Would you ask a restaurant delivery person to wash your dishes?

No???? I didn't think so. For some reason a long time customer of ours, after being repeatedly told "NO WE DON'T DO THAT" thought that we clean bathrooms, we clean toilets, we clean sinks. He's been told that we don't do that OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Some people just want to push and see what they can get. It's frustrating that a lot of people feel this way. One of our employees just quit and had the balls to file for unemployment. Now I have to dispute his claim in writing. What was he thinking? "I quit, but I deserve unemployment anyway." (Fucking nutjob!)But again, PUSH PUSH PUSH! Maybe he thought." Oh good, we're rid of him, let's just pay the unemployment just to shut him up." Good GOD! Some people have BRONZE Cojones! So be on the look out for people who want you to do things that are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of your job description. Because next thing you know, they'll ask you to clean your toilet. I left a message on the guy's machine today letting him know "buddy, you need a cleaning company. Unless it's PLUMBING, HEATING OR AC WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT." I suppose he's going to call his telephone company and ask them to call us and beg and plead to have us come and clean his toilet; Because "what, aren't you the phone company? You guys don't make phone calls for people?" Some poeple just need to be told. I'm here to tell them. That, unfortunately is in my job description.

Well, moving on... I can't help but feel like my life is totally fucked up right now. Just disorganized really. I mean, I have loads of problems and most of them would be controlled if I could just get my proverbial shit together. Instead I feel like I work in this Dunkin Donuts (see picture). See! That's me under that rock! School's going to start soon, and as I'm sure Devastation and J-diggs know, it's the begining of the inevitable descent towards the holidays, the bottom, the sess-pit of putresence. I've used up all of my sympathy vouchers. I'm a complainaholic. I've found that after a while, I just want to shut up until I can think of new ways to complain about the same old crap. Things could always be worse. I think I'm going to take a day off and work on re-organizing my life: getting to the bottom of that pile of paperwork, buying some new clothes, throwing out a heap of old clothes, sorting out my finances, finishing my dining room so I can DEMO the kitchen. I'll keep you abreast (or a tit) of the situation as I make a solid attempt to screw my head on straight. Until then I'll be spinning it around like the gad-damned excorcist. If I get really sick, I'll try not to vommit pea-soup on you.

Peace out! I give props to you mom's like a set designa'!

Oop-bang! an orangatang-UH!

Don't dare ask me how or why but I'm feeling positive right now. Let's just leave it at that. Because if I examine why I am feeling this way, I'm sure I'll find something to feel crappy about. Summer is ending, and I'm totally welcoming fall. I know it's: BACK TO WORK! but when Summer and winter are your super buisy seasons, fall becomes a vacation. I have a new refrigerator in my office; Well, new to me at least. It's actually pretty old and NOISY AS HELL, but it works!! I restocked the soda and water supply just in time for the hot season to end (I'm incredibly punctual!!!). Organization has been my latest concern. I suppose it should be, I'm never prepared for anything. Maybe its because I'm always horsing around instead of putting my balls to the grindstone? Perhaps. But this is the way I've been since I popped out 30+ years ago, so I figure it's HIGH time I do something about it. I've been reading books on the subject and so far, the mantra is: Start slow and in small increments. I've been organizing our DVD's, Paperwork and my to-do list so far. But I also need to figure out a better way to shelve all of our books, our CD's and all of our other crap. There is a method to my madness: Finish painting the dining room, Set up a table in there and GIVE IT HELL!! I'm still waiting for the spackle to dry.

Aside from that, I've been putzing around with a musical project and dug up a song from the deep-six archives. My songs are like well aged brie. I put the beginings together and leave it somewhere for a few years until it ages to perfection. Then I spread it across the cracker and see if it goes well with wine.

I can't wait to finish school, but I suppose I'll have to. I have a year and a half left ( I feel like I've been saying that for 3 years now). I can't help feeling like I've missed the starting gun. I'm sure I could be making so much more money right now, if I had gone for my batchelors earlier but WTF? Right? Better late than never. Why am I blogging about this crap? God knows! Sometimes I feel like I have absolutely nothing to offer anyone. I have a bizarre perspective, but sometimes it's agonizingly average. Average to the point where you want to take an ice-pick and see if you can touch brain matter with it. I can count who reads my blogs on one hand with a few fingers left over. Look at me feeling sorry for myself, it must be a Monday.

Technological advancements.....

Technological advancements are supposed to rid our lives of inconvenience. Do you hate washing clothes? Buy a washing machine! Hate how long cooking takes? Buy a microwave! Need to be able to get in-touch with anyone, anywhere at any time? Buy a cellphone! They even have warrauntees to cover these products whenever they get damaged!

But, do they really make life more convenient?

Washing machines don't have eyes, if there's a spot on your shirt still, you have to run it through again (double the time water and electricity, inconvenient).

Microwaves don't always cook everything through, so you have to run it through and check it. Sometimes the food gets too hot, then you have to wait for it to cool down.

Cellphones, Jesus! Have you ever had several people call you while you're trying to do something?

Also, if anything breaks, have you ever tried to call one of these companies to cash in on your warrantee? Good luck in automated teller hell. Most times they find a way to screw you out of replacement anyway, Or worse, the replacement sucks just as much as the last one.

There are a lot of things that can factor into this, but you have to admit that a lot of these Technological advancements create new and improved inconvenience. I guess it's not a perfect world, right? I can't really complain, a lot of these devices do their jobs well. It's like being tempted to say " I wouldn't have this damned flat tire if didn't own this STUPID CAR!" Doesn't make much sense....Eh, it's a Wednesday, good sense doesn't come until Friday.