ruined

A one-time neighbor popped by ... he was not in a good way. He had a bad father and was diagnosed with manic-depression in middle school. This was the 70s ladies and gentleman and I believe chemistry has changed since then. Anyway ... he's on and off again with medications and has ballooned to a large weight now. He, at least, has found some highlight in music and church.

I hastily opened the door -- still groggy from getting to bed at close to four am, not yet wearing a shirt. He remarked to me that I was athletic -- pah! I am lighter, to say the least, in contrast to him, but athletic I'm not. On exercise, he remarked that people should knock themselves out working out or exercising. Huh. He doesn't like exercising and he's heavy and had McDonalds for breakfast, complaining about the long line at the drive-thru. It all sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy to me.

His "dad" is a winner, in that he was married for years, had kids, then discovered he was gay. Bull ---! I really don't think that's an excuse to also be a crappy father to your kids. You're gay, okay ... still be a father, as you started a family. His father is a bad influence on his son with a weak personality.

With this licence

I doth bartend

I went into work and ...

Okay ... The GM misunderstood what my original note was. Upon hearing that the DM and I agreed to a pay structure ... $2000 raise, he was shocked and asked if I had signed a statement about it. I already thought of this and no, I didn't. I have no documentation regarding the pay structure.

The GM said, call the DM, for the GM would not grant a raise for a level change, but rather only on merit.

Now, I see his point on merit, but to give more responsiblity and more shit and no pay and the hassle of pestering me of when I moving to Warsaw for the job I'm disliking more and more, I believe I've already made my decision.

I called the DM expecting a flat denial of my raise ... no, he said, "yeah, we'll get that in. Hey, do you work tonight (a very stupid question for I work each and every flippin' weekend), I'll talk with the GM and I meet you there."

So, I'm still in limbo. If I don't get the raise tonight, I walk, handing a premade resignation letter to the GM. Again, I like him, but ...

$40 (about) weekly is what we're arguing about and this is a cheaper raise. The review is abiguous regarding: expecations, time ... I don't like the ambiguity, or the carrot on the stick.

Tonight, I'll know. Last night, the GM in our short talk said that he can't give raises, but rather suggests them to the DM who either approves or denies them. It's a bad night for them for me to leave -- Fridays tend to be busy and I am supposed to be there until 11:30.

early

I moved my stuff off my shelf at work, thinking it wasn't a big thing and no one would notice -- planning on today being a potentential last day. Well, last night I saw that someone already put crap on that shelf. Huh. I wonder if they know something that I don't. Perhaps I won't have to quit ... maybe I'll be fired for the first time. Now that would be a change! Either way, quitting or fired, it will be interesting for them.

In God's own way ... I'm sure that nothing like that will happen and things will be nothing like I predict, for that is the mystery of the future -- it is unknown.

So ... who's blaming who

I don't own the computer and the IT person is not in the building, but rather responsible for six buildings. Meanwhile, I have a class for a few days and do some relevant searching and pop, pop, pop ... porn ads appear. Now, the prosecution states that the teacher visited sites that enabled the ads to come up. I'll throw in my bit here.

1. Any use of the computer and web searching can be researched, therefore the case was started either with credible evidence that she did indeed use the computer for porn searching or ... the police did not do any investigation on this at all

2. Substitute teachers may not bring in software to "fix" computers for union rules state that persons directed to use computers have that exclusive job and right. This includes anti-spyware and anti-virus software.

3. Typical use of sites may lead to any number of ads that are unsavory, such as DATE1, which may include a butt shot of a woman, lifting a G-string with her high heel shoe. This is a "dating service" that matches people seeking people. Now, this is a banner on some sites, so is that porn or just inappropriate advertising?


I'm normally all for hanging perpetrators, especially child molesters, rapists, those who ellicit children, so on, but here I'm on the side of the sub teacher for the news article has described no such cause either through ignorance, neglect, nor intent to expose children to such material. It was a bad call for the prosecution.

In hindsight though ... if these ads kept coming up, then I would have denied access to internet until the spam and ad issue were fixed by the school's IT person(s).

Shall the Western world stand up and cheer?

Iran cheers anytime there is disaster in the US, be it weather or other calamity. Should the US return the favor and jump up and cheer with joy that Iran might suffer?

Yes, I'm venting. I can still remember Iran cheering with joy on September 11th. I still remember Iran decrying the US attack Iraq and Iran laughing at our defeats, including in Somalia. To Iran ... I don't trust you.

Today a rare winter storm hit Oman and is heading toward Iran.

standoff

Well, I'm going to work today and meeting with GM. I didn't get my raise. I don't know what he'll say, but I suspect he'll say I'm not yet getting my raise. So, today is either the day they fix my raise or I simply quit.

I've had job offers without mentioning Pizza Hut experience, so I may indeed be okay.

