New Office, New Rules, Same Me

Byrd Services moved offices and Mr. Byrd has named me Communications Director. This is my maiden memo on keeping the new place clean and nice.

 

Gentle Office Mates:

Please note your new surroundings. We hope that you like them. There are some rules and guidelines we would like you to follow in order to preserve the sanctity of our work space.

1)      Please do not hang any Grave Digger monster truck photos from the walls. This is strictly a Big Foot monster truck office.

2)      We ask that you do not display photos of unattractive spouses, children or significant others unless you are doing so to be ironic. You may display unattractive photos of parents and other ancestors since you had no choice regarding their unfortunate looks.

3)      No religious material or inspirational posters may be displayed unless they center around Mike Ditka.

4)      Do not eat or drink at your desk. Instead, please eat and drink while standing at the kitchen sink or in the bathroom.

5)      The “wellness/resting room” may only be used for solitary or for partner enhanced sexual gratification if you leave the door slightly ajar.

6)      Bolo ties and cheap Indian trinkets are still prohibited from the office along with copper bands enhanced with voodoo magic to improve your psyche.

7)      Do not throw flame engulfed objects at your co-workers.

8)      Mumbily Peg is to be played in conference rooms only.

9)      No folk songs or other caca may be played at any time. Van Halen is encouraged (not Van Hagar).

10)   If it’s brown, flush it down. If it’s yellow, let it mellow.

11)   Please do not greet each other with a perky “Hello” or “Good Morning”. When you leave, you should slouch until you are inside the elevator.

Thank You!

Sincerely,

Lazlo Gusto, Director of Communications

Yer Summertime Update…

Hello gentle readers and no-so-gentle stalkers. We are well into summer here in Houston and I think some updates are in order.

Where shall we begin?

Jessie – She passed all of her classes this semester. I didn’t even have to tutor her that much and I only wrote one term paper for her. Still, her father Mr. Byrd gave me a $5,000 bonus for my efforts. Not too shabby?

I talked with Mr. Byrd and we decided Jessie could take the summer off provided she had a job. She is currently working at Starbucks and provides some of the shittiest service you’ve ever seen. You can find her at the one that’s located near what I believe is now the 2nd largest church in Houston. She’s already talking about quitting but has to find another job first, per the deal we cut with her father.

The tooth that Stephanie knocked out… Yah, Jessie didn’t get it fixed. Instead she fashioned it into a pendant slung from a leather cord choker with a few beads on either side. I know, it sounds creepy and psychotic (and it is) but it also looks fairly hot.

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Theo – He’s still living in the garage. He only comes in to use the bathroom. He’s been eating mostly junk food from the Chevron station because he thinks if he puts real food in the refridgerator that will will fuck with it (we probably would). He’s probably put on 3o to 40 pounds since January.

I’ve been keeping track and I’m pretty sure he’s only showering twice a week now. His teeth are stained with resin from all the pot he’s smoking.

Supposedly he’s some sort of super overlord of dorkdom on World of Warcraft now. He’s been trading the fake WOW money with girls in exchange for pictures of them in various states of undress. The pictures are being printed and tacked to the wall of the garage. Very creepy…

He also put in a window AC unit that runs non-stop but because he’s living in a garage it’s still hot as hell in there.

When you think about Houston in the summer and his limited showering… Yah, fucking gross.

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Stephanie – Shit, she’s awesome. She’s funny, really loving and a total perv. Plus, she’s sooo sexy.

She has made nice with Jessie and has even taken her to work out a couple of times. She’s also casual friends with Jackie.

Some people have this magical aura that draws people in and cements them as friends almost instantly. She’s one of those people.

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Tom – Something is not quite right with him. I’m not sure what it is. He seems to worship Jackie but to such a degree of neediness that I’m thinking it’s unnatural.

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Jackie – Honestly, we don’t really talk anymore. She’s wrapped up in Tom and that’s just fine with me. It would be fine if we were closer but there is a lot of weirdness there now. The sharing sort of became one sided and after awhile I felt like she’s playing amateur therapist with me.

Nothing worse than an uneven friendship.

I hear more about what she’s up to from Stephanie than anything else.

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Things are generally pretty normal right now. I’m still doing the odd special project for Byrd Services.

I’ll try to keep this blog rolling whenever something odd happens but to keep it fresh I might have to go in some different directions from time to time.

You know, summer doldrums and horse head latitudes.

The New Normal Remains Abnormal

Let me apologize, I’ve really fallen off the wagon when it comes to updating this blog.

Truth is, lots of stuff has been happening.

Jessie decided at the last minute that she would rather go to a classroomon the UH campus  than finish her degree online. The good news is, she’s actually going to class. The bad news is, I’m pretty sure she’s sleeping with one of her professors.

She told me me: “It’s not an ethical violation unless he doesn’t give me an A.” Hey, whatever works, right?

Mr. Byrd has been pleased with my work tutoting/monitoring Jessie and added more duties. That means more money (nice) but I have to go into the office two days a week.

I wouldn’t mind going in but there’s just not a lot of hot girls working at oil field services companies these days. In the old days, a place like Byrd Services would stock the mail room with hot chics. Now they stock them with retard guys. Receptionists? Yah, its whatever they dig up from a temp agency. Oh well.

He has me doing technical writing. I don’t actually write. I just edit whatever incomprehensible documents come across my desk. The best one so far? A valve installation manual that was translated from Japanese into English. It took me two hours before I realized the instructions started at the bottom of the page.

He also has sent me on some business trips. I thought that would be cool but instead it’s cut into my drinking time since he’s using me as his personal spy. Bogota, Nassau, New Orleans, Mexico City, New York and coming up soon Vegas (this week actually). The trick is, get the customer or the overseas manager twice as drunk as you are and do your best to remember every single detail the drunkard tells you. So far, Bogota was the best.

And Theo? Yah, he made it back from Costa Rica. He’s not talking much about what happened down there. I strongly suspect that besides getting rolled in an alley by some locals he got tied up with drugs coming back. He is totally immersed in World of Warcraft. It’s worse than ever.

I’m still living at the house with Theo and Jessie which is a bit awkward because they are not speaking to each other. The one thing they can agree on is they don’t want me to move back out.

Apparently Theo and Jessie are no longer dating. She told me he stinks of Costa Rica hooker juice. Theo claims the cooling off period was his idea.

I’m almost feel sorry for Theo. He’s slipping further down the drain while Jessie is building something for herself.  I’m sure it hurts when she’s loudly screwing some stranger in her bedroom while he’s sleeping on the couch. Personally, I think she’s over-acting just to rub it in.

One more thing…

Valentine’s Day was fairly crazy. I was hanging out a new bar when Jackie shows up with her elder boyfriend.

At some point he got a call on his phone and left. I didn’t ask why.

Jackie stayed. She joined me at the bar. We talked. We flirted. I followed her into the bathroom.

I was good.

She was better.

Her boyfriend came back.

I left.

She won’t stop calling me now and that makes me happy.