iwillbombyouwithgrenades

So, I haven’t written anything in a long time and I should probably explain why.  I’ll give you a summary and then maybe elaborate on some stuff.  My girlfriend and I are going our separate ways, I started working two jobs which makes my work week about 70 hours, and I’m frantically looking for a place to live because my lease is up at the end of the month and now that I’m a one income guy I’ll have to live in a shithole.  I think that’s the gist.  So, having said that, not all is bad.  I’m starting to focus more on music stuff that’s been put on hold for far too long and I’m enrolled in school and will have my fucking degree by the end of the year if it kills me.  I’m also finally seeing about something that’s bothered me for a damn long fucking time.  I know that people joke about having ADD or ADHD or whatever, but I’ve always felt that it might be something that I have.  I wish I would have tried to diagnose this back when I had health insurance, but it needs to be done even if I end up having to be on a payment plan to pay for fucking doctors and whatever, fuck the health care system, blah blah blah.  So where was I?  Yeah, shit sucks.  I had a lot more that I wanted to write, but I’m fucking exhausted from looking at really expensive shithole apartments so I’m off to bed.  I’ll really try to write again soon, assuming I still have access to a computer and the Internet and whatnot and I’m not living in a tent, which wouldn’t be all bad.  Also, this isn’t meant as a “feel pity for me” blog, it’s just an update on stuff.  Emotionally I’m not doing that bad.  I have my moments, sure, especially about the girlfriend stuff, but that’s a blog for another time.  I’m gonna go brush my teeth.  Cheers!

I haven’t written anything on here for like two weeks so I wanted to start this off with something interesting.  This is a picture of a sock in a pan of bacon grease that is currently on my kitchen counter.  Well, it’s actually more of an “island” I believe it’s called, that’s separate from the surrounding countertop that resides on the outskirts of our kitchen.  I realize that posting this picture might lead people to believe that I have bad housekeeping habits, so I have prepared an explanation.  Yesterday was a super nice and sunny day, probably the most spring-like day that we’ve had in my neighborhood thus far in 2009, and I had the day off (oh, and if you haven’t noticed yet, I like to use a lot of commas, get used to it!)  I took the opportunity to do some very american activities such as wash my Ford truck and clean my grill.  Car washing is a new thing that I’m into, mostly because I have a hose at my disposal, and a garage in which I can park my clean vehicle.  The only thing I’m really missing is a ShamWow.  Living out in the woods has its advantages, like being able to afford a nice house for not much more than a crappy apartment.  I don’t want to brag or anything, I don’t think I’ve ever been considered a braggart, but I really like where I live right now.  If I could find a decent paying job that I didn’t hate I’d be a happy man.  So yeah, long story short, I used that pan of bacon grease to season the porcelain coated cast iron cooking surface of my grill and the sock was my applicator.  Hmmm, I wonder if I could have also used that bacon grease to wax my car.  I can’t decide if that would be awesome or gross.  Probably both.  Oh, and don’t even worry about that box of Thin Mints sitting next to that pan of grease, the two never came in contact with each other.  I’m afraid that by combining that refreshingly decadant cookie crunch with the power of bacon, it might create some type of super-food that I’d only be able to make on the off chance that someone tries to sell me some girl scout cookies.  Can you buy those online I wonder?  Lemme check . . . . . . wow, believe it or not I don’t think you can buy them online.  Damn you little girls and your secret cookie selling!  Even those elusive Keebler elves have better marketing techniques, and they live in a fucking tree!  AND they’re make-believe!  You’d think that a real live person would be able to do better.  Apparently, you have to contact your local girl scout troop for some type of shady transaction.  Sounds like something that Dateline set up to catch sex predators.  I’m not falling for it!

I think about writing things in my blog way too often, but somehow never seem to write anything.  I have been able to attribute this phenomenon to two things:

1. I can’t seem to stay focused on one particular subject

2. I haven’t really decided on how personal I should make this

I even get to the point where I find myself not wanting to tell someone something because I want to wait and write it in my blog and have them read it there.  The problem with that is I end up not saying funny or insightful things to people that I see in person, and then I forget whatever the hell it was and don’t end up writing about it anyway!  Maybe I should try to write a blog a day or something, try to make it part of my routine.  I’ll probably be like the kid that gets locked in the closet and has to smoke the entire pack of cigarettes before he comes out so he’ll get sick of them.  I don’t feel like explaining that reference any more than that so if it missed its mark, I apologize.

I guess I should just stop thinking about it too much and just write stuff.  Oh, that reminds me, please let me know if any of you have suggestion or comments on the functionality of this site.  I changed some of the settings and whatnot to hopefully make it easier to post comments (I think the default setting required you to set up an account or something.)  Also, I added a photo page that doesn’t really have much on it yet, but I’ll be posting more stuff soon.  I hate to end this post because I really haven’t said anything yet, so I’ll leave you with this video that I found incredibly interesting.  It’s heavy on the science and I think it’s about 18 minutes long, but you should check it out if you have the time.  I’ll post again soon and it’ll be more of a traditional “I hate my job and here’s why…” type of thing.  Adios!

I started writing an entry and then had a super busy weekend and forgot to finish it.  Blast!  To hell I say!  I shall start over and write something that isn’t nearly as insightful or entertaining.

So, the kick in my ass that convinced me to start writing a blog again was the fact that I was unemployed and had nothing better to do.  In this economy, that has probably happened to millions of people and has produced a ridiculous number of crappy blogs.  Well guess what happened to me on Friday?  I have once again joined up with the ranks of the employed.  I can’t stress how disappointed I am to be going back to the world of retail, but it’s where I have the most experience so it’ll have to do for the time being.  Any income is better than no income, well maybe not “any” income, but I gots bills to pay!

Where does this leave my blogging situation?  Better yet, how will this affect the blog that I have yet to really begin writing?  Motherfucker!  I’m gonna write one anyway!  HA!  And yes I know that I have zero readers at the moment and I’m basically talking to myself, but I figure that’s how all blogs start out so I’m paying it no mind.  Anyway, that’s enough about my situation, here are some things that I have discovered on the information superhighway that I believe might be of interest:

This is a really cool movie recommendation site that I’ve been telling everyone to check out, especially if you have Netflix because you can link it to your account and it will learn your movie watching habits as well as any ratings that you’ve done.  It lets you do searches for fun things like “mood” and “plot.”  Here’s an example of a search that I typed in:

“sci fi, race against time, one man army ”

And my results:

“Escape from New York, Soldier, Chronicles of Riddick, Blade” etc.

See, fun!  Try it out for yourself and search for a “nothing goes right, buddy” movie.  I bet you’ll find a bunch, including Raising Arizona and The Blues Brothers.  Also, keep in mind that this site is still in beta so not everything works yet.

Ok, so a lot of people already know about digg, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still mention it.  If you’re unfamiliar with this site, you should go investigate it.  It’s how I get most of my news and it’s also a good source of funny animal pictures, so there you go.  It basically works like this:  someone submits a story, picture, blog, etc. that they like, and everyone gets to vote on whether they like it or not, then the top stories make it to the front page.  You can filter things into categories and whatnot, blah blah blah, just go see for yourself.

That’s enough for now, I’m going to go heat up some alfredo sauce and cook some fettucine.  I found a really good recipie on allrecipies:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/To-Die-For-Fettuccine-Alfredo/Detail.aspx

Cheers!

So, since I recently became unemployed and have nothing else to do, I guess I’ll write a blog.  I’m still getting the hang of this WordPress stuff, but so far it seems like I made the right decision on installing it.  That’s all for now, this is sort of a “test” post.  Oh, and here’s a picture of a nuthatch that I took: