March 17th, The coming burnout.

So I think I’ve burnt my self out on blogging everyday. I still want to finish the 50 challenges but my schedule has gotten so fucked up lately. Something about seeing a girl for the first time in a year and a half has tossed my ambition out the window. She left for three weeks. It’s not like I mad about it. I’m just very disappointed with myself.  Getting into this kind of relationship takes a lot of free time away from me. Selfishness makes me kind of resentful but this will come to pass soon. Right now I just need to get some sleep or something.

March 12th, Cold Encounters warm receptions

       Another exhilarating day at work. My new department is so childish. I was stopped in the middle of a very important training session to see a video of Will It Blend. They tried to blend chuck norris and failed. Awesome. I am having a hard time adjusting to the freedom of my new position. Normally antics like this would get me in trouble. Honestly though there is no harm in a little fun. People need that in order to feel alive and happy at what they do. No mater how profound the job fun must be had.

Wednesday is my meeting day. It was short lived and not well received. I am afraid that it is not going to go in the direction that we all want. I will stick to it until I feel that I am no long of any use to the group.

March 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, FAIL

So as I stated in an earlier blog I wrote a blog about every day. This one is a catch up for me. I have had life it me in the face, sort of. Friday I went out to dinner with that girl I’ve been seeing . I thought she was going to come over to stay the night. Nope, instead it was a friendly dinner. Then I came home to watch some very cheezy anime about baseball. So epic.
Saturday I spent cleaning and napping. Nothing special. That girl came over again. We watched Zoolander over some Jim Beam.

Sunday I was supposed to take her to the zoo. We went to breakfast at my new favorite  greasy spoon called Beth’. It took an hour to get a seat. Crazy. By the time we were finished the Zoo was closing. We put it off until next week. After that I tried to get everyone into a card game that I purchased called Munchkin. This got everyone in a bad mood after a few games and coming to the realization that we had been playing it wrong. Regardless everyone wanted to play again someday.

Monday, I started in a new more-top-secret-than-my-last-department  department. It is great to get a new change of pace. I’m excited to see what I am capable of. I drove to my old home town of Marysville. There, I met with my good friend to talk about music and getting together a newly formed band. The meeting went well. I hope this goes somewhere.

Today, I came home and crashed. I really hope I’m not taking on too much. However, I am in a good mood because I am so involved with my interests at the moment. A new girlfriend, a new band, a new writing project (which will continue tomorrow) the game making project, a new job setting comes a new perspective on life filled with ambition. We’ll see how much of this I can juggle. Maybe I’m taking on too much and I really want to become the lazy gamer again. I suppose it is important for me to branch off of that for a while. There will be time when I can get back to my usual lethargy.

March 6th, Close Calls / Challenge 5

Good thing I have a music player while I’m at work. I try so hard not to fall asleep some times it’ s unbelievable. Days like this I want to go to Antarctica for 5 months. We’ll see.

Challenge 5

Please take the time to carefully look over the resume that I have attached. I look forward to your response and anticipate the best. Thank you for your consideration. Please take the time to carefully look over the resume that I have attached. I look forward to your response and anticipate the best. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely.
Patrick Moening

Note: So i did have a cover letter all written out. Then I was stupid and deleted it by accident. Oh well. I’ll try again another time. Right now I am really pissed. What you see is the closing paragraph. FUCK

March 5th, The Endless Cycle / Challenge 4

Another monumental disappointment today as I asked my bosses if I could possibly move to a similar department linked to the one I have been working with for the last 3 and a half years for some new insight and personal experience. They said that it is unlikely that this would be a possibility. However, they have made strong denials to me just before I had my wishes delivered to me on a silver platter. I would be surprised If I got my way with them.
Then it occurred to me that it was Wednesday. The meeting day. It was decided that I am very apathetic and, in the same vein, will not quit anything I start unless prevented through uncontrollable circumstance or a total loss of interest.

Challenge 4:
Dear Larry,

I am profoundly proud to announce to you that I will no longer be the lead meat cutter for your grocery store. Over the last ten years it has been a very rewarding experience cutting the finest steaks around. I enjoy the company of my co-workers, We had some very good moments. Remember when we left that T-Bone in the tank of the mens bathroom toilet. It sat in there for 2 weeks before the smell was pin pointed. I never told a soul who egged me on to do it. Regardless of all of the good times I’ve had here I must move on to new horizons.
Also, I’m sure you are wondering why the sudden resignation. Well sir, I have finally contemplated the amount of dead animal flesh that I have butchered with great skill during my carrier. The amount of animal life that has passed me by is unthinkable. So many lost innocent souls killed in the name of consumption. In the light of this realization I have decided to become a vegetarian.  My personal creed no longer will allow me to make a living on such an industry.  There is nothing you can do to convince me otherwise. From this point on I will not take any part in handling a once living carcase.
I will be taking a job at the local newspaper. My assignment will be the weekly Natural Living column that runs every Tuesday. In it I will be giving people advice on how to eat healthy as well as suggesting alternative  meatless recipes for many peoples favorite dishes.
Please understand that I came to this decition on my own. Do not assume that I was influenced by any outside sources. I will miss everyone back in the ol’ blood box. Take care of yourself.

