January 22, 2010
So Heated
Grrrrrr.
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January 19, 2010
Loves the fatties I understand
Saw forward progress today with all that stuff I mentioned about work. This month has been CRAZY I am now a big knotted ball of muscle. Six days left until I'm out of the military or I'm not, some days I think very hard about just getting out. But to do what? I want to live in Europe, I hate American fast food Puritan selfish non-culture. Gadgets and regulations, more to follow. Inconsiderate consumers, me people. Celebrity worship. Fat people. The stereotypes are true, that's why they are.
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January 14, 2010
Running Blind
Wow I don't check my credit card statements as often as I should, with all my bills set up to autopay there's usually no need (wrong). I happened to check it a few months ago while in Japan and I caught a strange charge, so when I came back to the states I followed up and had the charge refunded. It was my renter's insurance from the Florida apartment which I vacated and cancelled two years ago.
Yesterday I had another look at my statement to verify the refund, which was there, and spotted another incorrect charge from a different company! It was for the Boston hotel which I had booked for New Year's Eve but then cancelled. I called them on it and they now promise a refund too. Both of these charges I caught completely by chance, I'm going to start monitoring my statements more closely this means I am one giant step closer to being a grumpy old man.
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January 12, 2010
Oprah cant read
You realize that if I get no comments then I quickly jump to the conclusion that I am alone and I procrastinate indefinitely. They handed me a big shit sandwich at work and I have got my hands full, it's been a long week and I'm pretty sure today is Tuesday. I'm back running PT again, and I'm running four shops. I have to get these people to feel motivated to work even though there's clearly nothing important left to do other than shut it down, and I have to write evals for people who I haven't seen since before Japan. Meanwhile my medical record is lost (the geniuses decided to ship it overseas last november?) so all I've got is the smaller battle record which I took with me to Japan, it is not sufficient to reenlist or to do my sea duty screening for Florida and I'm supposed to get out next week if I don't reenlist. I requested an extention on my end of service yesterday, hopefully this saves me. My transfer package is also due next week and part of that package is the sea duty screening which I can't do and I'm worried that I'll lose my orders if I'm late. The movers are booked for March, and I ordered new vehicle tag registration stickers through the mail. Hopefully that works out, otherwise my tags and my security stickers are going to expire too, then I won't be able to drive on base. And My ID card is going to expire this month and I can't renew until I reenlist. Help me, I need a fully body oil massage and a plate of macaroni and cheese ASAP.
I downloaded one book for the kindle just to see how it works. Jim Cramer's Mad Money. I watch his show sometimes and I was curious about that book. You can also get samples of books free, it has wifi so just go through the kindle, not your computer. Search the title or author and you get reviews of the book and an option to buy or look at a sample. I like that. Reading is different, I read slower on the kindle for some reason and I end up flipping back a page a lot because I haven't worked out the flow of turning the page and still comprehending what that last sentence was. I only got a few chapters deep into it so I don't know if it would hurt my eyes after a while or not, maybe.
I have real books to read first. The FJ Chase book that I read was called "Darkness under Heaven." Is that the one you got? I liked it, but then I started reading another Reacher book which I had missed, "Running Blind," so much better. Great. For Christmas I got that and the new one, "Gone Tomorrow," also a book called "New York" by Edward Rutherfurd and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie and from Oprah's Book Club "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" OH YEAH I am saving that one for last on principle. The principle of I AM A MAN.
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January 5, 2010
Missed you in NY
Got back in around 5:00 tonight, exhausted after the hard week of vacation/long drive. Going to bed in exactly 2 minutes. I got a kindle! Will post better tomorrow when I have some energy. Good night!
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December 26, 2009
The best part about Maine is not going outside
It started snowing really hard today, I said what is this now. Finally it stopped, just a dusting and nothing to stop me from getting on the road tomorrow AM. Feeling very sleepy but it is only 6:45 and I still need to wrap everybody's presents and pack a bag for myself. Settled on a last minute gift for my Dad, a nice cable knit sweater and a scarf. Oh, I'm reading a book called Darkness Under Heaven by F.J. Chase (never heard of him) and it's good. Like a Reacher book. FYI. There is lots of food in my refrigerator that is going to go to waste when I leave. I guess I should take care of that tonight too, but I just want to go to bed. SIGH. 580 mile drive tomorrow!
