I’ve been battling a cold that I caught either from my lovely daughter, or from one of my lovely co-workers! Either way, I am infused with the cold bug and I only have to wait till November for my Flu shot!

So, to try to give my body a fair chance, I’ve been trying to get to bed earlier and wake up a little later ( like 5:30 or 6:oo am ) and yet I still have the energy of the living dead!

I believe this condition is called Zombieism ( my term thankyou! ) and as I walk around the house acting out a scene from ” Night of the Living Dead ” and not looking very pretty, I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t a better way to earn a paycheck?

I’ll let you know when I find out!

Sincerely Yours

Zombie at large

It’s time to give a nod to the important people in my life, both family and friends.

As in most cases, family comes first and so……..

My nucleus family

Susan

We have been married for almost 25 years, and we haven’t killed each other yet. Of course we work different shifts, and don’t see one another except on each other’s weekends. A perfect marriage buildt on not spending alot of time together. Retirement together will be interesting to say the least. Pray

Samantha

My daughter of 23 years. She is stubborn, opinionated, wants to do what she wants, makes alot of mistakes, and thinks that the government is bad. She might be right there. She is alot like me. I pitty the man she marries. He will have to be strong, and have alot of patience. She has also informed me that she has not had a cancer stick ( this is my metaphor for the deadly cigerette ) since last thursday. Hopefully, she can continue the streak.

Louis Scozzari

The one person who I called father. We lost my dad a year ago, last month, and while he is not here anymore physically, spiritually he is still with me.

Jeannette Scozzari

My mother of 49 years, and still counting. She has stayed with us since my dad’s passing. I guess after 49 years, I’ll keep her.

City Folk

My family who are in the city of Brooklyn, NY USA….

My Aunt Dotty _ That’s right, my Mom’s sister ( which makes her my Aunt ) and I love her to death too!

My Cousin Randy

Who shall be forever remembered for scaring the hell out of me, while baby sitting for me as a kid. I still owe her one for that stunt. I do believe in friendly revenge.

My Cousin Bobby

Bobby married my cousin Randy, thus making him my cousin. Deal with it! Bobby has a great sense of humor and a big heart. He is a big practical joker.

Their Kids Lee and Janel ( hope I spelled Janele’s name right )

My Cousin Steve

My cousin Steve, lives out on Staten Island with his wife Beth. I am not as close as I would like to be to Steve, but this is my fault and not his. I hope I can rectify this in the future. Maybe….

Their kids Michael and Shannon

Folks just a little off the Family Tree

These are some of the folks who while not ACTUALLY RELATED are none the less, for better or worse, part of my family….

My Friend Lee – I worked with Lee at a dominos pizza here in town several years ago. We are not what you would call everyday friends. Every once in a while, I’ll pick up the phone out of the blue and see how his life is going, and he does the same. He’s about due for a phone call. It’s my turn.
My buddy Paul

I’ve know Paul for around 13 years now. We worked together, and we were the ” SHOW ” at work. We loved and hated each other all at the same time at work. He left to go to a better job, and much better pay. I have to give him a call sometime this week.

My ( removed sister ) Rosie. A good friend and a great person. I have been out of touch with her for a while ( not my fault ) but now, she lives around the corner. Lots of catch up time here.

Vivian and Bob Van Orden

Two dear, sweet people ( well Viv is anyway ) and they are the salt of the earth. And I am a better person for knowing them.

Last but not least, the Beecher brothers….

Lance

A great big jerk, who’s always able to bring a smile to my face . You big jerk!

Chris

The little brother I could always do without. Almost always has an attitude, and PMS. What’s happening Arnolddddddd!

Ken

If ever I had a brother, I would be greatly dissapointed if he were not like my friend Ken . I could not ask for a better friend, and probably don’t deserve the friendship I have with him. Even tempered, wise, easy going, and has been involved in more of my lunatic family happenings, than I would have wanted to involve him in. I would hope that in another life, I could be half the person that he is.
There are others, below this list that I see everyday but I won’t bother to mention here right now.

This is it, take em or leave em, these are my important people.

Wow, and here I thought that the only idiots awake this early in the day were  factory workers ready to make a statement by taking out half of the workers they work with!

I actually saw a city employee working this morn driving a ” Street Sweeper “. I am impressed.

Well, it’s off to enjoy my pain and a ” JOB INTERVIEW ” later today at hell. More to follow about said ” Interview ” later.

Hi there. I have to say that I had no idea how much time is involved with doing a blog, never mind two. But I have the time to post another of my ” Daily rants ” ( which have turned out to not be so….daily ) and I promise to anyone reading here that I’ll try to do better.

So check out my rant already will ya?!

At our morning break, while talking about politics and the coming presidential election, we wandered onto the subject of the American dream, and basically, the fact that alot of the people with whom I work, seem to feel that the American Dream is dead in the USA.

We talked about how big business is killing the American Dream by paying people lower wages, due to the competitiveness of American business and how cutthroat it has become. My reply to the comment was that it really depends on your definition of what the American Dream might mean to each individual person.

