Pain and Suffering

The weekend sucked. It’s pretty simple, it just sucked. After getting off of work Friday night I knew it was mostly pointless to go to sleep because I was going to have to turn right back around and go in again at 5am. That meant that I would only get about 3 hours of sleep, if I got any, before having to get up and ready for work again. Instead I stayed up playing Grand Theft Auto - or trying to. I fell victim to some crazy glitch that has been plaguing both the systems that make playing nearly impossible (I’ve been told deleting your saved game is a solution…an unacceptable solution, but there you have it.). So my gaming session was cut short and to make up for it I decided to do some catching up with friends I hadn’t kept up with like I should. Only my harddrive crashed. So it’s 3am and I’m trying to stay awake while watching terrible 3am crap on TV, wondering how people stayed awake before the time of massive distractions. Did they go out in the woods and chase a boar? Did they build a sweat lodge and have a quick spirit quest before going back in to Ye Olde Helpe Deske?

Sadly all that effort to stay up was hardly worth it because it was the most uneventful twelve hours I can remember. I think I had more excitement during the 22 hours my sister was in labor and I slept underneath the table in the hospital waiting room. I spent the entire time playing all the crazy games on the Eyemaze website (which by the way are pretty awesome - eyemaze.com). One thing I did get out of it was a few moments with Nate Dogg, which works a shift that has absolutely no overlap with mine so I rarely see him…which is probably a good thing. One of Nate Dogg’s many oddities is he spends lots of money of gadgets that he has no idea how to use or take advantage of. $300 sun glasses that he lost after a month. $400 Helio cell phone that he’s had a month and has no idea what he’s doing (he tried to show me how easy it was to Youtube and couldn’t get it to work). He bought an 80GB Ipod video and only has 12 songs on it. The Helio was sitting on top of the Ipod and he was bragging about how the Helio doubles as an MP3 player. He even has plans to buy a pair of $4k each firewalls just to play with it. In case you’re wondering, yes…he lives at home.

After the intense boredom of working on Saturday I went home and spent the entire day trying not to fall asleep so that I didn’t mess up my sleep schedule, which made Saturday hell. I would sit there doing something and next thing I knew I was waking up from a brief, restless 30 minute nap. Finally it got late enough that I wasn’t worried about screwing up my schedule and of course I could no longer get to sleep. The only shining moment of the weekend was Sunday with the family and kayaking with my step-dad. It made me really sad to walk into work Monday and actually be glad that I was back in charted territory. And then absolutely nothing happened today…which is why you just read about my incredibly boring weekend.