Posts Tagged ‘boredom’

• Feeling a little bit restless

  Date: 2009.09.09 | Category: Life as we know it, family | Response: 0

  On Saturday I woke up feeling like death warmed over. Jessica started feeling like garbage on Sunday morning. Since that time, we haven’t been able to do much. Sure, we scrounge for some food and leave the house to get the necessary supplies but we have to trade turns with the walker/shopping cart that we both cling to for support. We’re both fairly active people and having the stamina of a half drowned cow is really starting to get on our nerves. We may have all of the ambition in the world but we don’t have the strength to get anything done. When was the last time you felt winded when you went to get your mail? (If you’re over the age of 65 that question doesn’t apply.)

  We went to lunch (courtesy of Jessica’s parents) and slept for most of the day. Yes, that’s about as exciting as it has been around here. We were planning on a BBQ but we postponed until the quarantine has been lifted. My sister is headed out next week so I can only hope that we rid ourselves of the funk – my sister would probably hold it against me if she flew across the country and I ended getting her sick. She doesn’t like to be sick – and I don’t want to die.

• News snippets

  Date: 2008.08.29 | Category: Life as we know it, ahh the news | Response: 0

  It turned out that the civilians are working on Friday so I actually had one extra day of work this week. I find out about my extra shift eight hours before I was to be at work so it wasn’t that bad of a deal. They were, apparently, unsure if I was going to show up and didn’t know what to do. Someone suggested that they call me – what a novel idea. My mind has been in vacation mode since I left work yesterday so I’ve just been goofing off – yep – goofing off. I’ve had some time to snag a couple of news snippets – the excerpts don’t tell the whole story but most are amusing enough to stand on their own.

  The finale of a political convention is a little like a wedding: the bride is always radiant, and the nominee is always stirring. In an unusual turn, even Senator John McCain, the expected Republican nominee, felt compelled to pay tribute to Mr. Obama’s historic milestone with a television advertisement congratulating his opponent on “a job well done.” (No good ad goes unpunished: after Mr. McCain’s spot on CNN came a Mutual of Omaha commercial about retirement plans for the elderly, and another promising to reverse baldness.)

  I love irony

  John McCain’s campaign is keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Gustav as it heads towards the Gulf Coast and Republicans begin the trek to St. Paul, Minnesota, to nominate McCain for president.

  Gee – it would be a shame to have people correlate your nomination with Bush and the debacle that was Katrina. It’s no wonder you’re worried about the path of the storm.

  With a day’s program that included music from Jennifer Hudson, Sheryl Crow and Stevie Wonder (“a personal highlight for me,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said), it was a bit of an Obamapalooza. Joe Biden showed up unannounced — to jam, as it were. Perhaps he just wanted to feel what it was like to address a crowd of 84,000.

  Ouch – that’s just mean.

  This time, like before, the argument is that labels would like to sell the albums as a unit instead of singles, and the new part is that some of them are beginning to bypass the iTunes behemoth distribution machine. Apple insists that labels can’t sell the whole album as a unit, and has also stuck, for the most part, to its 99 cent-per-song philosophy, which labels have fought against.

  The music industry wants to get back to the selling 10-14 songs at a time while only giving you two songs you’ll actually like. Great business plan!

  Eleven beheaded bodies were dumped close to a graveyard outside a sleepy southern city on Thursday in the latest shocking crime in Mexico’s vicious drug war.

  I read the eleven beheaded bodies and thought – its gotta be drugs. You might as well call me Carnac the Magnificent.

  Defense attorneys filed 95 letters in court Wednesday night as part of a bid to get Abramoff out of prison early. They describe him as a humbled, changed man whose family is suffering and nearly broke after his first 18 months in prison… …In prison, Abramoff has focused on studying Judaism and helping fellow inmates, friends said. He has taught classes entitled “Parenting from a Distance,” “Modern Marvels,” “Cinema Studies,” and “The Holocaust in Films,” his attorneys said. He is currently teaching a motion picture theory class.

  Almost anyone trying to get out of jail early finds religion. I have a feeling Bush is going to give him a last minute pardon – its a shame – the guy deserves to spend his time in jail. They should give a fair trial to the West Memphis Three before they even think of dealing with this guys crap.

  After Adrian Beltre’s walk-off homer in the bottom of the 11th inning Monday, the Mariners went completely nuts. Winning pitcher R.A. Dickey told The Seattle Times, “We celebrated just like we would have celebrated if we were in a pennant race.” Nothing like the manufactured excitement that comes from reducing a division lead to … 30 1/2 games

  Our team is… what’s the word? Horrendous

  The Lindsay Lohan sweating an athlete thing isn’t brand spanking earth shattering news. She’s already discussed, in a rather profane manner, how attractive she thinks Michael Phelps is, and the now, she may or may not be infatuated with a certain Chicago Bears quarterback. That’s right, Kyle Orton, you are pretty, pretty, pretty attractive. Also spied dancing with an attractive blonde at Crimson Lounge: new Bears quarterback Kyle Orton – dubbed ”super-hot” by Lohan, Ronson and Lauper, who all admired the NFL player’s dance-floor moves.

