Random Searches

Every night my webserver runs a parser on my logs, and lets me see all sorts of interesting things.  For example the phrases that people find my blog from:

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Pretty damn varried as you can see.  I think it’s always interesting to see how people find this place, as well as the fucked up things that sometimes lead back here.

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Just a Drone

It seems like I keep goinglonger and longer without posting.  Not much point to your own domain unless you use it right?  Oh well, I’d like to say I’d post more often, but I know I wouldn’t live up to that anyhow.

So, a quick update on my life.  The last three weeks I’ve been pushing 75 to 80 hours a week at work, trying to get this damn project done.  Asphalt is supposed to be finished by October 1st, and it’s now the 10th, and the new asphalt won’t even be down until Tuesday at the earliest.  I had been working saturdays, but thank god, I have this one off.  I’ll probably just sleep and relax most of the weekend, but damn, it will be nice to lounge for 2 days, not one.

Still frustrated about not having a car, but my dad should be out here in a few weeks, and together we should be able to knock that out.  There’s plenty of cars for sale in the classifieds, so maybe I can pull a miracle out of my ass and get something of value for the meager money I’m going to pay.  I don’t need a nice car, I just need something that runs and will last a few more years.  I need something I can pay cash for, and don’t have to carry full coverage on.  I need something basically to get me to work and back.

It seems like anymore all I do is work, sleep, and then more work.  It’s nice sometimes to keep my mind from wandering about things, but all this work is fairly boring.  I might be working long hours, but it’s not really hard work at all.  It will all be worth it though, when I get My check in a week or so. When I get that, I can go car shopping ;)

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The Long, Slow Crawl Back to Stability

I have nothing going for me right now, but I’m happy.   I’m laying alone in bed listening to Sublime, still don’t have a car, but for the first time in awhile I’m actually upbeat and happy.  That seem’s like a rarity these days, and it’s times like these I hold precious, because I’m not usually that upbeat anymore.
I went to Walmart yesterday to get some food and such, and ended up buying damn near $75 of frozen food.  It really didn’t seem like all that much when I was going shopping, but I really had to organize the freezer really well to get it all in there.  I should be good roughly 3 or possibly 4 weeks on that food, since I’m not really eating some nights because I simply come home and pass out.
It’s amazing how much money I save eating at home nightly, and that’s not something I’d do if I had a car.  I always ate out, but hell, I’m saving at least $210 a month by eating home every night.  Add in another $250 for what I’m saving on a car and insurance and I’ll be able to buy something decent in a few more weeks I think.
I never really depended on people before like I have now.  Its both refreshing and terrifying in the same thought.  I’ve gotten a renewed sense of humanity because people have gone out of their way to help me in a time of need, but I’ve also felt terrible for having to depend on others.  I’ve tried to be independent as possible, and it’s an adjustment having to get a ride to work, or go do laundry.  I’m sure I’ll be in a position to return the favor soon, and maybe I’ll do the right thing next time I find someone in one of my situations.  I stopped doing that long ago because I lost faith, and if there’s one bonus to this huge fuckup right now, it’s that I can have faith in my fellow man again.
Work is slow right now, and it sucks.  I want so badly to get out of the office, and I’m finding every excuse to get out side and do something.  I drove up to Silver Lake on Friday to check out some stationing I set up, and went south to Carbondale last week to check out the company that is doing my upcoming project.  I’m waiting on paperwork to come back on the Valley Falls job I’ve been finalizing for months now, and I’m getting really sick of that.  I’ve been working on that for three months, and there’s still like $500,000 left to be paid on that.   The slow, slow process  of the state, and even private contractors is really biting my ass.  I shouldn’t have to wait for a piece of paper to go up three levels of people for a month, just to get it back to change some small minute wording.   And then after I resubmit the damn thing, it takes another three weeks or so to get back up to whoever sent it back down in the first place.  It’s a huge pain to wait for things.
Other than that, I think I’m doing alright.  I’m taking it day-by-day and hour-by-hour.  So far, that seems to be working.  I know what I have to do, and what I need to do to get there, and I think if I just hold the course, I’ll end up there.   The only variable is just how much time it will take to get to that point, and right now, I have all the time in the world.

