I May Have a New Home and Maybe a New Job (all in one)!

They call it that because it drains the life out of you!

I found that the job I wrote about yesterday would most likely be afternoon / night work for at least a year or so and then there would be a CHANCE that I could work days. The hours would probably be 1600-0000 to start which would actually be worse than the hours I have now since it would be day AND night. It may be Monday - Friday though. I like my current job itself and love my boss and I am pretty good in the seniority department (I would drop back down to the bottom in the new position) so I will probably not retake the test in 30 days to improve my 94%. I will just keep plugging-along until something with more "normal" hours comes along. With our new Governor making cuts to state budgets maybe my job will change soon in other ways too?

I have been in a funk for the last couple of days and now, when I look at the calendar, I realize it is the end of the month. I keep forgetting that every 28 days or so I get crabby until it happens and then I look at the calendar and remember why - my time of the month,

Who makes up those silly quizzes on Facebook so we can find out which Disney mother we are or what condiment we most associate with or what piece of gravel we were in ancient Babylonia?  I have taken these quizzes but I do not think I will do that anymore. I have a feeling they are gathering information and, if a world-wide genocide is started the people who take these quizzes will either be first to go so the world is a better place or they will be the last survive so the people performing the cleansing are intellectually superior. Either way, as is my nature, I will remain in the MIDDLE somewhere.

Why do we even care? Where's Mr. Blackwell when you need him?

Speaking of Facebook there is a photo going around asking "what color is this dress." Is it white and gold or blue and black. I believe it is a total scam to make us all look like moron guinea pigs. I have seen the photo many times and sometimes it is gold and white (most of the time) and sometimes it is blue and black. I believe there are more than one photo and some have one and some have another just to create a buzz about something. I am waiting for the other shoe dress to drop. There will be an advertiser of something attached to this thing soon. Maybe that one show... Say Yes to the Dress or something like that. I don't know if that is the name of the show but I have heard something like that in passing. We are just a bunch of sheep most of the time. Worse yet, many of us know we are sheep (like me) but still keep coming back to be slaughtered again and again. You'd think we would just want to know if it were cotton or a synthetic fiber.

Since I wrote those previous paragraphs I took the 4Runner and dropped it off at the mechanic (problems with the power steering and not warming-up properly), rode with Cha Cha to work, stopped by Target and bought some nail clippers (I have several pairs at home but I encountered a hanger an needed to get that chopped-off), came here to Barnes & Noble Booksellers and set-up shop to finish the blog and entertain myself. Jill and I are meeting my parents for lunch at a place called The Honey Jam down the road a piece from here. With the one vehicle at school with Fabio, the other at the shop and Cha Cha going to work it would have been a long, cold walk to Geneva from DeKalb so, I dropped her off at work and will waste time in the meantime. I am a world-class time-waster so no problem there. After lunch I will have more time to kill this afternoon. I contemplated a movie but there doesn't look like anything good that I haven't already seen.


When I first arrived here at the book store I bought a huge water (I would feel guilty sitting here using their electricity, internet, heat, chair, table, washroom, air...) and thought I would check and see if they had Young Frankenstein here. You may recall I searched many places out in the country community we call home in the MIDDLE of the cornfields. Thanks to karma they had it. I didn't even think that it would come in Blu-Ray but it does and I decided to pay the extra to get in that way. Won;t Cha Cha be pleased?! I thought using the word "pleased" instead of "happy" would sound more Geneva-ish. It is almost 1000 now an I will get Jill for lunch a bit after noon and, after lunch. I will have several hours to kill again. I may head over to Funway and play some video games (I love shooting games) or go bowling (is it sad to see a guy bowling by himself with a loaner ball and rental shoes?).I guess I could take-up drinking again and go hang-out at a bar. Hollywood Casino for some Black Jack or Texas Holdem? I guess I could always go home and then come back too huh?

I suppose that I could use this place like a library if I wanted to couldn't I? I could go get a magazine or a book and sit here and read it. Do you think they would frown-up me opening a book on tape and listening to it from my computer? I would be considerate and wear headphones if they wanted. Hey, I already bought Young Frankenstein and I could just sit here and watch that couldn't I? Other people are starting to filter in and a lady just sat down in a big comfy chair with a couple of magazines and is reading them. She didn't even buy a huge (1.05 quarts / 1 litre) Fiji Water and a Young Frankenstein movie. I would never do that; that seems rude to me. Perhaps that is why I am not a millionaire: I actually have a brain that only puts-out 37% greedy and rude and heartless.

It's a really rough day for me today!

I have to go use the washroom again (at my age you only rent the liquids). This place has everything for a homeless Matt. I need to find one that is open 24-hours. I may as well sign-off. I think I will sit here and play Texas Holdem on Pokerist. I have been playing a lot of poker on-line lately and I win more than I lose which is why I am think about heading to the casino. Okay, enough already. I will almost assuredly blog again tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by my new Barnes and Noble Blog In The Middle. Try to stay warm if you're in my nape of the neck.

Post Blog Script (PBS) - that lady with the magazines just left and she just left the magazines on the chair that she was sitting at. I will probably put them back since she is so rude. Hey, maybe I can get a job here - kind of like Tom Hanks did in The Terminal. Okay, I have work to get done here at my new job - problem of how to kill time solved. I hope they will let me off for lunch with Cha Cha and my parents. TA!