I shall dub thee J. Cash and thee...no idea

Okay, so spur of the moment-ish decision. I went on-line looking for a ukulele and I ended up coming across a deal for an acoustic guitar and a mandolin, were I paid ninety-nine dollars for both. I also got two harmonicas, one in C and one in G. It was somewhat a spur of the moment decision, but I spent long enough locating the ones I liked and the money I was willing to spend. So for what I was willing to spend, those two came up. I received the instruments one and a half days later. The guitar is black and the mandolin is a sunburst lacquer. Who is ready to rock out? Right, anyway I am thinking it will be a fun hobby to learn, and if anything I’ll have some nice instruments to decorate with if nothing else. Maybe I’ll give names to them. Perhaps the guitar can be Cash and the Mandolin can be…no idea; bad idea.

Well I actually got some rest last night. I went home and started to practice the guitar when I fell asleep. I awoke two or so hours later and crawled into bed, as soon as I could stand due to parts of my body falling asleep. Yeah, that sounded stupid, standing up so I could crawl into bed. Well I actually fell asleep in a reasonable amount of time, and I awoke at two in the morning in time for work, thanks to my alarms. I wonder how long I would have slept if I hadn’t set them. I didn’t read my bible last night, so I’m a bit bummed on that for my religious reasons.

I realized this isn’t a funny rant. I got sleep, I have no complaints, the creative juices are not flowing. Ew, get a mop.

Back to the instrument topic, I hope that learning how to play will open new doors for me. I doubt they will be social doors, where I get invited to cool parties or jam sessions. In my dreams right; am I right or am I right? I think that my appreciation for the music I listen to will go up and maybe having this hobby will allow for me to have a broader knowledge base to have more meaningful conversations with people. Also, it’s a guitar and they rock, so yeah.

I have been so happy as of late, and I can not place why. I’m just content. I was ecstatic when I woke up and I was happy to get to work. I just feel really good. Rock on, I know. This also had nothing to do with me having fun with my harmonicas on the way to work.

It was nice not having to really pay attention to the radio. There was noise and I wasn’t sick of it. Not that I do not have a lack of differing music to listen to in the DFW metroplex, but it is sometimes nice not to have to listen to music. Yes, here I was mentioning I was going to appreciate music more, but I listen to music almost all day so I need a break from certain songs popping up and I’m not looking to listen to really obscure music right now. If that makes much sense, tell me, and please explain to me how my weak argument won you over.

The last few days have been going by pretty quickly too. The fact that I slept a lot makes the days just speed by, and I forget how long I’ve been awake for without any decent amount of sleep. I check my mail and I’m surprised I’ve got 9 messages already, or what feels like an already. Usually I’m sitting at my computer watching outlook download any message I may get. Okay, just got a bit tired, maybe a nap wouldn’t kill me after work. Perhaps I can do that before I eat lunch with Mel. I hope she is awake at ten so I confirm we are eating, otherwise I’m going to go off and do something else.

Politics in Business Midterm...Check

Listening to 3 Doors Down: The Better Life

Well the mid-term went well enough to say that I am satisfied with the results. I’m a bit too wound tight to consider how the professor made the exam and what my impressions of it were. Yes, it is a bit weird to be thinking about that stuff, but it helps in the long run I feel. Yes, I can say I’m deep and state: I am looking to better myself by wanting to understand everything. I really don’t know how to say it in a non-corny way. I just like to know. Yeah, there we go. Well, the midterm did go well. I was there are reasonable time, I believe I gave decent answers, and this is all considering I hadn’t even looked over the material before today. I hope I got a good grade still, because I could have walked away with a feeling of, “I so bombed that exam,” but I do not feel that way. I expect good things. I pray for good things.

Man it is so weird that I’m not really sure where to post this. Nobody reads my mentalramblingssoapbox blog and yet I have a dislike for the entity_of_thought myspace blog, but I can see that it is getting views. An aggravating bit is that it shows me how many people have viewed my blog by day, week, and total, yet when I click the tab for whose read it I see nothing. Not that I see anything anyway. Oh well.

Yeah, I’ll probably keep the blogspot one going for the heck of it. It’s more fun. More inspirational to myself, and it doesn’t look as nasty as myspace. I didn’t keep the livejournal because I couldn’t get it to look nice. On the bright-side is it does lead to some decent communications. Maybe I’ll just go ahead and create a large internet presence, or the largest I can muster for myself. Maybe I’ll tie my OkCupid account to it as well, and no dissing the free dating site. Amazing that I can’t get a date that site either, seems the girls look for friends, have a relationship and keep that account going, or leave an account open with, you can look…but don’t you touch. No-no, no touching.

