On The Road Again
I consider myself one of the lucky ones when it comes to work. I am in the minority of people who actually like going to work and like what they do. My job is one that is constantly changing, which is good since I am pretty sure I have the attention span of a four year old with ADHD.
In any case, my job requires me to go through what seems like endless amounts of training for new things as they come up. Case in point, I leave Sunday for Minneapolis for a week of training on a work-related computer program that I’ll almost certainly never have to use in the depth that the training will cover. Hey, no argument here. If they want to pay me to drive there, pay for my hotel, pay for all my meals, pay me to sit in a classroom and daydream up a plot to get Erin Andrews to marry me, and pay me to drive back, then I am down. I am totally down. Mark me down.
Don’t you worry, Erin. I’m brewing up a plan to get us together.
With the coming week included, I will have spent almost as much time out of town as I have in town over the past two months. After being gone all next week, I’ll be back to town for a couple days and then I’ll turn right back around and head back to Minneapolis on the 22nd for the John Legend concert, for which I will be front row. Also in the works is a trip westward with Eric, B-Weezy, and Cristin for a golf weekend extravaganza. The dates aren’t set for sure on that one, but we’re shooing for the first week of August.
What does all of this mean? Well, it means that for the first time in years, I’ve had a summer that hasn’t been riddled with work, and I’ve actually been able to enjoy it. I’m the first to admit that I never used to get out as much as I’d liked because I was always stuck working at the dead-end jobs I kept. Now that I’ve got a job that gives me a set schedule, a decent wage, and of course, paid vacation, I find myself eager to take advantage of opportunities to actually do something other than finding different ways to beat Super Mario World.
I haven’t had the best track record with wireless internet at the last couple hotels I’ve been to, but I’ll be bringing my laptop in hopes that I can bang out a post or two while I’m in Minneapolis next week. Until then, I bid you a good weekend, and if you see Erin Andrews, please tell her I’m looking for her.
One love,
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July 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Cocks’ bachelor party is next weekend in DL if you’re bored on your drive home. Forty guys camping, sound enticing?
July 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM
By DL do you mean Detroit Lakes or Devils Lake? And to be quite honest, I’ve never been a fan of camping. I don’t like to work all week only to go out and spend the weekend pretending to be homeless. Plus, 40 guys is, well, it’s a shit load of guys.
July 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM
It’s hilarious that the first comment on a post professing love for the hottest sports reporter on the planet is an invite to an all guys camping party.
July 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Beachbum, I also laughed at that segueway from Erin Andrews to straight up dudes.
And Cheese, DL is ALWAYS Detroit Lakes. Devils Lake is just a good-for-nothing shithole (even though my girlfriend graduated from there, somehow I overcame that and agreed to date her.)
July 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Hammen, I am in complete agreement, but I had to start questioning everything once I got invited to hang out with 40 guys. Up is white, black is down. I just wanted to make sure.
July 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
You don’t think there will be at least two girls showing up on Saturday night? It’s not like we’re going to sit around and jerk each other off. Who would ever go to Devil Lake? Maybe some cheap tobacco?
July 10, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Your company thinks it’s going to take you a week to learn a computer program? Is your company run by elderly people who type with one finger?
Devils Lake has a college!!!???
July 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Bigsby, I suppose you’re right. However, I’m still going to have to take a pass. I’ve been on the road so much lately all I’m going to want at the end of the week is to be on my couch.
Julie, in their defense, it’s a pretty intricate and confusing program. Plus, the week is split into two different portions. The first two days are an introduction and Wednesday through Friday delve deep into a part of the program I will presumably never use. Like I said, I’m not gonna argue because I will literally be sitting there for 6-8 hours a day zoning out and thinking of funny lines from Family Guy.