Tuesday, May 20, 2008

stock

I wish I had the option to by stock in days from my life. You know, if you get a sense like tomorrow is gonna head in one direction or another, you might buy or sell a few shares.

I would have sold most of my shares last night. I had a good feeling at that point that today would be rough. But little things added up and made bigger things. Works has been rough the past two weeks. This coming after I told my manager that I wanted to take on more responsibility, so I'll take some blame for being given extra workload. The only problem is now I'm re-correcting other people's mistakes before they become my problem (I'm just trying to make a long story short, and not bore you all) but this is not what I signed up to do.

But it's been the little things today. From finding out that the yogurt I was ready to eat this morning for breakfast is a month is past its expiration date (what does yogurt turn into after it expires anyway?) to not being able to leave work until 8:30 tonight (again, making up for other people's mistakes). It's more than work related stuff too. Lately I've just been evaluating my direction in relationships: both with God and with other people, and also where to go next in my career. I guess I'm just not used to such a concentrated amount of issues. I'm absolutely sure my burdens are nothing compared to soooo many other people. But you become used to your own environment and way of living that the slightest news or event throws you off your axis for a moment. It takes a fews days to get back your momentum and begin spinning again.



Sorry to make this post a "downer". I guess I'm just using this as way of dealing with it - write it out. I promise to bring it back up next time.

Relatively things are ok. I'm heading down to West Virgina with some friends this weekend to go camping and white water rafting.

Maybe I'll purchase some shares on Friday night and come out on top.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Progression

So why is it that in 2008, whenever we see people on TV playing video games, it still sounds like they're playing E.T. on an Atari 2600?



Is this how the general viewing public still perceives video games? Nothing like that awesome new Xbox 360 game on an HDTV represented by blips and boops...but it's got sweeeet graphics!

Network TV show producers, I think we're all smart enough to know that if two kids are holding Playstation controllers, it's because they're playing video games. You don't need to make it sounds like they're programming a microwave.