So, where you been...........we've been right here all along.......

Okay, so sorry so long so gone..... :-(

Crap, five months really can slip by if you're not careful. Honestly, got tied up with work and Facebook (I'm addicted). I also cancelled my home internet service so that I can save money this year. Its not really working but at least I'm not dumping $100 a month for service I use 15 minutes a day. So, what have I been up to? Well let's catch up for a minute.

February ended with a bit of craziness. The broad that I met earlier that month kept standing me up and then finally met up with me for Mardi Gras only to drive me all over town at 80 mph while intoxicated....all the time whisper "Rocky, don't worry.....I'm a really good driver....".

In March, I went to New Orleans to celebrate my birthday and St. Paddy's day. First time being in Louisiana. Lot's of fun, rain, drink and creole food. The drive sucked though and I got sick when I got home. I went on a couple of last minute work trips that sucked ass. I think I met a couple new girls that immediately sold me out.

In April, I did some sales training at work, even though I despise salesmen. Took a trip to Phillidelphia for work, first time being in that part of the country. My company changed names to Cosworth Electronics which rolls off the tongue way easier. I tried dating my bartender but she proved impossible to ever meet up with outside of the bar. Then, my new, upstairs neighbor flooded my apartment bathroom with his toilet water. He almost got a beat-down for that one.

May began with a dog walk in Chicago. Unfortunately, Pugs have limited mobility by nature, and even less if they're pudgy. Then, I went back to Philly cause I missed the crappy weather. I met another girl and she dismissed me a week later but then the next day met another girl and she stood me up a couple of weeks after that ;-)

June started with a week work trip to North Carolina and my grandma going to the hospital. Everythings cool now but it was a scary time. Then, I did a one-nighter to South Bend to visit my boy, Raul, for a Corby's night where I ran into my old bartender, Sarah, who moved back from Fort Wayne. I gave her my email addy but have yet to hear from her :( The rest of June was spent trying to get as much sun as possible to get a tan :)

Anywho, so, again, sorry for my absence. I'll do better this go around. This year is about to get crazy with a couple of stag parties and weddings in about six weeks time total. I also volunteered to help my cousin drive his car back from Beverly Hills in August. Should be a wreck of a time. Work is sucking pole like every day. I need to quit this job and get to a place that would make me happy. I'm locked into my apartment for another year and then it's on like the break of dawn. I'll keep you posted.........

Here's a face-melt photo of me and my goddaughter........

Scratch that and reverse, reverse.....

Do the Charlie Brown! Okay, so its Tuesday and just wanted to apologize for the rant yesterday. Sometimes, on Monday, I forget to attach my man-parts before leaving the house :-/

Important story that I keep forgetting to bring up.....or maybe I keep forgetting as I have to have my memory wiped clean after every occurance.......either way, there is an outbreak of old dude junk at the gym these days. It's freaking me out but apparently, old dudes' everywhere want all young dudes to see their "shh-mack", their "cash and prizes", their "twig n berries". Honestly, its quite disgusting and against the YMCA locker room policies. There are signs everywhere that clearly state "cover up and wear a swim suit in the whirlpool". And here's the thing, I'm brash enough to open my mouth and tell someone to "put the dick away" but there's no good ending to getting into an altercation with a nakid dude. I have had some positive proactive issues with the YMCA. I bitched about the lack of people cleaning up the free weight area so they opened up their pocketbook and hired someone to do so. However, I don't know how to tell them they need to hire a "Naked Policeman"........err, wait, no, I mean..............sigh..............

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.........

Ever have one of those existential days that leave you more depressed than when the day started? Me too. But, only on the days that end in "y". Maybe its just the state of everything going on in the world or maybe its recent developments within my own life but even as topsy-turvy as it gets, I still feel like I'm standing still while the world sorts stuff out and I'm still at the starting line. Maybe its just a case of the Mondays or maybe I've grown female parts.....or maybe its Michael Bolton on my Ipod.

Anywho, been a bit since I last blogged. Since last I was here, I tried to stop the dude-love by finally resigning my match.com membership. I thought that would've been difficult as I was addicted but I swapped out match.com for Facebook.com and am still hooked on the white horse. Facebook has been fun but too many people I didn't even talk to in my past are trying to be my friend. Probably cause they want to up their friendship numbers. Always the bridesmaid never the bride, I guess.

One of my personal goals this year was to end the "man-dates". Not having much luck. I went out with one chick that tanked on the second date. But on my most recent man-date, the server thought I was cute and dropped me her number. Of course this pissed off my mate who's comment was "All you have to do is just show up...". In my defense, I've been in the gym like 5 nights a week and I finally got a hair cut, no more shaggy dog, so I was looking pimped by all measures. Anywho, I went out with the server last week but am doubtful of any good outcomes.

Actually, I'm not going to lie, today's f*ck-pie started with my waking up alone and wondering when am I going to get back into a real relationship and then turning the blade over and thinking how much I hate real relationships and their bullshit. Then, a facebook friend of mine, who is this hot girl I met at breakfast club in 2007, posted a status that I commented on and she commented back and I got to checking out her profile and was pissed that she lives in San Fran as we had originally hit it off. Point being, when do I get my hot chick to share in my shitty life in Indianapolis. I'm mean, come-the-f*ck-on, already. I've got cheap furniture, a crappy job that constantly causes heartburn, four food items in my fridge and no real hope of bettering myself other than constantly working out as its all I can afford to do these days. What girl wouldn't want a piece of that? Exactly. Beeping exactly.........

