say it aint so:(

I have now officially written and deleted two fully written blogs. I was thinking I would share something I wrote a long time ago; then I read some of my stuff and realized it was not as good as my memory made it out to be. Plus they were either down right depressing or something I wrote so I could read in the youth group at church, ha and nobody cares to read that stuff. Funny thing is that I for some reason thought I was better than that?

So here at the office the mood has been fairly somber over the course of the first few days of this week. There is nobody laughing at the top of their lungs; nobody fighting over the last piece of pie or where the forks went it has the feeling of an actual office. A work place where you go and get your work done and head home to complain about your day; place where the weather is the most exciting topic to discuss. It is losing what made this place a cool place to work; it is losing that “bad news bears” feeling. There is no way this can last…right? There is no way that people can just continue to bury themselves in the zone of happiness!  Are people depressed because their New Years Resolutions are a fading memory like being able to see their toes? Oh yes a fat guy making a fat joke; I think that technically allows me to do so. This place used to a bunch of misfits coming together for a common cause, a place where everybody knows your name? Ok not as fun as the neighbor hood bar but still; with the silence there is nobody for me to complain about. A quick side note; this must be what it is like for people to complain of the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter. It is never just right; have I become one of them? Do I want it loud when I want it loud and quiet when I want it quiet? Well the simple answer is of course; why not want for what makes you happy. If a week of 95 degrees followed by a week 55 degrees is what you want; then I say go get it!

So my point is other than a lady telling the same story 10 times about her grown up baby girl just got accepted to a college; the guy talking about politics like he wrote the constitution or the lady asking to see a pregnant ladies stomach there has not been much in the way of entertainment?

So I guess for now I will roll with changes as there is something I am certain of; some people can attempt to change their ways for short stints of time; however in the long run I will get my entertainment back and then I will complain about that. Call me selfish, call me completely self involved just don’t ever call me boring!

This picture of a sign is what our office is becoming…and I am not happy about it!!

Until next time....living the dream one day at a time as the world turns.

Just some uninspired writing...my appoligies to those who read

Tuesday afternoon and thank goodness it is a short week for me this week. I will be golfing on Friday instead of sitting here in my zone of happiness. Will I miss it; probably about as much as I miss watching the State of the Union address when I was a kid and there were only 5 channels and the president were on every one.

Kind of crazy; between last week and this week I have worked very hard to make sure I was completely on top of all my work. I feel like I can get away with more when all my work is done. It is kind of a good feeling; kind of like when you were told to clean your room and you actually did it and not just hid stuff in the closet. Speaking of cleaning my desk is about as clean as it will get. I did not feel like taking pictures so you will have to take my word or it.

So I have to say; I am not overly motivated to write this today.  The office has been pretty quiet for the most part; I have heard the typical conversations. However nothing note worthy nothing that can even bring a smile to my face. I am thinking because I have not felt real ornery today. You know sometimes I have to get people going for my entertainment for the day. I did not sleep well last night and in fact have been awake since about 2:30. Somehow the sleep bone is connected to my funny bone! Where did my sarcasm run off to, is my quick wit hiding under the bed? I feel naked without these two weapons of mass destruction; maybe they are hiding with the nuclear bombs in Iraq? Who knows so I am attempting to write this blog without my two main sources of inspiration?  It seems like I am just writing one long run on sentence; I feel like Clark Kent when he gave up his Superman powers (in the original).

With this said I am going to leave on a joke….
How do you get a nun pregnant? …wait I cannot tell that one as it is not real family friendly. So in that case as I do not know any family friendly jokes; I will call it a day. Hopefully tomorrow I will come back with a vengeance; maybe I will have an amazing conversation with somebody and it must be told? Maybe the place will be back to normal tomorrow and it will be loud and chaotic again in this place? Maybe I will sleep like a baby and find my wit and my superpowers!!

Until next time….living the dream one day at a time as the world turns.

not related to the office...just a walk down memory lane!

It is Monday morning and I am feeling pretty good; got up and went for a walk this morning and still made it to work a half hour early. That is right I just patted myself on my back unfortunately as I am getting older I think I just threw my shoulder out.

Getting older is kind of a funny thing; now let me say this I know there are people older than me and they will say I am just a baby. However keep in mind it is all relative.

