So... I was half right. I was in a hurry on paperwork -- my own errors. I was also right that some of the errors are of others, so I am "at fault" for not fixing their errors. So, I'm being reprimanded for others' errors. That's ***king wonderful! I don't suppose you'll be talking to the ones making the mistakes.
Typical. Kill the wrong target.
Gradually degenerating into ignorance and complacency.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
papercrud
Posted by Marcus at 11:14 AM 0 comments
tongue out in a phft!
I watched I Harry Potter & Order of Phoenix. I think I'll try to limit my postings on movies that are worth watching. While it was a shortened version of the stupidest book of the series, it omitted much of what would later be important in the series. You also don't understand that Ron and Hermione are a couple.
Posted by Marcus at 11:11 AM 0 comments
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Did I do good?
I shall qualify this into two categories:
substitute good with "well", in which I get no positive feedback at work. I'm alerted when I err, but not when I'm doing right, good, or well. So, I'm in Office Space where my only motivation is to avoid being told I'm doing it wrong. They blow chunks as sucking up dignity and giving it to someone else. If someone deserves a personal thanks or looking-in-the-eyes, "you're great", do it. The 'atta-boy's are lame.
I wanted to get the funk out of Dodge last night, but spent about 2 hours talking with a woman there who has some hardships in her life. Her primary focus is on the hardships of being a parent. It almost makes me happy to not be one, but there are great pluses to being a parent -- I've not had those, nor the minuses. Anyway, I think she needed an "ear" or two, if for nothing else -- venting. I guess I do good, by just being, alive being there for a time. I got home around 4am tired as anything.
There are not enough hours free to me.
Posted by Marcus at 3:24 PM 2 comments
Happy birthday Charlie
carry on with your indomitable spirit
Charlie had a birthday party at Bells' Roller Dome and it seemed to be quite the success. Another year older and deeper in thought. They grow quickly so don't blink!
I hope you don't get your dad's "skills" as they were with liquids -- note the coffee-like color stain on Keith?
Posted by Marcus at 3:08 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Turning my frown upside down
Well, I think I might try thinking positively for a while. Though my drive was terrible and my stress was high -- I was soothed with the tender caress of compassion today. I stopped on the road and around ten separate people stopped and asked if I needed help. I never even considered my hometown so friendly and helpful!
Thanks to everyone who offered to help me!
Thankfully, I didn't need it, but it was great that assistance was offered. Be it the season, the city, or the general attitude of people, that has put me in a good mood!
Posted by Marcus at 1:30 PM 1 comments
white roads, white knuckles
Well, I drove from work town to hometown at a blistering 28 - 34 mph. The drive lasted for 2.5 hours including the time I had to pull off the road (possible engine overheat) and shoveling my car free from the hotel parking lot. I didn't like it; didn't want it; happy to be home.
My county of residence did a better job of clearing the road than my county of work. Odd, all things considered, but happy that I saw very few people ditched out.
Posted by Marcus at 1:08 PM 0 comments
hotel stay
I was thinking about staying in town if the weather got bad. The company "splurged" and got me a hotel room ... negotiated trade and I spent the night in town. It's quite the winter out there now. While the hotel of choice they made was not mine, I am not disappointed.
Free; rest; coffee. I only wish I were back home.
Thanks God! Thanks work!
Posted by Marcus at 8:21 AM 1 comments
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
God pitched in
Okay ... after 8 blasted days ... my car is fixed...
or no
I was nearly to work -- I made it to 48 minutes there and sputter clunk ... the car died again.
I called the shop and they came to pick up the car. I needed to be to work ... there was no one there willing to come get me. How shocking!
I stepped out waiting for the time that they'd send someone to get me, and then a guy pulled up and gave me a ride there.
So guy just doesn't want me driving that car I suppose. Well, it'd be nice if I had the money to get another one, then ... ro get a different job to avoid having that wicked drive or some other solution.
Posted by Marcus at 10:37 PM 1 comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Capitalize on revolution
So, in opposition to the status quo of sending so-called representatives to vote in our place we have what ... autocracy. What a gip! If a representative is elected ... the duty is to do what is right for:
the nation,
the world,
constituants
To guide him/her are sound reasoning, logical and ethics. Money and party-based ideologies should not impart decision-making. Party R or D have slated agendas, but there are dissenters to these, so they are not static.
