Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[Joe Biden 2020]

Memphis, it has toned down a bunch this year.  I only put one calendar up on Monday.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Happy 2015, Updaters!!!!

[Joe Biden 2020]

Happy 2015, Updaters!!!!

Thank you old friend! Happy 2015 to you as well! Please drive home safely!

Thank you, Lief!  I made it home just fine about 0015.  I'll probably stay up until like 0200 or so.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's been a pretty good day to start 2015.  I went to bed at 0130 and woke up at 0830.  I had breakfast, but couldn't get going today, so I took a nap until 1400.  I woke up from the nap refreshed and I have been sitting here watching football and keeping track of the weather.  We've got a small ice storm on the way for tomorrow afternoon through Saturday morning.  Oklahoma City is expecting a tenth to a quarter of an inch of freezing rain which is solid ice.  The roads will be a big mess, although we should still be in good shape as far as power is concerned.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So is Bushie getting a hotel in anticipation of the ice storm?

Nope, since they called off work for tomorrow.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Bushie will your next pay be enough to pay 1 months rent in Tulsa? 

Of course it will.  I just got paid today for the week of Christmas and the week before Christmas, which was a full 40 hour week.  I had enough to pay my rent and then some.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Bushie will your next pay be enough to pay 1 months rent in Tulsa? 

Of course it will.  I just got paid today for the week of Christmas and the week before Christmas, which was a full 40 hour week.  I had enough to pay my rent and then some.

I meant your next check amount. 

The next check will cover the week of New Years and the first full week of the year, so it should be about $50 higher than my paycheck I just got yesterday.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm genuinely curious as to which holiday Our Dear Friend is "focusing" on next. I thought of him three days after Christmas when someone down the street from me already had their house decked out (they really went all out) with Valentine's Day decorations.

I haven't really thought about it, as I'm trying to live more in the moment.  If I had to say, it would be Easter since I have no lady for Valentine's Day.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm genuinely curious as to which holiday Our Dear Friend is "focusing" on next. I thought of him three days after Christmas when someone down the street from me already had their house decked out (they really went all out) with Valentine's Day decorations.

I haven't really thought about it, as I'm trying to live more in the moment.  If I had to say, it would be Easter since I have no lady for Valentine's Day.

Will you possibly watch an online countdown to see when it hits 3 PM Jerusalem time on Good Friday?

That countdown only applies to New Year's and to a lesser extent, the first of each month.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Memphis, stop being facetious.  Everything happened exactly how I said it.  I did not stretch anything.

As far as the axing, I have been thinking about it for a long time.  You guys are not encouragers, you are negative.  Life is too precious to have negativity hanging around your life.

[Joe Biden 2020]

The job is done. I'm not buying his story that most of his coworkers live 30+ miles from work. That's not plausible. What really happened is that he asked for the day off because of the weather and the boss not only gave him today off but the rest of his life also. Back to the call center!

it cant be good news that his boss is giving him all of this time off.  he has been through this routine before.  r.i.p.

Nah, everybody will be going back on Monday at 0800.

The good news is the ice storm is not panning out, yet.  We have very light drizzle falling, but it is just liquid as the temperatures are around 36.  We still have all evening and tomorrow morning to get through, but so far so good.

[Joe Biden 2020]

The job is done. I'm not buying his story that most of his coworkers live 30+ miles from work. That's not plausible. What really happened is that he asked for the day off because of the weather and the boss not only gave him today off but the rest of his life also. Back to the call center!

it cant be good news that his boss is giving him all of this time off.  he has been through this routine before.  r.i.p.

Nah, everybody will be going back on Monday at 0800.

maybe youll get a full 24 hour week!

Try 40 hours.

[Joe Biden 2020]

so bushie took a day off from work because of 'light rain' and a temp of 37?

classic bushie.

Today definitely surprised everybody.  The temperature rose a lot faster than expected this morning.  My boss gave everybody the day off also as a nice gesture since it will be our last chance to use this liberal leave policy for a long time.  We've got work start to flow in with deadlines not too far away.  Everything we had could wait until Monday, but it can't wait any longer.  The liberal leave policy he's held the past two months will likely come to a screeching halt come Monday.  The next company holiday is Memorial Day, nearly 5 months away.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Wow, are you ready for twenty 40 hour work weeks in a row? Do you actually expect to survive that?

I can do as many as required.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Oklahoma doesn't shut down for MLK day? I'm shocked.

