General Jackassery

Really it’s pretty amazing, now entering the 10th month of the year I’ve traveled on average 1.5 times per month. I don’t think that would be so bad, but over have of those trips have lasted atleast a week.

This trip is 10 days, and right now it’s looking like I’ll get back into Huntsville on Firday afternoon. I’ll spend Friday afternoon marking the course’s for a charity bike ride that I’m helping with for work. Saturday I’ll get up at the but crack of dawn and go work the bike ride. Sunday I might actually rest a little bit, but I doubt it since I really need to get some more work done around the house. Monday I’ll spend tracking down orders and travel arrangements and probably at 6:00 A.M. on Tuesday morning I’ll be on a plane to Colorado Springs. I’ll spend Wednesday and Thursday out there, returning late on Thursday evening. Go to work on Friday and Friday night head to Nashville for the weekend. I think every weekend between now and Christmas is booked! I’m almost looking forward to spending 4 months in Colorado just so I can get some time to myself. I’ll be living in an apartment out there so there won’t be any maintenance on a house at night, I’ll just go back to the apartment and chill. Hopefully I’ll be able to force myself to spend sometime on the trainer each night.

What’s the moral of this story you ask? There’s simply not enough time in the day to begin with and if you spend half your life traveling that takes that much more time away. Sometimes, flipping hamburgers at McDonalds doesn’t sound that bad. I realize that I have a great life, but thinking how our society has progressed I wouldn’t be surprised in another 20 years to see a 6 day work week and 60hr weeks becoming the norm. Really it already is for a lot of people.

I had the opportunity to play golf the other Friday for the first time in a long time. I was tired of work and needed a day off so I treated myself to that. I went to “The Ledges” to play because one of my co-worker’s Dad lives up there and I could play as a guest. After we were done playing Sarah met us up there and Tommy gave us the grand tour of the area. These are half a million dollar homes and up, in a gated community with devistating views. It’s truly beautiful and while the homes are built on postage stamp lots, it doesn’t feel cramped up there. Sarah and I agreed that it would be a wonderful place to live, but how do afford that? Since that day, I’ve had one thought running through my head.

….There has to be a better way!…….

I don’t know the meaning of life, I’m not arrogant enough to pretend that I ever will. However, there is one thing that I DO know. God did not put us on this earth to live the so called “American Dream” that 90% of American’s are living today. I have a natural desire to want to provide for my family and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make sure they have what they need and sometimes what they want. However, there has to be a better way of achieving that than by spending days/weeks/months on the road, by working 60-80 hour weeks. The “American Dream” was about green pastures, room to move, the ability to go anywhere do anything. Today that dream is stiffled by the fact that we spend most of hour time in the corral rather than out in the pastures. I feel more and more like a sheep everyday.

I think I’m going to find the Island that Tom Hanks got stranded on in Cast Away and move there. Surely Pollution can’t make it there? Oh wait, wasn’t that a port-a-john that floated on shore in the Movie? This place SUCKS now! I know the answer! I’ve decided I’m going to build a time machine! I’m going back in time to the 1600’s! Okay, maybe not the 1600’s, maybe just a hundred years back. I like internal plumbing and electricity too much! Okay, that’s too hard.

I DEDICATE MY LIFE TO WINNING THE LOTTERY! Yeah, like that’ll ever happen.

Man! *pouts*

Guess this means I can’t tell my boss to “take this job and shove it?”

Oh well, back to the grind.