It’s been over 6 months since I bought my laptop. I love it. And believe it or not, this is the first time I’ll be posting from it. I don’t know why I haven’t done this before. I guess it helped me concentrate when I was writing up on my desktop in my office.
Along with another first, I am watching opening day for the Seattle Mariners as I type this. We are in the top of the 6th – Bedard made it through 5 innings but had a pretty high pitch count. He gave up 1 home run and we’re currently down 1 to nothing. I was telling the wife this weekend that I planned on watching at least 162 full games this year. Which equates to about 30 full days of watching baseball.
They’re all in HD so I figure, why not. Plus the “experts” predicted that the M’s will end the season atop our division – which is perennially strong. We’ve finally got the pitching.
In about the 3rd inning I was already starting to fall asleep. Had to have a sugar injection to keep me going. A brownie, part of a doughnut and a glass of milk later – here I am. I’m glad to be here instead of at the game – it’s about 30 degrees and snowing out in Seattle right now. At the end of freaking March. Unbelievable. I’m going to remember this – we got about 4 inches of snow on Saturday night which was the 29th.
I really need a laptop desk. Right now I’m using one of our couch’s throw pillows. It really heats up the laptop. And the only reason I’m using the pillow is because I’ve heard the heat from the laptop can really kill your soldiers. And since we haven’t pumped out any children yet – I figure it’s best to protect them as much as possible.
My ears have been pretty itchy lately. I’m not sure what’s going on. I think it’s allergies. Suck. I need to go see an ENT doc to figure out what’s going on with me. I need to go before our trip to Europe because the pain in my ear is excruciating when we fly. To describe the pain in my ear when I fly (from the pressure – apologize if I’ve done this before) it’s almost as if someone is taking a nail, and jamming it down my ear. But not down my ear like a q-tip, but down my ear like towards the sides of my neck. Scrapping all of the sides of my ear on the way down.
Just the thought of that pain makes me cringe.
Sweet the Mariner’s just scored. Tie ball game. Only 161 games to go. Heh.
And to top it all off – I also signed up for a fantasy baseball league. Basically my life is over. I’ve never paid that close of attention before, but now that I’ve got players on my team, and I’ve got pride and money on the line, I’ve got to pay a lot more attention than just catching a game every now and then.
Speaking of sports – and another oddity – for the big dance this year all 4 number 1 seeds made it to the final four. Davidson made a solid run at it but sputtered in the elite 8. Still a solid showing. UNC, Kansas, Memphis and UCLA. All very strong teams. Should be a good final 4.
Today was excruciatingly boring at work. Literally I was looking at my monitor and in pain over how bored I was. Even the thing I have loved doing lately – and that’s trading – was a bit boring. I even had a swing of almost $1500 today. What’s wrong with me?
How can I seriously think that I want to do this full time, when I’m bored of doing it just part time? *sigh*
There’s a website I just joined – it’s like marketocracy.com but with less requirements on how you invest and better geared towards the facebook type crowd. It’s called updown.com. They give you a million dollars to invest and you “compete” against other people on the boards and share investing ideas. After almost a week of using a million dollars to invest I have made $40K. And that’s just buying and shorting stocks. Not playing options like I actually do. This is what I want to do. I want to put together a million dollars to trade. In my opinion it would be pretty easy for me to make a solid yearly return. So if anyone reading this knows someone who might be willing to invest with me, please contact me. If there’s something that interests me – it’s making returns not only for myself, but possibly for others. I want to start a fund!
It’s tough waiting for summer. Something about the weather has been pissing me off lately. Today was a perfect example of it. The whole day – from the time I can see the sky around 7:30 am all the way up until about 2 pm or later – it’s clear out, and dry. But somehow, God (or the people who control the weather and hate me) decide to move the clouds in and start dumping on us. And normally it wouldn’t be that big of a deal – but I like to take the dog out for her daily walk. It’s as much of a walk for her as it is for me. I get to calm down a little bit from my day at work – and I can set my mind at ease since my dog has done her duty and will be good for the next few hours.
And I know; this doesn’t happen every day. And I know that it’s still basically winter. But still, when I see a pattern develop – or when I’m on the way home and the raindrops start falling on my windshield – I get so pissed off. Seriously, it couldn’t rain a drop while I was at work? But as soon as I leave or I’m on my way home it starts coming down? Terrible.
During our walk today, I was thinking about my self-worth. I was thinking about how much more I could be contributing to a company. How my own perception of my abilities and talents were currently being wasted in the position I was working in. And how the other side of me really didn’t care. I’m in a position where I am now considered a veteran – where major overhauls and changes aren’t always coming down the pipeline – where I can leave every day and know that I don’t have to bring any work home with me…it’s safe. And it’s easy. But could, or should I be doing more with myself? Should I be challenging myself or be putting myself in more stressful positions to prove at the least to myself – my own self-worth?
That’s too deep of thinking for me right now. It being almost the 7th inning stretch now.
This past weekend I helped to build my very first fence. It’s about halfway done and I’m pretty proud of the work we’ve done so far – especially with what we did in the freezing hail. It’s looking like we’ll be staying in this house for some time. So as long as our raises continue to beat inflation and we stay healthy we should be just dandy.
I keep seeing all of these advertisements for mobile internet from Qwest, AT&T, Verizon, etc. I really want that for some reason. I know that there’s free wi-fi almost anywhere I go now. But just seeing these guys out on the beach and doing work looks so awesome to me. I want to be that guy with his toes in the sand and watching the waves roll in.
I better stop writing…the laptop is starting to get nice and toasty. I apologize the post was somewhat boring – but that’s my life right now. And really, I don’t mind it at all.
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