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D-Day Minus Seven

Danyale has been gone for two weeks now.  The first week we tried to make up, or at least be cordial.  It worked to begin with, but right before she would leave, we’d fight.  One night I went out, got her her medicine, bought her World of Warcraft so we’d have something to do.  I even let her borrow my car.  This is after we broke up, so I was exceedingly generous.

When she came back from her friends, she was cuddling with me, and I was trying to get her copy of WoW installed so she could play it.  I remember she said she wanted to cuddle, but I kept insisting on just a second because I wanted to get this thing installed for her.  A few minutes of “Just a second later” and she got angry, and wanted to go to her sister.  She started yelling, and like usual I yelled back.

There was crying from both of us, but it ended with us telling each other “I love you” when she left.  By the time she went inside, things seemed fine.  She was supposed to go to her parents that weekend, and I even thought and suggested about taking her up there.  Thing’s seemed on the up.

Fast forward a week, and thing’s are back to as shitty as they have ever been, and I’m sitting her confused as usual.   She’s seeing some guy, and I’ve got a girl I’ve seen a few times.  We’ve talked a few since then,most notably with me telling her I still love her, and her telling me she still loves me and misses me.  That’s what’s the most agaonzing thing is, the girl can’t tell me to get away.  She can say she still loves me, and even say ‘forever and ever’, but stick with some kid who treats her like shit.

She’s still on my cell phone plan, and I can’t objectively say if she still loves me or is using me.  Last night, we were supposed to hang out, just watch a movie, and try to be civil with each other.   A few hours after we made plans, when I called her and told her I was coming over.  She told me then she couldn’t because she was afraid of what she’d do.  I asked her if she missed me again, and she said yes.

At this point, I really don’t know what to do.  I tried to give her space Friday, but kept calling her Friday night, and we had a really sarcastic talk.  That didn’t help things at all, but I did tell her if My minutes get close to going over (which they are) she’s off my cell phone plan.   I told her I didn’t want to speak to her until next Sunday, an entire week.

Who knows what will happen in  an entire week.  I do miss Danyale, but I’m getting tired of the status quo.  I spent the day today playing WoW and watching movies.  Tomorrow, I have to work all day, so I won’t have time to think about her then.  Monday, I’ll be tired from working Sunday, so most likely, I’ll just pass out when I get home.  And then finally Tuesday, I have company coming over, so my entire night should be taken up then.

By this time, Danyale should have gone over her minutes, which would let Me get rid of it.  Even if she isn’t using me, she still shouldn’t be on my plan since we’re not dating.  I shouldn’t have to do favors for her like pick up medicine because the guy she’s with doesn’t work or have a car.  I shouldn’t have to even worry about her asking for anything.  Hopefully, I won’t with this week ‘off’, which might turn into a even longer time ‘off’ when I have no way to get a hold of her.

She’ll hate me for it when I do it.   She’ll cry, she’ll bitch, she’ll moan.  Hell, maybe it won’t even come to that.  But odds are if it doesn’t, come Sunday we’ll fight once again, because she won’t know what she wants.  And then, that will be the final straw.  No matter what, if she doesn’t change her mind by Sunday, I’m cutting the girl lose.  I’m doing what everyone around me has told me to do.  I’m going to do what I should have done long ago—turn of my feelings and take action.

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I hate Kansas.

I need to get out of Topeka again.  I can’t take this anymore.

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Moar Money Plz

I never thought sitting would be so boring.  I’ve spent two days this week surfing youtube, reading the news over and over, and just walking around.  But there’s no actual work for me to do.  It’s strange.  I’m still finalizing this project, but we’ve come up to a bottleneck on waiting on other people for the stuff we need to do to finish.

We were supposed to have some overlay coming up in  a few weeks, but it’s been pushed back and we might not realistically get it the damn thing until September.  That’s two months away, and that’s a damn lot of downtime until my ‘first’ project.

