skills needed

You must not be able to see the difference between the two pictures in order to qualify for management.
If you can notice a difference, there will be difficulties. If you know the difference, then you cannot enter management.

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Well, apart from my opening breath of "work stinks", much like others would say, "hello", I had a chance talk with a woman at work last night. I suppose, all things considered positive things were:

she's nice (conversation wasn't wasted),
fellow trainee saw the "best fit" model for management is an arrogant ass who ditches work when he can. The next pick for trainee is just that; arrogant ass who leaves early when he can.

I completed changes on my cover letter and resume', so when I find a job where I plan to apply -- I'll have something.

If anyone knows of a job ... let me know, eh? While I'm not sure how far down I want to trade, I wouldn't mind trading laterally, if for nothing else than change of hypocrisy.

dreams, she's in my dreams

She's so hot!

Darn, but it will pass. It'd be nice for dreams to pass into reality, but ... only in fiction does that happen.

Ain't funny McGee

This first one is eerily similar to Saddam

Concepts for Borat O'Bama

Potter

I think a far more enigmatic and starkly ironic ending would be that he is slain while defending a child. That child then bears a mark from an attack which kills or nearly kills the attacker. You could then infer that the other characters "resemble" Griffondor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, making their own -- new school of magic and the cycle continues.

Granger house, Wesley house, Potter house, Longbottom house

let me get this straight ...

Violent people do violent acts? I just find that hard to believe.

mid-July schedule

M: (July 9); 5 - Close
T: (July 10); Off
W: (July 11); 5 - Close
R: (July 12); 2:00 - 10:00
F: (July 13); 5:00 - 11:00
S: (July 14); 5:00 - 11:00
N: (July 15); 4:00 - 11:00
M: (July 16); 5 - Close

strange act witnessed

I was at work and saw someone drinking beer on the job. Now, the course of action that should have followed:

send person home; notify unit chief; say ado to the person for, drinking on the job is an offense that leads to termination.

I didn't immediately send the person home, that person knows I know, and claimed to feel bad about it, and obviously needs the money. When the person gave me and, "I owe you", I figure that it might be a done issue. I cannot think of another leader who would have chosen my method of handling it. I may not have handled it right, or the best, but I don't think I shall have difficulty with that person again. At least, I hope not.

He claims his work isn't good enough

Posh! I'd say this is great! While generalized as a mother and child, it is very likely Mary and Jesus.

-- art by James Freygang

New July 4th tradition

photo courtesy of MR

"They're using artillery on us!" with a picture of fireworks. The line is from Die Hard. It's better when it's sent on cellphone.

irony and Iron Maiden

I saw a guy come in at work wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt, and bade him, "good band" as he left. He agreed and he was on his way. Later, MR sent me a picture from Bed, Bath, & Beyond featuring posters for sale. How IronMaidenic!

Fluptz Putz

More people are underemployed. The rate of 4.5 unemployment might be that people aren't home anymore because they are working two or more jobs. Man that upsets me when they note -- people are employed. Right, and minimum wage at McDonald's, which is still poverty level, constitutes "employment"? Look at salaries for those people, not merely if they are "working". For another example: someone lives to 106 being a lifelong smoker. That might be a good campaign for R.J. Reynolds, except if you find he was on life support for 25 years and ate up 4.8 million dollars of medical funds to keep him alive.

Numbers aren't important if taken out of context, butt heads! Trying showing the average salary for families with one job only per person. That doesn't look so fine, now does it. I don't like half-facts, it irks me because it influences the weak minded to believe --- well, then, there isn't a problem. Subtract the golden parachute CEOs and start examining the salaries and employment, then give me some numbers.

instant resistance

I made a suggest that would take about 10 seconds to do ... daily. That is ten seconds out of a day. I got resistance to it right away. It doesn't cost money, costs no real significant time, but I got resistance.

F' em! I mean that, in that they get an "F" and that [rhymes with duck] them!

July 4th Mayhem

Happy Independence Day!

oh, crud!

Why didn't somebody tell me my butt was so big?!

I saw Logan hold himself up on the swing, so by golly ... I was going to do it. Work has me a little stronger than before and I had little challenge in doing it. I also dropped 35 pounds.

Virginians and odder Suthern states done be repulsed

Givin' birth to siblings -- "kin" as we call 'em is a God-given natural pro-cess we all been doin' fo' centries! Course we do it thu old fashion way of rollin' in da hay with sisters, cousins, ma, pa, aunts and uncles.

I cannot believe dat dem damned Brits wanna interfere with our way, claimin' dere's is better with sciencey stuff and frozen eggs. Dat just ain't natural!

from the BBC, infertile daughter may use her mother's frozen eggs to bear children

pardon me for presidenting

So what if Bush pardons him ... what does Bush stand to lose? Heck, Clinton sold pardons and while a shifty man he remains, that didn't harm him as much as it should have.

I think he ought to find some schmuck and pull a King Bugs Bunny on him and do:
arise Sir Loin of Beef [whap with the septre]; Sir Duke of Earl [whap]; Wellington of Beef [whap]; Benedict of Eggs [whap]; Sir side of bacon [whap]; Burlington of Coats [whap]; Sheriff of Knotted Head [whap]

You are too kind, sire. [Schmuck falls with ten visible welts on his head]

This story is no story that matters. So he pardoned him. That really isn't significant. Think of Nixon -- pardoned. Get over it.

personality disorder

Well ... interesting. G.I. has personality disorder. I believe that if you shoot him in the head with enough bullets, his brains will be re-ordered and better organized and liquefied. Dude, you're a disgrace now. Die with dignity and ask for some shoelaces, cut your wrists or something. Just die. Personality disorder! There's a cure for that, you know. It's always after the fact, "well, you know I've been kinda depressed, or I've been hearing voices for the last few days, I ate too many Skittles with Red Bull, I'm lactose intolerant, I have red-green deficiency, I have an ingrown toenail".

Don't know, don't care.

How the Neo-nazis won the war

Well, I'm no fan of Nazis, neo-nazis, Klan, KKK, or any hate group, but this stuff makes for great recruitment posters. If you thought the "Hun" posters, and the other propaganda posters depicting others as sub-human were somewhat effective, wait 'til they put posters of Hamas with bombs on babies, stoning teen girls, beheadings and none of which are photoshopped.

Muslims all over the world ... you give yourselves a bad name. Step up and crush this stereotype, otherwise tick-tick-tick ... it's gonna blow up in your face.

By golly, they were close on the name

They should have used spell check on "Islamabad". The phrase should be, Islam is bad, which is quite close. Thankfully I'm here to help you on this issue. I'm gonna side with the group that no longer accepts, "those are the corrupted teachings of Islam" argument. I'd say with the stomp, stomp, stomp, Idiot convention,+ there are no safe versions anymore. This one here is virus-free, oh ... wait, no I'm mistaken. They must be taking after those lovely folks in Atlanta, Chicago and the masters in LA, with when in doubt, loot; riot; pillage; blame others. Oh, and red is green.

+ Anthrax, "Caught In a Mosh"