Kind of a sad day, I just watched a coworker of mine burn himself out of a job. He was a pretty good guy but he worried me at one point when we were chatting one day and he warned me in a fatherly tone that I need to always stand up to anyone who tries to put any additional responsibility or duty on my shoulders because then I’ll “be their bitch” for ever and ever.

In the end, his ego is what got him and it’s kind of hard for me to try to understand. He had a cushy job making well over $100,000 a year and he gave it all up to satisfy his inflated sense of personal justice. I guess it was a textbook example of “an haughty soul before a fall.” I can only imagine that he will have some serious regrets once he steps off of the plane back in the U.S. and realizes that the skills that he possessed that made him valuable here in a war zone aren’t really applicable to anything back home and that he’s on his own without a job.

I’ll chock this up as another lesson to be remembered. Sometimes it bothers me though, that my life’s experiences are so full of lessons of what not to do as opposed examples of a proper course of action. I think that I need some new role models haha. Ah well.

And I have a massive MP3 collection, somewhere in the neighborhood of 70,000 songs. My computer just plays random songs 24/7 in my room and yesterday evening as I stepped out of the shower I heard a Dave Matthews Band song that I’d never heard before. I am a huge guitar music fan and at first I just liked the sound of the song but as I listened to the words,it made me think a little bit and gave me weird dreams last night. Hardly a profound thought I know, but I think that it’s the cumulative effect of all the little reminders and warnings in life that end up having the greatest impact on our lives. And oddly enough, it makes me worry about having kids someday and being an inconsistent example to them. That’s what moms are for! Haha….ok nevermind.