Weird Day

I've been spending a lot of time at Dan's job without having a job myself lately. It's pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me. I've made $180 there on the side in the past few weeks fixing computers and stuff however today. Lonnie gave me $20 for helping out around the shop yesterday and helping Dan diagnose a Honda and he was just like "Merry Christmas you do a lot around here." I picked up lunch for Dan and I at Checkers and then installed a pretty cool stereo in Dan's truck as his girlfriend's Christmas present. It took me about three hours to make it look perfect and get all of the add-ons installed on it. My father will be raging when he gets home because my corporate letter bomb yielded immediate results with Comcast and his hand-written pathetic attempt at one failed miserably with Motorola. He writes these condescending letters in a really illegible slanted cursive as if he is their only customer and he has twenty of their products etc., and they always blow him off of course. This time Motorola sent him both phones that he mailed them back unfixed with a letter saying that they do stand behind their products for at least a year minimum however they aren't going to fix liquid and physical damage to the phones. The keypad on one of them is actually corroding now but he will claim it never got wet and they just didn't want to do anything for him. It will be followed by the inevitable "I'm never going to buy another fucking thing from Motorola!" of course just like he did with Samsung over them not replacing the TV he put a dog bone through.

On a shittier note I found out a former coworker of mine died and that really bums me out. He was a great guy. Right around my birthday I saw him at the ATM at Wachovia and he stopped to talk to me because he saw my article in the newspaper and asked if I was looking for work and I told him that I was. November 23rd he called me and left me a voicemail telling me he found me a job if I wanted to drive south. November 30th he never woke up in the morning. Mike was 66. He was a damned good guy that everyone who worked with him liked except for my asshole boss. Such is life.