Well we had our little corporate banquet last night and I kid you not, it was horrendous. The past two years, corporate hired a comedian for the first hour of the banquet who was very funny and helped to pass the time. Well for last nights festivities they decided a magician would be something different. Oh he was different.

I can not even begin to describe this guy accurately. He began promptly at 4:30 and wanted to tell us something about himself and his life so we "would have a better understanding of him". Forty-five minutes later this guy is continuing to drone on about his house burning down, his parents leaving him, how his grandfather committed suicide in front of him. At the 45 minute mark when he began whining about the town of 400 he grew up in and wanted to share with us the upside and the downside of small town life, I walked out.

Forget Jose, whiskey was in order. I was told about thirty minutes after I left, he did a few "magic tricks". That's right one hour of talking about himself, 15 minutes of magic. This man bragged at the beginning of his "show" that he makes 6 million dollars a year. If he actually does make that kind of money with that kind of bullshit, the world is more fucked up then I possibly knew.

The funny part of it, out of 150 people, the majority of them walked out at least twice during that monologue...to get a drink, smoke etc. Then the fools would go back in, because they were afraid they would get "in trouble" with the big boss. Who I admit did walk out 4 times during this, and yes, he's such an ass he probably was taking names. What annoys me and astounds me even more is that these people were willing to suffer through that shit to look good for the boss.

I learned alot about other people last night and myself. That some people give a shit about "appearances" and frankly I don't. Once again, I was the odd one out. I can live with this.