Gofil's World

Life or Something like it

Apr 282012

Posted by at 9:02 pm everything else, Rants No Responses »

Life or Something like it,

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything here, life has gotten in the way of the less important things like posting to my blog, writing, learning to draw, anything other than work and home. It seems as if my life goes in cycles, like everyone’s does I’m sure, the cycle I’m stuck in now is the go to work come home , rinse and repeat. So is that how life should be spent? do I as an adult have any choice in how my life is being spent?

Just the fact that I’m asking that question should be it’s own answer….( WTF?) Right I’m not sure what that even means…and I’m the one who wrote it.

Life or Something like it, maybe that’s my problem I dont know what I’m thinking…or doing..except working driving working….this is the something like life and yes it sucks.

I’ve spent a lot of time listening to audio books and the unbelievable adventures that those made up people have. Anything from the Hunger Games too Sherrilyn Kenyon’s League series or the Dresden file, throw in some Robert B Parker and all my fantasies are being told to me all the way too work. The wife has bought some amazing music lately, the new Jack White comes to mind as well as some new Ok Go and I even ordered a Boston album from my teen years. Thats been the pleasant part of my drive…as well as my new Cooper. Still it’s a daily grind with out an end in site.

Life or Something like it, of course it’s not all bad and most of it’s good and in the scheme of things I have it pretty easy:

The Good

Loving hot wife
great kids
a great job that pays well
some good friends, some Ive seen face to face and others I’ve met thru my online adventures
a great car that I truly enjoy
My Faith

The Bad

I’m away from the Hot wife too much
I’m in that great car for 4 hours a day
I know some people that I wish I didn’t

Life or Something like it, I guess the Good out weighs the Bad….I really am kinda surprised by that…well….EFFF! what am I bitching about?

I just had this great conversation with my 15 year old daughter, about how she should not worry and how she should look at her life and see what it would be like if it were a Manga. I told her that at this point if all she does is worry then it’s one very boring Manga. Guess what Gofil your life and bitching right now is very freaking boring.

Life or Something like it, this is my life and I am going to make it something that would be a great Manga or a great movie or even great memories, stories my kids can tell their kids about how their Grandpa led an amazing life.

Life or Something like it, Yeah I think it’s Life

Gofil

PS if they made a move about your life who would play it? John Travolta in From Paris with Love would be me

PSS yeah I’m dreaming

PPS yeah He’s way better looking than me but if you just suspend your disbelief, check your brain at the door, live in my fantasy world with me, or squint real hard

is that Nerdy or what?

Mar 262012

Posted by at 3:55 pm everything else No Responses »

I’ve been sick for the past three days or so, sick to the point of really being uncomfortable and whinny. I’ve spent most of the time reading and watching television or just thinking, some of the things I’ve come across lately have me asking if I’m Nerdy or what?

yes I like sci-fi, i like fantasy, and horror and yes even some of the romance novels my wife keeps giving me to read. in this world we live in the Real World or Real Life or RL like some call it we are not what we seem, the outside is not always an indication of what lurks (yes, lurks) on the inside.

if you had to take the sorting hat test from harry potter would the outside you really match the house that the hat would put you in? I know what you are all thinking it’s just a book written for kids, and it is, but….yeah there’s a but in it, what house would you be in?

Gryffindor values courage, bravery, loyalty, nerve and chivalry. Its mascot is the lion, and its colours are scarlet and gold.

Hufflepuff values hard work, tolerance, loyalty, and fair play. The house mascot is the badger, and canary yellow and midnight black are its colours.

Ravenclaw values intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit.The house mascot is an eagle and the house colours are blue and bronze (blue and grey in the films).

Slytherin house values ambition, cunning, leadership, and resourcefulness. The house mascot of Slytherin is the serpent, and the house colours are green and silver.

is that nerdy or what?

Think about it though, what we show people on the outside is way different then what we think or what our inner dialogue is, if it wasn’t so well hidden what we would we do? how would we act.

