If you could put together a dream team of 5 bands to perform for you and friends, who would they be?

Okay, so this is the featured question of the day.  If I could put together any five bands to play, what bands would they be?  Okay, in numerical order, they are:

1) The Who

2) Queen

3) Boston

4) Led Zeppelin

5) The Decemberists

All original members only, please.

   

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So, I quit the pizza parlor job that I've been working.  I quit last night.  I applied for several jobs on the same day that I applied at the pizza parlor, and one of those jobs called me, offering me $10/hour to start, with a sure forty hours a week.  I talked to Megan and we decided that was the job for me.  Also, I won't come home from that job smelling like week old pizza.  So now I have two jobs: one working very part-time at a video game store with my friends, and one working at a lawncare business.  It's basically seeding and weed- and pest-control; no lawn mowing, which makes me super happy.

The new job starts on Monday.  I should be able to pay my bills, and still have a little bit left over with this job.  It's even better (it seems) than the job I got fired from a month ago.

My daughter turns four at the end of this month.  This a horrible development, and I must find some way to stop it.

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So, I've found a second job.  It's a job at a pizza parlor and it looks like it's going to be pretty good for both me and my family.  It's part-time, so it shouldn't interfere with my other part-time job, and the owner seemed like a really nice guy when I interviewed with him last night.  This is a humongous answer to prayer, and a great relief on my entire family.

Just thought that the world should know.

The Hunt for the Ever Elusive "New Job"

So, I have a part time job that my friend hooked me up with, and it's possible that it will go full time later in the month, but until then I've really been pounding the pavement, looking everywhere for work.  Most places, it seems, have you apply online these days, so this morning I sat down in front of the computer to apply.  This has got to be the most frustrating process ever!  I've been on the computer for an hour and a half and I've only actually gotten two applications finished in that time.  I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or what, but I had to take a break.  I kind of just want God to throw a job in my face and then it will all be done and I won't have to worry about it anymore.  I also wouldn't have to work nearly as hard.  I mean, seriously, I'm not at work, so why am I having to work harder than if I was?  It doesn't make sense.  One of the paradoxical truths of adulthood.  Wednesday I'm going back out to pound the pavement some more.  Maybe I'll get a call before then that will offer me a job, even something part time, to go with the severely part time job that I already have, and that will help me supplement.  I'm so . . . this whole situation is just bogus.

If there is anyone who reads this blog besides my wife, and you also shop at Vintage Stock, don't.  They won't take care of you.  I thought that they would take care of me, but they didn't.  They won't take care of their customers, either.

I lost my job today.  Apparently I wasn't performing up to task, so rather than demote me, they just decided to "let me go".  I'm not terribly unhappy because I haven't been happy at this job for a little while now.  At the same time, I don't have a safety net in place, so I'm not sure if I'm going to land on my feet this time, or my ass.  It's a kind of scary freefall, that is also exhilirating.  I'm spending time with my kids that I feel has been stolen from them by this company for a while, and that makes me happy.  Tomorrow I'm going with my wife to take my son and some of his friends out for his birthday, something that I originally wasn't going to be able to do.  So I suppose unemployment isn't so bad.  It's the circumstances that bother me, really.  Everyone I have told keeps saying "they don't know what they're losing".  I guess that they don't.  I know what I'm losing, though, and a part of me is sad to see it go.

I don't know what God's plan is right now, and it's really scary.  I don't know where He's going to lead me.  I've never been behind the eight ball like this, and I know that God is in control, and I know that He's going to take care of me and my family, but I'm still a frightened about the future right now.  More so than normal.  I say, however, in the words of the praise chorus:

Blessed be Your name/On the road marked with suffering

Though there is pain in the offering/Blessed be Your name

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