The past two nights my internet has been down at the house, so I have not been able to upload a picture of my new glasses. I’ve also not been able to job search, but at least I found the last version of my resume and will be able to update it. work’s been full of drama lately, and I’m anticipating more drama coming up this fall, so I’m going to see what my options are. And I know I’ve said it before about job searching, and I have looked before, but this time I have a goal to send out 5 resumes by the end of the week. I have no idea what the results will be, but as far as internal job postings, my friends have had it take at least a month before you hear back anything. I was able to find some pretty cool jobs yesterday morning though, so I’m interested to see what happens.

While I have to go without posting pictures, I might as well air some grievances. My car’s cd player has been broken for about a month. I’m talking when you put a disc in, there’s a grinding noise. It’s sad, because now I’m relegated to listening to the radio. The radio isn’t so bad because I really like listening to WWOZ, but sometimes I need some rock music, or at least something different. FM radio in the morning reduces the number of listenable stations by 3 at least, and the same talk show is on TWO different stations! The other station that turns to talk is like listening to an issue of maxim, a complete waste of time that serves no purpose. Then interspersed in the talking, he’ll play a rock song from 1994. speaking of, the supposed “Rock Of New Orleans” has issues with playing anything from within the last 10 years. On a recent trip home last week, we listened for what songs they were playing….5 out of 6 were from BEFORE 1996. i understand if they think the greatest time for modern rock was 1991-1995 (which is still debatable), but who are they to determine that? the Foo Fighters have put out albums since 1995, nobody cares about Silverchair much anymore, and Beck has done better songs since Odelay. the ‘classic’ rock stations are okay, but they play a lot of the same songs. So the past couple of days, I’ve been listening to the country station, getting back in touch with my love for country music that I left behind in 1997. i don’t know when I’ll get the cd player fixed, but right now I’m getting by on songs from Brad, Keith, and Carrie….but I wish I could hear some more Reba. The one thing I don’t like about country, is the songs sometimes are pathetically sad. Sure, I could write a song about how my tractor broke down, my wife left me, my dog got run over by a car, and I ended up passed out drunk in a recliner, but that doesn’t seem to me like a song I want to listen to a sunny day with my windows down.

As an update to the carpool, things have been going pretty well. I have not missed yet! I also enjoy getting home early because I’ve been able to make a few matinee movies. However, I have to deal with an intersection at a truck stop to get to our carpool meeting place every morning. I have seen truckers completely disregard the red light or just pull out and block half the road. I don’t ask much from people when I’m driving, but simple common courtesy would be nice. Of course, in both instances, I flipped them off. It’s not so much that people are doing that to me, but that they care so little about other people, that someone should at least try to hold them accountable. Sitting there patiently while some guy blocks traffic doesn’t teach the guy anything! And of course, the guys who ran the light, they honked their horn at me like I was the one forcing people to slam on their brakes because I was too arrogant to wait 90 seconds at a red light….my bad!

And finally, last night I went to walmart to get some groceries, when I noticed an older gentleman drinking one of those single chocolate milk bottles while he was shopping. When I saw him on the soup aisle, he was almost finished with it, and I thought “I bet he’s going to finish that milk and throw the bottle away before he gets to the front of the store!” (I’m kind of cynical when it comes to the general public) I did not follow him to see if that actually happened, but I figured it did after I talked with the cashier. The walmart by my house is being renovated, so they’re updating the freezer section, redoing the floor, etc. I asked her if we’d finally be getting self checkout machines, but she told me we would not because there’s too much theft. I told her about the old guy and the milk, and she said “you wouldn’t believe the kind of stuff we see here”. Again, I don’t ask much from people, but for crying out loud, take the time to buy the 99 cent bottle of milk! And why….WHY do those thieves keep self checkout out of my walmart? Isn’t someone supposed to be watching the self checkout stations to make sure people aren’t stealing anything? At least gas prices went down 10 cents yesterday, so I have that.