Another update, this time mostly about quitting smoking.

The quitting smoking thing is going okay. I’m on day three without cigarettes Iamgoingtokillyouallgivemenicotine and it’s going alright. I now understand why people gain so much goddamn weight when they quit smoking – the urge to be putting something, ANYTHING, in your mouth is overwhelming when you’re a smoker. I’ve been trying to keep Mentos [...]

Ten things

1. I got a spam email today. This isn’t that unusual, really, as my spam folder generally has like a bajillion emails in it at any given time. However, the name from the “person” who sent it to me was THADDEUS BIRCH, which is an awesome name at any time, but especially for a spammer. [...]

It’s dangerous to go alone, have some fuckin’ pictures

I’m still real depressed about Steve lately, but I haven’t been writing about it. What I have been doing is taking a fuckton of photos. So many, in fact, that when I started editing the photos to be of the correct size to post here (my phone has an HD camera so the photos are [...]

Fuck. I’m sorry.

Yeah, I promised posts of substance. That did not happen, obviously. I don’t really have any good excuses – general exhaustion coupled with real life, I guess. I forgot how tiring a regular job can be. I had to go to work on my day off the other day because I accidentally walked off with [...]

Not dead, still plotting posts. Promise.

There’s a lot of stuff going on in my life right now, but I promise I’ll have some decent content within the week. Including a complete start-to-finish post about our homemade beer project, which has been a rousing success. The vanilla extract is also nearing completion, and a side-project for a friend will also be [...]

Sick

This is going to be long. Wednesday night I came home from a 12-hour stint up in Reno that begin with work training and ended with me hanging out with my youngest stepdaughter and her mother, both of whom I adore and will sit and chat with for hours on end if not checked. As [...]

Not dead, just sorta stalled

Kinda? I’m just basically utterly exhausted all the time as they’ve got me working six days a week at the store. However, this week I get two GLORIOUS days off! And a lovely graveyard shift in between them so it’s PRACTICALLY three days off (I REALLY like graveyard shift, if you can’t tell). So I’ll [...]

Convenience store do’s and don’t's (Or, how to be a good customer)

“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the fucking customers.” – Randall Graves, Clerks. Recently I gave up – temporarily – the stage industry and got a full-time job in the service industry. I’m not gonna mention exactly where (I learned my lesson working for the newspaper and blogging about it. Big mistake [...]

Pot Economics

I am not going to lie – I have been known, in the past and probably in the future, to indulge in a little shrubbery. And by shrubbery, I mean marijuana. I might be a statistical anomaly – the pothead who doesn’t smoke very often (I doubt I would ever come up dirty on a [...]

On charity and giving

“You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.” – Henry Drummond Those of you who know me know that I’m upper-lower class as far as money goes. I’m at the very top echelon of the wage-slaves, the [...]