{"id":52,"date":"2008-01-03T02:21:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-01-03T02:21:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T08:21:43","slug":"lack-of-working-out-office-chaos-and-staking-myself-a-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Working Out, Office Chaos, and Staking Myself a Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted any fitness logs for the past few days&#8230; It&#8217;s been hectic with New Years hours at the office and a few things throwing a wrench in my plans. I know that I should be kicking it up a notch, but the numbing mental exhaustion of fighting a chaotic front at work and another at home just overwhelm me. I hope to get some hours in on this coming weekend, as I owe it to myself to feel great.<\/p>\n<p>The office has wracked my mind with just a numbing conundrum of problems. Missing files and dead end paper trails, inventory that&#8217;s out of wack,\u00c2\u00a0 just things that are becoming both a legal issue and a safety concern. I am greatly afraid that if my superiors don&#8217;t hammer these issues out, it will not bode well with corporate officials. I have strained my mind to find answers to these problems and I simply can&#8217;t pin-point it spot on. It gets so bad that sometimes I even have nightmares about the office where I catch myself screaming &#8220;no&#8230; no..! Not the damn papers!!!!! ahhhhhhh!!!!&#8221; on awaking. Well&#8230; not that dramatic, but you get my drift. From my concerns and even my new partner picking up rapidly on my worries, my superiors have decided to make a safety meeting. Unfortunately, it&#8217;ll be before our dinner at The Cheesecake Factory as a &#8220;Christmas Dinner&#8221; event because we can&#8217;t just close the office for a 35 minute &#8211; 1 hour meeting about safety issues versus national trends. The good part is not being in uniform, so I may suit up in my nice clothes to enjoy the festivities after the safety meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I take a trip to possibly throw the dice on a gamble that may be the best thing I have considered. Sure, it&#8217;s a 2 hour trip west of Dallas, but if the cards line up right&#8230; I may have found my ticket out of a purgatory that has been my life for the past 2 years. Being on the line for academic Hell sucks and I want to push my life towards the better. I am getting a grand tour and hopefully the investment of time will be worth the day. In the case that the gamble is a failure, it just means I need to look at some of my other options. I know the stakes of tomorrow being a total bust or &#8220;snake eyes&#8221; is a fair 50\/50, so it&#8217;s all on how it plays out. The first &#8220;blind&#8221; doesn&#8217;t require a buy-in, while the second &#8220;blind&#8221; does have a $300 non-refundable buy-in.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to add a prayer to my boss as he&#8217;s been struggling with being in the &#8220;doghouse&#8221; with his wife and work. I hope that things get better for him, because he feels like an infantry unit to me rather than a commander. He&#8217;s the ideal leader that I strive to work with and the same time that I would take a bullet for. It&#8217;s tough to have corporate on him for not exceeding numbers on certain corporate metrics but as well as stuff in regards to his wife. Boss, if you&#8217;re reading this, I am praying that things get better for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted any fitness logs for the past few days&#8230; It&#8217;s been hectic with New Years hours at the office and a few things throwing a wrench in my plans. 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