As the guy who always wants to be the hero i like to think of myself in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, my inner dialog is not even close to that its more like Slytherin or you are to sick to even be in this place of learning, or still in the public domain. If I had to actually be the person who I am on the inside where would I be right now? if you had to be the person you really are who would you be?

I know it’s a hard question to ask, harder to answer and more than likely not worth answering but like I said I’m sick so there ya go

Is that nerdy or what?

I could go on with a lot of other examples of who we are and how we should act but my headache is in full swing and other things are giving me that i should just run away and hide kinda feelings.

I should try to make the inside be more like the hero I want to be, but it’s really hard. And in that is my other problem I’m lazy and sick and tired and a nerd so I just think and do nothing

Gofil

PS someday I won’t be sick and I’ll try to change

PPS yeah right

PPSS sorry no pic’s this post brain not working good

Where in the Hell?

Mar 122012

Posted by at 10:40 pm everything else, Rants 1 Response »

Where in the Hell?…whats the rest of that question?, “have you, I, we and of course they been”

It’s a good question, I have been as busy as a…well I been pretty busy here’s some of the stuff I’ve been doing

So there ya go, balancing brooms at work and at home and then the hat trick I balanced an egg. No it has noting to do with any equinox or any witchcraft it’s just physics or so someone on twitter told me. They never really explained the “physics” part they just said it could be done, so I tried it and Ta Da!

Where in the Hell?

I have also been spending more time at work and less time on line, except for social networks. Did ya see how I thru that in? sly right? I also didn’t mention which social network, we all know that there are several different ones to be apart of. When this is posted it will go right to one of those networks, the infamous FB….I don’t really go there a bunch anymore, sorry about that to most of my friends and family that used to see me on there all the time. I find that I have to tone down what’s on my mind on FB, that’s all fine and good but….I kinda have to do that at my job…all day and then when I get home, I have to because of the kids. It’s not a big deal but…yeah there is a but…I seem to need a way to vent my inner thoughts in an external manner without the repercussions of the people I know. Wow that was a lot of really big words for me.

Where in the Hell? so which social network have I been sending out my twisted thoughts? yeah you guessed it..I am not telling you. Figure it out for yourselves, but be warned if you decide to follow me there I am what I am. I think it’s an interesting thing to be able to vent, I do some of the venting on this page but I try to keep it light and funny, not that I don’t try to be light and funny all the time but….

Where in the Hell? the funny thing about social networks and maybe not just online ones, is the drama, who likes who, who whines about stuff, who constantly checks your spelling…okay that really doesn’t happen in face to face conversations…yet..either way it’s all there, and you cant always get away from it.

Where in the Hell? I have also been listening to some great audio books, It by Stephen King, Sherilyn Kenyon Retribution to name a few, the pod is still my best traveling companion . Also watched a movie, The Big Year it’s about bird watching…I know sounds boring but it really wasn’t check it out it’s worth it.

Gofil

PS. also if ya get a chance, go to iTunes and check out the Dogfart radio podcast.

PPS. Next big thing for Gofil IPAD3

Where in the Hell?

How Monday made me it’s bitch, or How I learned to love my new Mini

Feb 252012

Posted by at 9:23 pm Cars, Rants No Responses »

How Monday made me it’s bitch, or How I learned to love my new Mini…lets start with the new Mini! Last post I was on about that horrible thing called a B-Day…in that post I said I was looking at a new car, well I bought one!

Yes it’s a Mini Cooper

no it’s not an S, parts and maintenance on an S are double what they are on a standard Cooper. It’s Pepper White (duh) with black leather and a five speed. The mileage is awesome, and it’s a blast to drive!

