the famous norris sucker rods

The Legacy Continues

Norris is the world's leader in sucker rod production. A short visit to our manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma provides you convincing evidence of this fact. More sucker rods are manufactured by Norris in Tulsa than are produced by all our recognized competitors combined! 

Our position as an industry leader is one we take very seriously. Norris is dedicated to producing the finest special bar quality sucker rods you can buy. 

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i would like to sincerely thank cedartree, timantec, rache, sonora, evil_oO, gaz, the8rgrl, ddrbeastappv1, MyKi_Whatzerface, TravisWellstone, triggerslip, aleph, ficklemistress, fightlikeagirl, angel_of_the_odd and anyone else i missed for their honest, kind and caring words both on xanga and off.
the love is much appreciated.

dear dad,

i hope this reaches you, or reaches someone who knows how to get it to you.
in the few years that you've been gone, a lot of things have changed, some for the better, some for worse. mom and i still don't get along very well, but i guess that's something that won't change. you know how we both were, headstrong and stiff necked. she's doing well though.
as for me, i've had ups, downs, bang ups and bruises as well as a crescending chorus of joy now and again. the nite you died ran veins of doubt and guilt like marbling through out me. i've carried everything from that nite with me until it became a canker, a cancer, corrupting everything i did and wanted to do.
i think i see now why i was never good enough, why the things i did were never good enough. it was never about you being an asshole like i thought. it was you trying like hell not to be your father and you trying like hell for me not to be like you, for me to be better than you. i've always understood it's the highest art for a teacher to train a student to be better than the teacher himself. i'm just now realizing that for what it was.
as for the nite you died, i've crucified myself with it over and over again. that nite had me weak with horror as i tried to keep you here, forcing my breath into your lungs, cracking your sternum in my pathetic attempt to restore you to life.
in retrospect i know for truth that i was weak with horror. i realize that there's no reason for me to be guilty for "letting you die". i never let you go anywhere. i fought tooth and nail for it, but you were already gone. and i know you don't blame me for letting you die and i know mom doesn't blame me for it. i've only been blaming myself. i think it's time to stop. i'm sure you'd be proud of me for that nite, the same way you were proud of me when i pulled nikki out of the pool when we were little. the same way you were proud of me for everything i did. i miss you so much, dad.

your loving son,

richard

PS - happy father's day.

TELEPHONE LINE BROKEN SINCE MONDAY. STOP.

SINUS INFECTION AND BLOODY NOSE SINCE MONDAY. STOP.

THIS WEEK SUCKS ASS. STOP.

the weekend review

friday: 9 out of 10
a good, solid start to the weekend. a payday, which boosted the initial review up to a 5. in the evening, a good workout added 2 points to the overall score. after the workout i went to target to find new workout sneakers, and there were none that i liked, so 0 points for that. afterwards, i hit applebee's in search of food and ran into an old coworker who informed me that one of my ex-girlfriends is now an internet porn star. this tidbit of information along with a fine oriental chicken salad brought it to a 9 out of 10.

saturday: 7 out of 10
early morning workout at the beach, a trip to the health food store for a fresh supply of ginseng and supergram III, a big breakfast and an early morning nap rounded out the morning and brought it to a 4. later in the evening, a second workout ensued and went swimmingly. i scored another oriental chicken salad and talked to her until i went to sleep.

sunday: 7 out of 10
another early morning workout at the beach including a decent session of tai chi. no hot women in bikinis to secretly look at while i'm supposed to be focusing on tai chi, so the morning only rated a 5. i spent the afternoon cleaning my destroyed bedroom, which brought sundays score to an 8. i had to go to bed at 9 and wake up at 4.40 am, which subtracts a point.

overall score: 7.6 out of a possible 10.


"i don't care how busy your personal life is, you need to post more." she said to me this morning.

"...like two meatballs in a tubesock."

observation of the day: being reprimanded or rebuked will often bring out the pettiness in people.

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in other news, one of the people i work with seems to dislike me severely and i have no idea why. i've never done anything to them, barely spoken to them other than the standard "hey, how are you?" type banter.
in the past two weeks, the odd dirty look has escalated to under-the-breath mutterings when walking by me, just loud enough for me to hear, less than vague comments, some serious grimacing at me and in my general direction as well as other assorted passive-aggressive behaviors.
let me say again, i've never done anything to this person other than be proper and civil.
so.
fuck it.
if they don't like me, i'm definitely going to give them a reason. since monday, i've been doing quite a bit to fray every single one of their nerves. in very subtle ways of course.
prolonged and direct eye contact with a nice toothy smile. literally looking down my nose at them. standing unreasonably close for as long as i can reasonably get away with it. basically, taking every opportunity i can for adopting the most irritating non-verbal mannerisms i can think of and putting it in their face.
fighting fire with fire, i suppose. being petty? mmm...probably. fun? for sure.
(for all you astrophiles....can you see some of my scorpio nature showing?)