The Gauntlet of Pointlessness

It seems rather shaming to admit it, but I was terrified yesterday.

At what?  How about at the possibility that this damn website was kaput.  It’d kind of been a long while since I last downloaded this thing, so I was afraid it was all gone.  That’s a scary thought to me.  It’s like losing myself…or at least a huge part of me.  This diary thing is a given in my life.  I don’t question that it’ll be here anytime I wanna come here and talk about something utterly retarded, or ask some question I firmly believe is important at the time.  But I had to question that yesterday when the site was just gone.  I was borderline freaking out.  Maybe it’s only the kind of thing you can experience to know what it’s like.  This is over four years of my life here; best of times and worst.  For someone who once thought it’d be great to write down every single thought they ever had…well…perhaps you can start to see my point.  Perhaps.

Now Playing in Dave’s Mental Jukebox:  "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold, "10,000 Fists" by Disturbed, and "What I Always Wanted" by Kittie

I have officially accepted a promotion at work.  It was offered to me last week and, while it isn’t a huge raise (eight dollars an hour…woo!), any raise is still a raise.  I took the weeked to think about it, but to be honest, I’ve decided I’m pretty happy at Sears.  Sure, some of the people piss me off, and, sure, it isn’t exactly where I thought my life would take me, but I like it.  My new job is going to be what’s called Return to Vendor (RTV for short), and all I have to do is gather up all the shit people return and all the shit that’s been "zeroed out" (which means we can’t sell it anymore), and send it back to the warehouse.  It sounds much less complicated than it actually is, what with all the paperwork and quotas to fill and whatnot, but I’m excited.  It’s the first time I’ve ever been promoted in any job, and I was handpicked for it by Barb (the soon to be quitting RTV person and already quitting Receiving Lead…yeah, that lasted a month).  Of course, she may have been lying to me, because that’s what she does, but still…it was the store manager who came to me and asked me to take it.  So I guess what I’m saying is that my hard work isn’t going unnoticed.  Which is always nice.

I’m on the lookout for a ticket or two for the November 6th Titans/Browns game in Cleveland.  My stepdad and little brother are already going since Jason got’em a couple of tickets when they went on sale.  I decided it’d be fun to enter enemy territory for once, so I’m going to get me a ticket….provided the price isn’t retarded.  I don’t really think that’ll be a big problem since both teams are going to be fairly crappy this season, despite what the Titans showed last Sunday.  What a shocker that was.  I walked into The Coliseum expecting Baltimore to splatter our brains on the 50 yard line.  Instead, that’s exactly what we did to them.  Shocking.  If you’d told me the Titans were going to split with the Steelers and Ravens, I would’ve laughed at you.  I was guaranteeing two losses there.  Makes my pick of the Ravens for the Super Bowl look pretty fucking bad, too.  Oh, well.  I’ve never even come close with that.

Baseball season is winding down, and the Angels are making me nervous as all hell.  As of this moment, they sit two and a half games in front of Oakland for the division lead, and they play Oakland in a four game series next week.  Tense moments approaching.  Oakland always scares the fuck outta me, because we always seem to find a way to suck against them…until it’s big.  Like at this time last year when we swept three from ’em to wrap up the division.  I hope for a repeat performance.

Hockey season is starting to get underway, as the Predators played (and won) their first preseaon game tonight at St. Louis.  It seems almost hilarious to say it, but Nashville is a legit threat to win the Stanley Cup.  ::shakes head::  So weird to even think that serious, but it’s true.  In EA Sports’ NHL 06, Nashville is tied for the highest rating of any team.  Y’know, because video games proves everything.

And, while I’m updating on all the faves here, the Colorado Buffaloes travel down to the Orange Bowl this weekend to play Miami.  Yikes.  I’m hoping for continued discombobulation with the Miami offense and a Colorado effort like the one they put up against New Mexico State (final score Buffs 39, Aggies 0).  Of course, there’s a huge disparity between the talent at NMSU and Miami.  Obviously.  And nevermind Miami scored 36 against a Clemson team that could probably beat Colorado last Saturday.  But I have hope.  Very little hope.

And after all those different directions I went off in…I’ll call it a night.  Mercifully.

Sayonara.