How you may ask did I end up with a Mini so soon after my B-day? It’s my wife’s fault…what?

here’s how it went, I found a Cooper S for sale not far from where I live, odd to find a car in a town that is full of, and I mean full of SUV’s big ass trucks and tractors, but there it was. The car had low miles, it was missing 1 of the things I wanted, heated leather seats and it was on the high-end of what I wanted to pay, but it was close and I could take the wife for a ride and see what she thought of it….not the first ride in a Cooper S, and the results were the same…she hated it! I should have driven it before I took her over to the dealership, then I would have known how bad it was gonna be. The kid who owned it before had lowered it, put a cat-back exhaust on it and messed with the ignition system, any of those things I maybe would have done at some point, but I wouldn’t have put the stiffest freaking clutch in it I could find, and I would have tuned it to the exhaust so that it didn’t have a dead spot the size of Nebraska in it.

So yeah it drove like….CRAP! sure it was fast (once you got past the dead spot) but it was loud, rough and the clutch sucked so bad I almost killed it every time I left a light..or shifted. I finally found out the only way to smoothly drive it was at 65% in other words 3/4 throttle and spinning tires….nope the wife says not this one….

Well readers I thought I was doomed to another econo box 4 door Toyota or Nissan or Chevy.

Then on the way to work I found a Cooper that was nice, stock had heated leather was in the price range. I drove this one before I took the wife out in it…yeah I figured if it sucked I would stop thinking Cooper and go for something else..it was not an S, so I thought it would be slow and boring. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a lot of fun, got better gas mileage and I really liked it, so I called the wife and told her about it..

Mrs. P “go back and buy it”

Gofil “whaaa..?”

Mrs P “you want it, sounds nice buy it!”

at this point I almost drove off the road…

G “ahh..dont you want to drive it?”

M ” no, just buy it”

G ” I think we should talk about it when I get home, Love you bye”

I hung up the phone and drove on in silence for a few miles then called the wife,

Gofil “who are you and what have you done with my wife?”

Mrs P ” HA HA”

Long story, I bought the car the next day drove it home loving every mile! the next day I took Mrs P out to dinner and a movie, of course we took the Cooper and it was joyous she even drove all the way to Denver…and liked it!

How Monday made me it’s bitch…

Monday roles around, the wind in insane, it’s snowing but real light when I leave for work, ten miles in and it’s full white out and I thinking no problem I’ve got front wheel drive…on the highway I am sliding all over the place, admittedly I am not in the ditch like so many other cars and trucks but I am all over the road. Bummer new car sucks in the snow…WTF?

Then the low tire sensor goes off…WTF? I know I checked the tires on sunday added air then….I pull off the high way and slide all the way down the off ramp, get out and look at all the tires, nothing flat or looks low…again WTF?

Monday’s bitch….do I turn around and get the other car..or just go to work…right I maned up and drove into work, it was a white knuckle drive all the way in. I park go inside and talk to the tire center guys,

TC manager ” your tires are really bald, you know that right?”

Gofil “???” WTF???

TC “yeah I noticed that yesterday”

“WTF?” yeah Monday made me cuss

I looked at the tires and sure enough, bald

“how much?”

TC ” $500″

Gofil “do it”

So Monday made me it’s $500 bitch and snowed and blew and I found out that the rezivour for the windshield washer was empty and now I didn’t have any money to buy fluid and…and….WTF

I go back to my department and get bitch slapped by all the idiot’s with obviously good tires and no brains, Monday’s bitch

When the day ends, the snow had stopped, the wind had stopped I was exhausted but I now had new tires.

TC “did you look at the tires before you bought it?”

Gofil “thought I did, guess not”

I know, I was so worried about getting the Cooper I didn’t even look at the tires, I looked at the ones on the S I drove, I always look at the tires…always…well not this time.

Gofil

P.S. sorry for the long post..

PPS oh yeah, the rez was full the washer pump is bad…nope didn’t look at that either

PPSS yeah Still love the Cooper!

It’s my birthday, EFFFFF!

Feb 102012

Posted by at 5:47 pm Cars, everything else, Rants No Responses »

So it really is my Birthday, I am now older than I thought I would ever be, I can remember my third grade teacher making us all figure out how old we would be at the turn of the century, the year 2000 seemed so far away.

I sat at my desk and did the math,

“HOLY shit, I’ll be thirty five”

“Principles office, NOW”

The whole trip to the principles office what was going thru my mind? 35 that’s really old…..I’ll never be that old

Well guess what little Gofil of the past, NOW your almost FIFTY….WTF?

