So it is early monday morning and I can’t sleep. I hate holiday weekends because I end up screwing up my entire sleep habit and it is hard to get back into the normal routine. I was up till like 2-am Saturday night, and now it is after 12:30 on monday morning and I am not tired at all. I got the itunes going with some soothing music, and I am about to make myself a drink. Hopefully that will get me tired to get some normal sleep.
I was going to take the powerbook and lie in bed and do some writing. That is my favorite place to write. I know it sounds crazy but it is. I like to prop my pillows up and sit and type. I normally prop the laptop up on my legs and type. The problem is the powerbook has been on all day plugged into the outlet. It is aluminum and it gets really hot when left on. I really don’t want to pick it up right now. That is the one down side of this new powerbook. The metal makes it really hot when it is on for a while.
OK, I broke out the Godiva Liqueur. I keep a bottle frozen in my fridge along with a bunch of other alcohol. I am not a huge drinker but I sometimes have more alcohol than food in that freezer. I got to drinking the Godiva from my dad. He used to drink it at night every once in a while. he isn’t a big drinker but he would drink that stuff. It is good. I keep that, some bailies, Jack Daniel’s, & Absolute in the freezer. I think there is more, but that is what I normally drink.
When I was traveling with Datastream I was depressed allot towards the end. I started getting bored and the travel was killing me. I went weeks at a time getting bad night sleep. My dad actually recommended a shot or two before bed each night if it was stressed that day. According to the medical folks 1-2-oz of alcohol a day is actually good for you, or at least ok to do. I didn’t do it every night, but I got in the habit of doing it. I haven’t done it in a while, but I guess that is good because of the reason I started in the first place!
My whole time at Datastream is a testimate to every action or event has a purpose. I got that job and it was everything I thought I wanted at the time. Then it turned out to be nothing like I thought it would be, and I became unhappy after less than a year. Then I just said I can’t do this anymore and quit.
After a few weeks I got offered to contract a my friend jeff and dave’s company. Six months before I might have taken a job with them without question, but by this time (march 2001) I was set against anything internet company related. I took it because I had nothing else going on and at least it would be steady money for a while. I took the job as a favor to jeff, by me coming on he could leave and make sure they had support people. I was totally not happy for the first few months. Dealing with my friend dave was difficult at best and we didn’t have much to do.
Then my current company picked up my contract and I was worried that I would hate it. The guy I was going to work for was a pain allot of the time, but again I had nothing else going on and the things they were doing were cool, and it was a good opportunity. To my surprise I actually liked it. Dealing with the boss was not as bad as I first predicted, and the work as I said was cool. So by dumb blind luck I ended up in a job that I currently think is awesome, doing pretty much what I always wanted to do. It was all because of dumb luck or fate or who knows what that I ended up where I am today.
The weird turn of events go back even further than Datastream but I think my tangent about the drinking started off this story so I won’t go back further than that. But this whole chain of events gets me wondering if everything happens for a reason, fate or whatever. Or is it just dumb luck??? I don’t know. All I do know is I need so dumb luck on the girlfriend front and the universe will be in good shape!
Of course I don’t regret my time at Datastream. I wanted to travel, that is why I took the job. I didn’t get the travel bug out of me at IBM so it was worth the time. Trust me you want to travel when you are young. I am not old by any means, but I don’t know if I could do that kind of travel now. It takes too much out of you emotionally and physically. In under two years I went to more places than most people will go in a lifetime. For that I am grateful.
OK, I am 1 1/2 drinks into this blog entry and I am not yet really tired.