  Last year he looked like a child molester with his molestache – this year he’s attractive?

  “Gentlemen, I’m the last person to disagree with you on the chicken hawk, lying coward, sexist, racist, needs a face-lift, whore stuff, but you really need to re-cut this track,” Olbermann said addressing the Avengers last week on his MSNBC show “Countdown.” “Nobody’s life should be threatened, not even in the hyperbole of the moment. Beside, you are rappers. You have better ethics than Bill O’Reilly does. Live up to them. Don’t live down to him. Word to your mother.”

  Way to go Olbermann

• More goofy crap

  Date: 2008.05.06 | Category: Life as we know it, Series of tubes | Response: 0

  Due to my ever present boredom and need to share anything I find interesting to anyone who will listen I added my Google Reader RSS feed to my page. Check it out on the bottom right – you’ll find a listing of the latest and greatest stories that I felt were worth sharing but didn’t feel were worth blogging about. I have no idea why someone would come to me for information but if you’re here you might as well see what I’ve found interesting the past day or two.

• Goofing off

  Date: 2008.05.04 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  My roommate (one of the three) told me that he was bored as hell here and couldn’t wait to leave. I told him that I really didn’t have a problem because I’m an expert at goofing off. I hope that my expertise will take me through the next week because I have little to do save for goof off and travel from one point to the next. I do have a few books I saved back in case I decide to read as well as a laptop filled with hours of music. Internet cafes are always close and there are places to play video games and watch movies. I can still go to the gym and I can eat 4 times a day if I really wanted to (I don’t). I can play card games and billiards at the rec center if I wished to do so. I could just walk around base and sweat – or I could just sweat – its warm out here. I’ve redefined warm by the way – if its less than 100 its warm. If its over 100 its hot. If its over 110 a gateway to hell has opened and is blasting us with the overwhelming heat of hell. If its 120+ well, its probably the end of the world as I know it… but, I’ll be fine.

  Wish me luck – its goof off time

• Oh the boredom!

  Date: 2008.04.19 | Category: Life as we know it, ahh the news | Response: 0

  To save you some of your valuable time I’ll paraphrase – I’m incredibly bored. The rest of this post will consist solely of me griping about it. Ok, get on your bike and go on your way.

  I rely on work to make me feel happy. When we have weather that keeps the planes grounded, as we have the last few days, there is little work to keep me occupied. As a result, I am no longer a happy camper. On a normal day people see me as a grumpy, cynical, curmudgeon. On a day that is filled with work they see me as a cynical wise ass. Last night I spent a few hours re-parking trailers – oh the joys! Most people have not had the opportunity of backing a trailer and if they do score a chance it probably does not have any steering system (campers, semi trailers etc). These are incredibly easy to park – incredibly easy. I could park one right up your… fill in the blank. We fight a different beast because we park trailers with a front steering system – much like the wagon that was always hooked to the tractor when I was a kid. They are extremely heavy and often need to be parked in gravel – deep gravel. This can make the job quite interesting. If you don’t get enough speed you’re bound to get bogged down and all progress will stop. We used to have a 4 wheel drive tug but its been out of commission for a while so we’ve been stuck with the real wheel drive model – it doesn’t help me finish my quest. Moving trailers has been the highlight of my night. The rest of the time I sat around looking for something to do – I’m not in a reading mood and the internet has lost all of its luster.

  If we were killing more terrorists/insurgents/whatever the pentagon calls them I would be much happier – solely because I would have something that would occupy my time. Writing this utterly pointless blog post gave me something to do for five minutes – and for that I am grateful. Unfortunately, my creativity is at a low at the moment so you’re only going to get a drawn out version of I’m bored

  I hope that cured your boredom for 26 seconds – if not – welcome to the club

• Boredom will do that

  Date: 2008.03.18 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  Boredom will force you cause you to make foolish decisions. My latest foolish decision was to go to the gym for the past 12 days without a break. If I was a normal, healthy individual this wouldn’t be that big of a deal but I’ve got problems that don’t respond well to repeated abuse.

