So I was talking to this guy yesterday.  He’s one of my semi-regular customers.  He’s a weird guy.  Not like, Jeffery Dalmer weird, but just kind of off.  Anyway, his carpet cleaning business has gone to shit in light of the recent housing downturn, and he decided to pick up some extra money as a limo driver.  Apparently he has done this before, ( Read more... )

 
The other week, before Christmas had really come and gone, Lesley and I went out to lunch in Downtown Sacramento at a place called Hamburger Mary’s.  Of course, I don’t beef in hamburgers, so I had a bocca burger.  One thing about Hamburger Mary’s is they have the most extensive list of burgers in the greater Sacramento area, and one can ( Read more... )

 
I need to go off on bit of a rant here.

Maybe I’m wrong, and if I am wrong, than this is something for all the computer geeks to work on for the retail cash registers.  All I’m saying is that if my fiancé purchases something on her American Express card(but our account), and it’s the wrong items, and I wish to return this item and have the amount ( Read more... )

 
It seems that no matter how early I get up in the morning, I can’t really get going on my day until after 7 am.  I always say I’m going to get up, and start working.  Meaning either go straight to the gym, or do some writing, or study some homework, but inevitably, I end up putzing (is that spelled right?) about, and not really doing anything ( Read more... )

 
Okay, so I haven’t written an entry in awhile, and I’m feeling it.  I find that keeping a journal of sorts, even if the thoughts are disconnected and senseless, is a form of meditation that I need in my life, and although I like staying busy, I do not enjoy not having the time for the “brain dump”.

I’m back in school, and this, theoretically is my ( Read more... )

 
School sucks.  I’ve really grown tired of not having any free time.  Wasn’t Memorial Day just like a week ago?  Hopefully, this will be the last of the semesters of my time being totally eaten away.  Honestly, there is almost comfort in the last semester anyway, as I won’t be in the midst of any huge life change for a few more months.  Come ( Read more... )

 
I guess I’ll give myself just a few moments to bust out some random stream of consciousness riffs.  Yesterday was slow at work.  Barely any money.  I hope that that does not become the norm.  I haven’t seen Joe Powell in a couple of days.  That’s a good thing.  He drinks, or does some sort of drug, way too much.  He’s just so out of it.  I guess ( Read more... )

 
We have a house guest this week.  Well, I guess we have two house guests.  Lesley’s friend Michelle and her dog, Tia.  Michelle is a grad school student at UC Davis, and her dog…her dog is a Yorkie with too much energy and ear splitting yip.  As Michelle lives in Davis, a town whose rental units are run by slum lords, as they are in every college ( Read more... )

When I left this story last, my buddy Kevin and I had just left Mumm Winery in Napa, California.  I now had a bottle of fancy champagne and a diamond ring, with no real plan of how I was going to Lesley to marry me.  The morning, day, and afternoon had almost happened is a daze.  Maybe daze isn’t quite the correct way to describe it.  I had been ( Read more... )

I had wanted to write yesterday about the ending section of the engagement story, but I really want to do it right, and yesterday there just wasn’t the time.  Isn’t that some sort of anthem as you get older?  There’s just no time, anymore.  I can remember having more time than I knew what to do with.  I remember being in college, and off for the ( Read more... )