Jesse Jackson's coming to town

You better not shout, you're racism stands out
you better not fib, or you'll get no ribs.... Jesse Jackson's coming to town.
Ahhhhh gotta love the Jessmeister! His latest stand is for gun control, targeting a Barrington, IL assault rifle manufacturer. Mind you a LEGAL gun manufacturer. That didn't stop Jesse and crew from coming by for a protest yesterday. Turns out the company is directly behind my building. Of course I never knew what they did until yesterday, neither did my neighbors. Now we do, thanks Jesse!
This area was a giant circus and no work got done whatsoever between the hours of 10-2 pm yesterday in the entire industrial park. There must have been 100 cops, well at least 60, and the pro gun nuts, and the gawkers who would rather be doing anything but work and the local people with nothing better to do than to watch Jesse and company storm our town. Let's just say it was a very "dark" day in Barrington yesterday. I had nothing better to do after getting off of work, so I decided to hang out and check out the scene. It's not every day that a self-promoting, opportunity whoring, reverse racist loudmouth comes to town, so I figured why the hell not?
I must say I was mildly disappointed. Fuck it, I was majorly disappointed. First of all, when you schedule a protest for noon, you best get your ass here at noon, not 20 after the hour. Maybe that's why all your marchers had the time and opportunity to march, they can't tell time and therefore can't hold a job. Secondly, there was NO organization. I was standing about 100 yards away and couldn't hear a fucking thing. Sure, I heard a few loud "God Blesses", "Amens" and probably even heard a hallelujah or two. That was it, except for one or two "We Pray"s . Turns out the speakers arrived 10 minutes AFTER Jesse started speaking. NOT good for business, if you ask me. Of course, what do I know? I'm only an unemployed paperboy! I will give them extra credit for the mock coffin and funeral wreath though. However, they lose points for not having any catchy protest jingles. These are a musical and colorful people, I expected some good quality protest chants, but got nothing! Hell I could have written them a few.

Assault rifles, you shan't be sellin', come and have some watermelon. OR
Don't make guns with rapid triggers, just to sell them to some niggers! OR
We are here to make a stand, guns don't mix with Africans! OR
Ah fuck it, you get the jist!

Other than that, I give the whole protest a C- at best.
Note to Jesse, don't target the company that is legally producing arms, target the government that allows the production and that doesn't have supply chain laws in place. I'm sure that this company would be willing to adhere to any law required to stay in business. Unless of course, this was a shakedown and you were hoping to profit from the company to keep you from doing the protest, but of course you would never do anything so low, would you Jess?

baby baby baby baby baaaaaaaby!

Nothing better then hearing the Zep belting out that vocal....NOTHING!
Well, maybe sex, but that's only if her mouth is full and I can't hear anything, except maybe some gurgling. You ever notice that they use the word baby alot in Rock & Roll? heheheh yeah that's cool!

Saturday morning and hear I am. Received a call from Largeus Asseus (Latin term for fat bastard) that someone hasn't shown up. As I was cruising down to work here, I got another call from Rotundeous Maximus that the dude is on his way. FUCK! I could have slept another 4 hours, easy. So here I am, boring you with the details! All the details and nothing but the details!

Dad got into town last night for 10 days, staying with my sister for a couple, me for a couple then my younger brother for a few. I got to see him last night, albeit unscheduled. We were at a BBQ at the neighbor's and sis calls that her Caddy broke down at work, so being the ultra-cool brother that I am, I went to get her and Bro-in-law. In the meantime my brother showed up with Dad at her office so I took all 4 of them home. The plan was I guess for sis and bro-in-law to head to brother's house and get Dad, but the fucking Cadillac fucked all that up. It worked out well though, as we all went back to the BBQ and ate and drank hardily. I hardly know these people either, as my wife's brother set the whole thing up. It was kind of cool. After that I took the 3 of them home and shot pool til midnight, getting a little tanked in the process. Note to self, don't drink and drive in strange autos, as it takes awhile to get used to them. 'Nuff said.
Baby Jewel is cheerleading her first football game today at 3:00, so that should be fun. Then it's pool party at the house of BUZZ after that for all the family! Should be a riot!

Well, that be enough details for today! Talk at ya on da flip side, bitch!

The times they be a changing

What up bitches?
Life is handing us lemons and we're making lemonade! It's sweet fucking lemonade and I'm gonna put some vodka in it!
Sold the wife's van and got her a sweet payment-less ride! It's actually pretty nice, I should trade her for mine. Speaking of mine, it's too new to do much with, I would lose about $2K on it to get out of it. Fuck it, I'll deal with that later.
I have my first phone interview tomorrow for a job that I didn't even think would give me a second look. It's kind of funny as I've been conservative about what I've been applying for and none of the ones that I could do blindfolded bothered to call me back. Maybe I need to reach for the stars and see what happens.
As time passes, the pain and fear seem to subside. Sure, life will be different as the cash flow minimizes, but the quality may actually improve. Let's face it my hours sucked and I worked many weekends. Now, I may just get 9-5er, Monday through Friday. The potential for weekend drinking is increasing immensely!

