Whoever started the "Please to not be" crap is going to get their ass kicked. It's not only hard to get your tongue around, but it makes everyone who uses it sound like a moron. 

Shut up. Seriously. Just. Shut. Up.

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Anyone in Spain tomorrow?

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An epileptic young woman named Camp
Was seduced on her couch by a tramp
But the first time he squeezed her
She had a Grand seizure
And broke both his balls and a lamp.

"For Christmas", she said with a tingle
"I'd love a gift cunnilingual!"
'Twas with joy and surprise
She found twixt her thighs
The tongue of jolly Kris Kringle!

There was a young vampire called Mable,
whose periods were always quite stable,
at every full moon
she took out a spoon,
and drank herself under the table.

There was a young harlot from Kew
Who filled her vagina with glue.
She said with a grin,
"If they pay to get in,
They'll pay to get out of it, too."

There was a young man named Sweeney
Who spilled some gin on his weenie.
He thought this uncouth,
So he added vermouth,
And slipped his girl a martini.

There are a few scenes in 'Batman Begins' that are taken straight out of the Batman: Year One comic series. Like the scene where Batman sends all of his bats after a SWAT team and the end where Gordon wants to talk to Batman on the roof of the GCPD building about a new criminal calling himself The Joker. All the websites and magazine articles say that Christopher Nolan drew inspiration from the comic books The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns and The Long Halloween for 'The Dark Knight.' Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing anything from those comic books in the new movie. However, the final scene with Gordon, Dent and Batman reminded me a lot of Year One.

Heath was fantastic as the Joker. I love how he sang "Harvey Harvey Harvey Dent" when he took over driving the truck. I love the nervous little walk he did in a nurses uniform after he blows up a building. I love how he kept firing his gun in random directions during his showdown with the Batpod. It was just a great performance, taking an iconic character in a new direction and redefining the classic 'bad guy.' Is he a completly insane super criminal mastermind, or just a bad dog that someone accidentally left off his leash?

Harvey's CGI makeup was incredible, but I wanted more story about the deep duality of his personality.

The soundtrack was amazing too, I've got to pick it up soon. Anyway, I'll post some photos of us all dressed up in costume at the theater soon.

While the monks have made and sold their coffee from decades before STARBUCKS even existed, STARBUCKS Corp claims it owns the trademark "Christmass Blend Coffee".






http://www.thislandthemovie.com/

 I wonder why it is, as soon as you find out that you are ill, the symptoms you barely noticed before seem to get worse. Probably a heightened sense of awareness - which is to say common sense. 

So I sit here, two days out from learning the results from my CT scan, wrapped in a warming sheet, waiting for my dinner to heat up, and trying not to be bored out of my mind. I was supposed to see The Dark Knight tonight, but someone felt a little too lazy to drive out and beat off the crowds. Ah well, there's always Sunday. There are quite a few good films on and so they distract me a bit from my sinusitis.

Today I went in at 10:00 for doughnuts & coffee, to meet some of the other staff, and to be put to work fast...
"He knows ECL, so he can help you right after this meeting", "he has worked on SSG, so lets get him started on that", "He knows Mapper, so he can help you real soon", "Better get his contract signed quick since we have him working". (aside: all that stuff is UNISYS stuff "Oh, and since he knows Unix he can help with the migration"

I was "sent home" about 1 with a list of work questions to answer, and a list of work to look at.
I go back to the office on Tuesday. Work at home on Monday (and over the weekend?)..
whew... fast pace for an old guy





now I need to get my supplies together -- and clean up a dedicated work area

I'm getting a raise. I think the initial motivation for this is that Tatyana, the only other employee left from the merger, is leaving the firm at the end of the month. The office manager thinks that I might have less reason to stick around and will look for a new job unless I'm given incentive. Tatyana leaving doesn't make too much of a difference to me, except that it is a sobering slap in the face that the old office family I used to love and cherish is now officially going to be defunct, and what constitutes the new office body is a highly dysfunctional, oppressive atmosphere with a slight incompetent bent. The biggest change in Tatyana saying sayanora is that Lita is being promoted to billing clerk, which means that she'll move up front. She was like the one real friend I had around here and now I'll hardly see her. Maybe the new girl will be nice. Or cute.

One of the conditions I was given the raise was that I start 'thinking outside the box' more often. This vague catchphrase is a critique of my work habit and follow-through around here, which is somewhat understandable. The fervor for my job has been beaten out of me and I really no longer have any real joy in my work. The disjointed communication around here vexes me, and the marriage between the old firm and new firm is not an easy one, for the boss runs a tidy, tight ship and the lawyers that came over with me were pretty loosy-goosy with their filing, performance and planning. Butting heads, pulling rank and power plays are part of the weekly activities in the office.

In the old firm, pretty much everybody knew everything. If someone was out sick, then someone could cover their position. It was like a family unit in that way. All for one and one for all. In the new firm, everything is kept close to the vest and explanations seem to be given on a need to know basis. If someone calls in sick, then pretty much, their work hits a brick wall in their absence, regardless of importance. And, there's a lack of communication on almost every level.

