TMI Tuesday #193

1. How many speeding tickets have you had? I use to get one about every 6 months, but it has been awhile. Now I seem to get tickets for running stoplights with those video camera recording devices. Fucking big brother..... Accidents? Two while in college (not my fault), 4 or 5 in the last 25 years,

2. Boxers, briefs or commando? Depends on my mood.

3. Have you ever had sex in your office or your place of employment? Yes

4. Do you or your so own a motorcycle? Do you ever ride one? Do you wear a helmet when you ride? I dont do motorcycles anymore. I use to do the mini-bike thing when i was a kid, but learned pretty quickly that, with my limited field of vision, I need all the protection I can get around me and bikes just dont offer that.

5. Ever been skinny dipping? Yes and got caught

Bonus: Ever been arrested? Turned someone in/had someone arrested? No to the first part, and depending on how the stepdaughter and SH1 do in the coming week, that second part might be on the very near horizon.

THe Week/Weekend In Review - Part 1

Wow, is it Monday again?

Last week seemed like it lasted forever, but now it is finally over.

Monday - My son, who was at scout camp, celebrated his 11th birthday. Being the good dad, I took the afternoon off and drove to Camp and brought the boys cake and ice cream to help him celebrate. He was very appreciative, but was also very upset that I wasn't planning on staying the night at camp with him. I had previously told him that I would be down on Thursday to spend the remainder of the week with him. He cried, but finally accepted the fact that he would be OK without me.

Tuesday/Wednesday - WORK WORK WORK

Thursday - Got up early, packed the truck and headed to scout camp. I arrived about 1030 and the boys were still at their classes. Settled in and immediately began to sweat. IT is 95 degrees in the frigging shade and not a breeze in sight. On top of that, the ticks are so bad that they are falling from the trees like raindrops. The day was spent sitting under what little shade was available and drinking lots of water. Parents came down in the evening for a visit and the Order of the Arrow ceremony. Got to listen to the ex bitch about how long it took to drive down and how many times my daughter complained about being hungry.

Friday- Another day at camp.... still hot, still lots of bugs.

Saturday - We left camp. The good thing is that we got things packed up and cleaned up so that we were out the door by 930. Arrived home and the daughter immediately threwing a fucking fit about not wanting to come home with me for the weekend, like she was suppose to. I am getting so tired of ungrateful children, always ME ME ME.....

She finally calmed down after about an hour of screaming and then falling asleep. L and I were trying to get things together for the b-day party for the stepdaughter and seemingly disagreeing on everything. On top of that, the stepdaughter and SH1 went out Friday night and got shitfaced and then slept till noon. Guess who ended up watching the little bastard....

It was hot, the kids were crabby, I was crabby and tired, you can guess where this is going...... Part two tomorrow.

TMI Tuesday #192

1. Would you stay in a loveless relationship for the amazing sex? No, I have found the without the love, there really isnt amazing sex.

2. If you could only have one, which would you choose: love that lasts forever or great, body numbing sex? I want them both and have them now. Not planning on giving either of them up.

3. Looking back at your past loves, which one should you have married/taken back and who should you have tossed earlier than you did? I should have realized some of my previous relationships were based only on sex and lust and not true love. I also should have realized and trusted that I could find someone who truly loved and desired me and not stayed on in the relationship out of a misguided sense of being alone.

4. if you had one last fuck in you where, how and who would you “give it” to? Not sure.....LOL L and I both have our "TO DO LIST". Those people who, if we ever got the chance we would have a free pass. But realistically, it would be L.

5. Which is more important sex, money, love and happiness? (and no, you can’t pick’em all) This sounds totally shallow and not at all like me, but I would say money. Money can buy you happiness, or at least help you enjoy life more. Money can buy you sex obviously. As for money buying you love, I doubt that can really be the case, but I am sure there is someone out who could attest to it. Sorry the scientist in me looking for the most practical and pragmatic answer.


Happy TMI!!

Traveling for Work

Well it has been a long week here in Chicago and I am still not done.

I use to relish traveling for work. The chance to see new place, sights, eat and experience new food, people watch, etc. Granted, my profession hasn't typically granted me the opportunity to travel to the worlds hot spots, but I have seen my fair share of the country.

