The Treachery of Rainbows

I drove home yesterday. It was a long day. Up at 4:30AM. In the office by 6AM.  Left at nearly 5PM.The busy season is fast approaching for my team. We support 25 retail locations. And 3000+ employees. So, I know what to expect. The long days are just part of the job. Nothing more. Nothing …

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert...your favorite character on The Walking Dead is dead.No. Really. It's true.They all are. The show is called The Walking Dead for fuckssakes.Did you miss the part early on where they were at the CDC and found out that everyone was infected?  At that point I pretty much figured it would be a matter …

Meh

I am sure that somewhere in the 7 or 8 years I've done this blog (holy shit, it HAS been that long), that I have had at least one other post entitled 'Meh." Hell, it was probably THIS year.I feel like I'm coming down with a cold. And I don't like that feeling.  I feel …

Running Away

I think it's pretty much established that saying 'you're taking a break from Facebook (and/or social media in general)' is the adult equivalent of when we were kids and we would threaten to run away.None the less, I am doing something of the sort. I'm not running away. But I am dialing shit way the …

Jack’s Journal (Part 2)

The biggest  problem some guys have when they get out is they get gunshy....they see a narc around every corner and wind up doing something stupid. Not me, though. I had 5 long years to figure shit out. Of course if I had put this much thought in to things beforehand, I probably wouldn't be in …

Looney

This is my second meeting with the Creative Minds Columbus group. Apparently after my third punch in the 'Frequent Writer's Card' I have to come up with an author's bio for the site, but I'll worry about that bridge when I come to it.Today the meeting was at a Starbucks near my house. Starbucks is …

Jack’s Journal (part 1)

I couldn't even tell you how it happened myself, to be honest. One minute I'm on top of the world. Corporate bank account, access to the company limo, the company condo on the 9th hole. A smoking hot wife. And a little boy that I would take a bullet for.The brain-docs on the inside always tell …

The Long Ride Home

INTERIOR CABWe see the cab pull away from the corporate building. JACK KERR slumps in the back seat absentmindedly playing with the contents in the box. He reminisces.(Flasback scene of Golf Outing, flirtatious, but nothing over the top).(Flashback to confrontation in ANTHONY OSTERMANN'S office. We see an older man, of Mediterranean descent. He is looking …

Tough Day At The Office

exterior dayWe see a corporate limo pulling in to a drive in front of a large corporate structure. A chauffeur comes to let out JACK KERR, Junior Executive Partner at Ostermann & Fein.While on the drive in to the city, we hear JACK'S voice, as though reading from a journal.I couldn't even tell you how …

How Someone Saved My Life

I came home from work. I had only been with the company for a couple of years. I was working PC Support for a local food distributor.I had a little girl. She would have just turned 3 at the time this all went down.  At the time I was about to be given my death …