the year so far

i hope the year 2007 is working out for you cos sure as hell it ain't working for me! this is the third time i'm trying to write this post and it would sure as hell help if damned Firefox wouldn't keep crashing and not allow me to recover post either.. *(&*^$%$%^#.. sure as hell, this year has not improved at all from how 2006 ended.. if anything things have just gotten crappier! ok, now no more hell metaphors.

work-wise this year officially sucks. every day in every way things do not improve. with the last couple of four-day weeks we've had, production runs twenty two hours a day, so the 3rd shift maintenance team that i head has had no time to do jackshit! so much work to do, and funnily enough even in winter, which is the down season, no time to do it in! every day i plod into work before midnight, readying myself for yet another night of misery.. sometimes i've been so busy that between getting to work and hanging my jacket on the coathanger and leaving some 12 hours later, all i get time to do is grab a polystyrene cup of not-so-fresh java and a quick couple of puffs on Mr. Camel Lights..

with the holiday mentality still in the air, plant efficiencies have gone to crap. sometimes i've had to crack the management whip.. but if you know me, you also know that i'm not the kind of manager who tries to wear the do-what-i-tell-you-to-do suit, but unfortunately there are times i have to..

my health has gone for a bit of a toss too.. i've had a lingering cough and cold for the last couple of weeks, and sleep has been an elusive mistress, even more elusive than usual. i've even stopped smoking everything for a bit, but yet as soon as i lay my head down to sleep every day the coughing fits that kick in have been keeping me restless. during the night at work i keep hawking up gobs of nasty phlegm, but it's only when i hit the bed that it really buggers me. and not only has sleep been affected, but whenever we're in the mood for some horizontal salsa, the humpin' n' pumpin' has been tainted by stops for huffin' n' puffin' as i try to catch my breath and keep up the pace!

in fact, i barely managed to do any partying during the new year's eve and the subsequent happy birthday's celebrations.. which kinda sucked! i didn't really feel like i was dying, although i was really glad to cross the threshold of 27 and move into 28.. considering so many of the icons of the rock n' roll lifestyle kicked the bucket during that fateful twenty seventh year.. Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin..

so that's that, i'm still waiting on this year 2007 to turn a new leaf and better itself and my life too.. how's your year looking so far?!