Heart Attack at 30

Let’s start with a playlist.

Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear

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That’s about how many times I’ve listened to that record since it came in the mail last week. I love it.

Right now I’m listening to the Permanent/Resonance Split 7″ since I received my turntable last week. I’m stoked on it. Took me about 2 hours to set it up because the geniuses that wrote the directions forgot the part about attaching the actual belt (long rubber band) to the drive shaft. Anyway, I got it working. The Resonance side of this record is stupid good. I’ve been a fan since Permanent played their last shows whenever that was all those years ago, even though then Resonance ended up back together. Oh yeah, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that Permanent finally broke up, which is kind of too bad in a way because their side of the record is way good also. On the other hand, Greg’s a dick, Logan lives with his gf, as does James, and James apparently just bought a house. They all seem to be growing up about 2 years after Gibson and I did. Whatever…

Speaking of Gibson…James and Jennifer bought Leah and I some delicious beer and a bottle of Scotch for Christmas. Well, Leah wasn’t such a fan of Scotch and I’ve come to learn I like anything with the word “Whisky” in the title, so Gibson and I split the bottle of Scotch one night while playing Guitar Hero III. I didn’t go to work the next day. Thanks James and Jennifer!

Let’s see…I might be getting a promotion, but I doubt it will happen because Oakley sucks.

We’ve been riding a lot lately! Waaayyyy fun! It’s taken me a couple of trips to start getting my confidence back, but I’m getting there. No problems, straight riding but getting my air/rail technique and control has been a little bit of an issue. I just need to man up and bomb some hits.

My parents and Granny are coming out in a week! They will be here for 4 days which should be rad. Get to show them where I live, used to work, Cali in general. I’m getting better at the whole So Cal/Orange County tour thing. Of course all Moms wants to do is sit on the beach, but it’s just too cold right now for that. Maybe for a little while, she can watch me surf or something. Maybe I’ll take my dad, but I doubt he could handle it. We’ll see….

Last but not least, Leah switched to working day shifts! We have wayyy more time together now and she is not nearly as tired all the time, she’s been kind of sick lately, but that happens. Life seems to be better when we have more time to spend together, when we don’t see each other a lot we both get testy and irritable.

interesting

so i just clicked on the little time button in the lower right hand corner of my screen (go ahead and follow along) to try and figure out how many days are left until we move back to virginia (yes, it’s official we’re moving back in the middle of july). so the calendar and the time pop up and i click on the month and select july (go ahead). did you notice how the cursor that tells you the date didn’t move at all? i wasn’t sure if maybe my computer was broken (it’s been on the fritz lately) or what, but it turns out the dates in january and july fall on the same days of the week. maybe it’s this way every year? nope. it’s not. must be because this year is a leap year. soooooooooo……….

172 days until we start the trek back across the country!

work sucks. i might be getting a raise though.

daniel turned 21 on sunday. absolutely nuts.

leah works her last night shift tomorrow night. probably one of the best things that could possibly happen to our relationship.

i was dumb multiple times last week.

lots of people have died recently, january has not been a good month.

my friend’s dad tried to anger me to the point of killing him at his own son’s WEDDING. Thank Jesus i controlled my temper.

hopefully we’ll be going snowboarding on monday. it will be the third time we’ve tried to go. hopefully this time it will work out.

did i mention i can’t wait to be home? actually i didn’t.

I CAN’T WAIT TO BE HOME

that’s all.

It’s been a long time

Oh man. Where do I start?

Well, I finished my duty on night shift. Inventory got screwed up soooo bad in the end because of multiple reasons. However, I feel the main reason was the stupid idea to use the analyst that barely speaks english. Oh well, not my fault. Dumb bosses rule.

