Update XX: A Darn Good Judge of My Financial Situation

[Joe Biden 2020]

You guys have this idea that I will never get a job again.  You think I'm too fat and too much of an idiot to work.  Further proves my point that most of you do not care a lick about me.  In fact, most of you use me for your entertainment.  That's not friendship.  That's hate.  Cold hate.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm not answering your question.  You don't care about me.  All you care about is calling me the worst idiot in the world.  You hate me.  Plain and simple.  Why should I answer the question of someone who hates me?

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's time to go on another hiatus.  Nobody on this forum understands me and most think I'm the worst hell-bound person in the history of mankind.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing.

Hopefully they are morbid-tolerant and not bigots. Good luck, man.

Ha! We shall see.  Thanks!

[Joe Biden 2020]

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

lol

So are we still pretending Bushie doesn't have serious mental health issues? Because I don't see how you can read that post and not think so.

I have mental issues for being a visual learner?  I don't get the correlation.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm going to spend the next little while combing through the company's website preparing for tomorrow's interview.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It isn't so much about the distance of commute as it is the time it takes to complete it. At least people in New York have the excuse that they can't afford to live closer in. Not that having a long commute there isn't a terrible way to live also, but in a town like Tulsa or Memphis, it makes no sense at all, especially for somebody who doesn't have to worry about public school district boundaries. Anything more than 15 minutes is just self-imposed sadism.

When we moved to Kansas City, we looked at housing that was closer for either me or my partner for where we need to be during the day. He has a five-block commute while I've got a 12-mile drive. But location and proximity was certainly a consideration when we were moving here.

Jeff, if you find a job in Tulsa, would you consider allowing your lease to run out and finding an apartment closer to work when the time is right?

Meh, Tulsa's a compact enough city that 18 miles is about as high as it would go.  Mind you, I'm going from the far east end of town to the far west end of town.

[Joe Biden 2020]

bushie did you vote for inhofe?

Nope.  Never have, never will.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Are you watching the NFL Network daily, or the pedestrian ESPN?

ESPN

[Joe Biden 2020]

Are you watching the NFL Network daily, or the pedestrian ESPN?

ESPN

Ids your TV on from morning till night?

Not continually and not on the same channel.  I normally turn my TV off after the Noon News at 1300 so I can focus on the job search or emails or such and then turn it back on around 1500, so I can catch a little Super Bowl news before the evening news comes on at 1600.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I have been reading some on the company's website and getting an idea of what the company does.  I've asked for a job description, so I'm hoping she sends me an email with it before she leaves for the day.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Why won't you vote for Inhofe? Not socially conservative enough?

I've never liked his politics.  I'm conservative, but he's too conservative even for me.  I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I just don't like his politics.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Since I have to be up relatively early tomorrow (0700), I am only going to watch one NBA game tonight - Nuggets vs. Grizzlies on TNT from 1900-2130.  After the game, I will watch the news until 2230, then read my Bible and get myself mentally prepared for the interview from 2230-2315 and then go to bed by 2330.  My alarm is set for 0700 tomorrow and I'll leave at 0830-0835 so I can get to the interview about 10 minutes before they want me there.  The interview starts at 0930 and she wants me there by 0915, so I'll plan to be there by 0900-0905 so I can have some time to collect my thoughts.  I will be in the interview about an hour, so I expect to be home shortly after 1100 tomorrow morning.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Why won't you vote for Inhofe? Not socially conservative enough?

I've never liked his politics.  I'm conservative, but he's too conservative even for me.  I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I just don't like his politics.

How is Inhofe bad but Sally Kern good?

I like Sally Kern as a person.  I do not like her politics.  A person's likability is not tied to his or her politics.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Since I have to be up relatively early tomorrow (0700), I am only going to watch one NBA game tonight - Nuggets vs. Grizzlies on TNT from 1900-2130.  After the game, I will watch the news until 2230, then read my Bible and get myself mentally prepared for the interview from 2230-2315 and then go to bed by 2330.  My alarm is set for 0700 tomorrow and I'll leave at 0830-0835 so I can get to the interview about 10 minutes before they want me there.  The interview starts at 0930 and she wants me there by 0915, so I'll plan to be there by 0900-0905 so I can have some time to collect my thoughts.  I will be in the interview about an hour, so I expect to be home shortly after 1100 tomorrow morning.

