The Thoughts of a Distracted Blogger

Well if you have made your way to my blog (past my sisters) I am impressed because my niece is one cute baby, but if you are looking for some of that ushy gooshy crap you’re going to be disappointed. Don’t get me wrong… I love her to death but that’s Jessica’s thunder and who am I to steal it. So if you are interested in my thoughts there are a lot of them so brace yourself. An insane amount of greatness has happened to me since I spilled on this blog so I am going to try and cover at least most of it.
Washington D.C. - So Dad totally hooked me up on this trip. It was a blast. I don t even really know where to begin but I guess I will try to explain it from my eyes. Okay the thing about the city itself was the subway system. I mean it is really like a little city down there. For a guy from West Texas where the mass transit system is a tractor with a trailer, that was pretty amazing. I am really not that patriotic of a person but being there really stirs up some pride. I don’t care who you voted for last year or what you think of your congressman, when you see those huge white pillars and all the great history commemorated there, you would have to have broken not to get all worked up. It was really interesting that dad and I spent most of the time we were walking around in silence. It’s so breath taking that it feels like words are inappropriate. My favorite day was the day we went and saw the cemetery and the Iwa Jima Monument. The Arlington Cemetery really makes you feel like you take advantage of that freedom you enjoy. The words “Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue” (in gold on the Iwa Jima monument) shoots chills through my spine when I think about everything our country has been through. The whole trip was just amazing. I enjoyed every minute. Great father-son bonding time before father became grand-father.
Baby Cate – I have a gorgeous niece….. Look out there is a new Uncle Bubba in town.
Another Semester Down- I have successfully completed my lower level curriculum at Texas Tech University. That’s right folks I am now half educated. That’s right 66 hours and 12 grand into it and I can get half a feeling of accomplishment. It was close there at the end….. Serious burn out there at the end.
And all the rest- new roommates, tax refund, dominating at risk (that’s right… I conquered the world with no mercy) new friends at school. Pure madness all around me as my friends from high school get engaged and married. Life is good.
And I have to add one complaint to make… AT&T. Now didn’t they get split up about 10 years ago... for monopoly…. Oh but wait there is a new word for it now isn’t there… bundle package. This company has to be the single most frustrating thing I have dealt with since… well… my ex girlfriend….Gah they are ridiculous… I went in there about a week ago and got all the stuff I needed to get high speed internet. They tell me that there will be a person at the house between 8 and 12. I assume (my fault) that they want me present for this because they have every other time they were coming out here. So I take off work and sit at the house for 4 hours only to have no one come out. Okay I’m still okay at this point. I call them and they say that I don’t need someone to come out…. I should just be able to plug it in and go. Now I’m getting a little mad. So I plug it in and go through this painful install process for an hour only to find that I have no DSL signal….Okay now I pissed. I call them up and they tell me that my account is pending until 8pm so I should try after that. Like the stars were going to align and shoot the internet into my house like some weird sci-fi movie. But I humor them and go eat supper with Jess and Cory and try to cool off. At 10 pm it still doesn’t work after another attempt to install it myself. So I call them up and I did well. I kept my cool. She told me that I was going to have to call AND HAVE SOMEONE COME OUT AND WORK ON IT. Sound familiar? Wasn’t that what was supposed to happen during that 4 hour period. But get this… The order center is closed until Monday so I had to wait till then to call them and put in an order. Yah… that poor soul I talked to Monday afternoon….. she had no clue what was coming. I totally lost my cool on that poor woman. I am ashamed to say it but I took my frustration out on her…. I felt bad until she just transferred me to another department… and another… and another until it wasn’t even worth getting into it. So I am posting this from the parking lot of a Best Western. (burn in hell AT&T) Hope you enjoyed it….