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December 23, 2009
It smells like cookies in here
Right now I'm doing my first batch of laundry since I got back from Japan and it is one big fat load, I definitely procrastinated too long. Ran out of underpants.
Christmas shopping is not done obviously.
Bro: Samurai sword.
Mom: Japanese quilt, a jewelry box and some chopsticks.
Dad: Drawing a blank here.
So far it's a Navy t-shirt and a couple CD's. Bro suggested an absinthe tower. It looks cool but he already has clutter at his bar and I am anti-clutter and I don't know if he wants any absinthe.
I'll be spending Christmas day alone, that sucks. Bro felt he needed jaw surgery in order to get tv jobs so he did that and therefore was not able to take off work for Christmas. We're all going to get together on the 28th or 29th instead, I haven't made any flight reservations so I need nice weather for the long drive and I might stay in the city on the way.
This year I made the rookie mistake of getting totally wasted at the work Christmas party. Apparently I was a lot of fun. Woke up the next day on somebody's couch, not a clue how I got there, felt like ASS. It was one of those oh shit what happened moments. It was like the movie The Hangover, there are pictures of us in a bar clearly having a blast, don't remember going to a bar.
Yesterday I made the best breakfast ever.
Scrambled eggs with sauteed onions and mushrooms and feta cheese sprinkled on top, biscuits and gravy and corned beef hash with the gravy covering that too, bacon, pancakes, and leftover beans from my delicious beans and cornbread recipe. No coffee. Haven't had a cup of coffee since last tuesday. It stains my teeth too much! But its sooo good. I don't know what to do about this situation. Right now my teeth are nice and white I want to keep it that way. Maybe if I brush my teeth immediately after drinking coffee(?) but the logistics of this seem ridiculous. It's exasperating.
Update on the laundry: Definitely dropped my socks and underwear on the ground while going for the dryer. This happens every single time. I am not pleased.
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December 14, 2009
My mail lady is a lazy whore
Still experiencing jetlag, I have trouble staying asleep for more than an hour or two at a time. I kept waking up last night thinking not yet, not yet, then at 3:30 I thought hey why not. Now very sleepy.
Not going home for Christmas, little bro couldn't get the time off work so he's taking New Year's instead, I'll do the same. This sucks because I had hotel reservations in Boston for New Year's Eve! Grrr. GRRRAAAAAK! I'm very tired. Found out today that I'm moving to Florida in April. Have to pack again. Sigh. Eyes burning.
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December 9, 2009
I have a man crush on Willie Geist
Today I was pleased to learn that there is nothing to worry about as far as unemployment or Afghanistan but Tiger Woods is of great concern. It was a snow day, and I did nothing but sit around in my pajamas and drink coffee and watch the news. Beautiful! Obviously they waitied until I drove all the way in before they cancelled work, this is normal. It wasn't even snowing yet this morning when I got there and I laughed at them for cancelling. That is just laziness, I thought. There was not even a hint of snow and it didn't feel that cold, but it hit suddenly on the way home so nobody needs to get fired for now.
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December 5, 2009
It is frikin snowing
Guess I came back just in time, son of a bitch. At least I was able to get my car out of storage and run around town for all my coming home errands before it started. Went for a haircut today and found out that my barber doesn't work there anymore so that was awesome. The new girl did okay, I let her live and I even let her give me a shampoo after. She said we are supposed to get six inches of snow. Pbthththb.
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December 4, 2009
USA
Today I had many things to do so I wisely slept all day instead and then made a pot roast. I do not like Maine, it is cold here and nobody loves me. My car is beautiful! I forgot how fast and pretty she is. No problems with the apartment either, everything is as I left it.
We had a few hours to kill after checking out of our rooms and before getting on the plane so we bought a few cases of beer and played drinking games such as bullshit and asshole, the idea was to pass out on the plane. Unfortunately I woke up in the middle of the flight and I was parched, and those damn stewardesses refused to bring me water because I didn't ask for any. We stopped for a few hours in Seattle and then Jacksonville where we spent the night. Next day they set us up with a puddle jumper to fly all the way to Maine through a storm and we were only authorized 700 pounds for 18 people. We easily had 10 times that but the pilot signed off on it so we loaded our bags in the aisles and the seats. Some of us feared for our lives, we were hoping the landing gear would not hold. Then we would make an incredible entrance for all the families who were waiting for us out there with their signs, a giant ball of fire careening down the runway, emergency rec teams chasing after us sirens ablaze.
