bepps

Ya see, that airline doesn't have a "spouse" designation, they have a JA. "Joint Association" or some horse shit, I don't know exactly what it stands for. But it I do know what it means to be the JA. It means that at any time, day or night, if you get the urge to have sushi in Tokyo, if you get the urge to have Thai food in Bangkok, if you get the urge to eat linguini in Rome, all you that stand in the way of you doing so is to log into a site the same as you log into SG here and log yourself on a flight to the place you want to go. You don't have to pay a dime, you don't have to reserve the flight ahead of time, you just log it and you go.

If you're not on the JA, you still can do this, but we fly standby no matter what. If you fly without being the JA you get whatever the fuck is left after everyone else has boarded the plane. IF there's anything left. If you're on the JA you get WAY higher priority and are virtually guaranteed to fly on whatever flight you want to go on. And you get first dibs on first class.

I was on the JA a while back. I didn't really get what it meant to be on that at the time. I was too focused on my work and really didn't want to go anywhere except for where I lived. I mean shit, if I wanted to be someplace else I'd be living there. Why would anyone want to be anywhere that isn't' the best place in the world to be? And why in gods name would anyone want to LIVE day in and day out anywhere that wasn't the best place there is to be? That was my thought. But of course there's no such thing as the best place in the world. Every place out there has its good points and bad points. it's always nice to be able to go around and see the sights and see which place you enjoy being the most.

My mom, that's what she's been doing the past decade just about. She's always calling me from god fuckin knows where whatever the fuck island saying "Oh beppo! you should come out here! I just had this most awesome drink out here and the sand is so pretty! And the water is just gorgeous! And oh my god! you should have seen the fish i was swimming with!" and this and that. Always having a grand ol time just livin it up.

of course me, I always thought 'yea mom, that's great. I'm on the brink of greatness here designing up what is going to be the greatest invention the world has ever seen." and would finish the conversation and hang up.

But anymore, I'm really not caring much about designing up the greatest things that man has ever seen before. I been there n done that my whole life. Sure it was great and a big ego boost to do this n all. But what has it really gained me? The real objective in life, in my opinion, is to enjoy it. Everyone comes and goes and we all have our effects on mankind, but really what's important I think is to enjoy life as we live it. Our real objective as people is to smile.

That's one thing that I've noticed that my mom has been doing a lot more than me in these latter years. It's one thing that I'm thinking I'd like to do myself. I mean the other day I was watching the road racing videos and really wishing that I'd gone ahead and started a motorcycle company here in the states a few years back. I know that that's something I've wanted to do a lot. But anymore, like I says, I couldn't care less about "saving humanity" like I always used to. Anymore I've come to care a lot more about just fuckin smiling. So few people actually get to do that these days on a regular basis. If the opportunity were to arise where you could smile whenever you wanted, wherever you wanted, wouldn't you be excited about it? I would.

That's what being the JA seems to represent to me. It means that if Helly says "Yea, me n e1e are gonna finish up work and head out to chill with TheFuckOffKid for a few hours tomorrow" I can think "hey. that sounds like fun." and go to the corporate site for the airline and log myself a flight to go to Sydney the next day and actually be there and partake in the festivities with them.

See, I got a passport a lil over a year ago. I kept it in my backpack which I always kept with me. In this backpack I always kept toiletries, three changes of clothes, an extra pair of shoes (you have to wear hard soled shoes to fly first class) and anything I'd need to live for one week. I would always take this backpack with me and never ever let it leave my sight. If I ever had to leave where I'm at for whatever reason it would be my lifeline. Of course any time someone would see a backpack they'd think "Oh shit ey! a bag! there's good stuff in there homes!!" and so as soon as I first left it unattended it got stolen. With my passport in it.

I, of course, logged it as stolen and sent in my application for a new one and replaced everything that was in there. Then a few months later I had my second backpack get stolen. This time my passport hadn't come yet, all there was in there was my clothes, my "shower bag" which had a small towel and my toothbrush n such. That sucked. I finally got my second passport a little bit later and built up my third backpack (albeit slowly and cautiously). Only to have that one (with my second passport) stolen out of my truck along with my laptop case. Humorously, the laptop was on the floor of my truck. Genius' left the laptop on the floor *which was under my backpack) and stole the empty laptop case. This was only a few days before Noir came down for her birthday bash. That really sucked having her out here with us partaking in all the stuff that I was supposedly so prepared for and me, completely unprepared without my backpack. Embarrassing as all fuck.

Anyway, having gone through so many passports in barely a years time I'm not so sure that I'll have my passport in time for the SGAU ball. Because most likely the state department will think I'm selling them to Mexicans or doing god knows what with the ones I've gotten so far. I'll call tomorrow and see what they have to say about the status of my latest passport. It's been 6 weeks thus far. Although it took 5 weeks for my last one they've upped their stated schedule to 10 weeks for what it's supposed to take to get a passport. Possibly to have you pay the extra for the expedite. Something it looks like I'll have to do within the next few days.