Neanderpundit

Kim Du Toit, in his Glossary of Kimspeak speaks about the RCOB, and I have experienced it tonight.

No, I don’t get the RCOB the way he does, a lot of the things that make Kim see red, I have become used to, perhaps even expect. Like PT Barnum, I never underestimate the inherent asshattedness of the average American.

No, today’s RCOB is dedicated specifically to the morons that plan and execute highway repair projects in the greater Chicagoland area.

Tonight, I drove my usual 55 mile trip home in just under three hours. It should take 55 minutes. On saturdays, with no traffic, I can do it in 45 minutes. With tolls and construction, during the week, its more like 90 minutes, on average.

Trouble now, is that the construction is going on in several places at once (great game plan, you fuckmonkeys!) and it backs traffic up from the middle of Indiana all the way to joliet. It’s more annoying than it is possible to describe.

Now, I love my gig, love what i do, love the folks I work with. I wouldn’t change gigs for , well, it’d take a lot.

The commute is even ok, most days. It’s the days like today, when due to the combined evil forces of the Toll Authority and the construction crews, as well as the occasional idiot who “forgot” to fill up with gas before he got on the expressway, these are the days when I want to draw blood.

I can back down on my own rage at Mikey fuckface, I can cool down about Ketchupass, but one subject which leaves me in a perpetual rage is the morons who do this to my commute.
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It’s not a surprise that he’s my favorite blogger- and new favorite author.

Partially, because he gets it.

Partially because he stretches my mind. I can read Kim Du Toit all day long- he’s bright and well educated, and well spoken; a joy to read even if only for the subject matter. Poretto, on the other hand, is the only blogger I occasioanlly have to open a dictionary to read. It makes it more of a challenge, and if you don’t seek out challenge in your daily life, stretch your brain, so to speak, you’re already dying. In the post I’ve linked to, he describes the skills good authors have, and how they use them to attract and capture their audience. mr Poretto is dead on, as usual, and gives excellent examples.
Here are a few of my own:
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It’s hump day, and I’m just about to the point tonight where I should have been the day before I left on vacation, two weeks ago.

It feels good to get back to work, as odd as that may seem, frankly I love the job but I needed this break. I will be much more productive now, at least partially as a result of the break, and partially as a result of some internal changes to my company that I think are going to make the gig an absolute blast, at least for me.

I’m also pumped about the postal match. I intend to practice saturday and sunday and shoot sunday, and I look forward to tabulating the results.

Now, I’d better get my butt back to the grindstone. I’m not going to stress myself out just sitting here yapping.