I’m back!!! Wow has a lot happened. The snow is gone, I hope, the sun is out and I still have a job. I’ve been out of town on business and then thrown back into a company-wide reorg when I returned. Needless to stay, stressful and incredibly busy. Once again, I have a job!! A nice new,low stress role at that, instead of 4 states, I have 26. It is a good thing and I’m excited about the new challenge.

What’s with the “Ego Trip”? Have you ever googled yourself? I didn’t exactly google myself today, but I wanted to have a cool picture of our beach here on Lake Michigan to share as part of the post today, so I did a google image search. The first image I surf to takes me to SaruDama, another blog, kept by someone in my neighborhood, actually across the street. The link from google takes me to a post from last June where I find the above picture. The guy with the flower crotch, I’m sad to say is me.

The post simply uses me, “Dough Boy”, as the comic relief from the sexual drama that unfolded on the beach that day, read the post. My “Ego Trip” was a bad one.

Since SaruDama posts his address, as well as his name, I could have easily walked over, pounded on his door and demanded him take that post down. Sure, that’s what every southern bred, 6’, now 210 lbs. ex-bouncer does… demands a negative post be taken down. No worries SaruDama, my age, wife and son have turned me into a rather calm person. I also, as you can see, have reposted the picture, so rage is not what I felt when I saw this. It was embarrassment at first, then the quick realization that no one knows that’s me. Then came those ever so nice motivational thoughts, “Hey, fat-ass, you think now you’ll get your ‘Dough Boy’ self down to the gym!?” My inner narrator sometimes sounds like a cross between Bruce Campbell and Vinnie Jones.

I’m thinking about selling this little story to my gym, the EAC. Would make one hell of a commercial. I know I’ll be going everyday this week.