Fo Shizzle my AC Frizzle Bizzle (For Sure my Freon Brother)
The "Estes" finally has a working Air conditioner in his car. I took my care to a local mechanic that I was referred to and he was the most country non Dentist visiting good ole' boy I've ever seen but he got me hooked up and now I can finally drive to work and not sweat my ass off to the oldies!
This is so rock fucking solid I can't stand it.
My boy at work did get offered (and accepted) a position as a Travel Technician. This is definitely a move "up" the corporate ladder for him and I'm glad he has accepted the position. Now he's got to get his sorry ass ready to travel and I hope to hell he likes airports and hotels since he's going to be staying in them almost exclusively for looong time.
I am officially broke and today is officially payday. I've been in a bust cycle for going on like nine months now. With only one real income to speak of and two kids (one with special needs) I just can't seem to get ahead no matter what I do. There are so many things that more money would see to just fix but I just can't seem to get enough "grip" together.
I'm trying to work some more or my personal side business from www.jeffestes.com but I just can't seem to shake up enough business to make a dent. I'm still using my side business money to buy shit like groceries. That HP box I been bitching about is at 68% right now on his post fdisk pre-format. It almost seems sacrilegious to even be re-installing Windows 98. I'm thinking about not taking any more Windows 98 work on since the drivers for most Big Box computers have been removed from their manufactures websites. I know for a fact that it’s hopeless to get any drivers from the HP website on this damn machine.
If I do any more Windows 98 work it will only be on IBM clone hand built machines with easily identifiable parts. These OEM boxes have a lot of proprietary driver implementations and they are deliberately obfuscating the part numbers.
I'm tired as hell and did I mention broke? So I guess I'm back to skipping lunches and or free-loading off of anybody that's willing to buy my poor ass lunch for my witty comedy skills (I'll take anybody up on a free lunch that works with me and reads this blog).
I had a great lunch today with one of my other buddies from work and something we talked about at lunch kind of touches a nerve with me.
College.
I never went.
I was a freaking high school superstar. I mean I did it all. Name a club and I wasn't just on it I ran that son of a bitch or I was at least some kind of officer. I wasn't your token popular kid. I was actually an active member of that club and worked on every freaking fund-raiser, charity event, volunteer work, whatever. I did it all. I excelled academically with the exception of Fuck the world and Jesus freshman year where I did everything I could to make straight D's. I ended up working my GPA back up to a 3.7 and practically acing my ACT and SAT's. I got free rides to every school I applied too + fuck you bonus money. I got accepted at major colleges like Northwestern, Cambridge, etc. My stupid ass did your typically burnt out high school thing and said I'd take a year or two off. More than 10 years later I'm still just a high school graduate.
Don't get me wrong I've made a lot great decisions since then but I SERIOUSLY regret not going to college. I just feel kind of ostracized for not going. Everybody assumes that I went to school but the only paper I earned academically after HS was my Chuck E Cheese Diploma.
I scored 4's and 5's on all my AP exams and earned like the equivalent of 18 hours of college but since I never went to school I never received the credit. Now I've found out that your ACT and SAT scores expired after five or so years so If I was to go to school I'd have to retake those exams and I can barely right down the quadratic formula, and there's no way in hell I could do physics and stuff without having to hit the books hard.
Most people I talk to say things like Jeff, you don't need to go to school you already make more than a lot of colleges kids earn, or you picked up all your stuff on the street and your street cred is super fucking high, but I still feel like I cheated myself out of college degree. Honestly I feel like shit about not going. I have no idea how I'd even work in the time to go to school between work, kids, love, and Counter Strike :).
Anyway I'm going to try to squeeze out this crap-tastic 98 re-install and then get some desperately needed sleep.
Posted by Jeff Estes doing something that doesn't involve much brain power.
This is so rock fucking solid I can't stand it.
My boy at work did get offered (and accepted) a position as a Travel Technician. This is definitely a move "up" the corporate ladder for him and I'm glad he has accepted the position. Now he's got to get his sorry ass ready to travel and I hope to hell he likes airports and hotels since he's going to be staying in them almost exclusively for looong time.
I am officially broke and today is officially payday. I've been in a bust cycle for going on like nine months now. With only one real income to speak of and two kids (one with special needs) I just can't seem to get ahead no matter what I do. There are so many things that more money would see to just fix but I just can't seem to get enough "grip" together.
I'm trying to work some more or my personal side business from www.jeffestes.com but I just can't seem to shake up enough business to make a dent. I'm still using my side business money to buy shit like groceries. That HP box I been bitching about is at 68% right now on his post fdisk pre-format. It almost seems sacrilegious to even be re-installing Windows 98. I'm thinking about not taking any more Windows 98 work on since the drivers for most Big Box computers have been removed from their manufactures websites. I know for a fact that it’s hopeless to get any drivers from the HP website on this damn machine.
If I do any more Windows 98 work it will only be on IBM clone hand built machines with easily identifiable parts. These OEM boxes have a lot of proprietary driver implementations and they are deliberately obfuscating the part numbers.
I'm tired as hell and did I mention broke? So I guess I'm back to skipping lunches and or free-loading off of anybody that's willing to buy my poor ass lunch for my witty comedy skills (I'll take anybody up on a free lunch that works with me and reads this blog).
I had a great lunch today with one of my other buddies from work and something we talked about at lunch kind of touches a nerve with me.
College.
I never went.
I was a freaking high school superstar. I mean I did it all. Name a club and I wasn't just on it I ran that son of a bitch or I was at least some kind of officer. I wasn't your token popular kid. I was actually an active member of that club and worked on every freaking fund-raiser, charity event, volunteer work, whatever. I did it all. I excelled academically with the exception of Fuck the world and Jesus freshman year where I did everything I could to make straight D's. I ended up working my GPA back up to a 3.7 and practically acing my ACT and SAT's. I got free rides to every school I applied too + fuck you bonus money. I got accepted at major colleges like Northwestern, Cambridge, etc. My stupid ass did your typically burnt out high school thing and said I'd take a year or two off. More than 10 years later I'm still just a high school graduate.
Don't get me wrong I've made a lot great decisions since then but I SERIOUSLY regret not going to college. I just feel kind of ostracized for not going. Everybody assumes that I went to school but the only paper I earned academically after HS was my Chuck E Cheese Diploma.
I scored 4's and 5's on all my AP exams and earned like the equivalent of 18 hours of college but since I never went to school I never received the credit. Now I've found out that your ACT and SAT scores expired after five or so years so If I was to go to school I'd have to retake those exams and I can barely right down the quadratic formula, and there's no way in hell I could do physics and stuff without having to hit the books hard.
Most people I talk to say things like Jeff, you don't need to go to school you already make more than a lot of colleges kids earn, or you picked up all your stuff on the street and your street cred is super fucking high, but I still feel like I cheated myself out of college degree. Honestly I feel like shit about not going. I have no idea how I'd even work in the time to go to school between work, kids, love, and Counter Strike :).
Anyway I'm going to try to squeeze out this crap-tastic 98 re-install and then get some desperately needed sleep.
Posted by Jeff Estes doing something that doesn't involve much brain power.
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