Revalos
02-05-2009, 03:51 PM
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Well, the picture above was the last thing I needed before I get on the plane to the wonderful beach without an ocean known as Iraq.
Two years ago, you couldn't have paid me enough to go. Now, you couldn't pay me enough not to get the fuck out of DC.
I'm getting a lot of work done on Tiny House while I'm gone, and hopefully when I get back, I will appreciate it a lot more like my "home," instead of just the place I bought with my ex and I'm still living because the housing market sucks. I need these four months to clear my head of all the bullshit that's happened over the past two years. Divorce, my job turning into a giant suckfest, getting involved with a 19 year old, becoming a fairly religious pagan, and so on. 18 hour working days in the desert can make all your petty problems in the real world go away, or so I hope. Who knows, maybe I'll come back more broken than I already am, but life is an adventure, no?
Hopefully the stock market will turn around and I'll make money on the Wisdom of PC/Bernie Madoff idiocy (not looking too good right now...heh) and I'll be able to properly celebrate my return with y'all. Hell, I'll still be up to do another DC/MD/VA thing (or even a Northeast/Mid Atlantic PC thing in Atlantic City) regardless of how that investment thing turns out after my financial briefing on how I'll be making my normal salary +35% danger pay, +35% post differential, +10% night differential, +50-60 hours of overtime per week.
Anyway, I've said it before, but y'all folks out there in PC land are the best. From the wonderful topless PC ladies, to the meltdowners, to the political trolls, and all the rest. I couldn't have hoped to end up with a more real bunch of folks than those I've met here...in virtual reality. See y'all on the flipside.
Well, the picture above was the last thing I needed before I get on the plane to the wonderful beach without an ocean known as Iraq.
Two years ago, you couldn't have paid me enough to go. Now, you couldn't pay me enough not to get the fuck out of DC.
I'm getting a lot of work done on Tiny House while I'm gone, and hopefully when I get back, I will appreciate it a lot more like my "home," instead of just the place I bought with my ex and I'm still living because the housing market sucks. I need these four months to clear my head of all the bullshit that's happened over the past two years. Divorce, my job turning into a giant suckfest, getting involved with a 19 year old, becoming a fairly religious pagan, and so on. 18 hour working days in the desert can make all your petty problems in the real world go away, or so I hope. Who knows, maybe I'll come back more broken than I already am, but life is an adventure, no?
Hopefully the stock market will turn around and I'll make money on the Wisdom of PC/Bernie Madoff idiocy (not looking too good right now...heh) and I'll be able to properly celebrate my return with y'all. Hell, I'll still be up to do another DC/MD/VA thing (or even a Northeast/Mid Atlantic PC thing in Atlantic City) regardless of how that investment thing turns out after my financial briefing on how I'll be making my normal salary +35% danger pay, +35% post differential, +10% night differential, +50-60 hours of overtime per week.
Anyway, I've said it before, but y'all folks out there in PC land are the best. From the wonderful topless PC ladies, to the meltdowners, to the political trolls, and all the rest. I couldn't have hoped to end up with a more real bunch of folks than those I've met here...in virtual reality. See y'all on the flipside.