Good IT jobs in the Tyler TX area

Basically they don't exist. Too many of these jobs are network heavy, which I don't want to do or they don't pay enough.
I mean I don't mind networking, but my main focus is servers and software.
I am not actively looking for a job, but mostly just keeping my options open.
I think I have said this before, but I update my resume monthly. Although I need to post the updates online to the various job sites.
Anyway I have to pack my lunch now and get ready for work.

First Day Down 7 Weeks To Go

So, I had my first day orientation yesterday. It was pretty cool. Long, but I suppose necessary. You have to fill out a lot of paperwork and I guess now a days HR thinks they need to make it a fun experience in order to want people to work there. I can't blame them, a call center does not sound like the most fun job, but I think it will go well. Now I have to get used to working nights. Thankfully I'll only start off noon to 9, but after that I am going to be 1:30 to 10:30. Sure it is not the most glamorous time or job, but it is a good one, I think and more importantly it will pay the bills.

Still jobless

So, I graduated on Dec. 20th and I still don't have a job. I guess I am part of that 5% of UT Tyler Students that don't have a job after graduation. Of course, I would suspect that given the current state of economy and other factors that I may not be the only one. Not even Best Buy or Radio Shack will hire me. It makes me wonder if things are going to get better at all. I certainly hope so, but so far I don't have any hope.

Although I suppose the only good news of late was that Citi had their first profitable quarter since '07 and that made the stock market recover a little. Perhaps good news is out there. Now we wait and see.

Job Interview #3 Today

So I have another job interview today. Hopefully things will go well. If not then the hunt continues.

Unemployed and out of luck?

I am currently done with School, finally, but so far have had no luck finding a job. Even after applying at a temporary agency. I am even considering working at Best Buy. Circuit City had crossed my mind, but well no more with that, eh? Maybe things will turn around. The economy is still going through the worst of it, or that is my opinion. We'll see.

Too much work

I guess that's all I really wanted to say, work is over rated.

However money is very good

Updates

Well so a few things have happened:

1) Maybe got a job!! Well technically I do, but we'll see how it works out.

2) School starts on Tuesday, and only 3 semesters (including this one) left!!

3) I love Chelsea...SO MUCH!!

4) Going to save money - need vehicle, used, cheap, fuel effecient. Is that too much to ask for??

5) Life is good.

I don't have a job or a car

So, yeah I am pretty much just complaining here.

I need a job. However I have no real job experience. To boot, I don't have a car. Oh and I can't drive. I have a permit, but I need more practice.

I need money to get driving lessons. I don't have money because I don't have a job. I don't have a job because I don't have a car. I can't drive anyway so even if I had a car I couldn't drive it.

Of course, because I don't have job and therefore no money, I have no ability to buy a car or if I had a car pay for insurance.

I don't know.

I need to find a genie and get three wishes.
1) I wish I knew how to drive excellently and had excellent skills on the road.
2) I wish I owned a car that had extremely high gas mileage, is totally comfortable, reasonably fast, and still large enough for 4 people, groceries and a spare tire.
3) I wish I had enough money to pay off all of my current expenses and any regular expenses for the next 10 years.

That would be very nice.

=Ben=

Monk Season 5 Episode 1

So I published this a little early.

Well as far as things go. It was a good start. I didn't find Stanley Tucci very funny at all. I think he over did it. The premise of a TV movie about a case was a little humorous especially Randy's character. I look forward to better from Monk and USA. I mean I realize that this is just the season opener, but it seems to have lost some of it's charm from earlier season's.

Tony Shalhoub and Traylor Howard both did wonderfully as Adrian and Natalie respectively. Of course, Ted Levine also did a good job as Captain Stottlemeyer. All of the regulars did well, but I guess this episode just didn't do it for me.

However the few moments between Tucci's character and Shalhoub were quite good especially in provoking feelings about Monk's past. That isn't to say this is good, but I found it interesting to see what happened.

Now as per the crime. This episode really did it well. I for one like most of you didn't know what everything was about until the very end. Now true I did say that I didn't like Tucci's character, but I must admit that if Monk were evil and psychotic then he played the perfect Monk. Watching the Monk (Shalhoub) on Monk (Tucci) play was wonderfully funny. Of course one has to wonder if something like this is truly believable, but it is television so anything can happen.

