Mar

26

Reason Number Two : The Fruit Stand

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…And now the thrilling conclusion to “Why I Gave Up On Lygertron”…

So, I have a couple of confessions to make and this will be the only time I mention this here. It is something that I had wanted to do for a while and I feel very fortunate that I have the chance to do this.

I work – part time – for Apple in one of their retail locations…and I truly love it.

So what does that have to do with writing a blog that no one reads?

Well, you see , I love the computers and the technology that Apple brings to the masses. I’ve been a loud and vocal fan for many years and have become very passionate about what their products and services can do. A bit of a fanboy if you will.

So after the passing of my father, I kinda felt the old “You only have one shot at life” mojo, and I went for it. Things worked out and I was brought on in October.

Great, but what does that have to do with the blog???

Well , here is what it has to do with it. I wanted to write about the things I was passionate about and Apple is one of them but working for them and writing about it is not a great idea. There are plenty of places to get product reviews, Apple gossip and rumors, and even blogs where present and past employees dish the dirt. I didn’t and don’t want to risk losing my spot to a stupid blog…and at the time there wasn’t much else I wanted to write about ( hell , the hockey season had ended) so the blog kinda floated off into the distance.

Now I still won’t discuss anything Apple from this point on – my wife and I have given the secret code word “The Fruit Stand” to the store – but I will say this about my time there.

One of the reasons I wanted to work there , aside from the products, was the fact that I felt like a part of my personality ( the geeky side) was dying and I couldn’t share that passion with anyone. No one I knew was into it as much as I was. So I am very lucky in that I have met a lot of interesting, funny, talented, and knowledgeable people there and I feel like I learn something new every day…and that is all that I have ever wanted from the experience.

Mar

26

…And That Was Almost A Year Ago

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Wonderful fucking job by me.

Now to be honest I did write about 10 or 15 posts on this blog after the opener but I ran into some issues. You see, when I started this mess I didn’t really want to focus on any one topic. I felt that by locking me in to write about one given topic would bore the hell out of me and I’d dump it in a second. For the most part that held true. I mixed things up and wrote about my travels to Chicago, some geeky computer and internet stuff, and some sports stuff as well.

So what happened?

You see, I have two issues that knocked me off the course – one I’ll write about here and the other I’ll dedicate to another post. So the first issue that I had (and I still have for the most part) is that I have a very hard time focusing. Now it goes well beyond the normal “I am bored..I don’t feel like it” general laziness that everyone has. It is the “100 channels running in my head and someone other than me has the remote” kind of stuff. It’s the “Did I lock the front door…ok let me check it for the 6th time” kind of stuff. It’s the ” You have about 3 minutes with me before I am zoned out somewhere else” kind of stuff.

Now at times it is stronger than other times, but by-in-large the channels are always changing. So for me to plop down and write about anything for any real length of time ( and not come across as some insane retard) is a difficult task. I could write about a million things but they all want to come out at the same time. The thoughts don’t want to slow down. Writing , even just in one post on one topic, became a bit of a chore…and when that happens I bail out the window. Maybe if I wrote five blogs at the same time that would work?

They have a medical name for this condition – ADHD – and in speaking with doctors and doing my own research there are a few bullet points used to determine if in fact you have ADHD or are just a self-absorbed jerk. They are:

  • Often does not give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities - strike one
  • Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - strike two
I swear to God, I am copying this list from another site and I just zoned out, flipped around to another site or two, and then remembered I was doing this post. Ok, forget the stupid list. You get the point.
Now if your reading this ( and really why would you still be here?) you might be wondering “How do you manage your day, you social reject?”
Well, first of all, I don’t really like your tone.
Second, it is all I know. I didn’t just wake up one morning and have this infest my skull. I try to work situations so I have at least a shot at winning. I don’t do meetings very well…and I don’t do admin stuff to well like expense reports or setting things up. I do have a lucky knack of pairing up with people ( either in my professional or personal life) that do these things very well…and I try to promote the things that I do well that maybe they suck at.
As a totally OT side note:  Union Of The Snake is one of the worst songs Duran Duran ever did. Just sayin’.
So yeah, that is reason number one.
My head is broken.