Masterbait and Liquor (continued)

I didn't realize the owners of that store would ever find their way here, but they did and it's only fair after reading his very nice comment that I repost the link to the original site and his comment here:

link to the original post and image: http://anotherwasteoftime.blogspot.com/2005/05/masterbait-and-liquor.html

MasterBait and Liquor said...
Forgive me for being a money grubbing capitalist but we do have to pay the bills as we are out in the middle of nowhere. MasterBait and Liquor is located in Elsmore, KS. We have cool t shirts, koozies and shot glasses with the mermaid logo and words: Liquor in the front Masterbait in the back. Email us at masterbaitandliquor@hotmail.com or call us at 620 754 3688 Thanks for your support!!!

I believe the site is www.masterbaitandliquor.biz, but I could be wrong.

I have no affiliation with this store, but anyone trying to make a buck with something I find cool is a friend in my book.

BUY HIS SHIT!


PS. I will check out the store when I'm back working.

Next to the last straw

Growing up I wanted to join the Army. In college I wanted to go OCS. The fact that I was listed in the draft reports for the 2003 NFL draft stopped me from cutting the weight I needed to cut to join the marine OCS program.

Well, after I chose to persue a career in football... twice... I decided I needed to settle down. The reason I settled down went away and I was left in a shitty career with no hope of sucess.

I was fired.

8 months later I'm still here. No job. No money. No chances. No choices. No future.

I've applied to everything from day laborer to hedge funds and been laughed at by them all.

"You're not serious about wanting to work here. You're a college guy. Why the hell would we hire you full time as a construction worker? Apply for foreman jobs and stop wasting my time."

"You're not serious about applying for a foreman job. You have no industry experience. Why not stay in finance?"

"You're not serious about applying to this hedge fund, are you? You don't even have a finance degree."

"You're not serious about applying for a sales assistant job, you're a salesman. You won't be happy here."

"You're not serious about wanting to answer phones for a living. You were a financial consultant for christ's sake."

YOU KNOW WHAT, MOTHER FUCKERS? I AM DEAD SERIOUS. I'VE NEVER BEEN SO SERIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING IN MY LIFE. I NEED A MOTHER FUCKING JOB AND STOP THINKING YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I DO WHAT I WANT!

I'm sick of it. My life up to this point has taken one wrong turn after another. I have no idea how people read my resume or what they think when they meet me, but whatever it is that's stopping them from hiring me, they need to just spit it out so I can evaluate what the fuck I'm doing wrong and fix it.

Actually, no. Nevermind. Don't tell me shit. Keep saying "it's not a good fit" just like every other suit wearing CUNT in the business world who has no balls and resorts to dropping buzz words like they are the fucking gospel.

I have one interview left. I'm going on one more. It's the last one I'm going to. I have an interview with a company in two days. There is nothing they can say or ask that I don't have real world experience to back up with well documented records of sucess. It's an industry I know well, that is looking for people "like me" and is right in my neck of the woods. I will dance like a monkey for them and they will clap and hire me after giving the organ grinder a few cents.

What if they don't?

Well, I filled out my online application for the US Army tonight. I expect to be contacted by an Army recruiter by the end of the week. If they will train me to be a mechanic, then I will enlist. I've always wanted to be a mechanic, and times have never been so bad. It's time to stand up for what I believe in... nah.. it's not... it's time to find a job that really wants guys like me... big powerful athletic stupid follwers who will do whatever they are told and believe in honor, justice, and the american way of life. People who voted for Bush TWICE and are proud of our commander and chief to this day.

I went out with my best friend's father today to see what he does for a living so I could get a better picture of what I'd be doing if I became a salesman with him. I love it. That's exactly why it's not going to work out. It's a great career with a man who's right up their with my father and my coaches when it comes to my respect. I'd get to learn from and hang out with him on a daily basis and hopefully make a shit load of money. The problem is everything is a numbers game. He makes a great living, but it could be one big job a year... 2 jobs... 6 jobs... who knows. It's not a 60 ticket a year gig, so it could take too long for me to get going before I'm punted from my apartment and forced to give up any shot at a social life so I can live back with my parents.

I won't let that happen.

