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Saturday, August 16, 2003

Wedding Day Blues

Working, working, and still working as today is the Big Wedding Day. I worked my latenight closing shift last night. I got home a little before 4:00 am. Of course, today is the day I have to open a store and work until closing. That means I'll be here until 3:00 am. Just Damn!


Now that the other manager is gone, I drew the short straw. Actually, I didn't have any choice. See today is the day that the Owners' only daughter is getting married. All the bosses are gone. I don't really care because I don't know the bride. My only problem is that it's 3:30 and I,m starting to drag ass already. At this point, coffee ain't helpin, me none.


The way I see it....I'm getting paid to post today. Just Damn!

posted by Dax Montana 3:37:10 PM

Lingering Thoughts

I was chatting it up the other day with a co-worker. The discussion was something about all the bullshit I have to put up with, from customers, staff and bosses. I guess it just goes with the territory. Occasionally, a staff member is a witness to the piles of crap I have to wade through on a daily basis. They get a first hand glimpse of how I actually earn my money.

Anyway, I mentioned how nice it was to be the low man on the totem pole sometimes. I took a part time job for Christmas money a few years ago. I was simply a data entry guy, a nobody. I was one of about 150. I asked off at the last minute, took breaks, drank coffee, hit my numbers but fucked off a lot. Yea, it was nice. Of course, the discussion led to the movie Office Space. I could identify.

I got to thinking about it. (Which is very dangerous for the few of you who have read my Blog regularly.) I’ve always tried with some success to become a big fish in a small pond. Being the boss, a leader is just something I gravitate toward. I like the Ego stroking. I can trace this character trait/flaw throughout my past, college DJ, Radio personality, Manager, Director of Operations, and even Semi successful musician. It’s always been in a small community.

For those who believe in astrology, they would attribute this affliction to my being a Leo. Others would say it was because I am a First Born son. I don’t really know.

This is what I do know. In the Blogosphere, I am a small fish in a large pond. I kind of like my non-status. It feels good to just post what I want and not worry about it. Maybe I don’t want to post anything. That’s ok too. I can lurk from Blog to Blog and no one really notices. I don’t have to worry about finding a Guest Blogger if I want to go out of town. (Yea, like I got money to travel!) I don’t have the stress of posting twenty times a day or of struggling to be funny with each post. I don’t have to worry about still using Blogger as my publishing tool. (I really should wean myself off the Blogger teat.)

However, I find myself suffering from a great number of limitations too. I probably won’t be nominated as a sexy Blogger. No one will start a Blog War with me. My server won’t crash from an Instalanche. I won’t have trolls. I can’t post about rules of Blogging. I ‘m not really doing anyone a favor by linking to them, well as far as the hit counter is concerned.

On second thought, I guess there aren’t any limitations except the ones I put on myself. Just Damn!

Anyway, I guess I’m going through growing pains. I’m on the verge of becoming a bigger fish. I can’t help it. Its in my nature. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 4:51:35 AM

What?

How the hell did this happen?
Bite of the Week? Thanks Kate!
Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 1:41:27 PM

Miscellaneous Ramblings

You know it’s gonna be a good day when you wake up to your 3 children and your wife holding a birthday cake, a cup of coffee, and singing Happy Birthday. The best part is I don’t feel like ass. With all the alcohol I consumed last night, it’s a small wonder. I never found that passion fruit stuff for that that drink, but with all the other drinks on the hit list, I didn’t need anything else.

I gave my buddy a send off to entrepreneurship. He is now the new owner of the Uptown Lounge in Athens, Ga. If you’ve been to Athens in the last 20 years then you know the place. Just Damn!

Other thoughts…

I’ve been neglecting a few Blogs out there. I think I’ll send out a little link love to them.

Cinnamon-Gnome has been on the Blogroll for what seems like forever. I don’t know why. I guess I’m caught up in her life somehow. She goes off on quirky adventures with this guy, her boyfriend and Blog Child, Tom. His Blog is cool too.

Robert Goodwin is a lot like me. He finds time to Blog between household chores and Family time. A monumental feat indeed.

2 Stupid 4 Words is a relatively new Blog. I don’t know how she found me but what’s more important is I found her.

Kiwi Pete is a New Zealander. That is a guy Blogging in New Zealand. I found him lurking around my referrals. Wow! I’ve gone international.

