Awesome...It's Payday!!
Where did all my money go? Someone has stolen it and it will probably take a year till I can prove to the borough of Camp Hill that "Yes, I have earned less than 10 grand in 2007 at this job" and maybe have it back. Today I got my first paycheck from working at the mall this year and it turns out that I will have to work a little bit more before I even see a dime of anything I have worked for so far this year. The $52 a year occupational tax Governor Rendell approved to help the city of Pittsburgh in 2005 has spread all over Pennsylvania. It helps pay for emergency services and other stuff like maybe snow removal. The tax is not something that would piss people off so much if it was taken out one dollar per week(like they originally promised) instead of $52 right away at the start of the year. I am getting very few hours since Christmas is over and they are not so busy so along with all the other taxes on my check I still owe 81 cents of my $52 before I can have some real money and not another blank check...So anyway although I enjoy complaining I try to not complain online so much...Money is an issue right now and other than the few hours I get at the mall the rest of my income comes directly from what I can sell on eBay. Wintertime is not the best time to be collecting stuff for me to sell...As far as my complaining goes people don't have to read if they don't want so I can't feel too bad...
Onto other news I bet some people have complained that I do not respond to their friend requests...there could be a many reasons and for your enjoyment I will list a few...
1. You list too many bands I think are either fake or shitty on your page...if you can buy most of your collection at Walmart then you are probably a very boring person and should burn all your CDs(there are a select few who are exempt from this requirement)
2. You are a fan of the group "Insane Clown Posse" and therefore have placed large decals of this group all over your car or mobile home so that there is no mistaking that you are in fact a "true fan"...this may also go as far to include that you are friends with others who like "ICP" even if you do not yourself
3. You are over 21 but instead of going out with your friends to a bar or even a party where you don't have to drink you sit at Denny's or some other shitty diner every chance you get because somehow you still think it cool. If you disagree now you will agree someday. Unless you are of those people I'm not friends with. Definitely something to enjoy when you are younger and there is not a whole lot to do...
4. You like to make friends with people who leave you comments like "Thanks for the add 14/88" (I'm sure most people on my friends list know that one but if not you can google it) or other things I will only mention offline if you ask through a message. With myspace bigger than ever before I notice how easy it is to claim this and that like you can be this one day and that the next. You are not fooling anyone. As I mentioned when I started this I am here to mostly help my friends who are in bands not get into some big political debate.
5. As I have mentioned before in an older blog I do not think highly of communist beliefs so therefore I don't wish to be part of whatever silly "revolution" you are planning/dreaming about.
6. I enjoy reading blogs for fun so if you write them great...If everyone of them is about some depressing sob story then please get lost...no one feels sorry for you in fact your cats/dog/or other pets (if you have pets) do not like you either they are only in it for the food and would escape if they could survive on their own
7. Ozzfest is your idea of a really fuckin' awesome concert
8. You liked (insert shitty band) before they got big
9. I was nice enough to accept your band to my friends list...now is it really necessary for me to be friends with every member of the band
10. I might think that you "just plain suck"
11. You think or dress like you might be some sort of wizard or some fantasy role playing game character with magical powers. In that case you should make your profile disappear.
12. You liked high school so much you have listed your school on your profile that way EVERYONE you went to school can look you up and you can all be friends again.
