The Blog of The Dave

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Return to Work… Yeah, Right

Since returning to work on Friday the 19th I’ve worked a total of two and a half days. Luckily I kind of foresaw this and didn’t stop filing for unemployment. As long as I’m only working intermittently I can still file for unemployment, I just get less. It sure would be nice to go back [...]

Rosetta Stone and Returning to Work

Does anyone have any experience with the use of Rosetta Stone software to learn a foreign language? There are a couple of languages which would be useful in my line of work, Russian and Spanish (the Latin American variety). The software is rather expensive though – $549 for the three levels of either language. One [...]

O’ Christmas Tree, Part Deux

…and the usual Dave-style Christmas tree.

Beware, the actual image is pretty damn huge.

Lay Off

On Wednesday of last week I was told that I would be off work on the following day. It doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen. I shrugged it off and looked forward to the day of relaxation. I then found out that the guy that I was training for the previous few days [...]

UPS Automated Phone System

Don’t ever attempt to call UPS. Getting to an actual live person requires the successful navigation of a gauntlet of useless automated questions from a voice recognition system. The option of speaking to an agent is only offered after sitting through two sessions of it asking you to choose from their four or so options, [...]

Protected: Disorganization and Inefficiency… Ugh!

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My Left Foot

I’ve had pain in my left foot for a few years now. The pain has been somewhat tolerable to nearly forgettable at times but when on my feet for extended periods of time would hurt pretty badly. With this job – which I’ve been at for over two years now – I’m on my feet [...]

Starbucks Exchange

Today’s exchange at the Starbucks drive-thru…
Corey: Hey, no fags in the drive-thru.
Me: Well, then how do you go through the drive-thru?
Corey: Ha ha! [actually said, not laughed]
Me: What’s that? I couldn’t hear you with that cock in your mouth.
Corey: What? You have jizz in your ear?
Me: Huh? [cleans out his ear] I said I couldn’t [...]

The End (OkCupid Guy Gives Up)

Okay, this should be my last post about the OkCupid guy. I felt kind of stalker-like checking his journal to see if he had mentioned anything about my email or if he had deleted any of his more-whiny posts… or to see if he’d made any changes to his profile. I was curious about these [...]

Faggoty Attention – Part 2

I got so carried away with the previous post that I didn’t mention the other stuff that I wanted to mention.
Yesterday at work I believe I was checked out by a guy. This very attractive guy kept walking by me at work and each time would give me steady eye contact. This wouldn’t really stand [...]

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