Driving in the Snow, and the People who Can't.

I live in Minnesota, where we get snow. Why is it that every year people act all surprised that it snows? Is everyone in the state a new resident from Florida or Texas or California?

 Yesterday I was at work, listening to all the people whining and crying at the office about the forecasted snow. The dj's on the local radio station (KS95) the other people in the office were listening to (I listen to my iPod) were crying about it too. Seriously? What is wrong with these people? Do you or do you not live in a place where it snows 4-6 months out of the year. Stop adding to the cattles paranoia.

When the fuck did society become a bunch of fucking pussies? If you can't drive "normal" in the snow, and stay the fuck outta the peoples way who can drive, Stay the Fuck home, curl up in the corner and cry like the Little Bitch you are. You Fucking Bitches are the ones who cause accidents in the snow. People like you should be ticketed and taken off the roads.

I once was driving in a snowstorm with a girl years ago, a car I had never driven before, in fact she had only had it for 2 weeks. Anyway, I am driving along in the snow, and she asks me "How can you drive normal?" I looked at her and said "What do you mean, Normal?" I was just driving.

I used to drive Trans Ams, Mustangs and Camaros through the winter. Never once had a problem, it is actually funner and makes taking a corner easy. People for years drove cars without Front Wheel Drive and Anti Lock Brakes. Do you think some guy in the 50's or 60's would cry about the snow and contemplate not going into the office? Fuck no, back then men were men and did what was necessary. Today's society wouldn't survive the past.

Don't even get me started on the jack asses who think just because they have Four Wheel Drive they are safe, those are the worst Fuckin' Idiots who I have seen in the ditch time and time again. Learn how to drive for real Fucktards.

Latest Video Games Pickups

Here are a few of my latest game pickups

Black Friday Pickups for the Xbox One: Evolve and The Evil Within

And it had been awhile since I swung by my favorite pawn shop, and picked up a few things.

The Sims Bustin' Out, Complete for the Original Xbox. The Original Sims on Xbox was my first time playing the Sims, so Picked up another.

Hexen for the Nintendo 64, I originally got and played this on the Original Playstation way back in the mid 90's, it was fun, so why not pick it up for the N64 as well?

  After a few minutes cleaning

And a Sega Genesis Game I had not seen before, it looks brand new, and is complete and in great shape. Triple Score 3 Games in 1. Includes Super Hang On, World Championship Soccer and Columns.

That's it for now, no more game hunting until after Christmas.

Newsted Album Update + A Small Rant

I posted my original opinion of the Album here: http://daveswickedthoughts.blogspot.com/2015/03/newst3d.html

I just decided rather than update that post, to my regular readers, who may not go back to it, to make this new post. This album consistently makes its way back into my CD player, every week, and I listen to it for days. Great Album, From a Great Band, I look forward to the next one!

I waited until I found a physical copy locally to pick up this album, I found out later about the Deluxe Edition, which had a few extra tracks Including: Spiderbiter, Godsnake and Skyscraper. I also found out that the iTunes album got an exclusive song, The Differents, which turns out to be my favorite song on the whole album. Once I put my band together, We are going to play that one!

Here you go, Enjoy!

Which brings me to my Rant.

Why do Bands make separate albums? Don't they want to get their music out there?

Even had I bought the Deluxe Edition, I still would not have got the Differents, which as I stated, turns out to be my favorite song on the album.

As I prefer physical media, I don't download albums from iTunes, I never would have heard this song at all. I am one of those "Old Dogs" that prefer to have an actual CD in my hand. Sure, I immediately rip it to the computer, and burn a copy to have in the car, that way if it gets all beat up and scratched, I can just burn a new copy, But I still have the actual, original CD.

I don't know, it just seems weird to me to have 3 separate versions of the same album. Put the songs you want on the album, and get it out, fans shouldn't need to check how many different versions are out there.

Just my opinion.

Life

Sometimes the things in life that seem important, aren't as important as we thought. I have had an interesting couple of months.

On the work front, I had a nice cushy office job for 5 years almost to the day, That #1 I was very very good at, #2 Paid very well and #3 I genuinely liked and respected most of my co-workers. However, the company brought in a consultant, and got rid of several of the higher paid, longer tenured employees, Including me.

 I drifted here and there, worked at Walmart for a few weeks in the Tire and Lube Express, with all of the automotive experience I had, I basically walked into that job. It however, sucked.

Then I got a job at a salvage yard I had worked at while I was in college, but it was just not the same (yes I should have listened to you Jim) as it had been bought out by a large corporation, and the whole experience went down the toilet.

Then I worked as an office manager for a collateral recovery company that told me when I was hired, It's $450.00 a week salary, office hours are mon-thurs 10:00am to 4:00pm. Not bad huh? Well, in actuality, I was expected to be available, and work 24/7, which was never mentioned in either of the 2 interviews, or the job offer. Sorry, you couldn't pay me enough. I quit/was fired after 2 weeks. The boss asked why I hadn't been working the weekends, I said I didn't know I had to, to which he replied "why do you think you got a company phone and laptop?" I advised him to let the next guy know ahead of time of the expectations, not drop it on them after 2 weeks.

The next position, Which I started the same day as I left the above position, was as a data analyst consultant. It was pretty cool, it was at a very nice office, very good pay, and I was able to listen to my iPod all day long. Sadly, as I knew when I was hired, it was a temporary position, as the office was closing up and moving it's operations to Poland.

Then I got this warehouse job, the pay was terrible, should have been at least 50% more, for the work that was required. They had such a high turnover rate, they had 3 temp agencies (which is what I worked there through) supplying them with people. 90% of the people I saw come through lasted a day or less. I made it 2 weeks before.......

I sucked up my pride, called my old boss at the job I had for 5 years, and am now re-employed with them, in my same position and at the same rate of pay. My old boss told me he never agreed with my termination, and that he was very glad I called him, that was nice. My first few days, I had numerous employees swing by my office and just to say hi, and that they were glad to see me back, it felt great. I plan on staying there until it's time to retire, or my writing career takes off.

A couple weeks ago, I asked my beautiful, wonderful, girlfriend of 5 1/2 years to marry me, she said yes. We have grown really close recently, and I can't imagine my life without her. We are so great together, I Love You Babe!

I have not been out game hunting in awhile and I am not playing as many video games as I used to, I just have better things to do, Like hangout with and "play" with my fiancee' :)  She bought us Black Ops III to play on the Xbox One, We used to play Call of Duty ghosts together on the 360, I have this really cute picture of her in front of the tv playing with my Turtle Beach Headset on that I like a lot, she doesn't like it LoL, I want to print it and frame it. But, eventually we stopped, glad we got back into it, it is a fun time to spend together.