Mike Campbell

That Defensive PI by UCLA on OU was horrible. How could the ref NOT call that?

Starting in 2016 I only had cable from Sept - Feb. This year, I'm trying out the Hulu live TV package, since it's more or less the same price as what the cable company is offering, with a lot more channels and without the hassle of dealing with the cable company.

My wife upon hearing that the Halfitme score of Oklahoma/Florida Atlantic was 42-0: Is the other team even awake?

He's got a story to tell all the ladies now. "I got this scar in a bike accident. Went right over the handlebars!"

Two weeks after getting passed over for the booking position at the county Detention Center. I get a call this morning from Eddy County HR, about another position I applied for, and am asked to report back to HR on Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully the second time is the charm!

The reason that a lot of jobs have a lot of turnover out here is due to the money that the oil company is offering. There's a large refinery between Carlsbad and Artesia. But, yes, I'm very sure I want to work there. It's the county Detention Center, so as long as there is crime in Eddy county, I'll be able to keep a job. I was hoping to get the job in the booking department, since I've been a desk jockey and doing office work for the last twelve years. I'm feeling a lot better today. Last night, I was the most miserable bastard on the planet. Happy Birthday John, I hope you enjoyed that cake and ice cream.

I'm pretty much feeling as low as possible right now. I interviewed for a job yesterday, and felt like I nailed it. I took a tour of the facility with the administrator, and we seemed to hit it off. I check my email today and find one from the county marked "Regret Letter" - so you can guess what the news was. My father in law is friends with one of the HR people, so he called to see what happened. From what she told him, the HR rep and the two administrators I interviewed with all felt that I was the best choice for it. But, the other person they interviewed had more of a background in the field, so they had to go with him. At first I felt a little better knowing that they all felt I was the best choice, but now, that's what making feel lousy. Because it wasn't anything I did, or didn't do, that made them choose the other person. I can apply again in six months, and I hear that there's a lot of turnover, so, I should get another shot. In the meantime, I'll just spend the rest of tonight feel like shit, and then tomorrow I'll see what other openings I can apply for.

I'm Mike, I've been around since the early 2000's, under a couple of other names, based on my markdom for various wrestlers. Now, I'm more often to be found posting in this forum or in the sports forum during Football season.

My ten year wedding anniversary is in five days. It's something of a special one to me, because it means we'll have been married longer than my parents (October '81 until July '91). Our original plan was to take a little road trip to El Paso, but nobody can take the kids for the night. So, instead the family is going to Roswell to see the new Jurassic World movie.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through a biography of John Quincy Adams in "The American Presidents" series. It's an interesting read. My main takeaways from it are that JQA was a good diplomat, an honorable man, a mediocre president (due to his being such an honorable man), and a really shitty parent.

I'm totally with you. The opening bit was fun, as was Naito getting his revenge and giving everything back to him (the table shard across the head cracked me up). They had a few good ideas, but, the wrestling itself wasn't anything special to me.

When we drove down to NM from NY last year, the cat didn't make a peep from five minutes after we left until after we got to the new place. I kept checking on him at rest stops to make sure he was still alive.

That's more or less what my wife has been saying for ages about me and my job. It seems like my mantra for the last two years or so has been "I wish I didn't care." But, if I dropped dead tomorrow, they'd find someone to replace me. I got all my shit together and sent in the application for the county job. Now, it's just the waiting. Which, I'm sure OSJ can attest to, is going to be a while because everything down here moves slowly. But, apparently, they're hiring eighteen year olds fresh out of high school, so I'm sure that this 35 year old with a college degree will be just fine.

Weighing the pros and cons, the only big con that I could think of is that it somewhat slaps the company in the face, because they allowed me to stay on and work from home. But, I've been down here for seven months now, so it's not as though I moved and then two weeks later decided to quit. Plus, between the interview, and going through the background check, and everything. It'd probably be at least another month.

I'm contemplating a career change. My six year old decided to put beads in her ears the other night which led to a trip to the ER and then a specialist. Because my job and my heath insurance, is NY based, everything down here is out of network. Which means, we pay in full and then get reimbursed 80%. I've been with my job for eleven years and really don't want to leave. But, I could take a job with the county and my starting pay would be close to what I make now, with much better (and cheaper) insurance. Not to mention that about fifteen years ago, I walked across a stage and received a diploma, so it'd be nice to actually do something with it.

I've moved on from Live and Let Die, and am now about a third of the way through Moonraker. And, it includes the most ironic quote. When M is asking Bond what he knows about Drax, Bond comments that "He's a something of a lonsdale figure."

I've always thought For Your Eyes Only was generally considered the best Moore film. I've heard that Moore himself objected to the scene where he stomps the car off the cliff, he wanted to drop the dove pin and have that cause the car to fall. I personally think Octopussy is underappreciated. Some of the scenes in India are bad, like the Tarzan yell, but the auction scene and the whole atomic bomb storyline come off really well.

Read Fleming's original novel. A few pages in and there's mentions of the Japs, Chinamen, and Negroes (and Mr. Big's car being driven by a Negroess). The novel is still pretty bad ass though, way better than anything in the film.

In the first few pages he's referencing the Japs, Chinamen, Negroes, and a Negroess. Live and Let Die is generally considered one of the better Moore films, but, the original novel kills it in every aspect.

A friend on mine on FB has been going through and re-watching all of the James Bond films, and it's motivated me to go back and re-read the novels. I finished Live and Let Die last night, and it only makes me hate the Roger Moore era of comedy and bad puns that much more. It's also amusing to read today, because if this were written exactly how Fleming wrote it in 1952, he'd be branded a racist and there would probably be protests and calls for boycotts.

I loved the original Ghost Recon for Xbox, so when Microsoft had a sale a couple of weeks back I downloaded Ghost Recon Wildlands. It's a mad fun game, once I figured out how to play. That was my main problem, after the first mission, I was left to my own devices and I had no fucking clue what to do. I only figured things out thanks to watching a YouTube tutorial.

No man, apparently the entire series was her book. She made references to not knowing what really happened to Artie but "in my book, I sent him to outer space." Jackie was really a lesbian, Becky was with David and Darlene was with Mark. Off topic, sort of. But, on Sunday night my eight year old was going out of her way to be as big a pain in the ass as possible. At one point I got up and cleared out the kitchen sink, hoping she'd follow me in the kitchen to see what I was doing.

Well, I'm only an hour into my shift, and I'm already thrououghly amused for the day. I got an email lecture from my supervisor, telling me that he was disapointed in my productivity from the weekend. Basically, I only did my work, and I should have also done someone else's work too. The someone else is the CEO's son. Who has always been a nice guy to me, but he's a lazy fuck. And, due to being a lazy fuck, he's gone through several different job descriptions, because he never gets anything done. From mid Febuary to mid March, the office was insanely busy. I was expected to not only do my own work, but also help the rest of the office out any way that I could, because there was so much to do, and so few people to do it. The only person not asked to help out? The Prince! He got to work his eight hours with weekends off, while I (and everyone else) put in tons of extra time and hours to keep up with the madness. So, now that I'm finally past all that, I'm expected to do my work *AND* do his work too.

Not necessarily. The whole series was apparently Roseanne's writing. In the original finale, she'd said that she changed some things around from how they really happened, such as Becky being with David and Mark being with Darlene. So, Harris could have been born a few years later, and she just wrote about her as being born in '97.

Since I can't find anything like it down here, my best friend is sending me a can of Sam Adams New England IPA and a Sloop Brewing Juice Bomb, which is apparently a double dry hopped special edition.