... today is a good day to die

I got a few leads

Well, I still have to patch up my resume', but I have a few leads on jobs. They are per diem teaching -- tutoring. Another one is teaching full time, but that would still allow me hours to tutor after school. I'm thinking I'd like those hours better than those I have no -- and far less BS, but there is no job without some crap with which to deal.

"The sad thing is, I like my boss."+ Da boss-mon dere iz a good un. He treat uz reel nize. We be good workas, ya. Alwayz workin' for de boss-mon. I don't think ending a day with, "tally me banana" would fly well ... especially as I would have to explain it.

+ Fight Club, both the book and the movie. Sadly, in the book, the boss is blown up with a fuel-filled monitor that is sparked and explodes. I have no interest in doing that, nor striking myself repeatedly to get paid to not be there.

G thing

Shot into the sun ... cold beer, 80s music ... but then again it was German beir, so .. G (as in Guten) thing.

MR and I went one day early, light crowd, met a guy we've not seen in 18 years. He wasn't as gay as he was back then. MR's impression -- "he's redneck", complete with mullet.

More critique about Newsweek

Gee, I wonder if they have some political side, "After Bush: How to Restore America's Place in the World". Also, world population water usage and access to safe water.

Other countries use less water than we do ... really? Do you think the desert regional Africa (generally equatorial non-metro) has water? What schmutts! Other countries don't use flush toilets. Do you suppose, just maybe, that the water usage would go down?

more interesting than your average

There's a woman at work -- fairly professional despite her position, and I found her looking desperately through the phonebook for a number. "I can't find Slick Kitty. It's a lingerie shop. My friend is a stripper and she needs a black lace lingerie for the audition."

Whoa! Here, the quiet one is worth watching, right? Hey, [her name here], I also understand you have a couple of lesbian friends, right? Sweet, why don't you and all of your wonderfully interesting friends pop by, smoke, drink, and fool around?

We don't need any consulting dolls

We have people who can walk, talk, and take an order. We don't need any consultant help.

Uh, yes you do. Now, while I'm there, why don't you start moving from using that computer as a paperweight to something like a tool -- which it is. You mean, "square stone"? Yes, neanderthal troglodyte, the rectangular plastic lump with things attached to it like, "stingy squid thing".

You mean you can write whole words on paper, not just single letters? Og never taught that! Og will go home and sleep in cave, dream about it. Might be bad omen -- bad voodoo.

Look, all I'm trying to do is make things better, not restructure the world here ... if you have a knife, use it rather than a hunk of rock or a spoon.

scene from Glory

An Irish drill sergeant is really tough and drills the Black troops, as really he would any group training to fight. In one scene he is seen harshly showning a new recruit front and back and right (steps hard on his foot) and left.

"How many of you do not know your left ... from your right?"
Ninety percent of the recruits raise their hands. The sergeant takes Christ's name in vain.

How many ladies and girls are pregnant or single moms? Ninety percent of hands go up.

So ... uh ... I have nothing to say that is helpful.
There's a girl at work who's pregnant and has cohabitated with boyfriend for three years. Now, last night she was whining that he was being a [tip of a needle], thinking about kicking her out of the house. I told her that I could be Dr. Ruth and Dr. Phil only when I had time. In the three minutes I spent not hauling butt to do daily paper chasing, I put myself fifteen minutes behind.

I'm hating work more and more. Yes, I'm looking for another job.
I found out that I didn't get my raise. I'm to speak with the GM on Thursday, suredly to have a sit down about ... well, you see blah, blah, blah, not ready ... blah, blah, blah, show this ...

So, I took a test, got more responsibility, but no extra pay. Okay, that is pretty typical, gotta show that you are worth it. Why then did I take the test? I guess so that I could "legitimately" close the store at night, saving an assistant manager from doing it.

Of all the crap that I have to do ... the needless and I mean needless paper-chasing is the most obnoxious. If I could strike out that -- that would save 60-90 minutes easily. Closing would be almost breezy.

The other thing, working with others, is dealing with generalized laziness and stupidty. Gosh, does it matter that this paper that looks much like another be separated from the pack? I mean, I've been working here for years, surely I can go ahead put this new guy behind by being stupid -- continually. It's alright if I wonder around and chat about people eating me in a jovial kind of way, while accomplishing Jack Squat, right?

Any time that I am at work, closing or not, I bust my hump -- for naught. It's the place, where when you put in 120 percent, that becomes your baseline and you are never really acknowledged for it, for ... that's what you do, right?

On leaving

View from the back ... leaving work

I can do math

I got my pay statement and found ...

they docked my pay

Okay, so I get a promotion and get a reduction in pay? I'm checking it with the GM today. They won't really want to deal with me if they docked my pay. I can be a cruel man when I am angered.

I'd make enough of a stink that it would be cheaper to pay me not to work, that is on a corporate level. The wonders of accounting -- scanning my paystubs will add veracity to my statements.

