Well everyone it has been real, I am experiencing major job and life change here, I will be away from the net most likely for a long time...(hopefully not)

I have inadvertantly done something I am so far from being proud about.. I graduated twleve years or so ago from high school. There were about 250 people graduating from this fine high school. The really macabre thing about the whole thing is I think fifty people have died since we graduated. Which when I tell some people they go that does not sound too bad. Well it is. My former classmates have died in unusual and often painful ways. One guy I knew Mark VanKirk, he died before we graduated, is the reason all the Coke machines have those stickers that proclaim "Do Not Rock The Machine". That was bizarre, and the more I think about it the more bizarre it gets. Another fellow Terry Woodward died after plowing his car into a parked Blue Angels plane. One of my close friends died of heart problems, it was not very recent, but I still miss him. There are others, but those really stand out. One thing that all of those deaths have done, is as a class we are all somewhat close, there are always benefits going on and other things along that thread. Well I messed up. I have known Yvonne since second grade. I have always been good friends with her until like ten years ago. That is when she met one of my former girlfriends, and let us just say, one lesson I have learned is girls do not play good with other girls, but that is besides the point. Well Yvonne was diagnosed with skin cancer and is most likely not going to recover. And to make a long story short it was last Sunday and I did not go, because for some strange reason I forgot. The kicker is I wrote it down all over the place, on every single calender I own, and I still forgot.

Well I am here at work early, because I am getting paid to read this silly book called "who moved the cheese" It is a book about four mice who I am assuming represents people trying to get money and who have to change. The book by itself is not all that bad, but what the managers see is that the workers should be able to take less money for doing more because change is good. I do not know if that is the authors real moral, but the way the company is acting that is what they are infering is we should be lucky to have a job, and we will be getting more shit to do.. another point I think the author is trying to make is that money is not everything, which I agree with, but I want enough money to live. Pristine said that they actually read that book out loud to her and group before they got axed. So far I think I almost understand why they would do that. it is a little feelgood book with alot of buzzwords and crap. This book must have been profiled at one of those "Leadership" seminars. Oh well I guess I should go back to reading that book.

Howdy! Well I ended up taking Monday off, My sister came into town. She lives four hours away so it is always a good time. Her husband is really cool, he works for Junior acheivement and My sister keeps him on a pretty short leash, so when he visits we have a good time, then my sister complains that I corrupt him, which is alright, because if she was not complaining about that she would complain about something else. Sunday Me and Pete stayed up late drinking Glennfiddich playing Yahtzee (which is an ideal game to play when you are getting drunk) then waking up on Monday and playing golf. It was so cool playing hooky. I left my boss high and dry, and the internet connection was down nothing got accomplished, on the downside of not working Monday, was now I have at least about three hours of reading blogs. Today, I am working at a snail's pace because now they are talking about restructuring the company, and really turning me into a whore. I do alot of little crap that noone else wants to do now, but they are talking about giving me more crap to do with still no raises. Time to really start looking, I wish I was not so afraid of change. On a lighter note, I am trying to decide what I want this page to look like, I am sure that it will be different really soon, keep your eyeballs open! The weather here has been damn good, ideal Michigan weather. About 55-60 degrees and no clouds.

If you ever want to read a well written, and I do mean a very well written blog check out Blind Optimism He has a book coming out, called Travels I think, I am keeping an eye out for it

soon I will have my favorite blog links posted

Oh another thing to the person who thinks I stole his fonts and color...umm yeah whatever live in your little fantasy world if you want, I do not care

Warning! Whining with possible self pity ahead!Well I have finally arrived to the point that I have been trying to avoid. I no longer care for my job. The shop has been getting more and more slow this last year, and they have laid off 3/4 of the shop. they are getting ready to lay off more people. The good news is I am really sure that I will not be one of the people who is losing their jobs. The bad news is in the next two weeks, I am going to have new responsibilites to go along with the crap I do now. Another piece of good news is I have been looking and interviewing and guess what I get overpaid right now! I have a damn fine interview and when I start discussing what I want to get paid, they give me this weird look like they are thinking "this guy gets paid this much?" The owner of the company that I currently work for said that I could start doing contract work for this one company that we used to own (which we just sold off) When I went down to talk about how much I was going to charge him, I gave him a price of $200 dollars a job. Which is a very good price because the company that he hired is charging him $280 for less work. So I would give him more, and charge him less. Well Bruce (the owner of this outside company) said, " Oh I do not even have that much budgeted for the job" which was a total lie, because I used to work extensively with that part of the business, I know how much he quotes jobs for, I know the majority of his expenses, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt so thinking he would counter offer like maybe $100-$150 a job I said "well what were you thinking?" and get this he goes "I was thinking like thirty or fourty dollars". To me that was a slap in the face! I mean if you want your grass mowed you would end up paying that much and seeing how the jobs would take like six hours of my own personal time I just said in my most professional voice "umm let me get back with you on that" I have not returned his phone calls and I will not talk to him again.

I got stuff to post, but I am too damn busy at work to, maybe on wed. I hate it when work interferes with my internet!

One of my favorite bloggers Denise made a very good point about her last post, and I thought I would mention her today. I read most of the blogs on dfw and would have to agree with her in the idea that I always thought that that group was very nonpolitical as a group, but they are political by themselves, there are a few that are very good political reading...But anyways I digress I personally do not think displaying a flag is a big deal, but I would not like displaying a flag of Afghanistan with a mushroom cloud. But I am not a member of that group. I just hope everything can be worked out, I have noticed since 9.11 her and another of my favorite blogs thinkdink has been a little more quiet. Not that I am their boss, but I enjoy their opinions. Oh well I guess I should get back to work....and I still got that damn song in my head!