My business trip has been a doozy. It consists of working 13 or 14 hour days and lots of walking. I have basically perform a couple of marathons everyday since the convention center is so gigantic. It seriously takes 20 minutes to walk from one side to the other, and I'm constantly having to find people (our walkie system sucks, doesn't even have camouflaged receivers).
But the people at the job are a least a great source of entertainment. If you don't know I work in IT. And the IT crowd is one of made of a different breed. With their two phones holstered on each side of their cutoff denim jeans like a western meeting the 80s, these men take justice and broadcast it at a unknown frequency. Comb-overs, fanny packs, baggy shirts, and forward struts, they've got them. One of their names is Jack, and he's my partner in crime when it comes to the tangled cob webs of interweaving fibers called networks.
Jack is this monster of a man. At 6' 9" and 300 pounds, this wrecking ball has the strength of a F30 pickup and sometimes displays the personality of an Ogre. He has one goal, as he has informed me many times, and it is to make me emotionally breakdown and cry like a little kid. He has not only made me his personal scapegoat, but also puts insult after insult to trigger some kind of response. So far it hasn't work, and even as the day grows more tiresome, I'm able to beef up. Actually we are starting to find many different qualities in common (not films or music). Today we hate apples and caramel snack packs in an empty two-story auditorium talking about the origin of expressions we've been saying since kids.
I really want to build a high class Victorian steampunk outfit. I just need that kind of respect in a fake community. I've got the whole outfit planned out, just need some pressure gauges and the time to build it.
How men and their shirt types evolve:
Age 5: Monkeys (probably curious george)
Age 10: Lizards (way cooler than monkeys)
Age 15: Christian heavy metal (rebellious and hardcore)
Age 20: Designer shirts (cool graphics or indie band shirts)
Age 25: Fashion shirts (multi-button or v-neck-like)
Age 30: Polos (you're married now)
Age 35: Tie-dye (you're married and need some youth)
Age 40: Best dad shirts (you might as well be proud about being married)
Age 45: Oversized shirts (you're slowly losing grip of reality)
Age 50: Button up shirts showing chest hair (you're now listening to more disco than ever for some reason)
Age 55: Son's old shirts (retirement is near)
I don't know after 55.
Question of the day:
What are you five favorite films of the decade?
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