Ach.... gnnnf... gwwwrrch...
AUUUURRRRGHH!!!!
Whoo hoo! Wowsers. Yes, folks, your eyes do not deceive you... there's nothing wrong with your computer... once again, I control the horizontal, I control the vertical... believe it or not... I'm still here!
By "here", of course, I mean not so much "present", like, an active part of the blogger community at large, spewing thick, sticky ropes of profound witticism from the depths of my keyboard; but "here" in the "behind my desk, staring red-eyed at my computer monitor, buried sphincter-deep in 'Annual orders for '07'" sense; licking my post-election wounds, as political season in my business means an endless barrage of attack ads to unleash upon the unsuspecting public. (Though, the elections for me personally certainly turned out pretty good)
As this blog has always been the most reliable (all right, occasionally reliable) source of the most subjective, completely biased coffee house reviews on the web, I figure it's only appropriate to review the place I've been drinking my coffee at most regularly, during my vacation from blogging, or, as I'm loathe to call it "real life"...
My Work
That's right. Superman has his Fortress, Batman his cave, The Shadow his "Secret Sanctum" (Giggle... Tee heee... No, seriously, he calls it that.) Me, I've got a six foot by six foot...
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AND THAT'S IT... that's as far as I managed to get (See? See? I told you I was busy!). But, hey, it started off as a promising enough post, didn't it? What with all the photos of where I'd been spending my days (and more nights than I care to remember)?
And the jokes... OH, the jokes; all of them, gestating in my oversized cranium for a over month now, about how my son's picture revealed our membership in a blue-scarab worshiping, Neo-Egyptian cult ("Har - dee - har!") And the way that my Hello Kitty fetish crosses so far over the line between aging Gen-X irony and "creepy old man" that it almost goes all the way back to ironic again. ("Guffaw!") And the way that my politically correct sensibilities are trumped by my love of visiting coffee shops, as evidenced by the paper cup sitting next to the reusable, eco-friendly mug on my desk. ("WHEEEE!")Here we are, a month and a half later, a whole brand-spankin'-new year,
and I'm finally getting around to dusting off and finishing up this tired ol' entry. But now, of all the pictures, I keep finding myself focusing on two in particular... The lyrics for the King Monkey's "F.E.A.R", there to mull over anytime things got bad at work, over the last two and a half years. And then there's my bamboo plant, with only two stalks, because the third had withered up into nothingness. The wife warned me that it was bad luck, feng shui-wise, to have an even number.
Damn her and her voodoo ways...
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On January 4th, 2007, after sitting though the company's annual "Holiday Bistro" (pushed back because of all the storms) , listening to the managers pat themselves on the back for being the bestest of all the corporate entities in all the whole-wide world, bragging "Whoo Hoo! Lookit how we crushed that '06 budget! GO TEAM!!!"I was lead into a bottom floor, windowless room with both of my managers, and the head of Human Resources. There, I was informed that I had been selected for
"THE PROGRAM" (!)
As with all things ominous and of a highly delicate nature (the existence of Fight Club, employment in the CIA - pre Bush) the exact details of "The Program" shall remain steeped in mystery, per the scads of legalese-heavy paperwork I've signed off on. However, it is safe for me to disclose that the ties to my previous employer have been effectively severed. I can say that. I can further add that, on a good day, when I'm not obsessing over the mundane details of where I'm going to get a new job, and what kind of benefits that new employer will offer, "The Program" is not entirely unlike Summer vacation.
Oh, sure... there has been a fair amount of combing sites like Career Builder and Monster, but a good portion of that has been accomplished by utilizing the free terminals provided by the good women (womyn?) of tHERe Coffee, sitting alongside such Denver luminaries as Maris the Great. I did occasionally use the computers at the Englewood Public Library, and I once sat next to a woman who was posting an ad on Craigslist erotic services section. Talk about in-demand job skills!
So, what else does "The Program" entail? Well, aside from lots of quality time with the wife kids, I got to go to Lipgloss one Friday, where I was surrounded by youngsters oblivious to the fact that Morrissey's OTHER legendary guitarist, Boz Boorer was spinning the classic soul and Jam-n-Clash era punk that they were shaking their booties to. He even broke his vow of never spinning his own music, and played "You're the One For Me, Fatty" per my request.
(I cornered him in the "loo", as those silly Brits call it).
I went to the Denver Public Library and mulled over the "On the Road" scroll, the endless length of paper on which Jack Kerouac
typed his most famous work. I even got a picture, in spite of the clearly posted signs that informed doing so was forbidden. I'm just a rebel like that.
I proceeded to go upstairs, under the highest point in the library, to drink my coffee at the legacy table, where the last decent president sat and... I don't know, did something presidential.
Alas, what "The Program" hasn't entailed is blogging. And here's the rub; the "good news / bad news", as it were... I start a new job on Monday. I'll be swathed in business casual and cubed once more. All snark aside, it's a good opportunity, and I am ready to get back to work. But I'm just not sure what it will mean for my little corner of cyberspace. I do know that I owe it to my family, to myself, to throw everything I've got into this new job. I also owe it to myself to not let this blog turn into a graveyard for ephedra and viagra spam.
So to everyone who's sent me gentle reminders to post anew - thank you. While it's not expected, it's much appreciated. (Yes, even the messages from the missus, written under various pseudonyms)
Who knows? Maybe I can still turn my writing into a marketable skill. I could always be a freelance copywriter for the Craigslist Erotic Services section.
6 comments:
*gasp* eh, ach, gack. I can't even finish reading the whole thing to make a relevant comment, right now I'm going to read a sentence a day and savour it so I can stretch it out to the next post. I think, from what I read in the first few is that you were saying you got a new job, congratulations, as I read more each day I will let you know....
welcome back
I'm impressed. However you don't want to be known as the guy who posts less than me. Good luck with the new job.
its like candy to a diabetic...wait that is a bad thing isn't it.....well it is about freakin time! welcome back...keep it coming.
I can honestly attest, T&T, that sometimes candy is good for a diabetic, at least that's what Tom tells me.
So, I read the whole post, I gave in, I didn't savor it a line a week, the suspense was killing me. Whatever your new job is, I hope it doesn't keep you away completely.
hooray for new job!!!
this reminds me of the time in Superman Returns where Superman finally comes back from searching fo the last remains of Krypton and is gone for 5 years. He then comes back to earth picking up where he left off - but as Clark Kent, his job at The Planet was never the same again!!!
heavy sigh.
Basically that means I hope we get to have Superman night soon.
I cannot believe this. should I subscribe to your RSS ? or is this just a fluke of nature. Oddly I went to the top of that library years ago, on a whim, i wanted to dispel rumors that were circulating thanks to our good friend Henry Alarm clock. He and some of his friends had started this myth that the top of the tower was a Free mason thing, and that the top was a UFO landing pad, I marched straight up to the top floor asked the president of the museum (big Chief) if he could show me around (mind you I was HIGH). He gladly took me on a tour and answered all of my questions as best he could. Some of my questions were : " Is the top of this building meant as a UFO landing pad ?" or " is the pyramid used a freemason ritual space ?" he honestly had heard these absurd questions before and was delighted to answer them.
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