What Matters Most

 

Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Priorities. Yes! I have been going over in my mind, what matters the most. My priorities. What are they? I am very interested in growing my blog, Social Stephen, and writing my book, Kenny Kinesis, but I must consider my priorities. Right now, my priorities are growing the blog on my website. And, email marketing.  I have also been looking into new ways to streamline the blogging process. It's just a matter of time until I will have a foolproof system to make blogging a streamlined routine. 

Next? Yes! You guessed it! Streamline the email marketing process. I must develop a foolproof, streamlined system that will allow me to find topics, content, and advertisements that can be included in the emails that I send. Yes! Get the ball rolling and keep it rolling.  This is going to take some research, learning, and formulating a plan. But, I know that I can do it. I have the drive, the ambition, and the passion to make it all happen. Of course, I will take notes and even draw a mind map, that shows, visually, what needs to be done, step by step, from beginning to end. 

Angry Birds makes me angry 😠

I have been playing Angry Birds Showdown on YouTube Playables. It was very enjoyable in the beginning. But, all of my power-ups are gone. There is no way of getting more power-ups. Yes, I can get 3 measly power-ups, with the daily reward, but that isn't squat.  The people I am playing against, in the game, seem to have a never ending supply of power-ups. There is no shop. I do not know of any other way to get power-ups, besides the daily reward. It makes me so angry. Even more angry than the birds themselves. 

There is no communication within the game. I have no way of talking to my rivals. I don't know how they're getting so many power-ups. I searched thoroughly for a store or a shop where I can buy power-ups. None, nada, zero, zilch. There are no advertisements. I'm happy about that, but at the same time, if I watched an ad, I can earn power-ups. But, that doesn't exist either. I am at a complete loss. I looked it up on Google, but did not find any results about that. But, I am not one to give up. I'm going to keep on searching, until I find out how my rivals are getting so many power-ups. What am I overlooking? What am I missing? What do I have to do to get more power ups? 🤔

Stephen

Boring Day At Work

The Demopolis asphalt plant broke down again today. But this time, it broke down before we even got started. No trucks got loaded. And, all of the trucks have been sitting here, waiting to get loaded, for 4 hours. Currently, I am searching for new ways to promote my new website. Such as CEO keywords to improve website indexing and search, and online directories. 

Later, they were not able to repair the Demopolis asphalt plant. And so, all the drivers went to the Howton pit to get a load of screenings. The ST Bunn drivers took the load of screenings to the new plant. While the Tiger drivers took their loads of screening to Demopolis. It is now 3:11 p.m. Monday afternoon. July 1st, 2024, and I have already dumped the load of screenings at the new plant, and I am now sitting next to the #7 pile, waiting for a loader to load me with #7, so that I can take that to the new plant.

Not bad for a Monday. I don't feel tired yet. And so, when I get home from work, I will be going over my notes, and taking care of certain things that I feel I could do today. I will cook a decent meal for myself, and I might even stop at the store on my way home from work, and buy some sugar-free, caffeine free soda. Although, I am trying to just stick with water. Meat, eggs, water. Blah blah blah. 

It's not much of a life, but unfortunately, the way that the human body works, everything else besides meat, eggs, and water, is bad for me. Especially at my age. 55 years old, and not getting any younger. I need to get serious soon, about taking special care of my health both mentally and physically. Some people will say that I am standing on a landmine, by investing in an e-commerce website. It's going to take some time, but I know it will do well someday. I just need to be patient. And promote the hell out of it. Use AI. Everyone else is. 🤔

Stephen

Passing Around Stupid Pills

Someone is passing around stupid pills at work today. Honestly, I have not seen this much condensed amount of stupidity in one place. Tim could clearly see that there were 15 trucks front to back that needed to pull forward, before the spreader machine ran right up our ass. Did he go to his truck, and move his truck forward? 

No! He stood there talking to other drivers, while the spreader machine is running up our ass. So, I got out of my truck, and I said to him, we are packed in like rats here, please pull your truck forward. And he said, packed in like rats huh? 

