As an aside, I fully support Mongoose Publishing and their attempt at making MGT open gaming. Their licensees are fair and easy to use, which is more than I can say for the Wizards of the Coasts current license, the GSL
I work, more or less part time, at $WeSellUsedMacs. It’s a mainly web based business, and I’m the de facto System Admin and Webmaster.
I’m also on Adderall, which among it many weird ass side effects is a tendency toward “rage like behavior”, (i.e raising voice level and speed of talking) which, as any one that knows me, isn’t really something you want me to do. I’ve been doing it a lot of late, aimed at my cow-orkers (and yes, I’m splitting it that way for a reason. Search out the Scary Devil Monastery for details, I’m a monk there, inactive I will grant). Any rate, I know, given the volume level of my unloading on several of them, that the owner has heard me do it, yet, strangely, because what I’m unloading on them is for basically not working, he doesn’t seem to care, and in fact, may be supporting me.
As I’m found of saying, “Don’t know, don’t care.”. If he tells me to lay off, I will, other wise, well, damn it, they will do their jobs, or at least do there job well enought to not make mine actively harder. I’ve already established that I’m not going to lie to the boss to cover their actions and they know it.
This might turn out to be fun, or at least a good way to level stress, or at least transfer it to some one that needs it.
Depends. Do you think 1929 to 1941 were good for America as a whole or not? Let’s not forget that we have already started our generation’s long war, which means we can’t depend on an WWII analog to got us out the “Great Depression 2.0″, so, yeah, I’m force to say that the just shy of a trillion dollar bail out is a good thing, in the long run.
The fact that both of us own houses is, really, when you get down to it part of the problem. I’ll grant that my owning a house wasn’t really my idea, and I sort of got sandbagged by my brother in law on when I had to get the mortgage, but I will point out that my mortgage is not one that got sold down the line, and that I’m not doing any of those weird exotic type things, and my interest rate is both fixed and fairly high. Still, if it wasn’t for the fact that we were only going for a fraction of the house’s cost, we should not have gotten the loan, based on the fact that I was, at the time, unemployed (and more or less unemployable). We are pulling out of my death spiral, but it’s a long hard row to hoe.
I haven’t posted in while, not because my life doesn’t suck, but because I don’t post about family members issues. Let’s just say I’ve spent a lot of time at or near the Pink Palace on the Hill over the last few weeks.
Plus, well, dealing the [REDACTED]’s city inspection teams. My back yard is now down. Grunt.
I am going to post about my Cow-orkers some time soon, however.
But, just to show you that my life has ALWAYS sucked, here is a story of mine that I pulled from UseNet about some of my time in the US Army.
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“This is no shit” [1]
This would have been in 1979, early spring, at Ft. Bliss Texas. I was going to my first AIT (24Q10). I was assigned to the “Student Battalion”
of the “School Brigade” of the Air Defense School. Also attached to the brigade was the International Student Battalion. At the time the US was trying to
be nice to various Arab states, among them Kuwait. Kuwait had bought some HAWK ADA systems and was having some troops trained there [2]. At any rate,
one group of trainees had finished and had gone back to Kuwait. Leaving the American army to clean up their mess they left behind. Note that where
“Attached” not “Assigned” to the ADA School, and while they were in school, no American Officer or NCO had been in their areas. Each class of
the US Student battalion (each about 30 some odd troopies) was given a half of a floor to clean (a Shower Room and say 30 rooms). We were (at
the start) given 3 days to do this. We arrive, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and went up to the 3rd floor. Gagging noises. Stench like you can
not begin to believe. Knee deep trash over the hallway. Holes punched in the wall. Our class leader, a fellow Student (who re-uped with change of
MOS) took one look down the hall and said “This is going to take more than 3 days” and ran down to the staff folk to tell them that, leaving me more
or less in charge (I was a PFC at the time and was the ranking private in the detail). I wander down to hall to the shower room, where, lo unto my
eyes I find a semi butchered goat hanging in the shower stall, and a small grill in the vestibule for the shower. Of course this is May, in El Paso.
They had been gone for, at this point about 4 days. You can guess what state of “ripening” the goat was in. The long and short of it is, while I
have not been a janitor by trade, I have cleaned up some rather gross things, not of my own choice or making.
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[1] All Army stories start off this way. Required by law, I think.
[2] Having seen what are supposed to be the best of the Arab ground forces (Air Defense, to counter the Israeli Air Force), I no longer wonder how
the IDF did so well in ‘67 or for that matter in ‘73 or ‘80 or why Desert Storm went the way that it did. Not real good troops, IMAO
It’s doesn’t totally suck, however it needs something like Adblock. It is spiffy fast, and I like it’s preview homepage system. While it does stop popups, not so much with banner ads. 3 stars, on the 1-5 stars scale
I’ll keep Firefox 3.0.x as my primary browser for a while.
Well, what I really hate is the fronts that bring them in. Really freaking hate them. I’m back to weekly or twice weekly migraines. I’ll grant that the weather based ones are no where near as bad as the CFL based one were or as often, but they still suck.
Also, while I’m here, I’d like to bitch just a tad about the Fink Project’s installer program. On OS X 10.5.4 it seems to have issues with disk permissions. Of course OS X 10.5.x has it’s own weirdness that are causing me their own little issues. Getting KDE 3.5 running on 10.4.11 or so was fairly painless. Getting it running on 10.5.4 has been nothing but pain.
This stuff is freaking great. Two pills a day and I don’t have knee, elbow and back pain, with no side effects that I can tell. (Given the side effects of my other meds, this may or may not mean any thing, I’ll grant). I, personally, will take a slightly elevated possibility of a heart attack to not wake up in pain every morning, plus not spend half or more of the day in low to mid grade pain from various body aches and such like. This is, as the expression goes, good shit. Not a euphoric and doesn’t seem to, on me at least, have the slightest bit of making me feel drugged. I just don’t hurt.
And, that, my friends, does not suck.
For the full run down on possible side effects, etc. go here
I, for one, would like to know what this is of. Regardless, it’s way freaking cool. I mean, seriously, what the hell? On the other hand, this does make me want to vote Palin/McCain more than before. I mean, if we can have VP who will hang out with people in odd costumes, in 16 or so years having a President who used to be Prince of Drakenwald will not be so weird.
Who ever it is that is doing the song about ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, please, just go a way. At least get of the internet radio station that plays in my shop. 5 times a day is way too freaking often.
