Happy Thoughts 2020

I guess we can call you Sisyphus?

My guess is that folks’ happy thoughts have been overshadowed by the negative.

My HT is that in the midst of all the negativity, I have a job. Some days it feels like scooping water with a sieve or pushing a boulder uphill, but better days are ahead.

BT

“...no happy thoughts for 82 days?”

This may be the most telling post about how “unhappy” we have all been in 2020.

~Scamp

WTF no happy thoughts for 82 days?

Got a contract on a new investment property. Yay!

Got a lot of work caught up today. Mrs VA just had some cocktails in the hot tub, and are headed to bed early. Nice. Zzzzz....

It’s not cheating if he sends me video

~rabbit~

So we hired a former Miss USA runner up at my work.

I’ve been asked to assist with her training and she is supposed to shadow me.

She asked if I could role play with her, I immediately went to “Professor/Naughty School Girl” before realizing she meant “customer/employee” of course.

My HT?

Oh so many...

~Scoundrel Scamp

LOL...

Most of the time, a comment of “Cool story, Dood.” would be not so secretly swaddled in sarcasm, but this is one of those times when the sarcasm font can be at home.

Cool story, T Fokker.

BT

Sarcasm, (usually) don’t Leave home without it

Happy Thought : Hackettstown, NJ

So this past weekend, we moved our youngest into school. It’s a small university (~2000 students) in the middle of a town, that when I was his age I had one of my first jobs in. At the time it was farm country literally in the middle of nowhere. The biggest employers was my employer (a senior community) and a M&M Mars plant. As we were running to get some little items for his dorm room a thought hit me of the irony of him choosing this school. About 30 years ago i was fired from that job and at the time I interviewed with 2 other companies, one that I really liked, but I was not what they were looking for. The other I was not too crazy about but I intrigued the area director who Interviewed me. Against the objections of others he hired me. Mind you I was 19yo and the people I would manage would be slightly younger or much older. The general consensus was no one wanted me around, I succeeded. On my first day on the job, one of the part time employees showed up and I was completely taken back by her. She had a boyfriend, she didn’t care for me but she would go on to be Mrs F. And to think it all started from a failure in the middle of nowhere, that somehow my son felt that his continuing education needed to be at the ‘middle of nowhere’. It’s not quite the swallows returning to St Juan Capistrano or salmon swimming upstream to where they were once spawned, but I think Hackettstown, NJ has become on of my happy places.

OUR DAY OF RECKONING: The thought came to me of some of the stupid things I did as a child. Like my mother sending me to the store to get eggs. I was about 8 to 10. It was 1/2 mile away and I put the eggs in the basket on my bike. A girl in the neighborhood teased me so we rode around the block. I forgot about the eggs. How do you think the eggs were when I got home? My poor mother, that is when we didn't have much money.
My day of reckoning would be if I could spend a day with my parents again and tell them how sorry I am for being so stupid so many times. LIFE?
Do you have a stupid story?

Yes, I guess so if you lube it correctly. Just don’t take any medication beforehand that could cause drowsiness.

BT

excavator is an aggressive sybian attachment ?

I dunno about the heavy equipment thing, but I'm definitely ready to go spelunking in... uhhhh, with... Mrs HotLuvrs.

shifty eyes

Concerts??... I’m hoping that Mrs HotLuvrs finds herself some heavy equipment.

BT

Hoping I get to see Some Concerts really aching for Metal music Like Saxon Judas Priest

heck maybe even some prog rock Or even Seeing Pink Floyd 2022

Hopefully not a tunnel boring machine...

She has enjoyed a few jack hammers in the past, but now she’s looking for some bigger equipment

Must be a Texas thang.

Thanks HL. Better than 50% of those in my segment are gone. It’s been a bittersweet week.

I agree with you on just how sexy that is. Should she pick up a jack hammer, I hope to gawd you’ll take some photos!

BT

I’m guessing that’s a modern spelling version of Booze College.

Btw, congrats BT on the end of furlough. My company hasn’t had to furlough yet, but just announce a spate of cuts of our most recent new hire employees starting in October so I’m starting to feel my own version of survivors guilt.

My HT of the day: watched my wife using an Excavator for the first time yesterday. There’s something inexplicably sexy about women playing with machinery.

Sorry...For the uninitiated, what does “booooos college” mean?

BT

Our son went to UT years ago , 90,000 later he is doing fine and it was booooos college.

Fok, Male college dorms. Get ready for the parental experience. Example Boston College, aka B C, aka BOOS COLLEGE.

Congrats!

I still have one left in the nest.

BT

Our son moves in to his dorm on Saturday, I guess officially we are semi-empty nesters...