Jupiter’s Travels.

Thought I could make an update for all my devoted fans (my mom). Not that much going on really. I’m in the middle of the big overtime pickup which actually isn’t that bad since I still have pretty much the whole weekend like normal. All the OT I picked up is pretty much during the week, which makes it a really long miserable week. It’s all good though, I’ll have a kick ass paycheck next payday and I’m taking Friday off for a 3 day weekend in a couple weeks.

I finally bit the bullet and put about $4500 into my Scottrade account. Time to do something with that money instead of just having it just sit around doing nothing in the savings account. In fact I think I am just going to close the savings account all together and put the remaining $1000 I have in there into the brokerage account. The way I was planning on doing it was to put $1000 into checking for bills and day to day stuff and $1000 into savings for unforeseen emergencies and whenever I get paid and the total is over that the excess gets invested. I was thinking why have that money in savings at all? It isn’t doing anything for me there and I rarely have to dip into it. Why not use the $25000 or so worth of credit that I don’t use for anything, for emergencies and have my available cash working for me in investments? Isn’t that what the stupid credit cards are for in the first place?

I have a little cabin fever right now. I want to go out and have an adventure or something. Actually I feel like dropping everything and moving someplace I’ve never been before to see something new. That isn’t really going to happen since I am getting pretty old for starting over someplace else job wise again. I suppose I will wait until Duncan opens their new place in Albuquerque or Flagstaff or wherever they decide to open up at and go move down there for a while. Since I am in an adventure mood I watched the entire Long Way Round TV series on DVD. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman go 20,000 miles around the world from England to New York on motorcycles in about 100 days. I’m reading the book that inspired them to take the trip now. It’s called Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon. On his trip he went 80,000 miles on a trip that took 4 years and covered the entire earth. I’m not that far into it yet but so far it’s pretty good.

I was also inspired to pick up a bunch of drawing supplies today. I used to be a really good artist a long time ago and I really enjoyed doing it but one day I just put the supplies down and that was that. I know for a long time I moved the art stuff from place to place with me and eventually more and more of it disappeared along the way until eventually it was all gone. I tried to draw something a while back and I was pissed because it looked terrible. I just lost the eye for it ya know? Anyway I was working the overnight with Hoop the other night and he showed me some sites of some artists that were really good. One of them had a similar story to me in that he liked it at one time, put it down and then came back to it after many years. He sucked ass at first too since he had to relearn everything again. He went from stuff like THIS, to stuff like THIS. That second one is ridiculously good. I suppose I just need to practice and my stuff can be good again too (although even when I was good my stuff never looked like that second one). I got a bunch of art books from the library that I am looking at so I can relearn all the techniques so we will see how that turns out.

What the hell is wrong with the justice system anyway? Kasey was at the hockey game with Shannon the other day and he gets a tap on his shoulder and sees Joanie my ex wife standing there. Why the fuck isn’t she in prison? Didn’t she get busted with 42 grams of meth like 10 months ago? Didn’t she already plead guilty? Anyway he said it like looking at the Faces of Meth website with her and her dirtbag husband. Kasey was like “Soooo, you stayin out of trouble?” and she was like “What do you mean?”, “Well I just heard you had a little trouble, about a year ago?” “How did you hear about that?, err uh I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Then her and her douchebag husband give each other a look. Jesus Christ you moron how do you think people find out about it? It’s public information that they report in the paper. I think I would have been happier if Kasey would have just not mentioned that he saw her. Now I’m worried that crackheads are going to break into the house to steal shit. Thats all I have to report for the time being. Power to the Puerto Ricans.