rant…

I was just reading an article on a certain news site [some sort of Cable News Network ] and I finally had my ‘SNAP’ing moment…

In recent years, news organizations have decided to give their readers the opportunity to give feedback on their websites. They let a user login and leave comments right under the article.

At first I was excited about it, I wanted to share my own opinions and hear what others have to say.

Now I realize that people are stupid and just say whatever they want to say, and their commentary sucks.

Yes, it SUCKS.
PERIOD.

sitting sipping Mambo Chai
golden doodle wanders by
chilly April morning air
blue sky and a blank stare

I know I’ve talked about being mentally busy before, but I think these last two weeks pretty much top it all. I realized yesterday that I’d missed an appointment, and then realized that my initial realization was incorrect, that I’d actually gone to the appointment. What happened? Well, I went on the 20th to see my orthodontist, and that seems so long ago that I thought I missed it. It was less than three weeks ago, but I thought for sure I’d missed it. All the things that are occupying my time in real world and in “Gabes’ Brain” (TM, SM, R, C) have made the time longer.
Strange thing is that I can’t decide if that’s good or bad.

A Sunday Short

Or Something like that.

Fiction…

Sitting on the couch with my right foot buried under my left thigh, and staring at the television, I wondered how long it would take for me to be able to say what I needed to say. Then the door knob turned and I knew it was going to come out whether or not it was formulated correctly. I saw his hand reach in…
“Grab me the mailbox key would-ya?”
My cheeks are warm. I remain silent.
“You there?”
Still silent.
“Hey, where you at? I need the key.”
Not moving, feeling my toes go numb.
“G-ddamn Sunovabich Em Effing…
He stopped, in the doorway, but not really inside or out. Looking at me.
“What the Eff man?”
My cheeks are burning. I remain silent.
“Seriously, what the f@#k? I mean…”
I lost it, cut him off, almost swore.
“You mean that you’re too lazy to get the F…key yourself?”
“What the? What’s with the ambush?”
“Well if you didn’t see this one coming, you should have.”
“See… coming… what on earth are you talking about?”
“Go get the mail and we’ll talk when you get back.”
I threw him the key.
He stood there dumbfounded.
“Go get the mail Jack.”
“You… but, what?”
He stepped slowly out the door. I stared hard at the TV.
Moments later he returned.
I turned the TV off, stood and turned to face him.
I stopped.
Stared.
He was silent, ghost white, and there was a tear trailing it’s way down his face.
“Harrison’s dead, IED, outside of Basra.”

Rhymes With ‘Mole Dudes’

I don’t know exactly what to think right now. I’m going to be working for a company that I really believe in. I wasn’t really sure that could happen. But, after two full days of training and orientation, I’ve found that they really are pointed in the right direction.

I came to a funny realization about that this morning. I was never that kid that knew what he wanted to be when he grew up, I don’t think I ever really wanted to grow up for that matter (still don’t). Anyway, as time has gone on, I’ve tried and tried to come up with the job that would be the one for me to love, the one to make a career, and I can never seem to settle on it. There are so many things that I’m interested in and want to try my hand at that I always seem to come up with an ideal career that is some sort of combination of several things. And because of that, it’s usually too specific to be very realistic. But this morning I realized that my new job is with a company that (rhymes with Mole Dudes) does things that I believe in. And that because of that, I will, on a daily basis, be doing things I believe in, and potentially move into a position that deals with that kind of thing exclusively. Which could, I’m realizing, lead to a job that becomes a career, doing work that I love.

Whodathunk?

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