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well again, it's been days since last i wrote here. things have been happening and, as you might imagine, with a newborn child, there's a lot going on! i'm in a highly creative mood today, as i was yesterday also...did all kinds of work on the website yesterday and i want to do more today...but i've got fucking work to tend with tonight. i don't want to go...i'm hating my job more and more everyday...the bullshit political games, the gossip, the mis-management...all of it sucks! i can't wait until my books and works are published, produced, whatever...i don't want to be a manager, mama, i don't want to die!
charlie griggs has been staying with us for a couple of weeks until he gets his own place. it's been working out well enough, it's nice having him around, but he needs to find his own place. so i can go there to hang out! we think we might have found him a couple of options, but we're waiting for the details (rent, time to move in, etc.)...hopefully in the next week something good will happen as a result of this...while he's been here we've been discussing all sorts of things about bands/music (i'm getting a very strong urge to buy myself a new bass and amp and join in a band with him)...we've discussed the merits and viability of developing something like a "split/apple" down here in hot springs...i don't know if i really want to do that again. i would like to open a recording studio though...there's nothing really here and i do believe some money and art can result from such a venture...i need my own studio too.
well, i should go...i need to shower and what not for werk...yuk. i plan on working on the website tonight...hell, maybe i'll do some of that from work...it's better than making stupid meaningless reports and barking orders to my staff...well, i shall write again soon. be well, i am...
coopershare resorts, hsv, ar, usa, earth...
here i am, at work, working on my website instead of working...not that there's alot for me to do really. I have a very easy job and all...mostly supervising other people, creating marketing materials for a two bit resort and making sales and marketing reports for up tight good old boys to read...i'm very disillusioned with this job, can you tell? oh well, at least i'm semi-retired about it!
i am working very hard on my creative stuff though...that's my real work, my real purpose in life. I am a writer, an artist...aside from a husband, lover, father and son...i create things to express myself and to entertain other people. that's what's most important to me about my work...helping others enjoy themselves, better understand themselves (and others)...that is, if you will, my mission in life. help the world understand itself better by sharing my own experiences...who knows if it really works or not, but i do it just the same. I'm inclined to think it does work. I found it useful to hear the music of my heros (beatles, zappa, dead, dylan, etc.)...i gain new insights when i watch intelligent films or read deep books...poetry helps me touch something untouchable inside...art is theraputic for me and i can't help but think it's the same for many people...is it?
so yeah, creatively i've been busy on this website (lots of fun, very new to me and so exciting)...i'm working on my collection of short stories...i have a deadline for 22 november (the kennedy was shot, hummmm...) and i'm trying to make that deadline...i've been dabbling with lyrics a little...hanging out with charlie has got me thinking about music again. i've even had the urge (very strong urge sometimes) to buy myself a bass and start playing again...something i've not done in 20 years! i'm also taking some great shots with the cameras too...have not done any painting recently...but otherwise, my creative output has been excellent and very satisfying...so all of that, combined with the joy and happiness i feel over maggie's birth more that counter balances the shit i put up with here at work...speaking of work, i need to get back to it so we can get out of here early!
more again soon...
houseofbliss, hsv, ar, usa, earth...
Good Morning! Good Morning! Good Morning!
I've been up for hours...since 5:17am, to be exactly...how very strange, that's the time I was born! Anyways, fell asleep early last night and now I'm up and pumped with coffee and creativity...i've been working like mad on this website and having a wonderful time doing it. i finished the "broken images of light" gallery exhibt and episode six in the tragical history tour...i still need to work on the front page and layout the site again. i plan on doing this today, before i quit working for the day...i really like doing this. Website content development is something i would like to do more of too...hell, getting paid to do this kind of thing would be great! that's, in part, what i'm hoping to do with this overall effort...build up my skills and experiences in working in this media...developing something i can point to as an example of my work...i know i'm a good writer and all, but i need to make it work for me as a living, right? i have a little book project going, i've tried to submit things for screen play production...i'm not really interested (nor very skilled) in creating things for magazine/journalism applications...but this, this website development and content provider thing is different. it's more immediate, more cratively endowed...i can utilize other forms of my artistic expression with it...music/sound, art/video...i like combining these elements a lot!
Yesterday was a very strange day. It started off great...it was john lennon's 60th birthday and i was completely psyched about it...i played his music all morning/early afternoon while i tooled around in my clubs and worked on this website...at around 2pm i met on-line with some of my club friends for a group chat about john and to celebrate his birthday together...that was gads of fun. julian joined me for a while...charlie sat in for a little while...even maggie was there! it was really cool...then i needed to deal with some real life duties and do something about the two flat tires we had on our van...the other night, as kelly and the kids were going over to visit my mother, she ran over one of those big steel plates they put across large pot holes in the road...they are working on the water lines or something down the street and as she went across it, it popped up enough to pop our two front tires! so that sucked...especially since i only have one spare tire! i was able to re-inflate one of the two flats enough to drive to wal-mart where i spent $145.00 on new tires...shit! i also had to contend with this sales director at the resort where i work...he expected me to come in last night (didn't he know he was john lennon's birthday and i had better tings than work to do?) ((just kidding...))...anyways, he wanted me to come in immediately and at that moment i was trying to change the tires and all...i told him i would be there as soon as i could, but it wouldn't be for three or so hours...he got pissed off, said he'd see me tomorrow (today) and hung up on me...what an asshole! then, later at night, again with work...the phones are screwing up once more. this is a regular thing there...they have the shittiest phone system...and they expect me to operate their telemarketing department with it...such bullshit! other problems too, but nothing that i can really do anything about...let's just say it's about time d'hilip looked to do something else...i really hate that place!
if you've looked at my little bio-blurb about myself, you'd see that i consider myself a "semi-retired marketing professional"...but what, exactly, is that you ask? Well, I'll have to tell you another time because my little magnolia princess, maggie, just woke up and she needs to be fed, changed, cuddled, etc...so i'll have to continue this little dialogue another time! until then...
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