I’ll tell you what I miss about marriage, or maybe a significant other or best friend. Yesterday was my first day at work after working eleven and a half years (literally, a quarter of my life) for a great company. I had so much I wanted to share, I just didn’t have anyone to share it to. It’s this sort of thing that makes adjusting to singlehood a challenge.
I guess I’ll tell you a little about it. Sure, I know, I have you, but it’s just not the same. Well, since I’ll continue to work from home and both my former and new companies have the Treasury Department as their client, not much has really changed. For instance, my commute is the same; I still work from home and use the same Treasury Department-issued laptop. For the most part, the only things that have changed are the internal websites I access and the people I work with. Currently, I’m having to go through some mandatory training to stay in compliance, which is about as lively as a Mike Pence birthday party.
Pronouns. I said it once and I’ll say it again, when you are working with people from different cultures all across the world, those pronouns are very helpful. I don’t mind them at all.
As sad as I am about the Maui wildfires, that place is going to look beautiful when it’s rebuilt. Residents will probably be outpriced in their own neighborhoods.
I watched the Johny Manziel documentary on Netflix. Man, aTm was all over exploiting that young man and did nothing to help him set himself up for a future. So many rules broken, so many lies told. After watching this, I definitely would not want my children to attend school there.
Twitter was fine as it was. The name, “Twitter” and posts called “tweets” was clever. Elon Musk has ruined it. I still think it’s going to be bought out by Mark Zuckerberg.
I read that pairs of oxen were traditionally given one and two-syllable names, such as ‘Swift and Swallow’, ‘Ben and Bessy’, or ‘Frank and Fancy’ so the team driver could call individual instructions.
I had two fraudulent charges show up on my debit card history. They were related to something with the Cash App and with a woman named Courtney. I got nothing, and I couldn’t have asked for a nicer interaction with the Bank of Texas representative.
My mother would have turned 75 today. It’s crazy to think in ten years, I will have outlived her. I’m not sure how I’ll honor her. I used to put a post up on here asking y’all to take some time to read as she loved to read. Here’s another interesting fact, I still have not reached the age of my father when I came into this world. He was 52. And yes, that’s a photo of my mother taken circa 1966.
BagOfNothing.com turns 18 today. It will be registering with Selective Service shortly.
This is approximately my 22,349th post.
I still have a long ways to go to be healed. Actually, I may never be fully healed.
After twelve years at one company, I’m leaving to work at another. My last day is today. My birthday is at the end of the month, but my current employer made sure that I received a birthday card with a lot of well wishes. I’m actually sad I”m leaving the place.
In the 1992 presidential election, all three candidates, Bush Sr., Clinton, Perot, were left-handed.
Why do I have a feeling that Zack Martin is going to experience something like a high ankle sprain early in the season?
I think quarterbacks are the only football players who wear those rubber-like wedding bands.
I hate filling out emergency contact forms because I really don’t know anyone willing to accept that role.
The news is justifiably all over the Maui wildfire damage. They keep mentioning how big the damage is, but from my perspective, have never shown a map outlying the damage. Well, I’m here to deliver that for you, courtesy of the paper of record.
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I predict we’re going to start naming heat waves like we name hurricanes.
I had a friendly conversation with my ex yesterday at church. We talked about many things, and I even asked if she would set me up with somebody. She just laughed and then said something about teachers. I also told her I thought it would be neat if she would use one of the dating apps on my phone to find me a partner. She thought it was a bad idea and she didn’t want to get into my business. Heck, I thought it was a great idea. No one knows me better than her, so I’d like to see what kind of girl she would swipe right for me. But before all that, I said she stated she prays for me, so I asked in what way. After she answered the question, I asked if she could add one more thing, to pray that I can let go.
I was channel surfing yesterday and noticed QVC was pushing Halloween products.
“I can’t imagine Jesus putting razor blades in the water to harm immigrants.”
“Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching—’turn the other cheek’—[and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?'” Moore said.“When the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ’ … The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,” he added. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”Moore went to to say that he did not think it would be possible to “fix” Christianity by “fighting a war for the soul of evangelicalism,” urging his concerned brethren to instead fight “small and local” battles like refusing to go along with the current “church culture.”
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