Praise Jesus!

Sooo yesterday I wrote (whined) about working ridiculous hours. Well, yesterday, after I wrote that, my boss and I decided that instead of working 12 hours a day, I would work 8-10 hours overnight. So I'm going to have a team of however many employees that will be pulling product for the move and then I will be managing them. So not that much has changed right? Starting Sunday night, I'll be working 11pm - 8am. Huuuuuuuge change. Now I will get to spend way way way more time with Leah than I normally would working my day shift, and I'll get to understand what it feels like to work nights and try to sleep during the day. We'll see how screwed up my body gets after the first week. I also only have to do this until we go to VA which is in 23 days (18 work days). I think I'm going to be whiped for the flight though, since I will probably work 16 hours straight before we go. Wednesday night and then until about 3pm on Thursday.


Man, I can't wait to get to VA!!!!!!!!!!! AGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHFDHAJKPBNFPQGRIO;NRFV

19 days and counting

19 days until I'm back on vacation and holy crap am I going to need it. Starting today my life at work sucks. Well, not necessarily starting today, because it sucked before, but now it sucks on a whole other level. 12 hour days (6 am - 6:30pm) , 5-6 days a week, and now for the kicker...NO OVERTIME PAY. I am a salaried employee which has its advantages, but has the one huge weakness of no overtime. This is going to put a tooooooon of pressure on my relationship with Leah, and it will pretty much whipe me out energy wise. Then once I get back from Virginia, I will have to work through that upcoming weekend (15-16 hours a day, which in Jay hours means 24), doing the final move of the warehouse.


I think this might be a tiny taste of hell.

Time to get serious

Alright, so anyone who somewhat pays attention to the news knows that it gets distorted and then some. Being some what involved in the punk/hardcore scene, I see lots of different posts/information that really blows up mainstream media/the goverment. Now, being a conservative, I generally blow this stuff off. Lately I have been doing more research to try and understand opposing opinions better. Today I saw this little blurb (I'm WhiteCollar) about hollywood-backed legislation that would supposedly give the government the power to cut off all governent loans/grants to a college or university if even one student was caught illegally downloading copyrighted media. Of course in the comments section all these commie liberal
"I hate the government" punkers (of which I used to be) immediatly blow up and post all sorts of stupid ignorant crap. So to back myself up, I read the article the blurb was about and didn't see anything that said the government could cut off any sort of funding to colleges based for the aforementioned reasons. Still giving punknews the benefit of the doubt, I looked up the bill and found the exact section they were talking about. Section 494, page 411. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING that says they will cut off funding based on that. What it says is that colleges and universities will have to "develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity." They don't even have to implement the plans. Just DEVELOP them. Maybe I'm just being ignorant and naive, but damn. It's a pretty big leap to say that participating institutions will get cut off because of ONE student.


The lesson here: Don't blindly follow what ANYONE says as truth. Investigate for yourself and form your own opinions.

Sluttering

damn I love Jawbreaker.

Jawbreaker - Dear You
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
Silent Majority - Life of a Spectator
In Flames - Tokyo Showdown

I'm tired and bored. I borderline lost my temper in a meeting this morning when I told some of my co-workers in this meeting that they were not living up to their end of the bargain and that Ifelt like my job was a waste of time because of it. Hopefully this will cause some things to change. I did hit the table once when the guy next to me repeated exactly what I had just stated was the problem. Dumbass. Anyway. Ricky comes tomorrow. I think I've got my travel plan down for the 4 hour round trip it will take to pick him up from LAX. I even know what terminal he's flying into and exactly how to get there. I'll probably still come stupidly close to getting in an accident, Leah will freak out, and I'll get pissed/frustrated/annoyed. As a precautionary measure to this I have already figured out exactly which lanes I need to be in and how the forks work. I will review again tomorrow while at work to make sure I still have it down. Dang, still 13 more minutes to go...

