Addendum!

I am moving on over to Wordpress for blogging and Tumblr for my photos. I'll still slap the posts up here as well, but since I can post and edit to those other two with apps on my phone, that seems a bit more useful to me.

Another One Bites the Dust

I have always wanted a British accent. Or something along those lines. It always sounds so damned cool. I have this bland Midwestern monotone voice that doesn't do anything for me. A pox on it, I say!

Do you have a Twitter account? If you do, badmouth that Star Wars game, The Force Unleashed. You will get some crazy and sorry bastards leaping down your throat. It is good for a laugh, trust me on this.

I'm contemplating slowly taking home things from work so my desk is empty of all personal items. So yeah, that's still weighing VERY heavily on my mind.

I am dreading this weekend. Having to say goodbye to someone you care about sucks. It may not be a permanent goodbye, but it could be. And to top it off, I may have to take my mom to put her cat down this weekend. She's around fourteen years old and is the offspring of a cat we got from a friend of mine way back when. I am really, really not liking this year so far.

End of Line

Boy, I haven't used this thing in a long time. The original intention behind it was well and good, but stopped due to crappy equipment and I got burned out by life. I still have both of those problems, but a desire to write this anyway.

I have a chance to do something different with my career. Which isn't much of a career, more of a job I fell ass backwards into. Lots of people out there are getting laid off, it is a sad fact of the economy. For the longest time I was sure I was safe from that, the department where I work posts record sales numbers. I have learned that I am not safe from that. We were told by the time May rolls around that one of us will be laid off. I have also learned that this is quite possibly the single most stressful thing someone can be told and I am absolutely convinced it will be me. And seeing that I am responsible for taking care of more than just myself, that will prove disastrous. To the point that I don't know how I'd recover from it.

To say that this has been weighing heavily on my mind is something of an understatement. It doesn't help that I really can't talk about it with my family because I don't want them to worry, and the few friends I have tried talking to it about have essentially brushed it aside or shown little interest. I really don't have what could be called a good support group at my disposal. I kinda just have to grin and bear it through any stressful events in my life. That shit ain't easy. But I deal. Sometimes.

Anyway. My company is taking an interest in this social media movement, things like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Granted they're doing it just a little behind everyone else, but that's how my company rolls. I've been selected to go to a meeting on this very subject because even the people I work with know I'm a god damn nerd. I also see there's an open position for a director of all this stuff. So I look at the requirements. As I'm reading the list it occurs to me I have skills with or am familiar with nearly everything they list. Of course they'll need a degree, right? High school practically raped me, so I haven't done much with college. One class counts as not much. But, this posting does NOT require a degree. It is preferred, but it is not required.

Can I lead a group like this? I have no fucking idea. I doubt it. I don't have much in the way of leadership abilities. But can I be a part of a team they put together for this? Abso-fucking-lutely. So I'm going to go this meeting and I am going to be the most outspoken and energetic about something I have EVER been. I need to push everything else out of my mind and just focus on that meeting.

Because right now I need a miracle. This seems like a massive longshot, but I have nothing to lose anymore.

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Obviously not me.

My lack of a reliable camera has obviously put a rather large dent in this. But I am still plugging away.

That picture there is what we like to call a fully stocked party drawer. Is that Fruit Stripe gum? you are no doubt asking. The answer of course is, YOU KNOW IT!

Balls

No picture today as I honestly just forgot. Seriously crazy ass day today. Tomorrow I shall make up for it!

GAH!

That there is me peeper! One of 'em at least.

It's a daily battle with my phone camera trying to get it to work. And because I'm currently in a two year contract, I can't upgrade my phone. So it's a waiting game.

Hopefully this thing has stopped being a temperamental bitch.