Jasonisms

A couple of things while they're on my mind ...  [1] Spent the past few hours helping a co-worker move. Shall I tell you about the giant cluster-F it was? First, we we're supposed to start at 10AM. At 8:30ish I get a text message to change it to noon. At 11:50 I'm walking up to her place and I get a other text message asking to move it to 2PM. But, I am there ... She told me everything would be packed and all I had to do was help load and unload. Apparently some things were packed, but a vast majority of it was not. They had friends over last night to help but they decided to drink and get high instead. Her house smelled like an ash tray and I was tempted to leave but literally stood out on the balcony so I wouldn't have to smell it while they were "getting ready". We take some stuff down to the UHaul to deliver to a friend's house and go to leave but the boyfriend decides to run through McD's and take her some breakfast so she has food in her s...

I left this morning with the intent of stopping at a wifi hotspot and typing out a blog post, but for the life of me I can't recall what I wanted to write about today. So, you get a life update ... Let's see, what's been going on with me? Well, an organization I know that helps homeless veterans had another veteran with an apartment they thought I might enjoy living in so they made contact with him and he gave me a call. We spoke for a while one night and he kept telling me I sounded "cool." (For the record, I am cool.) We chatted for a while and he seemed amazed that I didn't need to go out drinking every night, that I didn't do drugs and that I was pretty much laid back. We texted back and forth and I guess my first reservations started when he would just send me questions randomly throughout the day like, "Hey, Bro. How the day going?" He knew I had a job, what I did and that I typically left the office and went to the gym. Why was he ...

It was Tuesday ... I did something I've never done in my entire life. I went to HR to complain about another employee. Normally, I would have addressed the issue with said employee, but he wasn't my employee. In fact, after working with him for about 90 days, he'd barely said anything to me other than, "Shut the fuck up" and to tell me to not use his garbage can and to stop fidgeting, it annoyed him . For the record, on that particular day I was indeed fidgeting due to an overabundance of caffeine. But this was not that day, this was a different day. This was Tuesday ... However, before I continue, I need to give a little background on this person. He's one of those MAGA-hat wearing camo-covered members of #TrumpNation. He always talks about killing people, threatens to shoot co-workers when he doesn't like what they have to say and refers to just about everyone as a "pussy". In short, he's an asshat. MAGA-Moron The one time I...

A week ago I received a message from the woman I was renting a basement from. But, I get ahead of myself ... About 6 months ago my roommate of 10 years (and friend longer than that) allowed her boyfriend to kick me out of the house. Now, it may be something she wanted but was afraid to bring up or it may have been him constantly haranguing her to force me out. All I know is, when she and he first started talking about moving in together she told me I was safe, that I could live there as long as I wanted and from Day 1 when we all moved in together he was on my case. First it was about parking - he wanted me to move my truck over one space in the 6 car parking area of the driveway. Then it was little things (per her): He didn't like me watching TV upstairs in the living room. He didn't like it when I woke early and made something to eat. He didn't like it when I cooked dinner in the evenings. He didn't like it when I used the kitchen table to eat. He didn't...

A few weeks ago I finally broke down and took my friend's mom up on her offer to stay with her (in her basement) until I "get back on my feet." The weather was turning ever colder and was supposed to top out in the 30s (Fahrenheit) for about a week, which meant teens overnight. I probably could have lasted a day or two, but not for the foreseeable future. As it turns out, that cold front barely lasted a week. I'd held off due to her stipulations about moving in with her. No alcohol, to include coming home from the bar; no porn and no women. Yes, really. In fact, out conversation went something like this: Her: "Do you drink?" Me: "I have the occasional drink, but am I a drinker ? No." Her: "Well, there's no alcohol at my house. I won't have it [in there]. And there's no going out drinking and coming home drunk, either." Me: "Okay ..." It wasn't a big deal because I really don't drink that often, especia...

The weather outside is frightful ... In fact, the weather hasn't been too bad these past couple of days. Don't take that the wrong way, the temperatures have been a bit cooler, but the skies have been mostly clear and there hasn't been an ounce of precipitation. Until tomorrow - - Monday (tomorrow) is supposed to continue our cool streak but simultaneously adding snow and other winter-like conditions to life in the Denver metro area. In fact, the snow front was supposed to move in today but for some reason was delayed about 24 hours. From what I understand the ski resorts have been loving the weather snowfall. Much more so than I will be, which is why I took my friend's mom up on her offer to stay in her basement for a while so I can get on my feet. Yes, I've slept the past couple of nights in a "bed." Why the quotes? Because the "bed" is nothing more than a mattress on the ground. The bathroom I have access to is small enough to fit comfor...

For those of you who have been paying attention: it's winter(ish) in Colorado and for the past year by SUV's heat hasn't worked. Sure, the air gets hot, but the fan blower stopped working sometime last year leaving me without heat and defrost. No bueno! I always thought I'd get it taken care of when I had some disposable income, but that never seems to happen and after last weekend when the temperature was less than 25f for the day with freezing rain, I decided it was time to go ahead and get this problem fixed. But, let me do this chonologically: Many moons ago my fan blower decided to stop working except for the "High" setting. That is, one step below High and all the way to Low didn't spin the fan at all. It wasn't a big deal, I just drove around for years with the fan on high. Sure, every once in a bit someone would turn the fan off and sometimes it would turn back on right away, but sometimes it's wouldn't. It eventually would come b...