The Bloggy Blogface!

I started this blog a little over six years ago. It replaced one I think was called Blog of Advertising Fail. Before that there might have been another one I wrote from this platform, but I don't recall its name. Prior to Blogger I was on Livejournal, like all the other angsty twenty to thirtysomethings were. Needless to say the 2000's have been pretty unstable in my approach to posting public drivel. As another birthday slowly creeps in, I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I'm still writing, just not on here. Not as prolific as I would like, but that's beside the point. I've been researching other platforms to post from, but then I get to thinking why bother? I barely post on this one I have now. I recently deleted a Tinyletter account I created last March. I had to request and reset password and login information, just to get inside. It had one post, unfinished. And, of course, unsent due to having zero subscribers. I also took down a Wordpress...

A long time ago, I was briefly a district manager for a local newspaper. A district manager, at least for this paper, was the fancy name for the supervisor of all those who delivered the paper in a certain area. I wasn't very good at it, mostly because I absolutely suck eggs at math. Every Friday afternoon, myself and five other district managers would sit at a long table with dividers and calculate the business of our designated areas for the end of the week. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, balancing some sort of ledger and what not. As much as I tried to be proficient, I was always the last of the managers to leave. The first thing I was told to do upon being hired was to fire one of my delivery persons, a man twice my age who lived in some strange-looking home along a dirt road embankment. Up until that point in my adult working life, I never had to fire anyone. The man didn't take it too kindly, both on the phone and in person, and within a matter of days many...