April 23, 2005
OK, I went a little too far this time, but I’m not quite sure that I did. So I’ll throw this out to a larger audience for guidance.
When questioned about my decision to get married by a rather liberal female friend, I tried to pull her leg a little and answered her with this –
Well, ______, I thought about this for a while and I even did a cost-benefit analysis. Yeah, seriously! See, _______, I thought that I have a lot of needs, but if I were to pay for a therapist, a maid, a surrogate mother, a daycare that could parent — not just babysit, an investment strategist, an accountant to help with taxes, a whore, and more… I’d probably be broke within a year. So, I was thinking that a wife was a pretty good idea.
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April 22, 2005
Well, I got slammed at UPS last night. I didn’t really notice it at first, but then my supervisor kept suggesting that I hop out of the feeder to get some of the irregs (packages that are 70+lbs or really large and irregularly shaped) up off the floor in front of my feeder.
Anyway, I had about twice the irregs that I normally get and on top of that I had a few hundred packages more than normal. So, tonight I hit 1501… meaning I loaded 1,501 packages (actually more, because sometimes a package won’t scan.)
This makes me really happy, because I am the first one in the group that was hired when I was to hit 1500. Also, it means I am 3/4 of the way to doing 2000 in a night, which would be sweet because I get a cool T-shirt and bragging rights. Gotta love bragging!
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April 17, 2005
For those of you who don’t know, I am getting married on May 5th — in like nineteen days. Since the wedding is getting closer and closer I have been corresponding with a number of old friends from High School and that Fort Myers life in general. All of them are congratulatory, but many of them also come to me with all sorts of questions about my decision to get married. They almost always ask with the perspective that the decision might be hasty or wrong in some way.
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April 3, 2005
To anyone that has seen the end of Dogma this will probably ring a bell pretty quickly…
I just signed out of hotmail, and the headlines at msn.com were about Jean Paul II and Schiavo passing away. That instantly reminded me of Kevin Smith’s take on euthanasia from his movie, Dogma. I laughed. I am wondering if anyone else out there finds this somewhat amusing or at least interesting.
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March 16, 2005
I moved for about 4 hours yesterday with Mike and then I went off to UPS to work on loading boxes into a feeder for another four and a half hours. I am pretty tired and all my muscles are really tight. Even my eyes hurt. To make matters worse there is construction going on right outside of my new apartment. That woke me up with the loud noise of many trucks backing up constantly and the apartment shaking intermittently.
I am beyond tired and frustrated with this new living situation already.
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March 5, 2005
This article is interesting to me for so many reasons… it touches on many of the topics that interest me — Florida’s government, Education, Chiropractic, money/power issues, “Scientist’s” tactics, etc. etc.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6835571/
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March 2, 2005
I have been really busy lately with school work, Joy visiting me, my birthday, and finding an apartment to move into by mid-March. So, I haven’t exactly had time to sit down and blog, but I have anyway — in OneNote. The problem, though, is that I haven’t even had time to put my writings onto an easy drive and get them to where the Internet is.
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February 22, 2005
I went to UPS for the third time today. The purpose was to “interview” with them once more, but the reality of it was that I needed to show them my passport and sign some papers. I wonder if I could have sped up the process by one week if I had brought my checkbook (for the routing and account numbers) and my passport. It seemed like I could have done everything that I needed to do at home right there in the office if I had those two things with me at the second meeting / first interview.
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February 9, 2005
I subvocalize when I read. I didn’t know this was even an issue until I heard about the problems it causes for me when I try to speed-read. Recently, I realized that I also subvocalize when I write. This should have been an obvious next step, but it took me a few years after the first realization to come to the second. The funny thing is that I always knew that I did this. I just never consciously thought about it.
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January 26, 2005
This past weekend I relented to Joy’s requests to leave Orlando again (after being here just two days) and headed down to Fort Myers after mere three hours after getting off from work. I left even though I badly needed sleep, and I left quickly so I could just drive home and crawl into bed…
This past weekend was a nightmare. Sure we got things taken care of for the wedding etc., but things just got crazy during and after that. I think that most of it has to do with me sleeping through a phone call (that I answered while sleeping, I gather) and then missing a dinner with Joy’s parents that I didn’t exactly know about.
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