Day 7 Month 1 Year 2016 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Funny. I woke up with this song stuck in my head:

Last night, we tried it again. I slept in the bed with wife… she woke me with a “gentle nudge” and off I went to the futon. As expected, when discussing this later, she wants me to wait for more than just one. It is her hope that one or two will help me correct myself and I told her that we both deserve uninterrupted sleep. Her response is that we both deserve comfortable sleep, too. A fair point but that is why this all needs sorting out.

Because… yeah. The futon most certainly does not provide restful sleep. Slept through my first alarm. Woke up on the second alarm. Got my stuff together for the day and fell back to sleep for several more hours. It is several hours later and I’m still exhausta-tired. So much so that I didn’t go in to work today. It’s not a big deal (really)… I’ve already put in 23 hours at what is supposed to be a Part Time Job. And (frustratingly) I’ll likely put in another 12 hours tomorrow. SO… not exactly worried about the work thing.

My “Honey Do List” for the day, though, is… interesting. My In Laws, my Father and my wife have all sent me links to jobs that are hiring. Honestly… every… single… one is something I applied to last year. And every single one is something that didn’t call me back or have the decency to send me a proper rejection letter. Which tells me a few things. (1) These guys are assholes. (2) They annually search for labor, then work them until burn out. A common habit of “high priced” firms. (3) They wouldn’t give me the time of day with the experience I had last year; as my experience hasn’t changed, it is foolish to believe I’d fare any better.
In the end, I probably will apply to a few more… just to increase the odds of something working out… but I don’t have a lot of faith or hope. But a week into January; I’ve seen 12 job openings… and only ONE of them was something I had not applied to before.

Circling back around to the Honey Do List… Wife got another call about a Wal Mart transfer. This time to the Wal Mart back where she MOST wants to live in Iowa. I think she turned them down because of “logistics.” But now she wants me to “figure everything out” so that if they call again, she can give it better consideration. Of course, my response was: You live with my parents, I’ll stay in Omaha looking for work and earning money as I pack up the Apartment; at lease’s end, if I haven’t found anything else… we can find an apartment around WDM to move into and I’ll keep looking for work. That… is not the plan she was hoping for and has asked me to come up with a better one. One in which “we still live together”… her suggestion was that I call my parents and ask if we could BOTH live in their home… but then where would we put all of our stuff (because none of it would fit in Parents’ home)… and then she thinks about how difficult it would be to deal with the apartment and everything. All signs that my original plan was the most practical… but she doesn’t like it because we’d be “split up.”

I also get the joy of waiting on Hold for hours at a time today. Navient (school loans) apparently has lost my E-Mail address. So I can’t make an on-line payment to them. I’m trying to pay off 1/3 of what’s left and… I can’t. And when I call? “We’re experiencing an abnormally high call volume..” well, no shit. If this problem is happening with other people, yeah! How can you just… no longer have the information you’d had for YEARS? Once again… pretty shitty process on all of this, guys!

On top of that? I have to file some paperwork with the Iowa Bar Association. I would like to file my middle finger with them due to the current job market… but instead I have to file reports on Ethics and Extended Learning. They can bite me (but I’ll still do the paperwork).

I’m hoping to exercise today… I haven’t in FAR too long (really, it has been months and that is a foul atrocious thing to have not done that for so long)… and since I didn’t go to work today, I really should do some exercise!

Working Out: I can still lift like I used to, but my cardio has gotten absolutely terrible.
Navient: Got the computer stuff mostly fixed… went to make a payment… ran into some error screens. So… we’ll see if the payment went through.
Thank You Letters: We have 9 to do with only 5 actual cards. Powered through ‘em… though doing that much writing by hand? REALLY cramps the hand!
Bar Paperwork: This is akin to filling out applications for me. Not the type of work or that… but the feeling I get about it. Like, the emotional reaction from me to do the paperwork. I just feel like “postpone, delay, procrastinate this” and I’m not 100% certain where that comes from. The only explanation I really have is I’m a bitch-jail librarian in NE who can’t get a job when his life depends on it, this whole process is stupid. And then go pout. lol. It is strange, though, because it is a similar feeling to how I grew up with the Cello. Love the instrument, loved playing it, loved performing, loved most of the people I played with… despised, hated practicing. Just… came with the same feeling I have now. Ironically, it doesn’t matter at the end of the day anyway.... I am having some issues with the login screen for the Bar. My wife (due to her, shall we say, particularness) has the filing her way… so I’ll have to wait for her to come home and tell me what her system is.

Here is an article on Game Developers and Game Delays if anyone is interested. If you get frustrated with broken games being released or a game you’re anticipating being delayed… worth a read. The reason I am mentioning it is that the “Example of Best Practices” is Fallout 4. I haven’t played the game yet… but I have to agree with the author. The game was announced shortly after the core work was completed. Which is awesome. Why it is worth mentioning? I have been burned too often or don’t trust the industry, apparently. Despite everything I knew about Fallout 4… when my brother said he was going to pick it up at Release, I laughed. I thought… okay, they set that release date not too long ago… it WILL be delayed. Because that is what the big studios do. They’ll announce and then, “Oh, we’re still working on it… we just need 6 more months”… which then turns into a year or more. Fallout 4 experienced no delays and I’m still kind of shocked by that!

While I’m throwing things at you, here is a list entitled “95 Things I Should Do Every Day According to the Internet.” The list is female specific but that does not stop it from pertaining to both genders in many instances.

And… since this entry is pretty Text Wall someone else’s artwork from HOTD on one of my favorite characters.