Far Beyond Driven

Frank Mir beat Antonio Noguiera fir the UFC Interim Heavyweight title last night, it what was supposed to be the toughest challenge of his career.

Frank Mir, who 4 years ago was in a horrific motorcycle accident, and was told he would never fight again.

He worked through some serious adversity, some very lackluster fights, and alot of personal demons. Then, last year, a better Frank Mir showed up and beat Antoni Hardonk, then in February of this year, he beat Brock Lesnar in what was for some reason thought to be a huge upset.

And last night, he showed up in the best shape of his career (even before the accident) and beat Noguiera, relying mainly on his standup, which was thought to be his weakest point.
Now sometime early next year, he gets to fight Brock Lesnar again, who since his loss to Frank Mir, went on to beat Heath Herring, and then a returning Randy Couture for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. The winner of tis fight will be the undisputed UFC heavyweight title. My money is on Frank Mir (quite literally, if I can find a place to bet lol)

My point being, I am a lazy fuck. I've used the metal plate and 18 screws in my leg as an excuse not to be as active as I used to be. Never really outwardly putting it forth as an excuse, but in my head, it was always there. That little bitch of a thought that told me it was ok to be a lazy fuck, because I probably couldn't handle the kind of active lifestyle I was used to living anyway. That little bitch of a thought that told me doing just enough to get by was ok. That little bitch of a thought that somehow rationalzed being close to 80 pounds overweight.

Well fuck that.

Wow, I've been slacking.

But to be fair, the last month or so hasn't really been inspirational, and most anything I couldve written about would have been mostly negative. Although, most of the negative makes the cut for this blog, so in hindsight, I should've just written about it as it happened.

On 11/23, my grandmother, Joan Wetzel died. She was 76 years old. She died at home, and not in pain, which his how she wouldve wanted it. It was sudden and unexpected. She will be greatly missed.

(*note:anything else negative seems almost trivial by comparison, and in reality it is. the worst part about the other negative is that it dragged on for almost 2 months, and was more of a major annoyance than anything else*)

So, the company I worked for providing Emergency Services here at IBM, Grubb and Ellis, lost their contract. The new company, Wackenhut, took over 12/1. We found out about the take over probably around the middle of October. And then didn't hear anything from Grubb and Ellis about relocation within the company, or from Wackenhut about their retention goals, for close to 2 weeks.

At first we were all leery of Wackenhut. We've hear, and researched, horror stories and found most of them to be based in fact. This amplified the uneasiness we already had since we still hadn't heard anything.

We all finally went for our Wackenhut interviews, and some of our fears were subsided whilenew concerns rose. The high point for me is that got a 2 dollar an hr pay increase and now make $16.50 an hour. Grubb and Ellis found some positions, then opened temporary positions for any one who wanted them, but I went with Wackenhut because I need the guarantee of a job, not the prospect of one.

So far the transition is working out allright. I work 3rd shift so its always easy going. I am working a shit ton of overtime right now while we get the new people trained. Time will tell with Wackenhut I guess. All of us (the 6 that were here before Wackenhut took over.) are pretty much all looking over our shoulders right now, cuz its hard to know what to expect with so many new people at once.

Taylor and I are doing great, as always. She and I and a bunch of friends are going to see Avenged Sevenfold in AC on 12/12. Can't wait for that. then on 12/14, I'm going to see the Jets play the Bills!!!!

So yeahh. I'll try to update more often.