Bought Some Cheap Shades at the AMOCO Station in General

Yeah this Vampire shift shit isn’t going to work.

You know that thing you do where you touch each of your fingers with your thumb?
Sa Ta Ma Na

A yoga Mantra, which works for me when I am in a doctor’s waiting room.
I do it occasionally when I am getting pissed. Right now every finger on my right hand hurts when I press it with my thumb.

I am constantly cutting and micro puncturing my fingertips on a daily basis, A week away from my 60th birthday this is becoming untenable.

I called out last night because the ME@Walmart app crashed and I have to use my personal 700 buck personal iPhone to do my job. The prospect of going to work and being bossed around by managers 20 years my junior crashed on my head.

I called out, and started applying for other jobs.

Weirdest thing ever – I was applying for an entry level designer job at BIW. After fighting the system about passwords it took my application without me having to enter anything other than I was older than 18. Was a veteran. And am a legal resident.

After 13 generations and 24 years in the US Military, I guess the fuck I am a legal resident.

But if I can get in at 25 bucks an hour, I can replace to 6-8 miles a night with weights and time on the elliptical at the gym.

I also started trying to set up my sound booth.

Monster computer I have set aside for said task wouldn’t let me “click” on anything.

At 2am I set up an appointment at Best Buy at the Geek Squad.

By 6am I swapped the trackball from “this” computer to the studio computer. Saved me at least 4 hours on the road transiting back and forth to Augusta.

But is almost impossible to replace a wired trackball. I don’t trust Bluetooth. I won’t have an “Alexa” or some other shit listening to me all day. God knows what comes out of my mouth that the CIA could use.

In an IM to a friend I was talking about the second Jack Carr Novel in the James Reece series.
Friend had flown MC-12s in Afghanistan. In the novel Jim Reece and his partner now CIA assets were being to delivered to Incirlik, Turkey in a RC-12.

I immediately started thinking about the algorithms that watch our every keystroke. I just broke squelch on some DHS analyst’s system by using RC-12, MC-12, and CIA in the same sentence as innocuous as it was.

It is 2300 at night and I am making kimchi and prepping galbi for the grill. I hope I torture the neighbors with grilling smells.

This up all night shit worked for me in my 20s.

Now not so much.

Honestly the worst that could happen is I would have to move. I have moved 32 times in this lifetime. I thought I had moved for the last time, but if not.

Sobeit.

I’m calling Maine Coastal Flight tomorrow. My birthday is on the 6th. I am going to fly the Cirrus for an hour and a half for my 60th.

Damn, It feels Good to Be Me

Last updated July 27, 2022