Forced Air Venting
Posted on | March 19, 2009 at 6:55 am | 11 Comments
It occurs to me that I haven’t posted in awhile. It’s not because I’m depressed about the Rocky Mountain News shutting down. I am depressed, or more accurately, stressed about many other things, and by not blogging I eliminate one source of stress. So what’s sapping my time and resources?
List of current stress factors:
- More work, more responsibility, less pay.
- Need to get the girlfriend moved in by the end of the month. Still a lot to do to combine households.
- Need to get basement finished, but that’s not going to happen until after N moves in.
- Haven’t done taxes yet. Haven’t gotten my dad’s taxes back from the accountant yet.
- Need to fix floor in upstairs bathroom. A small part of it is rotted due to a (since fixed) leaking toilet.
- Will be working from home more soon, and current home office is not comfortable. Need a new one in the still-unfinished basement.
- DVR constantly almost full.
- Getting time to resume yardwork.
- Gravity exerting greater pull. No energy or time for working out.
- All my friends are on Facebook and I’m not.
- The Broncos are disintegrating and the season is still 7 months away.
- Will need to work 30 extra years before I can retire.
- Have severe sleeping disorder, which compounds all other stresses. Sleep deprivation is a horrendous and dangerous thing.
I anticipate that most, if not all, of these will be resolved, or at least made less anxiety-inducing, within the next few months. But for now I’m bugging out, man! Actually, it’s probably good that everything is coming down at once. If I’m going to be stressed, I might as well be really stressed.
Latre.
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Exercising Since Last Blog Update:
- “Baby Elian” (Manic Street Preachers)
- “Strasbourg” (Julian Cope)
- “A Better Home In The Phantom Zone” (Bill Nelson)
- “Spy vs. Spy” (The Spinto Band)
- “Blue (Pipe) Line” (Failed Energy Giants)
- “Powderfinger” (Beat Farmers)
- “Small Talk” (Immaculate Machine)
- “A Life Less Ordinary” (Ash)
- “Back Of My Head” (Gil Ray)
- “Song in B” (Fretblanket)
- “The One That Got Away” (Al Stewart)
- “I Wanna Destroy You” (Soft Boys)
- “Auctioneer (Another Engine)” (R.E.M.)
- “Mad Jack” (Chameleons UK)
- “Intro-MC” (The Church)
- “Curse Of The Frontierland” (Game Theory)
- “New Routine” (Fountains of Wayne)
- “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives” (Voxtrot)
- “Cemetery in My Mind” (Midnight Oil)
- “I Love Trouble” (The Information)
- “Fantasy Island” (Anne Summers)
- “Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was” (Radiohead)
- “Field Jacket Blues” (Robert Pollard)
- “Domani” (Greg Dulli)
- “Two Rooms” (The Feelies)
- “Paperback Believer” (Go Home Productions)
- “The World’s Easiest Job” (Game Theory)
- “Mute Witness” (Morrissey)
- “How ‘Bout You” (Brendan Benson)
- “Human Fly” (Nouvelle Vague)
- “Glass Is Falling” (The Vanishing)
- “Gone Daddy Gone” (Violent Femmes)
- “It’s Getting Better” (Popinjays)
- “Love” (Poster Children)
- “Passion Is The Only Fruit” (Butterfly Child)
- “Sound It Off” (Mates Of State)
- “Still Life” (The Connells)
Pet Peeve of the Day:The kid down the block has a drumkit in the garage and practices with the garage door open. Guess this should be in the stress list. At least kids aren’t camping out on my lawn!
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “crabs name tha begings with letter p”.
Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
Comments
11 Responses to “Forced Air Venting”
March 19th, 2009 @ 8:25 am
Hugs, my friend.
March 19th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Damn, too much stress. As for that kid drummer: is his garage in a line of sight from our own? I suggest you take up archery, set up your target so that when you’re looking at it you can see him at his drumkit, and then let him know that, oh, you’ve got really terrible aim as a beginner but that your archery coach says you’ve got great arm strength and your arrows will go a long ways with a lot of power.
I think he’ll close the garage door under such circumstances.
March 19th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
That should be “your own”: if you and I shared a garage, I’d know whether he was in line of sight, and would already have casually mentioned to him my training area for poo-flinging monkeys to be set up in roughly the same vicinity.
March 19th, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
But how does that encourage today’s youth to follow their musical muses? How else will we get the Good Charlottes of tomorrow?
March 19th, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
I have the exact same problems. Well, except N isn’t moving in with me. And I just got my taxes done. But my basement office sucks, although the basement is finished. Poorly, but finished. I do have my share of disorders, including sleep – I think that’s mostly a discipline problem, but after 43 years, my sleep pattern seems to be set in stone.
Of course we have the same “less pay” problem, but I haven’t been entrusted with any new responsibilities. Thank goodnes.
I wondered who would be moving in whith whom, but I kind of figured, since you had the house and all…. And you’d get hives if you had to get used to a new location.
March 20th, 2009 @ 2:27 am
Congrats on the move-in, but make sure she’s not just doing it to get a visa… (you HAVE checked her citizenship papers, right?)
March 20th, 2009 @ 6:16 am
Hey, Nancy plays drums… right??
: )
f xxxx
March 20th, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
hey, whatever you do DO NOT GO ON FACEBOOK!
WAIT until you get destressed…
It’s a big timesucker……….hee hee..and I should know….
March 23rd, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
I haven’t done my taxes yet either. And my den office needs remodeling. But my wife moved in 22 years ago, so at least I’m good there.
April 1st, 2009 @ 3:37 am
It occurs to me that you haven’t posted in a while. :-}
April 1st, 2009 @ 7:22 am
I had a dream about you last night, DMR. I had just bought a trailer with a large paper mache half globe on the back, and you were instructing me in the proper way to turn it into an MST3K logo. I painted it brown, and you didn’t like that.