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Loading ...So, there appears to have been a li’l miscommunication, let me straighten things out here. Michael, anyone who knows you knows damn well you do things on your time, which is damn well never. The only way to get you motivated enough to do things is to do just what I did. Do I regret it? No. Quite honestly, I don’t. You were told to pick the stuff up, had been told for days that I didn’t have the room, yet you constantly put it off, putting me out of my way. @ the other place, it was different, I had the storage space. Here, I don’t, so, something had to be done. I was tripping over boxes, looking @ boxes, and quite honestly, I’m not a storage area for anyone, no matter how much they do for me, and I know (and appreciate) the fact that you HAVE done a lot over the past year for me, not only you but your family as well.
Am I an ungrateful bastard? That all depends on your perception. How much of something can one really take? How much is enough? A person’s word is who they are, maybe people have forgotten that one, but it’s very real.
Example:
Person A says to person B "We’ll do that tomorrow". Tomorrow comes around, and person A never shows up.
Maybe it’s just me, but that puts a bit of doubt into the mind of person B that they’ll even DO anything the next time. Eventually, the trust wears down, and Person A becomes totally unbelievable. I’m not saying right away, but I am saying that after enough of it, it does.
Enough Crazy talk, right? Mike, if you were offended, I’m sorry, but damnit boy, I HAD to do something to get you off of your ass so that I could have my place back to myself!
New place:
This place is absolutely great. Took a ride up to the bank this afternoon (think in the future I’ll walk, not ride it), already been shopping, bought movies, rented games, all this afternoon, and all on the bike. Like I said, in the future I think it’ll be a walk, but it was definitely a decent afternoon.
I’ve been looking into a few things, dvdrw’s and whatnot. Now that I’ve got dvr, the drive is going to fill up fast, so I’ll need to export those somehow. Household dvdrw’s (non computer) are dropping, so now’s the time I think to pick ‘em up.
The cats have made themselves at home, they love (and I do mean LOVE) the new place. I think in the next few months I’ll pick ‘em up a leash and take ‘em for a walk in the park.
I’ve been doing some soulful thinking, and I think my next major move will be back home. Iowa is great, but it’s not "home". That won’t be for at least a year (probably 2) from now, but it’s where I’m off to next, providing that I can afford it (moving everythnig cross country will run a good healthy fortune). By that time I’ll have enough of a base so that I can do it, I think. If not, I’ll just stay here, this place is wonderful.
Work is great, growing as always, hell, I seem to have hit a rather decent growth spurt, which came at the absolute best time.
Anyways, enough rambling. I’m off for a better place (my bed I do believe).
Enjoy,
Tom
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September 9th, 2004 at 12:15 am
Maybe person B. should not mention a outing he needs to make
to person A and then three days later on that date call at 10 pm
and *censored*, maybe person B. should have called either the day
before the trip or the day of at a time prior to 10 PM.
Person A could go on and on about steps he actually took
towards getting you a ride since he was unsure of how late he
would work, but whats the point.
Basically person C forgot that Person A had asked them to make
this trip since person A was at work.
September 9th, 2004 at 2:20 am
Was a hypothetical situation, not even meaning anything. I could have meant it to mean something, but it didn’t, and wasn’t intended to.
I didn’t call, because I shouldn’t have to. If I say I’ll do something, I do it, or make every effort to do it. If I can’t, I call and say "hey, I’m sorry, I can’t do it", which, as always is an acceptable answer, but I don’t keep people hanging on by threads.
Regardless, it’s done and over with. I call ‘em as I see ‘em, have done so for a good while, everyone knows that. I called at 10pm to get stuff out of my house, nothing more, and, it was effective. Playing the "let’s wait till Mike feels he’s ready to" game would have meant weeks of waiting, I’ve seen it done before, hell, I’ve done it before, and, honestly, I don’t have the room for the stuff here (which was made abundantly clear many times).
Realistically, I expect nothing more than for someone to do what they say they’ll do. I don’t see that as expecting, or even asking too much. In fact, by repeatedly (yes, repeatedly) not doing something that someone says they’ll do, that takes credibility down more each and every time.
No worries, it’s done, it’s in the past, water under the bridge as they say. I didn’t intend it to be a poke or an insult at anyone, it was an example, nothing more. Topic closed.