Basketball too? What sports don't you watch?

I don't watch tennis, soccer, and only rarely watch golf.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So Bushie "quits" Update for one day, so that he doesn't have to answer any of the uncomfortable questions, and then when he comes back, everyone just goes along with him and drops the uncomfortable questions?

Well, I won't fall for it.  I'll bring back the questions that were dropped when Bushie "left":

Remember this from October?:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=200654.msg4349686#msg4349686

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You wrote that in October.  Did you have your Grandma actually teach you to cook anything while you were living with her?

This will sound like a broken record and probably will not be believed, which I can't blame, but I am going to try to eat better and start cooking for myself when I get up to Tulsa this weekend.  I'm going to start with the dishes I know, such as scrambled eggs, macaroni and cheese (stove top kind), and spaghetti and then branch out into other dishes as time goes on.  I'm not going to set any kind of elaborate goal just yet, I want to get started first before I set my sights on loftier goals.

You wrote this more than a week ago.  Have you started doing this yet?

Unfortunately, neither has happened.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So, you didn't help Grandma cook at all?

I helped when I could, but mostly she already had supper ready when I got home.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So Bushie "quits" Update for one day, so that he doesn't have to answer any of the uncomfortable questions, and then when he comes back, everyone just goes along with him and drops the uncomfortable questions?

Well, I won't fall for it.  I'll bring back the questions that were dropped when Bushie "left":

Remember this from October?:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=200654.msg4349686#msg4349686

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You wrote that in October.  Did you have your Grandma actually teach you to cook anything while you were living with her?

This will sound like a broken record and probably will not be believed, which I can't blame, but I am going to try to eat better and start cooking for myself when I get up to Tulsa this weekend.  I'm going to start with the dishes I know, such as scrambled eggs, macaroni and cheese (stove top kind), and spaghetti and then branch out into other dishes as time goes on.  I'm not going to set any kind of elaborate goal just yet, I want to get started first before I set my sights on loftier goals.

You wrote this more than a week ago.  Have you started doing this yet?

Unfortunately, neither has happened.

Have you made your own dinner at all this week, or have you been eating out every night?

I thought I just answered that, but unfortunately I have been eating out.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I thought I just answered that, but unfortunately I have been eating out.

OK.  Why don't you make your own dinner tomorrow night?  You said you bought the groceries, right?

I might do that.  I know my parents are taking me out for Mexican food Saturday, but I haven't decided on tomorrow night, yet.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I really don't know what I'm doing tomorrow evening for supper.  I guess it kind of depends on how I feel after my interview.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I really don't know what I'm doing tomorrow evening for supper.  I guess it kind of depends on how I feel after my interview.

As always, Jeff, planning or hope or maybes without execution is total BS. I'm not sure why you wasted the money on groceries if you never have any intention of doing anything with them.

I can see what you're saying, but I think where the problem comes in, I dread cooking for just one person, so I take the easy way out and grab a burger or order pizza.  If I can get over or get around that dread, I'd be in a lot better shape and probably be a fair amount slimmer.

[Joe Biden 2020]

New method of torture: spend a night with the Brown squad after Mexican.

There's torture, then there's inhumane.  You've hit the inhumane button.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I really don't know what I'm doing tomorrow evening for supper.  I guess it kind of depends on how I feel after my interview.

As always, Jeff, planning or hope or maybes without execution is total BS. I'm not sure why you wasted the money on groceries if you never have any intention of doing anything with them.

I can see what you're saying, but I think where the problem comes in, I dread cooking for just one person, so I take the easy way out and grab a burger or order pizza.  If I can get over or get around that dread, I'd be in a lot better shape and probably be a fair amount slimmer.

So, a baseless assumption stops you from cooking at home, thus eating better, thus being healthier, thus losing weight, thus being more attractive to employers, thus landing a job, thus staying healthy, thus keeping a job ... ad infinitum.

Get over it. Eat some leftovers the next day. Otherwise, you're telling the Forum (which will judge you quite harshly for this) that you again "planned" to the degree that you actually purchased food which will subsequently go to waste because you're too lazy to do anything with it.

I know it's an irrational dread, but that's just one of many that I have that keep me from living like a normal human being.  I don't feel like going into the others tonight, but you don't need to judge me (and I don't think you are) for these irrational fears and dreads.