One Of Those Days

When outside forces seem to come from everywhere to disrupt your day things can never go well. Today was one of those days. Here's the short list:

1. The DirecTV guy had to come back to drop off a couple power chords. Because he called me at 9:35 and Matt wasn't at home I had to wait around and be late opening the office.

2. Before I left the office to go to the Barn for the event tonight someone came in to ask about a house. I didn't leave when I needed to and I was late getting to Loveless.

3. Matt called me to say that the water was off at the house. This caught me off guard because I had taken a shower before I left this morning. Apparently the water company got a little chippy because I haven't paid the bill this month, that was due on the 15th!! Of course their offices won't be open until tomorrow morning so....

There's more but those are the high (low) lights. I just want a warm shower and time in front of my new premium television service. Oh, and a foot rub would be nice as well. I don't ask for much.

Why My Summer Is Already Wasted

For the last six months I have been without cable television. I lost my job last year and had to cut a few expenditures that were not necessary. So cable television went by the wayside and I was reduced to seven channels from about two hundred. But fear not dear friends, for yesterday my house was wired with DirecTV. I LOVE having so many choices!! I have missed being able to mindlessly wander the waste land that is premium television. Plus it's a hell of a lot cheaper than cable. All in all I'm sure that what very little productivity I have in my life will now take a massive nose dive. I look forward to this.

Better Late Than Never

It's been a few months since I updated this blog. I had originally planned to do a series of blogs about the year 1999 but as I started organizing them I realized that looking back ten years isn't the answer. Don't get me wrong, I loved 1999. It was one of the best years of my life and I have many fond memories from that time. The real thing here is that I find myself in the middle of a decade in life that I never thought would come. I never had a plan past 29 years old. I thought I'd die or just fade away before I entered my thirties. The brutal reality is that now I am a middle aged man who doesn't have a clue how to live life anymore.

I've recently met a couple of women that I've found very intriguing and even have contemplated asking them out. But the simple fact is that we aren't in the same place in our lives. A few years ago we would have been perfect for each other. Hell, a decade ago I would have ran blindly right into any scenario involving them or girls just like them. Now I find myself in that time of life where the things I have always loved (i.e. wild women, alcohol, bar hoping, etc.) just really make me feel like that old guy that's trying desperately to hang on to some semblance of his youth.

In the last year I had an experience that wreaked of high school. I mean once I got on the other side of this situation a very familiar, yet long forgotten, feeling washed over me. Almost a year later I look back and realized that I was trying to wedge myself into a group of people that just didn't want me around. And the sole reason for that was that I'm not their age anymore. That hurt a little. Ok, A LOT. But such is life. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I had done just a little planning along the way I wouldn't feel like an overgrown teenager in a world that is tired of overgrown teenagers.

Mostly I've used this blog to talk about pop culture. It's time to get back to writing about the things that I'm experiencing day to day. I mean if we can't use the internet for self indulgence then what good is having an internet connection? There will be more very soon.