It’s been a pretty difficult week. Work is still kicking my ass and Christopher Hitchens moved on to his lack of reward. But there have been a couple high points too, I went out to the local Zombie Burger and got this:
Delicious.
How can food compare with struggling at work and the death of one of the world’s greatest thinkers? Pretty well actually. First the work thing. It’s not so much that I’m sucking (which I still am to a certain extent) but that I think I should be getting more done. I so hate being ‘that’ guy, you know the one, the one who can’t seem to keep up with his share of the work coming down the conveyor belt, so the other people have to ‘pitch in’ and help him out…a lot. If only I had a drinking problem to blame… Heh, heh, irony, ’cause if I had a drinking problem I probably wouldn’t be worried about my co-workers and them having to do my work for me. Anyhoo, that will get better.
As for Hitchens, well the prognosis isn’t good for a full recovery. Even a zombie Hitchens wouldn’t be the same. I knew he was ill, I viewed some of his youtube videos discussing it and I don’t think that brilliance will come around again for some time. Hitch, you are already missed!
Despite having absolutely no faith I sure do like Christmas, it is always good to get together with friends and family and give and get tokens of affection. I think I must have spent over three hundred at thinkgeek.com this year, they have amazing stocking stuffers and ‘real’ gifts too. I’d put down what I got, but you never know when a giftee will hit this sight unexpectedly, so it will have to wait until after the holiday. Overall I am still turned off by the rampant materialism of the season, but everyone, including me, can buy into that as much as we want, no one is forced to participate, though I do understand the social pressures that come from the giving frenzy.
Reading wise I’ve been chipping away at ‘Too Big to Fail’, a book about the financial crisis, very good if you’re into non-fiction. It’s nice to know the engineers of that catastrophe have almost all gotten off without penalty and that many of them have even been given jobs in our government to help regulate…the financial industry. Sweet. I’ll keep honing my zombie barricade building skills, they will work against post-apocalyptic raiders too.
Oh and I can’t leave without at least giving a shout out to that other aithiest who died last week too, Kim Jong Il, the world is probably better for your passing, but I know your poor country isn’t. I don’t always buy into the hype that other countries are ‘bad’ or ‘evil’, North Korea though, yeah, the evidence seems to point that way. Just head over to the officialThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea website and take a read of the crazy for yourself sometime. Things like this make me very happy to live where I do and have the rights I do, even if the freedoms are restrained and under constant assault.