Stoney at Rebel Yell is a classic Southern Blogger. You gotta like that. I don’t know why he has been remiss to Blogroll me.

I could link the whole Blogroll, but I got Birthday cake to eat. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 9:59:42 AM

Tom Petty Rocks!

Wow! The concert just blew me away. I never realized just how prolific his music has been through the years. I knew every song except the 1 unreleased tune. Now I’m on a hunt for the Anthology cd. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 8:50:46 AM

Drink of the Day

I guess since Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are in town tonight, a Heartbreaker’s special would be in order for the drink of the day. However, I don’t know what Passoa is. If I find a substitute at the bar tonight, I’ll have one and let you know how it tastes. So I’m going with the Bruised Heart tonight. Get out those shot / shooter glasses and your shaker. I know you have these basic tools by now. In the shaker, add 1 shot Vodka, 1 shot Chamboard, 1 shot Peachtree schnapps, and 1 shot cranberry juice. Shake it hard and strain into those shooter glasses. You’ll be FreeFallin’ in no time. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 4:48:57 PM

Tom Petty

Tom Petty is at the Arena tonight. By some act of God, I don’t have to work. My buddy (who bought his own bar thus shattering my dreams, just finished his shift and we plan to go to the show. A celebration of sorts, I suppose. The show should be awesome. I should be more excited but I figure a free bar tab and a final farewell to an old pal puts a slight damper on things. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 4:35:14 PM

Ha Ha Ha!

CynicalCyn has posted this Joke and dedicated it to me. As true as it is, I thought this Joke was much funnier…Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 4:28:47 PM

Drink of the Day

My son will be home from school in just a few minutes. I remember when I used to come home from school. Mom always had an after school snack for my brother and me. Sometimes it was a crappy snack, you know, something healthy like an apple or maybe worse, carrot sticks. I knew it was a good day when I came home to find the mother lode of after school snacks. Today quint hits the mother lode, Oatmeal cookies.

I like the soft gooey goodness of oatmeal, cinnamon, and molasses. Man that brings back the memories. So the drink of the day is the Oatmeal Cookie shooter. In your shaker, mix 1 shot Baileys, one shot Buttershots butterscotch schnapps, a half shot Jagermeister, and a half shot Goldschlager. Shake hard then strain into a rocks glass. This recipe makes two shots ‘cause nobody can drink just one. It’s tasty and brings back the memories. It’s not like mom used to make, that’s for damn sure. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 2:58:21 PM

What Qualifies as a Drink of the Day?

I have received a few Emails asking me to include this drink or that drink as a Drink of the Day. Sorry, That is not what the Drink of the Day feature is about. The drink of the day started as a goof really. I work in a bar and noticed that my drinking had increased more significantly than I was comfortable with. As a result I went on a 100-day sobriety kick. After my 100 days of abstinence, I started to chronicle a few drinks that I was enjoying at the moment.

I don’t drink everyday; therefore, I don’t post a drink of the day everyday. I stick with a few drinks when I do drink; therefore, I try not to re-post a drink of the day. Sometimes, a new drink or one I haven’t tasted in a while comes to my attention. That is a drink of the day. I will try new shots or shooters. After I try it, then it could become a drink of the day. I welcome new drinks. I get rather bored with the same ole thing. I like shots that leave me on my ass.

I try to pick drinks with relevant names too. I couldn’t find a drink with a name like teacher or school or Monday. If I could have it would have been yesterday’s drink of the day commemorating my son’s going back to school. Get the idea? I guess I should create a new shooter called “back to school” huh? Somehow educating children and drinking just don’t mix. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 10:58:35 AM

Are You Qualified?

I keep reading about Qualifications for public office lately. More specifically, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s qualifications to be Governor are questioned here, here, and many other places I’m sure. Not being a scholar of California politics or California Government, I can only speak to the Qualifications for President of the United States of America. For that, I turn to the Constitution.

Article II section 1.

“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. “

Wow! Go read that again.

The only qualifications for President are natural born citizen, 35 years old, lived in US 14 years. Ok, Arnold is not a natural born citizen I know.


However, nowhere does a person have to be a Lawyer, College graduate, Employed, Healthy, English speaking, or Religious.

So what makes a person qualified to hold public office? Ultimately that decision is left up to the voters. That is what makes our country great. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 8:58:17 AM

Taxes…I Don’t Pay Your Stinkin’ Taxes

Jeff Trigg over at Random Acts of Kindness just posted this story. It seems a jury came to its senses and voted not guilty of Tax Evasion.

