A 'lil HooHaa

So I’m going to work today. Nothing major, but get behind some slower moving traffic. I’m about four cars back of this one asshole who is going between 45-50 and when we get in this small hamlet, he jams it to 25 (in a 30). At this point, I’m two cars back (others turning off).

So the truck in front of me turns and I’m next in line and coming out of the hamlet and thinking pass. As we hit the 55, he jams the gas to get to about 60 pretty quick like.

Now, I can tell that he’s an older guy. Probably some old coot who thinks he deserves everything in this world and everyone else can piss off. He has the high baseball hat on, mesh backing, the whole nine yards.

So I pass.

Now, remember, I haven’t tailgated or done anything aggressive. All I’m doing is going to pass.

As I go by, I peek over (and my thoughts were right. He looked like an old coot). And what else?

He’s flipping me off.

Now if I had tailgated, or been an asshole, by all means, flip me off. But the bottom line is, I’m en route to work and don’t want to be behind some asshole who can’t decide his speed.

I have done things driving before where I deserved to get the bird. And I’ve issued my own before. But this was ridiculous. And the old guy had to be pushing in his 60s. That and you could tell he was a redneck.

Just by his hat, he was driving a mercury, and well, you could just see he was a redneck.

I never saw him again once I got bolting away from him, which is nice. But what an asshole.

So recently, I’ve been trying to figure a bunch of things out. I guess I should backtrack just a tad here in regard to things.

I visited the doctor a week or so ago. Got the normal shit, need to lose weight, stay on the blood pressure pills (even though my BP has been fine for like three checkups now), got the blood drawn for some normal tests etc.

But damn, some things are starting to fry me. Whether it’s something at work that bothers me, or things in my personal life, or just life throwing me a curve ball, I can get pretty wound up.

That I know adds to the stress level. So I’ve been finding ways to try and let off some steam. And I just can’t seem to stay focused on some things. It’s annoying me like nothing else. I have some things I want to write and can’t stay focused. I have some little projects, nothing. I want to try and figure some future planning and nothing.

I can’t find a way to blow steam and I can’t find a way to stay focused on projects.

What the hell?

I don’t know what’s going on, but I need to find a better way to get organized, start doing more things away from work and trying to get things on a better schedule.

Truth is with this job, scheduling sucks. Work from 4-12. Usually sleep until at least 11 a.m. So then you’re up and only have a couple hours to tool around and get things done. It’s so friggin annoying at times.

So I wonder if I should force myself to start going to bed earlier when I get home and attempting to get up earlier to have a different schedule. Maybe I’ll actually get some shit done a little more often. And that would be nice.

I’ve gotten a journal-writing program that I’m using here and there to vent when needed, or just write ideas that come to my melon. I throw some things here on occasion, and use the board as some fun.

Now if I could stay focused on some of these projects I want to do, I’d be fine. And maybe would start to loosen up.

Anyway, I was just ranting. I imagine I’ll figure something out.

Well, as Friday is here, I’m finally going to get around to setting up this new computer of mine and all. So hopefully, once that’s done, I can do some more stuff on HooHaa, such as fix the HooHaa Store mod and all that to make sure things are going well with that.

I’ll be updating several quizzes for everyone as well as the stock market.

Phat Matt, our new Public Relations director is currently undertaking a project to get several registered people to return to the forum as well as maybe recruiting some new ones. Hopefully we’ll get several new or old faces running around to make the forum a little more active on a daily basis, which would be nice.

We’ve made a pretty good push at making 100+ posts per day during the week. But I think it could be a little better if we got others more active and had some good topics.

As for other things in this crazy world.

With the new computer comes the ability to sit back and do some writing on my own. I know I do it for a living, but when I’m home, writing on the laptop isn’t as easy as sitting back with a desktop and writing.

I’m hoping to get back into writing screenplays a little more (I have one completed) and I also have an idea (well, it’s something I’ve written about before at my college paper) for a small book. I hope to actually publish it myself, create a small website for it and sell it myself. I don’t want to make millions off it, just enough to make it worth publishing and maybe a decent profit to help me pay off some debt!

Outside of that, things are OK, I think. Haven’t been too bad.

For those of you from this area, Delhi-Walton is Saturday in Delhi. Should be a good battle. I’m sure I’ll run into at least one of you there.

Everyone differs about noise, I know.

Some like loud-ass rap music.

Some like loud country.

Some like quiet background tunes, more of a classical nature.

That’s just for that. The same goes for television sound, outside sounds, etc. I mean, truth be told, sometimes people just like things to be loud or quiet. I’m the latter. For the most part, I like things quiet around me.

