The Cubs won yesterday which means that for the first time in my
lifetime, they will have consecutive winning seasons. Its about damn
time! This year has been weird, fun, but not as fun as last year. Last
year at this time, I knew they were going to win the division and go to
the playoffs and knew they had a really good chance of winning it all.
This year, I’m not convinced they will even go to the playoffs, and
also think they will fail miserably in the playoffs. I guess we just
have to wait and see.
Month: September 2004
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Well, another card game at Scott’s. I arrived shortly after 8 in the
PM. It would have been sooner, but I took a wrong turn and it delayed
me by about 10 minutes. Anywho, I was the first one there. The plan was
to grill for a while and then start playing. Scott made burgers,
chicken legs, chicken breast, steak stir-fry, and hot dogs which he
claimed were the best he ever had. He said they were Scott Peterson
dogs. Its actually a real brand, and has nothing to do with THAT Scott
Peterson. They were very good. Even better than the Jefferey Dahmer
Dogs. After a while other people started to show up, including a guy
that used to work at AAA who I really didn’t care for too much. This,
as it turns out, was a problem for me, because I don’t like him very
much, I wanted to beat him even more than anybody else there.
We got started about 9:30ish.
There were 7 of us playing and the buy in was $15. I think I won the
2nd hand. Things were much different this time. I just didn’t seem to
have it tonight. The guy Jeff that had won one of the other tournaments
and usually does fairly good, was the first one out. Another guy,
Chris, was next. I was getting my ass kicked, but hanging in there by
the skin of my fucking teeth. I just couldn’t get a good enough hand
that would allow me to stay in. I tried waiting around to see all the
cards on several hands, but things just weren’t working out for me. I
wasn’t playing smart. I wasn’t paying attention to what othere people
had, and I should have been. I wanted to beat the guy I didn’t like so
bad, that it wound up being a distraction. About 11:30, I got up to get
some water. I grabbed a burger while I was up. I came back, and they
had dealt the next hand. I had to put in a minimum ante of $4, which
was just about half of my money. I knew that I would not be able to
keep up with everybody in the hand, so I looked at my cards (I had a
King and an Ace) and decided that they were good enough to go all
in……………at that point though, I didn’t have much of a choice.
For the remainder of the hand, nobody else raised, leading me to
believe that they didn’t have anything. I couldn’t be anymore wrong.
The hippie lookin’ dude next to me had a pair of 7s. I was done. I
finished in 5th place, my worst showing yet, at least in Scott’s
tournaments. I stayed for a while and watched the remaining 4 play. I
decided that it probably was not wise for me to play another game, what
with my not working and all, so I left, disappointed in my poor play. -
I was riding my exercise bike today trying to think of what I could
have for breakfast, when I came up with a very unhealthy but tasty (and
that is the key here, right?) idea: Cookie Crisp, with Hershey’s
Chocolate Syrup! Upon eating, I poured a bowl of Cookie Crisp, and pour
the chocolate syrup over the top of it, then poured the milk, and added
more syrup. Holy shit, it was really really good. Wait til John hears
this idea, he is going to love it. Imagine the possibilities: Chocolate
covered Count Chocula. Smores. Frosted Flakes. Cocco Puffs. Oh, I sure
hope this doesn’t give me Diabetes. -
Woke up and went for a run. I exercised for almost an hour, considering
everything. Being off, I should be able to get into shape pretty
quickly, especially since I don’t eat nearly as bad as I used to.
After a while I called Sears to find out
if my account had been taken care of. It hadn’t. I was pissed. So, I
got a lady on the phone and calmly started asking her about it. She was
awful. She kept interuppting me, and I had to keep reapeating myself.
She was a pain in the ass, and I was growing impatient with her.
Eventually, though, she told me that it would be “taken care of”, which
is funny, because this is the same thing that the previous lady said to
me 3 weeks ago. Fuckers. Anywho, she said if I wanted to make sure I
didnt get a late fee, I should go into the store to pay it. So I did.
While I was there, I heard the name of a cute kid I knew back in middle
school paged over the intercom. I wanted to find him. No such luck.
Afterward I browsed around the mall for a while. Nothing big. I went
back to Sears and saw a cute guy working behind the jewlery counter. He
seemed gay, but also busy, although he did see me and smile. I walked
around for a while waiting to get a chance to talk to him, but he was
always busy. Finally, after a while, I noticed he was not busy. I was
pretending to look at the jewlery waiting for him to ask me if I needed
help. In the meantime, I was trying to think of a good response to give
to him. Finally, he asked me. And my stupid response was “No thanks,
I’m just looking.” FUCKING IDIOT! Sometimes, I just piss myself off.
Here is a chance for me to start talking to a cute guy (with a great
ass by the way) and I blow it. DAMN DAMN DAMN!!! -
I have to fill out this stupid career assesment survey for the
placement agency. Its long (takes about 2 hours to fill out) and has
all sorts of stupid things on it, such as list my achievements,
accomplishments, my weaknesses, my strenghts, all sorts of crap. It
sucks. Will somebody please do it for me? Or, better yet, how about a
cheat sheet? Is there a “Career Assesment Survery For Dummies” that I
can use? Maybe I will just have Danel fill it out for me. After all,
she has to come here tomorrow to do her own.