How things are going, so simple, yet so painful

Listening to Alien Ant Farm: Courage

Well, I think that so far things are going well, and yet everything is not going anything like I wanted it to be going. I was on top of things at the start of summer as far as school was concerned. I was taking that Law in Literature class, which helps me in English a bit, or rather in how to respond to it. Sounds easy, but it isn’t at that level. I have a hard enough time with English and writing, so I thought that I would work on it, and even risk my GPA on it. So far so good I got a B- in a subject that usually hurts my GPA pretty badly. I’m very proud of that. As far as the Politics in Business and Understanding Art goes, I am behind. I haven’t been on top of things like I should have, but I need a break. I’ll be diving right back into school as soon as these classes end, and I’ll just keep going. Hopefully the fact that these classes will not be 8 or 6 week condensed classes will allow me to get ahead and get back to a place I need to be. I am behind in so many projects and I put effort into things that turn out to be unnecessary. Surprisingly I think I’m going to be ready for this Midterm, as long as it is as common-sense as I think it is going to be. I need to find my good pens for that.

Well with Antonia gone, I am a free agent as my co-workers put it. I love this two-word titles that I’m getting now-a-days. To go off on a tangent, I am a functioning alcoholic, with walking pneumonia, who happens to be a free agent. I love this. Well anyway, Antonia is gone and now I’m back on the market, which sucks. One reason is that once my friend Tina knows this she may try to initiate something, which I don’t want. That is if she isn’t upset that I haven’t been available to hang out, but she works two jobs, and I work and go to school and the only times we’ve had to hang out were when I dropped by after no sleep and I was about ready to collapse.

The job is the job. I’ve been there for over a year now. One year and one month as of July 6^th, which happened to be my birthday. I’ve gotten so much work to do there, I have got to get it together and plow through it. I bit off a bit more than I can chew, and if I don’t tread water I’m going to drown. I have a project that involves going through all the old LPARS involving forklift accidents. It’s just an exercise in getting a file for ourselves so we can do some tracking. It is more of a time-consuming pain than anything. Most paperwork is I guess.

Glow, Newbies, Available, and giving me Myspace

Listening to Alien Ant Farm: Glow (I have listened to other music since the last time).

I have 65+ hours of music saved onto my computer from compact disks and the internet (legally). Yet, I keep listening to the song “Glow” by Alien Ant Farm. I just liked the beat, but listening to lyrics makes me like it more. I usually have two phases with a song. I like it for a few rifts, beats, and choice words. Later I finally listen to it over and over again so much I rediscover it in its entirety. I wonder if this means I was just lazy the first time I listened to the song.

Listening to Warp Brothers: Smells Like Teen Spirits (House Spirit Club Mix)

Well, the two part-times we got for the department start today. I’m not trying to divulge any confidential information here, and I’m not. I’m worried about the one from Michigan(?) being a bit awkward. I’ll note that concern later on after I see how it turns out, for better or for worse. On the good side, they are guys around my age, not that I don’t love with working with Ron, but this should make work enjoyable for me, not that it hasn’t been…off and on, but I think this is a positive step.

Listening to Incubus: Megalomaniac

Well Antonia and I are no more, which I forgot to write about. It ended well, I got the text message from her notifying me of what was getting to be understood, we weren’t going to make it with her going to Austin. Thankfully, I was already in the bar, and the fact I hadn’t heard from her in about a week prior eased the blow to the equivalent of a toothpick denting a giant Redwood. I’m not implying I’m a giant redwood; I just wanted a decent visual. We both knew it was going sour, and I hope her the best, she is still a good friend, who forgot to call me on my birthday like she said she would. I’m not bitter, never bitter. This trip down it was awkward for her to get her stuff, and awkward for me, but later on we may hang out, which is good, because I intend on whooping her sorry gamer butt at some games the next time I see her. If I minus her trip to Austin we may have been at two months. So if I apply the day for every month, or even a week for every month, I’m ready to keep going. …next.

Listening to…a Playlist with many songs, and I’m not going to write them all. …Okay Shinedown: I Dare You (the song rocks)

Well, I should be going to work in a bit. I got Myspace up and running. http://www.myspace.com/entity_of_thought is the link to it. Oh, and to continue on this twisted maze, the link to the original Soapbox, is not being given out. Not that anybody cares. Well chow-mein everybody.