Echo Echo Echo
By justin | October 6, 2008 12:08 pm
Yeah, so it’s been a while since I updated the old blog. What can I say, I’m lazy and the blog is low on the old priorities list. With Fall coming, I’m prepping for my second fall/winter season in the house. Last year taught me an important lesson in that when you are looking for a house, pay attention to the types of trees in your yard. Two gigantic maples make fall a little bit like hell every weekend. I was out raking the front yard last week and one of the guys from the neighborhood walked by with his dog and made the statement “It looks like fall hit your house first.” This guy must be the f-ing Nostrodomus of Glendale. For whatever reason, the maple in my front yard started dropping leaves a full month before any others in the neighbor hood. And this tree does not just loose a couple leaves. Within two weeks, half the leaves of the tree were sitting in my front yard. I guess the only positive of this situation is that the trees in the front and back yard shed their leaves in succesion. The front yeard will be done in a couple weeks and then the back yard will start. I had a thought about collecting all the leaves and making a giant pile in my front yard then for all the Trick or Treat kids to have to summit the mountain to get any candy. Maybe I’ll just sit there on my front porch with the leaf blower and fire candy at the kids as they walk by… So many options…
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Labor Day
By justin | September 2, 2008 1:39 pm
So after enjoying my three-day weekend, I decided to take a look at the holiday that we call Labor Day. Let’s start by breaking it down to it’s essential components. Labor, an act of exertion, whether it be to earn a living or to pass something the size of a watermelon out of an opening the size of a grape. Day… If I have to break this down, then you’re a moron and you probably jut got here by clicking on the “funny looking word pictures”.
So one day out of the year, we get to take off Monday, just to come back into work and have to make up for the day off by cramming 5 days of shit into a 4 day week. Now I’m not going to complain because I really like having the three-day weekend, but in general, it seems like people no longer are able to truly enjoy their vacations.
With the advent of the cell phone, wireless internet, and a bunch of other techno devices, we are no longer allowed to just get away… We are always reachable, always able to just log in for a few minutes and check up on things. I look at the work mentalitied of other countries and I’m at war with myself on whether they are all lazy bastards or if they are just that much smarter than us and able to rationalize that it’s “juts a job” and you need to have a defined seperation between work and home. I’d like to be able to take a year off and experience how life is treated in places like Italy, Spain, and Finland. Sure they get payed less, but in the end is their quality of life any lower? They might not have as many “toys” as we have, but in the end they are probably a lot happier at the end of the day. I’m really not sure where this post was going when I started writing, but apparently I have a train of thought that curves around like the model train under the Christmas Tree, always moving, but never really going anywhere… Happy Tuesday…
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Great Movie…
By justin | August 15, 2008 10:25 am
So yesterday after work, I decided to watch one of the many un-seen movies currently sitting on my DVR. I decided that I would watch Reign Over Me. The movie is about a guy(Adam Sandler) who looses his wife and children in the attacks on 9/11 and turns into a loner. Don Cheadle plays a college friend who hasn’t seen Adam Sandler’s character in many years and tries to help him deal with his issues. The whole movie is about how Sandler’s character has never come to grips with his loss.
In short, I think that this movie makes it into my top 5 all time. For whatever reason, the movie just seems to be very sincere. The movie goes through the whole range of emotions, from humor to sorrow and anger. I have to say that I would never expect this kind of work from Billy Madison, but I highly suggest you take the time to sit down and watch it.
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Roasting Balls
By justin | July 30, 2008 11:56 am
So I’ve been in South Carolina the last 4 days and while the weather in general has been clear and calm, the heat and humidity is insane. I went golfing yesterday morning with my dad and by noon, the temp was 93 with 70% humidity making it feel like it was well over 100. The front 9 was ok because we got started at 8:30, but the back 9 kicked my ass. I golfed well, but by the end of 18 holes, I was ready to die. So tomorrow I head to Myrtle Beach for Andy’s wedding. We are planning on going golfing at 9am tomorrow morning, hopefully the ocean breeze in Myrtle Beach makes the golf a little more pleasant. I guess we’ll see.
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Vacation
By justin | July 24, 2008 1:26 pm
Yep, next week is a week of rest and relaxation. I have my college 5 year reunion this weekend and then I’ll be heading down to South Carolina to visit family and attend a friends wedding. I’m really looking forward to this. It seems that work has dragged this week, not that I didn’t have plenty to do, but just the anticipation of getting the hell out of here for a week. I think this is the first real vacation that I have taken that wasn’t tied to a holiday since I started working. It will be good to be able to just get out and enjoy myself. I am not planning on doing a whole hell of a lot, some golf, some fishing, some drinking, all the things that make life worth living…
See ya in August…
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