I went out today to help check some bad concrete pavement on I-70, and what was supposed to take twelve hours took only two, probably because the extra fifteen ET’s that were out there.  It’s deathly slow all around.  When people want to get out of the office just to beat concrete with a hammer, you know you’ve got problems.

And problems we do have.  Wog mentioned to me today about how the fuel budget is something like $500,000 over, and we’re only through half the year.  We’re supposed to actually turn off trucks instead of idling them.  Costs must be cut across the board, and sacrifices need to be made.  It probably would do  some good to trim the fat off the bureaucracy, but so far, it’s a stop gap, and nothing else.

One has to wonder the wisdom of hiring new people if you had this shadow of a budget looming over you.  I wanted this job, and I’m damn happy I got it, but still, there doesn’t seem like too much going on to merit the extra help right now.  It’s just so damn frustrating not having anything to do, and I’m sick of going to ‘check on erosion control’ just to get out of the office and walk.

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The End of An Era of the Era of The End

I suppose my apathy was a little overstated.  It seems I still do care about Danyale.  After I wrote the previous post, we made up.  Thing’s were good that night, but went down hill the next.  It was mostly my fault, and I’ll put it out there and say I caused this split.

Yesterday started out with us going to see Stephanie, who was in the hospital for some unexplained reason.  Initially, we decided we were going to go swimming, so we wore swimming clothes underneath our street clothes.  Well after spending about an hour at the hospital, I decided I didn’t want to go swim with her nieces, and we headed home.   She ended up taking the car to her sister Robin’s, and swam for a while and ended falling asleep there.

Hours pass by, and I’m starting to get hungry.   I call her at 6 pm, and she’s still sleeping.  I call her again at 8, and she’s with Michael, some 17 year old punk kid she’s been hanging around.  She’s giving him a ride home.  I don’t really like the kid first off, and secondly, I don’t like her giving rides to her friends and them not chipping in for gas.  Hell, with this kid, I don’t even want her giving him a ride. Anyhow, I get a little excited, being pissed and all, and slip out a ‘bitch’.  I caught myself right after I said it, but she did too.  Instantly, she said it was over.  So it’s over.

We hang up and I call Verizon, and get her phone disconnected three minutes after the words were said.  She comes home crying, and all I could do in the mean time was throw some of her clothes in a basket for her.  I didn’t feel anything, I didn’t cry, I didn’t want to speak to her.  I deleted her off my myspace, my cell phone, and hell, even my yahoo.

Despite her crying, I didn’t feel anything til I went to bed.   As a lay there, this massive overwhelming sense of dread and sorrow came over me, and I sat there for thirty minutes just contemplating things.  I don’t know why even when we break up, we still say we love each other.  That doesn’t make sense to me.  I don’t know why I’d take her back tomorrow if she asked.  I’ve bitched so much about our relationship, but I’d be willing to take it back if only she would ask.

I wish I knew why i was the way I am.   I wishi I knew why even though I was unhappy sometimes, her god damn smile could liven up my day.  I wish i knew how I let someone get that close to me—shared with her things I’ve never told another living soul, and let her walk away.  I have my own issues, I know this.  I have my own demons that haunt me just as she has hers.  Would it have worked out?  Will it work out?  Is this just another temporary breakup like before, or is this the real thing?

I have to consider this the final act, at least for the time being.

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Another Relationship Nosedive

Danyale and I are standing on the cusp of another break up.  I don’t feel anything anymore, and I don’t think that bodes well for us.  Apathy is death, after all.  It seems just like last time, it really got worse in the last week or two, but it’s been going downhill for about a month now.  I don’t think we’ll recover from it either.

She’s been moody and depressed for awhile now, and I’ve put up with it as long as I could, even with me being depressed and moody too.  A few weeks ago when she had a seizure and puked up all over the bed, I found myself not being worried, but being pissed that my bed was destroyed.  That’s not right.  I shouldn’t feel that way about someone I care about.  I felt bad at it at the time, but in hindsight, it was a glimpse of what would happen.

I still love Danyale, and she says she still loves me, but whats the point of love if you can’t get along?  If all we do is fight now, whats the point of being together?  She says I don’t spend time with her, and I don’t.  I come home, give her a kiss, and hop on the computer, the one place I know will be reasonably drama free.

