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I was out driving a bit tonight and got a split order – food from two restaurants going to the same address.
How’s that for a solution to the age old relationship struggle of agreeing on what to have for dinner?
I don’t usually take orders that involve more than 10 miles of travel or fall too far beneath my $10/order earnings expectation, but I’ve been in a bit of a Yes Game mood lately and…
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Austerity…and Everything After
Feel free to cue up some Counting Crows while you read along, if you’re inclined to give a nod to this posts title inspo – August and Everything After.
If not, no worries. It just popped into my head last night in a near-literal fit of frustration.
I’d gone into the weekend feeling victorious, namely over finally getting paid the balance of my last week of work before transitioning to a Core…
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Victory Is Mine!
I spent a lot of time last week trying to decide if the burden of being right was truly the pain in the ass that it was seeming or just the cost of living in this self-service gaslighting state of affairs that is America today.
That did provide me some solace in the form of nostalgic thoughts I had from back when being right was fun and exciting. Knowledge was a pursuit, a validation…an overall…
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The “Literal” Treatment
BMW has entered the chat.
A chat I don’t want to be involved in, anyway.
Certainly a chat I don’t want brands I value to seek to be involved in, either.
But this is America. We ruin everything.
And as hard as we fight to not be inclusive, except when it comes to money, there are exceptions. Companies in America gotta get everyone’s money – so they’re gonna at least act inclusive.
One of my…
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My Kind of Conversion Therapy
I got a call from my boss yesterday afternoon. She gets me. Here’s how the pre-call planning went via Microsoft Teams chat:
Boss: Hey!
Me: Quit screaming at me.
Boss: Call me.
Normally, my neurotic ass would immediately spiral with that enigmatic command. But like I said, she gets me. We have a…rapport.
She starts our conversation off with “Guess what?” Even though her tone suggested good…
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Bad Math
It’s been following me around this week.
I swear, I’m not even trying to entice this shit. It has been a particularly frustrating week for my inner Rain Man, though.
It started when I picked my parents up from the airport after their trip to see Black Sheep Bro. Actually, it was likely well underway at that time, but I hadn’t become attuned to it yet. They wanted to fill up my tank at the Fred…
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I Can’t Have It All?
Part 2: What the hell was I thinking?
Damn universe, always teaching me lessons…like crippling humility.
So, there I was…having most of it. Gently nudged into balance by the Silver Fox. I’d gotten Angela all spruced up for her annual check-in with Lyft, but was focused more on those other pillars that make me feel like a normal person productive: writing and exercising.
No big news on the…
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#blogging#chrisism#gay#grumpyoldman#lyftlife#mistressmyrtle#nooneofconsequence#retail#thegreatjobhunt#thesilverfox
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I Can Have It All!
Part 1: Everything’s fine!
I creep into every week with a simple goal – to have a day or several where I succeed in all three pillars of what I consider a “good day”. I want to make some money, exercise and write.
That’s it. Nothing earth shattering. No outrageous goals like cure cancer before lunch.
You may wonder how I struggle to accomplish this. Like, why is my weekly goal “a day or…
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#blogging#cardio#chrisism#cycling#fitfy#grumpyoldman#lyftlife#nanowrimo#nooneofconsequence#retail#spin#thegreatjobhunt#thesilverfox
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Well, Now I Feel…
Something.
Bad?
Nostalgic?
Accomplished?
Formerly accomplished?
Probably that last one. So…thanks, Facebook Memories.
Three years?!? How has it been that friggin’ long already…since I’ve had a date?
Kidding. Trying/not trying.
But I guess it’s just one more reminder that it’s been a long pandemic. If we factor those two years out, then it’s only been one year!
Don’t get me wrong, I tried…
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#aging#beer#blogging#chrisism#COVID#dating#datingintooblivion#fitfy#fitness#gay#grumpyoldman#lyftlife#nooneofconsequence#portland#relationships#stupidamericans#thebiglegrowlski#thegreatjobhunt#thesilverfox#whyimsingle
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Near Misses
One of my favorite George Carlin bits, that there’s no such thing as a near miss. You either miss something or you don’t. I believe his position was that a near miss was technically still a hit.
Makes sense to me. Literally.
Ever more precious to me is that his audience was made up of the same group he was lambasting with the observation: Americans.
Stupid, stupid Americans.
And we loved it.…
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John Lennon Was Right
Instant karma got me.
Or, car-ma…as the case t’were. I’m accepting that it was my fault for kvetching about one measly 4-star rating out of two and a half years of 5-star rides.
Hence the karma pun.
Anywho…Angela crapped out by the side of the road tonight. Actually, it was in a drive lane, but it was the curb side of the road – if you’ll allow me to split that hair.
I had called my friend,…
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#blogging#chosenfamily#diezel#lyftlife#mistressmyrtle#myrtle#portland#portlandia#thegreatjobhunt#wine
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I Can’t Believe I Got Up Early For This
Since I left professional/career level work, I’ve been low-key looking/not looking for an opportunity to get back in. For the most part, Lyft and the occasional Payroll/HR temp position keeps me engaged and feeds my need to feel productive.
Then I had to go and start thinking about buying a new place.
I had a plan: take the earnings off my savings in the 1st quarter of next year – which would…
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Rebranded
Nope. Not about the new name for Facebook that we’re all anxiously anticipating from the investor meeting tomorrow.
No, this is related to a conversation I had with a local hospital worker the other day. He’d graduated college last year and began working in his field of study at a hospital. He mentioned it by way of expressing his relief at being out of retail, which was how he put food on the…
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So Hungry!
I don’t know what it is, metabolism or simply a mental fixation, but when I eat before bed I usually wake up famished!
For instance…right now!
I’ve been up since 630, too. Sidebar: That’s another fun little game my body enjoys. “Oh, you’re going to bed at 230? Let’s just set that internal alarm for about four hours, then…”
Anyway, I started out thinking I’d just read a bit and then get up to…
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Uplift
One of the running themes I try to include in my novels is helping others out. Whether it’s direct or emotional assistance, I think that’s important in a society.
Its absence from Gay Kulture is one of my biggest pet peeves about my community. I shorthand that by saying that “there’s no unity in the gay community”.
But that’s another blog.
Last night, I got to see a version of this in play in…
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Update: People Still Dumb
My recent temp assignment ended last Friday. I wasn’t sad about it. Originally, my wrangler told me it was a four week, 9:30-5, Monday-Friday thing.
He knows how I feel about this.
But, having not been on assignment for 16 months, I took it, despite not wanting to commit full-time to anything. My rationale was twofold: first, it’ll change up my pandemic imposed only-driving schtick; and, as an…
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