But this must be followed by “What does that mean?” which must then be followed by a LARGE HARPOON being shot through your gut.

Which brings me back to this quote.

I was just doing a payroll disbursement, where I had to:
a) prove I was alive
b) show multiple forms of ID that I had before I went in the room then could not find
c) tried not to punch an otherwise nice lady in the jaw
d) all of the above

If you guessed a) then that is still debatable but d) would be the correct answer.

So going into pick up my paystub, I couldn’t find the second ID (drivers license) that I had not 5 minutes before. A small line formed behind me, not more than 4-5 people. I finally found the dumb thing, and the lady saw my name on her list, being the first one on the list. I get that sometimes with a “B”, unlike some other folks whose names start with “AB”. Tough to beat that one.
Feeling a little stupid about the misplaced ID, I was gut punched when the nice woman said with a laugh “OH your the oldest one on the list! hahaha” Everyone in the room stopped and stared at me. My friend Danielle said “oh no! you are gonna have karate chop someone” but I didn’t do anything bad, I just smiled and said “Oh yes on Feb 13, it will be 20 years with the Company”. That stopped everyone again. They asked “How did you do that??”

That is when the image of Wash popped into my head, and I thought “I am a leaf on the wind”.

I didn’t say that, I should have but I didn’t, just something dumb like “10 years here 10 years there, next 10 years who knows.” I also should have said the judicious application of Guinness doesn’t hurt.

But I think its true, that I survive this job by being very “leaf like”. The job requires me to work with a lot of different people, with a lot of different goals, and even more personalities. If you cant let it run off you like rain, you will not survive it.

Speaking of surviving it. My boy G let up on “The Phantom Headache”. I do believe that it was because he caught me typing up the last post. After the movie was over and doctor visit got him a blue lollipop (he looked like a blue tongued skink), he said “Dad we should watch “Ironman” I think you would enjoy that” It touched me deeply that my boy was worried about what I wanted to see. There may have been other motives but I want to stick with this theory.

Only 523 weeks to go…I am a leaf on the wind

-gg

Day 5

The torment is unbearable, like a large weight on my head…

Or maybe I would just like there to be one on my head. The long weekend has been much more like a…well like a bad case of deja vous.

Under Siege, not the Steven Seagal 1992 classic, may not be the best term for it. I think the best term would be “Under Menace”.

This weekend I have seen The Phantom Menace at least 6 times now….

I cannot tell you the horror I feel that creeps into me when I think Garrett WANTS to watch this…chooses over the original Star Wars. Where have I gone wrong. I blame my brother for getting the DVD for him. He did it when I wasn’t looking. A friend came in from out of town…I had a flat tire…I didn’t has change for the bus…I SWEAR TO GOD ITS NOT MY FAULT!!!!!

I can also put it down to Garrett running 100 degree temperature. He has been sick since Friday with a bad cough. Feeling bad for him is the only saving grace here. The cough medicine seems to make him hyper as all get out. More on that later.

With the constant question about Battle Droids, constant badgering to watch Youtube and Gleeful Gecko’s “Star Wars: The Retelling“, I had to find something to distract Garrett. So in a flash of insanity, after having Star Wars Legos droids stuck in my face, I decided to teach Garrett about….

Stop Motion Animation.

Now I have always likes stop motion stuff, from Gumby to Ray Harryhausen, but I do understand that it is trying and time consuming. So this may have been a bad choice to try with a sick, medication, ADHD kid, and I would like to add bored out of his fevered brain. My patience, at this point, has become thin too so I was disparate.

After spending a good amount of time showing Garrett what I was doing, moving lego droids back and forth, I realized Garrett was really enjoying this. Not that he understood a bit of it, but we were playing with Legos and the computer, and to him, there was nothing better.

So now I present to you

ADHD THEATER

There is no sound, but I may do some more work on it. Until then Garrett is still coughing (although Dr seems not worried) and still very bored, which means yet another viewing of Phantom Menace Wars Empire.

-gg

So I needed…No really, I NEEDED to show these 2 pictures. They are one of these things along the Camel with a scud missile ect. It is these things that usually break the tension of the day, give one a moment to laugh and relax.

I am still up in the air about them. Mostly I think “Photoshop has soo many other valid uses”, but then again, I taught myself how to use photoshop by replacing all the heads in our lab picture with Simpson characters. I guess I can now understand…..

not a big meme follower, ever since the “bears with ill fitting hats”

Well as the Dunkin Dounut man says “gotta kill the mice”

-gg