The trip back to Right Coast was pretty awesome as expected. It’s set in stone now that we’ll be moving back most likely in the middle of July. So I guess I should update that profile thing to say that we are way homesick and can’t wait for the next six months to end. Christmas was good. My family is totally bonkers. I feel terrible for my mom. Every time we go back I feel terrible when I leave because she is left there with no one to help her deal with the craziness. My dad does nothing but hide in his room, and my other brothers and sisters are so terribly lazy that it makes me sick. Except Whitney, but she gets up at 4:30am everyday to take Chase (her completely loser baby-daddy) to work and then she comes back and takes her two kids to day care and then she goes to work and gets home at like 5:30pm. She does this EVERY SINGLE DAY. Oh well, that’s what happens when you make poor life decisions. We saw most people we needed to see. Beau Beau at starlite and Fred at salvation. Gibson’s birthday was nuts, but bdays always are back there.

A lot has changed

Oh man. So remember me saying I got out of working nights? HA! Right! I’m working nights. Between 8 and 14 hours shifts. It’s great. I love being salaried with no OT. It rules. SO HARD.

The bonuses. I get to spend slightly more time with Leah, I think. I also only have to work 3 days next week. That’s it. I’m not bored at work anymore because I’m out in the warehouse managing 6 18-20somethings which include a ratio of 4 guys to 1 girl, who happens to be incredibly flirtatious. Once again. OH MAN.

Still can’t wait to get home.

i’m lazy

Those two words pretty much define my life. I have a job I go to everyday and do maybe 3 hours of work at. The other 5 hours I waste away counting the minutes and scouring the internet.

Anyway…life has been alright lately. I got out of working nights and managing a team that doesn’t speak English, so now I will be commuting to Ontario, CA (not Canada) probably 3 to 4 days a week until we go to VA which is quickly approaching. I’ve been listening to the same 3/4 bands pretty much on repeat. In order of most listens:

1. Polar Bear Club- Demo; The Redder, the Better
2. Dag Nasty – Can I Say
3. Silent Majority – Life of a Spectator
4. Soul Control – Demo

I also started a wish list on Amazon which has lots of stuff on it. I’ve decided I love blues guitar and I really want to learn it.

I listened to Mike Ness this morning and decided he’s a genius. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for sure.

I love my wife.

That’s all I got.

Praise Jesus!

Sooo yesterday I wrote (whined) about working ridiculous hours. Well, yesterday, after I wrote that, my boss and I decided that instead of working 12 hours a day, I would work 8-10 hours overnight. So I’m going to have a team of however many employees that will be pulling product for the move and then I will be managing them. So not that much has changed right? Starting Sunday night, I’ll be working 11pm – 8am. Huuuuuuuge change. Now I will get to spend way way way more time with Leah than I normally would working my day shift, and I’ll get to understand what it feels like to work nights and try to sleep during the day. We’ll see how screwed up my body gets after the first week. I also only have to do this until we go to VA which is in 23 days (18 work days). I think I’m going to be whiped for the flight though, since I will probably work 16 hours straight before we go. Wednesday night and then until about 3pm on Thursday.

Man, I can’t wait to get to VA!!!!!!!!!!! AGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHFDHAJKPBNFPQGRIO;NRFV

19 days and counting

19 days until I’m back on vacation and holy crap am I going to need it. Starting today my life at work sucks. Well, not necessarily starting today, because it sucked before, but now it sucks on a whole other level. 12 hour days (6 am – 6:30pm) , 5-6 days a week, and now for the kicker…NO OVERTIME PAY. I am a salaried employee which has its advantages, but has the one huge weakness of no overtime. This is going to put a tooooooon of pressure on my relationship with Leah, and it will pretty much whipe me out energy wise. Then once I get back from Virginia, I will have to work through that upcoming weekend (15-16 hours a day, which in Jay hours means 24), doing the final move of the warehouse.

I think this might be a tiny taste of hell.