Pepsi Obama

I'm looking on the internet and all I can see are ruddy Barack ads. Hey would you like some to drink, a Barack, diet Barack, wild cherry Barack? No, I think I'll have a water or Root Beer if you have it.

I don't want to get blinded by any ads, but Obama-mama drinks? Now, drinking during election for Hillary, that's certain for you have to be drunk to vote for her. Were she to become President, you would need to be drunk to tolerate it.

Into the hodge-podge of candidates we have "now enters Fred Thompson". Senator turned actor turned President-hopeful? It's like California spill over with Gary Coleman vs Arnold. Why not throw in Tiny Tim and show the world how fudged up our politics really are? Tip-toe through the bull!@#. I guess we have have Outkast join the debate for the PhatRap party (Purple is the color), 50Cent for the Gudespellars Par-tay and Jane Fonda for the Wacked-Out Self-Interest Party.

Cut the commercials -- "I don't want to see no more"+

+ Three Dog Night, "Mama Told Me Not to Come"

Restating myself on wealth distribution

While some people are narrowly focussed into one thing -- like "put bolt on wheel" and unlike G.M. don't earn $23 per hour + to do that. I was rather writing about people who can do seventeen jobs and qualified to do with well. Those persons should earn more, because of (training, experience, skill) regardless whether they are used to their potential as they generally are not.

The bonus structure, if mishandled like communist socialism, where one person works like a horse ++ gaining nothing from another person doing little, would be wasteful. Rather, persons should be eligible for bonuses as well as the management acknowledging people with more than an attaboy or token "good work today". Management only may receive bonuses -- okay, that's fine. I also don't agree if bonuses are slanted to cut labor (at any possible expense) including salary caps for talented people who, by age, are not eligible for management training, or who are skilled in many different positions making them very versatile. Now, I agree with salary caps, but declination of raises period for those persons is bad management. After a while, I would not care if I got fired if I felt I hit a wall on salary and position ... making the same as a person who could do just one thing.

To simplify things, the bonus structure is fine, but the application of much of it is poorly applied and management relying on those bonuses should be re-trained on the utility of personnel as well as the value of persons working "for" them. This is especially true of middle management who use people and I chose the word "use" specifically. The middle managers are not only to blame if they are not responsible for offering/doing raises.

+ with benefits included to add up to around $23 per hour
++ Animal Farm, "I will work harder" and later sold to glue factory

truncated salary

While the hours are long, it appears to many at work that they have a truncated salary -- missing a zero to the left of the decimal place. Granted, I understand that a few of the people there are in year n* without a raise, earning the same rate as after 90-day probationary period.

Now, if they stayed, the job isn't bad, but I'd have to say that the company or individual store should financially acknowledge people for expanding their abilities and being a hard and versatile worker. That may not be the case at work.

Now I see from where the bonuses come -- shafting the employees.

If that is the case, which will become clear when I am more vested into the next level of training, I will have to double my efforts to get out of that place. Already, I feel a conspirator in fabrication or a willing deceiver.

* one person is year 2 and another -- around year 4

another schedule

T: off
W: 2-10
R: 5-1am
F: 5-1130pm
S: 12-8
N: 11-8
M: 5 to close

orgasm

BBC ... okay, whatever reporting, but better than Anna Nicole Smith.

Researchers had couple engage in sex while scanning their brains ... huh, and there might have been difficulties in feeling comfortable or "in the mood", go figure. What the research did show was that women who weren't fearful, according to the researchers' analysis, achieved orgasm.

Men, needed to feel that they would be stimulated.
Huh ... guys are pretty simple, as guys have mentioned so many friggin' times.

Well, I think there are many more things that go into a woman orgasming, but making her comfortable was a "duh" as well as her not feeling scared. Guys are much simpler.

When it's hot

Germanfest is this week and looking at a ten-day forcast, Thursday is going to be in the nineties with thunderstorms. How painfully rotten! Well, I guess Thursday isn't the best possible day for going then, right?

work business

Steady, rock steady ... not terrible, not slow by any means. Last night -- we all got bloody noses. One fool, and by that I shall stand, said, 'Yeah, but it was nice". What a stupid, stupid man!

wing

That's all I found of what was once a bird, young and flightless. I suppose I thought of this because I saw a young girl, half-naked in short-shorts and lots of other flesh showing -- teen. I see this girl getting a lot of attention from all the wrong people.

Gee, I don't understand why guys are trying to molest me -- showing flesh and being cute. Granted, I'm not absolving the men's clear disregard to inhibitions or aggressive tendencies. She's okay for now, but I think she's walking a dangerous line. A little bird, wings not clipped, yet cannot fly ... this girl. I hope I don't see only the remnants of her, having bad experiences, namely due to poor planning and "dressing" in this case.

In comparison and contrast to her there were two ladies from work who were "going to get drunk", but were still cute. They needed some attention ... one more than the other. Man, oh man, older than the teen -- they were needin' some luvin' perhaps. Cute, sweet, and one is trashy.

