Nilknarf Journal

Journal Entry

Thursday, 06 August, 1998 09:01

Well, damn. Nothing fun happened last night. And I also learned that one of my best friends has started going to church. I have been remiss. It reminds me of the feeling that one would get after a friend commit suicide... gee, what could I have done to prevent this?

I must hasten to point out that that is a joke. Yes, I know suicide is a serious thing. I have lost friends that way... but I tend to joke about all matters concerning death. Well, OK, I joke about almost everything that people take too seriously.

That's just the kind of guy that I am.

Yep, it was a pretty dull, relatively boring night. Yeah, I was kinda busy... no sitting/standing around for long periods or stuff like that... but no panic situations, either.

Like one of our security guys said, "Any night that I don't have to hurt someone is a good night." Well, I did have to hurt a little girl, but it was a necessity. And, come to find out... I dated her grandmother long long ago. Then I recognized her mother... Chrissy, the little girl who used to live next door.

This little girl was about four, probably, and not nearly as cute as Lacee, of course, but plenty cute anyway. And plenty spoiled, too. I think that grandma had a lot to do with that one. Grandma... Marla... lived next 980806.jpgdoor to my first wife and I, and I always liked her a lot. She got divorced a coupla years after I did, and we went out a coupla times but just never did quite relate. This was when I was drinking, too, and that explains a lot of things...

But it was good to see her and Chrissy and her little girl... who was OK, by the way... no broken bones, just a very sore wrist.

I didn't get to sleep yesterday until after 13:00, in spite of my premonitions... and I slept until the alarm went off at 19:30. That doesn't give me enough time before I go to work to even really check my mail and eat. So I'm going down earlier today. I'm pretty tired, six hours of sleep don't get it.

I'm gonna wait about another month for this computer job at the hospital, then I'm gonna polish up my resume... well, OK, I'm gonna write a resume and start trying my luck in the computer field. I have never relied on a BS factor to get a job... well, hell, I've been at the one I have for 29 years... but I'm not above that at all. Especially since I've seen where it gets people who aren't qualified to do their jobs after they BS their way into them...

And most of the jobs that I've seen that I feel like I could do well pay much better starting off than I'm getting now... and they have the additional benefit of having some advancement possibilities. As I have frequently mentioned, I love my job... but I would like to be able to retire, too, and not have to eat dog food...

More tomorrow...


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