Today’s topic is burnout.

Now, I’m not talking about slamming the gas pedal to the floor breifly to prep my tires for a screaming fast run down the quarter mile. Today I’m referring to the type of burnout that makes you say ‘I CAN’T FREAKIN TAKE IT ANYMORE AND I WANT SOMEONE TO JAM A LETTER OPENER THROUGH MY BRAIN STEM TO MAKE IT STOP’, or at least something similar to that.

To be fair, I don’t have it all that bad. I’ve got an ok job with a reasonable stress level. I live on 1234 Nowhere St. in the dead-center of your typical middle-class American suburb. I’ve got 2 kids, a house, 2 cars and a motorcycle and none of my stuff has been recently spread across five square miles by the wrath of mother nature. But still…

I just seem to be having one of those weeks where you wonder where you’re headed and how the hell you ended up there in the first place. Where every day holds the same prospect of exciting adventures in the land of monotony. Where you can’t drag your sorry butt out of bed until 10 because you loathe the idea of going in to work to do the same stupid chores (that nobody seems to care about until they don’t get done) for the gazillionth time. Yaknow… one of those weeks.

Most likely I just need to spend some good quality time playing Counter Strike so I can kill and destroy and blow crap up. Unfortunately, I don’t think the hour or two I may find to play this week will quite do the trick. Maybe the answer is to just take a week off and do nothing but play video games for 20 hours a day. Although I doubt my wife would support me in that endeavor. I think the ultimate answer is to find a job that doesn’t bore me out of my skull so that I actually enjoy coming to work again. I just need to start sending applications to places like Eidos, Rockstar, Blizzard, Valve, EA, etc, etc, etc, the list goes on and on and on and on….

Well, that’s enough ranting for today. Hope y’all have a great day and I’ll c-ya online this weekend.