Useless fucking Monday...

Yesterday was all right, I suppose.  We went down to Scott and Betty's apartment in Lewisville and had a nice, light supper and fun companionship with the rest of the book club.  While we were there, we also got a couple of little presents from Scott and Betty.  I got a little candy bar and some sports trivia cards.  I'm glad that it wasn't being held at a restaurant this time around, because we certainly couldn't have afforded it.  I got some good wishes toward getting a new job, and we got some tips from some of the more traveled members of the group about things to see in the various cities we'll be visiting on our trip.  Also, we should hopefully be able to get together with Scott and Betty a little more often, because we kind of explained to them the fact that we really don't have a whole hell of a lot of friends who will get together with us any more.  Sucks, but such is life.

On the way home, we stopped and the girlfriend put a couple dollars' worth of gas in her car, and I got the three main newspapers for the area to start looking for jobs.  I went through the Dallas Morning News in the evening, and I was rather disappointed with the number of even unskilled jobs out there on the market.  I guess I should have expected it, but it was even worse than I thought it would be.  Becoming even more depressed than before, I turned on the TV and watched a little of the World Baseball Classic and then fell asleep watching Kingdom of the Blue Whale on the National Geographic Channel.

The girlfriend woke me up at about midnight, and we toddled off to bed.  I fell asleep pretty quickly, considering that I'd been up since about six in the morning the previous night.  But I also woke up pretty early this morning, since I'd been lying there on the couch for a couple of hours, sleeping or nearly such.

She had to get up fairly early to open at her work.  I should have been up with her so I could get my show on the road, but I was feeling very depressed this morning and just lay there in bed, sometimes petting the cat, sometimes drifting in and out of sleep.  The girlfriend called me at about a quarter past nine to see if I was going to bring my car in for inspection in the morning.  I told her that I'd be in soon, but I just kept procrastinating, because I just really wasn't feeling like doing much aside from slitting my throat.  I did go through the other two papers and find all the jobs for which I think I'm qualified, and I was happy to see that there were a few more in the Denton paper.  Maybe there will be some hope after all.

When she got home for lunch, she asked me if the car had passed inspection, and when I told her I didn't take it yet, she sort of snapped, "Why not?" at me.  When I told her that I was just depressed and had a hard time getting motivated, she suggested that I try to not get depressed in the morning and save it for the rest of the day.  Of course, all of that just made me feel a hell of a lot better about things...

After she left, I was going to head out pretty quickly, but instead I watched some more of the World Baseball Classic, the game between Japan and South Korea, which was actually a pretty decent game.  I finally did head out the door to get the car inspected, just about the same time she was calling again to see where I was at.  I guess she's going to try to be supportive by nagging me until I find another job, which might be what I need, I guess.

I got down to the dealership with no real issues and talked to a couple of the technicians there, explaining the situation to at least three of them until I finally talked to the same guy who was there on Saturday.  He said everything was fine with getting it inspected until he was reminded by the actual tech that the inspection machine was down, and they were going to have to wait until at least tomorrow afternoon before the state sent someone out to fix it.  He gave me his card, so I can call and not have to waste another trip.

After that, I went over to the office and talked to the girlfriend and one of her co-workers for a little bit, telling them what had happened with the inspection.  Then I drove back home.  I managed to catch just the tail end of the baseball game.  It took me quite a while to get the computer to reboot, since it was trying to update the antivirus at the time, so I didn't get a whole hell of a lot of computer work done this afternoon.  I did empty the dishwasher by the time the girlfriend got home from work.

She made some fried rice, and we watched a couple of her decorating type programs and such, but now I'm watching some hockey while she makes some kind of Asian gelatin dessert.  And that's been about the extent of my day.  Fucking useless...