The One Where I Say Too Much About Dating
Oct/090
In the past few months I have become INCREDIBLY anti-relationship. I think there are a lot of reasons for this. For one almost every one of my friends that is in a relationship is not around as much as they used to be. This is sort of a necessary evil to the relationship process. I understand it and I can appreciate it, but I don’t have to like it. What really bothers me though is the way that they change the way that they are after getting into a relationship. You like football? Get a girlfriend and all the sudden you prefer spending your Sundays at Michaels. Your favorite movie is 300? Get a girlfriend and your favorite movie suddenly stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson or, in other words, it sucks. You are probably reading this and thinking I am a moron for saying these things, but there is no way in hell my buddy watches Jon and Kate Plus 8 without a girlfriend. Carpenters don’t watch that sort of thing unless there is a girl making them watch that. It’s just a fact of life. So, yeah, not the biggest fan of the whole girlfriend experience.
Now, this isn’t to say that everyone in the world has a bad relationship or that I don’t think a good relationship exists. It’s just that they are very few and far between. I think that for it to work someone would need to inherently “get” me. For it to work in my situation we’d definitely have to be friends and you definitely wouldn’t judge me. To date, I don’t believe that this has ever actually happened. Well, except for that one time that it did.
Aloha Mahalo Da Kine
Sep/091
I found this book that I haven’t read in a long time and I was leafing through the pages and I found the one way plane ticket to Hawaii that I bought way back when. Looking back it’s been three years since that flight and it’s crazy how much has changed. In some ways I don’t even feel like I’m the same person, in other ways I feel like I am finally doing what I was trying to do way back then.
When I moved back to Wisconsin in 2005, the plan was to stay at my dad’s for awhile and make some money. Once I saved up some money I was going to move to either Seattle or LA. The idea being that I was going to start my screenwriting career. I thought Wisconsin would be a great place to go because the winters fucking suck and I could just sit home in the cold all the time and just do some writing. This, of course, never happened. You start hanging out with some dudes and you just end up drinking way too much like always. I think that I’ve always had some really good ideas and if I ever sat down and wrote them that I could be a screenwriter, but I am a master procrastinator and if I get the chance to go and get drunk instead I usually take it. Anyways, time goes by and I don’t write a thing. I don’t save a thing and I really have no idea what I am doing.
Then I meet this girl.
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom
Jul/090
You know what pisses me off more than anything (besides the other stuff that pisses me off more than anything)? Attractive girls working in a fast food restaurant. I went through the Burger King drive thru today and I thought the girl who handed me my food was pretty cute. This is really saying something considering A) fast food uniforms are designed specifically to hide any signs of sexuality and B) I am a really picky dude sober.
The first thing that comes to my mind with these girls is: what is wrong with you? Not like, what is your problem? Like, what is your major childhood trauma? There has to be a REASON that you are working here. If you’re under 18, I can MAYBE see it. Maybe. If you’re over 18? Absolutely un-understandable. The thing is there are these things called restaurants. They need hostesses and they need waitresses. Every restaurant in the history of mankind wants to hire young, attractive girls. If you hostess it’s the same money for less work. If you serve? It’s insanely more money for less work. What’s the downside? You don’t even have to actually work in a restaurant though. Every business in the world wants attractive girls. Every single one, but somehow you decide to choose the one job that somehow negates your looks and makes you unattractive by association. Hmm? This makes sense how?
This is why our world is screwed up by the way. Good looking girls mostly have “good genes” then they start working at Burger King and eating there every single day. Then they manage to convince themselves that their co-workers are not stupid losers (because they don’t make just anybody manager*) and start dating them. It’s not like working in a fast food restaurant does a ton for your self esteem. Then they have kids and the “good genes” disappear replaced by cheaper, stupider ones. Then the kids grow up and the world ends on my birthday in three years.
Seriously, if there are any hot girls reading this (stop laughing) do not work at a fast food restaurant. It’s the worst thing you can do for yourself.
* Actually, they do.
Court is stupid and a giant waste of time
Jun/091
I am currently going to court for my son. It’s a long drawn out proccesss. I am pretty sure the first court date was LAST September. Yesterday at court they scheduled a hearing date for THIS September. Nice, huh? Someone forgot to do something so we got delayed even more. The basic gist of the court battle is I want to spend quality time with my son and my son’s mother thinks he would be better off without me. For some reason she doesn’t understand that never in the history of child custody cases has a father been denied seeing his son. Especially one who A) works B) pays his child support C) likes his kid and D) wants to see his kid. Hell, I’m sure there are a ton of dads out there that only do 1 out of those 4 and still see their kid. Yet somehow despite the fact that *I* am the one who started the court proccess so I could see him more, I am the one who doesn’t want him and is basically under attack each time we go to court. I really don’t understand it. I really, really don’t.
So what’s going to happen? We are going to go to court more, we are going to pay this other person money to talk to us about our son, we are going to pay our lawyers more money, we are going to continue to pretend this isn’t going on, there are going to continue being border line lies said about me in court and in the end not much is going to change. I’ll still see Nolan every other weekend for the rest of his life with the chance that the court might decide that I should see him a bit more than that. Basically, it’s going to cost me thousands of dollars that I really can’t afford to get back to where I am right now. Makes sense to me.
I guess it’s worth it though. Spending of thosands of dollars, wasting a bunch of time and putting up with the stupid court system is certainly a lot better than the alternative of giving up. I mean, just look at him.
Busy, busy, busy
Dec/081
I had Nolan, then I was sick, then it was Thanksgiving, then my dad left the country so I am in charge of the office. I’ve felt like I’ve been really busy lately and I guess I have, but I have nothing to show for it. (Then again I did make a bowl game with Temple on NCAA Football 2005 and get offered a job at Ole Miss.) I’ve made no progress on my seven card stud site, have sparsely updated Phil Ivey Rules and completely dropped the ball on Cyber Monday at LCD Flat Screen Deals. At work I haven’t even looked at my to-do list in a while. Now, I don’t even know if I am going to do most of it as there is a lot of drama right now. Without going into too much detail, the bank that we work with has decided to add a ton of fees to something that we have always advertised as no fees without telling us. They sent out a letter to all our customers telling them this and the customers are the ones that told us. Needless to say, we are not happy and it could be a lawsuit situation. If anyone ever wondered why every bank in this country is collapsing it’s probably because decision making like this is the norm.