Coworkers

Isn't a rule that if you're new to an office, your coworkers are supposed to take you out to lunch...or at least invite you to join them....or at the very least invite you to place an order when they are having something delivered???  These folks are scandalous....all week long I have not spoken more than 200 words during work hours....which leads to me getting into a mood....which leads to me going home and being quiet....which leads the fiancee into thinking that I'm not happy to finally be home....which leads to both of us being quiet....and though I may want her to stop talking sometimes, it scares me when she's quiet.  It's like very like weird like totally like odd....

Isn't a rule that if you're new to an office, your coworkers are supposed to take you out to lunch...or at least invite you to join them....or at the very least invite you to place an order when they are having something delivered??? These folks are scandalous....all week long I have not spoken more than 200 words during work hours....which leads to me getting into a mood....which leads to me going home and being quiet....which leads the fiancee into thinking that I'm not happy to finally be home....which leads to both of us being quiet....and though I may want her to stop talking sometimes, it scares me when she's quiet. It's like very like weird like totally like odd....

Good start to the day. First a little background....I'm officially thirty...okay not official 'til next month but mentally I'm done. All week I have chosen to listen to sports talk radio instead of CD's or music radio on my way to and from work. I just flip back and forth between 790 and 680....yes AM radio...whudda thunkit??? Anyway, on 790 this morning they did this thing (don't know if it's a regular thing 'cause I just started listening) called barbershop roll call where they call a barbershop and inquire about specials....basically free advertising for the barbershop. So they called this one place and the owner refused to give out any information stating he was too busy to talk...at 8 am in a barbershop! Never thought that barbershops had a morning rush but I could be wrong...doubt it though....N e way, the radio guy goes off talking about how he was raised in a barbershop (this is the black guy on the morning show) and how much barbers love to talk...which is true . . .at least in a black barbershop. So somehow the discussion turns to whether or not the barber they had called was white or black....Now I've always been able to tell over the phone whether a person is white or black at a 90 to 95 percent clip. Just the voice inflections and how things are said. So the radio folks decide to ask the listeners to call in to tell if they thought the barber was white or black....since I was sitting in traffic thinking about playing with myself (joke...kind of) I called in. I didn't get on the radio but I did get a $25 gift certificate to Santana's or something...don't know what Santana's or whatever they said is but it's a free 25 bucks.....Free stuff is always a good start...

By the way the barber was white...if for no other reason than he ended every sentence with 'buddy' and that's not something black folks do...not every sentence...nope

This was yesterday..first day in new office

I have had a long day....;) So after sitting in traffic which I'm
sure you did, then thinking my badge was lost, then realizing that I
may not have enough gas to make it to work if I have to sit in traffic
too much longer, I finally get to the office and realize I have no
clue which building out of the 12 that I'm supposed to go to. So I
call Shanlon and she tells me that she thinks it's building one which
makes sense because the address is 1 Piedmont center (I didn't know
that until Shanlon told me). So after holding a stranger up while
talking to Shanlon ( I flagged him down in my desperation), Shanlon
gives me the phone numbers to contact Rose. But I don't have anything
to write on!! So I type it in my phone thinking I can save it after
the fact. Except when we get off the phone, I close the phone(out of
habit) thereby erasing the number to contact Rose. So instead of
calling Shanlon back, I just drove around until I found building one.
I figured suite 600 would be on the 6th floor. Got lucky on that one.
So they take me to my cube and I start to get setup et cetera when I
realize that I forgot the power cord to my laptop....it's in Winston
Salem. So not a biggie right....except everyone here uses Dells and I
use an IBM laptop.....luckily they found one that they 'borrowed' from
somewhere (I'm not asking any questions but the way they said borrowed
was more than a little shady). So now Winston Salem is mailing me my
power cord....and it's just 9:30.....

Well, it looks like I will have to remove the day by day comic strip that has adorned my blog for the past few months....it has become ridiculously conservative during this campaign year and frankly...annoying....I could deal with the conservative republican black guy...but now it's like every character is a republican....a bit of the artist coming into play there......

Can it really get anymore obvious than a civil suit? At least in the OJ case the family had the decency to wait until the criminal case had been decided (and I realize the differences in the case, but it was the first example of criminal case then civil case that I could think of). In my ever so not humble opinion, I think it should be illegal to file a civil suit against a person alleging the same accusations that were the focus of a criminal suit if the defendant in the criminal suit is found not guilty or the case is thrown out. It doesn't make sense. I know double jeopardy only applies to criminal cases but there should be some kind of extension like Final jeopardy that applies to civil filings.....

It's 99% official!! I will be going home permanently Friday afternoon. Unless something completely unforeseen happens, I will be a full time ATLien again!!! Tonite, Winston Salem homies are trying to get me drunk as a farewell but I'm going to try....notice I said try....to avoid liquor and stick strictly with beer. Or if I do shots, I will chase it with water to try to stay somewhat ahead of the game.