Typically, and when I say that, I mean in my previous employment positions, I would be in a rural area or on the outskirts of the bigger cities. Typically, my time was spent drilling holes, collecting samples, observing or auditing the environmental aspects of a business or property. My people watching usually was limited to the locals in the area, the employees of the business, and if it was a gas station, the occasional customer. Food experiences were usually whatever chain restaurant was in the area. This was primarily due to the limited expense account that my tight ass bosses would restrict us to. Sightseeing was rarely ever an option, unless we were required to stay over the weekend and into the next week. Lets face it, there ain't alot to see and do in Dubuque, Iowa or Sioux Falls, SD.

When my career took a turn the end of 2007, I was given an opportunity to expand my horizons and see some thing, do things, and experience the better side of work-related travel. Don't get me wrong, I still have budget constraints, but I don't have to stay in Super 8 or Motel 6's anymore. I get a decent amount of money for meals and incidentals, and typically, I am staying in the heart of the downtown area. This does have it's drawbacks, since I am typically limited to mass transit and not allowed to have a car for my own transportation. But we all have to make sacrifices.

This week has been somewhat of the exception to the norm, lately. I am stuck in downtown Chicago with little opportunity to explore. Admittedly, this is my own fault, since I am nursing a bum foot (blister) that has caused me alot of trouble getting to and from the office from the hotel. I have friends in Chicago that I would love to see, but they all live in the burbs and some have plans for this week in the evenings. A 2 hour train ride for an hour visit is not really worth the trouble.

So I sit in the hotel, watch TV, chat online and the phone and make the best of it. The phone calls have been a welcome respite to the mundane. THANK YOU (you know who you are). I had dinner with my ex brother in law ( he was married to my ex's sister) last night, who drove in from the burbs. It was nice to see him, but damn the man has problems. I honestly don't know how he is getting by. Two houses, been out of work since March, no prospects for employment. It sucks to be him. Oh well, he seems much happier than I remember him being. I guess he has decided to not worry about stuff anymore and just take it as it comes.

Tomorrow is my last day in town and I will be so glad to get back home. Not sure if I will be able to post before next week, so if I don't; Y'all have a good weekend.

TMI Tuesdays # 191

Have you ever

1. been married? Yes

2. been divorced? been remarried? Yes and Yes

3. had sex at a wedding reception? No, but I wish I could be so lucky.

4. had sex with someone you first met at a wedding or wedding reception? No, again, if I could be so lucky, although at the first wedding I went to with L, I did get to bang the mother of the groom....(it was her son's wedding)

5. given a a toast to the bride and groom? Yes, but i was too drunk to remember it afterwards.

Bonus (as in optional): What is the funniest thing you've seen or done at a wedding? One of the groomsmen, walking across a raised dais to his seat and just walking right off the end of it with a plate of food. He didn't get hurt, but it was a classic move.

Bonus II (as in optional): What is the best toast for the wedding couples? Congratulations to K and J.. LETS FEED. The author of that bit of wisdom is now a practicing physician. Scary.....

SWEET HOME CHICAGO

At least for this week. I am working from our downtown Chicago office this week, covering for my ex-boss, who resigned a few weeks back.

Got in last night and still getting acclimated to the place. Probably going to be sporadic posts this week, but if anyone who reads this is from this area; drop me a note with tips, suggestions of things to do, or just let me know if you want to grab a beer or two or three....

Finally Friday

The end of a long and relatively uneventful week....FINALLY.

It has been quiet at both work and home with very slight momentary lapses into chaos, usually attributed to the grandson or my kids.

L's new job is going well, although i do miss our daily email conversations. Typically, we would exchange 10-20 emails daily, conversing back and forth about anything and everything. Sometimes the email exchange would escalate into an argument, at which point one of us would just say, enough and end the conversation by not responding anymore.

Her new job keeps her so busy that she barely has time to send me a one line email. She is grateful for being so busy and she has already impressed the hell out of her bosses for being so efficient in her duties. But she only gets 1/2 hour for lunch, and limited time to email, so we are both kind of going through withdrawals for not being able to stay in touch as much as we use to.

This will only be compounded next week when I am in Chicago and not able to be in touch with her until either early in the mornings or in the evenings.

Weekend is shaping up to be another busy one with my kids. My son's birthday is coming up in another week, so to provide equal representation on the b-day party front, we are having his party tomorrow afternoon. Not much, other than family, food, and presents. He will actually be at Boy Scout Camp on his birthday and I am planning on driving down with a cake and ice cream to surprise him and his troop.

Between baseball, b-day party, packing, mowing, laundry, and all the other shit that usually crops up on the weekends, I may not getting any sleep until Sunday night. Maybe going to Chicago is a blessing in disguise......Nah, just a chance for me to catch up on my sleep.