13. I think you might want to be more than friends and unfortunately for you I disagree.
14. You do not like this list I have made.
Great...I could go on and on and maybe I will come up with another list as I think of more. That was much fun for being 5:30 am on a Saturday morning...This has been an interesting week so far. With the last interesting thing that happened was the drunken homeless man peeing outside my doorstep right before midnight. There is a small private set of stairs that comes down to my apartment door and at the bottom is my front door. Often when I got outside in the morning there is often beer can/trash from Subway/broken bottles/empty cigarette packs,etc people throw down the stairs to land on my doorstep. I can expect that where I live anyway because of all the bums and crack heads so I don't get too mad except for broken glass. I know people have probably come down my stairs to pee many times maybe even every night because they are hidden from the street and no one can see you but my idea was that when I finally caught one pissing I was going to swing the door open and give them a blast of from my giant can of pepper spray but I was in the living room with no shoes on and I left the spray next to my bed so by the time I got to my bedroom to get the spray and get back out to the door the man was already walking away fast. I normally keep the spray in the living room but last week some naughty teens were slamming the shutters on my bedroom windows a couple times when I was sleeping and I put the spray next to my bed that way I could help persuade them to stop bothering me so much....anyway I only yelled at the man as he hurried away. I shouted, "HEY ASSHOLE!! I LIVE HERE!! DON"T PISS HERE EVER AGAIN OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!! I hope I don't see him again. I don't have a problem with pissing outside. Last I did myself less than 2 weeks ago after leaving a New Years party across town and I made it about halfway before stopping next to a garage in a back alley but I would never piss outside of someone's front door. That is just ignorant and deserves a temporary painful lesson in manners...
I took a new job last week and after 2 days quit. I think every job I have ever had I have quit by either not showing up anymore/leaving a note/or just quitting on the spot. Rarely have I given a notice of any kind. Why bother when you work for shitty places? The best one was when I worked for Burns Security for 3 years and one day I called 5 minutes before work and said I wouldn't be in and the other guard asked why and I told him because I quit. I might like to do that job again someday because it is unusual to find a job where you get paid to sleep most of your shift like I did....
Anyway back to quitting the job the other day...The boss called and I made the phone ring and turned the answering machine off so he couldn't leave a message. I think he tried to call back again from a blocked number but whoever that was hung up. I was supposed to finish helping him put in new kitchen cabinets at this house down the street. I worked for this guy on a couple jobs already and yesterday I had enough of him and the job we were doing so I decided not to go back. He probably won't pay me for yesterday but right now I really don't care. Perhaps if the job would have been somewhere else it would have been alright but this was a a couple of super yuppies whose kitchen easily was up to over 20 grand. This was a house a few blocks away that was last used as 3 nice sized apartments one of which a friend of mine used to live in. The lady is some sort of college professor and her husband is a computer programmer or something like that. So anyway they bought the house and kicked everyone out and turned it back into a giant house. They had brand new kitchen cabinets put in a little while back and the lady didn't like them so our job was to tear all the new cabinets out and put all new ones in. Karl my boss was mostly bitchy while we were there about me being careful over and over again even though I was being careful not to break any of their valuable stuff. That if we break anything we have to pay for it. Bullshit like that.
Anyway we had to take the stove out the front and drive it around to keep in the garage out back while we were tearing stuff out. The rich man drove around the alley in his Lexus to open the garage. When he did the most golden sparkling Hummer you could imagine was parked inside. It was so large it could barely fit in the garage. Anyway after lunch hour I came back and Karl decided I should sand the legs of antique chairs he was restoring instead. I stood there for a while staring at the workbench for a while deciding if I wanted to leave right then. I don't really care to sand furniture but did for the next 3 hours anyway. He was building some parts to go with the cabinets while I did the sanding. I don't mind working hard but not for this guy. It's been at least 3 months since he called me to help him even though I told him I needed more jobs to make money. When I signed in I noticed there were time sheets for a few other people. Stuff I could have been doing that he didn't bother calling me for...
I should have just not bothered to go in the first place after the last job I helped him with he spilled glue on the floor we were putting in and then blamed me for it when the owner walked in and also blamed me for leaving the nails for the nail gun behind and we had to go back for them. If the dickhead would have told me then I would have grabbed them....later that day he commented that he would hire illegal immigrants if he could and asked me if I knew of any???
I like to work hard and often do for free to help a friend or someone in the family but I will not be treated like an idiot by anyone whether they are paying me or not. I do need the money but I am not that desperate...
That is it for now...hope you all enjoyed although I am sure someone will get upset about one thing or another...some of this I wrote the other day and pasted it in and some of this is from this morning as I have been up the entire night...probably some words are fucked up and out of place so maybe they will get fixed another time...got some shows coming up so maybe see you around....
-MN/GS
1/4/07 A picture I took while visiting in Bloserville,PA last week...out there you burn your trash instead of having it buried underground. Some gets recycled of course but what is not ...
