Today was Killer
Over the last couple of months, since the beginning of October I believe, I’ve basically been working on pure inspiration. I have some tasks that I have to do every day(ie: NBA Tips, keeping up to date on e-mail etc) but for the most part I’ve been working just whenever I felt like it. Some days I’d do pretty much no work, other days if I felt like it I worked all day.
As I mentioned in my last update, I was planning on working till my eyes bleed this week.
Fuck that.
I did the nose to the grindstone stuff today and it was just brutal. After switching to the more relaxed lifestyle, there’s no way I’ll be able to go back to this. I worked from 8am until 10pm, the only times I left the computer were to pick up Mason and eat dinner. At 10pm I went for a nice relaxing bath and read Hostage by Robert Crais – that’s the Bruce WIllis movie BTW, then I was right back at it from 11pm until 2am.
And it sucked.
It felt like the life was just being sucked out of me doing that. It didn’t help that I had a to do list of over 50 items. Although I’ve managed to whittle it down to 25 items, it really felt like I barely made a dent in it. Basically I didn’t feel productive at all – even though I accomplished a lot today, I’m sitting here just thinking “Shit, I still have so much to do”.
I’m not gonna do the nose to the grindstone stuff anymore – not gonna try, actually. I set myself up with something on my computer that will shut down the system at 5pm, and I am not able to access it again until 5am the next morning. I also set it up with a random password that I typed in by hammering the keys with my eyes closed, just so I don’t try and circumvent it. So now the only way I can access my computer after 5pm is if I reformat Windows – and I really do not see myself doing that.
I just find it amusing how things can change. I thought nothing of 12+ hour days just a few months back – actually it was the norm, and I had no problem with it. Now just the thought if it is something I can not comprehend.
Whew. Oh well. Thinking back I did manage to get a lot done today which was good, and it’s put my in good shape for the rest of the week.
Off to bed now, and to fall asleep watching King of Queens which I’m going through again.
Christ
Where have the last two weeks gone?
It feels like I’ve been busy – but not actually busy. I have absolutely no clue what I have been doing the past two weeks. Well actually the past week I do. I was planning on a super hard work week – then Janise got sick, and that was pretty much the week gone as I was on single parent duty while she lay in bed coughing up a storm and having a really fever for a week straight.
So yeah – just wanted to check in. This week is basically gonna be WORK TILL MY EYES BLEED week, as I try and get a ton of shit done so I can take the rest of December off.
Sears 3rd Update
Sent me an e-mail at 3:19pm EST to respond to my numerous e-mails. Said that they could not locate any orders from me.
Also telephone me at 3:19pm EST, to inform me that my TV will be delivered on Thursday.
That’s just my head exploding.
Sears.com Follow Up
I wrote last week about how I ordered a TV from Sears.com, then I never got an e-mail or anything, no charges on my credit card etc, and no response to e-mails.
Well on Friday, the exact same TV went on sale again. So I went to buy it. Seconds before I clicked “purchase” I thought “Hmmm I better check my credit card just in case”. And sure enough, that very morning they had billed me for the TV I had bought.
Still not received any order confirmation or tracking information, and I can’t find anything under my account. So absolutely no clue when it will arrive, if it will even arrive.
Seriously it’s 2009 – how can big companies like Sears fuck things up like this.
FM2010 Season 1 Summary
Well I’m back to being addicted to Football Manager, the 2010 version in this case. Of course not long after starting a game I hope to be long-term, I find out that it’s got the same horrible bugs as Football Manager 2008, where the regens suck and it makes long-term games unplayable. Sigh. Hopefully it will be fixed in a patch.
Anyway I know a lot of FM fans read this blog, so thought I would start writing season summaries:
End of Season 1:
I started as an unemployed Graeme Souness to start the game, with leagues from the USA, England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scotland and Spain running. I ended up getting a job with Hibs in the Scottish Premier League. They were 2nd bottom and doing very badly, including a 6-0 HOME defeat against St Johnstone.
We had a decent team, but were broke. I took over on January 1st 2010, and my first game was on January 2nd against rivals Hearts. I went with a very defensive formation with a flat back four, 2 DMCs, 1 ball winning midfielder, 2 wide midfielders and 1 striker. We managed to win 1-0 in a huge result.
We continued to do well in January, although in front of goal we seemed to be weak, missing a lot of easy chances. With no funds, I sold Kevin McBride, Colin Nish and Patrick Cregg, bringing in my only signing of the season, Leigh Griffiths from Dundee. Griffiths is a 19 year old striker with 16 in finishing, 15 in Acc/Pace, 12 in composure and a few other decent attributes. He forced his way into the first team immediately with a double against Motherwell when I dropped Derek “I skipped training” Riordan, and proceeded to score a 90th minute equalizer against Aberdeen in the next game. He would go on to score 8 goals in 14 games.
Despite some solid performances, we were unable to get in the top 6, although it was always a lofty goal. We did manage to pip Hearts on the last day of the season to go above them, which I was rather proud of. Final league table:
Summer signings I have made are Jamie Ness and Nacho Novo from Rangers, and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas from Arsenal.
My current team:
That is minus Joao Pereira, a right back we had on loan, who ended up being the pick of the players for best 11.
For next season, the board have given me a nice gift. With expectations of just mid-table, they’ve given me £1.3m to spend, and added £10k a week onto wages.
Looking at my team, if I stick with that formation I’m solid for DMCs, for AMCs, for strikers, for CDs and for LBs. I COULD do with a better keeper although Stack did a solid job last year, and I 100% need an RB. Although I notice Kenny Miller would be interested in coming to us, so don’t be surprised if I blow the whole budget on him.
Finally I got the youth team through – and I got a pretty decent regen in 6’3″ striker Scott Moffat:
Hopefully he will be leading the line within the next few years.