Sincerely,
Chuck

March 4th, Black Holes for Burnt eyes / Challenge 3

    Some days, I don’t want to write at all. Some days I don’t. I just pretend that I am writing about that day even though it isn’t. Pretending like its yesterday.
Sometimes I want to do odd things with people. Things that I wish they would be able to have fun with because it is so out of character for them. I have this dilution where I dress up like Batman and that girl I met dresses up like Robin. Then from there we go to a mall or somewhere else public to pretend that we are after someone. If we had more people we could stage the Joker kidnapping someone then chase after them. Or maybe just try to get into a night club. Act like everything is normal. Don’t mention the costume. So awkward.

Challenge 3: Find two experts in a field and start an argument between them.

I didn’t do this. It seems like more of a prank than something to write about. I suppose I could make up two characters and make them argue but it is past my bed time.

March 3rd, 10 years of sex / Challenge 2

Today is the Tenth anniversary of me losing my virginity. I don’t know why I remember this date but I wish our society would allow people to celebrate this kind of thing. I suppose it goes with the whole “You shouldn’t fuck until you are married” mentality. I don’t have these kind of values so I just want to congratulate myself on not catching any STD’s. Hooray! I really wish it was like a birthday. I would get presents from people or I would just remember all of the good times I had with everyone I’ve slept with. Create a montage? If only there was a way to not sound awkward mentioning the significance of today.

Challenge 2
Patrick Moening writes for the Magic City Morning Star in Maine. They are absolutely not funny at all. I don’t know anything else about this guy. If anyone can find the punchline in his jokes please let me know. This makes me sick that dickholes like this man have jobs drawing once a week while talented artists are broke and jobless. Fuck you, Patrick Moening, fuck you!

March 2nd, Burnt / Challenge 1

All I did today was sit around and play Uncharted. I am really sick of writing these stupid posts about what I do all day. My life doesn’t produce enough interesting things to write. To remedy this situation I have issued a challenge to myself. It will occur over the next few months or so. My goal is the following: to write daily about the fifty Challenges stated below in order.
Challenges
1. Write about a day in your life.
2. Google your name, find somebody that isn’t you, and write about them.
3. Find two experts in a field and start an argument between them.
4. Write a letter of resignation for a job you don’t have.
5. Write a resume cover letter for a job you have no chance of getting.
6. Re-write a great speech from history like the Gettysburg Address.
7. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
8. Write a letter to yourself in the past.
9. Write a letter to a son or daughter you don’t have.
10. Write a letter to an extra terrestrial.
11. Write a review of a book that hasn’t been written.
12. Write a review of a movie that hasn’t been made.
13. Write a review of a product that hasn’t been developed.
14. Write a travel review of a place you haven’t visited.
15. Write yourself a spam e-mail.
16. Write yourself a sales letter for a product you’d never buy.
17. Write a lawyers closing arguments.
18. Write a judges dissent.
19. Write a new book or chapter for your favorite religious text.
20. Write a political campaign victory speech
21. Write a political campaign consolation speech.
22. Write a speech abdicating an office.
23. Write a script for a motivational video.
24. Write a script for a commercial.
25. Write a script for an infomercial.
26. Write a jingle for your blog.
27. Write a poem without making it rhyme.
28. Write a monologue for a late night talk show.
29. Write an award acceptance speech.
30. Write a toast for a wedding you crashed.
31. Roast a celebrity or expert in your niche.
32. Write a story on the opening of a time capsule.
33. Write a post in a language you don’t speak.
34. Write a letter to a stranger in a foreign land.
35. Open the yellow pages, point to an ad and review the company.
36. Write a commentary on something from CSPAN.
37. Write a review on an obscure piece of software you use only at work.
38. Write a script for a news cast.
39. Write a synopsis of a sporting event.
40. Heckle a fashion show or beauty contest.
41. Write an award citation.
42. Write your own performance appraisal.
43. Write your bosses performance appraisal.
44. Write a greeting card.
45. Write a service level agreement for your readers.
46. Write a statement of work for a blog.
47. Write a business plan for your site.
48. Write a script for a porno movie.
49. Write a script for a video game.
50. Write your own eulogy.

Honestly, I think I’ve got the first one down. Tomorrow I will reveal my real name for the first time.

March 1st, Moving

I was late to help my sister move. I had to drive someone home. I have moved my sister so many times in the past. Each time it gets easier because she has less stuff. Hopefully she gets to stay where she is  for a while so I don’t have to do  it again. Then I came home and fucked up my sleep schedule by taking a nap. This is what weekends are for.

February 29th, Bonus

    Hawaiian shirts were worn today at work. I didn’t know this until I got there. It just so happened that I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Then I got a new e-mail address for work purposes.  It has taken me a while for them to trust me with e-mail. The shirt thing is totally unrelated.

I kept getting flashbacks from my last relationship after that girl I’ve been seeing came over. It seems that I still don’t know how to show a girl a good time. All we did is sit around drinking while playing cards until the inevitable happened. Maybe thats the kind of relationship this will be.