My favorite part would be near the end when Monk says he wanted to play a character that wasn't so dark and depressing., referring to Tucci's character. He then goes on to say that he is England doing Hamlet. Yet another great joke.

Overall I give this episode a 7.5 out of 10. Now I haven't made any specific criteria for any specific shows or anything like that. This scale is just my overall opinion of the episode. A 10 would be an Emmy worthy episode and a 1 would be a cancellation waiting to happen. I think that's a good scale. Well I hope you enjoyed this review.

Just another Wednesday!!

Middle of the week. Bored. Nothing to do. Don't have a job yet. Hopefully that will change.
If it doesn't well God this will be a more boring summer, during the day at least.
During the night, when I am talking to Chelsea, then things are great.

I have been spending the day catching up on TV.
Some stuff has been good some other stuff not so much.
I really liked Greys Anatomy. The West Wing, that was great.
What else did I see? Oh yeah Alias was good. So was the Simpsons and Family Guy.
American Dad was also good. I'll be watching Boston Legal later.

Anyway, enough about my boring day.
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.
Good Times!!

here now

well, as if my week couldn't have ended on a more awkward note:

School ended last Friday for us, (that is the 5th) and so we got all moved out of our apartments. I then spend a week with my lovely and beautiful girlfriend (see post below) but I just end up leaving. I am not at my parents home in Fort Belvoir.

I am sad and happy and just plain confused.

I hate air travel...so loud, so many people.

Here now and all is well, but I am sad. However, I plan on getting a job and working for school. So yeah!!

Well see what happens.

Miss you all.

=Ben=

I don't care what it does to the economy,

but I want ALL, and yes I mean ALL illegal immigrants kicked out of this country with all necessary force.

Illegal immigrants are bad for everyone.
They always were, are and will be.

There is nothing good about illegal immigrants.

Legal immigrants are okay, people here on Visas are okay, but if you are here and you have no right to be here, then get the hell out.

People like me, who are Resident Aliens, have a right to be here, I plan on becoming a citizen, at some point, maybe even next Summer.

All I know is these people, regardless of where they are from, whether it is Mexico, China, Africa, Europe, South America or any other place, need to leave and go back to their respective countries.

They take jobs from people, who are from the US, how could otherwise be employed, sure there are a lot of crappy jobs that some people don't want, but if everything keeps going the way it does, some people are gonna need to stop collecting their welfare checks and get off their asses and work, and drug dealing isn't a profession.

There are fruits that need picking, hotel rooms that need cleaning, gas stations and convinience stores that need to be run, all of these can be run by Americans. Sure it isn't glamorous, but it is better than relying on the government to keep giving you things you don't deserve.

So basically what I am trying to say is:
1) Illegal Immigrants out
2) People on welfare, get a damn job.

=The Management=

What is the deal with certain ethnic groups?

I don't consider myself a racist, but I have made several observations about things in general. I don't mean to offend anyone by what I am saying, but I can't help it. If you are offended, however, tough.

You scored as A little. Haha.. You're a little of one. Not that bad though. You mostly just joke about it to be funny. A little 50% Yes 40% Not at all 40% Are you racist???? created with QuizFarm.com

These are the results from the quizfarm quiz linked to in the title.
Well, there you go. But anyway, my observations:

First, lots of black people/African Americans/whatever you want to call them seem to rap/sing/whatever about things that most people probably don't consider a good thing. First there are songs which contain horrible things about women, I mean extremely derogatory things. I find these things dispicable. Then there are songs which are also extremely sexually explicit in nature. As well as songs that are heavily influenced by violent acts against others, police officers and the like and again women. Why would anyone seem to glorify these things? I certainly can't understand it.

Second, Asians (Though I can't really put them all in one group I am because well I don't any better and it is funnier this way.) are so damn confusing. Now don't take that wrong way, but so frequently I find that asian people are torn between old customs and an assimilation into the Western U.S. type culture. So there are so many confusing things happening. I don't know, I can't come up with anything specific. But, you know what I mean don't you.

Third, gay people, homosexuals primarly though lesbians and maybe transexuals or other genderqueer people could be put in this too, are so damn flamboyant and at the same time not. Let me put that a better way. Usually many of them are quite flamboyant, but to frequently they are so damn subtle in their mannerisms. Basically what I am trying to say it is too damn difficult to tell if someone is gay nowadays. It isn't that I am looking for gay people. However, I am trying to say that they should be easier to identify. Basically so I can make fun of them. Someone should make a practical functioning gaydar. Seriously, wouldn't that be cool.