I am going to one more interview. If that doesn't work out... which I can almost guarantee will happen... it's too good a job for someone with my curse. I simply can't wrap my head around how awesome it would be to work for them, and that is the single biggest reason why I won't get it. Trust me... I've been doing this longer and with more companies than any "professional" you know. I know what I will not get... and that's anything that interests me or pays enough to cover the tiny bills I have.

Well, maybe I should explain the next to last straw... a job that I was perfect for and had a wonderful intrerview with, declined my application. This has happened way too many times for me to just brush it off. I have great interviews and then get a call the next day that "I'm not a good fit."

That was my next to last rejection. I have a job with a package delivery company that I will do part time (because they can't hire me full time due to a family member who works there) and send every cent I get to my land lord. I will live on zero dollars a month beyond that rent check. I will let my phone, internet, and electricity get cut off. Everything else doesn't matter. I will hustle like I've never hustled before with my friend's father's company and I will make it work. If it doesn't, then HELOOOOOOO ARMED FORCES!

The Fly

Today, I got to see something new. I found it 100% amazing to be more specific. I opened the door to my balcony and the window in my bedroom to air this dump out because it's actually not too hot outside and the humidity is low. I opened the screen door as well because my cats have destroyed it to the point where they can just walk through it anyway, so I figured what could happen?

Well, Virgil walked out on the balcony and was just laying around when all of a sudden he hops up and runs into the apartment as hard as he can run, jumps up over the couch and then goes flying down the hall. I had no idea what he was doing so I followed him.

When I caught up he was in the bathroom with his ears back, crouched low, and eyes wide. He was just sitting there looking at the tank over the toilet. All of a sudden I see a fly take off and go back down the hall... with Virgil hot on his trail.

Would you believe he got it? It was exciting and awesome to watch. He was hunting that thing, jumping in the air and trying to catch it with both paws, and following it everywhere it went like it had a neon sign over it's head. I could barely even see it, but Virgil was on it like crazy.

A few minutes later Wyatt comes out of my bedroom to see what all the commotion is about. Now the two of them are watching a second fly that's way up on the door. Wyatt gets a bead on him and pounces, catching him easily, but he gets away when he picks up his paw to see if he got him. The fly goes into my bedroom with two cats chasing him and tries to get out the window. He slips between the screen and the sliding glass window and is where they can't reach him.

Virgil looks back at me and starts crying. It was like a little kid who's ball got stuck on the roof. "GET IT! THAT'S NOT FAIR!"

Well, it did come back out and Virgil got him for good.

The third one got away through a hole in the screen and caused Virgil to start crying again. This time he just laid down by the hole and waited for him to come back.

I learned a few things:

1. Cats are unbelievable hunters.
2. Cats really ENJOY hunting and killing. It's like a game to them.
3. Cats can see very well and track motion extremely well.
4. Even though my building's dumpster is not far from my window, I don't have to worry about flies.

It's not that I didn't know these things before, but seeing them first hand for the first time was awesome. I'm not about to pray for mice, but if I did have mice, I know I wouldn't have to worry about them long.

ZOMG POLITICS!

OK, here's a quick lesson for you pussies out there that don't understand the way the world works.

If you want something from someone and have the means to do so, you bully them. That is, if you believe that you are superior in any way (stronger, cooler, smarter, whatever).

If you give a bully what he wants, he knows to come back and ask for more the next time.

If you stand up to said bully and punch him in his fucking mouth and feed him his teeth he won't come around asking for your lunch money anymore. Of course, he could start shit with you again, but if you pound him a second time, a third beating probably will not be necessary.

In fact, the second beating should be viscious. I'm talking broken ribs and shattered eye sockets. When you fight back and they don't take you seriously, like if you cold cocked a bully who wasn't expecting it and he blames his "loss" on you sucker punching him, then the second beating has to be definative.

What these fucking anti Israel pieces of shit have been doing ever since Israel was established (don't go into who's land it really is... I could care less... I'm thinking of what it would be like if I was in Israel just trying to live a normal life with my family and having nutjobs blowing themselves up all over) was the old "I'm going to stick it in her ass tonight" routine. They push a little, see how Israel reacts. Maybe Israel didn't seem to like it, well, try again, only this time push a little harder. Until Israel turns around and slaps these terrorists, they will keep trying for the ass.

