Hump Day

I almost forgot how to get into my blog to post. I'm on a different computer during the week and didn't have the web address. I also use different browsers to access the internet. I typed in www.eblogger.com and got another service and couldn't figure out why my sign-in didn't work. Duh. The weekdays are pretty busy and I probably won't get to post much. It's football season and this weekend is the team's homecoming. There's always something to do and there's always reading. If you saw my office, I will never run out of reading materials. I just finished two books by Richard Brautigan - A Confederate General From Big Sur and In Watermelon Sugar. He's pretty out there. I wonder if he was doing drugs when he wrote them. I just started another book by Anne Tyler - The Clock Winder. I'm always amazed at some of the things that get published. This blogging will probably only be a weekend thing. I'm bummed the Chicago Cubs blew another game. I turned it on on the radio driving home from work and I think I jinxed them. They were winning 2 to 1 and gave up the tying run in the top of the ninth. Then I turned on the t.V. to watch the end and they blew it in the 12th. They're running out of time. I did want to ramble about work. I went to ask for some vacation days in November and December and they're all booked. I asked my supervisor to see the calendar. I did. So now what. I guess I'll have to call in and take personal days. The new unannounced policy since September is that only one person in our department can be off on any given work day. It used to be two. They fired one excellent employee and another one left because they got tired of all the b.s. They keep piling on the work and they have taken away all of our incentive. It is really tempting to join them and seek other employment. I enjoy the work but the bosses are morons. Anybody who works for morons knows how that goes. The hours are good 7:00 a.m to 3:30 with an hour for lunch and I'm only five minutes from home. That's what's making it hard to seek other employment.We do have a lottery pool at work with about half of the remaining employees and the next Mega Millions drawing is for Friday, October 1st, 2004 is $101,000,000. Split between 20 people that's $5,050,000 each. The odds are only 135,000,000 to one. I collect the money for the pool so I'm always figuring the amount each of us would get. We're dreaming. Time to go do some other dreaming - sleep. Until next time...

Sunny Sunday

Sunday September 26, 2004

It's a glorious day. Up bright and early. Too bad the Bears and Cubs both lost. Watched youth football all afternoon outside. The sixth grade team lost 12 to 0 and the "Varsity" won 14 to 0. One of the players on the other team got a concussion and that delayed the second game. It made me think back to my one and only ambulance ride. That was one of the bumpiest and most uncomfortable rides I've ever been on. I wasn't even injured but they had to take me in for observation and then about a month later I got a bill for $400.00 that's what really hurt.

I'm just finishing up the Sunday Chicago Tribune. I forgot who said it but a newspaper really is a great value. I'm one of those people that has to organize it before I start reading it. All the sections in numerical order and read them in order. I look at the T.V. Week first to see if there's anything worth watching. Then read the Parade and the Tribune Magazine. Dave Barry always has a column in the Tribune Magazine. He is one of the first people I knew who had a blog. I remember the cartoonist Jeff MacNelly who used to do a cartoon for his column. What a great cartoonist he was. I wonder what kind of satire Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen will come up with after the hurricanes. They sure have a dearth of material in Florida.

I can't imagine being at any of those place that got hit by the hurricanes. All that wind and rain. How do you decide what you take when you evacuate. It must be brutal not knowing if anything will be there when you get back. The paper mentions a guy that drowned after a hurricane party. I wonder what you do at a hurricane party. Isn't there a drink called a hurricane? Were there any people out there trying to surf the big waves like that Keanu Reeves movie "Point Break?" and all those alligators being liberated. Where do all the birds hide? I wonder if there are any hurricane blogs that can answer these puzziling questions.

This is a new experiment for me. I'll see how it works out. When I figure this out I'd like to have links to things I see. It's nice to be able to capture some of these random thoughts and archive them. Maybe this will be more like an online diary than a blog. Who knows.

Sunday

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." - Joseph Addison

First Post

Saturday Night - September 25, 2004

I just read someone's blog (defined) n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author. (v.) To author a Web log. Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs). They just bought a new chair. Coincidently I just bought 6 new chairs at a garage sale today to replace my broken kitchen chairs. I decided I have to do that - a blog. I've been wanting to keep track of a lot of random thoughts and things I come across. This could be the way to do it. I spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet especially on the weekends reading hundreds of informational e-mails, looking at new websites, reviewing books and movies, travel destinations, entering online contests and checking some of the over 900 favorite websites I've saved. Like anyone reading this you probably have an internet routine. I will just add some random gleanings to my routine. My full-time job revolves around the internet and I found it on the internet. It will be cool chronicling what's happening and then going back to review. My passion is reading and I have aspirations of being a writer. A blog may help me get off my behind and get serious about putting it on paper. I am constantly amazed and amused at the amount of fascinating reading on the internet.