So Buenos Aires trip had to be shelved because the flights coming back filled up.

I’d rather have a hard time getting where I’m trying to go and be able to get back easily than be stuck in another country for days.

Oh well, I’m going to get there eventually.

So that freed me up to watch lots and lots of basketball. If Purdue wins Thursday and Saturday, they’re playing in Glendale next Thursday. If that happens, I’m taking the day off from work and going. We’ll see how it plays out.

That’s pretty much it.

Just trying to keep all y’all updated

<3

Next Wednesday…. I’m off to Argentina. Hoping to do a day trip to Uruguay so I can cross another country off my list.

It should be a good time, and getting lodging for $8-13 a night is always nice. $3-7 steak dinners with wine is an additional plus.

Anyway, I don’t have much to write but I’m trying to keep updating this as often as I can. Life is good, work is fun, etc.

Bought a new computer and got it up and running. 6 gigs of ram is wow. It loads programs before I even think to click on their icon. Technology is great.

Jimmy Fallon is suffering on tv five nights a week. But Conan always said his first season was painful too, so maybe this is the same.

The audience laughter seems forced. I should host this damn show.

Sorry to my three loyal readers, all of whom have actually begged me to update…

Well here it is. I’ve been really busy lately with the real world, I’m not “Big-leaguing” anyone.

Details on my life this paragraph then a moral motivational speech next paragraph. Deal? Deal. So life for me is great. I’m really enjoying my job, way more that I thought I would. I work with a really cool group of guys and girls who aren’t stuck up morons like pilots generally are. It’s rather refreshing. I went to San Diego a few weekends ago with Lauren and we had a good time. The hotel had a free wine hour and I essentially paid for the room in wine I drank in that hour (6 glasses!!!) Other than that, I’m planning to go to Buenos Aires on March 11-15, and if you can read this, you’re invited. Let me know.

Okay, onto what you really read this for. My opining and moral high horsing that is…. “commentary”

So a lot of my friends are eating the shit sandwich lately. Layoffs, miserable lives for whatever reason, etc etc.

All I gots ta say is: hang in there. It will get better. For the airline guys getting laid off, you’ll go work a job. Maybe it will be better, maybe it will be worse, but just bide your time until recall if that’s what you need to do. If you need to get out of the industry for a while, now is your chance. You’ll have something to come back to.

For everyone else eating the shit sandwich, just relax. Things will work themselves out. I promise. 6 months ago I would’ve ignored everything I had to say. People told me the same thing and I said “no, things might not work out for me” but they do. For everyone. Always. No exceptions. Let’s be rational here: you’re not ever going to end up living under an overpass for as long as you have family or friends. You’re more than likely not going to end up living the rest of your life alone. You probably won’t have to settle for some girl in Indiana. You might even end up like me and exporting a girl who is a level or 6 above you. You’ll probably find a job you’ll like, you might have to eat the shit sandwich for a month, a year, three years, but it’s better to eat the shit sandwich than to not eat at all. Even though shit is no fun to eat, it comes with bread. People focus too much on the shit, and not on the sandwich.

You just need to find a shit sandwich that’s on a tolerable type of bread.

Seriously. That’s it. You need to find a way to make your life tolerable. Maybe you find that the right kind of bread makes you realize that your sandwich isn’t shit, but merely bad meat, and that meat can easily be switched out for fresh meat.

Whatever you do, you need to believe me and realize that things aren’t that bad, and they’ll work themselves out. It’s not fate or any of that bullshit, it’s just human nature. If you’re worried about something, you’ll do whatever it takes to settle that discomfort. When your stomach is uncomfortable, you eat. When your throat is uncomfortable, you drink.

Just hang in there. It’s worth it. You’ll come out of it as happy as I am. I don’t have the world, but I have everything I could ever ask for, given my age and situation.

If I could pause my life, I’d do it right about now.

Good luck.