My mind has not seemed to change over the years; heck I could still be 21 if my aching knees, shoulders and back say otherwise. I guess what got me thinking about age and how time flies besides the fact my knees are not happy with me right now. Is I received an email letting me know about a 20 year high school class reunion! I initially thought there is no way this was intended for me as I graduated from high school only a few years ago. Maybe this was meant for my dad or my older brothers as there is no way my 20 year reunion is here already. So I had to start doing some major mathematic calculations to check if I was the right person. Ok lets see if I still remember how to do math without a calculator; 2011-1991= 20 HOLY CRAP it was for me! I can hardly believe it; it is time to put this thing in reverse. The funny thing is the email I received was from Cajon high school in Sanbernardino, CA. I only went to this school as a freshman; however the email did clarify that you did not have to graduate from the school only have gone there from the 87/88 year up to 1991. So for me it is not 20 years since I went to this school it is like 24 years. I cannot imagine I would even remember a person and not honestly sure I would want to. My memories from my freshmen year are getting beat up by a couple of car loads of thugs. Then thinking I was tougher than I actually was and starting a fight with this guy for no apparent reason and him kicking my but so bad that both eyes were swollen shut. Oh yeah and I also remember ditching 5 period everyday and drinking booze and making out with this one girl who gave me a necklace of hickies. Uhm..yeah not proud of that part. The funny thing is I do not think this girl and I ever spoke while we were at school only during lunch and 5^th period. Ha; kind of funny now that I think back. Well I was also in drama as a freshman where I was in Father knows best and A Charlie brown Christmas. Those were some pretty fun times; plus the girls would change outfits right in front of me so I saw bra from time to time. Yeah I just said it; could not help myself as I go down memory lane. Well that was my last year in the public school system as I transferred to a private school where all my life long friends were at. I will save those memories for some other time. Well thanks for letting me take a trip down memory lane where I saw a skinny; pimple faced kid who thought he was way tougher, smarter and good looking than he actually was. Not to far off from how I see myself now days, fatter, dumber and uglier than ever.

Until next time……………living the dream one day at a time as the world turns.

A true story and a conversation to boot...

Friday afternoon and a bit later than I usually write these things; however something really strange happened this morning and I figured I would just go with it. I started working when I came into the office. I know this sounds amazing and almost like a big fish story that I might tell. However I swear it is true; if I am not being truthful may I be struck with an eternal hangover. Skip that last part but just take my word for it.  

However there are a few things that should be brought to attention of the masses. There was fog in Fresno today and I knew this before I walked in the door this morning however I over heard some major conversations about the Fog. You would think by the reaction that this never happens; let me assure you Fog and Fresno go together like peanut butter and jelly. Not that odd of an event and small note of it in passing is the proper response. For instance my friend told me she did not want to take the freeway to work as the fog was too thick. She was not overly animated she was not waving her arms around and was comparing it to the rapture. We quickly moved onto the next topic again this is how this should have happened.

This brings to me a conversation that happened yesterday between myself and the Air Talker. Now most of you that have been reading this for the last few months know that I do not normally speak with the air talker I just hear what she has to say by the fact that sound travels. I wrote yesterday about the case of the missing forks..duh duh duh. I also mentioned that the ladies were having a baby shower and decided to go with a Mexican theme food wise. To get to the story about the conversation I quickly will take you back a couple of weeks when I was asked by the Air Talker if I was going to participate in the pot luck baby shower. Now people that know me also know I never participate in pot lucks in the work place. I could go into several reasons why, but mostly I just don’t want to eat a lot of these people’s food cause if their kitchens are as clean as their hands. (well enough said). I told her no I was not participating and she decided to tell me what she was bringing for the pot luck. A Chili and Pasta dish; I told her I have never heard of a pasta and chili dish before and thought maybe she was speaking about spicy peppers like jalapeño’s and the like since it was a Mexican theme. I was wrong! She was mixing chili(like chili beans) and pasta. I quickly said does not sound like Mexican food to me. She informed me it was good and it was Mexican food. I politely said ok and walked away. Now to yesterdays conversation, I must say I started this as I was feeling a bit ornery.(true)

Me…so how did the Chili Pasta turn out?

AT….I did not make it, when I talked to a few people about it I got weird looks so I decided to do brownies.  For some reason my food never gets eaten when I bring it in; and I know I am a good cook.

Me…You are a good cook? I wonder why your food does not get eaten?

AT…Yes I am a good cook, I cook for my family all the time and they tell me I am a good cook!

Me….Have you ever seen American Idol?

