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No blog in a few months, but this morning I saw this about the American Academy of Pediatrics:

Man, this just pisses me off honestly...

It has been a little bit since my last entry, my bad. Things have been rather high paced at home and at work and I really do not want to try to remember things that have happened since my last post since my memory is jacked, so I will go forward.

I bought 3 100% polyester ties online today. Now, some would ask, "Why polyester? Just go with silk since they are nicer." Well, I used to get only silk ties, but it seems that I cannot hold on to a good tie since I am a sloppy eater. Even if I try to eat nice, something ALWAYS spots on my ties, and BAM! It is as good as trash since the stains are basically impossible to get out. Eureka! Why don't I buy ties that can be machine washed?! Well I got 3 on the way for my sloppy self. If someone wants to be all self-righteous about my lowly polyester ties, well they can go to hell. I am not Mr. CEO of GE that needs to wear several thousand dollar suits. I am a lame ass Security guy, and when I wear a tie not at work, I am not trying to look like a rich man, just good enough to make Shannon happy.

A rant.

I really hate business orientated jobs. I really do. As some of you may know, I work at a hotel as a lame ass security dude. Yes, my job sucks. I am unarmed and tasked with upholding rules and stuff with little power to do so with a management that expects us to be customer service ambassadors first, property protection last. Now on to the rant: with business jobs like the ones that the hotel management have, you have all these fake numbers to meet, X amount of revenue and Y consequences if they are not met. Employees take revenue so we lay them off then tell the remaining ones that you are lucky to have a job then toss the laid off workers jobs on everyone else backs. There is political and social backstabbing and working the system and generally fucking people over left and right. It has come to the point with me that I don't even want to talk to anyone here at work since I don't want ANYTHING to fall back on me. Even that is against the rules and will get you in trouble. My craptastic job pays shit, but me being a crippled dude with no college education out of the military, there is not much out there for me. Sure, I want to go to school, but I need to make money for the family so they got food and diapers. So I am stuck here.

Now here is the kicker: in the military, similar shit happens, but generally the pay rocks and at least when you bone someone over on something, it is either funny and friends in the end, or you get in trouble and eventually you get your ass kicked. I was an Airborne Infantry Sergeant... in charge of 3 paratroopers and all their equipment. I was making decent money and now I am some lame ass security dude, making barely over minimum wage. And even this job is getting me my ass kicked over the finer details of finesse. On top of all this, you got the business people running this bitch all wound up tight that they end up screwing their underlings over and over, all for a buck. Now I love Capitalism, but the business area is just not for me. It is just a crappy field where you don't get home till after 12 hours+ shift and then you do it all over to make a buck for a business that just sucks.

I really need to get a city/state/federal job. This whole civilian crap is just not for me honestly.

Sometimes, things just crack me up. For example, just 15 minutes ago I was chatting with a guy at work. He saw my hands and noticed a pair of scars on my left fist around my knuckles. Here is about how the conversation went down:

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Work Colleague: "Hey man, nice scars. I got the same ones *shows fist*. Fighting, you know, in Mexico City."

Me: *caught off guard then looking at fist for a second* "Oh yea those... I got mine when I was in Iraq."

Work Colleague: *silence* "Right on man..."
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Now, what I didn't say was that I got the mean scars from a fist fight with a sharp metal object accidentally. Sometimes things like this just crack me up, since I really did not mean to look like a hard ass or anything, I just was trying to be polite.