OK, Coffee Break's Over

Man have I been swamped at work lately. I've had to go AWOL from blogging for a bit. If I can't get it done during the day it ain't gonna happen. I stare at this display for at least 10 hours a day, and I sure as hell ain't gonna stare at it afterwards. By then my eyes are going out of focus and I can barely read the labels on the liquor bottles. When I'm trying to make a drink after work, not during. It's not that bad yet.
So "what's new?" you ask.
I'll tell ya: Goddam do I work with a bunch of pricks. A few hundred thousand of em at last count. You get a little inspiration and try and get something done and the fuckwad Business Prevention Specialists call in reinforcements to make sure that doesn't happen. Very frustrating. It quickly escalates into a grown-up version of 'who's big brother is bigger'. That's an essential word around here: "escalate". Can't hear that one too many times when you're trying to accomplish something. I'm gonna escalate. I'm escalating you. They're escalating him. Escalate. Escalating. Escalated. FUCK. ENOUGH. Gimme the days of clubs, maces, battleaxes, even fucking baseball bats. Then I'll show you some friggin escalations.
That's one pet peeve. Corporate-speak is another one that makes my flesh crawl:
"Our direction is to leverage our core competencies to deliver value-added solutions to our clients, freeing them to focus on organic growth and identification of other synergies"
WTF did you say?
"We're gonna do what we know how to do, for the people that pay us to do it"
In other words, 'Shut up and row, right?'
"Yeah, that's pretty much it"
Thought so.

I'm not exagerating when I tell you that I get notes, memos, releases, etc, that I read over and over and still have no idea what the hell the writer is trying to say. People that write like that need a big rock dropped on their heads. Or at least a remedial english class or two.
You know, if you got something to say just spit it the fuck out in plain english, so people will know what you're talking about. If you want to be understood, don't say it in corporate-speak or consultant-ese. Plain english: It's not just for news anchors anymore.

Big holiday weekend coming up. Supposed to be off tomorrow but I got more problems than George Bush has... problems.
Speaking of our self-exalted president, what is that oompa loompa looking SOB and his stone-faced cronies thinking? Last throes? How stupid do they think we are? Well I can understand them thinking you're not very bright, but I'm beginning to take offense. We hear "last throes" then 10 minutes later we hear "maybe as long as another decade" Which is it? Tomorrow or 10 years from now? I mean you're running a huge, powerful country. Surely you can guess better than that and narrow it down a bit for us.
Mark my words: This guy will go down in history as the WORST president of all time, bar none. That is assuming we survive 3 more years and there is a history to go down in.

Huh huh huh, I said 'go down'. I just got an invitation in the mail for a free membership to BJ's club which is one of those big box, members only discount stores. I'll have to take them up on their offer. What red-blooded male wouldn't jump on a chance to join BJ's club? Sounds like a winner to me, buy their stock.

That's all for now. Drink up men...