Venting with Jim

Yesterday at work was a bit of a bludge again. It's not that I don't have work to do, but recently I've just been feeling a bit restless. I guess the other thing is I have nothing urgent on. But I really should be making the most of times like this because you never know what pops up.

Sometime in the morning, I saw Bruce pushing around the bins on our floor. I said good morning to him, and he said "morning mate". I had walked past him, and he called out my name, and said he only calls those "mate" when he doesn't remember their name. I said I do the same, and then Nunjo walked past and said good morning to me. I waved to her and said "morning mate" and gave Bruce a "see?" look. Don't think either of them appreciated that, haha.

For lunch, I decided to give gravy a go with my chicken. The girls at the pie shop looked at me like I was weird for buying only gravy, but eh. Oh my god it was soooo nice! But I can't have that everyday, or even once a week, because it was just so fatty. I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.

In the afternoon, I was talking to Clare and Mary in the hallway about my gravy. Nunjo walked past with a plate of apples and offered it to us. I took one slice. When I went back to my desk later, I sent her a message "I don't think I've ever seen you eat fruit". She said "yes you have!" and I said it was good, and she said she had two more for the week. I thought about saying something like how they were better than cigarettes, but didn't think she'd like it, so just said "good stuff!" which ended the conversation.

Late in the day I texted Jim to see if he wanted to meet for a drink, and he said yes. I felt like I needed to get this Bo thing off my chest. I met him at Macca's after work and we ended up going for dinner as he said he hadn't eaten yet. I said I'd get something small as I had to go to the gym after.

We went to a Korean restaurant near my work where you have to go below street level. I was on the lookout for Naby - I looked everywhere. Every single Korean girl was a prostitute in my eyes. This was not a conducive environment for me.

He said I never replied to his message when he asked who annoyed me, and that got the ball rolling. I told him all my issues with Bo, which were, summarised as follows:

- his message on fb telling everyone it was going to be an easy game, which undermined my message
- him on the train starting that Jeremy Lin shit with me
- him subbing on for Jim on Wednesday night two weeks ago and trying to play guard
- him saying he was a better ball handler than big Alex
- him being assigned as captain of the Wednesday team and then not being able to work out the money aspect, and then not even thanking me for sorting that out
- him telling me what to do, yet won't accept any criticisms from us

Jim said he didn't know this all annoyed me to the extent where I was considering not playing next season. He said it was just one person, and I said he didn't have to catch the train with him. He told me I could arrive earlier.

So that took up most of the dinner. I could've gone on, but held back as I didn't want to go too far. We started talking about the NBA towards the end. He paid for dinner which I thought was stupid, because I did have the pancake, but he said I could shout him coffee.

I didn't really feel like coffee but we went anyway. I bought him his drink and a hot chocolate for myself. We talked about my preliminary plans for a holiday next year to the US. I always thought he wasn't that interested, but when I said we probably won't get another chance to do it, he seemed a bit more interested.

Also found out that he has saved nearly enough to buy a house outright. Two caveats: what is 'almost', and where was he thinking of buying? Don't get me wrong, I was impressed, but when I talk about buying, I'm thinking of getting a $600,000 property in my suburb, whereas I think he was talking about a property in the west.

I wondered how he had managed to accumulate so much. On the one hand, I admired how he didn't seem to have any vices (gambling, whoring etc) but on the other hand, how could he have accumulated even, say, $200,000? Even if I had never gotten into gambling and whoring, I doubt I'd have nearly enough to buy a property out west.

I also found out that we had in common that when we started work, our goals were to get as much work experience as possible. But now, we've realised that we probably should've spent those years travelling the world.

He told me he took Bo to meet some of his female friends on Saturday, and they're going out again this Saturday. I wonder why he didn't ask me. Anyway, I probably wouldn't have gone anyway, as I like to have a quiet one before the semi-finals. Crap, just realised Ele may have organised a dinner for this Saturday.

Anyway, after that I went to the gym, and continued with my weight-less workout.

Today
Anzac Day today, so bummed around in the morning. Had pizza, took a nap, then woke up at 1pm and had more pizza, lol.

I felt so fat. I walked out to the office and was puffing a bit, but maybe that was due to the violently cool air.

Anyway, I got to the office and looked over my matters for tomorrow's Maitland list. After that I went to the gym and repeated my weight-less workout. I think I need a break to rest my arms. They feel tired for chin ups, and today on my last set of dips, they were so tired I was barely dipping at all.

I went back to the office, got changed then went to DJ's for a walk. They were having a 30% off sale, and I thought if they had 30% off the suit I wanted, then I'd get it, but turns out it's gone up in price! Fark.

I went back to the office and got the car to drive home.

Bo messaged me today asking if we should go up to Div 3. I said I'm thinking about it.