Okay, not going to end on a sour note. Had some fun this year with the man-dates. Went to a hockey game, monster truck rally, Pacer's game and some general bar-hopping. Going to Naw 'Leans in March for St. Paddy's day so that should be fun. Hopefully, I'll get to New York this spring and cruise the Big Apple. Got to really shake-n-bake this year and have some fun. Peace..........

I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious.............

NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!! Why? Why would I want to know that? Match.com, in their infinite wisdom, let a dude match himself with me. Granted Match.com isn't exactly batting .500 with all the "ugos" and "what-the-fuck" they sent my way but there's a line and they crossed it. Maybe they're mad at me for finally cancelling my membership after two years of loyal service. I'm not going to lie, I was addicted. I was checking my profile every hour hoping that one "10/10" would send me a wink or email. Actually, a couple did and every time it would turn out that the profile was fake and promoting "seekintimacy.com". Yeah, I would report those profiles every time.........and then weep a little :'-/ Honestly, I thought it would be hard to quit but thankfully Match.com turns off like every important feature the minute you no longer have a paying membership. Kinda cold turkey but it was what I needed. I need to turn off the email alerts to avoid any more dude-on-dude action.

Not that the chick-on-dude action is doing me any favors these days. So, I go out with my new found friend on Saturday. I rushed my friends through an Indiana Ice hockey game thinking I was going to have this awesome time with this girl. Like a 7 year old boy on Christmas morning opening a package of socks and underwear. You ever have a moment where you are in a room full of people and know you're entirely alone? Well, I have a lot of those and this was no worse except to add insult to injury she took off to go play a bowling arcade game and left me with her friends for about 30-40 mins before I used the pugs as an excuse to leave. It's not that I'm not a fun person or capable of enjoying a night out. Hell no it's not that at all. And I'm no "old fashioned" date-er. I'll hit it and get when the opportunity arises. Here I am trying to get to know this girl who apparently knows every bartender in the Indianapolis metro area, is divorced, drives a Lexus, and is on the other side of 30 years old, and she abandons me. Maybe she was expecting more of a "party boy" out of me. However, I know better than to shit where I eat. As a person, she didn't intimidate me at all. However, I've got better common sense then to screw over the hot girl with the guy friends that all wish they were boyfriends. Well, no loss as she had the personality of a bar towel. Good to be getting back in the game.

Note: I say this now but chances are she'll call me in a day or two and want to hang out and I'll be a puppy dog on a leash.......batshit crazy........just how I like them..................

Horseshoes and Handgrenades..............

That's the only time close counts. They say history is doomed to repeat itself and I almost became a self-fulfilling prophecy yesterday. I came back from lunch after hearing that California was going, as a state, bankrupt and incited a political/financial conversation with my co-workers. I was making some points to a dumbass co-worker about the general state of the economy and how everyone in our company could be laid off any moment (ie nothing's secure). Not two minutes later, everyone was called into the conference room........well, everyone minus the three people that got laid off while I was at my lunch break. Before the Christmas break, we were informed that bonuses, raises and the Company party was cancelled directly due to the tank in the economy. As mad as that made me, I was starting to see the writing on the wall and basked in the consolation prize of still having a job. Yesterday, that became more than a consolation prize, it became the Grand Prize. I know its been almost two years since I got laid off from Actia and moved to Indy and started this blog but I'm still shell-shocked. I've been a rogue engineer for this company, doing whatever odd jobs necessary to justify my existence. I think a recent project I took on is the only reason I didn't make the list. Knock on wood. What makes matter's worse is that two of the people on the list have family's, one just had a new baby a few months back. I also found out through some connections that the list got shuffled around a few hours before being enacted. I know that my opinion doesn't matter but it sucks when people that are trying to make a difference get gone in place of those that bring the company down. Again, its only my opinion.
On a positive note, had a date with my new found friend the other night. The jury's still out but at least I'm getting back in the game.
It's going to be a long winter......................

The hunt is on.....

I went out for a night on the town with some friends that I hadn't seen in a while this past Saturday. We went to an upscale bar in Broad Ripple that is for late 20s early 30s folks (ie plays music from the 90s that only we would know). I was out for a few hours dancing the night away when I decided to call it a night and go home. Well, it was still early, like 1am, and a pop-in to the Fox n Hound has never hurt me. So, I drop in and the place is kinda quiet. I grab a seat at the bar next to the Mega Touch video game machine. I order up a beer and decide to drop a few dollars in the Mega Touch. I'm playing some game that required my attention when this girl comes up to me and starts chatting like we're old college buddies and haven't seen each other in a couple weeks. Out of sheer curiosity, I play along and keep the conversation going. I also notice that another girl has flanked me on my left side and is chatting some bloke at the bar. Eventually, my game ends and my new friend wants to introduce me to her friend (on my left). Then, the first friend fucks off and leaves me with 2nd new friend. Turns out, these ladies saw me in the Hound on New Years day, watching the Rose Bowl, and the 2nd friend called "dibs" on me to all her girlfriends but I had left that day before she could talk to me. To make matters more awkward, this girl knew everybody in the bar so I had all kinds of eyes on me watching my every move. Strangely, even less awkward, we were playing the Penthouse Photo Hunt on the Mega Touch for like 1.5 hours. Really made for a crazy finish to the night. I think the moral of the story is to never pass up on a bar and always stay later than you originally planned so as to not miss out on a future "Mrs. Wrong" ;-) Yeah, this girl reminds me of a girl from my past but that's a story for another time.............