For rent?

It appears that this is the place I'll get for what price I want. Hmm... back to the old drawing board.

local birds feed others

Sadly, the four robin chicks in a nest are no longer there. Two of the four were found dead. It was unlcear whether they fell in "first flight" or were victims of a cat (or the like). Anyway, two new robins are now in the area. I hope to see more little critters soon.

In referring to critters, I saw a bandit last night -- or rather an animal dressed as one. A raccoon was lurking around the backyard and stopped to look at me when I flicked on the light. It slowly walked away, still unsure.

No, I didn't get a picture through two levels of glass at night with poor lighting.

I did txt message friends and family about the lovely orange moon last night. While I was driving, the orange moon was quite visible. In town here, it was obscured and hidden by clouds and somewhat murky humidity.

Watch how "we run the shift"

I saw how the shift was ruined. What a poor performance! Busy as anything and sending people home for the day. Sure ... saves on payroll, but low morale and poor service. That's no way to really run a shift. I was happy to see the superchiefies, for they saw people run ragged and stuff really a mess from poor staffing. I wonder if they saw what I saw.

Mock Ness

Loch Nessie on film? Hasn't this been done before? I would like to see the man's bank account to know if Scotland's government is paying him to be a fool for tourism. I mean to write, bring in tourism, even if based on a lie.

Reading, or something like it

Well, I was with Monkeyjack and family last night. The dogs reverted back to naughty behaviors and were wild. Charlie wanted to play Mario Party 8, but that game, if not set correctly, can last for 97 hours. Anyway ... had fun and Charlie was looking for Wii Sports. He found "Avatar", which he 'read' and Wii Sports. At least he's associating printed words with meaning -- steps to reading.

Charlie, sleep well -- thy school's education is calling thee . . .
tick, tock, tick, tock

This Fall he begins

Bond

Casino Royale: perhaps I missed some dialogue, but there are parts that just don't make sense in this movie ... anyway, a good deal better than "Die Another Day", but overall, not so good of a movie and not a great way to continue the Bond movies. He was a ruthless Bond, to say the least.

Man stands no chance against a jury

The prosecution could put on the stuttering lawyer from "My Cousin Vinny" and still win, for a spammer is just about as nasty as a man who throws animals from a moving car.*

* actual case where man is videotaped throwing a dog from a moving car while in traffic

trashy note

There's a tease at work:

"I wanna F _ _ K you all night" is what she wrote for me.

She also told me that she doesn't have enough sex. The sad thing is, everyone disregards it all, so if she were ever serious, no one would know. They don't believe her now.

Muscles you can see

Well, they're mussels you can see. Yeah, like you'd be able to see my muscles under the protective fat I've got.

drive happy

I got a few things done and so on the way to work, I was happy. When I got there ... phletttt!

crappy day

It was turning crappy and so, I sang a little tune of 'it's a (rhymes with "witty") day.' I was right. It was a day like that. I had something to do, but was delayed, delayed, delayed. I think they all have lost their touch with predicting business. They saved money sending people home, only to get busy and patrons get worse service. Stupid, in my perspective.

Note of thanks

I work with a guy on some days, who's leaving his town for the booming metropolis of FW to attend school here. He already has plans/apartment near the school, but no job. I asked around and found the MR knew of some jobs where he works -- manual grunt work, but work nonetheless.

While this guy isn't guaranteed anything, it's nice to know that there is opportunity here and that he might get "lucky" early on while here.

Thanks MR for helping him, for what it's worth.

Unlike my nephew here in FW who needs work, I asked about this other guy who has strong work ethics and who will do the job very well -- perhaps.

Thanks again!

I asked Monkeyjack, but ... summertime is phase out time for his hires, so no luck there ... bummer.

Freedom to fly

baby chick with others to be hatched -- robin

government protected aviary for hawks and falcons

funny note left for me one day

Accussed

Iran charges an Iranian-American with espionage. Yeah, she was selling the US secrets on Iran's technology ...

ha ha ha ha ha

Yep, after 700 years, the "religion" is still corrupted and corrupt, and her attempts to sell the secrets of subjegation, mistreatment, violence, ignorance will not go unpunished.

waving ham in his hand

a poorly cut chunk of ham was much like half a [male member's more notable external part], but it raise a great deal of humor as apparently, it was a "smart" thing to wave it as groin level. He also shook it and called to people to see his discovery. 'Playing with his ham at work' is not how you'd like to be remembered.

I've got a nickname, thankfully it has nothing to do with playing with his own ham.

tides ebb

At work, when the business will eventually pick up, the teens are leaving like migratory birds. Well, no wonder! Anyway, I was thinking about the actual "management" side of things and have some ideas on retaining quality persons for as long as possible until they go do something real with their lives. In one case, a great guy is leaving for college. I certainly wouldn't postpone that, but I would try to find a way to get him work where he's going. He's coming to my hometown. After two years with the compnay, he discovered the disparities in persons and the somewhat ambiguous promotions and salary increases and caps. For this reason, he was certainly disinclined to seek re-employment with the company at a FW branch.

