1. When John F. Kennedy was shot? (11/22/1963 ( Read more... )

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him." - from Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood ( Read more... )

Today would have been my mother's 54th birthday. For anyone who doesn't know already, she died last October from bacterial meningitis. I had warned my boss that I might be a little out of sorts today, which I tried to keep to a minimum. Actually, being at work and running around helped take my mind off things a bit. I talked to my dad and ( Read more... )

I think I've been sober for too long. I'm beginning to remember my dreams when I wake up, and some of them have been rather unsettling. Not in a nightmarish kind of way, more in a Transmetropolitan, futursadistic manner....on mushrooms. At least work has been better of late, now my manager is pushing for me to complete the hours and hours of ( Read more... )

Today was much better. The workload was similar, but my spirits were up, and my boss, my first shift counterpart, and I had some good discussions as to ways to improve workflow. We all realize that as daunting as things seem now, they are still far better than they were 6 months ago ( Read more... )

Work has been interminable of late. Between the remodeling, preparations for the audit and dealing with a payroll shortage, everyone has been on a rather short fuse. I finally had time to sit down with my boss today and let out what I felt was going wrong, and what needed to be done about it. Well, not exactly sit down, we pow-wowed over about a ( Read more... )

they started painting my store today. between having to move machines out of the way, deal with dust from the sanding of the walls, and the smell of paint filling the store, it wasn't that bad. Okay, so when you add in the fact that it was just two of us working from 6pm on, maybe it was that bad. In fact, were it not for the breaks I took to ( Read more... )

tonight has been quite an eventful night ( Read more... )

I dreamt last night that my high school best friend came to visit me. In the dream, she and her husband just randomly dropped by at about 3 in the morning to see how I was doing. We chatted for a while, and I gave her a tour of my apartment, a first floor three room place, which to my surprise was remarkably well kept. The visit seemed to be ( Read more... )

Today has been a wonderful day. I found a nice comic shop a couple blocks from home, and picked up graphic novel reissues of the first third of Transmetropolitan. I went to practice on my turntables when I got home and saw that two of my recently ordered records have arrived (a couple days ago apparently), including a nice scouse remix of Blur's ( Read more... )