What money? It is all being spent on gas, to get to work to make more money. On top of it costing me twice as much to get back and forth to work this year as it did last, the wife went into the hospital a few months back.

I was staying a float with side projects. Those projects have slowed. I’m not sure if I just suck at supporting them, or if after hours support is no longer enough and they have moved to people that can support them during the day.

I am now in a very stressful area, that I do not think that I have been in before. The wife needs test done so that they will keep her on her medication. There are risk with the medication, and it does need to be monitored. We just don’t have it.

On top of that, I am in a friends wedding in 2 weekends. I still have yet to figure out how I’m going to come up with the money to finish paying for the tux. Personally the wife is much more important than a friends wedding. Sorry Rick.

I have climbed out of situations before, nothing reguarding someone health though. So I’m really stressed. I feel almost at a breaking point. I just want relief. How the hell was I supposed to know that my car would break down, and my wifes and I would be stuck with a $320 car payment. I shouldn’t have bought a bed a year ago. I’m just really at an end with everything. I knew that I should have never moved the slider to improve my life style. I was able to handle bumps in the road better. Living a minimulist life style.

People say when you get married things change. I am here to say that they do. Things changed before we got married though. I did what ever I could in my means to make sure she was safe. From the place we live in to the one car we now have. I drove the beater, it was my choice.

The wife deserves better and I’m trying to provide that better. It is getting harder and harder though. Debt consolidation is a thought, but I’m not sure how all of that works, and I’m not up for someone fucking me in the ass again.

So with all this said. I think that I will just keep plugging along. I will figure out something. I have survived this far, and I have been able to live life at some points.

Well It is Sunday. Saturday went well. Friday evening not so great. I missed the exit, more or less thought it was another exit. I was supposed to turn on to HWY 138, and I went to exit 138. It was about 50 miles out of the way. Back tracking was another 50 miles. So I arived really late to JB’s house.

Got about 3 hours of sleep and then headed to the lake. I did some kneeboarding and was pulled behind the boat on a tube. Needless to say, I always get beat up by the tube. The boss likes to try and through you off. I thought that I would be smart and shift my weight. That didn’t work out so well. The tube went up in the air and tossed me off. I think I was doing about 30 mph when I hit the water. I busted a nut, and felt sick to my stomch.

The food was great. It always is. Burgers for lunch and beef tender loin for dinner. Margarita in the middle, with chips and salsa.

I didn’t over do it this year. Last year my shoulders were on fire. They hurt. I was also had a really bad sun burn. This year I walked away with a mild sunburn. More than likely, I will just peal a little, I’m sure my forehead will.

I was supposed to head over to a friends house that night, but I was just too tired. I was having trouble driving. The wife, I think, was in worse shape than me. I really do not think that either of us would have been able to make the trip all the way home. We camped out at JB’s one more night. Just wanted to be safe instead of sorry.

I have been really busy at work lately and it has taken its toll on my blog. I have not been able to update in a few days. I even missed Amie Street Music Wednesday again! It drives me crazy to miss it. I even worked on picking out a song. I did get some more music from Amie Street though, that is something I’m always glad to get.

Heck, I’m tired right now, but that is mainly from staying up til 3 am. I know my fault, still doesn’t help me right now knowing that.

I do not want to get into the details of work. It just pisses me off that I’m the one scrambling and I can’t do anything about other people. So I’m left looking like the ass when it doesn’t get done. Sometime I wish I could just give people information late and watch them break their necks trying to get it done. When someone does that, you are really working hard, not for you, but to make someone else look good. Even more so when you are in IT.

So other than work draining the life out of me this past week everything has been good. I’m breathing, for now. Still breathing though.

I hope that yall enjoy your weekend and don’t drink too much.

Irodology is defined by Wikipedia as: an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient’s systemic health.

I started looking into this more last night. Why? My wife wanted to take some images of my eye while I was sitting at the computer. I remembered telling Syd about someone I met when I was 18. He was really big into herbal medication, Chinese mushrooms, and Iridology.

I didn’t understand as much back then. Lets say that, I wasn’t worldly. Now I now more and I can see more of what he was trying to tell me. Even though I still don’t listen to him, or to anyone else for that matter very well.

I did want to share this with some of yall out there that might find it interesting. The eye is very interesting. So here are a few images. They are of my eye, my wife’s and my cats.

As you can plainly see, I have stress rings. You will notice the circular cuts in the iris. Now, the wife, she doesn’t have those rings. Someone might say that they are slightly discolored. I don’t know enough about Iridology to say much about it. My cat? Well my cat has no stress and everything in his eyes look great. Yes, it will show in animals as well.

It is something to think about when you are looking at your health. I think that I will start to pay closer attention to my eyes. According to what I have been told and read, the eyes link almost every part of your body to them.

So why aren’t more doctors using this method the help keep people well? Have you, after reading this article, though more about what truths the eye may hold? Let me know your thoughts on such a theory/fact.

I’m so tired of calling tech support and speaking with someone that either doesn’t understand me or I can’t understand them. It is very annoying. I really wish that I could just boycott some of these companies that do this sort of thing.

When I call someone for support, I expect them to be supportive. What I do not expect is to ask them to repeat themselves multiple times. I just want to talk with someone that I can understand and that can understand me.

Just because you were taught English in school, does mean that your dialect is any good. In fact, it might down right suck. Which makes getting your problem resolved even more of a problem.

If I can’t understand your broken English, then you are surely not going to understand my southern draw. Then we end up in a communication stand off. I get angry because you are not listening to what I’m saying. The fact is that you are listening, you just can’t understand.

Companies that sub out call center work over seas because the labor is cheaper, should be heavily taxed. They are paying worker far cheaper than they would pay someone in the US. This does keep prices down though. Wouldn’t prices drop anyway from supply and demand? Was that not what we were taught in grade school?

Would our economy be any better off if we didn’t sub out work to companies overseas? I can’t really say that it would. Companies in America would charge more for products, and we might still be in the state that we are now.

Automobile makers are having a hard time in the US, at least the US ones are. Companies like Honda are thriving over here. Why? I have often wondered why such a thing could happen. Then I remember all of the tax breaks for 10 or even 20 years that towns, states, and other governments give foreign companies for starting a plant in a town in the US.

Towns people want their town to grow. So they tax break these companies. Then after the 10 or 20 years are up, then town is dead again because the companies up and leave. No tax break means that it will cost them a great deal of money to operate. Thus they leave for another town that will give them a tax break. It is cheaper to build a 10 million dollar plant, than it is to pay the taxes.

Back to the topic. I really do not like calling anywhere, even the local tel-co and getting someone that is in another country. I want to speak to someone that understands me clearly. I want to be able to understand them clearly. It is very frustrating trying to get things accomplished, when the lines of communication are not open.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel that subbing out call center work to other countries is right? Have you ever had trouble communicating with tech support or just billing support? Let me know your thoughts.