He's a good man, sad to see him go. It will be great to see him accomplish his goals, even if they change from what he wants to do now.

I see things at work in terms of efficiency, and more utilization of personnel. I have also seen the too-laborsome process for inventory and cash control. While it may be the one, "best" method, it's too long and stupid to be efficient. I will submit in writing, on a time when I can/am willing to dedicate hours to inventory strategies. I still plan to seek another place, but will get at high on the ladder as I can before I go.

* written intentionally with many ambiguities

Thanks, honest

In respect and thanks to all those who have served, anywhere. Memorial, thankfully to those who've lived too.

Work shows

what I'll be having for a while --- crap. Since that is the case, I have to decide whether to take it or to start looking again. I'll do both, methinks.

What's red?

Blood on food .... bad idea. I cut my finger, deeply and noticed seconds after that, despite my best pressure on the wound, bloop

pitch that one.

I patched it up and then donned a glove and found a new cut activated when I did other cleaning.

Today's word was, "ouch"!

caught out on a walk with a friend

Sunset at the lake

*-cellphone

Schedule

Crappy day today ... I hope it isn't followed by another crappy day.

N: 11:00 - 8:00
M: 5:00pm - Close
T: off
W: 11:00 - 8:00
R: 11:00 - 4:00
F: 4:00 - 10:00
S: 12:00 - 8:00
N: 11:00 - 8:00
M: 5:00pm - Close

Event

Germanfest, I have off only one day a week. I'll be there on that one day.

Angry again

Well ... I'm trying to find housing closer to work -- with no success. I found one place, but at $625 for 2 bedrooms and no carport --- that's too much money. The internet is not especially helpful this time.

quick note

still don't have connection, but passed test and review getting new rank

Finals week

I lost highspeed, hopefully to reaquire it next week and I got a sinus infection. To top it off ... finals week, as it were for me as I am trying to move up in rank at work. I do the test and verbal discourse next Wednesday. I'll need all the luck I can get.

hotel stay

I got a room at a hotel -- midway between work and "home". I had some studying to do. It was both a good and bad choice. I caught a cold and feel unwilling to study and didn't need to spend the money, but ... I can leave later from here to get to work on time. I'll decide how good or bad of a decision it was later.

high-speed connection

my "sampled" one is lost to me now. In 2 weeks, I'll have another one, but until ... my visits and posts will be scattered. I tried to patch together (grimance) dial-up, but nope ... that was not working either. So ... It was dead.

I'll try to get a chance Saturday to zone and do some more work, until then ...



linenoise

for a friend

okay ... if you are intersted (prices listed are value (o.b.0)

Blazer, green 1996; 180,000 miles, no radio, minor electrical issue (hazard light makeshift fix); $4,000 (greatly negotiable)

Chevy S-10 pickup; tan 2000; coated truckbed; Air conditioning; factory CD player; 82,000 miles; $9,500 (negotiable)

House for sale, rent possible; Bourbon, IN
2-story, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, unfinished basement
small, quiet community

109 E. North St., Bourbon, IN


If intersted, email me or post a question and I'll send you a contact name and number.

Thanks!

Metropolis woman

Hey! I was wondering if you all have any specials?

Yeah, we have a special running on pulling metal out of your face.

Yuck! So, you put enough metal in your face to deflect bullets and you do so to attract attention and expose your wonderful beauty?
That's so gross. The stereotypical mid-desert African tribespeople don't look as freakish, despite those peoples' preference for bizarre wonders like elongated necks, expanded lips and lobes, charcoal and feces impregnated tattooing aren't quite as side-showish as some of these piercing nutjobs I see.

If found dead, they could be recognized without the flesh due to the one pound of odd assortments of facial metal. There's a trend that I'd like to see vanish.

Rain, rain down on me now

Phil Collins is to blame ... well, maybe not.

The rivers are high and are going to get higher. The lowland areas are going swimming next week. I again refer to my entries regarding the poorly-named, hundred-year flood.

It holds as much water as a functional gutter.

ill-planned, ill-advised

So, when you spent $5000 on this ad campaign for new Finnish Sauna, did you really say, outloud to yourself, "ethnic cleansing"?

"Come join us now for this great ethnic cleansing" has yielded bomb and death threats, vandalism and destruction of the store. What can I say, "you're fired". Great thinking there, bucko!

But, I ...

look up, mouth closed

Was that why I was later wearing a "white" shirt?

Wayne guy ... I think he was some sort of commander

Yes, he was a general "Mad Anthony", but I don't think he was quite this tall, but was as reserved and stoic.