Fourth, illegal immigrants, any and all of them, even if I already mentioned them in some other group, are just crap. Look I don't care what anyone says. In the long run the economy would be doing a lot better if there were no illegal immigrants. Sure there are some who even pay taxes, but most don't. Most illegal immigrants just suck money from people who could be making it, people who would work an honest days work. It just angers me so.

Finally, leading up to this from the previous, Americans are so damn annoying. Now don't yell at me yet, read what I have to say. First get off your damn high horses, all of you on all rungs of the economic ladder. Just because you think a job is below you or demeaning or plain awful doesn't mean it is. A job is a job. You need to understand that is one of the reasons people don't see illegals for the evil and horror that they are. I don't mean to go to that extreme, but I will. Look, an other thing is this. Terrorists and the like are not all the same people. Just because terrorists reside in a country, whether the country admits it or not, does not mean that every person in the country is a fricking terrorist, OK? There are good people in these countries. So Carpet bombing or the like is not a prudent action. You know when Hitler killed a selective group of people, most people HATED IT. Yet when it is proposed in some manner by so Americans, it seems okay? WHY? Why do we hold this double standard. Is it because when it happens to us its different. That shouldn't be it.

Look, I may have gotten off track, but I just get so angry about these things. Me the pessimist who sees the world as a total evil. Oh well. I am going to go now. Now you can yell at me and send me your hate mail. Because I know it is going to come.

Ciao, =B=

Davis-Bacon Act

Well, I keep hearing about this thing, but didn't know what it was, so I did some reading on Wikipedia (link in title). Well first, it seems that the Bill was made to as sort of a racist law, imho. If you read it, you'll see that it mentions that some people were very upset due to some african americans being contracted to do something. Of course that was in 1927, so it unfortunately makes sense in that time period.

Anyway, the bill itself entitles that the workers be paid "prevailing wages" which seems to mean whatever is properly set for the circumstance for the bill and possibly other benefits. Meaning the workers will probably get the pay they expect.

So it seems that with the act being suspended, hopefully only temporarily, this would allow contractors to legally 1) Pay their current employees less for the same work or 2) Get cheaper new employees all together.

So how is that good for the economy? I mean if people who get too much money, in the opinion of their employers, get the boot for cheaper labor, possibly immigrant or illegal workers, where does this allow for the economy in that region to get better?

I'd love to hear someone explain it to me. Logically it makes no sense. Sure the company gets to save more the federal money it keeps to line its pockets so the execs can have that trickle down effect crap going for them, but again I don't buy that either.

Why can't this country's companies let their workers work for the proper wage for the job being done? Is profit and bottom line really that important. Have we reached the point where the worker means nothing to the company, but a nuisance that must be worked to the bone until the lost drop of effort can be squeezed out for a petty wage that could be so much more?

Look, I don't know what the companies are thinking, but by outsourcing and firing, that is the word after all (none of the pink slip laying off bull), employees they can't expect their domestic sales to go up because their former employees don't have the income to purchase the product they were formally involved with.

Obviously something is not computing on one end or another.

This is so stupid. Look, pay your employees a more than fair wage, their productivity (will/could/may/should/might = pick one) increase. If that occurs your bottom line should still be above the red. You only have to make a profit not a killer one. You only have to make enough to contine not make so much more that you don't know what to do with it.

Instead you pay just enough or less, your employee's productivity (will/could/may/should/might = pick one) be just enough. If that occurs your bottom line will most definitely be above the red, but your employees will hate you. You make so much money all the execs who probably have little to do with your extra income will get fat bonuses those down below might get a bit here and there.

Why? Is money that damn important? After all, we're all gonna die, keep that in mind. Now me I don't care, but from what I understand about most popular religions, your wealth won't make you any better off in the after life, should you believe in that hokey.

What can I say, you probably didn't even read it this far or ever read it. Shame on you
Go on make your profit. Just ask yourself why is it so important?

Classes Cancelled

Well, it would seem that the president of the University has cancelled classes tommorrow. I have absolutely no problem with this. Good Job.

Since I have no classes I plan on doing laundry and carrying on as though nothing has happened.
Because nothing has happened.

Anyway, I am watching the Season Premeir of CSI now. SO YAY!

Talk to you repeatedly tomorrow, and if the power stays on, Saturday and Sunday as well.