Have a great weekend all........

Road Trip

Summer is suppose to be a time for things to slow down at work, enjoying the slower pace of life, taking off early, and generally being less productive. YEAH RIGHT... when monkey's fly out of butt.

So far this summer I have 2 trips to Chicago scheduled, 1 trip to NYC, 1 trip to Iowa, and potentially 1 trip to Colorado and West Virginia. These are all overnight trips of at least 2 days or more. And it isn't counting the possible inclusion of day trips to sites around the 150 mile radius from StL.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind traveling for work. I love my job and the field work has always been the main reason for my career choice. My biggest complaint is the restrictions that the company puts on travel these days. It isn't like the old days in private consulting, when I would have to share a room with another person, eat bologna sandwiches and Ramon noodles all week to make a little extra on the per Diem check. But being in downtown Chicago, all week, without the benefit of a car? I know there are alot of things to do downtown. I know that I am not going to be bored. But I have friends in the burbs, and to ask them to come downtown in the middle of the week is probably not in the cards.

Several of the trips, I will likely have a co-worker along with me. That isn't always a bad thing. Just makes the trip seem longer.

Oh well, if you live in any of the areas I will be traveling to, drop me a note, maybe we can enjoy a drink or two. Beats sitting in a hotel room eating cold pizza and watching Sportscenter.

MY BRAIN HURTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhGEMJQps3E

TMI Tuesdays

Have you ever...

1. had sex with someone ten years older or younger than you?

Yes, I was in college and use to run around with my cousin and his wife, who worked at a radio station. A woman who worked at the radio station, doing traffic use to come around alot and hang with us. She invited me to a station only party at my cousins' house and we ended up going to a x-rated movie together than back to her house for an all night session. I think I was about 22 at the time and she was probably in her early to mid 40's.

2. drawn from a nude model or been a nude model?

Nope

3. had sex at a company Christmas party?

Tried once, but no.

4. had a blind date?

Yes and it was a lousy experience.

5. slept with a teacher?

NO, but had alots of thoughts about several....LOL


Bonus (as in optional): had sex with someone within an hour of meeting them?

If you qualify it by saying, within one hour of meeting them in person then the answer is several. If you have to count chatting online with them first, then the anwer is no.

Weekend Update

All in all, the weekend was mediocre at best. What started out as a potential huge weekend, fizzled out to just an average affair.

Friday, L and I, along with the stepson and his wife, went to the Rascal Flats concert. We had lawn seats, in amongst all the teeny bopper gals in babydoll dress and cowboy boots, the young cowboy wanna-Be's in their Wranglers, Levi's, boots and goat roper hats, and then all the toothless hilljacks who took advantage of a Friday night in the big city.

The seats were in the middle high up on the hill, and not too bad, until some young, drunk, dipshits decided to fight over some girl and ended up falling into L and I. Damn near broke her glasses and gave her a headache the rest of the night.

Then following the concert, it took us an hour and half to get out of the parking lot, the entire time all of us needing to pee like racehorses. We finally got home about 2 1/2 hours after the concert ended.

Saturday was suppose to be a day of excitement. We had plans to meet another couple on Saturday night for dinner, drinks, and fun. We had communicated with her during the week via phone and text, but we had trouble reaching them Saturday morning. We finally got a very curt email from him about 1 saying that they guessed we were just playing them and that they thought they had found some genuine people that weren't into playing games. What bullshit. I was so pissed that i couldn't see straight. Which caused my scientific mind to begin to theorize about all the reasons for their abrupt cancellation and mis-informed opinion.

The most plausible explanation that i came up with is that she never told him that we had contacted them or called and he decided, without benefit of all the information, that we were blowing them off. I did email him back and told him of our contact with her and even called his cell phone and left a message to the same effect. But needless to say, our plans for the evening got dramatically changed and I was in a funk for the rest of the day. L chalked it up to experience and said that in her previous life, this happened all the time and you just have to accept it and move on.

Sunday we slept in, had breakfast out ( I don't recommend the breakfast buffet at Sweet Tomatoes; highly over priced), took the other stepson and grandson to the store, got some stuff for my son's scout camp trip, grocery shopping for us, and finally back home to do laundry and relax.

Between laundry and cleaning up the house, not much relaxing was done until after 9PM.

OH WELL.. another weekend comes and goes...

Finally Friday

The waiting is over. L is officially out of Africans-R-Us and she got her last paycheck without any of the usual grousing or whining by them to hold on to it till Monday. They even through here a party and gave her a nice parting gift (purse).