When you absolutely, positively have to die overnight

This is not the most effective way to communicate a message by the way.

She must have run out of post-it notes

I left a note for you on your van. Oh, really? Yeah ... I don't think you'll have a problem finding it.

cute and pretty

I just missed an snapping turtle. I stepped two steps too many and it dove into the water out of sight.

other spots in FW

Freiman Square
under the tracks (squatters live here)
eat at "famous" Coney Island
visit the Firefighter's Museum
wander through the Grand Wayne Center
enjoy the new public library
see, what is called art
get a window washing job (note brass statue visible)
eat at a fancy, however overpirced, diner

MR's favorite local restaurant

While a gas house sounds neat, the Takaoka of Japan is where MR likes to eat. They serve grilled food at the table -- display, art, food, fun. I think it holds memories for many people who've been there, some more than others.

Ain't no half-steppin'

Big Shoes
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Mighty big shoes to fill are these.

Last year, Mastodons and this year ... shoes, large artistic, but not nearly as many.

Still, it's nice to see art downtown that isn't wrinkled metal.

Man in Black, revisited

Hours later ... still, no fingerprints, but my skin has finally softened and isn't leather as it was yesterday. Tip, while watching Fight Club, be sure to ("Drink your Ovaltene") watch what happens when a basic chemical (not acidic) meets flesh. While not lye, it was basic and removed layers of skin.

Fun, avoidable.

Mormon Bates

PBS did a show on Mormons, so here's my take on the "religion".

Worshiping the constant and intangible, yet mostly viewable makes sense. There are phenomena that go beyond explanation for you lack enough knowledge on why it happens, so ... you develop the best understanding of what you see, hear or in any other ways experience. So, I understand completely why early history peoples were polytheists and worships the sun and many other non-entities.

In the 19th century, there were enough developments to know that there was no 'spontaneous generation' and that infection caused illness as well as curiously unseen pathogens caused illness and death. In this same time, there were no Western culture religions practicing polytheism or polygamy. So, I guess the gross thousand or 144,000 refers not only to the polytheists (gods themselves) but also their multitudes of kin and "wives".

So, while the US is battling gay rights and gay restrictions and legal haggling of the definition of marriage -- man and woman, you have a Mormon who's trying to enter the race. Boy! If you thought Clinton or Bush were messy, wait to you see this guy. He could make inroads to Islam being that his concept of multiple wives (or so-called) would ring true with Eastern cultures and the pimps of the world pushing the women to do the work while "the man"+ "sits at home with his *@$& so hard, looking for a freak to call"++.

I'm sure the pedophiles and molesters of the US, rampant in some areas, as well as the Appalacians would rejoice with laws written by the Mormon prez legalizing marriage to children and their children and abolishing tabboo restrictions like, say ... incest.

Mit, I'm sure has some skeletons in his closet, if not the taxidermed body of some person, whose persona who now takes on or imitates. Mit ... she's a filthy whore. You know what to do with her.

So he marries her and her daughters. Doesn't this sound David Koresh-ish? He could have the branch romnedians.

+ genetically attributed only, for real men do things and take responsiblity, and work to achieve
++ 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horney"

pity sakes

Little Bo Peep, as I shall call her, called me again ending my hope that the ripple wouldn't come back. She wanted to talk and was full of stress ...better to dump it on someone than address it, right?

After talking, I found that she has few people to assist her, even emtions (lack of support from friends and family), hence why I'm the shoulder. She does and doesn't want more and therein is neurosis and the Florida swamp of befuddlement and confusion.

I volunteered to help Little Bo Peep to sell a few things she needed to sell. So, if you know anyone who's interested... she's got two vehicles to sell. (will be posted later)

All in all, she's out of luck, spinning her wheels, and looking for Superman to save her.

I'm not even Clark Kent, let alone Superman -- so I'm saving no one here, m'am. There's so much there like my "ex" that it's just plain friggin' scary. Need, need, need, want, want, want.

She's lost her sheep, but I'm not going around to help her find them. Somehow, I'm not feeling too bad not helping.

hot 'n' not

There are some cuties at work, but ...
I'm half a generation away ... 10 or so years

Oh, well ... ocean front property or at least near a lovely park, where you can look and see flowers, though they aren't really yours and never will be.

Hope lies in wait

A guy at work is in training but is disappointed. "Patience. Perhaps for Jedi master, it is dinner too." I cannot teach him, he has no patience.

He, another guy at work, and myself were doing slimy work today and he confessed to me that he detested work's lack of training him. The "other guy" noted that he got about 30 mintues total training since he's been there.

So ... why am I special?

I have received training, but, ya know ... manuals are nice. I'm making one more for me, but it would serve others.

Man in Black

I wear black at work and came home, after some cleaning with toxic chemicals without fingerprints. I'll favor being Agent P (Pain-in-the-ass).

I no longer exist as who I was, right?