While I can say that I hate my job, I can also say that I have a home, I have an online business that I am trying to grow, and I am able to write the two blogs that I write on WordPress. For me, the American dream is alive and well.

And I’ll go one step further…

I think when it comes to personal freedom and being able to chase the American Dream, there is only one place you CAN DO THAT, and that’s right here in the USA, where so many success stories continue to unfold each and everyday.

I would really like to know what your thoughts are on the American Dream; is it alive for you or not and why?

Well, how do you sum up 49 years of living into a couple of blogs? I’m not sure, but this is my take on how to do it! Lets finish this twisted tale talking about unrealized potential.

I’m sure that everyone has or in some cases, had a dream about what they wanted to be when they grew up and how to go about it. While some people seem to just be able to go after their dreams, and after several agonizing years, achieve their life’s ambition…there are people like moi’, who just never seem to quite get it done. My unrealized potential as I mentioned in my last post was being a comic artist. I wanted to be the next Jim Aparo, the next Gene Colan, the next Jim Lee!
I also seemed to migrate toward web design, a bit of a different way to express my creativity, but I thought I would settle for it. The only problem was that I was a little long in the tooth to start learning web design and be able to pursue it as a career. I even inquired about this particular problem and was told, ” that while age would really not play a major factor in being hired for this type of job, more than likely a person younger than myself vying for the same position as I, would more than likely get the nod over myself “, which I found VERY ENCOURAGING, and certainly had no influence on my deciding NOT TO TAKE A FIVE YEAR COLLEGE COURSE” to get a degree in web design. Never mind the fact that I would be in my fifties by the time I graduated!

Mind you, I’m trying to do all these things while working a dead end, Blucollar job on a manufacturing factory, where I labor everyday doing the same mundane, boring job, along with other dregs of the Earth, subsisting on what my company calls a paycheck every other week.

It has often been said of myself, by others at this place of toiling , that I am too intelligent to still be working in the factory that I am working in, and they just cannot understand why I am still there after all this time.

Well, I’m not sure why either.

But until I figure out a way to leave there, hopefully doing something other than toiling to make another person more financially secure than myself, I continue to be your dissatisfied Blucollar working guy living on a pittance from week to week, just like you!

Hi all! Time to continue the tale of Who I Am…….

I’m a 49 year old BluCollar worker. I’m a 49 year old Husband. A 49 year old Father. And a 49 year old Son. I’m also an Entrepreneur with a full time business that I get to run part time. This is a business that I hope will eventually release me from my servitude at the place of my daily toiling, that’s right my JOB! What is the business that I am trying desperately trying to make work for me….I sell Anime figures and Anime merchandise. I love Anime in general, and I just find the whole genre alot of fun and enjoyable. But this again is a tale for another post. Today is the time to end my twisted tale of Who the Hell I Am.

Well, when I got home from the service, I returned to Middletown, still married to my first wife. Fastforward a little more than a year later, and I’m divorced! Hey, I starting to follow in the footsteps of my ” Biological Father “! God Forbid! Anyway, fast-forward another year and a half and I am dating my present wife Susan ( hey, I just introduced one of my cast members ahead of time ) and a little while after this, we tie the knot. That’s right I do it again, and yes I am a glutton for punishment. Now let’s move on to the why I am the Blucollar type of guy that I am today!

When I was growing up, I had a talent for art. when I was growing up, I was always just doodling, which eventually became my always drawing. I actually got yelled at and embarrassed in an English class by this BITCH of a teacher whose first name was Patricia and whose last name I will not mention ( but I do still remember it, better than 30 years later thank you ) because of this habit. As I got older, I actually got better at this. When I was in school, back in 1973, there were no art schools at the time that I knew of for drawing comics like there are now. I never had the opportunity to take classes and further my talent, and knowledge. I even had taken the Marvel Comics Tryout Test, and I hoped against hope that I might get lucky. Didn’t happen. I never tried to continue it’s pursuit. I also tried to do Comic Strips. I even based this on the place I presently work at. While the art was decent, my comedy writing wasn’t the greatest. Another effort never fully realized due to my own lack of conviction.

Several years ago,I had the opportunity to take some college courses and vocational courses also. I took bookkeeping, and business ( the two “B’S” ) and started a videogame rental business with a friend. The business did fairly well. The premise was to deliver video game consoles to our customers, and as I said we did fairly well at this. For several reasons, which I will not go into, the partnership between us eventually dissolved, and I continued onward with the business. Eventually, the business failed. I moved on, failure that I was and still a dissatisfied, driven, pissed, Blucollar worker.

more to come……

Well, it was a long, wet Labor Day Weekend, and of course, instead of relaxing and enjoying a little downtime, I was busy and doing work at home on my biz website. Well I will be adding another post to the ” Who the Hell I Am ” story and what I am trying to do with my biz and what type of biz it is. I’ll also be talking about my family, affectionately referred to as my

” Cast of Charecters “

I can’t believe it’s September 1st! I guess the summer is offically over now. The weekend is going to be a wash due to weather. Oh well. Anywho, I just posted a comment on Scobleizer about the PS3. And that’s going to be all she wrote. Gotta get ready to report to hell now. Smell ya later!