http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQI0R_87Afc&feature=related

It's hard to express what emotion this song makes me feel, but I think I like to feel it.

 Day One in the field as a utility locater was to be honest pretty rough. After three weeks of pretty intensive training it's surprising how many things you can learn only by going out and doing. It doesn't hurt that I'm nervous about doing a good job and it seems like the harder I try to keep up the more mistakes I seem to be making ( Read more... )

 Finally and after many delays I am gainfully employed once more! I now work for Locating Incorporated, a company which locates and marks underground untilities. It'll be three weeks of training before I'm trusted with actual work, and from what it looks like there is going to be a lot to learn. After more than a decade in the hardware business it' ( Read more... )

 One month into unemployment land

Sitting around without a job is driving me crazy

Most people are offering work so bad it makes better financial sense to just stay home

Interview on Thursday-the people were very vague about what their company does. I suspect either telemarketing or multi-level marketing scheme. Going to go anyway because I don't have ( Read more... )

 So in case anyone hasn't heard, I lost my job on Tuesday. They eliminated a position in my department and have nothing else to offer me. Now mind, I was suspicious about something like this coming for a while, and it's business. It's not personal, there's no malice in throwing one more out of the lifeboat ( Read more... )

Radio Radio-Elvis Costello

Stand!-Sly and the Family Stone

Aqualung-Jethro Tull

Star Fruits Surf Rider-Cornelius

Come Together-The Beatles

Territorial Pissing-Nirvana

Try a Little Tenderness-Otis Redding (live version!)

Hands on the Wheel-Willie Nelson

Roundabout-Yes

Rock and Roll Suicide-David Bowie

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I went and saw Coraline (in 3D of course) on Friday. Saw it again on Sunday with my friend Pat. It's weird how something that's essentially a very simple fairy tale can have such an effect. I think it was the best time I've had at the movies since I saw Death Proof. It's been a while since I've seen something and felt like "I need to run a game. I  ( Read more... )

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Crazy

At the end of next month I'll be one year out from the end of chemotherapy. Chemo is hard on your body, as hard as any disease you might happen to get. I still get tired easily and my mind is not as sharp as I remember it being ( Read more... )