Last Post Of The Year

 

Not much time, as we're about to go out to dinner(early) so we beat the rush.

Will I do some sort of best-of? Maybe. I mean, only big standout for me this year was Deadpool Wolverine, which I feel like I've been waiting my whole life for but didn't know it.

Nothing big planned tonight--heck, I might even just come back home by myself after we go to dinner and the casino(the wife's mom's request). They're all gonna go back to the other house for the ball drop, but I couldn't care less about that.

Here's hoping they tell us what the deal is with all these mysterious drones.

This meme below is funny, but why the FUCK can't they spell check their shit? "watter"? Fucksake.

 

 

The End(Of The Year) is Nigh!

 

Year's almost over. In case you haven't been around me, or forgot, I fucking hate New Year's. Always have. If you asked me what was the best New Year's I ever had, I'd be hard pressed to name one.

We used to go out to this local club--the wife's dad would buy a table for us--there's be tons of people. An open bar, food, dancing. It was okay, but the DJ's frequently sucked. I think the last time I went, I drank too many Toasted Almond drinks...I honestly didn't realize there was a limit to how much milk you can drink at a time, and these things are like 50% milk.

So now the wife wants to know what we're doing. Wants to maybe out to an early dinner with her mom and our kid, and maybe a friend, then go to the casino for a little while.

I'm like, whatever. If you want to know what I WANT to do, it's stay home, watch some Twilight Zone episodes, maybe Night of The Comet, and do NOTHING. Wouldn't even watch the ball drop, cuz I've seen that over 40 times so I'm good.

Shot a video for the auction company yesterday. Dumped the footage and imported it all, fixed the audio file so it's ready to be edited.

Then today, I started editing. She always waits til the last fucking minute on these, and instead of keeping it short, this one's gonna be 90 minutes when it's fully edited. I got about half done today--took me nearly ten hours.

So this one's gonna cost 'em. I'll try to get a little done tomorrow when I'm done my actual job, then try to do the rest on New Year's Day. If not, then next weekend.

Not. Fun.

Badass Beholder below...

 

 

Blogger Getting Worse Again

 

 So did ya get that "This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post"?

Yeah, wtf? I went into the dashboard and see this, about my last post:

This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content as outlined in Blogger’s Community Guidelines.

 Like...huh? I read the post back--not sure what in there violated the guidelines. And that's certainly not the first post that had nudity on my blog--hell, the post previous to that one has nudity.

So let's see what happens here--no nudity pics.

Watched Kindergarten Cop with the fam tonight. Haven't seen it in probably 20 years. Still fun. Not amazing or anything, but fun. And seeing that a number of the kids are recognizable now--Miko anyone?--is pretty cool.

 

Weird Xmas

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Xmas Is Nigh

 

Soooo, Xmas Eve is here. I'm working, currently, but some stuff we need to work isn't working at the moment so I got a break.

How 'bout that Supes teaser? Thought it was pretty good. Will be the last piece of advertisement I watch for that flick, if I can help it, until I actually see the movie.

Watched one of my favorite Xmas movies last night--The Ref. Such a well-written flick, makes me laugh every time. 

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The holiday party was okay. Uber up cost me about $100, way back was only like $75, but totally worth it. Traffic sucked, and it was raining on Friday so driving in that mess with traffic would have been pretty bad.

They spared no expense at this party. There was about 650 of us, and the food was chicken, crab cakes, some sort of beef thing that everybody raved about. The liquor was open bar, and we're talking top shelf shit. Every vodka cranberry I ordered was Grey Goose, for fuck's sake.

Met quite a few people that I had only met in Zoom meetings before. The music was pretty good too, though there was no dancing for us--the wife's still limping along.

Hard to believe another year's about to be over. I get more and more tired of end-of-the-year stuff.

But hey, Merry fucking Xmas and all that...

 

 

 

Work Xmas Party Imminent

 

Got the work holiday party tomorrow. I'm only going because I didn't go the Halloween one, and it seems like I should toe the line, and they like people to be sociable and stuff. This way I can meet a lot of the people I work with that I didn't meet last year when I went to the office.

I'm gonna uber to VA, cuz I don't wanna take my new car through DC and into VA. The hotel is also one of those shitty hotels that bills ya like $30 for a car even if you're paying for one of their over-priced rooms, so I'll just put that saved $30 toward the uber.

Only thing on my list to do is NOT fuck up while I'm there. No talking about some of the idiots we've recently hired. No badmouthing some of the bad people we have there. Don't get me wrong--we have a TON of great people, but when I first was hired that's ALL we had.

Since we went on this hiring binge, we've gotten some of the chaff, all in the name of bulking up.

So I'm not gonna get too drunk, even though it's an open bar.

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Really gotta start the Xmas watching. Saw the new Joe Bob thing, which did Rare Exports(had never seen it--thought I had, but I'd seen the short that they did before this with the same name). Decent movie, especially for the budget.

The 2nd movie was It's A Wonderful Knife, which is garbage, so I just watched the JB parts.

Saw that new Carry On movie on Nflix that people are comparing to Die Hard. It's entertaining, but COME ON, it's not even close to Die Hard. Some of the stuff in Carry On is ludicrous, so it's a testament to how entertaining it is that you keep watching even as you're going "Yeah right."

