Oh yes. I suppose I will. It has been a long ass week, though.
Fox fucking with my reality and not showing House this week... at all. Water heater going kersplat... or whatever... not much sleep. Hoping my free cable doesn't go away (it hasn't... yet)... work silliness. Argh.
I'm ready for the weekend.
This is my favorite holiday, you know. Celebrating America's birthday with The Three Bs... Beer, BBQ & Blowing Shit Up. Seriously... what the hell could be better than all that??? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The good news, I suppose, is that I actually slept well today. Last night was kinda suckish in the lack of sleep, whoa holy shit I'm tired department. Fortunately, Black Hawk Down is loud & busy, so I stayed quite awake.
Last Night
During shift briefing Kelly tells Sam that Doug (one of those E-Vile 1sties) came to her and told her our head fixer upper guy told him that someone (feel free to insert MY name here) was still moving the TVs off the pod and breaking them. This pissed Sam off... apparently, he's had like... four or five conversations about this with admin... these TVs keep getting broken and they keep pointing fingers at 3rd shift. (Well... me, let's be honest.)
#1... Good thing Doug's dumb ass didn't think it was a good idea to say anything like that to me. Seriously. #2... As I stated when this all came down months ago... It was never me breaking the fucking TVs in the first place, it's the fucking inmates... hello. You'd think that'd be obvious now, but... guess not. #3... I work in a building full of absolute fucktards. Seriously.
Kelly & Sam (& Jake for that matter, even if he isn't a real supervisor) know that I'm not moving those fucking TVs. I haven't moved one since I was first accused (indirectly) of breaking them and asked to stop moving them. I used the wall mounted TV... now... it puts me in a bad position to monitor inmates... but, apparently, that's what they want... so there ya go.
Even better was that Kelly said when she told Doug that nobody on 3rd shift was moving the TVs, Doug replied with "That's not what the inmates are saying." Cuz you know... we always trust what inmates have to say... especially against fellow COs.
I swear to the stars... if all of the 1sties (except Kate & Jeff) fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, I wouldn't be a damn bit sorry. (Actually, I might be the one putting a foot to their ass to push them over. ) Bitch, piss, moan & complain about everything and then pull shit like this... cuz it's easier to blame 3rd shift for shit than accept the fact that maybe they (and 2nd shift) aren't watching the inmates as closely as they should be when they're messing with (hooking up video game systems, vcrs, dvd players, etc) the TVs.
At least Kelly & Sam seem to be pissed off by the fact that 3rd shift (ME!) is still being blamed for this shit. I'm not sure if it's because they don't like our shift being blamed for doing shit we're not doing OR because they're afraid someone's going to say something fucking stupid to ME and get me all fired up. They do not want to deal with me when I'm pissed off and they know someone saying something stupid to me (like what Doug said to Kelly) will set me the fuck off. Or maybe it's a combination of those two things, who knows?
Though Mal & I were chatting as I was leaving shift briefing last night (he's in 2nd briefing) he said something about his temper and I made comment about when I'm pissed, I'm really pissed and Sam was like "Nooooooooooooo..." Then when I gave him a look he was like "Oops... did I say that out loud???"
Craziness...
Since we no longer have a locked mental health facility in our area (the state closed it down... said it was wasn't necessary.) for teenagers, we keep getting certifiable fucking whack jobs into our facility that need to be in a mental institution and not in a jail. They're a pain in the ass to deal with and we don't have the... anything... necessary to deal with them. We don't have the medical personal, we don't have the staffing, we don't have a facility designed to deal with them.
Right now, we've got a pretty full house with whackolicious kids. We had the oncall mental health counselor out for three kids last night. A girl who was seeing shadows and freaking out (crazy as a shit house rat), one that is crazy, but just wanted attention last night (he's assualtive, sexually aggressive and exceptionally needy) and the third one attempted to castrate himself by ripping his sheets into strips and trying them (very, very tightly I'm told) around his scrotum. He did change his mind after a while... but had tied his shit up so tightly and he couldn't get it undone... so Sam & Todd had to go in there and cut the sheets off his nutsack. Fucking idiot.
