People make life AWESOME

Since Christmas just happened I'd like to take a change from the original format and list some positive things. I received some phenomenal gifts this year such as some awesome t-shirts, underwear, some video games, cash, a movie, chai tea, a new D ring for my keys, jenga max, a mechanical clay target launcher, and a new computer chair that I'm writing from now.

Christmas is great, and I hope everybody has a merry time and enjoys the season.

Merry Christmas!

Get busy working on looking busy.

Ugh, the ever bittersweet sting of a day at work where there's nothing to be done. You show up at 7 and you leave at 4 yet there is no work within this entire 9 hour stretch. Sure, you can pretend to look busy, but that takes more effort than actually doing work that has to be done. You could also try and find a place to just hang out and do nothing, but you'd better be prepared to go to it just in case somebody needs you or is just wondering where you've vanished to. Really, the only thing you can do on days like these is to find some tasks that are done often and do those even if they don't need to be done, and try to pass the rest of the time by working on something perhaps for yourself. If you can milk what you're doing and make things take longer than required you'll be able to pass the time a little faster, but it'll still creep by in the end, and I guarantee that you're going to be real tired of the job you're making a day out of. If you find yourself stuck in one of these situations I find that there are only two solutions no matter how you choose to enact them: don't show, or bring your coat, it's gonna be a long winter.