=The Management=

OMFG FFVII ADVENT CHILDREN IS GREAT

Thanks to some helpful info from a friend, I was able to see it.

This has to be the best CG Movie ever.

I won't give anything away, because I am not one of those people.

However, I must say the look of everything was one step above and beyond.

I have to compliment everyone who worked on it.

I also have to compliment the people who gave it to us, regardless of the legalities.

Really, though I give it a 100 out of 10, that is how goes it was, I do not exeggerate.

Great Action and Suspense. Wonderful Music and Cinematics. Most importantly a Superb Plot.

The hype was 100% Correct. This movie is as great as everyone thought it would be.

I love it, hell if I didn't I wouldn't be up at 3:20 in the morning writing a blog entry. I need sleep for goodness sake. My first class is at 11 so I need to be up by 9ish.

Again, just WOW!!

They couldn't have a done a better job on this.

I am so awe struck.

I just don't know what else to say.

I think I should go to sleep before I pass out at the keyboard.

FUNNY!

I copied the following from the link in the title. I couldn't stop laughing. Have fun reading it. I did.

This was inspired by the now infamous "Skippy's List". However, that list was Army-centered, and is a few years out of date, since it refers to a deployment in Kosovo (or Bosnia, somewhere around there). So I've got a list for me, in the USAF, deployed to Iraq. Enjoy!

I'll probably add more eventually, as I think of them

• jabbausaf's diary :: ::

135 things Jabba is no longer allowed to do in the Air Force

Acronyms and military terms used:

COMM: short for the Communications squadron, the guys who handle phones and computers and such

UXO: Unexploded Ordnance, like dud bombs and the like

MRE: Meal Ready to Eat. The chemical heaters are in plastic bags. If you put the chemical heaters into a bottle, like one of the many water bottles, and, well, add water, and screw the cap on tight, the bottle will explode from the built-up steam. That's an MRE bomb

EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal. Crazy mofos.


RAF: Royal Air Force, the UK air force

HQ: Headquarters

PVC: dunno what it stands for, but it's a kind of pipe that looks a lot like a rocket body if you're doing a UXO sweep in the dark, trust me

AA: Anti-Aircraft gun

VIP: Very Important Person

SecDef: The Secretary of Defense

BX: The Base Exchange, the only store on base, the only place to go to buy stuff outside of the souvenir shops

DCU: Desert Cammies

MEP: Mission Essential Power


CE: Civil Engineering; handles power, water, A/C, roads, and so forth. Everything infrastructure

RPG: Rocket Propelled Grenade

HazMat: Hazardous Materials

PT: Physical Training

The List

1. Scorpions are not mascots
   
   
2. Scorpions are also not housepets
   
   
3. Wild dogs are not "man's best friend"
   
   
   
4. It's not an acceptable form of entertainment to shut off power to the camp and see how long it takes someone to call in
   
   
5. Cutting COMM's power is not justifiable retaliation for a website being blocked
   
   
6. ...Even if it was a really funny website
   
   
7. Not longer allowed to protest next to the runway when the SecDef comes
   
   
8. ...Even if the signs are really funny
   
   
9. No longer allowed to ask Army personnel very confusing questions
   
   
10. An M-16 is not an action movie prop
    
    
11. The power plant's fuel bladder is not a "giant waterbed"
    
    
12. When asked about the location of any personnel or equipment, the proper answer is never "Dantooine... they're on Dantooine"
    
    
    
13. No longer allowed to offroad in any areas that have not been cleared of UXOs
    
    
14. No longer allowed to offroad at all
    
    
15. Leaving "MRE water heater bombs" outside EOD's building at 0200 when they're all sleeping is not allowed
    
    
16. The control room in the power plant is not "Just like Engineering"
    
    
17. No longer allowed to impersonate Scotty
    
    
18. Especially when an officer calls to request mobile generator support
    
    
19. Switching the "circuit open" and "circuit closed" lights on the control panel to make new plant operators think that a generator is disconnected, causing them to accidentally kill power when they try to close the breaker to "reconnect" power, is no longer allowed
    
    
20. Not allowed to ask the Brits or the Aussies "So when are you guys leaving?"
    
    
21. Not allowed to impersonate an Irish accent, or Lucky the Leprechaun, around Irish members of the RAF
    
    
    
