Monday, January 26, 2009

Persecution Complex

I'm starting to wonder if I have persecution complex, am I being too sensitive, or what? But I always feel like I end up being the asshole no matter what the situation. I get asked to do something, I agree to do it, but I apparently don't do it fast enough so I'm the asshole. That's pretty much the story most of the time.

I don't know if the job loss is making me more sensitive, depressed, or what. I know I am an emotional rollercoaster with the highs usually just a front to maintain some semblance of myself. I can't say what's going on in my head so I try to turn it off by focusing on the next hour and the next hour only. I wait for the fog of feeling useless evaporates before I ponder the future. Luckily my personality is such that my fogs disappear just as quickly as they set in. But starting this fourth week of unemployment I have definitely noticed how quickly I'm annoyed, offended, and generally ticked off.

Got to be better.....

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Layoff Lessons: #1

Anything more than a two week vacation is unnecessary.

All those years I wanted to take a long vacation but I didn't realize the monotony of it. Maybe it's because I don't have a job to go back to that is making me a bit negative about it.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Understanding Female Psyche

Again I'm made to feel like I'm wrong for not asking my wife if she wanted to go to the game next Friday night. Maybe I should back up.

The owner of one of my old watering holes gave me four tickets to an Atlanta Hawks game on the 23rd. I told my wife about it and she says something to the effect of that's nice. Later in the week, I tell her that I invited two friends to the game and again she says something to the effect of that's nice. Today, my phone goes off with a text and I tell her I sent a message to another friend about the game. To which she now replies, "Inviting everybody but your family."

?!?!??!

At no point, has she ever expressed a desire to see the Atlanta Hawks. In fact, the only pro basketball games she watches are Lakers games and that's because of my die-hardness. And now suddenly....

It changes my mood because I'm made to be the uninterested father like I've done something wrong. It happens with other things....after the fact, the situation is made out to be like I'm trying to avoid spending time with my family.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Judge Joe's Fetish

In my 'transistion time', I have been exposed to a lot of daytime tv. I have a schedule if I'm watching TV:
    9am - Jerry Springer

    10am - Maury

    11am - Jerry

    Noon - Video Games

    1pm - Jerry

    2pm - The Steve Wilkos Show

    3pm - Judge Judy (though I hate her passionately)

    3:30pm - Judge Joe Brown

    4pm - Judge Judy (though I hate her incrementally more at this point of the day)

    4:30pm - Divorce Court

    5pm - Judge Mathis


With all that said, I've noticed something with Judge Joe Brown. Every person in the audience is female. And not a broad range of females. All relatively attractive (especially the front row) and between the ages of 25 and 40 (cuz milfs and cougars are all the rage). Judge Joe is married I'm assuming. But he's taking full advantage of his fame isn't he? The last flaunting of Judge Joe's game is at the end when the audience is leaving the courtroom. All leaving are leggy, sexy, ladies whose exact purpose is still undetermined.

Maybe I should have been a judge?

In other daytime TV nuggets, the following exchange occurred:
Steve: So why did you beat her?
Guest: Because she was immature.
Steve: How so?
Guest: Because she was immature and smoked.
Steve: You beat her because she was immature and smoked?!? She was 19, of course she was immature.

I can't make this stuff up!

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Athlete Story You Don't Hear

Myron Rolle, Florida State University grad and NFL prospect, has decided to pursue his master's degree at Oxford putting his football career on hold for one year. Using his Rhodes scholarship, the graduate student is forgoing millions of dollars that would be available in just a few months for the chance to enhance himself and his community after his playing days are over. This is a great story on so many levels. The fact that this young man chooses to postpone fame, glory, and money in a consumption society for his own, and presumably in the future, his community's advancement is the real stuff of which role models should be constituted.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Great Quotes from Cops

Cop: What was your license suspended for?
Suspect: Driving without a license.

Classic.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Facing Unemployment

There is a certain amount of fear and trepidation one faces when employment is uncertain. There is self doubt, questioning, and a negative vibe for me. Am I qualified for anything? Am I caught in that scary scenario of too qualified for some jobs and under qualified for the jobs I want? Is this the time to look into career changes and if so is it possible to maintain income level while moving to something in which I'm unproven?

I don't know.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Elmo Rips the Mic - No Jive







It's great when Devin sings the chorus...a two year old yelling 'No Jive' is priceless!

Friday, January 02, 2009

BCS Success

With a 20 - 7 victory over the Cincinnatti Bearcats, the Virginia Tech Hokies ended their bowl futility of recent years winning the Orange Bowl.  The win caps a roller coaster season which saw the Hokies finish with their fifth consecutive 10 win season.  Congrats to this young team.  Next year looks increasingly promising as 18 of 22 starters return to a team that started this season with only 60% of the squad having had played a college game ever in their life!

GO HOKIES...GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!