Here's something that happened today

At around 5:40, I was engaged in logging in refund checks for one of our clients, when the receptionist Nicole comes to me with an envelope. "The boss wants you to drop this off at the post office". I get these courier-type jobs because I'm the only male employee and efficient. I know for a fact that the Post Office closed 10 minutes ago, and given the 10 minute walk it'll take me to arrive there, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that that ship has sailed. But I can't say no. The boss doesn't tolerate any questioning of orders. When I voice my doubts about the success of this plan, she tells me "If it can't go out, just bring it back here and we'll find a new plan". So, I hastily set out to see this thing through. The PO is in a mall. I arrive there under 10 minutes to see a locked metal gate and darkness. They're indeed closed. I look around the joint for anything that looks like a drop-off spot, or anyone that is on the other side. Nil on both counts. I head back. I arrive back at 5:55 (pretty fucking fast), only to find that Nicole left early. The boss is in there with the cute lawyer and I make my presence known. He wants to know the progress. I report. He asks if I brought along my phone. I said I didn't. Before I can get my side in, he raises his voice about 'thinking outside the box' and if I looked for a mailbox anywhere. I know for a fact there's no mailboxes in our part of Downtown and that all mailing facilities in the city are done, but I know I can't argue absolutes with a man who's looking to pin the blame on someone. He makes me look like a dumbass in front of the cute lawyer. There's not really much I can say without getting him more upset, and it's not worth a blowout. Any debate with him triggers a vehement-driven argument, where he assumes that you're trying to challenge his authority, and this is regardless of who's at fault. Far easier to just swallow one's pride and take the verbal abuse, or else, it escalates. I didn't want to throw Nicole under the bus, since she told me to just bring the envelope back to the office if it didn't get out. I'm dismissed and I feel frustrated. Even if I had brought the phone and called the office, he'd get pissed that I interrupted him with something petty. There's no winning solution in an environment when your boss is a bully who demands nothing but excellence from his employees, even when he himself compromises any chance of success. One of the reasons Tatyana is leaving is because she can't stand the boss. Luckily, I don't work with him much. I spend most of my time working at my own pace, doing my duties without his input.

Another thing he pinned on me this week involved his wife. His wife works in our suite, but she's not a member of the firm. She runs her own company, where she offers mediation. Her bills and accounts are her own and in no way consolidate with the firm's. Just the ones sh shares with her husband. She's the most unpleasant, unfriendly, grouchiest woman you've ever met. Every now and then, she asks me for a favor. Yesterday, she asked me if I'd go to WaMu and get a form on adding a beneficiary to an account. I head to the bank and find out that there is no such form. I go back to tell her. She's in closed door mediation, so I leave her a note about how it has to be done in person, but maybe there's a way over the phone. I find out an hour later from her husband, my boss, that this isn't acceptable. Apparently, it was for their personal account. See, there's like a dozen accounts involving the office. She banks with a few places and I don't know what the story is about any of it. "Why didn't you find out more about it? Why can't you 'think outside the box?' Didn't the administrator tell you anything?" When I inform him that his wife is the one who gave me the instructions, not the administrator, and I was told nothing but to extract a form, and not even the information regarding what it concerned. He acts like he's in the presence of stupidity because I didn't know. I probably should have gotten more information, but I assumed it was for his wife and not really something that would affect the firm. I felt I was doing her a favor, not doing something on behalf of the boss.

The raise is substantial. I think that the administrator has now taken note that the boss has driven off 4 of the 5 employees in 3 years, and that someone who knows the procedures around here should stick around. I just have to 'think outside the box' more. I think the best way to do that is to assume that the receptionist is indeed the idiot I've always assumed she is, and to second-guess anything she tells me, and start to think of the rationale why this order was carried out in the first place and why it involves me, not her. That'll allow me to ignore some of the misinformation that I get from her, which is also substantial. Also, that no matter how unpleasant his wife is and how little she prizes conversation, I have to ask more questions of her. Also, to assume that none of the other employees know jack shit about what they think they do, for they usually seem to be in error.

In short, I have to mentally become the elitist dipshit that he is.

I feel obligated to stick around here because they've invested so much money into my notary everything. The government red tape seems to back everything up. I still don't have my stamp yet. Once I've conducted at least 20 notarizations, then maybe I can allow myself to start thinking of an escape plan off this haunted slave ship myself. I'd feel that then they've gotten their money's worth to some extent.

Poll #1225914 Disturbing Duos
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Which is more disturbing.

Well... I have 23 big red spots on me.  They look like bug bites.  From what I've read they don't look like chicken pox.  And the placement isn't as bad as what they say about The Pox.  1 on arm, 3 on leg, 5 on back/backside, the rest all concentrated on my right side.  Also one of my eyes is swollen and hurts, it started hurting a tiny bit last night, now it's worse.  My guess is that I scratched one of these things and touched my eye yesterday.  I'm not the type that bugs usually go for.  I can be in a field of nature and come out with maybe one or 2 while friends can come out completely bitten up.  I guess my blood isn't tasty.  

