It's been almost a year.

Wow. It has almost been a year since my last entry. Where to begin.

Today is the one-year anniversary of my being fired from the job from hell by a boss so stupid and incompetent that he makes the PHB from Dilbert look like a managerial genius.

My finances have sucked over the last year, but emotionally I am in far better shape.

I now work full time at a $7.40 cents an hour job doing nothing even close to what I used to do from 3 in the afternoon to 11:30 at night (no evening TV viewing anymore), and part time at home drawing houses for contractors at home. I am hoping that my home job will expand so that I can be my own boss. We will see.

The last two days have sucked. Ice storms. Power has been off and on, mostly off, for over a day. Missed all of the anime shows on the cartoon network after Naruto when the power went down for 10 hours. I was pissed. I missed Bleach and Eureka 7! Damn it!

Well, gotta go for now. Hopefully I will remember to blog again before almost a year goes by, or Wombat will begin throwing anvils at me again.

Well, I am still looking for a job. It's kind of a bad job market here in my field. Nobody is hiring Autocad draftsman because the Quad Cities is being hurt bad by our current economy. Being unemployed has great hours, but the pay sucks. Oh well.

In a way I am kinda down and depressed right now. I miss working. There are a lot of things that I could do around the house for repairs, but I don't have the money. When I had the money I did not have the time. Catch 22. So I just get a little excercise, check web sites for jobs, pet my dogs, watch TV, and keep my phone line open for the slim chance of a call concerning a job.

Todays Positive: Got my income tax return today!

Todays Negative: I realized that I am not that good at this blog thing! Gad! My real life is Booooooriiing!

Been a long time since my last blog.

What to say.....well, I was casually looking for work while working in hell. Until a month ago when I received mana from heaven.

My boss fired me. The reason for the firing was truely silly. It's no secret that I considered my boss an idiot, and his son even worse. Turns out that they hated me as well. The a disaster that I have been expecting for a long time finally hit. Nice little computer network, no real anti-virus protection for YEARS because the idiot didn't see a need for it. 

Then idiot jr. decided the it was finally time to upgrade our company e-mail connection from dial-up  to Yahoo DSL. Problem is, he paind absolutely no attention to what it would take to do this upgrade systemwide in the network. After a month of not having DSL while paying for it I finally managed to convince the boss that he needed to bring in professional help to fix the disaster that was the network.

When the computerman tried to fix the network and connect the DSL, Yahoo crashed the connection. Turns out the server had 154 MAJOR viruses, his sons computers over 100 each, most of the other computers almost 100 each.  And MY computer! The computer who's user he always accused of sneaking onto and goofing off on the net? Clean.

Two days after the network was finally fixed, with most of the computers actually replaced because things were THAT messed up, he "got in the mood" to fire me. Then he tried to deny me unemployment. Asshole.

I have heard that in the month since I was "let go" (what a stupid PC euphamism for firing) his two idiot sons have royally screwed up the network yet again.

I now feel much better. I don't wake up sick to my stomach every day. And this is the last time I am going to mention that hell on Earth in my blog ever again.

Another mostly quiet Sunday. Painting BattleTech mini's, watching TV and being mugged by my dogs. Ahhhhhh, relaxation! Compared to most of the blogs that I read I am, well, boring. Humdrum. Alien abduction bait. Oh well.

I have decided to find a new job. The one I have sucks. The boss makes the pointy haired boss from Dilbert look like a managerial genius. His two sons are dolts. (And make up 25% of the employees. Small office, large nepotism.) I used to love being a draftsman. Four years of working for this boss has made me despise my job and drafting. So much that I am willing to take a major pay cut to go elsewhere, and even in a new job that has nothing to do with drafting. 20 years of experience, and I so despise being a draftsman because of this dead end job working for the mentally myopic moron boss that I just want to chuck it all. The place is owned by two engineers. The first is the moron. The second is so anal retentive that even other anal retentives consider him anal. Have I said my job sucks? Oh, I did. Oh well.

I have not had much to say recently. Events caused by Katrina just bummed me out. Too good of an imagination. What a horrible mess! And the worst part is everybody knew that something like this would eventually happen, but the planning to deal with the event was horribly botched.