AT…(Half smile; odd silence) Yes..

ME…Ok just asking.

Happy Friday everybody have a great weekend!

Until next time…..living the dream one day at a time as the world turns.

A thief among us???

There are some things you come to expect working in a semi professional office. You expect people to civil towards each other. You would expect people to clean up after themselves. You would expect people to dress with some sort of pride. You would expect your personal things to be safe sitting in your zone of happiness. Well ha ha whoever “you” are is completely wrong! Don’t get me wrong there are some people who dress to come to work and there are some people that go out of their way to be civil to others and even most of the people(I think) would leave a hundred dollar bill sitting in somebody else’s cubicle if it did not belong to them. However there is somebody lurking in the background who likes to take and steal and probably say mean things about people! Ok I really do not know that for a fact however there are facts that I do know. Stuff is always coming up missing around here. First there was a $5 dollar bill taken right out of somebody’s zone of happiness and later turned to a zone of bitterness. Then my Ray Ban’s were taken right out of my cubicle! Stop the forking presses somebody had the nerve to steal from me don’t they know who I am? Well probably not seeing how I barely know who I am; but seriously we had the $5 and my sunglasses taken right here in the office.

Now I was willing to let these things slide; I mean between the sunglasses and the fiver we are only looking at a couple hundred dollars and that is not going to break to many people. After yesterday I can no longer over look the major issue and not because I am crying over my Ray Ban’s but I was dragged into the biggest mystery of all. No I am not talking about the cookies and pies that come up missing as often as my beer bottles come up empty. I am talking about the “Case of the missing Forks” duh duh duh!

Kind of reminds me of an old Agatha Christy movie or for the younger generation like an episode of Inspector Gadget. However it quickly turns into a comic of “Family Circus” as nobody knows anything and everybody says “not me”. (Does that comic still show up on Sunday morning comics?) All of a sudden a series of email are flying here in the office of how all the plastic and metal forks have gone missing. Seriously I am not kidding not a word was said about my Ray Bans and a hush about the five dollar bill but we called Homeland security over some forking forks! So apparently they have been looking for the 80 missing forks and these are not like fine china or anything and the plastic forks missing? Again I say seriously? Does anybody keep a little white plastic fork after they use it? I thought they were plastic and disposable? I am no genius but I am going to come to the conclusion that somebody around here is a hoarder and likes to take things home.

If I could look them directly in the eye right now I would pull of my best Mel Gibson and say “GIVE ME BACK MY SON..oops I mean FORKS”

Well to save the day I bought a couple of boxes so all the ladies at the baby shower today were not eating there horribly white versions of Mexican food with their fingers.  My evidence is below!!

Until next time…… living the dream one day at a time as the world turns.

Guess whos back ...back again?

Well I am back and in full effect and most of you did not even know I was gone. I had to change where the link for my address as the link had fallen into the wrong hands. It would be like Darth Vader knowing the secret location of the rebellion or better yet like Jaws knowing where to attack her next helpless victim next. Let’s just say that although my blogs are innocent and are meant to be read as a light hearted read and my personal points of view. It does not mean I want the CEO of the company knowing that I am not always working while I sit here in my zone of happiness. So anyways back to business as usual; if you did not get a chance to read my blog from this morning I am sorry and you missed the best writing since “Of Mice and Men” and as funny as the great Steve Martin movie “The Jerk” and for my younger readers maybe as funny as “ The Hangover”. There now I have satisfied all generations and told open face lies while doing it. Let me see you pull that offJ

The only problem is that now I have to start over and I need to build my readers back up. So please if you are no longer registered as a follower please sign up or if you never were take the time. This helps me to know how many readers I have as well as my audience. If you think I am a hack and have no rhyme or reason to be writing please sign up and tell me that at the end of each blog. I can take the feed back; please stop short of telling me I am fat and ugly as I already know this. Anyways I had to start this over again as I have truly enjoyed getting some of my completely lame thoughts out there in public. It lets me day dream of one day fulfilling my dream of writing a book and winning a gold medal at the Olympics oh yeah and managing the LA Dodgers. Ok well the writing a book thing was true and the manager thing; but I was far from an Olympian although if you listen to my old basketball stories I seem to get better and better in high school as I get older and older and no longer even know how to dribble a basketball.  

Well once again I would like to think my regular readers and welcome more with the exception of my CEOJ

Until next time……living the dream one day at a time while the world turns.

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