Wednesday, August 09, 2006  

You're On Notice!!!

yeah, it has been a couple busy days.
the biggest news is that i am getting sent to toronto on a business trip. three days, one day of work. well technically it is more like 48 hours. oh well, they are putting me in the hilton, and everything is covered. all i need is food, which my bosses boss is going to be taking care of friday night apparently.

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how stella artois started ww3

came home, nothing to eat. so i figured i could make a little mini pizza. it was an atrocity. horrible taste, even after i had soaked the bugger with frank's red hot sauce. of course doing that gave me indigestion, but that is another beast to grapple with.

there had been some stella artois, what passes for belgian beer in amerika, in the fridge for damn near three months. i figured i would grab a bottle and wash down the pizza. then my brother came to my room and asked if i had been drinking his beer. i didn't lie, and i offered to replace it with a sixer.

still he threw a massive hissy fit about his beer, and how he had used his money. by his of course he means the money our father gives him. either way, he went out of his way to make a dramatic event of a situation that was defused before it began. i suppose when you have nothing to do all day, and you sleep 14 hours you need to invent things to get pissy about.

as vengeance he decided to drink one of my rockstar drinks that i have to wake up in the morning. not a problem, he thought he was drinking the last one. he was wrong.

so this morning, after showering and settling a debt with my father for car repairs, my father chimed in about not drinking my brother's beer. he also seemed to miss the point that it wasn't a big deal. so now, i have a brother inventing his own problems to get uptight about and a father following in suit with bullshit.

i'm more amused than anything else by this whole situation. it reminds me why solitude is such a beautiful thing. to be totally alone is to understand more than anyone else in the world. isolation forces the individual to look within his or herself, his self in my case, and to find something worthwhile.

the road isolated me. granted, i did stop and visit with friends. plus, while on the road i befriended random people and consumed food and drink with them as if they were old lost friends renewing broken bonds. in the end, the majority of the time was me and my car. 14 hours of open road and cramped legs. the same music playing for the hundreth time. i can think of few things more peaceful than those moments.

in truth, i long to be back out there. experiencing the world first hand. i'll return to that life soon hopefully, but until then i have other business to attend to.

how is that for an entry?

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