How did that happen? Why did it happen? how do I get a refund? this adult crap is not what I bargained for, now I understand when my dad told me to enjoy being a kid, he knew it sucked to be an adult, he tried to warn me and of course that little shit didn’t listen then and still ain’t listening. He’s the one who say’s I can eat all of that, drink all of that or be that cool. That little shit gets me into more trouble now then he did then..I guess dad was right that I should enjoy being a kid cause I still am at hart, just not in body.

So am I having a mid life crisis?….maybe…it’s my birthday…

I am looking at a new car…totally practical

Mini Cooper S great commuter car, has a back seat…ha.

It gets good gas mileage, not very noticeable by the 5O

right I said back seat right?

Okay so my other choice is not as practical, but it’s close

No back seat, not much of a trunk…it’s Red!

gets good gas mileage, Fun!!!

and truthfully I have owned 1 before and it was great fun to drive and own, I do miss having a convertible.

I know some of you are thinking why not go big, Corvette, Mustang, Challenger….bigger money, less economy. And truthfully…I like small cars for now….wait till I’m almost 60 then…..who knows.

I all ready have the trophy wife, the incomparable MRS. P. So I’m set on that front…she may want to up grade to a younger Gofil sooner or later….I hope not, maybe she will want the Challenger instead….or the worn out Mini when I get the Challenger….right, okay.

After looking back on all of my life so far….it hasn’t been bad… being a grown up sucks most days but not always…well….right, okay.

So on with Birthday celebration I get Pasta Alfredo, Red Velvet cake and time with my family as the snow falls, so all in all a great day!

Gofil

PS. Really want the Mini!

PPS. I am getting the Mini, as soon as I find the right one. That’s one good thing about getting older, I can take my time and I don’t mind waiting.

PPSS. That’s totally B.S. I hate to wait…right, okay that’s all I got

Manga, logo’s and ?

Feb 032012

Posted by at 5:19 pm everything else No Responses »

Some of you may have missed my post from last week…nope you didn’t I was too busy and too tired to write one. This week the snow is flying, the wind is blowing and it’s freaking cold! I have drawn, well photo shopped a new logo for me! I know like I need a logo…well….I…DO! yes I need my own personal logo and this is it!

and this, in a pop art style!

It was a fun day on photo shop and I was lucky enough to have all kinds of help and input from the ladies in my family….

I think maybe I have always been a wanna be artist, I really enjoy looking at art, I also like the thought of making art..I just have no talent…I know I should be more positive and say, I have talent it’s just not aware of me…or I am unaware of it??? anyway I would like to learn how to draw, my daughters both draw in the manga style

Manga (kanji: 漫画; hiragana: まんが; katakana: マンガ; listen (help·info); English /ˈ m ɑː ŋ ɡ ə / or /ˈ m æ ŋ ɡ ə /) is the Japanese word for “comics/cartoons” and consists of comics and print cartoons (sometimes also called komikku コミック). In the West, the term “manga” has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.^[1] In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II,^{[citation needed]} but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.^[2]

Thanks Wikipedia

There are a bunch of different styles of manga, some of it is cool some of it über and I mean utterly disgusting! those of you that want to know….and I know you are reading this should just Google it. So I am trying to learn to draw and then the big plan is to turn my novel…yes the huge 600 page Out East an ode to… well anyway I want to put it in manga style and try to publish it on line…somewhere…here…there…I don’t know.

Of course my limited art ability will make this a long and arduous task….oh well I’ve been writing this story for over twenty-five years whats another couple of hundred Ha ha

Gofil

PS I can draw a mean stick figure…well not mean but it kinda looks like a stick..sorta

PPS I know I’m old but I can still learn right?….

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The Flu, it sucks!

Jan 202012

Posted by at 11:34 am Rants 1 Response »

The Flu what is it?