For now it's auto pilot til the last day, clean up the warehouse and have a huge Ebay sale the following week or two, skate for a few weeks then it's back to the grindstone! Only bummer is that I can't even celebrate with narcotics because I may have to do a drug screen! ASSHOLES!!!!
Poppy seed hot dog buns anyone?

looking forward

Looks like the end is sooner, rather than later at work. September 16th is the last official delivery day. I'll be basically wrapped up by the 22nd, other than mail in bills to proccess and then financials to deal with through the end of the year!
I'm actually hoping to get a week or two to myself to just relax and take a breath. There is the possibility of a job with the competition, we'll see if that pans out and if I can handle coporate bullshit again. Maybe I can, maybe I can't.

Via Condios Mother Fuckers!

Careful what you ask for

You may just get it!
Had a great time in the Wisconsin Dells Tuesday and Wednesday, kids all got along great, adults all got along great, it was really an enjoyable trip. We did alot of things invery little time and the two families clicked really well. We're talking about making it an annual trip.
I should have known it couldn't last. I was home about 30 minutes when I got a call to turn on the T.V. and like a fool I did. Apparently, and it's now been confirmed, my biggest client, the Chicago Sun-Times has just signed a historic contract to let the Chicago Tribune distribute all of it's newspapers. Since I was pretty much a Sun-Times contracted delivery agency, I'm out of a job by year's end. Finit, kaput, el doneo, adios assholio, end of the line. I've seen the writing on the wall for quite some time, and nobody in my inner circle of friends and family believed me. I guess I showed them! I've been on an emotional roller coaster ever since, but the outpouring of support has been overwhelming so far, albeit mostly from my wife's side of the family. My brother-in-law even offered to take the train to work daily so we could use his car, should things get that bad. My brother offered to give me cash and his motorcycle in trade for mine, so I would still have a bike to ride. I guess he still wants a riding partner. It's a scary time, as I now realize that we fuck away alot of fucking money....tons. Obviously, that practice will be ending quite abruptly. We should end up all right, although this business is all I've known for 13 years. It's the longest job I've held and now there's no need for my services, even though I'm one of the very best at what I do and I made quite a comfortable living doing it. Who knows? I could end up at the Tribune, though I hope not. I think it may be a good time to reinvent myself. Maybe take some time off and collect a little unemployment, who knows? I think I may drink this weekend!

Sunday all day bitches!

Well, well, well. What's up me hombres?
Never made it to the House of Blues to see that buddy of mine. Fuck him, it was too far. Not to mention getting a room in downtown Chicago, last minute, during Lollapallooza would have been impossible....if not very pricey. Anyway, we did party Saturday night with some other friends and my brother actually came by with his wife and kid. They don't drink, but it was nice to see them. I turned the heat in the pool on at 8:30am and by the time we started swimming at 5ish the water was great! When we went back in at around 8:30, it was like a fucking hot tub, literally. If you were in the water you could see the steam escaping. I could have sworn that the steam was shaped like little $$$$ signs, but maybe I was just drunk. So, then that leads us to today, Sunday. it was a nice day to fuck off. Arose at 8:00am hung out til 10:30 and napped until 1:30. NICE! High Five! It was very pleasant. NOt very productive though.
So this is the final BUZZ Blog installment. Until Thursday or so, when we get back from the biggest tourist trap in the Mid-West, the Wisconsin Dells. We like getting up there every so often, and we're going during the week, so the rates are better. Actually, the room we're staying in is not one of those resorty hotels, just a decent older one that used to be the norm up there. It's costing us $180 a night, but comes with 4 free passes per night to Big Chief(Mount Olympus now, but it will always be Big Chief to me), a $140 value. so in essence, our rooms are costing us $40 a night! NICE! Mt. Olympus is like an everything park, Go-Carts, Indoor/Outdoor water parks, roller coasters and more. We'll be able to spend two days there, easily. We're going with the brother-in-law and his kids. The kids better all get along or I will personally kill all of theirs and ours. They've all fucked up enough of my summer, and that's all I have to say about that. Well, I do have alot more to say, but my P.R. people advise against it. Since my P.R. people hold the pussy, I guess I'll say nothing more, except that we need to get our weekend dynamics back, 'nuff said hopefully!

Via condias, or some shit like that!

What up?

Ahhhh summer summer summer! Or some shit like that! Actually had a real quiet weekend last weekend and shit's slowing down at work. I've got a rough day today. Got in at about 8:15 will be leaving at about 9:15 to do an hour of road work and that will be a day. Which beats the hell out of my 12 hour days last week, so I guess it all balances out. Perhaps I'll go home and peruse Monster.com, as I'm really wanting a change of scenery. After 13 years of owning my own business, I've really had enough. Couple that in with the fact that there's just no money in it anymore and it's sincerely time to bail out. I'm cool with that, it was a good run.

I'm still not doing my radio show and am not even sure if I'd still fit in or be welcome. Maybe I'll go check in there tonight if I'm bored, maybe not.

This weekend may in fact be a busy one. Some friends coming over Saturday night and possibly going downtown to hook up with a real old friend on Friday night. We'll see if we can work it all out.

Peace out!