Some businesses do, some don't.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I should definitely have 2 months left of this work contract, but the question marks linger for March.  Right now, it is looking like the contract will end between February 27 and March 13.  If the contract does end before March 20, then I will return to Tulsa.  I have until the end of March to make my decision on whether to extend the apartment lease.  If the contract ends after March 20, then I will finish up the Tulsa apartment lease in May and move down to an apartment in Oklahoma City.  There is still the possibility of being put on another contract going into the Spring and Summer, but that is even less of a certainty.  My boss likes what he sees out of all six of us and has no worries, so that's a good sign, but still employment beyond February has a huge question mark.  It is very possible I may be starting the second half of my contract on Monday.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Bushie your boss deciding he doesn't want to pay you for a day is not a nice gesture.

It is what it is.  There's no use talking about it anymore.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's been a fun three days of doing little to nothing, but I am ready to really get this year started.  I've got a normal Sunday tomorrow consisting of two church services, playoff football, and getting ready for work.  Then, I'll get back to normal at work on Monday, getting back to business casual attire and starting the first forty-hour week since the week before Christmas.  Monday will begin Month 3 and Week 10 of work.  I am not going to worry about Week 11 until we get to Friday at 1700.  All indications are that we will start getting real busy this week with the Christmas vacations over and done with.  I feel rested and rejuvenated after this long weekend, but I'm ready to get this show on the road.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's been a fun three days of doing little to nothing, but I am ready to really get this year started.  I've got a normal Sunday tomorrow consisting of two church services, playoff football, and getting ready for work.  Then, I'll get back to normal at work on Monday, getting back to business casual attire and starting the first forty-hour week since the week before Christmas.  Monday will begin Month 3 and Week 10 of work.  I am not going to worry about Week 11 until we get to Friday at 1700.  All indications are that we will start getting real busy this week with the Christmas vacations over and done with.  I feel rested and rejuvenated after this long weekend, but I'm ready to get this show on the road.

This is my update.  If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's been a fun three days of doing little to nothing

Other than carrying out a BLOODY PURGE of course.

Bitter are we?

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's been a fun three days of doing little to nothing

Other than carrying out a BLOODY PURGE of course.

Bitter are we?

Yeah.  Unfriending people on facebook the way you did was a crappy thing to do.  Then you mock them with sarcastic "bitter are we?"

What is wrong with you?  Oh yeah, I forgot... you're a perfect angel on the right track to success... If it weren't for these meddling atlas posters that grind their teeth to the nerve out of frustration for your histrionic thick skulledness.

I'm offended that you did what you did and I'd never be friends with you on Facebook in the first place!

Oh ok.  Nice to know!

[Joe Biden 2020]

I wasn't trying to purposely offend anybody when I trimmed out a few of you guys.  I was taking the advice of several of my real-life friends and have decided to surround myself with positivity this year.  I don't need every Facebook post of mine snickered at or criticized.  My friends know when to tell me the truth and they are the ones who know the real me.  They are by no means enablers.  None of these cuts are personal.  I still consider each one of you friends and I figure we talk enough on here that I can hear the advice from you all here.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So, you're blaming the Atlas Forum's negative energy for not getting your fat butt to work? Good luck with that.

I never said that.

[Joe Biden 2020]

bushie,  how many of your coworkers took Friday off?

All of them, including my boss, lead, and assistant lead.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I wasn't trying to purposely offend anybody when I trimmed out a few of you guys.  I was taking the advice of several of my real-life friends and have decided to surround myself with positivity this year.  I don't need every Facebook post of mine snickered at or criticized.  My friends know when to tell me the truth and they are the ones who know the real me.  They are by no means enablers.  None of these cuts are personal.  I still consider each one of you friends and I figure we talk enough on here that I can hear the advice from you all here.

You want to surround yourself with people who believe your own BS even more than you do.

Have your "friends" ever told you to lose weight? Have your "friends" let you know you shave a few days off your life every time you sit down to eat more of the crap you do? If they haven't, they're not telling the truth.

But keep talking to them about how you're going to plan to try to intend to think about losing weight or eating your cheeseburger without fries one day a week. And you'll never do that. You wanted everyone on here to pat you on the head like a six year old because you ate a non-crappy lunch one day.

You can defriend people on Facebook but you can't block us on here and you know as well as I do that you can't give this up. You need this. You need to feel like someone out there actually cares. That's why you get mad and say you're ending Update only to start posting again the next day.

Yes, my friends have told me I need to lose weight.  They are very concerned about my physical health.