task because I am decent at math. I would like to say I am good at math, but I dated someone who is good at math and ( Read more... )

I swear there is some weird bent to the universe that has allowed me to continue living life the way I lead it. Well, not so much lead....more of floating aimlessly with the occasional poke here and there. I have spent a good part of my life doing things that should have cost me limbs or a darned sight more blood and scar tissue than they did. (See ( Read more... )

Today stank. Really stank. A horrid day that should have been slept through. Almost got T-boned on the way to work. It's amazing....it rains two thirds of the year in Seattle and still very few peple have figured out how to drive in the rain. The bar fridge was down when i got in, an extra hour to set up, cool beer and wine with ice biuckets and ( Read more... )