Thought I could make an update for all my devoted fans (my mom). Not that much going on really. I’m in the middle of the big overtime pickup which actually isn’t that bad since I still have pretty much the whole weekend like normal. All the OT I picked up is pretty much during the week, which makes it a really long miserable week. It’s all good though, I’ll have a kick ass paycheck next payday and I’m taking Friday off for a 3 day weekend in a couple weeks.

I finally bit the bullet and put about $4500 into my Scottrade account. Time to do something with that money instead of just having it just sit around doing nothing in the savings account. In fact I think I am just going to close the savings account all together and put the remaining $1000 I have in there into the brokerage account. The way I was planning on doing it was to put $1000 into checking for bills and day to day stuff and $1000 into savings for unforeseen emergencies and whenever I get paid and the total is over that the excess gets invested. I was thinking why have that money in savings at all? It isn’t doing anything for me there and I rarely have to dip into it. Why not use the $25000 or so worth of credit that I don’t use for anything, for emergencies and have my available cash working for me in investments? Isn’t that what the stupid credit cards are for in the first place?

I have a little cabin fever right now. I want to go out and have an adventure or something. Actually I feel like dropping everything and moving someplace I’ve never been before to see something new. That isn’t really going to happen since I am getting pretty old for starting over someplace else job wise again. I suppose I will wait until Duncan opens their new place in Albuquerque or Flagstaff or wherever they decide to open up at and go move down there for a while. Since I am in an adventure mood I watched the entire Long Way Round TV series on DVD. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman go 20,000 miles around the world from England to New York on motorcycles in about 100 days. I’m reading the book that inspired them to take the trip now. It’s called Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon. On his trip he went 80,000 miles on a trip that took 4 years and covered the entire earth. I’m not that far into it yet but so far it’s pretty good.

I was also inspired to pick up a bunch of drawing supplies today. I used to be a really good artist a long time ago and I really enjoyed doing it but one day I just put the supplies down and that was that. I know for a long time I moved the art stuff from place to place with me and eventually more and more of it disappeared along the way until eventually it was all gone. I tried to draw something a while back and I was pissed because it looked terrible. I just lost the eye for it ya know? Anyway I was working the overnight with Hoop the other night and he showed me some sites of some artists that were really good. One of them had a similar story to me in that he liked it at one time, put it down and then came back to it after many years. He sucked ass at first too since he had to relearn everything again. He went from stuff like THIS, to stuff like THIS. That second one is ridiculously good. I suppose I just need to practice and my stuff can be good again too (although even when I was good my stuff never looked like that second one). I got a bunch of art books from the library that I am looking at so I can relearn all the techniques so we will see how that turns out.

What the hell is wrong with the justice system anyway? Kasey was at the hockey game with Shannon the other day and he gets a tap on his shoulder and sees Joanie my ex wife standing there. Why the fuck isn’t she in prison? Didn’t she get busted with 42 grams of meth like 10 months ago? Didn’t she already plead guilty? Anyway he said it like looking at the Faces of Meth website with her and her dirtbag husband. Kasey was like “Soooo, you stayin out of trouble?” and she was like “What do you mean?”, “Well I just heard you had a little trouble, about a year ago?” “How did you hear about that?, err uh I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Then her and her douchebag husband give each other a look. Jesus Christ you moron how do you think people find out about it? It’s public information that they report in the paper. I think I would have been happier if Kasey would have just not mentioned that he saw her. Now I’m worried that crackheads are going to break into the house to steal shit. Thats all I have to report for the time being. Power to the Puerto Ricans.

And so does the dog. I’m tired of the cold weather. Not really because I’m sick of it at work, I just want to go outside and do something other than work. Little bit of cabin fever going on I suppose. It’s funny watching a 12 inch tall dog try and poop in 8 inches of snow. It doesn’t work that well. I quit smoking. I’m on day 13 now. Well day 8 if you count the 3 I bummed when drinking last week but I’m not going to count those because… well it just doesn’t count because… ummm I didn’t buy them and uhhh… you see the rum and… Look it just doesn’t count OK? Let’s see what else is going on. I picked up 50 hours of overtime in the next 2 weeks so yea that should be a blast. I have no idea why really. I don’t need the money. Thats about it.

Well it’s been a while since I’ve written anything on here. You really didn’t miss anything. I went and stayed at my parents house Christmas eve after working a double shift and getting off at 6 am and left on Christmas day to drive back and go to work. I meant to go see my grandma in Platte Center on Christmas day but I got such a late start getting up because I couldn’t sleep the night before that I didn’t have time. I feel pretty bad about that. Not getting holidays off kind of sucks sometimes. Kasey seems to have an extra day off at least every month working for the guard. I had New Years Eve off but as usual I didn’t do anything. Too many people out and they jack the prices up too much. I just stayed home and watched a couple movies.

The house has been pretty empty lately, it’s like I have my own house most of the time since Kasey is never here anymore. He’s got a new girlfriend and he spends most of his time over there. It seems like it’s going pretty well for him and she seems like a pretty good girl so I hope that all goes well for him.

Work is the same old shit different day sort of thing. Dave was trying to get me to apply for the team leader opening in Battle Creek. I don’t know why. I guess the bosses from up there were fishing for some applicants from down here because all the people up there aren’t that great or something. No one in Lincoln wants it, or if they do they cant do it because they have a house and family here. There’s really no point for me even to apply at this point. I haven’t been working here long enough to get the job in the first place. Even if I was some kind of efficient super worker with managerial skills oozing out of my pores instead of a moody, always tired prick and I did get the job I don’t want to move to Battle Creek anyway.

I went out and bought that GPS unit to go geocaching. It’s pretty fun. Not fun like WHHHHHOOOOOOOO! YEAAAAA! fun, it’s more like relaxing fun. Went out today and found seven of them just for a lack of anything better to do. After I got back from the first four and showed Kasey my “swag” from the trip he wanted to go out and give it a try. Not because he was really interested, probably more so he could make fun of me and call it stupid. The reaction that most people give me when I tell them that I’m geocaching is, “uummmmm yeaaaaaaa. so whats the point?” Anyway we went out with 4 of them to find and ended up finding 3 after hiking for a couple miles and jumping a creek and some fences to get to them. Kasey seemed to enjoy himself and wants to go again. When he told his girl and Gabe what we were out doing when they called on the cell he got pretty much the same reaction that I get when I explain it. His girl was like uhhh whatever and changed the subject and of course Gabe was “what are ya out suckin dicks in the park?” Everyone hates Gabe. Just kidding.

No I’m not.