22. Not allowed to run past the RAF tents with chow-hall bowls of Lucky Charms, yelling "They're after me lucky charms!"
    
    
23. Just because HQ is located in a building called "the glass house", not allowed to inform the base commander or any of his subordinates that they are not allowed to throw stones
    
    
24. Not allowed to heckle "Tops in Blue", even if they really do suck
    
    
25. Not allowed to tell gate guards "You don't need to see my identification"
    
    
26. Not allowed to pick up scrap metal in the junkyard and show my supervisor, saying "look sir, droids!"
    
    
27. Not allowed to ask supervisor if I can borrow the tug and "drive in Toschi Station to pick up some power converters"
    
    
28. ...Even if I really am going to pick up power converters, the Services tent is not Toschi Station
    
    
29. No longer allowed to give Star Wars names to locations on base
    
    
30. ...Or Star Trek names
    
    
    
31. ...Or Dune name
    
    
32. ...Or names from any science fiction or fantasy work
    
    
33. Not allowed to put fins on PVC pipe and stick it into the ground next to HQ and call it in as a UXO
    
    
34. Not allowed to point old Iraqi AA guns at arriving aircraft
    
    
35. ...even if they are already on the ground
    
    
36. ...especially if it's a VIP aircraft
    
    
37. ...doubly especially if it's the SecDef stopping by again
    
    
38. Not allowed to tell visiting media that if they really want to see how things are over here, they're welcome to go outside the wire
    
    
39. No taunting the Iraqi guards at the airport
    
    
    
40. No mooning the control tower either
    
    
41. No longer allowed to stop by the CIA compound and ask what they're up to
    
    
42. ...or ask them where bin Laden really is
    
    
43. No longer allowed to tell new arrivals that I saw Saddam Hussein in prison orange eating in the chow hall, because I didn't
    
    
44. Not allowed to picket the chow hall
    
    
45. ...or the BX
    
    
46. It's usually in bad taste to tell BX employees that you could get something much cheaper on the internet, or to remark loudly that Amazon has a much better selection, even if it's true
    
    
47. No longer allowed to befriend wild animals
    
    
48. ...yes, even the kittens
    
    
    
49. No longer allowed to feed the rat that lives under the power plant
    
    
50. If I couldn't catch the gecko the first time, I'm not going to catch it the next fifty times I try
    
    
51. If I do catch the gecko, not allowed to keep it as a pet
    
    
52. Not allowed to heckle VIPs at their speeches
    
    
53. ...including the SecDef
    
    
54. ...and the chaplain
    
    
55. Not allowed to hold Pagan Rites on base without first obtaining permission and filling out the requisite forms
    
    
56. Not allowed to call burn barrel fires a Pagan rite
    
    
57. Not allowed to sacrifice anything to the sun god
    
    
    
58. Sandstorms are not caused by angry djinn
    
    
59. My tent is not the Love Shack
    
    
60. The female tents are also not Love Shacks
    
    
61. The Laundry tent is not the Love Shack, despite appearances to the contrary
    
    
62. Not allowed to go into the base library and take all the Bibles and put them in the science fiction section
    
    
63. Not allowed to put books by Ron L Hubbard in the religious section
    
    
64. Not allowed to surround the power plant with a minefield for security purposes
    
    
65. Not allowed to call the Supply Tent "Costco" or "Wal-Mart"
    
    
66. Not allowed to lock the bathrooms
    
    
    
67. Not allowed to use camel spiders to scare people
    
    
68. Not allowed to call a camel spider "My magical talking companion"
    
    
69. Not allowed to get a Kiss Army patch on my DCUs
    
    
70. Not allowed to instruct the barbers to give me a Mohawk
    
    
71. Not allowed to try to wear my boonie cap backwards
    
    
72. Not allowed to try to trade my M-16 to Global Security contractors for an AK-47 and a case of beer
    
    
73. Not allowed to try to ferment grapes from the chow hall to make moonshine or hooch
    
    
74. Not allowed to use MEP-12 prime power plant generators as a still
    
    
75. Not allowed to shoot the radio and yell to my supervisor that "we're gonna have company" when somebody calls asking why the power is out
    
    
    
76. ...even if it was a boring conversation anyway
    
    
77. ...especially if it's the commander
    
    
78. Not allowed to make special requests at the chow hall
    
    
79. ...like for filet mignon
    
    
80. ...or "anything not fried"
    
    
81. ...or "something that doesn't suck"
    
