I got laid off on Thursday. As always it is part of my job and as always it sucks because it puts me back in the hole financially. We can not get out of the hole until a real good job with overtime comes up. The good part about my job ending was the hope that such a job with overtime could be around the corner. Such a job could be coming in the ( Read more... )

Now I know I just got done saying that I wanted to move my family to the Pacific Northwest. It is true that I do but I have this whole big pile of things to consider first ( Read more... )

i have been away from my livejournal. It is weird feeling like such a writer yet i rarely manage to put pen(finger) to paper(keyboard ( Read more... )

Life is like a box. Life is not a box of chocolates to me. Life might sometimes give us chocolate but if all it gives is chocolate then you have to think in terms of the effect that chocolate alone could have. The health issue and the simple fact that you will get sick of chocolate before long. To me if life is a box of chocolates then it gives ( Read more... )

Another weekend is all but over and the sadness descends upon the house. The countdown to the weekend begins once more ( Read more... )

You know there are all these big changes and subtle changes and then there is so much that never changes or at least never appears to change. I have been through many changes in the last few years and when I think about them all it is really very amazing. If I could go back to certain moments in fairly recent history I would never believe some ( Read more... )

Lately the overwhelming feeling is exhaustion. Working in the intense heat is a killer. People assume parents of newborn babies are sleepy from getting up with the baby. For me it is just work. My wife is great and takes care of the baby while I sleep ( Read more... )

I was painting some pipe flanges that had to be done by the end of the day. I had to go and mix some more paint up and so had to walk way over from 4B to 5A where the paint was. My foreman calls me and I answer. He says "where you at?" I told him and he hung up on me. So I am wondering what happened and then my wife phones me to tell me that ( Read more... )

So I was reading an article about the victims in the Norway terror attack and I started to get jealous of them. Not jealous of the fact that they died of course. I just could not help but think about the fact that this was a group of people who were at least on the same book if not the exact same page politically speaking. They mixed with each ( Read more... )

Sometimes there is so much going on in my life(or at least in my head) that I have no clue where to begin or even if I should bother trying. Today was a bad day really. Worse for my wife. More frustration and worry than anything but you don`t need that ( Read more... )