Close me up and pull the lid tight...I don't want any air getting through.

Looking for a glimmer of light

in the nightmarish dark of life

is not a way

to approach

each day

but it's happening.

Even when you win

you lose...again.

Sometimes saying something

just to avoid the silence

is the worse idea imaginable.

You can take a day off

to lie in bed and do nothing

but it only makes

things worse.

Compiling,

complacent,

you just avoid

getting up.

Your sick days

are shit days

and no shower is ever going to wash them off.

Even when you win, you lose

It's so pathetic that politics must seep into everything. Something that is supposed to be so innocent and fun as the Corporate Challenge has been befouled.

Recently, my team competed in the trivia portion of the challenge and won the bronze medal. Not only did I hear grown men quarreling over answers, but also pouting like little babies with their little baby lips stuck out. You're a grown man! You're a major financial force in this town!Grow up!

So, apparently, the powers that be wanted to take away our medal and points because there was "confusion." When our liaison asked them to explain confusion, they could not.

Also, my agency won the executive relay by a landslide but were not awarded the gold. They later received points for it, but the agency that should have received silver points got to keep their gold points.

Regardless, my agency is still number one in the corporate challenge standings and I hope to be at the end as well.

It's just too bad that some of the largest employers in town have to get butt-hurt over losing fair-and-square. Do you think you deserve some type of special treatment? Do you think you deserve more than the rest of us? I know how to settle it. A foot race. Yeah, the 5K. Bring your "A" game, but don't expect to crawl like the babies you have been acting like and get a medal.

I am the little man, the other man, the one you fear. Initially, it was about fun until you got tired of sitting in your soiled diaper and made a fuss.

Now it's about showing you that even when you think you've won...you lose.

A Pilot Light Ignites, but for What?

Sometimes I'll start writing a blog for an unclear reason and finish writing about something completely different. That may happen today.

I was enjoying my non labor time on Labor Day yesterday by flipping through the channels on television. I stopped on MSNBC when I saw our president giving a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lately, all I have heard about in the news is Obama's inability to enact anything and how is approval rating decreases slightly each week. That's great news to all those piece of shit journalists that make their money by running any trash that is going to cause a stink. I am not one of those cockroaches. I must get back on track here.

I'm watching the segment of the speech when Obama inserts that campaign anecdote about the little woman in South Carolina at the town hall meeting when Obama running for the presidency was still considered a joke who supplied inspiring words.

Obama was wet, tired, and not taken seriously, and here he was at 8 a.m. in a room of about 30 people listening to a woman chant "Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up." Obama indeed got fired up. And kicked major campaign ass. His message was one person can influence a group, one group a town, one town a state, and one state a nation.

What are you fired up about? Or better yet, what fires you up? Is it change? Is it self-inflicted drama? Is it adversity? Is it complacency? What will it be today that makes life worth living for you?