CPox says that it's typical to have them on face, scalp, inside mouth and basically everywhere.  I noticed the first 3 "bites" last night 2 leg & one arm.  I thought it odd but not terribly so. I'm going to hope that's what they are.  Getting CP at this age is BAD from what I hear. 

Did I ever have them?  Well... when I was 2, I got something really weird for a few days that they decided could be German Measles and wasn't that bad.  Then, many times when childhood friends got The Pox, my parents would send me to go play with them to get it over with so I wouldn't have it when I was older.  I never got it.  Therefore, I'd already had it or am/was immune.

Dude.  It's a hot summer.  Pray to your faeries that these are just bites and that I don't get any more.  I've never wanted to tape oven mitts to my hands.  Time for a Silkwood-style shower I guess.  I really don't know what to do.  Am I supposed to wash everything I've touched as far as couch and bedding?  I guess I'll just shower and not really touch those areas just let the soap run down them. 

Not cool.  Scary.

Get out of my way, you bloody idiot!

I'm not a fast driver. I've been described by many as being a Granny Driver. But when you are driving in the left lane, slower than the speed limit and blocking traffic, why would you be surprised when people get upset at you.

In our society, there are unwritten rules that everyone who is immersed in the culture and understands it abides by. Slow to the right, fast to the left. Simple. If you are going slower than traffic move out of their way, on the right. The unwritten laws are better known as 'manners'. Manners keep us from killing each other. Manners make life less stressful.

It seems though, that assholes abound.

Michigan has started taking steps to clarify what those manners are by making them laws.

"According to the Michigan Vehicle Code, vehicles shall remain on the right lane of two-lane sections of rural freeways when not passing other vehicles."

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57737

Or, as this video shows, the German Autobahn, where deaths per mile are significantly lower.



This isn't saying that the removal of speed limits is lower, but rather, to some thinking, that the manners of those drivers is much better than those in the American mindset. When someone faster than you comes from behind, they get out of the way.

What about that dumbtards who like to zip ahead of all the other traffic when a lane is closing? Guess what; you CAUSE the traffic jams. I'm one of those guys who will regularly block the lane that is closing down that has had signs for the past three bloody miles that it is closing down. You wouldn't dare jump in line ahead of me anywhere else; why does the anonymity of a car make it any different?

Get in line. Take your turn. Things will go faster. Everyone will be less stressed.

Do you realize how much better Smallville would be if Clark and Lex sang like this?

my affinity with erdinger seems to be....wonderful. even at a random turkish restaurant i find a dose of my favourite tipple.

and The Dark Knight. was superb. just when you thought it ended, it didnt, with relish. and its a great show where the trailer, while enticing, is hardly a third of the show's brilliance (unlike other crap shows). a trifle complicated at the start, but as it seeps in...it dazzles, it darkens, and it dreams. big. christian bale was a little subdued i guess...but his quiet brooding nature was sufficiently expressed. oh and yes heath ledger was great. a little overhyped, but still great. i did, for once in a long time, cringe at a villan's every twitch and gesture.

One of my favorite websites is Giveaway of the Day.

It gives away a diferent free registered software with only 24 hours to DL and register it.

Today's give away is

Liquid Story Binder XE 2.91

"Liquid Story Binder XE is a uniquely designed word processor forprofessional and aspiring authors, poets, and novelists. Writingsoftware for those who require the editing ability of a commercial texteditor as well as a document tracking system.

It is for those who want the freedom to create, outline and revise but are tired of losing track of their work."

I downloaded it and so far I like what I see.

я по жаре забил на тпп я по жаре в июле не в себе седьмой седьмой как слышите приём то солнца жар то молния то гром в конце недели я уже готов в конце недели я почти что мёртв в конце июля я условно жив за середину лет перевалив и середину лета позади оставил год и вдруг пошли дожди и перестали вдруг и вдруг жара и эта баня с ночи до утра с утра до ночи липкая страда стада бредут неведомо куда мозги текут в неведомую даль и в подсознании вдруг возник январь мохнатой елью снегом холодами и в варежки одетыми руками и перезвоном тусклым от шампани и отогревом после в жаркой бане .. вот! баня!!! вот причина дежа вю вот тот тоннель кротовый к январю нуль-переход сквозь страны и века куда течет та летняя река где асфодел растёт на берегах и где забвенье в ласковых глазах где эвридику не нашел орфей о как прохладно в царствии теней но чу позвольте рано нам туда у нас еще под солнцем есть дела еще мы бань не выпарили всех и не наелись летних мы утех и поелику всё еще июль жара и дождь автомобиль и руль и отпуск чартер турция гамбит бассейн и водка бабы легкий флирт тяжелый секс чугунная башка о не могу работать я с утра ну кто включил ужасную жару!? пройду домой . отвечу поутру и медленно умру...

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