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I overheard that there was a child rapist who killed his victim when she wouldn't stop crying. He was taken into custody. I hope the other statement was true that he was in bad condition after court appearance. Typical ...
he kept falling out of the car on the highway ... we don't understand it.

it'll add up to the same

The computer glitched and the totals were being summed on the wrong day. The response from -- we don't take calls on Saturday head office was ... 'it'll add up okay'. The transactions were being posted on the previous day, on top of the other transactions. I guess it was nothing to wake up the super-chiefees for, right?

Here we have the laziness I mentioned and the neaderthals at the obolistic.

[cut to jawbone weapon being weilded instead of pen on desk or keyboard attached to conputer]

comfortably ill

Unsightly and gross. There are the posse' of assistants who feel just fine and dandy free to use the restroom for library time -- you get my meaning. Now, I, on the other hand don't. The only tine I use public bathrooms for such is when I am ill. These other guys use typical eupheisms like making deposit at [toilet company or plumbing company name], or whatever -- too gross to mention.

What they don't get and I do, is who wants to see a mgr stepping happily and lighter out of the bathroom, hopefully washing for minutes in the sink after making walking easier? Now, I know people have to do it, but doesn't that smack of gross? Dude ... you're handling food now? You just let loose something long-since dead -- so much so that CSI would seek archeological help.

germinator

There were six in the party at first, then there were party-crashers coming in ... now, more like American President (like American Idol) these would be, ahem -- cough, choke, 'talents' must match wits and talents with each other to win the title of President of the United States.

In the end, it is performance, for the most charismatic wins -- always. Gore's, bore you to death with ineptness didn't match points with Bush's hard stance on 'stuff', intentionally stated due to his poor improv speaking.

On the tickets you have the seven dwarves plus more -- like the cast of Lord of the Rings and Under the Rainbow gathered into a little spot in the sun. The polls are noteworthy because there are exactly flathead vs fathead, giving the voter a chance to put into office Dum or Dee, both named Tweedle.

You could have (Dee) deceitful -- Clinton is a good example, or (Dumb) Bush who pushes forward bills that no one wants to sign or agree that they have. Gore is Dum, while others are DeeDum, like a song -- lie with face one and coninive with face two.

Somehow the dandeloins of politicians are a little thick this year. I should have called a law(n) serive to fix it before it was a problem.

verboten, with exceptions

Well, the county's smoking ban and ordinance went into effect, but there are, surprise ... loopholes. Look, I just think that smokers should pay for the following and then the issue is done:

1. forfeiture of one lung
2. denial of government or employer-paid medical services to smoking related illnesses (including cancer)
3. no-cap on insurance premiums on smokers' houses, vehicle, etc.
4. x multiplier for smoking related fires
5. no-cap on cigarette tax
6. logorithmic scale payments on government services related to smoking including, but not limited to:
a. trash removal
b. restoration of materials (including art, walls repainted, etc.)
c. ALL second-hand smoking issues, including, but not limited to:
A. child development
B. asthma, etc.


As a nation we should 'crap or get off the pot' on smoking. If it is bad, terrible, addictive, unhealthy, deadly, cancer-causing ... then we taxpayers should not be subsidizing it. There is no doubt smoking causes cancer in people. There is no evidence to support that smoking is healthy at all, and causes otherwise avoidable or postponable medical issues. Therefore, why are taxpayers on a national level paying for the tobacco industry?

Stop now.

If some hillbilly farm has a 1.6 acre plot to grow tobacco and he would otherwise be out of a job ... well, that stinks for him, for strawberries might have a good price too. How about pumpkins --- whereas the South has no Northern-typical heavy frost, generally.

schedule; hopefully will change

M: 5-close
T: off
W: 2-10
R: 5-close
F: 5-11:30
S: 12-8
N: 11-8
M: 5-close

I will try desperately to re-negotiate off Saturday to go to Westfield

short end of the stick ...

I took the deal ... I got a check for the money I was missing and am working still for the company. I am, however, still looking for other employment, despite my raise.

Another day at work and the mgr whom I greatly dislike was there ... prowling like a caged cat, he wanted to pounce on anyone who wasn't doing what he wanted them to do. Perhaps his hell will be a work camp where either he is a prisoner or conversely a controller for persons who will never obey and continually plot against him.

be sure to vote for Ovaltine

I watched this ... however interstesting the frequency of which some of these speakers use the same words -- especially Rudy ... it ends with, "be sure to vote [name here] in '08". After all the speeches, it's nothing more than a common sales pitch.+ Really, the ending theme is that (these people here are warmongers) is over-over-over stated, it doesn't segue into vote for someguy who's perspective you don't know.

+paraphrased from Die Hard

a smile

The "eyes" girl, whom I'm written about at work is ... terribly young. That dismissed apart from her cuteness in an uncle or father sort of perspective now ... yes, clearly I'm old enough to be her father. There's another girl at work, I'll have to discover her age too. She's nice, but likely young too. Oh, well, I'm not supposed to be inter-store dating anyway.

My good deeds were not in vain at work. I made a couple of things possible and that didn't hurt anyone and it didn't backfire.

Still, at work, I feel like I'm digging instead of filling. It's difficult to claim you're climbing when you keep going deeper.

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?