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September 16, 2009
Pontoon
I have a ton of these pictures from our boat race, will post soon if I can get them from work. We had to wear costumes so we just put togas on (we threw the sheets away afterwards, the mama-sans must have been wondering what the hell happened to all our sheets!) but they didn't stay on too well when we were rowing the boat so they lasted for the first ten seconds or so. How do you like our paddles? Such craftsmanship! The boat looks garbagy in this picture but it was sweet, do not insult my boat like you insult my car I cannot take it. So plenty of naked pictures of me coming and that's all I've got for the moment.
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July 1, 2009
98 percent funky stuff
I have very little time and no privacy but I do check here every day and I check my email too, this is meant to be a hint.
I'm working tonight but I've got a four day weekend starting tomorrow, I think we're going to go play paintball in the morning completely against my will. Yesterday I was mean all day just for the fun of it, possibly due to testosterone overload. I gave everyone shit, and I insisted that paintball is gay. I've never played it so I have no idea. This morning when I walked out to the track some of the guys were looking at me and I said what the fuck are you looking at?! and they said they were just wondering if I was in a better mood today because I was so mean yesterday but apparently not! Then at work today I overdosed on coffee and I was totally wired and talking too fast. This could also be traced to sexual frustration.
So paintball tomorrow morning, then poker tomorrow night if we get back in time, not sure about that. Saturday the fourth is also my friend's birthday so something good has got to happen although I am not sure what but I can assume alcohol and fireworks will be involved, sweet.
We have a pool table here at the place where we live, it is like a college dorm but with only ugly girls and 98 percent guys. The Japanese lady who cleans my room every day likes me, she gave me slippers last week and today she gave me tissues. I wonder what she meant by that?
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May 27, 2009
Leaving the trailer park
It is time to move again. I will go to Japan in the morning, I feel excited but tired and sad and lonely too. I've been so busy the past few weeks that I haven't had time to think about it, its hitting me now that I am leaving again, going somewhere new. I think I'll start going to church.
BTW I hope you realize I didn't really live in a trailer here.
Bye M
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May 23, 2009
I should learn to bring my camera
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May 13, 2009
Jamaica
The grocery store has been watching my purchases and has stopped carrying the things which I buy. Example: pita chips. I bought spinach artichoke dip and I wanted the damn pita chips but instead was forced to buy melba toast. On the bright side, I bought strawberry-cream gelatto.
I caught a ride to the airport with a friend from work, we got pulled over for speeding but she used her cuteness to not get a ticket, only a warning. I had no trouble getting to Jamaica, all flights connected and were on time, it was a miracle. The beach was beautiful. I took a banana in with me and was feeding the fish, they would swim by really fast because they knew I was trying to get them and they were right. I pretended I was a bear, I grabbed one and was so surprised that I caught him I threw him straight up in the air.
We put our beach chairs under a coconut tree, one fell down and almost smacked my mom, it just hit the edge of her chair! Those things are deadly. My brother and I took it in the water and used it as a football but we found out that it is very painful to catch a speeding coconut but continued nevertheless until it disintegrated. When it split open my brother said, "Hey, this thing smells like coconut!" I spent half the time at the beach and half at the pool bar. There were girls there and they were liking my sexiness. I went out with three of them, two were from brazil and they knew how to wear a thong. I think I was the only single guy there, the married guys were dying with envy when I showed up at the evening show with the two brazilians!
I went snorkeling with my brother, swallowed a lot more sea water than I would have preferred. There were tons of fish but not that many different varieties. Different tropical fish, some eels (eel?), a stingray... red, blue, yellow, yeah. There were cannons and an anchor down there in the reef, an old pirate ship I think, and there were caves, spooky.
We didn't make it out to the cliffs, I really wanted to go cliff diving and I would have got some great video from that but we kept putting it off and putting it off until it was too late. It was just so great at the resort and there was always something going on and we never found the time to go, I guess one week was not enough. Pictures are coming, I am relying on my parents for the photos since my camera never left the room. I did bring out the video camera one time during lunch, I am not in the video but look at the dancing girls, you might like. I regret not getting more pictures, I am so terrible about that but I'm sure my parents have some good ones and I will post them.
