I'm on the phone

Dude, maybe when I'm holding my cellphone to my ear and speaking into it, I'm on the fucking phone so you shouldn't just walk into my space and just start talking.

Everything & Anything

I left for the field because I was a little behind in my field work. I get behind in my field work because it really isn't my job anymore and also I cannot seem to get any chances to get away from my desk. But I made my escape today because someone ratted me out to the boss. The boss will most likely cut me a break but I needed to get those things done.

I received a phone call from a coworker that someone had dropped by to get some paperwork. I told the guy that no paperwork exists because I haven't received any paperwork on it; an hour an a half later I received another phone call from the same coworker saying that the same lady was by again looking for the paperwork.

Dude! I haven't been back to the office yet. How could there be any paperwork?

And stop calling me. Take a damn message. People need to stop thinking that they can just walk in from the street and get everything and anything they want.

It is just a game

So crazy Barbara asks me to do a sign that says "Thanks for the memories" for the Boston Red Sox because she feels bad for them and their sucky season.

I told her that, "It's just a game".

She later started making her route about the office chatting people up and explaining her sadness  instead of answering the phones like she is supposed to do.

She wasn't stirring up any sympathy for the hometown team.

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I seem to have no patience today. Everybody's voice is annoying.

LOL

October 10, 2011 is that date that I am nearly caught up to which is about where I like to be so I feel better about my situation.

For clarity and convenience I rearranged my desk but now my typing orientation is slightly off so I need to adjust but I guess that is just a part of life sometimes.

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The emial had the name of a fundraising event scheduled for October 1st. The email was from the big boss so I got a little frustrated because I was pretty sick and tired of getting things at the last minute, I was not looking forward to rushing all the paperwork through but then I actualy read the email.

He is participating in a fundraiser and he was asking for donations. Asking for donations from your subordinates is not too cool but they guy isn't trying to throw his weight around he is just trying to raise money for a cause; I would ask him if I needed sponsors so I don't hold it against him for asking but I know some people will.

I gave the minimum donation and he thanked me by emial the next morning and I told him that I had first thought that I was going to have to do a bunch of short notice paperwork but that once I read the request and all I had to do was to give a couple bucks that I was relieved.

He said that he LOL.

Ain't that the balls

Things have not been going well.

Things have not been going well in that a lot of folks do not have their act together or simply they do not give a care.

From the outside things probably look pretty good. A lot of things are getting done and most of it on time. I had the big boss mention all the balls that I have it the air.

I worry about my rhythm. If I miss one I may lose them all.

But that's life, isn't it?

Tote Bags and Such

I had just missed the shot that I wanted. 

It looked like the father had been waiting for his wife and daughters to be done browsing for a long time; he was standing like you see and his little girl was leaning against the cart; there was a separated togetherness that I had wanted to capture but then she moved and ruined it. 

I should have asked her to go back and lean on the cart.

Keep Your Friends Close

I might live in Title Town but this post has no title

Zakim Bridge

Her mind was everywhere

Love Tattoo

Stanley Cup Champions

It's not the angle I would have chosen

There was a grandmother, father, mother, two daughters, and a son; these three got to pose.

Lost pictures and Saturday

Step Your Game Up

They are talking about the business of tying balloons

How about a post?

This lady's T-shirt indicates that she is the world's greatest dad; at first I had my doubts but those doubts were based purely her being a woman. She might be the world's greatest dad. Who am I to judge?

This guy was sitting there with his eyes closed even before he was half way through his first glass of beer from that pitcher. He didn't seem drunk, he just seemed odd. I would never order a whole pitcher of beer for myself, mostly because the beer gets warm and little because it looks like you have a drinking problem.

Homemade: mashed potatoes, chicken, gravy.

I do revel in that my youngest niece, who's four years old, has stated that I make better mashed potatoes then her mother does while her mother is standing right next to her.

One of the chickens cooked on the Weber charcoal grill. It was cooked: beer-can style on something I purchased from Williams-Sonoma on sale a couple years ago. No actual beer cans were used and the beer used came from a bottle because in my house I do not drink beer from cans.

I also have some video of two guys on the subway taking about the politics of street performers, particularly between one balloon "artist" (someone who ties balloons into unwanted shapes) and another balloon "artist" but you will have to wait for that because it's being uploaded to my youtube account. 

I guess flowers are a big seller in the balloon tying game and one guy was upset with another guy for making flowers too close to where he was making balloon flowers, and the second guy was like: "Then step up your game," and you know what? I don't disagree.

If a certain amount of money can be made by simply twisting a balloon into the rather simple shape of a flower, then I might stand right next to you and twist balloons into those same simple shapes and if you don't like it, then do something that not just anyone can do, twist harder, or faster, or bigger - Step up your game!

A short

Melissa says I should eat avocados and she wants proof that I eat them. I think filming myself eating half an avocado is kind of funny.

Title

It’s all paperwork to me. The names and places really don’t have a bearing.

It’s all paperwork until I have to race over to the professional baseball field to change the No Parking signs that my memo had set into motion to have put up.

The signs needed to be changed because there was a conflict between someone making a major motion picture and a motorcade for a member of royalty.

I complained about it in an email to someone that holds my heart.

She replied: “You get drama between princes and movie people!! I get laundry and groceries.”

Still, my life is all just mostly paperwork.

When things go wrong, I extend the same effort to fix the problem whether it’s a crown prince or a single mother trying to run a block party. Titles do not impress me.

I’m not really changing the world.

I’m mostly just changing when you can park.

Lounge

Lounge

On granite bench in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.