    
82. Not allowed to demand a refund for chow hall food
    
    
83. Not allowed to sing showtunes over the CE radio net
    
    
84. Not allowed to sing anything over any net
    
    
    
85. Not allowed to sing in public at all
    
    
86. ...or in private
    
    
87. Not allowed to play the cat game (from Super Troopers) with anyone who needs a generator
    
    
88. ...even if "Meow long will you need this generator for?" is funny
    
    
89. Not allowed to operate a pirate radio station from "deep inside a secret bunker"
    
    
90. Not allowed to scare new arrivals with stories of a network of secret insurgent tunnels running under the base
    
    
91. Not allowed to practice law without credentials
    
    
92. Not allowed to dance with the broom while doing shop clean-up
    
    
93. Not allowed to pressure wash the inside of the boss's office
    
    
    
94. ...even if it is dirty in there
    
    
95. Not allowed to drive in and out of Security Forces checkpoints repeatedly just because the gate guard on duty is hot
    
    
96. Not allowed to drag race anywhere on base
    
    
97. ...especially "highway 1"
    
    
98. Not allowed to play "chicken" with armored vehicles
    
    
99. Not allowed to use the loudspeakers to play protest songs
    
    
100. May no longer insist on carrying a stuffed animal everywhere and asking it before I do anything
     
     
101. Not allowed to name wild animals
     
     
102. ...or to force others to use those names
     
     
     
103. Not allowed to drop something heavy on the roof of the control room and tell the people inside that a mortar just bounced off
     
     
104. It's not my job to point out holes in base security
     
     
105. ...even if they are pretty big
     
     
106. Not allowed to yell "Bring it on" at the civilian side of the airport
     
     
107. Not allowed to "punk" anyone
     
     
108. ...especially officers
     
     
109. Not allowed to ask civilian contractors how much more they're getting paid
     
     
110. The commander's office is not a HazMat storage area for waste oil
     
     
111. ...with or without the barrels
     
     
     
112. Not allowed to go to the supply tent for the sole purpose of flirting with the clerks
     
     
113. Not allowed to requisition "Maxim" or "Stuff" for "research purposes"
     
     
114. Not allowed to customize my M-16
     
     
115. ...that includes engraving my name on it or stealing scopes and laser sights from the cops
     
     
116. Pellet guns are not authorized on military installations for my own safety and I will remember that
     
     
117. Not allowed to sell bootleg movies from my tent
     
     
118. Not allowed to administer "A good death" to an ailing generator, with an RPG-7
     
     
119. Not allowed to yell "game over man, game over!" during outages
     
     
120. Not allowed to shut off fuel and see how long it takes the generators to shut down
     
     
     
121. ...especially if I'm taking bets
     
     
122. Not allowed to take bets on anything
     
     
123. Not allowed to speak in tongues
     
     
124. I am not a faith healer
     
     
125. A speedo and a wifebeater is not "Conservative PT gear"
     

Update [2005-8-9 9:34:29 by jabbausaf]:

126. Sock puppets are not in my chain of command.

127. Magic 8 Ball is not in my chain of command.


128. I do not "got the touch" or "the power"

129. ...even if I do light the darkest hours.

130. May not use interpretive dance to criticize command decisions.

131. The making of near-beer bongs is strongly discouraged.

132. I am not "Lord of the Sand Flies".

133. No longer allowed to burn superior officers in effigy

134. Med clinic personnel will no longer be referred to as "Dr Feelgood"

135. The Med clinic will no longer be referred to as "The Happy-pill Emporium"

Pre Flight STS-114

If you can: WATCH THE SHUTTLE'S RETURN TO FLIGHT on any reputable news network, possibly even Fox News, or check out Nasa's website.

What could be more appropriate?: (And please check out the link in the title GOOD SHTUFF!)

She packed my bags last night
Pre-flight
Zero hour
Nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then

I miss the earth so much
I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a time-less flight

And I think it's gonna be
A long long time
'Til touchdown brings me
Round again to find
I'm not the man
They think I am at home
Oh,
No
No
No
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burning out his fuse up here
Alone

Mars ain't the kind of place
To raise your kids
In fact
It's cold as hell
And there's no one there
To raise them if you did

And all this science
I don't understand
It's just my job
Five days a week
A rocket man
A rocket man

And I think it's gonna be
A long long time
'Til touchdown brings me
Round again to find
I'm not the man
They think I am at home
Oh,
No
No
No
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burning out his fuse up here
Alone

When (a suposed deity) gives you lemons, you may as well make Apple Juice.

