Vikar’s Rant

Plus, here’s another bonus - YOU JUST GOT RID OF CRAP THAT YOU WERE NEVER GOING TO USE ANYWAY!!! You have just created new space that you can put other stuff in that won’t be cluttering up your house. And, if you do it well enough, come moving time, that’s less you have [...]

On the upside to all of this, I discovered something I thought I had lost. It was a very subliminal thing both with myself and with the people I had to deal with. It was a mental switch that had been turned on. I discovered that very much like an actor playing a role, I was now in costume and started to play my role. This is the role of business professional. Unlike when I dress business casual, I started to take my work and my life more seriously. What’s more, I think, from the way I was acting, people were starting to take me more [...]

So when I was 9, after screaming at me for a letter I got from one of my teachers, told me that if I didn’t study hard, I was going to be a bum and live on the streets. Okay, hearing that at age 9 was hard enough. However, my father had more plans. It seems that he wanted his point brought into sharp relief and decided that I was not going to go to school the next [...]

There’s a certain amount of snootiness associated to music. Especially when people do what I’m doing now and discuss the music they like or dislike with another person. The worst fear that people have is “You listen to that crap?!!” Yes. Yes, I do. And that “crap” is what defines us in a [...]