She’ll read her books, and I’ll waste my time in Azeroth. We’ll go eat, and talk, but usually end up fighting, which pisses one of us off, and makes the other not want to be around them.  There seems almost no way to be civil anymore, and although I hate to lose her, I don’t think there’s any other option.

The weight of being the only one working is overcoming the joy she gives.  The constant fighting is wearing me down, and making me depressed too.  Her counseling was working wonders for weeks, but she seems to have slipped even worse.  I’d love to be able to help her, but it seems I did better on that aspect when I was 600 miles away and just a voice on the phone.

For two years I’ve been out here, and for two years all I have to show for myself is her.  I’m scared of losing her on one hand, but terrified of the stress if we stay together.   Like usual, I’m not too entirely sure of what to do with her and not too damn sure of what will happen if we stay together.  I just wish I had some sort of crystal ball to gaze into the future with, something that would let me see what would happen, so I could feel better about things.  Because right now, the damn uncertainty is killing me worse than the failure of my relationship.

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Patching on I-70

My job at the state is going pretty well.  We’re still very slow at the office, but I’m enjoying learning how to do paperwork and learning more about my coworkers.  It’s rained the last few days so we haven’t had much construction going on, so we’ve been catching up on paperwork and reading spec books.

Yesterday I actually got to go out again.  There’s a $25 million dollar job that is still continuing from 2001, and a Lead Inspector and I went out to oversee the contractor putting rock in a drainage ditch to slow down the current, and protect against erosion.  Before I started this job, I never really knew how much of a problem erosion was, but after seeing how damaging and destructive flowing water can be, I understand all the paranoia about erosion and soil protection.

This particular job was in a protected wetland, so KDOT had to recreate a similar environment for ducks a few miles down the river.  After we checked out the ditch, we headed down there so he could show me more about the project.   Essentially, KDOT built a pond in the middle of nowhere, and equiped it with drainage controls so they could drain the damn thing if it got too full.   The entire area was reclaimed by wildlife, and I saw deer tracks EVERYWHERE we went in there.  It was pretty neat, and not really something I think about when road construction is on my mind.

Tomorrow I’m going in on my day off, from sun-up to sun-down to do a patching project on I-70.   I’m heading out with a different Engineering Technician tomorrow, and I should pick up a lot from this job.  I’ve done some gradation, and watched some grinding, but tomorrow will be my first true interaction with Portland Cement.  I think it will be damn fun, if not damn tiring.  Hell, I’ll probably even learn a lot too.

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Salvation Comes In A Cardboard Box

So, it finally came.  Alas, I have a computer again! My new laptop came today and I can’t say I’ve been happier without it.  This laptop is damn huge, and damn impressive!  The only bad thing about getting a new computer is having to reinstall all the damn software the old one has, and downloading and patching everything.

I haven’t logged onto wow in over a week, and I’m starting to have withdrawals.  Yes, it might only be a game, but it’s my damn drug of choice, and when I don’t get my drug, I get pissed.  The past week I’ve probably slept more than I’ve been awake, and I think now it’s time to adopt a more natural schedule.

I suppose the demise of both of my computers at the same time was a blessing simply because it helped me get acclimated to waking up at 6am for work.  If I was staying up late playing on the computer, I probably would have been more tired than I was, and that’s not a good idea when dealing with construction machinery.

Speaking of, the job is going damn well, and I’m really excited to wake up everyday and see what happens.  I was on project one day, but today I spent most of it in meetings and learning about Commercial trucks so I can get my CDL pretty soon.  Depending on weather tomorrow, I might be back out on project or stuck with the truck again.  Either would be acceptable to me, and I can’t wait to get started on advancement for work.  Getting my CDL is the first requirement, then I can start on more interesting training.

In short, everything is well.  I’m happy, money’s still tight, but I think I’ll make it.  Danyale is working part time and we’re still waiting to hear back from Disability on her, but we’ve both got a good feeling this time.  I think she’ll be approved, and that’s one more worry that I don’t have to deal with.

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