Time to get serious

Alright, so anyone who somewhat pays attention to the news knows that it gets distorted and then some. Being some what involved in the punk/hardcore scene, I see lots of different posts/information that really blows up mainstream media/the goverment. Now, being a conservative, I generally blow this stuff off. Lately I have been doing more research to try and understand opposing opinions better. Today I saw this little blurb (I’m WhiteCollar) about hollywood-backed legislation that would supposedly give the government the power to cut off all governent loans/grants to a college or university if even one student was caught illegally downloading copyrighted media. Of course in the comments section all these commie liberal
“I hate the government” punkers (of which I used to be) immediatly blow up and post all sorts of stupid ignorant crap. So to back myself up, I read the article the blurb was about and didn’t see anything that said the government could cut off any sort of funding to colleges based for the aforementioned reasons. Still giving punknews the benefit of the doubt, I looked up the bill and found the exact section they were talking about. Section 494, page 411. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING that says they will cut off funding based on that. What it says is that colleges and universities will have to “develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.” They don’t even have to implement the plans. Just DEVELOP them. Maybe I’m just being ignorant and naive, but damn. It’s a pretty big leap to say that participating institutions will get cut off because of ONE student.

The lesson here: Don’t blindly follow what ANYONE says as truth. Investigate for yourself and form your own opinions.

Sluttering

damn I love Jawbreaker.

Jawbreaker – Dear You
+44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
Silent Majority – Life of a Spectator
In Flames – Tokyo Showdown

I’m tired and bored. I borderline lost my temper in a meeting this morning when I told some of my co-workers in this meeting that they were not living up to their end of the bargain and that Ifelt like my job was a waste of time because of it. Hopefully this will cause some things to change. I did hit the table once when the guy next to me repeated exactly what I had just stated was the problem. Dumbass. Anyway. Ricky comes tomorrow. I think I’ve got my travel plan down for the 4 hour round trip it will take to pick him up from LAX. I even know what terminal he’s flying into and exactly how to get there. I’ll probably still come stupidly close to getting in an accident, Leah will freak out, and I’ll get pissed/frustrated/annoyed. As a precautionary measure to this I have already figured out exactly which lanes I need to be in and how the forks work. I will review again tomorrow while at work to make sure I still have it down. Dang, still 13 more minutes to go…

2, 2.5, 3, 33

Lots of numbers…

one. 2 days until Ricky is in Cali!

two. 2.5 days until I have 4 days off!

three. 3 days until turkey day!

four. 33 days until we’re back in VA!

5. Lots and lots and lots to look forward to.

6. Someone besides me reads this! The internet is amazing!

7. And now back to being my grumpy old self…

Inventory on Friday sucked again. Not AS bad as Oakley inventory but still pretty bad. 13.5 hours of work. yuck. The good news is I think I’m good with my real boss again. For those of you that don’t know I have two bosses. My real boss, Jay, is the distribution manager for Oakley, which means he is in charge of our (currently 3, soon to be 2) warehouses. He is about 6′3 and very intimidating. He runs marathons, so he can pretty much work forever without getting tired. I have seen him smile, but it does not happen very often. My other boss, Will, is 29 and very much like me. We got along great and have become pretty good friends. I can complain to him about my job in general and know that he won’t get mad.

Anyway, how I got on bad terms with Jay…

I was pretty pissed working the Saturday of the Oakley inventory and was in general in a bad mood. I along with several other managers made that pretty well known through our actions, which pissed Jay off. He hasn’t really talked to me for about two weeks, anyway, long story short, I worked hard on Friday and he noticed and started talking to me again. So I think my job may be a little less tense this week. Now, if I can only get Wednesday comped for all the extra unpaid hours I’ve put in lately…

On to Saturday!

Beer pong tournament! Leah had the flu that morning so she didn’t play, but came out to watch. My team made it four rounds before being knocked out. I was really hoping to make it to the championship, but also kind of glad I didn’t. 4 rounds was enough, and I was getting tired and bored, by the end of it. Drank a bunch of beer and hung with a lot of people I’ve never met before/probably will never see again. All in all a very fun day.

Now I just hope I can make it through these next 2.5 days until I get some much needed time off.