The American revolution was based on flagrant misuse of monies and no control over how much or how it is spent. Law was administered from a remote region and was final -- not eligible for review. These same things we have now.
I do not propose a violent destruction of the US, but rather submit a call for the government to act like it is supposed to work. It doesn't get five weeks of vacation! It doesn't paid, then pensions, protection, and lobbyist monies. It serves the people, not the people serving it. I call for the government to stop acting like 18th bureaucratic aristocrats or Czarist Russia.
As the government spends our money for no gain to us and as jobs become scarce, the system will fail. You cannot speak peace with a gun, and you cannot speak success without security. We should focus on education and not on incarceration. We should concern ourselves with health care, not on welfare.
I want more ... more ... and the US certainly can do more. The level of taxation isn't the issue, its the use of the money that is the problem. I also don't like our very few representatives who are filled with personal agendas and "where do I see myself in five years" financially secure after "serving" my term.
"We know what we're doing" with your money. If it doesn't help the nation, then you're doing it wrong.
The US is spending nearly $5 billion monthly on Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's apply that money to cancer research ... think we'll get closer then? How about that money spent on Health care restructuring? How about using that funding for crime units in the US completely eradicating gangs in LA, Chicago, NY? If the war isn't "that costly" to our GNP then, use that level of personnel in the US checking customs, cargo crates, borders, etc.
If you ask families in gangland if the gangs were expunged, 'would they feel safer'. The gangs there are a direct threat and help import crime, people (including slave labor), drugs, weapons, terrorists, and help fund them. Are they then a threat -- heck yes!
Posted by Marcus at 11:05 AM 0 comments
Waste with MySpace
in order to contact someone at work ... I got, "MySpace" ... garbage, garbage, garbage.
I also got spam messages within 2 days of using it. How shocking! I would definitely stay away from MyWaste dot com.
Posted by Marcus at 10:50 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
why to buy aides
Oh ... and you'll also need headphones and a nose guard. Yep ... that's why you need Viagra
oh and Absolut Vodka and tequila
Posted by Marcus at 12:18 PM 0 comments
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
my car ...
my car, my car ... talkin' 'bout my car ... my car
My car is still sitting at auto shop. "Yeah ... we get that together on Monday". Hey, that's nice -- merely a week of having it! I am not sure that I will use the shop again regardless of their previous successes.
Posted by Marcus at 11:14 AM 0 comments
remember your freedom at the cost of another's
I think about how "hard" my Christmas is going to be, but then I think of those defending my freedoms, those who've died. I've got it easy ... I'm still here in the states this Christmas. Thank you to all who serve.
Posted by Marcus at 11:08 AM 0 comments
Friday, December 07, 2007
Trains bite! I'm running late
Trains bite! I'm running late again!
Posted by Marcus at 8:23 PM 0 comments
criping?
The people making the most fuss about Jennifer Love-Hewitt are, well ... out of her league as it were. Why should they care that she is becoming adult and developing --- cellulite. Wow ... her legs and bum are the resting places for adipose tissue, much like many women. What is the big friggin' deal, folks?
Oh, and she's engaged -- yep, off the market for those 275 pound couch potatoes and computer typers who couldn't run a block let alone a mile. They know all too well about cellulite. She's engaged, rich, beautiful---face it duds (not dudes) she was never yours to begin with.
Unlike the media, her finance' probably makes her happy.
Posted by Marcus at 12:20 AM 1 comments
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
"C" is for corpse
Pimp C dead, eh? A 33 year-old died of natural causes ... like comeuppance. Live like a criminal ... die young.
Posted by Marcus at 1:55 PM 0 comments
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Too fast to live, too young to die
bye bye
I pulled an incomplete James Dean by going off the road last night in terrible road conditions. I was going faster than I should and what I didn't know was that the left lane was 60% worse than the right lane. I skidded out of control, thankfully not hitting the car near me, then sliding across the highway divider and onto the northbound lane and up onto the other side of the road and finally bumping into a farmer's fence.
The car is fine -- undamaged and rides just fine, but I'll need to get an alignment just to make sure. I don't think I would have had such a nice landing with the old car of mine. I have another blog for geared for my reverence for God, but I'll thank God here anyway.
Posted by Marcus at 10:32 AM 2 comments
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Damn! Flakes! Snowflakes mean Winter.
Damn! Flakes! Snowflakes mean Winter. It's cold too.
Posted by Marcus at 2:37 PM 0 comments