doz’s dementia

I stayed home today because I wasn’t feeling well

Things went well at work last week. The Alabama papers and other papers in that group were pretty good so I made my quota. I really hope this continues because I really enjoy my job. Why wouldn’t you love this job I get paid  a good amount to skim through newspapers on the PC looking for keywords and checking little boxes, while sitting in an air-conditioned office, listening to music and podcasts.

It’s amazing what people want to know about. One of the orders we have is for pictures of accidents involving cranes,or window washer scaffolds and a few other things. Another one asks for accidents involving tractors, not tractor-trailers but farm tractors. Sure we have the orders for companies and celebrities and such but there are some weird ones out there.

I am moving to Alabama next week.

Well not in  real life but in my work life. I’m switching to reading Alabama papers starting next Monday. The Georgia papers haven’t been producing the hits per hour that I need in order to make quota. I talked to my my supervisor today and we both agreed a change might be good. She said I was doing well, that I was a good reader and that she didn’t want me to get frustrated and give up. This has the added bonus of  the Alabama papers only being 20 clips per hour instead of the 25 I was going to have to get to for my quota on the GA. papers.

Saw the Dark Knight on opening night. AWESOME movie. To bad they’ll never be able to make another Batman movie with The Joker as the nemesis again.

That is all. Goodnight Mrs. Logsdon wherever you may be.

Listening to podcasts is a big part of my life. I spend many hours a day listening to this free content and have actually had coversations with some of the podcasters. The awesome thing is that many of these podcasters are also authors and give the books they are writing or have written away as free podcasts. Hell some even give away a free PDF of the entire book!

Tee Morris from TeeMorris .com is doing exactly that with his next novel and so is Phillipa Ballentine from Chasingthebard.com . They are doing this to promote…Well I’ll let Tee explain that to you:

So If you could please help these two fine folks out, that would be awesome. You’ll like their books and podcasts.

I appreciate it and so will they.

It will be ending 7/20/08. You can still get it on iTunes.

Well here I am on the last day of a four day weekend feeling somewhat rested. On Friday I went out to eat with Sparky, Pam , and Deon. Sparky and I went to see Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The movie was good, but the notification from the 70 year old usher about the the theater next door getting a 3Ddigital projector was something I didn’t need to have shouted in my ear for ten minutes. I didn’t need to knmow that they had lost the projector or that they were leasing it for two years with an option to buy or that all the movies coming out in ‘09, 2009 that is ( like I didn’t know he meant 2009) were going to be in 3D digital. I can read this stuff in the papers if I wanted to. Don’t send this guy in anymore it’s damn annoying.

Another thing that was annoying is that it took 16 hours to get the iPod touch 2.0 update. Apple should have known knew how popular this stuff was going to be especially when they were releasing the iPhone 2.0 worldwide. It would have made more sense to release the 2.0 update a few days before. Next time use your head Mr. Jobs.

Mighty Muggs are so freakin’ AWESOME. Of course I’m getting the Star Wars line! I already have Chewbacca and Darth Vader. Don’t buy them from Amazon if you can help it because they charge 3 times what they cost in stores.

A friend of mine has been accused of 68 counts of rape and is currently in jail. No it’s not Sparky but it is someone I have known for a very long time. There aren’t a lot of details yet but, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would ever even be suspected or accused of such a thing.

I remember vividly when we were school kids seeing him walking on the opposite of the street as we walked up to our grade school. We weren’t friends back then but I did know of him. My Mom helped tutor him in reading when we were in grade school.

I remember being in DeMolays with him and hanging out with him at different parties and things.  I remember how no matter where the hell we were didn’t matter if we were in Bumfuck Egypt there was always someone there that knew him. Always a big goofy grin and hilarious laugh.

I believe he is innocent and will continue to believe so. I just can’t believe he would do anything like this.

Ignorant Fucktard #1:The I.F. in the pickup truck who parked next to me in the parking garage last week. There was no damn reason to park that close to me. The fact that you had to get out on the other side of your truck might have been a clue that you were a bit to close. There are seven fucking levels and the top two levels have more than enough spaces so there was absolutely no reason to park with only an inch of space between us. Ignorant Fucktard.

Ignorant Fucktard #2:  (continuation of I.F. pt #1)The judge that denied termination of family rights for Deon’s DNA donors and said that they should be working to reunite the family. You Ignorant FUCKTARD! Shouldn’t you be more concernned with safety of the child than reuniting him with his fucking abusers?  Shouldn’t you be more concerned with making sure the child continues to be in a loving home where he has made more progress in 8 months than he ever did with his”family”?  Obviously to be a judge you never have to have been to OZ. Ignorant Fucktard to the nth degree.

Thanks for listening

So on Thursday I got my first(and last MRI. The reason I had to get it is because my right shoulder is frozen. The machine wasn’t a tube which would have meant no MRI, because I found out just how claustrophobic I am. It was an open machine kinda, but it still freaked me out. There were six images they needed to take during which I had to lay absolutely still, which is really hard for me because I’m a twitcher. The images took between five to seven minutes. I made it through but I definitely do not want to get another one.

On Friday night I went to see The Incredible Hulk With Bill. This was a fun movie, better than the first!

On Saturday I went with my brother to see Bob Walkenhorst and Jeff Porter at O’Malley’s Irish Pub in Weston, Mo. Bob was the lead singer of The Rainmakers. They were a band out of the KC area that were fairly successful during the late ’80s. I must have worn out three cassette tapes of their first album, but never got to see them live. I also got very drunk.

Bob played some of The Rainmakers songs. I got my Picture taken with him and asked if they would play Small Circles which is my favorite song by the Rainmakers and if I could record a video of it. He said sure. Then he asked me where I was from and I told him. He asked if there were any bars up there that might be open to having him play as he and Jeff are trying to expand there playing area. I told him of two that I could think of and told him if they came to Topeka I would be sure to get some folks there to see him.

After the show they had some CDs on sale. I was able to get the original album on CD and Bob’s autograph.

I had such a great time!

Bob and I:

Small Circles performed live( kinda dark and loud but still not to bad):

On Tuesday I was called into the office at work. I went in and was asked to sit down. I was then handed a piece of paper. The paper said that effective immediately I was to receive a fifty cent an hour raise. It also said that when I reached my one year anniversary my pay would go up another ninety cents an hour. I waited a minute and then told them that I would let them do this. This was totally unexpected! Hell yeah!

Then today I was called into the office again. This time I was told there was an opening in another group with much better papers and they wanted to offer me the position.  So starting next Tuesday I start reading newspapers from Georgia.

This has been a good week so far.