I'm 100% for the Israeli army steamrolling these pieces of garbage wherever they are. I wouldn't bat an eye if the good ol US of A stepped in and started throwing punches either. It's about time people stood up to bullies. The Muslims you hear about (read that carefully) are the bullies of the modern world. I don't care what you say about the US or Bush or anything. They are the bully... they think they are superior to every non muslim out there and, if allowed, are going to flatten Israel, and eventually keep going west and east and north and everywhere picking on people that don't believe in what they believe and if there isn't a showdown soon... well... I'm telling you right now... we didn't stand for Hitler, and it makes me sick that people don't see the same atrocities on the verge of becoming reality in the middle east.

I hate politics.

Anyways, war is good. It's a dirty horrible thing that ruins lives and causes more stress than you can possibly imagine on everyone involved. But you know what? When you fucking kick someone's teeth in for getting out of line and all of a sudden the world isn't such a scary place... that's a good thing. If this was 1940 and we were going through the same things we've been going through since 9/11 we would have started up the mother fucking draft, sent over a few million troops, shit stomped these assholes back into the stone age, and stayed until they were beaten and bloody enough to realize they were defeated. At that point we could stop the generational cycle of hatred and there wouldn't be any more babies growing up to be suicide bombers. That's all those people know. They carry AKs in the streets like they are hand bags. Did anyone really think that we'd have a few news clips of precision bombing runs and they would all turn swords to plowshares? This is a war that will go on a long time. I believe we're doing a good job, but I'd love to see us send every fucking military age man over there with an m16 and sqaure their asses away for good.

Fuck the middle east... I'm tired of their shit. I don't want to have to raise kids in a world where every other day some whacko is talking about a child in a well that told him to nuke some other people who call God by a different name because they don't agree on when to pray. It's just silliness. I'm actually looking forward to dieing so I can sit there and laugh as people of all religions come to realize that we're all wrong. That all of us have soemthings right and somethings wrong, but that none of us are perfect. Think of a 2000 year game of telephone. You know someone made a typo here and there. I'm not saying that I don't believe in the Roman Catholic God who watched me grow up, I'm just saying that I'm sure God is sitting there looking at us going "Dudes... you know... if you guys could just take the good stuff from every religion and realize that's where you're right and all this hate and death is just some jerk who put that in because he caught his wife banging some moor... you guys would rock if you could just get along."

I feel towards the middle east the same way I felt towards the guys who used to bust my balls growing up. Enough's enough. When I get my chance I'm going to knock his teeth out. I hope other countries step up to the plate and start steam rolling that whole fucking region. If they don't know, then they will. But, of course, it will be a ton more death, a lot of babies and women and innocent people going about their lives forced to die horrible deaths. Why can't they just call a spade a spade and start throwing punches?

OK, don't expect any more politics for a long time. I'm just sick of the idiots who complain about this "unwinable war" and then talk about reducing troop numbers and how we don't belong there in the first place bla bla bla. If any one of them could say they'd feel safer if everything was left alone then they would if the entire desert was turned to glass then I'll gladly delete this post and appologize, in video, wearing a dress. Saying anything but you'd feel safer without the middle east even existing is a lie.

RIP Frank

Dude, I'm going to miss you. One of the constant joys in my life ever since you became a part of it was to just sit and watch you swim around with Mao for hours on end. We went to college together. You were named by someone who was very important to me. We coached out in PA. We came back home to follow our dreams. No matter what I was doing, you and Mao were there for me. I didn't know how to say goodbye. In fact, I didn't even know how to deal with how sick you were. I tried everything in my power but what was killing you was outside of my controll. I'm sorry. I wish I could have done more. I did all the research I could, talked to all the right people, used all the right medicines in just the right ammounts. I know that you know I tried, but I still watched you fade away over the past few months.

I can't give you a burial. I don't live someplace where I can go out with a shovel and put you in the ground. I made this movie for you, Frank. It's the only way I knew how to say goodbye.

Click here to watch "Goodbye-Frank"