Rant: I have a little sister, and am refraining from saying anything in hopes that karma will swing my way and I won't end up like Natty. ????: Why in God's name did he post that here along with the pictures?
Rave: There is another picture of Natty's sister further down the list that he stopped scrolling down. LOL. I can only pray this doesn't happen to me with one of my two younger sisters someday. I would be scarred for life.
rave/rant nothing quite as extreme as natty, but i found out this weekend that my little sister hooked up with one of my employees....the DOUCHIES one that I have. Any of the rest of the fuck-tards that I manage...fine, I can cope, but this kid is straight diamond-earring-wearing, "Yo"-calling at girls douche... I know I can't punish either of them over it, since it sounds like it was completley by accident(this is what happens when you work major retail, and live less than 5 miles from home). I will make it as uncomfortable as possible. just because i can.
Rave: Lying on top of me, staring straight into my eyes she softly said "don't ever change" and kissed me. Damn. Rave: Been getting a ton of great connections for my writing. I'm mid-way through selling my stuff for real but it still hasn't happened the way I want it to. I'm like halfway through a marathon. Rant: The exponentially harder part of the marathon is coming up. Rant: I hate school, everything about that artifice repulses me. I'm probably going to fail out, though I could easily pass if I actually go to my exams. It's not he pass/fail that annoys me, it's the little carrot on the stick they hold out in front of everybody, "go get the grades, go get the grades... good boy!" Everybody looks at me weird when I say I want to leave that establishment, as if I have tattoos all over my neck and hands - I was an honour student for 12 years before it dawned that college wasn't the fit for me, I want to write and only write. And I still struck through for the past three years out of fear. Rave: Fortes fortuna adiuvat. Rant: I hope.
RANT: Laptop battery took a huge dump. As in it expanded out of the bottom of the laptop. Kind of like what happens to a book when it gets wet. Fuck me. Oh well, at least the laptop still works just fine... just need to replace the battery. ANOTHER RANT: My phone is fucked. Well, more correctly, my phone SERVICE is fucked; the phone itself is just fine, it just can't operate like a phone right now. Telus is working on it, but there's some sort of bullshit admin issue that has to be taken care of, and it's already been a day. I hate cel phone companies.
Rant: Cell phone took a dump. Speaker and mic do not work. Rave: Still works with a headset! Rave: SNOW!!!!!!! Rant: Only flurries, but it's getting heavier!
RAVE: My Nook Color has been rooted. I can now load android apps myself into it. Not bad for $250 instead of $600 or so. Angry Birds is awesome on this thing. I already put a better browser on and will get email and some better document apps later. All that's left is somebody writing some roms to better utilize the software that's already pretty decent on it. It's almost perfect now.
RANT: Cellphone stopped working today and wouldn't turn on. RAVE: Update from Sony Ericsson worked! RANT: Lost ALL my messages on my phone. Fuck. At least all my contacts were backed up. RAVE: I got Fallout 3 to work. There's apparently an issue it has with processors with more than 2 cores, but at least it's fixed now. RANT: I, too, missed the pic of Natty's sister. I always seem to miss the good stuff. Fucking time difference.
Rant: My battery's been heading this way for a while now. That's what happens when your computer runs at 180 degrees F for extended periods of time... Rave: This song.
BIGGEST RAVE OF MY LIFE: Got into my local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers* and start my hours for apprenticeship tomorow morning. This means an extremely high pay rate, excellent benifits and pension plan and as much free school as I want. Ive wanted this for so long now I almost thought I would never become an Electrician. I was so nervous before my interview I was actually shaking, but I got the job. If all goes as planned my life is set from this point on. *I dont come from a pro-union family but so far this has been my only real shot at becoming an electrician, so Im going to take it. Unions can be good, as long as you dont milk them for all their worth, which 90 percent of the lazy fucks unions usually do.
Rave: After a decade of being in closely related industries and selling to the same customers in some cases I finally had to give a sales presentation in front of my father. Rave: "You actually know what the fuck you're talking about", was his response after we broke the meeting for lunch. High praise from the salty old fella. Rant: My friend who will soon be my neighbor is already driving me crazy sending me concerned emails with links to the town's bylaws regarding mailbox placement, address number size, and tree trimming... Retard we live in a rural fucking community where I think half the population grows marijuana, raises it's own livestock, and where the Highway Dept barely gets the streets plowed from storm to storm in the winter. You think they give a FUCK about where you stick your mailbox? He's going to give himself a heart attack by 35 if he's actually concerned about shit like this.
Rave: This cable has absolutely made my day. Gave me a pretty good laugh. <a class="postlink" href="http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/01/08OTTAWA136.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/20 ... WA136.html</a>
Rave- I quit smoking weed today. I started when I was about 19 and quit today(22). I was never a big smoker, but there were times when I smoked almost every day, minuscule compared to a lot of people. Before today I was smoking maybe three times a week. I thought weed would help expand my creativity as a writer, but it only holds me back from getting the actual writing done. When I'm high my attitude towards my potential is very poor, and I just skip my daily writing all together. I sleep in instead of getting up to work out and start writing. Weed definitely changed my opinion on a few things, but it really wasn't the godsend a lot of people make it out to be. Had a pretty good time and a lot of fun(sitting around watching South Park), but it's over now. I may smoke weed again some day when I've achieved my goals and have the free time to do so. I'm hoping my quitting will encourage a couple of my friends to do the same, for it seems that since after high school we never hang out unless we're high anymore. For now, where's the whiskey?
RANT: The husband admitted last night to "flirting" with a friend of ours after I moved to Atlanta. In case you don't know, he's in Seattle until our house closing in January. RANTIER: I asked what he meant by flirting. I shouldn't have asked, because... RANTIEST: Flirting involved the two of them graphically describing how they'd fuck if I wasn't in the picture. The man made it clear that actual physical contact would never happen, which I appreciate. However, why he didn't nip that in the bud and tell her this kind of shit was inappropriate is beyond me. Yeah, I'm sure there are some on here that think he did nothing wrong because nothing physical happened. Truth be told, I flirt with guys often but as soon as it hits "I want to fuck you" then I back off and stay away. He's not exactly well versed in the feminine charms so he thought "Hey, hot girl paying attention to me while I'm pining for my wife 3,000 miles away...score!" RANTIESTER: The reason he had to tell me about this is because she's now flipped her shit because he won't sleep with her and then she was rejected by a mutual friend of ours. Great, great, that's all I need.
Rave: DBA work starts Dec 17. I'm so excited I just spent 15 minutes googling some access advice and enjoyed it. Rant: Car repair gonna pound me in the ass, even if (and I will) just get a scrapper/parted out trunk. Rave: Bourbon!
Rant: I've got a temp-to-hire thing going now, but when I was hired there was no guarantee that I'd be given a permanent position. On Monday, I found a posting on an industry-specific website for basically the permanent version of what I'd want to be doing with the company. The boss (one of many) who made the posting would be the one who would have the most input in hiring me permanently. He also has never seemed to like me much, although I haven't really worked with him. Plus he's been having cryptic conversations with other people in his group the past two days about their search as if I didn't realize exactly what they were doing. I don't know what bothers me more, the fact that I might not be employed again in a month or that they don't respect my powers of perception/intelligence enough to stop bothering to hide the shit from me. Not a rave, but not a rant: The upshot is I haven't had much exposure to the things I am interested in doing at this place, and as much as I've tried to find more things to do and be responsible for, they haven't been available. It's really bothered me that I haven't been able to work as hard as I want to. Here's to finding something where I can be more productive, and get more out of work than just a paycheck.