Well folks, the delete and family of now three has been in Montana for about five months, so I thought that it might be a good place to step back and look and see how things have gone so far, maybe for a marker by mostly to clear some cobwebs that have been around. First of all, I cannot express how nice it is to be away from the former work environment that we took salvation from by moving here. No more underhanded, egotistical, 30+ frat boys who still find joy in making shitty jokes to all of the other non-frat boys in the room, pretentious/power-hungry horrible copywriters/attention starved hipsters, fauxhawked/vest wearing plastic just plan sickening people in general that I had to be face to face with every morning. I awake these days looking forward to the work day with an almost Disney sort of scenario, but in a good way… Apparently I don’t thrive in such environments as what was in Denver, you see I enjoy people of the non-douchebag variety and now have this on a regular basis, I enjoy the non-douche bag days.
Traffic here in Billings isn’t “heavy” per say, but the lack of common driving knowledge can “drive” one to punching the steering wheel from time to time. I’ll take the 20 min. commute and the ability to head home for lunch everyday over the shite Denver commute. Not to mention that we’re now in a house rather than being stuffed in an apartment complex with a bunch of other folks I’d never look at twice if it wasn’t for the fact that I was sharing a wall with them. I can actually hit up the surrounding mountains and not worry about running into folks like many of my co-workers, especially one in particular who was from Texas. I will never set foot in that state because of this man. But I regress…
Last and certainly not least. I’m now a father which is a pretty large task within itself, and I’m very glad that I’m starting out here rather than Denver, as I can focus on her rather than what douchebag A and B did today and how am I going to face tomorrow. Now I look forward to being able to spend as much time as possible with Beatrix and teach her the ways of thinking for herself and not buying into the mob mentality. Unfortunately it might take her a job or three to five the right balance. I believe I’ve found that.
I do miss being closer to the Denver Egotist scene as well as having NHL hockey close, but my sanity is it bit more important these days.
Well there is a pretty general overview of our first five months here in Montana. Yes, I still hold on to a lot of grudges spawned in CO and I don’t see that going away anytime soon, but don’t worry Location3, I will not be visiting anytime soon.
That should be all for now. Until next time…Courage.
Tomorrow at this time we will be prepping for C-section to introduce to everyone our first born. It has been a pretty interesting ride so far. I fear parenthood will turn me bland, but then again I think I’ve been flying the bland flag for quite some time.
Well, that is all for now. There could be a string of frantic messages between now and tomorrow morning, but if not I will post photos of the spawn of Josef and Courtney just as soon as I can.
The occasional peeping of Denver news has once again made me extremely happy that we no longer live there. Not that we frequented many of the venues around the area, but hearing of the multi-day Phish fest at Red Rocks makes the bile creep up into the back of my throat, but I regress.
So, essentially only two more evenings before parenthood officially arrives. Visions of crappy fathering practices have been tormenting my dreams, hopefully this is just making me aware of what not to do. I think the fact that we’re saving the unveiling of the name until the arrival of my daughter might be driving the family and friends a little bit insane. Sorry folks, there will be no posting of this information until the correct time.
That is all for now, until next time….COURAGE!
Enter the last friday of non-fatherhood. No I am not joining the church or even attending a church, it is a witty comparison of me and my wife gaining a daughter. Needless to say, things are a bit tense around das’ house. More updates to come.
Will be waiting for me in the morning. Yipes, I think this might be a rough week.
Self explanatory.
It is the day of the week in which I loathe the most. After a bit of a long night reliving former company gatherings and social awkardness in general, this delete is a bit worn. I did manage to make some progress last night on an
illustration, which is good news as I’ve been in a bit of a slump and need to get on illustration wagon because in just about two months, that time will really be limited.
That is all for now, until next time….courage.
The art of
Skinner, found via
fecalface.com.
Nothing too exciting going on at the deleted basecamp these days. I would like to say that I have a lot of work in the wings waiting to be unleashed to the public, but that is not the case. Instead I’ve been staying up past my old man bedtime of 9pm only to have former co-workers ruin my slumber via my mental television programming, aka dreams.
Well, if anything of interest happens in the near futre, rest assured that I will post it. As per usual, until that time comes, COURAGE.