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals. The most common symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness/fatigue and general discomfort.^[1] Although it is often confused with other influenza-like illnesses, especially the common cold, influenza is a more severe disease than the common cold and is caused by a different type of virus.^[2] Influenza may produce nausea and vomiting, particularly in children,^[1] but these symptoms are more common in the unrelated gastroenteritis, which is sometimes, inaccurately, referred to as “stomach flu.”^[3] Flu can occasionally cause either direct viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia.

thanks Wikipedia

nasty looking…whatever…if that’s scary to you?

Yeah basically it sucks, all of it…..and of course I’ve had it for days now. You may have read in other posts on here of my phobia’s about food..or not, anyway I am a germaphobe all right the real word is

Mysophobia…whatever, it all means the same thing, fear of germs, infection and illness. How you may ask do I survive with these obviously debilitating mental issues?

Lots of therapy, drinking, drugs? what is it that keeps me from becoming a hermit or shut in or babbling lunatic in a padded cell?………time….I just don’t have enough time to be…well in a nice padded cell, a nice quite padded cell….ah, blessed be the silence…Right back on task, I dont have the time….or the money….

The Flu! so I got sick, I brought it home and was nice enough to pass it around to my in-laws, my wife and so not my kids…so far…people with the virus can be contagious up to two weeks after the flu has manifested….TWO WEEKS!

The CDC recommends a flu shot every 6 months..you may be thinking that aha! he has a phobia about needles! WRONG….no phobia about it at all, I have had many needles stuck in me thru the years, I don’t like it, but I am not afraid of them.

also because of my personal beliefs I would rather not break the blood barrier, and I would rather not put something I am not sure of into my body that way…our immune systems are such that we do not need to inject something into them to make them respond, they respond and stop the virus…mad scientists make up new viruses and mutant ones at that, so our systems can not adjust and therefore they say we need to get vaccinations so they can make more and on and on and…right you get the idea.

The Flu! it sucks that’s all there is to it, you know it I know it what the heck can we do about it? suffer and go on, it won’t last forever…next year it’ll be back in some new mutant version (thanks mad freaking scientists) and we go on.

So what’s the point? what have we..(or I ) learned from this…?..nothing, aside from the fact I do not like to be sick

Gofil

PS. I blame all of you touchy feely people out there for spreading this.

PPS. yes I know it’s transmitted thru airborne particles IE: sneezing, coughing and of course mouth breathers

PPSS? just don’t freaking touch me, sneeze on me or breath towards me…you all know who you are!…

Personal Space

Jan 132012

Posted by at 6:06 pm everything else No Responses »

So I have some food issues…I know your thinking not you? well it’s true. Not only do I have food issues..I’m not sure issue is the right word…maybe it’s more of a phobia, or … I don’t know I do not like people to touch my food, I dont share my food. That’s not true I will give you my food if you have none. But I don’t want it back, if you use my fork, you now have a extra fork…yeah issues, and don’t think of double dipping…

As if that’s not enough I have a personal space bubble that is so large…how large is it? well when I drive my Jetta to work its really cramped inside.

Cool Pic right? so where am I going with all of this?

16 years ago I started working for the Company, it’s been good for the most part. The best part is I met my lovely wife, it’s a good story I’ll have her do a post on it someday. I also met a great friend, I’ll call him whack-job, whack job is gentle giant of a guy 6’4″ 240lbs and totally the opposite of me. He lives to invade personal spaces, he gets and gives hugs to everyone all the time….yeah and they think i got problems.

Every new location we open, he goes out of his way to tell everyone how much I hate to be touched…yeah you guessed it, it’s like a freaking invitation to hug, touch or get up close and in my face….so now I can get to the point…

I have lunch with whack-job almost everyday at work, he doesn’t touch my food and sometimes I like to mess with him by giving him a taste of whatever the wife packed me for lunch, not often but sometimes…when I’m almost done, with a new fork. This location has added some others to our routine that has been very cool. So now we got sometimes 3 or 4 peeps at our table and it’s okay, just don’t get too close okay?

