What REALLY grinds your gears?

people who spit on sidewalks. its disgusting.

people who spit on sidewalks. its disgusting.

Funny; my neighbor, nice guy kind of a meat head, spit in my neighbors garage. they have been mad with him for a few weeks now.

Doesn't bother me I don't eat off the floor.

im real close to going taxi driver on some people.

i just need to relax and not try to police every bad act by random strangers

yesterday i am in stop and go traffic on 95 north. this van tries to change lanes. it puts on its blinker, has at least 5 car lengths space to move in and the van begins to slowly change lanes. this ahole in a black honda speeds up to try and block the lane change and actually squeezes next to teh van as the van had already taken 1/3 of the lane. the van swerves back.

i track this ahole black honda and he hopes on the ICC lanes (which runs parallel to 95 for about 2 miles and lets you hop back on - lots of ppl use it to try and skip traffic on 95). but i know that this "short cut" bottle necks when it lets you back on 95.

so i maneuver through traffic on 95 trying to stay up and track this ahole in the ICC lanes. after a few minutes, glory happens. i end up in the right lane right where he tried to merge back onto 95 and briefly block him. he merges in front of me and i pull up next to him and he is all red faced and yelling. it was awesome. i stayed next to him for a few moments and then go on my way.

what a glorious moment.

but i need to stop doing stuff like that. but it is soo hard, there are so many ahole jerks on the road.

im real close to going taxi driver on some people.

i just need to relax and not try to police every bad act by random strangers

yesterday i am in stop and go traffic on 95 north. this van tries to change lanes. it puts on its blinker, has at least 5 car lengths space to move in and the van begins to slowly change lanes. this ahole in a black honda speeds up to try and block the lane change and actually squeezes next to teh van as the van had already taken 1/3 of the lane. the van swerves back.

i track this ahole black honda and he hopes on the ICC lanes (which runs parallel to 95 for about 2 miles and lets you hop back on - lots of ppl use it to try and skip traffic on 95). but i know that this "short cut" bottle necks when it lets you back on 95.

so i maneuver through traffic on 95 trying to stay up and track this ahole in the ICC lanes. after a few minutes, glory happens. i end up in the right lane right where he tried to merge back onto 95 and briefly block him. he merges in front of me and i pull up next to him and he is all red faced and yelling. it was awesome. i stayed next to him for a few moments and then go on my way.

what a glorious moment.

but i need to stop doing stuff like that. but it is soo hard, there are so many ahole jerks on the road.

bad thing is, he will look at you as the jerk, and not even think about the bad driving that led to it.

Negative campaign ads really irk me. Makes me want to stay home tomorrow.

In our office, all motions before appellate courts are required to be submitted to the unit that coordinates all civil litigation in the state for review and comment prior to filing. As part of my institution of "Best Practices" in my unit, I review anything submitted to them. Given the deadlines being imposed, I work with my attorneys so we are on the same page during drafting and work hard to provide quick substantive turnarounds.

That's the background.

Attorney has a filing due to the central unit Monday afternoon. Gets it to me Friday morning. I work on it most of Friday (around a court appearance I had), including an hour in his office discussing legal theory, I work on it all weekend. Get it to him Monday morning with instructions to see me if he has questions.

I ask him about it today and he says it was submitted. First, he did so without cc'ing me -in violation of office protocol. I look up what he submitted on the system and find that he completely ignored my significant revisions and switched back to a legal theory I told him not to take.

If you disagree with my review, bring it to me, discuss it with me, I get that it's your name on the pleading but I am responsible for this unit's litigation quality.

I got no problem with folks disagreeing with me. Just don't f'ing try to sneak something past me. Beyond angry right now.

red tape

Grinding my own gears here (not as dirty as it sounds) - I really REALLY need to look for a new job but I can't shake a ridiculous level of laziness on my part.

Our company got a new CEO last summer and he's really starting to push a lot of changes that make no sense for what our unit does. We're going through a massive re-org and they're moving us to a crappier location just south of Baltimore in order to consolidate offices. It was arbitrarily decided that the move is going to happen by 12/1 (should be a fun week before Thanksgiving) even though the new space won't be ready by then.
Plus, due to the re-org we basically have to reapply for our current jobs. The company is using the guise that it wants to make sure that people are doing the jobs they want to do and are most qualified for, but our re-defined job descriptions haven't even been published yet. Basically, it's like they're trying to start a brand new company and ignoring the fact that they are currently running a very large existing one.

I wonder if Burger King is hiring?!?

i am also grinding my own gears.

I really enjoy it when you pull into a parking spot and when you step out of your car, you step into a puddle of coffee or soda the person who parked there right before you decided to pour out.

i have done that twice now the past week. just poured out my old coffee right where i know someone else will pull up and try to step out of their driver's side door.

WTF is going on with me. another 10 years from now, will i be so beaten down and bitter from working and rush hour that i stop following the rules of politeness and civility all together?

winter is coming.

42 degrees outside and for some reason the a/c is blowing on inside. damn