Cubs win again. Kick fucking ass! They are now just 2 more
wins from clinching a winning season, and thus giving them 2
consecutive winning seasons, something that has not happened in my
lifetime. -
Today is Dori’s birthday!!!! WOOOOHOOOOO DORI!!!! I wish she didn’t
live 3 hours away so that I could see her more often. I miss her. She
is 3 weeks from giving birth, but thinks it will happen much sooner.
She also tells me that she is going to school for sign language. Thats
so cool!
I have had a
productive day thus far, especially since I have only been up for about
4 hours. I have exercised and even cleaned portions of the house. Now
I’m working on this whole thing for the placement agency.
Danel called this morning to tell me
that she can’t go to the House on the Rock tomorrow. It seems that she
is having a meeting for the get rich over a gradual course of time
scheme at her house tomorrow at 6 in the PM. That really fucking sucks! -
Well, I had a really tough time sleeping last night. I got up about
6:30 in the un-godly (is that even a real word) morning. The drive
there was not as bad as I expected, but it still took an hour. I
arrived about 12 minutes early. They told me to wait in the reception
area and somebody would be with me shortly. I saw the HR lady that
interview me walk in. She went to her office and came back. She told me
that she thought I could not start on the 14th and left it at that. I
don’t know what that means. She asked me if I was committed to this job
and I gave a smart ass remark (my stupid fucking mouth!) of “well, I’m
here, aren’t I”. She said she needed to check with the manager and
left. She came back and said that since I couldn’t start on the 14th,
they were just going to leave it as is. She thought that when I called
Friday, I had told her that I would not be able to take the job if I
had to start today. This was not true at all. She thanked me, shook my
hand, and I walked out. By the time I got to the elevator, I was
laughing. The whole thing reminded me of a Seinfeld episode in which
George shows up to a job that he wasn’t sure he had. I keep telling
people, I got fired from a job I didn’t even have. Although, to be
honest, she wasn’t that clear…………not clear on Friday, and not
clear today. Was she saying that I could start in 2 weeks? Oh well. I’m
not going back to that place. Fuck it. Its all really funny though. I
can’t help but laugh.
After the firing, I came home and called Danel. I told her
all about it and asked her if she wanted to run to AAA to get my deck
of cards I left there. She agreed. I also spoke with Danielle, and the
3 of us agreed to go to the house on the rock on thursday. We got to
AAA. We saw Mike Corp outside smoking, so we drove up and spoke with
him for a while. Seems things are really going to shit now that the
call center is gone. Thats no suprise though. We also saw Donna, Lenna,
and Jen. We went inside and spoke with Michelle. She gave me a badge,
and we went back into the call center. It was so weird being there. Its
still like I’m on vacation. Anywho, I found them right where I left
them. After that, we went into the breakroom and spent some time with
Jen and Lenna again on their lunch. We said goodbye to Michelle and
left. After that, we headed to the Naperville AAA store to visit more
former co-workers. I got the email address of somebody that had applied
to a company I’m interested in. While we were there, this really hot
boy came in to get his picture take for an international driver’s
license. He and I had on similar shorts, and we spoke briefly about
them. I asked him to take them off, and he did. We had the BEST SEX
EVER right there on the……………..no, wait, its what I wanted to
do, but instead we made small talk with him and we left. -
Man, this really sucks. I called the new job place today and asked them
if I can push back my start date. She said she didn’t think they could
do that but would check with the manager. She came back and asked me
how committed I was to this job. Shit, thats not good at all. I told
her I was, I wanted the job, but I wanted to explore all options first.
I told her that I did not want to take the job for only 3 months and
leave, if I took the job, I wanted to stay for a while. I said that I
had stopped applying for other jobs, but I had just a few opportunities
that were still out there. She said they had to talk about this, but
would call me back. That was 2 hours ago. I’m so nervous right now. I
can’t take all this uncertainty. I have a pit in my stomach because I
am so worried about this. Fuck this, man. Thing were so great at AAA. I
had it so good there, I knew it then and I know it now. Honestly, I was
overpaid and underworked. It was great. I had plenty of vaction time. I
got along with most everybody. I worked great hours. I will never have
it as good as I had it there, at least not for a long long time. I
called that fucking idiot lady at the piece of shit staffing agency,
and she was about as useful as the Pope having a big dick. She said the
only thing they had was a temp job in Des Plaines, but they were going
to be moving to Lemont in January. Here is how stupid this fucking
bitch is, she told me it would be a 2 hours drive to Des Plaines (a
long drive, but not 2 hours, I know) but even when they move to Lemont,
it would still be a 45 minute drive for me (ok, who is she, Rand
Fucking Mcnally! I’m 10 fucking minutes from Lemont, you dumb fucking
broad). She told me she looks for me everyday. Yeah, I’m sure she does.
I applied there 2 fucking months ok and she has only found me one
potential job, but told me that “she was going to wait until they go up
on their offer.” I told her I was unemployed now, and she told me
“Already? Did I know that? (yes you dim-witted bitch, I told you back
in July Sept 1 was my last day) Wow, time goes by fast.” She askes me
if I found anything, and rushed me off the phone. Thanks. Thanks for
nothing, you peppy fucking bitch. She is always so happy. I think she
sits on a fucking vibrator while at work.