  My latest problem started when I decided to squat too much weight for far to long. I took some serious time off my leg workout to give my lower back time to recuperate. I redesigned my workouts to reduce the stress on my back and continued exercising daily. My lower back has taken a slow and painful beating. Muscle pain, in my view, arrives in two different formats. The first is muscle pain – this pain is intense and comes regardless of what position you place your body. It feels as if your bones are attempting to separate from your muscles and that your entire body is trying to tear itself apart. This is excruciating – I deal with it 4-6 days a week. I do not take ibuprofen – I “tough” it out. The second type of pain we’ve all experienced – muscle soreness. If you stress a muscle and later stretch or move that particular area you will experience some discomfort – I rarely feel this as pain in the prevalent experience.

  So – my back has been feeling fine lately. I have been stretching and doing some “yoga-esque” things to make the pain go away. My hamstrings and hip flexors cause the majority of problems. These muscles will NOT relax. I have tried for days to stretch them but they will not release one iota of pressure from my back. Today, my common sense defeated my strong desire to go to the gym and push through it. I’m taking the day off – I’m not really sure what to do with the time other than to write a series of random blog posts. I guess boredom will do that.

• Torture

  Date: 2008.02.01 | Category: desert | Response: 0

  The did it in Abu Ghraib prison to people that didn’t deserve the treatment. I do it to myself on a daily basis. Why in the world would somebody beat the ever living crap out of their body? Why would someone push themselves until they were in so much pain that they thought they were going to puke?

  Boredom

  I decided to see how hard I could push myself today. My shoulder is almost completely rehabbed – almost to the point where I don’t have to worry about it. I’m still working on strengthening the anterior deltoid muscle (the weak one in the bunch) so that it keeps all of the other muscles where there are supposed to be located. It was leg day – the most brutal day of the week. Leg day is an all out assault on the largest muscle group in the body. It is the muscle group that is constantly in use and the one that takes the most punishment (save for the heart of course). I went through my normal routine but I cranked it up to three sets of 20 reps. I normally work in the 3×12 range but I essentially doubled my reps while maintaining the same weights. By the time I was done with each set my legs were on fire – veins were starting to pop out from my skin that I didn’t even know existed. I could barely walk by the time that I was done – not being able to walk isn’t a bad thing in this case – it merely shows that I properly worked out the muscle group. If you’ve watched any bad horror movies and have seen zombies stumbling about – its probably close to how I’ve been walking around. We probably smell the same too – its been a few days since we’ve had running water. Unless the world goes to hell, I’ll get my first shower in days tomorrow morning.

  I’ve been resisting the urge to expunge the material in my stomach – its been 30 minutes since I’ve walked out of there but the pain is so intense that I can barely hold my guts in check. Its a hobby – albeit a painful one.

• Bored and broke

  Date: 2007.09.17 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 1

  Its so hard to stay conveniently occupied and entertained and keep money in the bank account. As it stands now I’m on the edge of broke; but, I’m not completely broke so I still have a little bit of breathing room. The new job is going to help out a bunch and I may catch an extra couple of shifts much to the chagrin of Jessica. I need this money and I need to get ahead of things. If I work as little as 20 hours a week I’ll net a few hundred extra a month and it gets me out of hot water immediately. I’m not late on anything right now but if I went another month this way I’d be forced to start doing something drastic like selling plasma or becoming a male prostitute. I really don’t want to become a male prostitute for a few reasons (who else has time to think this out? ) – the clientèle I would draw would be much like the women that Rob Schneider attracted in Deuce Biggalo, the STD’s would be a huge drawback, the military would probably imprison me for trying (thus exacerbating the lack of income), and it would drive Jessica away (again, another bad thing). I could start selling my plasma to make a few bucks here and there but it freakin hurts. I had a friend in HS whose sole source of income was from the plasma he harvested from his body. I’m waiting to go to the desert because I can stop paying for a two giant money killers: rent and food. Both are paid for in the desert and I can take that cash and throw it on a bill. Hopefully, I’ll be down one credit card by the time I get back. If I’m good I’ll be able to get one partially gone before I leave.

  It sucks being broke but its nobody’s fault but my own. I’m stupid for doing it and I hope to hell I’ll figure out how dumb I’ve been and never repeat my mistake.

  Boredom is synonymous with a lack of creativity and lack of cash flow. There are very few things I can do that take absolutely no money. Think about it – if you want to go somewhere you’ve got to drive and use gas – even if you spend nothing while there you’re out the gas. Unfortunately if you’re gone for long enough you’ll need to bring some food. Sure, you’ve got some stuff in your house that you can bring with you but thats the stuff you bought for lunches during the week. The other option is to eat on the road and spend cash that you didn’t want to spend in the first place.

  So, if you’ve got some extremely low cost ideas on how to spend your off duty time let me know – you can only watch TV and goof around on the internet so much – both of which cost money – before you’ve run the gamut and need to find something else to do.

  Gee – this was quite a long rambling post – it saved me from boredom for a few minutes but its a solo activity and left out somebody thats sitting on the couch begging for my attention