Fear & Loathing The Status Quo

Having social anxiety during normal times is a pain in the ass that’s only realized on occasion. However, social anxiety during a mix of a pandemic and social unrest turns it into something else entirely. My wife thinks it has morphed into some sort of social aggression while I tend to think it has broken my shit giver. Whatever the case may be, it’s been been plainly obvious for a while now that I need to get the hell out of here before any real damage is done.

So… starting tomorrow, I’m gone for an indefinite amount of time. I’ll still be working for Atomic, writing, and doing my daily duties here at The Jalopy Journal – I’ll just be doing it on a different time schedule and without access to my shipping and receiving booth here at HQ.

What this means for you guys is… well, not a lot really.

The biggest changes will be with shipping and receiving. My plan is to stamp Alliance tags today and ship any outstanding orders from the store as well. Once that is done, I will be putting up a notice on the store front explaining that we will not be shipping new orders or Alliance tags until October 1 (at the latest). By or before that date, I will have either returned to the office or arranged for other means to stamp, pack, and ship.

If you don’t frequent these sundries, your life on the H.A.M.B. will go largely unchanged – for now anyway… One of the things I plan to do on this sabbatical is to spend some time thinking about this joint and what it is I’m doing exactly – that’s something I haven’t had any real time to do in the past few years and, in my opinion, the The Jalopy Journal and the H.A.M.B. has suffered as a result.

To wrap it up and put it all together nicely, I’m growing tired of complacency in all matters of my life. I’m ready to light a fire and kick some teeth in… figuratively of course… and for better or worse.

This week might get a bit off schedule with feature posts as I travel, but we will be back full bore by next week. Catch ya then… or earlier…