Alan Hood

My new schedule starts at work tomorrow, but more importantly tomorrow is the first full day of the NFL season.  It is almost a bad as waiting for a baby to arrive.  You get all excited and then finally the day comes.  Thank god for football, it is what makes living in America great.  I can remember more things about football games that I have watched over the years than just about any other single thing in life.  Kinda sad I know but think about it like this, I have been watching football for 30 years and there is no other single thing that I have also done for that long. 

Pre season football sucks but the wait is finally over and the real tests begin tomorrow.  Opening day is when you really get to find out if your team is for real.  The NFL isn’t like baseball where the regular season goes on forever and the games are almost meaningless, every single game counts and every loss hurts.  But more importantly every Cowboy win brings them one step closer to winning the Super Bowl.  I know there are some Cowboy haters out there but we don’t mind you can talk all the trash you want to talk, because when it comes right down to it you know the Cowboys are the best team ever, just look at the Lombardi trophies to see the results of their greatness.  Then go look at the trophy case for your team and shut up.

I am only half way serious because the Cowboys are my team but what I truly love is football.  I try to watch as many games as I can (TIVO is great) just to be watching football.  And speaking of football I hope that everyone saw what my Sooners did to Miami today.  Ha what a serious butt kicking.  Go Sooners and Go Cowboys.

I know it is disgusting for me to get so excited about concrete, but it just means so many things are done and won’t have to be done again.  I guess the best part is that an entire half of the yard no longer has to be mowed, weeded, raked, or have dog poop picked up off of it ever again.  Yes to me that is glorious.  All I will have to do is sweep in once in a while to keep it looking clean.  It also means that a huge 2 year project is done.  2 years for me or about what would have taken a normal human being about 4 months maybe 5 if they stretched it out.  One thing I have never claimed to be is efficient.

We now have a backyard that is a pleasure to sit back relax in and go swimming.  When we bought this house we were looking for a house with a pool that we could enjoy.  But everything else about this house was perfect, and the yard was definitely big enough for a pool.  I thought it would be fairly easy to remove all of the trees and bushes necessary to put a pool in, and it would have been if I had just hired the work out to people who know how to get the job done quickly and easily.  But not me I had to be cheap and try to do most of the work myself, but I have to say that this experience has taught me a lot.  Leave the heavy lifting up to the experts.  I will never again in my life try to take on a task like that.  It will always be better for my sanity to just get the job done professionally.  Live and learn.

I went back to work yesterday after a 10 day vacation, and I have to say that working for a living really sucks.  I know everyone has to do it but every once in a while don’t you just wonder how in the hell you got to this point in your life.  For me it’s almost an everyday thought.  What kinds of really stupid decisions have I made that made me end up working in a shit hole like this?  I have always been a little antisocial at work, the kind of person who just wants to be left alone to do their job.  There are a couple of things that that gets me. One is that it doesn’t get me promoted because I don’t socialize with the right people, which is okay because I would never want to be a supervisor in the place I work now.  And it leaves me in a position where there is someone crawling up my ass every second that I am there. 

Where I work you have to sign out to go to the bathroom, and if you do sign out to pee there is someone there to tell you that you need to sign back in and take some calls.  I just say no what I need to do is go pee and walk away.  When you have a twelve year old who has been promoted to supervisor it really goes to their head and all of a sudden they think that they control the world.  I could truly care less about anything they say to me because the threat of being fired or written up just doesn’t have any affect on my life at all.  The problem is that there are other people who work there that this is the best job they have ever had and the supervisors are up their asses every second because they know that they need this shitty job.  Now I am not trying to suggest that I do an inadequate job for this company, because I don’t.  I understand that they are paying me to do a job and I do that just to the best of my ability every hour I am there.  I just question the stupid decisions I have made in my life that led me down the road to work in such a crappy environment.

I am sure that everyone questions the choices they have made once in a while.