The Gods Are Laughing
Today though, something great happened. Something grand, but I am cautious mind you. The huge bolts of that gate moved, and pulled back. I could hear the groan of the iron against iron as the bolt slid back, and fall out of lock. Then ever so slowly, the gates began to move, they cracked and opened then ceased moving, and there they sit. But I was able to see something grand and wonderful; a ray of blinding yellow light pouring through the opening of the gate and it shined upon me turning all that it shown upon new with bright colors. In the grayness, I saw a streak of deep blue in the sky, in the distance a streak of bright green grassiness, and where I stand; the pavement leading up to these gates went from a dull off-white to a blazing bright white. But it was only a streak of color, a ray of light… In my haze, I cannot be sure if what I am seeing is real or simply a cruel joke, a trick played by the gods, something that may just turn around to bite me like a rabid dog in late August.
To clear a room, you ideally want a team of three to four people. You want to use the high-low technique and you want to get in the room quickly to ensure you have no surprises. The first thing you do is station a person on each side of the door, one crouching and one standing, Behind the guy crouching you have your third guy standing in wait with a grenade, and your fourth guy kicks the door down. The door gets kicked in and the kicker falls or moves to the side, the grenade is cooked off and tossed in the room,. After the grenade goes off, the guy crouching turns into the room and opens fire while at the same time, the guy standing does the same but firing in the opposite direction. As each fires, they spray the room in fanning fire and then the other two members of the team enter the room and take up the far corners with the other two guys reloading their weapons and taking the inner corners and all examine the room to declare it clear.
Now why on earth do you want to know this? You probably don’t except for the fact, this method of clearing a room is used because you never know what is behind the next wall and when fighting an enemy, you have to always ensure you are covered. And no matter what you do to clear a room, you always have to be wary, because something that looks one way (such as being safe and empty), does not mean it is really that way.
So I sit here this morning, I want so badly to go into my manager’s office and have a discussion with him. But I feel like I am on the verge of something pretty great, but regardless of what I have been told or suspect at this point, I am still unsure of the situation. Now you wonder; what is this prattle he goes on about, what is this bullshit and this diatribe he is speaking. Well, it seems as if I might have a job offer. And it is possible I could have yet another offer, and it is definite that I have another major interview lined up. But… the gods frighten me. They have tricked me once over the weekend; they have fooled me many times since this odyssey began well over a year ago. They are my bane and I do not feign boldness with the trickery, I abhor it and cower before their trickery.
I have mentioned the show Dead Like Me (DLM), well there are these things called gravelings that make stupid fucked up shit happen, thus causing people to die. The gravelings make accidents. They are the ultimate conniving evil jokester. I believe they have a hierarchy and there are those who do not kill, but have a cruel insidious sense of humor and like fucking with us humans. But I agree with George, “… If your are hiding, your fears will come out looking for you…” So I say fuck them, and when I get out of here today, I have some calls to make, and by chance if they really are not fucking with me, those gates will swing open… but I will not go any further than that at the moment. I am walking in a mine field and need to be careful.
I wake up this afternoon, and am in a bit of a haze, Mimi is standing at the side of the bed with the phone in her hand and begins to tell me I need to call this guy back. She thinks I just got a job. She cannot recall which job it is, but knew there was this I ask her if it was Darren, she says yes, and I tell her, great. So Mimi proceeds to ask me if this is a direct hire or contract job. I tell her again, with a bit of exasperation (I have told her several times about this job, but seriously she always forgets about it, almost as if she is unconsciously blocking it) I tell her it is a contract position. She looks at me and huffs out of the room. I yell to her and tell her it is $XX thousand more per year… the door closes quickly, almost, but not quite slamming behind her.
I sit/lay there, still in a haze not understanding what the hell just happened. I mean I am thinking this is almost a 15% raise over what I have right now. I call the guy he tells me what is up (I won’t believe it till I have to go in sign papers and take a piss test), and I go downstairs and tell Mimi, this guy is telling me I have a job, I am hired. Finally she comes around and says, yes, it is a day job and yes it is more than we are making now, so it is an improvement. I also reminded her, this is a contract to hire position as well, should I do well. She apologizes and give me a hug and a kiss.
So the torrid unpredictability of my wife, like life, hit me like a ton of bricks. As quickly as she was wrathful and upset about the aspects of the new position, even with the improvements, she calmed down and was happy about the situation. Like a tornado vapidly eating the plains she started and then all was calm.
Well this short post has taken me all night, and I shall have more to tell tonight. I hope my night this evening is not as busy as this evening. I look forward to revealing all, opening the great gate, and letting the sun shine down upon me.