That may sound like a hard thing to do, but I know somehow those that believe will keep trying. The rest of us have already learned better and await our demise in peace.

Anyway: ;-0 || [-8 A familiar scene anyone? NO? Okay....

Now where was I....

Oh yes, Let us get something straight. You -can't- do the impossible. Perfection -is- unatainable. There I said it. SO STOP. A half-assed job is acceptable. Sure no one may tell you that out right, but those are the norms by which we all live.

Okay now live out your lives, living only to your own tune.

SCREW SOCIETY: TELL EM TO $#*% OFF!!!!

Look
If you had
One shot
To sit on your lazy butt
And watch all the TV you ever wanted
Until your brain turned to mush
Would you go for it?
Or just let it slip?
Yo

Remote is ready
Eyes wide, palms are sweaty
There's Flintstones on the TV already
Wilma 'n' Betty
No virgin to channel surfin'
And I'm HD-ready
So I flip
Garbage is all I'm getting

There's Simon Cowell
Who folks wanna disembowel
He opens his mouth
Always says something foul
They're dyin', wow
Wannabes are crying now
He votes them out
Time to throw in the towel

Shows based on reality
Oh, the humanity!
Oh, Ozzy's family
Sho' loves profanity
Whoa, the insanity
Oh, dogs that crap and pee
Home of depravity?
No, they live happily
Yo

Plus "Da Ali G Show"
And "Celebrity Mole"
Oh, and there's Anna Nicole
Well, she's scaring me

"Look ma, no cavities"
Oh, it's a station break
Better go out to the kitchen and microwave something

"You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV" They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Travel Channel, Discovery, and Lifetime (yo)

"You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV"
They told me, cajoled me, "Turn off those music videos" (no)
I'm gonna watch C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The History Channel and QVC and Lifetime (yo)
(You're gonna)

My butt is aching
As I watch NASCAR racing
That show about undertaking
Larry King
To "24" to "Law And Order"
The Weather Channel's boring like "60 Minutes"'s ancient reporters
Next up on "E! True Hollywood Story"
The rise and decline of twelve actors named Corey

Shows for next fall, they've already been namin'
"CSI: Boise" and "Touched By An Uncle" both sound pretty lame 'n'
So does "Everybody Tolerates Raymond"
And "King of Queens" jumped the shark the first minute
I can't believe Richard Simmons ain't in it

I'll move right on to "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenaged Daughter"
Then I bet
I watch "The Bachelorette"
Followed by "Welcome Back, Kotter"
And "The Muppet Show" where they go 'Mahna Mahna'

"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Disney Channel and A&E and Lifetime (yo)

"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, cajoled me
But I still love Lisa Kudrow (drow)
I'm looking at C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Playboy Channel and Court TV and Lifetime (yo)
(You're Gonna)

Never missed "Melrose Place" or "Lost In Space"
I've seen each "Amazing Race" and "Without A Trace"
But I only watched "Will And Grace" one time one day
Wish I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay

Oh, and "Fear Factor" I watched maybe a half hour
After that, felt like I needed a long shower
Network execs with naked ambitions
"Next week on FOX, watch lions eat Christians"

Like to tie up those programming planners
Make 'em watch all of that junk 'til their heads explode just like "Scanners"
Leech-covered grub-eatin' fools on "Survivor"
Look there's James Lipton discussing the oeuvre of Mr. Rob Schneider

And there's "Gilligan" and "SpongeBob", plus there's "MacGyver"
And Jay Leno has got Madonna, hey there's Luke Perry on a
Special all Pig-Latin episode of "Drew Carey"

Wanna turn on "E.T." 'cause I'm a gossip freak
And I gotta know who J. Lo is marryin' this week
A 30 second spot
Then we come back to "Are You Hot?"
I was planning on recording "The Sopranos"
I forgot

I love shows with or without a plot
I'll stare 'til my legs are numb, my eyes bloodshot
Because I only have got
One brain to rot
I'm gonna spend my life watching television a lot

"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Sci-Fi Channel and AMC and Lifetime (yo)

"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, cajoled me, "Turn off that Oprah Winfrey show" (no)
I got it on C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Learning Channel and MTV and Lifetime (yo)
(You're gonna)

You can watch anything you want to, man