So on Thursday it’s whack-job and I eating lunch and the new deli girl walks up and starts sit at our table

Her “mind if I sit here?”

Me “no, just so you know I got a cold and he’s got really bad gas”

Whack-job laughs and the new girl sits down and smiles at us,

Her “so whats up?”

Me ” gassy and a cold”

she laughs and then says something that totally made it okay for her to invade my space (right our space I know, Whack-job’s personal space bubble is at a molecular level so I get to make those choices)

Her ” I fed my pet mouse to my pet lizard”

We both do the double take,

“wha?”

“I had to feed my pet mouse to my pet lizard, wanna see a picture?”

Me “Hell ya!”

and so we looked at the mouse half in the lizards mouth and then she told the story about how her other lizard had made the mouse her pet and wouldn’t eat it, and then when the girl lizard got crushed (by the new girl) she decided it was time to feed it to the male!

Awesome! I don’t know of any better way to start a conversation, I just wished I had asked for the pic to add here.

I really got to work on the Personal space thing….I am not to old to change….Whatever

Gofil

PS. I want a lizard and a mouse just so I can start a conversation.

PPS. not like I can’t start a conversation with out a lizard, I could talk about my goats……no really

So I got hacked

Jan 072012

Posted by at 7:20 pm everything else 2 Responses »

So I got hacked last week, it was kinda funny…after I got over the stress and fear that I had lost everything on my computer. I didn’t, nope didn’t lose a thing…but I learned something from this whole experience. It wasn’t like being hacked on a movie or even anything disgusting. They got into my email and sent email’s out to everyone on my list…..duh!

Hacked! for those of you that dont know, I’ve been looking for a new gig, I’m tired of the drive, I’m tired of being in retail…I am totally blessed to have a job and to have the one I got in particular. The pay is great, I enjoy the people I work with and my boss is great…..but….yeah there is a but, retail sucks, being on the road for 4 hours every day sucks. It’s hard on me, on cars and hard on my family.

I’ve been looking for a gig I could do from home so I could be there more for my wife and kids. I found one of those “send me $49.99 and I’ll make you rich” schemes, did all the research and found out it was a scam…duh! obviously I also need a job that my low IQ can handle.

Hacked! for those of you that are on my email list…sorry at least it’s a get rich scam and not monkey porn (not that I’ve been looking at monkey porn….and really you shouldn’t be either…monkeys need privacy too). the interesting thing I learned from all this?

Well it’s kinda funny, I send out email’s when I have a new blog post or when I find something funny or interesting or whatever….sometimes I get a response sometimes (most of the time ) I don’t.

So I get Hacked and I get phone call’s and emails from almost everyone on my list asking if I am really gonna be working from home am I really serious about this and do I think it would be good for them…really?…seriously?…..

I must send so much useless crap that no one looks at it unless it has Happy New year in the subject line? Wow! thanks for all the responses peep’s.

Gofil

P.S. I’ll be putting Happy New Year in all my subject lines from now on

PPS. Just kidding!

Yeah…I got nothing

Dec 092011

Posted by at 5:46 pm everything else No Responses »

Just a post about….nothing.

Well not just nothing, I have made a change to my site…if you noticed.

Been a rough week, and with all of the holiday madness out there I don’t see things getting any easier for me till after the new year. Working in retail at this time of year is…..?

Some cool things have happened though, I’m looking into a new business, more news to follow…

The other exciting thing is it looks like I might get to go to Bonneville for speed week in September next year!!! and….I will get to drive on the salt…at speed!

I’ll have more details soon….hopefully…no really!

yeah…I got nothing….

have a good weekend! enjoy the company of your significant other…or your favorite beverage! or even better both!

Gofil

PS. Awesome new drink I was introduced to at a cocktail party the other night!

ingredients

1.5 shots Stolichnaya Razberi vodka
0.75 shot De Kuyper triple sec
2.5 shots cranberry juice
0.5 shot lime juice
1 teaspoon agave nectar or honey as per taste

PPSS. Thanks Kim and Paula for that!

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