DARINGLY MEDIOCRE

in a previous rant about manliness, i said that 6 a.m. was the finest and most under-utilized hour of the day. i stand by that statement and want to further explain that stance.



on tiger woods being daringly spectacular.


He wakes up at 5 a.m. every day, no matter what time he goes to bed, and he diligently strives to improve each and every day. Tiger says he is accustomed to this lifestyle and so it comes easy to him. Next time you wake up at 9 a.m., remember that you just spotted another 4 hours to Tiger Woods!

i apologise in advance for sentences that lack proper punctuation and have multiple mispellings and seem to lack any concern for train of thought or end in sight...if you know what i mean..i have been criticised in the past for such errors. to those critics i suggest not focusing on the wrong part of the story.. like Joe Dirt(e) told Kickin' Wing the firework salesman soon to be animal doctor(Kickin' Ass)..

i worked in a maintenance shop for an oil and gas company for a few summers in college. summer jobs that pay you more than minimum wage AND that allow you forty plus hours a week are hard to come by. unless you want to sell knives door to door or something..(you set your hours, you decide your hourly wage..bull shit) this job paid nearly double minimum wage and a 60 hour week...if you could handle the grind. i slept in a bunk house on site. these meant that i could wake up and be working in less than five minutes after my feet hit the floor..with breakfast. starting time was 5 a.m. the quiet hour. the only hour of the day at the shop with no machines, fans, or motors running. (this was in part due to coffee.) the guy who uses the loud equipment, was also the guy that made or rather cared for the coffee. the easiest hour of the day by far was the 5 o'clock hour.. well Geriatric Jerry(old shop hand) claims the easiest hour was 4am to 5 am which he usually worked alone. Geritol Jerry is an interesting character i plan on developing in a later blog but just know he smoked Parliament cigarettes. One-thumb-Doug started at 5 and was the self-appointed wake-up call for the spoiled-ass college kids. he would turn on the lights in our room every morning, and yell out something like, "moan less go" at an irritating volume. All this to say that come 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, having logged 48 hours of work, the college boys were heading home for a long weekend. We were spectacularly mediocre. at $12 an hour we worked hard for about 40 hours. the next 8 hours we earned $18 an hour. with an entire day left to work, we almost always packed up and went home. This was part of the deal, you work however many hours you want. had i worked just 8 hours every Friday that summer i would have made an additional $2000..had i worked twelve hour Fridays i could have earned an additional $3000. and had i started at 4am every morning with GERIATRIC JERRY.. and worked 12 hours every Friday.. i would have made an additional $4100 for the summer..

Respect, admire, and become a morning person like tiger woods and Jerry "Don't call me Geritol" Ivy,or dare to be glaringly mediocre. you may sleep til noon and be amazingly successful, and getting up at 5 am may not allow you to drive the ball 300 yards. but if you are sleeping until day light and don't know why you cant get ahead, wake up and smell the Geritol.