Posted 12:40 AM by MEATHEAD

Phew... Man was I tired today. Fortunately I took a day off so I have nice 4 day weekend. I was only taking a half day but I turned it into a full day by waking up late and by the time I got ready and ALL the way accross town it would have been time to go. I did do some work from home but not too much.

We had a little going away bash for a co-worker last night and it was something we all needed I think. Stress has been pretty high lately with all the Red Tape and Arrogance in the air. It's really unbelievable sometimes. Unfortunatley I think things are going to get worse and worse but I gotta pay the bills. Our wonderfull MGMT didn't even blink at trying to retain this person and frankly they're making a big mistake, they pretty have been packing his bags for him. Our fearless leader hasn't even wished him good luck or said anything to him, so unprofessional and unethical it's ridiculous. It's kinda sad actually.

Some good news is that I just paid off my car about a year and a half early!!! Just waiting to my title mailed to me. I've been paying more each month for quite some time and had a nice influx about 2 years ago when mom and dad made a contribution from some gifted funds. Now I can work on getting CC's paid off.... If I can stop spending for christ sake. Really need to work on that.

Unfortunatley I couldn't get a big group to go out to Rockin the Docks in Lenoir City so I'm probably just going to go out myself for a couple hours and enjoy the day.

Seen Star Wars three times now and it gets better each time I think cause I notice something different or pick up on a story line. I can't wait till Batman Begins comes out too! That's going to rock.

Posted 11:27 PM by MEATHEAD

Been actually working the past couple days... On my apartment that is. I'm trying to clean shit out and get rid of shit I don't need anymore. Gonna sell stuff or try to on our work bulletin board. You see, my Grandma on my mom's side has been put in an assisted living place as she is 95 and just can't do everything anymore. It's more like she doesn't want to cause she probably in her best health but last year there were issues with her not letting an arm wound heal and just kept picking at the scabs and getting it infected as well as having a foot problem so bad that the doctors had to drill out the infected section. I think she's finally healed but pretty much refuses to walk even though she can, etc, etc, etc. Old and stubborn! I hope to live that long to complain! On to my point about cleaning my shit up. The family has decided to go ahead and sell Grandma's house so the cleaning has been ongoing for quite some time. Over the past year and a half now Mom has been going up to Milwaukee to take care of Grandma. She'd go up for 2-3 weeks every other month but it has been increasingly more often. The first major incident with the foot both mom and dad went up to straighten some business up(bills, house, bank acounts, etc) and in the process they got rid of 80... YES 80 bags of garbage!!! 80! That was about a year ago and they have been trying to clean little by litte each time back. Well now they are selling the house and mom has been up there for about 3 weeks now and dad just drove up for this week to continue to clean house and when he got there they had 20 bags waiting for him to 'find' dumpsters to put em in! They're not even close. Dad says he's taking a completely different attitude towards material items and so am I. From grandma's point of view she lived during the depression era and she has saved everything! Every piece of tinfoil used, Every milk jug, Every goddamn food container you can think of and it's just disgusting. Hence..... time to get rid of shit! They're getting a dumpster later this week dropped off. Dad wanted to hire a company to clean it out but my Moms brother(my uncle) didn't want to that. I think he's hoping to find a pot of gold somewhere as it's a family trait to hide valuables in the most ridiculous places. It's a big ole family fued too that Dad and I try and stay out of! Sad part is I've only seen my 2 cousins on that side of the family once in about 10 years I think. See grandma's is worth 7 figures... or very high 6 figures and mom and uncle duke out but mom is smarter but they both play dirty... like I said me and dad don't want any part of it! I've tried to get accross it's only money, who cares! If he wants it let him have it. There are so many more important things in life than money, sure it's nice but I value family and friends above money or material objects anyday.

Oh well... About it for now.

Couple cool events this weekend. Rockin the Docks in Lenoir City and JamFest at the collesium. Jagstar is playing at JamFest and it's been forever since I've seen them. I think I'll go to that.