I said, yeah! Do you see how close these trucks are to each other? Do you see that the spreading machine is coming up on a large group of trucks that are packed in tight together, very fast? Do you see that? Will you please pull forward. Finally! It's sunk in! And he walked to his truck and pulled his truck forward. 

I don't understand what type of convincing is needed, to trigger the common sense needed, to see that these trucks do not need to be packed in so closely like this. Pull forward! Spread out! Stop the damn spreader machine from running up the next truck's ass! Bushel baskets full of stupidity! 😡

On another note, it is Friday, May 10th, 2024. And I am ready for this day to be over. I am ready to start the weekend. I have some great plans that involve mean earning money. And, I'm going to learn, take notes, plan, organize, and take action. Absofreakinlutely!

Stephen

End Procrastination

Yes! I finally had the energy and ambition to take out the trash, and recycle the plastic, and wash my clothes at the laundromat. And so, now, all the trash cans are empty, the recycling container is empty, and all of my clothes are clean and put away.

And now, I'm just sitting here in my desk chair, listening to my upstairs neighbor making noise and just not giving a shit at all about his downstairs neighbor. Him and his fucked up son, just run around the upstairs and make noise like they're out of fucking gymnasium or something.

But that is the status quo. And soon, within just a few months, I'm going to be rid of that inconsiderate piece of shit that lives upstairs. Yes, I will have another place to live. Provided of course, that I can save enough money. I need to stop giving Sarah money. I need to cut back on my expenses here.

I need to resist buying a shotgun, and blasting the fuck out of the people upstairs. As they continue to make noise, walk around, creaking floorboards, and just being a fucking nuisance at every chance they get. Just know that soon, you will be able to move on to another place.

Another place that does not have an upstairs neighbor that doesn't give a shit about anyone but themselves. Just know, that soon you will be rid of this ridiculous fucking company that wants to charge you $750 a month just to live in the same shit hole. 

Fuck! I can hear the upstairs neighbors walking around right now. They don't give a fuck about anyone. Creaking floorboards, walking hard. And just not giving a shit about anyone but themselves. That's the way it has been for years. And I'm not going to live with it anymore.

I cannot take a stand. Because there is nothing I can do. Apparently, they have every fucking right to make as much fucking noise as they want to upstairs. And I cannot do anything about it. They rule the fucking world, apparently. 🙄

Stephen

Truck 120

I seen it! Driving home from work on the interstate. Here comes truck 120. Driving down the opposite lane, heading for the shop. It is the truck I have been waiting for. Truck 120. I have been driving truck 112 for a couple of years, and it's time to trade up. And so, I need to clean out truck 112, and get it ready for the next driver. Get out all of my belongings, and put them in truck 120.

Brand new! Truck 120. And Dooley is assigning it to me. He said that it is an extended cab. That will be nice! They have a little bit more wiggle room inside the truck. Oh yeah! Anyway, I'm not really expecting truck 120 to be ready to drive tomorrow. Maybe in another day or two. For now, I will just continue driving truck 112 until truck 120 is ready. I have no problem with that whatsoever.

With all that said, today was pretty uneventful. With the exception of trying to find where Snake was loading trucks at GAF. As it turns out, he was all the way in the back, next to the warehouse. And after driving around for a few minutes, I did finally find him. Aside from that, as I said, it was a pretty uneventful day. I just hauled shingles all day long. With the AC kicking on high of course. Because this is summertime! And it is hot! Moy caliente! 

And now, it's good to be home. I kicked on the ac, and the apartment is cooling down, and soon I will be chillin'. But, it won't last long. Because I'm already drowsy from not getting much sleep last night. And soon, I will hear my pillow calling my name, louder and louder. And soon, I will lay down and drift off to sleep. Yeah! It's true! I have lots of other things to do. Blogs, websites, notes. But, if I can't think straight, because I'm too tired, then I won't get anything done anyway. When you get time, see if you can add HTML and CSS to notion.so. Wouldn't that be cool?

Stephen