"Life In The Desert"
Uncle Gerry is a little agitated this morning, I try not to write when I am agitated as it tends to throw off the tone of a post. However as a crochety olde farte, I reserve the right to get pissed off every once in a while. Those of you who have been regular readers lo these many months know from whence I came and the journey to get to where I am now. As I have spent most of the last 5 or six years working out of hotel rooms on the road or working and living in hotels, I have not had much need for furniture. When I acquired my current residence upon my arrival back n Texas, it came sans furnishings. This made furniture somewhat of a priority. I already had the desk set up, and Gal Pal provided me a bed. I bought a TV and then made a plan for furnishing the rest of the apartment. If you have checked out my wish list in the side bar, then you will have seen the culmination of the first stage of that plan. I know what I want and am now working to get it. Well today was going to be special in that I was going to purchase the largest item on my wish list, the sofa to fill that big ugly hole in my living room. I had all the bills paid, rent for next month is covered in the coming weeks, so this was a "free" pay check because I already have enough to live on from my frugality of the past few weeks. There is only one slight little problem which has its roots in a problem from last week. Payroll was late getting sent in which unbelievably caused the computer to tax me at twice the normal rate for the federal withholding. We got that straightened out, and payroll said it was too late to add it to this check but next check it would be there. OK, fine. I have direct deposit so payroll hits late on Tuesday which it did this week. I got the refund of the over payment in federal withholding which I was not expecting until next week. The only thing is, they did not remember to deposit my paycheck. Last time that happened they sent a paper check which we get on Wednesday with the sandwich order around midnight. My payroll advisory told me the amount of the deposit was a refund of the withholding but there was no paper check. So now we have to get all in their business again this week and I don't get to order my sofa today. Now granted this is not a life or death situation. It is is however extremely disconcerting as this is a major milestone in the progression of my financial development. This does not mean I will not get my sofa, just delays it a bit for no good reason other than human incompetence or just one mistake on top of an already fucked up situation. Then of course, just to frost my cookies, the day shift decided to be "fashionably late" which causes no end of heartburn to an "anal retentive" freak who believes early is on time, on time is late, and late is unforgivable such as myself. There I feel much better now, thanks for listening, shall we move on to more pleasant venues?
Here we are on day four of our Video Discovery Week and we find ourselves still across the pond but a bit further south than yesterday as we descend on The Netherlands to see what JohnnyRhys has new for us today. I first posted videos from him last Friday in Video Inspirations without any information other than a link to his Daily Motion page. Turns out he has a blog and a You Tube Page also. The videos I have today are from his Daily Motion Page as the videos seem to play better from there. The first one is a little montage done to Surf Boys - Miles Away which is the first of his videos I saw when it was posted on a blog I get in my g-reader. That is followed by a montage done to the Boys of Summer and then A Kiss Is Just A Kiss with music by my favorite foursome, Il Divo. This leads to a great little video done to the song I Hate Myself For Loving You (I am glad I am not the only one who has ever had that thought!). You may recognize the music from Sunday Night Football although the words are way different. Now in that vein, I have a thing for rough cut young men who look to be able to take care of themselves (and me of course) so I put together this little collection of Bad Boys to get your engines revving for today. That about wraps it up, once again, thanks for stopping by and listening to me bitch before getting to the good stuff. Come back tomorrow to see what I have to cap off the journey of Video Discovery Week. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
Here we are on day four of our Video Discovery Week and we find ourselves still across the pond but a bit further south than yesterday as we descend on The Netherlands to see what JohnnyRhys has new for us today. I first posted videos from him last Friday in Video Inspirations without any information other than a link to his Daily Motion page. Turns out he has a blog and a You Tube Page also. The videos I have today are from his Daily Motion Page as the videos seem to play better from there. The first one is a little montage done to Surf Boys - Miles Away which is the first of his videos I saw when it was posted on a blog I get in my g-reader. That is followed by a montage done to the Boys of Summer and then A Kiss Is Just A Kiss with music by my favorite foursome, Il Divo. This leads to a great little video done to the song I Hate Myself For Loving You (I am glad I am not the only one who has ever had that thought!). You may recognize the music from Sunday Night Football although the words are way different. Now in that vein, I have a thing for rough cut young men who look to be able to take care of themselves (and me of course) so I put together this little collection of Bad Boys to get your engines revving for today. That about wraps it up, once again, thanks for stopping by and listening to me bitch before getting to the good stuff. Come back tomorrow to see what I have to cap off the journey of Video Discovery Week. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