“Juror Barbara Snodgras of Memphis said the jury did not convict because ‘we all felt that the prosecution didn't prove its case.’”

There is hope yet! Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 7:28:49 PM

Indoctrination

I shamelessly stole this from Neil Boortz. As always, he nails it dead on.

“Do you remember those weeks before school started for your first grader? There you were, you and your proud new student walking the aisles of the local Costco with your list of school supplies in hand. You checked off the pencils, a ruler, a compass, paste, construction paper, a pencil holder, notebooks and erasers.

At home, your first grader takes the supplies into his room and spreads everything out on the bed. Arranges them this way – then that way. Pencils next to the erasers, glue and construction paper lined up over here, compass and ruler lined up over there. These are his supplies. His! Do you hear? And tomorrow he is going to take them to school. He couldn't be more proud.

Finally, the first day of school arrives. The night before all of the school supplies are packed, repacked, unpacked and repacked again. Then, that morning, just one more unpacking and repacking to make sure everything's still there and undamaged. OK! It's off we go to school! Apprehension mixed with pride. Your young man or woman is taking another grand step toward adulthood! What could go wrong?

Plenty. Remember, it's a government operation.

The students are seated, the bell rings. As fast as you can say the Pledge of Allegiance without the "under God" part, the indoctrination begins. The government teacher steps in front of her virtual hostages and promptly delivers the first raw lesson in the power of government. The students are instructed to bring all of their precious school supplies – their property – to the front of the classroom and put them into a huge box. They are told that the supplies belong to all of the class now, and the teacher will assume the responsibility of distributing the supplies as they are needed.

"Whoaa! Hold on a minute here! These are my supplies. My daddy bought them for me. You can't have them! They're mine!"

Nope. Sorry! They were yours. Now all those supplies belong to – guess who? The government!

There's a method to this madness. Your child is being taught that there are some severe limits to the concept of private property. It is perfectly OK, for instance, if the government just steps up and seizes your property if there are other people who might need some of your stuff. After all, it's just not right for you to have something that other people don't have or can't share in, is it?

This whole "dump your supplies into this box" is not an innocent exercise. Your child's teacher might not even be aware of it, but this lesson in government power is a time-honored method of introducing your child to the concept that there is something basically wrong with owning private property – but everything will be OK if you just let your superiors even things out a bit by taking some stuff from you and giving it to someone else.

How did Marx present this concept? I think it was something like "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need."

Day number one, lesson number one: Your rights to your property exist only so long as government will allow, and it's just not fair to have more stuff than someone else.

And this is just the first week! More surprises in store! Wait until you get that call from your child's teacher with vague, dark hints of a better world for your child if only he was on Ritalin.”

This scenario is exactly what happened to my son today. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 6:42:52 PM

Bothered

A few things are bothering me in the ole Blogosphere lately. First, the Ecosystem is all fucked up. Details and links and SQL are all acting goofy. I think it was more fun when I had to scroll down (way down) to find my listing. I got to see my Blogroll highlighted and where I stood in the scheme of things. Somehow, it just isn’t the same.

Several weeks ago Acidman posted his questions for wimmin. He was going to post the best responses to his questions. What happened? Oh yea, he had a bionic dick installed. I guess I’d forget too. Still, it seems like unfinished business.

Whatever happened to Adam’s contest? A Single Guy in the South hosted the carnival. He had a song contest involved. Who won the contest? I’m still rather curious. What happened there? I guess he was busy Helping Folks Out.

I guess time keeps moving on and things get forgotten. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 6:48:54 AM

First Day

The lunch has been packed. The new clothes are laid out. The backpack is crammed full of new notebooks, crayons, and other school supplies. Tomorrow is the first day of school. Back in the day, I didn’t have the first day of school before Labor Day. What’s the deal with school starting so early? I never had my birthday during the school year. It’s not like the kids get out any earlier either. I think they still go something like 180 days. I wouldn’t complain much if the schools actually taught students. Of course, there are all the teacher workdays and holidays. Maybe that’s why school starts earlier. Being the new guy at work, I was the last to pick my vacation days. Hell, summer was over for Quint. It’s not like we had the money to go anywhere. Maybe we’ll take a Christmas vacation, if there is enough days off. Just Damn!


posted by Dax Montana 10:27:38 PM