Disappointed

"You got to change your evil ways ... baby."

I believe that one fellow m persuant will falter and be out, for ... that person is, well, moody (bad attribute according to the DM) and not well appreciated by many. I hope that person stays the course, but there is always the chance it will not pan out.

As for me, I hope to find something else and bow out. It's not bad, but there are enough things with it that I don't like that I can see them chaning or getting better -- even if I had my own store. The people making some decisions aren't in a position to know. Well, we've always done it that way, seems to be a periodic mantra.

rethinking

Well, it's almost been 3 months now and I'm waxing nostalgicly on the days of hours of job-posting reading. The trials of working there and just dealing with it are taking a bit of a toll.

I will begin again with more dedicated working, with the exception of being bugged with projects not of my own making that will interfere. Anyway ... I've put a dent in debt and now have to find something else ... not favoring to drop this old hat without a new one.

Seventh job of a seventh job ...

"of all ..."

"Of all the new people, you're one of two I like", said the guy with the best outlook and jovial personality there. If there's a happy guy singing or playing or having fun -- he's that guy. I guess it's nice to be someone other than the cynical tyrannical monster.

fixed itself?

I thought that the situation was bad or not-what-I-wanted, but the other party hasn't called, ergo ... nothing has changed. That is completely great news -- for I didn't want a change.

tandem cheeks

On my way to work, I saw three girls (really, teens) walking and they moved their hips in unison left then right, etc. What's funny about this is that other people with more cheeks, can do this themselves.

The crew, where I am, has the Spring fever of "cat scratch fever" or "Seven Year Itch" or something of that nature. Many are prowling. I'm not in the game. I was, however, complimented on my good appearance, me being an old guy and all.

I have a large gash on my neck that will heal soon, so I'm off kilter.

diabolical

of the devil? That's right, that's my schedule.

T: off
W: 11 - 5
R: 5 am - 4 pm
F: 5 - Close
S: 4 - 10
N: 12 - 8
M: 9am - 5

wrong juice

I picked up some juice today and felt the need to objectify woman and give out some beat-downs and smackin' up sum hoes. I was gettin' my money and saw wat I be drinkin'

Wat dat?! Ah, no, man! Dat ain' me!

Tip -- don't drink this juice, Pimp Juice.

Chewy leaves me signs

She loves you, ya ya ya ...

and you know that can't be bad

not firm, but likely landing site

I spoke with the DM (not Dungeon Master, BTW) yesterday, and he knows of no plan to relocate me anytime soon. So, I can get a place closer there. I looked into my town of employment, but skip that! The prices are way out of line. I found a place where I might be able to bike to work, but it is a highway, busy road, no sidewalks.

I'm going to land in Columbia City, I think. After internet searching, I'll likely be here. I don't plan on moving until June, but like to plan ahead, given the chance.

Afternoon/evening at work

It got busy, we got our noses bloodied. Ouch ... Glad that I left.

If anyone has furniture they don't want ...

I'm not moving yet, but I'm thinking in about a couple of months I will. So, if anyone has furniture ... letme know, eh?

Location, location, location?

This place here is where I might jump to be, it's bike-distance to work, but there are drawbacks.

Decisions to make. Who knows?

lovely, but ...

A woman at work is lovely, attractive, young, but not "innocent". She could be Cinderella, but her smoker's voice comes out like Ursella from Little Mermaid. She's undoubtedly nice, practical, but she could do well to not smoke. Smoking, as I have mentioned about work, is a downturn. I would guess about half the employees smoke. That's just plain gross. In FW, my present hometown, smoking is soon-to-be verboten in public buildings.

"It will be a day long remembered." 'It has seen the end of smoking, and shall soon see the end of the lawsuits.'+

+ quoted and paraphased from "Star Wars: New Hope"

Recoverable error

I made a situation worse, but the "situation" isn't beyond recovery. What was an odd situation, I made more complex, or rather I let it become more complex. A relationship that had bounds had those bounds ... set back a few paces or feet. Anyway -- not terrible, but the bounds where they were, were fine. Now ... the referree is reviewing the play and measuring the location of the ball.

I'll type again when the whistle "tweet"s and I can call where the ball lies.

entertaining nomenclature

talented: stupid
bitch/jerk: smart
stupid: stupid
bold: stupid, endangers others or self
bright: dim-wit, with drug-activated intellidence
new: untainted, yet
innovative: untalented, but required to promote
rising star: minute 11 of 15 minutes of fame
crtiics love: avoid like spoiled fruit
scientologist: at level of branch davidians or Hale-Bop
civicly involved: shops locally
humanitarian: serving community service for E-felon or misdemeanor
beautiful: after sixteen hours of prep-work by un-named make-up artists, person resembles photoshopped person
real: completely fake
troubled: would sell liver for another hit, but still would favor Gucci over starvation

new CD cover (one-sheet wonder)

Crow -- revealed

Thankfully, the CD may be used as as toilet tissue as well, marking the quality of the muscian, or I mean to be environmentally friendly.

