Stupid COX

Sorry I have not been able to update this in a few days, my Internet has been down at my house. It has been a pretty shitty couple days at work, it turns out they lied to me about my job, they shorted me on my paycheck, I got in trouble for something I didn't do, and they won't give me a pay raise. SO needless to say I am pretty pissed off at them. I won't go off on the details as to why things go wrong at work, since I can't give away what goes on there. Cool thing is I did get offered a weekend job in Lynchburg doing some security on the side. The pay isn't the worlds greatest, and I do have to drive an hour, but he hooked it up to where I can work every other weekend so I can still have some time off.

Well today I went shooting at my buddy Lee's out in Bedford, I shot my .40, and used my friends 12 gauge shotgun, Colt 1911 and Ruger .22. We shot about 500 rounds, so needless to say I am pretty stress free right now. Now I will say this, I am about the luckiest dude alive right now, as I was shooting, I for some reason shot too low and hit the target support which happened to be made of metal. I heard the zip of metal, and realized what I did, we walked up and saw that the round was stuck in the metal frame. I was standing right in front of that target and if it had shot back and hit me I would have been screwed because we were in the sticks. If my camera were working right now I would upload a picture of what almost took me out.

Here's some interesting news for ya, Roanoke City Councilman Alfred Dowe resigned today over some very bad mismanagement of City money. He spent almost $15,000 in travel and food receipts for 2007, but here's the kicker in some occasions he billed both the state and city for re-reimbursement. The Mayor asked him to step down and he did. Now what needs to happen is they need to let Rich Cranwell take his spot. I believe that after he placed 4th in the Primary a couple of weeks ago, he should be allowed to be given the nomination for the seat in which he received enough votes to get, but at the time was not available. Rich would be the best person to take that seat, he is not someone who will let petty things get in the way of whats right for Roanoke. I will write a little bit more about what's happening in Roanoke in tomorrow nights post.

From now on at the end of every post I will be leaving a quote that is pretty relevant to whats been going on in my day. So here's today's.

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." ~ Benjamin E. Mays