To Trust…. or not to Trust…. This is the question…..

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To Trust.... or not to Trust.... This is the question.....
So what are you to think, they company puts a guy in charge that is publicly known to want to spit on your grave. He sends in his little spy to watch what your doing. Two weeks later the spy is now your boss. Every dealing I've ever had with this guy in my life he has been a total ass. Now he's got his nicey, nicey face on and is trying to be my friend. Maybe he's a changed person now that his consulting company has been ran into the ground and he's many duckets into debt, but my guess is he's just trying to keep me happy until the figure out what to do with me. More to come on your late local news......

I give up…….

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So, I've officially given up on any hope of things getting better here at work. I have no moral left, no motivation left, and defiantly a seriously bitter taste in my mouth..... I think at this point I'm just hanging on, waiting to see how things shake out and collect a pay check. I've pretty much just been surfin the net and hiding out in my other office for the last week. Since I'm not in my office it makes me look busy. There is a couple things that make for a good employee: 1. Good moral, 2. Strong motivation, 3. Loyalty to the company. I currently have none of these. It's amazing how fast these can change. One month ago I was a model employee. I worked more than my share of hours. Everything I did was to make the company better. Now, I'm just a shell of my former self. What's an okie to do. Well anyway.... another day, another fifty cents. Minus the 6% in pay reduction they took from me.

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So my job offically sucks now. I've decieded to go all out and find another job. I have serious concerns about where this company is going. When you put idiots in charge it has no choice but take a nose dive. I'm trying to get my Stock Purchase Plan turned off now. No need in me putting money into a company where I have serious doubts in it's success isn't smart money management. In any case if anyone out there knows someone who need a network guy, let me know.....!

The Great White North…………

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So I took a trip to the great white north (Oklahoma) for the Easter weekend. I decided that it's about time for us to see Mom and Dad. Now normally any trip to Oklahoma will bring on me bitching about the condition of Oklahoma roads. Well not this time. Don't misunderstand the Oklahoma Interstates are still the worst in the country, but this time I'm bitching about the bugs. I can drive around Dallas for months and not collect one tenth of the bugs that I collected on the 3 hour trip up here. I'm sure I didn't get any bugs before I hit the river. Then I was having "Nam" flashbacks, I could here the cries of "Incoming" as the bugs would splat onto the truck. I'm sure there will be dents and possibly chipped paint to tell the tale. Where do they keep them all? I'm sure there is a scientist someplace studying the flow characteristics of ketchup for the government that could be put to better use trying to figure out this Okie bug thing. Well, anyway, I gotta go wash the truck. I know it's raining but I can't leave the carnage stuck on there.......

Will Network for Food………….

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So it looks like I might be on the job market again soon. The company I'm working for may be eliminating my position. I'm sure as soon as I'm gone they will find a need for the position again and rehire the top dog's friend. I don't feel near as bad cuz he's not only trying to replace me but everybody in the texas office. Nothing is final yet but It's looking pretty bad as we speak. So I'm updating my resume as we speak and will probably have it out on the market as early as next week. This way I can be looking while I still have a pay check coming in. I guess next week I'll also go over my budget to see what I can cut out in a hurry to save some money. I guess this puts on hold my plans to buy a house. But at the same time you can never tell until all the cards are on the table. Anyhoo... Keep your fingers crossed!

Ouch………

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So I hurt my back this weekend. It's pretty sad actually. I couldn't hurt it doing something manly like, "Well I was there was no need for a jack I just lifted the car up off the ground" or "I was benching my weight, doubled". Oh no.... I was cleaning the bath tub. I'm a little too domesticated sometimes. It was one of those things I could either lean over to clean the other side or climb in or get the stuff all over me. Well next time I'm going to get messy I guess. It wouldn't be so bad except my tub is pretty big so it's a long way to the other side. Well Sunday I couldn't get outta bed, but after a few muscle relaxers and a lot of Motrin I was able to move a bit, although with a lot of pain. Brandt's getting pretty good at tying my shoes. I figure a couple more days and I'll back up and around. Anyway.... I gotta get..... Time to go educate the masses.....

