today, an old-timer at my site yelled at another guy, "mattie, you're a fuckin' imbecile." i had to walk away because i couldn't stop laughing. he said it with total defeat in his voice, is what i guess made it so humorous to me ( Read more... )

i worked today because i need the money that working saturday will bring. the super on today's job was french canadian. he was also what we in the business call a "ball-buster". and i quote ( Read more... )

today while i was walking down one of the cross-streets to the next avenue over, i went by a man working in his front yard with some electric wire casing. by the garage, there was a little kid and a blonde cocker spaniel. the kid smiled at me and walked down the driveway to where their winnebago was parked in the street. as i walked further down ( Read more... )

i think i may have a job soon. today i had one of the best interviews ever. the two people i sat down with seemed to like me and what i had to say. i won't go into particulars, but they seem like a very employee-oriented company. there is another interview with a different place that i must attend to tomorrow. this one promises to be strange. like ( Read more... )

i really appreciate people who are interested in/pay attention to/take the time to notice birds. i think it says something about the person. perhaps bird people are on some kind of similar wavelength. admittedly, i am not much on water fowl, except when they land in my backyard. my favorites are the little fellows, probably because there is such an ( Read more... )

here are some pictures of the ducks that were hanging out in the rainy pool cover back in april. i finally just pulled them off my much-neglected camera. these photos don't look so good because it was a gray day and i was shooting from a distance through a screen. and my photo editing skills are sad.


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tomorrow is officially find-a-job-any-damn-job day. i've been toying with the idea of teaching english in japan. my brother and the mrs. really took to this idea when i unveiled it on their visit. they want to head to osaka for my brother's next assignment. my problem (because there must always be one) is that i have bills to take care of before i ( Read more... )

the internet is a useful tool if you want to discover how depressingly and frustratingly predictable people can be sometimes.

not you though.

i should not be spending any money, but recent purchases include:

two pairs of jeans
a pair of shorts
puma running sneakers
jeeves and the tie that binds, p.g. wodehouse
lord brocktree, brian jacques
the escapist, trade paperback, volume one
the black babies, devendra banhart