My first video:
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April 17, 2009
Chinaski
I am not getting very much attention here and I do not care for it.
Read another Bukowski book this week, Ham on Rye, loved it. Why is it called that, makes no sense he eats bologna sandwiches. (I love sandwiches.)
Bukowski: "I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future."
From Factotum: "People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It could be love but it doesn't have to be."
Next I'll read Post Office.
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April 9, 2009
Heated
Very heated. No good news for me today and I went around in a bad mood shooting nasty looks all morning and afternoon. At lunch I skipped eating and went back to the gym, ran very very fast tried to blow it off didn't work. Tomorrow will be bad, and Saturday. Sunday I am invited to a house for Easter dinner, I do not know if I will go I have to call sometime tomorrow. I'll be gone in less than two months.
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April 8, 2009
It is obvious to me when I am being ignored
Heated, that is me. Never sick but now sick. I am told to expect a week or two of this, I am on day four and miserable. I can't move my arms.
My cool neighbor left she had enough of Maine and went to California, I can't blame her. There is garbage in my yard because people litter and it blows on me. I am irate about this.
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April 2, 2009
Becoming a vegetable
Based on everything if I look at it objectively I'd say I do not think I'm very smart, but compared to some of the people I meet I am a fuckin genius. Ahh my job is back to being torture for me I have to do things I do not want to do and you know if people would use their brains or at least have enough self respect to try to do their jobs properly then I would not have to do the things I do and life would be good. Maybe not great but passing. In other words I had a bad day. Tomorrow also does not look promising. I have not had time to watch tv or to read my books at night, and I've been too tired for cooking. Someone from work made me dinner earlier this week, it was lasagna but with pepperoni instead of any other meat inside, WOW it was delicious, the best lasagna I have ever had. Adding to the goodness was the fact that someone else made it for me. I love that, no one has made me dinner in years.
I feel like I'm posting very negatively right now and I don't mean to do that, my stress level is too high. The Mexico vacation is coming soon I need it bad. They have a swimming pool with a bar in it!
Also starting to plan for my deployment coming up in the next few months here, going to be an exciting time. I will be happy to get out of Maine- unfortunately it is right when the weather gets nice and when I come back it will be cold again!
Seriously I have no strength to prepare dinner for myself what am I going to do. Can't cook tonight. I am getting confused the more I think about that. I'm going to have a little nap...
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March 22, 2009
Are You Experienced
Well its been crazy lately I've been so busy with work and just have barely had the strength to keep on going every day. The long winter has worn me down and daylight savings made it even worse, that piled on right when I was doing my fitness class and then when I finished that I had to run the pt sessions when I got back, I really needed a break but couldn't fit one in. I have Mexico plans for early May but with my deployment coming up I am not a hundred percent sure I'll be able to make it. Tickets were expensive and I would hate to let my family down by missing the trip so that is also adding to my stress. The weather has finally taken a turn and it is starting to get nice, I went for my first outside run of the season yesterday down by the river, it was cold but beautiful and I had a good five mile run. I think I'm going to buy a bike this week or next weekend, mix it up. I love running though, it is the one thing that kills my stress and makes me feel great. The girl I was allowing to see me has been too busy lately, I haven't seen her in a month. She calls on the phone sometimes and tells me everything is normal but I have been through this before, I know what it is. I am not questioning it, I was never that into it anyway. She is very sweet but I have a big wall up. Today is my birthday and I haven't heard from her, I doubt she remembers. It's cool. Last night I went out with a different girl just to see what I thought, shes younger and cute but I know what that means too, trouble. I told my brother how old she was (25) and he laughed at me. "You just can't get away from it can you?" No I guess not. They are cute at that age.
Congrats on the iPhone, how do you like it? I can see my phone bill tripling if I get one of those that's why I'm holding off. I have the iPod touch, kind of the same thing minus the phone but I can still play with the apps, I haven't found anything that great. I got bored with it pretty quickly. I think for me a blackberry would be best. Oh, I got a camera that can record video up to one hour, I'll make some movies for you while I'm in Japan if you want.