I don’t listen to my music that loud. Same with my television. The same can be said for most things, except when I’m drinking a bit and I get talking. Or playing softball. Then I’m loud. But that’s in different surroundings.

I’m talking more about when you’re at home, relaxing. I hate noise.

Dogs, music, kids. Doesn’t matter. Hate it.

The thing that really bothers me is when parents or animal owners don’t have control over their kids/dogs. It’s just plain ridiculous.

My current neighborhood is overrun by dogs, once where owners put them out in the morning and don’t bring them in all night. And hell, what do you think they do? Bark all day.

And the kids? Holy shit, people around here seem to reproduce just by thinking about sex. It’s nuts. And of course they all congregate in an area close to the house so they can all spread gossip on people like a bunch of old fucking hens.

Seriously, they all need to go out and get fucking jobs when their kids hit a certain age.

You want to know why some people still stereotype women as those who stay in the kitchen, cook pot pies and are always preggos? Because it still fucking happens.

And then they gossip.

And while all this is going on? The kids run around and scream and strew things around like a trailer park and the moms all gossip and giggle.

But that I can deal with.

The dogs, no. People wonder why I have a hatred for dogs. Ask others in this area about all the dogs. It’s not just one person, there are like 5-6 in this neighborhood along. And then 4-5 in close neighborhoods that bark so YOU can here them.

Yeah, great town we have here that actually checks shit out. Believe me, I’ve looked into what can be done about these dogs and nobody seems to care.

Finally? This is a college town. I understand that. However, there’s no reason that the whole town needs to be off-campus housing. That’s part of the problem. Streets that used to be good areas to live have been bought up by City fucks who turn the houses into student housing.

And with that, what happens? You got it. Loud music, loud cars, loud kids and disrespect. They don’t give a fuck. Being the home of a two-year school, most of the kids are fresh out of home, on their own and don’t care. They are loud at all hours, walk home from parties and are loud, leave beer cans and other party pieces all over the place and are just plain rude.

They need a good bat to the f’n head is what they need.

They aren’t all bad, I will say that. And a lot of the problem is this town and the “old guard” and the inability to draw anything here for the kids to do. Seriously, ask Phat Matt, there’s nothing in this town for the students to do besides go drinking. Nothing. No movie theatre, bowling alley, dance club, nothing.

Zer-f’n-o.

This town needs to open its eyes is what it needs to do.

And cut down on the f’n noise while they’re at it.

For some of you who know me a little better off the board, you know I’ve been pissed recently about a lot of things, mainly financial. The inability to find an apartment I can find on my paltry paycheck, still be able to pay my bills and at the same time actually be able to afford a beer or two.

That said, I’ve come to several different things that I’m going to do to ease the stress and hopefully it will work.

I’ve saved for quite a bit to get a new desktop. I built one at Dell, going to try and sweet talk them into giving me a discount and then I’m going to order today. Hopefully it’ll be here and set up by next Wednesday or so.

The one thing that used to help me ease some stress was writing. But not the same writing I do for my job — that’s just a bit stressful at times. And really doesn’t ever ease stress, deadlines and all.

No, instead, I want to get back into writing things I enjoy and can keep my attention hopefully.

I’ve had a fictional book idea based on a character I used for a column in college I’d like to write. The idea would be to publish myself and just basically run 400-500 copies of the book, hope to sell it to friends, family and maybe people out there who know who I am and such. I’ll make a website for it and hope I can sell out.

I also want to get back into screenwriting. It’s something that’s facinated me and I’m really hoping one day to be able to see one of my creations on the big screen. I have one actually finished which I wrote about five years ago I’d like to go over, fix up and see what else I have to do with it to maybe attempt to sell it.

Just seems like I would be able to get some stress-relief working on that and trying to get some other little hobbies to occupy my time. Maybe try and work on hoohaa.com a little more or maybe my portfolio website, which I’ve been trying to fix up for 6-7 months now. The new desktop will help so I don’t always have to do it on the laptop, which gets annoying.

I also have looked into journal writing a little, but never did it. Heard it helps with stress some because you can vent basically to yourself and get it all out. I actually found a decent software online I might get the trial version and see what it’s all about.

Either way, I’m sick of always being stressed. I have some goals and such I want to accomplish over the next six months or so and hopefully things will go well enough to allow me to do those. I’m a big fan of karma and keeping positive, so I’m going to try and keep it all on the positive.

Maybe I’ll even check out the yoga place in the city where I work.

Anyhoo, that’s my latest. My only other hope is people on here will start using their blogs and the gallery a little more. But that’s just a webmasters hope!