I'm so very glad I'm back in my little hole and don't have to repond to shit like that. Seriously. I don't have the patience to deal with crazy fuckers. Crazy fuckers are not logical and I don't do that very well. At all. And there's nothing at logical about wanting to castrate yourself. You know???
It was pretty quiet after they got those three all squared away.
Today
Haven't done much, of course. I slept really well. I still feel a bit tired, probably cuz I've been running behind all week on the sleep quota... but I feel much better than I did yesterday. So that's something.
Had some chow, had some ice cream... looked at the email. Came here.
Downloaded some music. The Thrill Is Gone ~ BB King, My Lucky Day ~ Bruce Springsteen, Don't Bring Me Down ~ ELO, Ooh Child ~ The Five Stairsteps, Baba O'Riley ~ The Who, Tweeter & The Monkey Man ~ Traveling Wilburys, You've Lost That Loving Feeling ~ Righteous Brothers, Hot Stepper ~ Ini Kamoze, Boom Boom ~ John Lee Hooker, I Know You Want Me ~ Pitbull, End of the Line ~ Traveling Wilburys, Unchained Melody ~ Righteous Brothers, Hoochie Coochie Man ~ Muddy Waters.
Yes... I know. I'm all over the place with my music tastes. Eclectic. Most of my friends/family don't want me to bring MY cds if we're going on a road trip (the exception would be my nephew, cuz his tastes are eclectic as well) because I burn my own stuff and you never know what you're going to get. I may have Mandy Patinkin performing Send in the Clowns and right after him have 50 Cent banging some gangsta shit. (And yes... that is how I mix my cds. Occasionally, I'll make one that's all one genre of music or similar genres... but usually I mix and match. That music I downloaded tonight? It's now all burned onto the same cd. That's how I roll.
Tonight
Still have Training Day to watch. I'll have to find something else to throw in the backpack and take along... not sure what, though. I'm going to run outta movies eventually. Then what? Start watching House season 1 again, I suppose... since season 5 doesn't come out until August 25. I dunno. I'll think of something, I'm sure.
I'll have to poke through my dvd collection and see what I can't find. I have the history of rock 'n roll on cd and a video anthology of Springsteen's stuff... I could dig sitting and groovin' to that shit. Maybe Red Dawn... I love that movie... and I haven't watched in a while. Besides the usual suspects in that film, there's Brad Savage (he played Danny... he & the one girl were the only survivors in the movie.) and Brad is the bass player (and occasional vocalist) for my favorite celebrity charity group, Band From TV.
I dunno. We'll see what I can dig outta the dvd case for this evening...
Today's Video
I'm pimping Band From TV... again. Their CD/DVD combo is available exclusively on amazon.com. Click the link in the previous paragraph to check out the band, it's members and the charities they support with their music sales and concert revenue. Members include; Greg Grunberg (Heroes), Hugh Laurie (House), Bob Guiney (The Bachelor), Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia), Jesse Spencer (House), Jamie Denton (Desperate Housewives), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) and Brad Savage. (This cd/dvd was recorded prior to Jesse Spencer & Teri Hatcher being involved in the band, however...) Other actors have performed with the band at live gigs... including Jorge Garcia (Lost), Zachary Levi (Chuck), Hayden Panettiere (Heroes), Wayne Brady (Who's Line), Joey Fatone (N'Sync), Lester Holt (NBC news)... probably a few more than I'm not aware of cuz they seem to have no problem sharing the stage with anyone who wants to gig with them.
Band From TV ~ CD/DVD promo (all clips taken from the DVD)
) Bitch, piss, moan & complain about everything and then pull shit like this... cuz it's easier to blame 3rd shift for shit than accept the fact that maybe they (and 2nd shift) aren't watching the inmates as closely as they should be when they're messing with (hooking up video game systems, vcrs, dvd players, etc) the TVs. 