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March 9, 2009
My ringtone irritates me
It was a long day and it snowed too. I thought we were all done with snow after this beautiful weekend but we can both see I was wrong. After work I went back over to my barber and she let me down again (wasn't there) but this time I couldn't wait and I decided to let another woman do it. Mistaaaake. First she carved a line in my head, only then did I realize she had no idea how to do a fade and then she broke the clippers. It was stressful, and now I have a shit haircut. I plan to go to my normal barber's house and throw eggs at it, is that considered stalking?
My homework for the fitness class is to look for fat people and then write it down when I see them and judge whether they should lose 20 lbs or 40. Shouldn't be a problem. I can just do my neighbors(40). Also I have to write down everything I eat and break it down into calories, sigh I've done this beofre it is quite boring and a nuisance.
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March 8, 2009
I am heated
My barber has broken our unspoken agreement that she will show up to (and remain at) work on Sunday. I got there at 12:30 and she was somehow gone for the day wow must be nice to have a two hour work day maybe I should be a barber. Seriously, I have killed for less. The girl who was there is unsatisfactory as a replacement, I let her do the honors right before Christmas vacation and she made me look like an idiot for my Christmas pictures. She looked at me as if to say, "I can cut your hair," and I fired my evilest possible glare at her which said "Burn in hell."
It's 50 degrees today, beautiful Maine weather! All the snow is melting away, my front lawn is only covered in three to four feet of snow and I am thrilled. All the streets are soaked even though it hasn't rained in days, the snow runoff is bringing about what is known here as mud season. Joy. The girl a few houses down is moving, she's from California and one Maine winter was enough for her. She has a dog who hates men. I said I need to get a woman hating dog to keep the females away from me.
Next week will be unusual, I am doing nothing but working out and learning about nutrition. Won't go in to work at all, just the gym. They offer classes from time to time to get the cert for fitness instructors, I lucked out and got into the class, great opportunity but I don't know if I should be looking forward to it or not. I might get my ass kicked. Daylight savings time too so I'll be groggy tomorrow morning and it will be dark. First thing I have to do is run a 8:30 mile and a half. ugh I'm not in the mood.
Okay I just got reheated, went to get a water out of the fridge and it is frozen solid wtf. Today is not going smoothly. I just thought of taking a picture of my scraggly hair but my camera battery is dead. I'm thinking I need some pictures to spice things up around here.
Next books to be read:
Ham on Rye: Bukowski
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Covey
Tripwire: Lee Child
Music taste lately:
70's top 40 love songs!
Lunch today:
No clue. For breakfast I had a pot of coffee and nine cinnamon rolls. Maybe burritos for lunch?
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February 24, 2009
Free cookies
My leg today is a little sore so I took a long shower letting the water run on it hoping to relax it a bit, no help. Having a touch of spring fever I think, what is spring fever? Is that when you wish it was spring because if it is then that's what I have.
Yesterday we got blasted with an outrageous snowstorm, the snow piled on my car sideways defying gravity. I called in and was happy to hear that we had a two hour delay at work, so I curled back up under the blankets and watched Jim Cramer on my iPod. The reason I was curled under the blankets was 1) because it was so cozy and 2)because I lost power in the storm and my house was approx: 10 degrees.
Two hours later I dug my car out of the snow. This took one hour. I was heated. (I am saying that now.) The snow was all removed in 15 or 20 minutes and the other 40 was spent trying to reverse the Mustang up a 3 degree incline covered with ice. Not happening. In a strange twist of events my annoying neighbor helped me out by sprinkling kitty litter under my tires and pushing me out of the spot. He kept saying, "Welcome to Maine!" and "This car is not very good for icy roads be careful!" So still annoying despite helping me.
When I got out on the highway the snow was still coming down pretty hard so I called in again, now the delay had been pushed to 4 hours. I saw no point in going home to no power and no coffee so I went to McDonalds instead and read the paper for an extremely long time, and when I eventually made it in to work I found out that it had been cancelled altogether so I went back home. Still no power, still no coffee. Tried to go out for some but discovered the whole town was without power, so I drove to the next town and found a place. They gave me free cookies.
I acknowledge what day it is today.
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February 16, 2009
To heal the dryness of the place
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