 

 

 

 

 

Comps and Xmas

Had our new compensation meetings for work. For the first time I had to give letters and explanations to my employees--so I got to see other people's salaries and bonuses.

Was interesting, but not really a fan of that kind of stuff. 

BUT, was a fan of my comp meeting where they definitely showed I'm valued there. I got a huge bonus, like the kind of bonus Clark was waiting for at the end of Xmas vacation. Plus they upped my salary by over 10%.

I talked to my buddy, who's super high up in the company. He said the average raise from 3% this year, so my percentage was very high. Would have had to get approval from the top guy in our company.

So that's nice, that at least they appear to appreciate what I do there. 

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Got out last night to the weird Krampus thing they do at Zig's. Took the kid this time, and as expected, he had a good time. He loves live music of any kind. 

It was cold as shit though, I'll tell ya that. I dressed warm, but not warm enough for 30 degree weather.

We went to a diner afterward to get something to eat, and my kid's like "I think I'll try the super crabmeat pasta". I'm like, "How the fuck you picking the most expensive meal on the menu everywhere we go?"

But I got it for him, and he ate it all. Kid's the opposite of me, as far as pickiness in food. Which is weird, cuz autistic people are usually very picky about food. Not this one. (I got the lumberjack breakfast, which was real good...they even had crispy bacon, which is hard to get at diners...)

We went back to Zig's and watched the very subpar Silent Night 3. How the fuck do you mess up the killer Santa motif from your previous two films? Easy, just put an upside down salad bowl on your killer's head, and then don't put him in the costume.

Say what?

But the kid wanted a Xmas horror...I asked him what he thought, and he's almost always like "I liked it" or "it was good", but last night his reply was "ehhhh that was't scary".

I'm gonna try to get out and see if I can get a new suit today for this Xmas office party I'm going to at the end of the week. But if the store's super busy, I'll probably leave and try Monday, maybe it won't be so busy.

 

Torture Continues

 

 

So man, year's almost over again. The whole thing does get fairly monotonous, right?

 

I really could use a month off from this job. After the last stuff I posted about, I had more hardware problems after ANOTHER Windows update. How many of these do we fucking need to get a month? Two updates in four days seems a BIT FUCKING MUCH.

 

The wife tried driving--she can do it, but it's a bit painful. She's stubborn though, so she's gonna do it. She's gotten pretty cabin-fevered, and plus her mom wanted to get out so they all went grocery shopping yesterday.

 

Good news, cuz now I can get out of having to take her to physical therapy three times a week.

 

On the creative front, not much. I'm back to writing that Xmas script since 'Tis the Season. I wanna finish it this year. (and by year, I mean, in the next 3 months)

 

Trying to finalize the stuff I'll need to launch this crowdfunder for the T1/T2 blus, to see if I'm gonna have to print them or not. (if we get 100 people who preorder it, I'll do it. If not...I will abandon it and never speak of it again)

 

I should prolly do an intro video, and I even wrote one that was kind of cool and slightly clever, but then I realize that I don't wanna do all the work involved to create it. So maybe I'll just do a simple one.

 

T3...I dunno, man. I think more of me DOESN'T want to do it than does. Like, I know it will eventually make its money back if I do it. Will probably take a few years, given how distribution is now back to sucking again.

 

But the amount of work I'll have to do, and with how old I've gotten...my body just may not have it any more. I can put out a solid day's work, pushing myself, but the next day I'm down for the count. Do I really wanna try that?

 

Lot of me says NO.

 

The Malf wants to do a music video, the one we were talking about. Something that sounded fun when we first discussed it. But he all of a sudden has a crazy grand idea that not only would be impossible to do, I think it would lead to an inferior video.

 

So we're gonna try to meet for drinks this week and hash it out. I think once he hears me out, he'll realize it's a bad idea.

 

Hey, wanna see the scar on my wife's leg? Who doesn't love nasty scar pics?

 

And so I won't leave you with that, this made me laugh. In sort of a sad, why did they do that, kind of laugh.

 

 

No Idea

 

I blink and it's like two weeks since I updated this blog.

Sue me.

Ya know, Thanksgiving and all. Another small affair at the in-laws, but I had to do a lot more since the wife's barely mobile.

Did get out to see Gladiator 2. It's okay.

I will say that the worst part was that some tool bought seats RIGHT NEXT TO ME, not even a buffer seat. Keep in mind, there's ZERO other people in my row. There's ZERO people in the row right in front of us.

I went ahead and bought another seat so we'd have the buffer, but then I also took a bottle of water and dumped it on the seat closest to us. Immature? Sure.

Satisfying as fuck when this tool walked in during the trailers playing and sat down in the seat, and jumped right back up cuz his pants are now soaked. Get a fucking clue, loser. 

Work continues to burn me out. Not so much the job, but the insane amount of hoops they're constantly adding to jump through, all in the name of security. We now have 3 factor authentication coming...like, have you ever even heard of that? Me either.

They actually hit us with it last week and said it would start December 1st. Everybody was like "Woah, slow your roll--we have no idea whether this will work", and if it didn't then we're all not doing any work until they figure it out.

So they backed it out until the first of the year. But another update actually got my credential locked, so today I'm going to get my card unlocked. Super fun.

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Finished From season 3. Love the show, but they DO have to start really giving out some answers. They gave some in the final episode, but the answers were so hard to understand that I literally had to go to the internet to GET it...

But it really is the horror version of Lost.