2, 2.5, 3, 33

Lots of numbers...

one. 2 days until Ricky is in Cali!

two. 2.5 days until I have 4 days off!

three. 3 days until turkey day!

four. 33 days until we're back in VA!

5. Lots and lots and lots to look forward to.

6. Someone besides me reads this! The internet is amazing!

7. And now back to being my grumpy old self...

Inventory on Friday sucked again. Not AS bad as Oakley inventory but still pretty bad. 13.5 hours of work. yuck. The good news is I think I'm good with my real boss again. For those of you that don't know I have two bosses. My real boss, Jay, is the distribution manager for Oakley, which means he is in charge of our (currently 3, soon to be 2) warehouses. He is about 6'3 and very intimidating. He runs marathons, so he can pretty much work forever without getting tired. I have seen him smile, but it does not happen very often. My other boss, Will, is 29 and very much like me. We got along great and have become pretty good friends. I can complain to him about my job in general and know that he won't get mad.

Anyway, how I got on bad terms with Jay...

I was pretty pissed working the Saturday of the Oakley inventory and was in general in a bad mood. I along with several other managers made that pretty well known through our actions, which pissed Jay off. He hasn't really talked to me for about two weeks, anyway, long story short, I worked hard on Friday and he noticed and started talking to me again. So I think my job may be a little less tense this week. Now, if I can only get Wednesday comped for all the extra unpaid hours I've put in lately...

On to Saturday!

Beer pong tournament! Leah had the flu that morning so she didn't play, but came out to watch. My team made it four rounds before being knocked out. I was really hoping to make it to the championship, but also kind of glad I didn't. 4 rounds was enough, and I was getting tired and bored, by the end of it. Drank a bunch of beer and hung with a lot of people I've never met before/probably will never see again. All in all a very fun day.

Now I just hope I can make it through these next 2.5 days until I get some much needed time off.

A little late

I'm going to do this from memory

Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
The Adolescents - Adolescents
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
One Life Crew - American Justice

and once again I hate my job. I found out I have to help with another inventory of recently moved in Oliver Peoples....TOMORROW.

So on my way home in traffic I listened to Ceremony - Violence Violence for the second time this week. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....Kersed makes me want to hurt everyone around me, usually there is no one so I'm OK, but the last time I saw them here with blacklisted I hit the kid in front of me like 10 times in the back of the head. It's cool though, it's a show. It happens.

Too early to post the playlist, but...

I think God may be calling us back to RVA.

http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=15616


They're crazy and I want to fight them. I'm trying to start some crusades against the Scientologists. Anyone with me?

The Frayed Ends of Sanity

Usually I decide what I'm going to listen to on the way to work by whatever song is in my head when I wake up. Sometimes there is no song and then I don't listen to anything. This morning I woke up late (6:30 am) and went surfing. I left my iPod inside. I went surfing without listening to song that was in my head (dag nasty - values here) and didn't catch a single wave. It was so perfect. Chest to shoulder high, glassy, slight offshore wind allowing tons of dudes to get barrels. I didn't get ONE. Not one. Ughhhhhh... so frustrating. Plus I had to go to work after. More frustrating.....I'm still at work, even MORE frustrating. Let me out!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, pointless rant up there.

Cursive - Domestica
The Draft - In A Million Pieces
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
Metallica - And Justice for All

Pack your fist full of hate, take a swing at the world

Can you tell at when I was about to kill my co-worker?

Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Ceremony - Violence Violence
Bracewar - Juggernaut
Sheer Terror - Bulldog Edition
Cursive - Domestica

Why I don't feel bad leaving west coast surf next summer

HOLY CRAP

http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/photo_bamp.cfm?id=12100

It's hard to take it to heart

My wife made fun of me for starting this. No surprise there. She's cooler than I am.

So far today...

