Good Things About My Day Today

Warm spring-like day
Lunch with Alison
Day off work
Catching up on sleep
Hiking in the park
Shopping
Evening cocktails with friends

To sum up: content relaxation….ahhhhhh

Hi

So, the place is a little dusty but otherwise in good shape and just as I left it. I didn’t neglect my little piece of web real estate too long (but let’s face it, you have to go back a bit back in the archive to see the WOB in its heyday) and let it languish too much that it became a crack site with boarded up links and a virtual pit bull in the top banner. Sorry, the attempts at humor will get better as I move back in and tweek some things here and there.

Anyhooooo…lame excuses for the absence go like this:

- Been busy visiting other parts of the world wide interwebs (there are a lot of LOL cats).
- Being consumed by Facebook.
-Working part time online which creates anywhere from one to three more hours a day on the computer, thus sucking any recreational computing energies out of me.
- Quit full time job wanted new line of work, unemployment, new job same old line of work.

But largely, I just seemed to lose interest in a lot of things. The reasons could be many including disatisfaction with employment(shocking right!), mild case of depression (self diagnosed of course, because I’m totally qualified to do so), feeling like I’m in a rut, etc etc, the list could go on. Not too much has changed in these aspects but you could say I’m dealing better now.

Further, as a consequence of ignoring my little online home, I was not keeping up with other sites that I enjoyed and were part of my routine.

So I just said to myself, “self, suck it up and quit yer bitchin, start doing things you like doing, and don’t forget to get milk on the way home.”

And here I am, suck it up and enjoy. Be back real soon…srsly!

I Miss it, I’m Coming Back….Really

Yay For New Season and the DVR

Survivor, The Office, and SNL special did not disappoint.  Still have to watch new recorded eps of Top Chef and Community.

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I may be too easily amused!

Key Words = Decison, Resignation, Scared, Relief

“Employees don’t quit companies, they quit people” — I was the 7th person to leave over a three week period, and just today I found out #8 turned in his notice.  And yet the “people” in this quote still don’t get it.

Buh-Bye evil corporation.  Adios to being thrown under the bus.  So long to unprofessional ass hats with no people skills.  Kiss my ass all the angry self righteous bitchy customers.  To the nice people I dealt with over the years:  thanks for making up for the aformentioned crappy ones for so long.

Two weeks ago I quit my job.  Yes in this economy and job market, I vouluntarily walked out of my job.  Yeah, it just got that bad.  My regret?  — that I didn’t do it three years ago.    I won’t bore you with the details, I think anyone who knows me either personally or just from reading my (seriously neglected) online home here, knows the day to day trials and tribulations I had with my job.  Not that there were not good aspects over the years, but there just came a point where the negatives just totally took over all aspects of daily work life.  Stomache aches, headaches, and daily dread became normal.  It was actually odd to have a good day and that’s just fucked up.  Life’s too short and frankly I think I deserve better.

So after taking it easy for a couple weeks, but still doing my part time job from home, I am going to get my resume and face out to the greater Pittsburgh area.  Doing what?  Not sure yet.  I’m still pondering that.  I’m trying to reflect on what I like in life and how I can make that work for me.  Maybe it means doing any kind of work while training for something new in a new field.  Who knows?  Not me……..yet.

Monday Already?

It’s the start of another week.  Weekends go way too fast.  How did it come that work weeks would be five days and weekends only two?

The job hunt is on again. I got a letter telling me I must be insane for applying at this company and to go suck it and never bother them again.  Ok, actually it was a very nicely worded letter informing me the position has been filled and good luck with my future endeavors.  But when you first read it, it reads like I first described.  But I am glad to at least get some kind of notice rather than waiting and wondering, as is often the case after interviewing.

Interviewing is the worst thing in the world.  Seriously I would rather have tooth surgery than answer “and what would Brent bring to abc company?”  “tell us about yourself”  and the all time favorites “what would you change about yourself /  name a weakness.”

How about naming a strength, like sitting through these questions without my head exploding.

Is it Tuesday yet?

Scratch This

Lottery tickets are like a lot of little instant disappointments.

Hi, I’m Brent and I’m back. Miss me?  Of course you did.
Soooo since I have been on hiatus from my online home a lot has happened…

Two more GOP Governors admitted to having affairs. Does being in the public eye make it harder (pun intended) to keep it in your pants?

Started Job # 2, it’s online and work from home 10-20 hours a week ranking, rating, and analyzing search engine results for a technology company. So far I’m liking it even though it is more challenging than I thought it would be. My time management skills need work, but that’s nothing new. I keep telling myself I will get up early and put some time in before going to Job#1 but my will to stay in bed as long as possible has won out.

Took a Civil Service Exam for a job with the city, discovered it was a test for accountants, did bad. Came out of test and discovered my two hours of parking cost $23.  So that day just did not start well.

Interviewed for another new job, still waiting to hear.

Michael Jackson died. Seriously though, enough already with the daily coverage, he might have been a great entertainer but he was no role model.

Farrah Fawcett died, sad and overshadowed by MJ and that’s terrible.

Sarah Palin, in the news again popping up like a roach that never dies.

Softball has been going well, winning some and losing some but having fun. I’m glad I got back into it this year.

Matt and Erica came for a visit, it was fun to see them.

There was probably more stuff going on recently but my short term memory and/or attention span is  limited at the moment so I will just say a quick hello for now.  But check back, I’ll visit more often!