I must admit that i am pleasantly surprised at the outcome of this episode. I really thought that we were gonna have to go to war with them to get her last check and to have them be decent human beings about her leaving their company.

Naturally, she is upset by the whole episode. She feels, to some degree, that she is betraying friends and acquaintances. I keep telling her to remind herself of the bullshit and heartache they caused her over the years and how she was so stressed as to whether the door would be pad-locked or the checks would bounce.

The funny thing is that they have actually asked her if she would be interested in helping them out during a busy period right now, by providing some word processing support. I am thinking contract position, hourly as needed, 4 hour minimum, at the rate she was making at least, and able to work from home in the evenings. Christmas club account might get a whole lot larger.

So now that the drama of today is over, we can focus on the weekend. We are going to the Rascal Flats concert tonight and then who knows what the rest of the weekend will bring. Lots of sex I hope.

Voyeuristic Tendancies - ROLLCALL

Since I am relatively new to the blogging world, I am fascinated by the amount of information and the number of folks who lay their souls out there for all to see.

Curiosity has always gotten the best of me and so I read and surf with abandon, seeking the details and diversions of others. But like I mentioned in a previous post, under the same title, this leaves me with even more questions and a desire for more knowledge and curiosity.

I have noticed that some people get rather irritated with someone reading their blog if they do not acknowledge their presence. While this seems odd to me, the more I contribute to this venue, the more I become curious about those who are reading me.

I have followers, and I appreciate them all and their acknowledgment that they regularly pay me visits. I get comments, thanks Samsmamma and VK for your regular contributions.

So in an effort to find out who is "stalking" me, I enlisted the help of Samsmamma to add a site meter. OK... I am a dumbass when it comes to computer programming. I know rocks, and dirt, and soil, and water. Not code.... After a few emails back and forth, I got it. I can see the origin and location of the followers, but little else.

So now my simple request and question is this. Please drop me a comment, tell me what you think, and where your from. I promise I will take all comments in stride and if you like what you read and want to know more, please sign up as a follower.

Be talking to you.

TMI Tuesdays

1. What was the last movie you saw on a date?

Before I was married, it was Blood Diamond.

2. What was the last meal you had on a date?

Pasta at my favorite Italian restaurant in St Louis.

3. When was the last time you made out in the car on a date? More?

It has been a long time; high school probably so i don't remember alot of details.

4. Using a dating websites do you think you are more likely to find a "hook up" or a relationship?

Both. I have found hook ups, dates, and L on a dating website; although the hook up out number the real dates by far....LOL

5. Do you have any special "first" date rituals? Flowers, certain restaurant, ect.

Nice restaurant, something that we both enjoy doing that doesn't require a lot of inane chat, unless that is how things go.

BONUS QUESTION: Do you believe in sex on the first date? Can a relationship bloom if you have sex on the first date?

If both people want it, sex on the first date can be very exciting. There is the whole unknown variable that plays into the situation and exploring each other is so much more exciting.

As for can a relationship blossom, I don't know. My experience have been mixed.

And The WInner Is??????

L officially resigned from Africans-R-Us today and has accepted the position with the new company, starting next Monday.

We wrote her resignation letter last night at home. I took extra pleasure in getting in a dig about how they under utilized her experience and education. Here is a snippet:

I have accepted a position with a firm in the area that will allow me to fully utilize my education and my 20+ years of administrative and secretarial expertise.

A very diplomatic way of saying; you fuckers are too damn dumb or just prejudice against letting a non-African (i.e., Nigerian) have any level of responsibility in your company.

So when she handed them the letter this morning, after cleaning off her computer of all her personal info and selectively saving some documents for potential future litigation, she handed the letter to her supervisor. At first she was OK with it. I had told L several months ago that they will probably be relieved when she leaves, since they will be able to hire someone who is less intelligent, less responsible, and someone that they can control more easily.

After the initial reaction, then the climate turned cold, with her supervisor turning totally indignant about L staying extra hours this week to train the boss's daughter to cover the front desk. She also basically told her that she would probably only need her to work her regular 24 hours this week, rather than 40. Now go figure....they want her to do her regular job, plus train the boss's daughter in 24 hours of actual work time. But this is their typical modus operandi. They are so self-absorbed and want to control everyone, they will cut their noses off to spite their face.

So it remains to be seen if she will work more hours this week or keep the same schedule she has had for the 1st 6 months of this year. And the big question remains... will they try to screw her over on her check on Friday.

More to come as it progresses.