Caterwauling

Got an employee survey. Which I was going to ignore. But …

I had just gotten out of another useless meeting with “Stomp! The Musical.” More of her yelling at us and creating tasks that have no bearing in reality. More hypocrisy. More fucking aggravation.

One person even hung up on her. Like I used to hang up on her.

So I opened up my employee survey.

One of the questions is about team building activities. They asked if we wanted to do a walking challenge.

I said nope, I witness a daily walking challenge and I am sick of seeing people’s “O” faces splayed across my monitor.

I assume they have my IP address.

If not, I am 100% sure they know who would write that.

Problem is, I didn’t think about who’s reading the survey when I hit “send.”

The typical workplace would fire me for answering an anonymous survey that way.

I am hopeful my workplace would say well it’s an anonymous survey. We asked for this.

With any luck, the person reading the surveys would say yo, sit your ass in a chair during calls.

Not that it would make said person’s meetings any more organized or any less infuriating.

And that’s the thing. If you’re going to be a pain in the ass, don’t be annoying too.

I mean, everyone else is saying it. I’m just in a position to say it directly.

Hope I continue to be in that position, is all I’m saying.

I sold my Bitcoin. Which is an automatic indicator it will go up from here.

Needed to pay a credit card in front of a trip. Not that it can afford all the things I am about to buy. But at least a few days in NYC are covered.

I used to be concerned with having a round number in my bank account. Which I reached once and only had for about two days. Then the bank started calling me every other minute, telling me to hire them to manage my money.

So I took that cash, wiped out my credit card debt, and the solicitation calls stopped.

My Disney habit is A Lot. But needed. You have medication and therapy; I have mouse-shaped treats.

My NYC habit is A Lot. I kind of think my annual-ish trips are probably getting to be too much. But sitting around my apartment, whilst the more economical option, is also the more depressing one.

This is also the year I go back and honor my ancestors. Specifically, buy a gravestone for my grandparents.

I have some Unclaimed Property that I’ve waited 20 years to claim. Am hoping that it will be enough to cover the gravestone. But I really have no idea.

Either way, it was my grandfather’s property/money and it would be my honor to spend it on him.

I’ve pondered this throughout my life. These people I came from, spent every dime (and they didn’t have many) giving me a good life.

Yet as I finally started to make money, they barely got to benefit from it.

Gram never saw me do much with my life. Just worked jobs that paid me as badly as they treated me.

Grampy got to enjoy me taking them out to dinner and meeting them in Breezewood.

It’s a dumb little road trip for most, I imagine. Just a truck stop town. But for us, it was a day we got to meet midway for a meal and go back to our lives.

Part of me is thinking about driving to Pittsburgh. Or, who am I kidding, I would take the Auto Train for some absurd sum.

Honestly, a round trip on the Auto Train is the same cost of a rental car for a week. And I would love to zip around Mount Washington with my Florida plates.

Fuck, I’d park right in front of Fetterman’s house to sport my favorite bumper stickers.

Anyway, I don’t have enough Bitcoin to fund the full Pittsburgh odyssey I have in mind. That’s because I sold my Bitcoin at the absolute bottom.

Why I get into this shit, I have no idea. But I do have a dinosaur bone I’d like to sell at some point. I know that’s at least worth a one-way trip on the Auto Train.

My thought process is that this is the year of full circle. Say a proper goodbye to Pittsburgh.

Not say goodbye for now to NYC. After I finally get to see Brooklyn and a few other places. (I will always want to do Christmas there again. At the Palace. With the Gossip Girl package that gives you the Chanel No. 5 as your welcome gift. Manifesting this.)

But certainly try to get my fill and set my sights on other destinations I haven’t seen yet.

I was hoping for that Bitcoin to pay off. Maybe sit my ass home and buy some more if this truly is the bottom.

That’s an important lesson I’m learning as an investor. I always load up when a stock craters. Dollar Cost Averaging, yo.

That works with Apple. Hasn’t worked so far with other stocks. Or the dinosaur bone.

So I’m trying something new and just yeeting the losers. I can always buy them back. Or buy something more promising.

Something tells me there’s a real life lesson in there, as well.