Category: Journal

Ugh. Just ugh. I’ve been fight­ing a sore throat and sinus drainage thing this week, and today, I was fever­ish when I woke up so I stayed home from work. I hat­ed to do that as I have this com­ing Sat­ur­day off any­way, but I also want­ed to give myself a chance to just recov­er […]

I trust you had a won­der­ful Valen­tine’s Day, if you cel­e­brat­ed it. I spent the day at work, but my lover­ly wife Jade and I found time before­hand — well, dur­ing her lunch break — to go out for lunch at a new­er restau­rant here in town. I ordered a club sand­wich, and it was […]

What is there to say? I think about writ­ing a lot. I read my old posts, reflect upon all of the changes in out­look I’ve had since writ­ing them. When I do think of some­thing to say, I dump it into an all-too-often hasti­ly writ­ten Face­book post, then I call it a day. Face­book “mar­kets” the con­tent […]

I am not, though, alto­geth­er sure what here is or what here should be. Of course, that’s always been true; a cur­so­ry for­ay into the archives here will reveal that. Part of me wants to scrap what is past and start anew, but every time I have done that — at least a dozen times across var­i­ous […]

I’m com­ing up quick on my fif­teenth anniver­sary of work­ing at Wal­mart, along with only one oth­er mem­ber of my hire-in group. I start­ed out that jour­ney work­ing in the gro­cery depart­ment, which at my store con­sist­ed of three aisles con­tain­ing some pop, water, soups, cere­als, can­dy, cof­fee, snacks, and lit­tle else. It was­n’t a glam­orous […]