Southern Gentleman

well it feels like i haven't done this in a lil minute and well i was putting it off for one big update which is
well....now....so i thought id start it off with 5 random facts about myself that I've seen other folks doing
now for a while. well some might not be so random but some you may not know

1. i listen to more old school records (50s, 60s, & 70s) than i do to today's mainstream stuff
2. I've only been to one funeral in the 23 years of my life...which was as recent as last year
3. i call my mama by her first name, and i have since i was a little kid
4. i used to call my grandpa by his first name as well
5. I've never been arrested (yes, a black man that's never been in cuffs, we do exist)

well i said this would be a big update but its really only one thing big that's happened lately which y'all will
see at the end of all this, but mostly the rest are random thoughts i guess.

for one...today at church i noticed that...when i don't show up for a while...maybe 1 or 2 Sundays out the month
when i do make it back that 3rd or 4Th Sunday...how many folks noticed my absence. i ain't saying i got some kinda
status within the church or anything but i guess since I'm the youngest person on the male usher board and I'm involved in some behind the scenes work, folks take notice of it, especially the older folks in the church, always shaking my hand....telling me how proud they are of me, etc etc. makes a brother feel damn good.

another random thought i was talking to somebody close to me last night was how its funny to see folks you went
to high school with, just how much they've changed over time. looks and personality wise. these two dudes i went
to school with came to church this morning and sat not too far from the door i was ushering on, one is cool and
the other one was i guess you can all a trouble maker, but I'm cool with both of em. but as the service went on
and stuff, as folks were really getting into the spirit i noticed him doing the same. now to me it was kinda
strange b/c someone who always acted out, acted like a str8 up thug and what not...was actually feeling the
spirit. it was just weird to me. then the part where the pastor welcomed folks to join the church, one of the
associate pastors came over to him and the other dude was was tryna talk him into joining but he seems to turn
it down every time. maybe he wasn't into it as much as i thought, or maybe he just ain't wanna walk up in front
of everybody.....who knows.

Other than that, ion really like complaining about my job too much b/c i know I'm blessed to even have one these
days. but i did have to show that i ain't no push over to one of the supervisors on Friday. my whole thing is. they
got me learning so much stuff, doing this, and doing that, getting me into a class to be a hazmat responder, etc.
so much on my plate, but at the same time i don't think they get that b/c they try to put me on a time limit on how
many hours i can work a day, that's cool to me cuz hell i don't wanna be there no longer than the next person, yet
if i gotta make them hours to get shit done, then i ain't complaining either. but don't come at me sideways saying
i gotta be done by a certain time when I'm up to my neck in shit to process then get mad at me when it doesn't get
done. that's my only issue. I'm the only clerk staying after the trucks go out finishing stuff up. it used to be two
of us but the other girl leaves at 9 to take her kids to school so its kinda like they got me doing all the stuff
she used to do afterwards when I was leaving at 9 or 9:30. but in the end, i cant really complain b/c I'm starting
to make the big bucks. so ill just roll with the punches cuz i know it'll all pay off in the long run.

well i think that's about it as far as shit that's been going on the past week and a half, still getting over this
cold i got, probably from the cold snap we had early last week. i swear i must have been sick more than 5 times
since this year started all b/c of them shits. smh.

Oh yeah and well i did title this "out with the old and in with the new" and that's b/c like i said in a previous
entry i had a big surprise...well at least its big to me b/c I've been long over due for this for sometime now. and
that is i finally got myself some new frames....two pair matter of fact. i was gonna get some Bulgari since Jojo
picked em out and liked em, but i couldn't find em in the store so instead i got some Sean John's...a regular seeing
pair and another frame as sunglasses but also prescribed. and i swear when i tired em both on i felt like a new man
i went and did the exam and everything Saturday...had me sit in front of some machine and looked at a green light
and came out a lil and without warning shot a puff of air directly into my eye...shit made me jump back every time.
only thing i was kinda worried about was the dilation b/c last time i got it done, my eyeballs felt tight as hell
like i couldn't move em around for a good 30 minutes but it wasn't like that this time....just...dude said my vision
would become blurry within 20 minutes and that shit didn't wear off for at least 5 hrs. had to be the longest drive
home ever. but since they closed early on Saturdays and no one was there to make the lenses on Sunday i had to go
pick em up today after i got off work. so yeah....out with the old and in with the new....I'm loving these joints man.....

that's about it for now....ill probably start doing these more often instead of just some random shit every other
day.

Peace

-Fin

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