Well, it has been a bit since I sat down and actually blogged,
but here I am. I’m not sure what Mother Nature is trying to prove here, but she
does not have a very good sense of humour. One day it is sweltering heat with
the humidity up to 42 Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) and a few days later we are
switching from the cool A/C to mumbling as we adjust the heat from the furnace.
Maybe I’m just getting old and can’t take the cold mornings like I used to be
able to, but damn, waking up to a house that is 12 Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit)
is not fun. Even the dog had snuggled under the blankets with me to get warm.
Actually I do love the fall season, in fact it’s my favourite season, but hells
bells Mother Nature, let my body slowly adjust to the temperature changes before
throwing hints of frost at me, besides fall doesn’t officially start until the
21st.
The end of the summer fish fry went very well and damn it
did taste good. This year instead of holding it at the house, we decided to go
camping at the camp ground that was more like a summer home in the earlier
years and invited the people out to the camp ground for the fish fry. What can I
say? I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to relive my earlier years of Labour
Day camping and fish fry. There was certainly enough fish, salad and fresh corn
on the cob to go around with plenty enough for a second helping if you wanted.
I did take a few walks down the trails with Bentley in the lead and wow, did my
mind go back in time. It was refreshing to remember, but also kind of sad.
Where the hell did the time go??
Over the course of the last few years I have worked in a few
places, but nothing really seemed to fit me. I tried on a couple of positions
as I went to work at a taxation place to becoming a tele- recruiter for the
Heart and Stroke Foundation and a few odd jobs in between. I noticed I was slowly
entering the position of a “Couch Potato”. This job requires no thinking skills
and you definitely do not need experience as I was finding out. It’s a very “cushy”
job and the pay really sucks, but the benefits were hard to decline. Where else
can you sit all day curled up on the couch with your beverage of choice and
wait with baited breath to watch Steve Wilkos throw chairs across the stage
trying to intimidate the “guests” he INVITES onto his show. If you are not
familiar with this Steve Wilkos, he was once employed by Jerry Springer as his
body guard on the Jerry Springer show. He was the big burly baldheaded body
guard (try and say THAT 3 times fast) that broke up the majority of fights. He
also ran to Jerry’s aid a few times when Springer crossed the line and almost
ended up squashed on the floor when certain interviewee’s lost their temper. I
justified the “Couch Potato” position as trying to figure out who was more
screwed up on the day time talk shows. Was it the interviewer or the
interviewee? I have come to the realization that they all rate the same on the
intelligent scale. That’s when I thought to myself O.M.G is this what my life
has turned into? Waiting to see Steve Wilkos intimidate people by getting in
their face and throwing chairs across the room?? I THINK NOT! So it was back to
the real world and earning a living.
