beed is back!
beed is alive and kicking. he has not been holed up in an opium den in bangkok thailand.....as tempting as that sounds.
last week beed spent each day mentoring a young man from london kentucky. beed actually chaired the selection committee that put this young man in his job. he's a.j. squared away. he's gonna be a good one. he cares about doing a good job and he's smart so he'll pick up things fast.
beed has one manager under him and we split the duties that are required of our section. we also back each other's job up when one is off. the man from london, let's call him toby, will be required to do both of our jobs so he was back and forth in our offices trying to learn as much as possible in one week.
beed really came to like him in his week here in b.g. he's definitely gonna be an asset to our organization and it's going to be fun to watch him learn.
it's funny, beed and greg got their jobs 2 and 1/2 years ago. there were two ladies we had on speed dial and whenever we ran into something we were lost on we would call them up. now we are the ones that other people call. the sme's (subject matter experts). and both of us are very happy to help the new guys out as we both experienced the angst of not knowing what the hell we were doing.
another reason beed hasn't written is he's kind of hit a writing wall. plus beed has beed trying to break a couple of bad habits. and his body is taking it kind of hard. no matter if beed goes to bed at 9 or 11, around 2:55 beed's eyeballs pop open like a zombie in a cheap black and white b movie. it's no use to even try and lay there and get back to sleep.
so beed just takes a long hot shower or long hot bath and then goes into work. beed tried to watch t.v. how many times can you watch infomercials hawking something you would never dream of buying. beed has to admit the girls gone wild video informercials do stir him a bit but there ain't shit on tv at 3:00 am.
onto something completely different. and tragic.
yesterday dahbicito called me at work and said one of his friends younger brother was missing and everyone was worried about him as he had made some very scary statements.
i've known this friend of david since he was 9 years old and had him on my baseball team when he was 10. i had drafted him because he was david's friend.
saturday me and my boys were doing yardwork and michael asked if we could have a campfire. i told him sure. david asked if his friends could come out. i told him of course.
my sons have pitiful fire building skillzzzz and i have great ones so i took their puny fire and built it into a damn fine one. david's friend and i sat in a couple of lawn chairs next to the fire and just bullshitted like two guys will do. it's funny to watch the kids you coached as little boys turn into young men.
anyway, david called me back and said they had found the boy and he had taken his own life with a gun. the boy that i sat with saturday night found his brother before anyone else did. i still cry when i think of a 16 year old that would take his own life leaving behind a family and friends crushed by his decision.
i cry for his brother that will have that image forever stamped in his brain.
visitation is at hillvue heights church from 12:00 to 2:00 today with the funeral following immediately. my whole family will be going. i did take this opportunity to emphasize with both of my sons that no matter how bad you think things are there is never a reason to take your own life. it is too precious and every second should be treasured.
i look out the window and it is raining and it looks like the tears of God coming down to lament this loss. they match my own tears as i type this.
if you pray at all, say a prayer for this family.
your friend,
david.
last week beed spent each day mentoring a young man from london kentucky. beed actually chaired the selection committee that put this young man in his job. he's a.j. squared away. he's gonna be a good one. he cares about doing a good job and he's smart so he'll pick up things fast.
beed has one manager under him and we split the duties that are required of our section. we also back each other's job up when one is off. the man from london, let's call him toby, will be required to do both of our jobs so he was back and forth in our offices trying to learn as much as possible in one week.
beed really came to like him in his week here in b.g. he's definitely gonna be an asset to our organization and it's going to be fun to watch him learn.
it's funny, beed and greg got their jobs 2 and 1/2 years ago. there were two ladies we had on speed dial and whenever we ran into something we were lost on we would call them up. now we are the ones that other people call. the sme's (subject matter experts). and both of us are very happy to help the new guys out as we both experienced the angst of not knowing what the hell we were doing.
another reason beed hasn't written is he's kind of hit a writing wall. plus beed has beed trying to break a couple of bad habits. and his body is taking it kind of hard. no matter if beed goes to bed at 9 or 11, around 2:55 beed's eyeballs pop open like a zombie in a cheap black and white b movie. it's no use to even try and lay there and get back to sleep.
so beed just takes a long hot shower or long hot bath and then goes into work. beed tried to watch t.v. how many times can you watch infomercials hawking something you would never dream of buying. beed has to admit the girls gone wild video informercials do stir him a bit but there ain't shit on tv at 3:00 am.
onto something completely different. and tragic.
yesterday dahbicito called me at work and said one of his friends younger brother was missing and everyone was worried about him as he had made some very scary statements.
i've known this friend of david since he was 9 years old and had him on my baseball team when he was 10. i had drafted him because he was david's friend.
saturday me and my boys were doing yardwork and michael asked if we could have a campfire. i told him sure. david asked if his friends could come out. i told him of course.
my sons have pitiful fire building skillzzzz and i have great ones so i took their puny fire and built it into a damn fine one. david's friend and i sat in a couple of lawn chairs next to the fire and just bullshitted like two guys will do. it's funny to watch the kids you coached as little boys turn into young men.
anyway, david called me back and said they had found the boy and he had taken his own life with a gun. the boy that i sat with saturday night found his brother before anyone else did. i still cry when i think of a 16 year old that would take his own life leaving behind a family and friends crushed by his decision.
i cry for his brother that will have that image forever stamped in his brain.
visitation is at hillvue heights church from 12:00 to 2:00 today with the funeral following immediately. my whole family will be going. i did take this opportunity to emphasize with both of my sons that no matter how bad you think things are there is never a reason to take your own life. it is too precious and every second should be treasured.
i look out the window and it is raining and it looks like the tears of God coming down to lament this loss. they match my own tears as i type this.
if you pray at all, say a prayer for this family.
your friend,
david.
posted by dahbeed at 5:09 AM
1 Comments:
I'm so sorry to hear about the young man. I hope he has found peace...I'll be praying for the whole family & friends.
On a lighter note, I'm very happy you are back. I hate that you've been working so hard, but at least someone in this blogging circle has been productive ;). Don't worry about hitting the writing wall, just keep putting something out there & it will flow again....and there is an emergency response team always at the ready with instant sources of inspiration....
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