i am jack’s daily musings Archives: life
16 January 2007
Cold Snap
It’s sort of a cold snap this time of the year, kids are bundled out by the bus stop as I make my trek to work in the icebox Toyota, smoking a camel and I find it hard to tell which is smoke and which is my breath from within’ the car. Not that I didn’t anticipate this happening, it is January in Saint Louis, for a while there we had witnessed June in January so I think everyone here knew this day would come…
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12 January 2007
Masters in Reverse Engineering
I found out long ago that in life to achieve a goal, visualize the finish line and backtrack to how you could have gotten there. Then move forward and attack! I recently saw leadership at my work move in the same manor for our 2007 Strategy meeting, pretty much a “Where are we wanting to be, how will we get there by years end” things. Looks as if my teams responsibilities will be greater so of course our individual concerns focused on time matters and compensation, these are an important component of why we work. Most people work because they need to pay bills, eat, etc and I am certainly not different. It helps that I enjoy my team I work with and the job is not that bad. But at the end of the day, no matter how good a time you can have at work it comes down to the paycheck. I also have quite a bit of freelance work hitting my desk lately, this will be helpful for increasing my bank account once all is said and done. Now to figure out just how much of it is worth my time and how much of it I’d put into my portfolio1. It’s a constant struggle to find time and energy to get everything done sometimes.
1 Man, somebody needs to get on me about getting some of my sites up for the portfolio…
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4 January 2007
Starting the Shape-Up
Okay, so the new year is underway and it’s time for me to weigh in. I’m going to start back on this thing lightly as I’ve neglected my workouts for several months. Going to get back onto the Swiss Ball, do more walking and a bit of cardio, maybe some beginners Yoga mixed in there for good measure. I need to kick my butt into gear if I’m going to hit my goals (of which I’ve set so many of)…
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2 January 2007
Resolutions 2007
So here it is, the New Year! Goodbye 2006, Hello 2007! With many changes over the past year I now reflect on where my life is heading, and where I want to go from here. In the past year I met someone very special and got married, I also wiped out my debts that had been hurting my credit & got more tattoos! So what’s next, where do I want to go with this new year? I’ve made myself a list, now I must adhere to it. Without further ado, here’s my resolutions for the new year!
- Eat better / Lose the rest of my gut
- Buy a house
- Get started on baby makin’
- A new business venture?
- Learn about stocks / investing
- Start & Finish a short story
- 60 second commercial spot for fun
- Manage my time better
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30 December 2006
NYE Approaches!
Yes kids, NYE approaches & what on earth are we doing? My wife and I decided to throw a shin-dig at “Red Door Manor” and allow people to pass out/sleep over so no DWI’s are handed out. We’re trying to put something fun into the works but we haven’t succeeded as of yet. So we’ll be wearing fun party clothes, not like a masquerade ball or anything, but wear something fun kind of a thing, you know, for the kids!
I wanted to do an Alec Ballwin/SNL Canteen Boy skit with my wife as “Canteen Girl” or something but that didn’t work out, maybe I’ll be Slevin? Either way, hopefully it all goes on without a hitch, it’d be awful for folkers not to have fun on New Years Eve.
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27 December 2006
Christmas has come and past
Hopefully everyone out there had a wonderful holiday, no matter which one you celebrate. I fared pretty well with my haul of loot, got a nifty golf range-finder and some shirts and movies and such. I will admit that I am happy the holidays are coming to a close currently, I was stressing out a bit, that is never very fun.
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22 December 2006
The time grows ever near
With just a few short days left till Christmas working in retail can be a bit daunting. Consumers rush to the stores to grab that last minute gift or stocking stuffer. Longer hours and less thanks but it is the season to be Jolly so I haven’t let if phase me. After a trip across the parking lot to the local Wal-Mart I was nearly run down several times … Think “Frogger” from the 80’s! Oh well, just a couple little things left to grab and I’m done with this holiday season. My wife has been trying to force me to open my presents early too, while I’d like to it’s just not Christmas yet, and that’s what I’m used to! She’s just excited for what she got me as gifts though I know.
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16 December 2006
Cocktails and Commoradory
Today I started off thinking I was to work a slow retail store and catch up on some email/holiday eShopping but was instead tossed into a business to business extravaganza known as Federated Department Stores. This isn’t a big deal as I made some extra cheese on sales and my commission check next month should be pretty decent. I still dislike the last minute notice that I’m given. At any rate I guess I can take solace that I was off earlier today, I enjoyed taking my wife out for Mexican and then we headed over to the Tin Can on Morganford for a few extra cocktails. Perfect cap to the week. As Christmas gets ever closer I know that I need to grab a few more gifts for people, it’s a bit unnerving to think that we’re just like 10 days away from the big deal.
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13 December 2006
Big and Tall Pants Party
Okay, so everyone has driven by, been to or at least heard of a Big and Tall shop. My biggest gripe is, where are all the Average and Short shops? I have an average waist, well in America maybe a below average waist but it doesn’t mean that I am six foot tall. Why is there not a shop or a call for people to produce jeans and pants that I don’t need to have tailored? Is this such a small demographic that I couldn’t hope to have something made for me that fits right off the rack? Don’t get me wrong, a suit you have tailored because otherwise it looks cheap. But jeans? Seriously. Who is going to pay the fee to have them hemmed up? Sure, I could just sew them up myself but everyone out there knows that guys are great at screwing stuff like that up, I’d have one leg too long still while the other was too short, no thanks.
So this is my proposal, to manufacturers out there. If you make them, they’ll be bought by the countless guys like me who hate to roll up the cuffs or walk forever on the heels of our pants.
MAKE PANTS FOR AVERAGE GUYS!!!
Comment if you need my size for perfect jeans.
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11 December 2006
Rockin’ the Suburbs
Today has gone pretty well, weather has kind of sucked but all and all pretty good, had to get to a meeting this morning at the business office for the company I work for. Meeting went well, usually does. Got home and me and the wife had a nice afternoon together before I had to go with the Rams/Bears game, I was working the tailgating stuff so I was able to scoot out fairly early, thankfully, it was cold and raining.
I’m just a few weeks away from Christmas and starting to feel the crunch, I need to seriously take care of the rest of that this coming weekend, hopefully it will not be too bad. I could use some extra cheddar though, maybe someone nice would PayPal me some cash in the spirit of the holidays! I know I know, shameless plug for myself.
