June Blues

June has become not a fun month for me.  Without my son with me Father's day becomes a "what's the point day".   So I get the blues throughout the month.  Also since I will have to put our visit off till August isn't helping the situation in my mind. 

Anyway since this seems to be a guy's month.  I'm listing my favorite guy journals since we are in the minority. 

Andy the Bastard - just plain funny (link on side board; sorry mate)

Gaijin Smash - an American living in Japan with a guys point of view.

Retropolitan - skewed guy's point of view.  I love the graphics.

Long Relief - married guy's point of view

 

In the Valley

"The Valley" is something my friend Paul and I call the area we get in after the mountain peaks of stress that we get over.  It is when in these valleys that it is the easiest to do something stupid.  Enter Chamber lady at my networking event today.  Every time I have met Chamber lady she has had a low cut blouse.  I am not a breast man in the least, but I could look at her cleavage all day long.  I tried to figure out why while I was staring, but she closed her sweater and I didn't know if I had been busted or not.  Never a good feeling.  It's like stealing cookies.  It's great to you get caught.  She took off the sweater a few minutes later so I didn't know.  I have to admit as a guy goes I'm pretty good with this, but when I am in the valley sex is foremost in my mind.  I also it's never a good time to start anything up.  It's why I passed on Loan lady who had been staring at me from across the room.  She was very attractive, but the valley really hinders my gut in telling me if this a good thing or not. 

Disaster Avoided for Now

As I drove out of my neighborhood this morning I checked my messages since my place is off the grid.  Anyway their were several messages from my ex.  She was crying and upset and I thought she said her dad had died.  Actually it was her friend's dad who died.  Very nice man.  Anyway thinking it was my ex's dad really stressed me.  This is the bomb that is on the horizon and I really want to be financially prepared for it.  Since I know this will devastate my ex, she will truly be on her own for the first time in her life, and I worry that my ex SIL (still active drug user) will screw her and Eric over with her selfishness. 

The other end of the spectrum is my fear of being sucked into my ex's problems, but that is my choice and with that realization I'm better with it.  So this morning's exercise was preparation for the real thing sometime in the future.  I think my FIL is on the cusp of 2 years since his wife died.  Will he break the stats?

Pizza

I was in the mood for pizza today.  I really didn't feel like driving all the way out to my usual place and I had gotten an ad for a place down the block.  The pizza was only 8" instead of my usual 15", but it was closer.  So I figured I would check it out.  Now ordering pizza for me is always and experience.  So I walk in an tell them I want to order a pan pizza to go.  Now I want it with no cheese just sauce.  This is usually the moment they seem to have a nervous breakdown.  Like you told Columbus was wrong the world really is flat.  In their attempts to compose themselves they usually want to give me more toppings.  I don't want no stinkin' toppings, just sauce no cheese.  I had to admit this girl today recovered faster than most.  At least she didn't ask me like the last person did I want it cooked? 

My review:  it was okay.  Not as good as my usual place and at half the size for a few 50 cents more I'll drive the distance.

Reschedules

I can see it is going to be one of those days.  I had a breakfast meeting this morning, on the way there I got the message that it was canceled and a need to reschedule.  Okay turn around and go home and get some breakfast.  Now since I have some extra time I'll run an errand.  Then I get the next call.  My new patient for the day can't make it in and needs to reschedule.  This stuff shouldn't bum me out as much as it does, but it does.  :p

 

Vote for Pedro

So I finally know where it's from.  I watched Napoleon Dynamite last night.  Still don't know what all the hype is about.  I'm a child of Sesame Street and this movie was very static almost annoyingly so.  I didn't think it was bad, but not great either.

So I have the extra ticket for Stevie Nicks from when I was L.  I know I won't be dating anyone by the end of the month so I needed to find someone to go with.  I asked my friend Christine if she liked Stevie and would she like to go. She emailed me back to say she loved her and that the concert date was her birthday.   So that really worked out. 

Ding-a-ling

I've never had a car that I have been hit so much in.  Today was number 3 in 1 1/2 years.  WTF?  I was leaving the library today and I slowed to go over the speed bump.  Motion caught my attention on the right side as this large pick up truck starts backing up.  WHAM!  I'm hit and I think I must be screwed he had to have had a hitch on the monstrosity and it just went through my door.  To my amazement he didn't have a hitch and there was only a little ding.  I made sure the doors opened okay and I told the gut don't worry about it.  He really wanted to make sure, but he was relieved that I didn't want to call the cops.  Soon my car will be one big ding.