Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night...

As of today I am officially a member of the United States Postal Service. This means no more offenders hanging on my legs asking retarded questions they already know the answers to. This means no more 0230 brown-eye exams. No more nocturnal ass-blasts as I'm doing bunk checks. And last, but definately not least, no more living paycheck to paycheck on a paltry state salary.

Hopefully within 9 months to a year I will be making the equivalent Lieutenant's pay at the prison without having to spend ten years in that gloomy hellhole. That means about a 44.5% increase from what I was making there.

But enough about that. As everyone knows, it is the tax season and as I like having my money more than I like the government having my money I have already filed my return which came out to nearly $2500. It's great having kids. I'm think of having another one just for that extra bit of cash come January. Now the elusive iPod is finally within my grasp and my wife will finally get her new bed set. Credit card bills? What are those?

In other news, the infamous Doomsday Clock has moved up another 2 minutes to 11:55, the closest we have been to Armageddon since 1988 when the United States and the USSR signed a treaty to "eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces", which set the clock back 3 minutes. This all seems pretty arbitrary to me. Either they should take the batteries out so we don't have to worry about it anymore, or wind it up to midnight and get it all over with. It's bad enough that we're on constant Yellow Alert, I don't need that damn incessant ticking too. It's driving me freakin' nuts.

Thoughts of the day:

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." - Herodotus

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday" - Ralph Waldo Emerson