I hope this spells nearly the end of idol worship of entertainers. Alec Baldwin, Gibson, Imus, Crow ... how many people have to be stupid for you to see they are stupid? Entertainers, much like mice, interesting to watch, play with maybe, but you have to feed them. Ignore them and they die.

Spears, Hilton ... come on man, divorce isn't suprising nor is their sheer drama-queen-esque performances.

Entertainers ... enjoy what they do, not the people themselves.

Wacked out

My mom is on a, well, truckload of medicines. Her reactions to them are a mixed bag -- Sybil, in other words. She doesn't have personality changes, per se, but rather like "White Rabbit", "this one makes you makes you smaller, another makes you tall and the new one, doctor gave you doesn't do anything at all (that you know)."

Skip that right out!

If I have to live on a plate of medicines when I'm old, I might reconsider the whole thing.

SC pulls a CA

California juries might look about as stupid as South Carolina juries now with the acquittal of a previously-convicted rapist, who was tried with kidnapping and rape of two teens. The counter was that the teens stole marijuanna from a bunker under a tool shed in the man's make-shift garden.

Huh. Is that fertilizer I smell, well, something like it. That is some manure.

B. C.

Cartoonist Johnny Hart, draws attention now, instead of cartoons. His death marks the end of a long life of cartooning with symbolic tributes to Christianity, sports, and novel characters such as Fatso who continually smashed a snake and the wheel riding clan who used semi-advanced devices in pre-history.

Note: a great comic artist has passed away, we are saddened by his leaving
Picture a bottle floating out to sea, later returning with a note:
Good news, he's drawing now in Heaven.

Thanks Johnny!

Man, out-of-the-know

Kucinich wants to impeach the Vice President? He lied about being in good health maybe? Kucinich is running for President, go figure. Okay, my votes doesn't go that way then.

"Then you've decided.
Not in the least!"+

+ Princess Bride

Dumb shi-

Sheryl Crow is in a race to see who can be disgraced more, between many contestants. I think her recent move has place her in a great lead.

Sheryl, Earth Day concept, announced that people should use only one square of toilet tissue when using the can.
Thanks Dumbshi* for leading the race.

"You are, without a doubt the leading ***hole in the state government!"+

"Oh, I ... just wanna soak up the poo; wanna tell everyone to just use one square, too."

+ Blazing Saddles

Kentucky, as backward as they wannabe

Kentucky -- be sure to drink your moonshine (like drinking your Ovaltine). Be sure you got yer gun loaded, ma! Kentucky, where time doesn't stand still -- rather, it is an odd parallel universe.

I guess that takes the edge off Indiana, where people link Kentucky and Indiana as the central state hicks. Hoosiers might not have produced the best Vice Presidents, but most of the state isn't Kentuckiana.

gap-toothed and slobbery

There was a jail break, courtesy of smart po-leese work. Man has fax sent in to police demanding his release. Read here to find out why it is newsworthy.

Police who aren't literate enough to find the grammatical errors in the fax, lacking letterhead and signature, to mention the least of the situation.

Barney Fife must have made captain there.

funny enough that I'll post it

Squirrel farts and saves the day!

another schedule

T: 0ff
W: 9am - 8pm
R: 2 - 10
F: 5pm - 1:30
S: 4 - 10
N: 12-8
M: 11-5

casual walk through town at night

I drove through the town where I work -- very late, as I was at work very late. Walking casually through a parking lot was a deer, lookng for nothing in particular. It was an odd sight, like an escaped animal or the like, since the nearest "forest" dwelling was some bit away. I wonder if it ever found home.

Later on the highway, there were less-fortunate critters, including two deer. What oddness, one was lost, two lost their lives. Hmmm.

soap with infusion

Now you can get caffeine or crack in soap. Perhaps when you wash your mouth out with mint soap, you'll be fresher mouthed, not "fresh mouthed". What's next for the absorbable industry ... anabuse soap or alcoholics, methadone soap for addicts, nicotine soap for non-smokers to start and for smokers to quit.

I hate protein, but thanks to protein soap, I can get it without the butchering of animals .. ha ha ha.

I'm movin' up

I got my own --- drumroll ....


shelf for my stuff. I'm really moving up the ladder.

"styles"

"Are you going to be anal", she asked.

Thankfully she was referring to my management style not 'other' styles or positions.

It was worth a great big belly laugh for me.

Monkeyjack was unwise

"You are unwise to lower your defenses!" +

+ Return of the Jedi

he just won't quit

My car has developed a drinking problem. He won't quit or seek help and claims he's "too old" to go into any intensive therapy, so I think he'll wind up dying with his drinking problem, perhaps because of it.

I bought several quarts weeks ago and periodically enable my car's drinking addiction. I feel only a little bad about it.