Business, Food and dining

Scrounging the Break Room for Lunch

Can’t get out of here for lunch, so I guess I’ll be hitting the break room and looking around for whatever I can grab. Or vending machine crap.

Either that or I have to order pizza and have it delivered. The problem with ordering pizza is that you can never order it just for yourself. You have to walk around and offer a share of the pizza with everyone in the office. Sometimes I end up buying 5 pizzas, and then its a pain in the ass to collect money back from people. I work with a big bunch of moochers. Why am I the only one who orders pizza and takes a hit on the bill?

Automobiles, Food and dining, Friends, Shopping

Flowers for My Lady

Most of the time when I stop for gas, I just pay at the pump with a credit card or my debit card and I don’t go in the store. But today I was jonesing for a candy bar and I decided to jump inside and grab a Snickers. While standing in line to pay a buck twenty five (really!!??!!) for this candy bar, I saw a little stand with fresh flowers in it by the cash register. The flowers were an assortment of different kinds and colors, and they had some single red roses, too. I decided on impulse to spend $7 on the assorted flowers and I’m going to surprise my girl with them tonight when I get off work. Going to be a nice evening tonight.

Family, Life, Rant

Did You Ever Hide Your Report Card?

report card

As a kid, I did OK in school and my parents never gave me any grief about my report cards. It would never occur to me to hide my report card or not give it to my mom when I got home from school.

In junior high, one of my buddies, Kevin, didn’t get very good grades. I was shocked to find out that he parents would beat the crap out of him for every grade below a C on his report cards regardless of the teacher or the subject. His dad would scream at him about being an embarrassment to his family for being below average and that no one in his family was below average but Kevin.

In my mind that is abuse, but back then no one would call out people for abusing their kids or their wives. People just suffered through it. There is still abuse like that going on in today’s world. I don’t think anyone has a solution to a huge social problem like this. The abused kids and wives don’t speak out because their alternative to that kind of home life would be living in a shelter and being in poverty for years. They have to choose between two evils, and most people stick with the familiar, no matter how brutal and unfair it may be.

Food and dining, Life, Local, Outdoors

Grilling With Style

Bought a new gas grill today. The old one was rusted out and too small – I had bought it for camping and got many good years of burgers and steaks from it. But it was time to go. I found one at Sam’s Club for a fair price and tossed that sucker into the back of my pickup truck and hauled it home. No assembly required – just have to hook up the propane tank and marinate the steaks. Its gonna be some good food here in a couple of hours!

Family, Friends, Life, Local, Music and concerts

Fireworks from the Riverbank

Nashville always has a free concert and fireworks show on the Fourth of July. We have the Nashville symphony that plays during the fireworks – a whole list of classical patriotic songs. But we also have 3 or 4 other types of music before the show.We all just meet up down by the river and spread out blankets on the grass to watch the shows and drink beer.

The free concerts last all afternoon and up until about 9:30, then the family drag their tired asses home and the young people hit the bars to keep on keeping on. Good times!