Everyday Life

A New Me

Saturday, August 14th, 2010
by Tony

“My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades…”

Currently on a path to a new and better Tony. Newly single, starting to see the results of my “New Workout Plan,” and I’m starting to feel happy again.

A/S/L – Beta Testing Tony

Monday, January 25th, 2010
by Tony

I saw this AOL throwback on twitter and it actually got me in the mood to write something. After writing it, I realize how ultimately depressing it seems and that was so not my intention. So while there are many negatives list below please know that I’m staying positive and keeping my head up. Here’s the breakdown;

Age – I turn 30 this year, yet I don’t feel like that much time has past since I turned 21. But then it hit me, I came across one of my little cousins Facebook page. I distinctly remember going to one of his an his twin sister’s 6th or 7th birthday parties as a kid. He’s in his twenties now, in college and pledged Phi Beta Sigma. Feels like everyone is growing up but me. I’m still sitting around reading comics, watching Spongebob and playing video games while everyone else is living, getting careers being ADULTS. Continue reading »

Beta Testing Tony Version 0.29.1

Friday, January 8th, 2010
by Tony

Within life, I tried to examine myself in an effort of self discovery and self improvement. Lately I’ve been forced to sit down and look at all my flaws, both internal and external, mental and physical. With this great introspection, I realize that I may never be the person I want to be mostly because I setting a standard base on the perceptions and ideals of other people and not my own. I was never happy because I don’t have the six pack or I didn’t have the abundance of wealth and I’m not saying that something like that would never happen but I spent my life worried about what I don’t have and instead of what I do have.

It’s twenty ten and I’m focusing on the positives of my life. Why dwell on not being able to find work? I’m steady on find a job and I’m still able to pay bills. Why stress on the fact I’m dating someone who is not trying to give me any sex? I have someone who genuinely loves me. It’s a new year and a new day and I going to act accordingly.

CTA Got Me Fired

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
by Tony

So this was MY story that I submit to the Red Eye Chicago, the daily free paper published by the Chicago Tribune.

I’ve been reading the RedEye’s ‘Going Public’ column for some time, and I’ve become pretty much fed up with the amount of whining that has come from the North Side CTA riders.

A majority of the complaints are about the most mundane and trivial things: Strollers during rush hours, not finding a seat on an express bus. Excuse me as I proceed to play the world’s smallest violin for you.

I’m a firm believer that anyone living north of Roosevelt cannot truly complain about the CTA until they witness the abhorrent treatment of the South Side community. The only east-west express is on Garfield, the operators are lazy and surly, and the buses are NEVER on time.

I can attest to the timeliness as I was just fired from my job because I was late. For more than a year I had to take the 79th Street bus to Cicero to make a connection with Pace.

I had to adjust my habits to give myself more than enough time to commute and the buses were still either late or ran slow and if I missed my connection, I had to wait an hour for the next Pace bus.

So with all the complaints I’ve seen from the North Side, at least you can say that the CTA didn’t cause you to lose your job.

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Just A Quick Status Update

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
by Tony

Just wanted to drop a quick post to let the folks how I’m doing and that I am ok… For starters, I’m still unemployed. Yesterday was actually the 2 week mark since I’ve been fired. Luckily I’m not bitter, but I do a few choice words for some people, some colorful metaphors if you will.

Been trying to keep myself busy, spent a good amount of time redoing my resume and a few cover letters and sending them out to a few dozen places. I even had an interview last week, haven’t heard anything back but I’m trying to be optimistic.

Beside the job hunting, been getting more use to my Xbox 360 and playing Halo 3 a lot more. I’m actually to a point where I starting to play online a little and shopping around from a Halo clan. So if you play Halo 3 and want to play a campaign together, my gamer tag is PhllyBred drop me a line. Also trying to be more social, since commuting out to East Bumblefuck everyday took so muck of my free time, I missed a lot of the happenings in Chicago. So now, I’m been seeing a lot of movies and signed up for a social gatherings. A few of them hosted by CNSC.

On the relationship front, me and the S.O. are still hanging in there. We still have the occasional spats but its been 18 months and we’re still together.

So as I mentioned before, with all this free time, I’m definitely trying to experience life so I can post about it. Hopefully I’m doing much better then I did before.