Hockey……..

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Well I posted a couple of pics of my hole in the wall at work..... They are Here and here. They are pretty big pics, just a warning. So tonight Brandt and I are off to see the Dallas Stars play somebody I never heard of. It doesn't really matter because we don't know anything about Hockey anyway. It's alot of ice and beating on each other, anything other than that and I'm lost.Well I'll fill ya in on how it went later.... See ya!

Poor, Poor, Poor Brooke……….NOT……

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So Brooke and Jeff have decided to get a divorce. My only question about the whole thing is in the divorce she is asking that he continues to pay for the Day AND the Night housekeepers. Not just the housekeepers but the Day AND the Night housekeepers. What exactly has she been doing? We know he has a job, we kind of see that every weekend, but what's she doing. Can't she throw in a load of dishes or something once in a while. How much of a mess do you have to make to need 24hr housekeepers anyway? I'm not too concerned for Jeff, cuz although Brooke is pretty hot, she's not everything. I'm sure he'll get himself a nice upgrade to Wife version 2.0. She was way too old for him anyway. I actually know a few people that would like to apply for that position when it comes open. I'm sure that Jeff will start hanging with some of the single party guys at the track. Dale Jr. I'm sure would be at the top of that list. The will probably go out and drink some Bud, chase the skirts, and make fun of the Bodine sisters. Ya know, like the rest of us do! Anyhow.... Good Luck Jeff!

Life is good…..

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So the little goof ball is back where he belongs, here with me. Not saying that he doesn't belong with his mom or anything, but with out him I truly do not have a clue what to do with myself. He got to spend his spring break with Rachel and Jarrett. Speaking of Jarrett, he's decided that for some unknown reason his elbows are pretty cool. The last two times I've seen him, he's made it a point to show them to me. Gotta luv the kid.

Explaination…………….

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So 1 year ago Jeff dominated in Las Vegas. He then went on to win the points championship in a way not seen, well since the last time he won the championship. Now here's my theroy on the ole Las Vegas thing this year. I think he's just lying in the grass waiting for his time to pounce. Ya see, just to make it more competitive, Jeff deceided his season would start week 4 at Atlanta. It's sort of a handicap system. Kind of like you'd have in Golf or something. Now that he's spotted the compitition a few points it's about time for the season to start. So cinche down your belts and strap on the HANS cuz here we go. For real this time........

School has Changed……

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School has really changed over the years. I'm sure my parents said the same thing when I was in school but gezz.... This is just alot for me to take in. Tonight we had Parent/Teacher Confrences. First of all let me say I never dragged my parents to a confrence where the teacher was wearing a short little mini skirt. Not that I mind, but teachers didn't quite look like that when I was young. Heck, I don't see how they get any learning done at all like that. Anyhoo... after discussing some of the long writting assignments Brandt has been having, she said it was fine if he did them on the computer and then just printed them out. First of all I don't want him doing that until he proves he can do it normally and second of all, in high school we got chewed out for using a calculator to do simple math. Like we hadn't been doing it on pencil and paper for the previous ten years. Oh that's another thing. They let them use pens. We were pretty much pencils only until way late in school. And even then it was frowned upon. Many other things have changed.... But I didn't notice half of them, mostly due to the short skirt thing........

Family -n- Stuff……..

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So anyway, my brother is having another baby. Well he's not having it exactly but his girlfriend is. Now he's just finishing up a nasty divorce, which means he now has a nasty ex-wife. He's not making a million dollars a day and he's already got two great kids. But ya know I'm still really happy for him. Ya can't beat the feeling of having kids. You can beat kids,,, but not the feeling of actually having kids...... Complete different things. Anyhoo, congrats baby brother.......