Cro Mags - Age of Quarrel
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend
Silent Majority - Life of a Spectator
Dag Nasty - Can I Say

Whenever I listen to Pedro the Lion, I see a clear picture of Leah and I in the civic driving to the Kroger on Broad and Lombardy. I think we were on our way to go camping right after we got back together. We were listening to "Achilles Heel." Not anything crazy just a clear picture of her and I in the car together. It's the little thoughts about us that make me smile. Getting married was awesome and all, our wedding was crazy fun, but that was just one day, just one memory. Where as there are thousands of little moments that I think about everyday that make me realize why we're married.


The other thing that has set off some electronic impulses in my brain (those that do not make me think about wasting my life away in a cube) has been Silent Majority. Silent Majority makes me think about Permanent, which is in general a weird thing for me to think about. I have a ton of good memories about shows and playing, but so many more terrible ones where I felt insanely out of place and pissed off. So many times that I felt like an embarassment (and may have been sometimes). Anyway, the first memory this triggers is GregRampage and I in the car driving back from seeing Death Threat in Baltimore. This was when he first mentioned we were going to do Polar Bear Club. It was weird. Greg and I seldomly got along. But when we did, we had a lot of fun. Gibson, him, and I drinking forties (well he was drinking sparks) and lighting off fireworks in the alley behind Logan and Matt's house. Then i threw my forty at him and he threw it back and it broke and then the cop came up through the alley and we didn't get arrested. Good times. Then there was the time I got in a fight with Leah, bought a bottle of SoCo and proceeded to drink it from the bottle throughout the show in New Brunswick with Crime In Stereo and This is Hell. By the end I was wasted. Then someone put on firestorm in the van and I stumbled to the front to turn it up and accidentally kicked Greg who got pissed and punched me in the back. For some unknown reason I didn't punch him back instead I punched the van door and broke/split open my knuckles.


I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. I guess it's just crazy how such small bits of sound can have such a clear attachment to different events. Or maybe I'm just bored at work and trying to pass as much time as possible until 3:45 comes around without thinking about wasting my life away. Ugh...I hate this place.

Change the Key

I just thought it was kind of funny that I posted about Kevin Seconds earlier and then the revhq fun fact for the week was about Dag Nasty trying to recruit him as their singer. Thank the Lord that it didn't work out! I can't imagine Kevin Seconds voice with Dag Nasty. Well, maybe it's not that far fetched, but still.


Damn, I love Can I Say.

I'm jumping on...

I haven't had one of these things in several years now, not since the good ol' days of deadjournal. Oh well, my daily boredom at work has lead me to start a new journal in this new 'hip' form. Eh, whatever. I'll probably only post what i've been listening to musically that day as I already keep an actual handwritten list at work. Maybe this will help me feel like I'm not wasting my life away quite as much as I think I am. Anyway....Hi.

Playlist for 11/9/2007

Never listened to any of these songs before today.

Rocket from the Crypt - Circa Now

Gave this band one chance in high school and wasn't impressedj, but my musical tastes have changed dramatically so I thought I'd give them another chance. This record....eh. I have a couple more on the 'Pod I'll listen to before putting the final nail in their coffin.


Matt Skiba/Kevin Seconds Split

I took a philosophy class called introduction to logic in college. I really enjoyed it. Although I failed out that same semester, I received a B in the class. One thing I learned is that because A is always B does not necessarily mean that B is aways A. I love Alkaline Trio and 7 seconds. In relation I should love Matt Skiba and Kevin Seconds solo. For the first this is true, Matt Skiba solo is Alkaline Trio acoustic, definitely awesome. Kevin Seconds solo....not so much 7 Seconds acoustic, and not so good.


Leatherface - HWM Split

I only have the Leatherface songs and having never listened to them before (once more finding myself in the realm of musical influence ignorance that is my life) I liked them. It took me a while to get turned onto HWM, but I have come around and listen to them quite a lot. So many obvious influences on HWM that it's ridiculous. Need more music from leatherface fersher.