Ordinarily I wouldn’t even be thinking that, since you know, September = dangerously close to freezing temperatures, but… it also means 33 days to hockey! … 17 if you include preseason. Suddenly, freezing cold doesn’t look all that horrible. As long as I’m not outside in it. And no, Erin, Buffalo is not going to do as well or better this season than they did last. Buffalo is going to *suck* this year. *suck*, I say. … Okay, I’m done. Until they lose. And then, I shall write an entire essay on how and why they suck this year. Mwa.
Oh, and for crying out loud if you’re gonna brag about havin’ a blog, damn well let me read it, girl! LOL
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Happy September!
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Is your email getting through?
Probably not, if it’s directed at a comcast user. Yesterday, the people who so generously put up with me opinionating all over the webspace they provide me had a few issues with emails to that ISP, be they forwarded or just sent the normal way, being blocked because of an apparent excess of spam. And now, it seems, they’ve done it again to an ISP. Is anyone reminded of the days when AOL users could only email AOL users? I thought that went out of style. Stupid comcast and its being stupid.
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You’ve got pink slip.
If you weren’t worried about checking your email before, now you’ve got a reason to be. I don’t think Radioshack’s the first to do it… but ya gotta wonder if it’s gonna be a trend? ‘Your services are no longer required’ is not something I’d really wanna see in my mailbox. You can’t tell an email to stuff the job up its ass as easily.
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Proof
It is now a proven fact. Certain foods have undesireable affects on clothing. Note to self: peanut butter is bad, mm’kay?
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No news is… well, not bad, I guess.
Still no word on the interview with Dell that’s been put on hold for nearly a month now. At least, nothing concrete that says it’s going through… apparently they’re still ironing out a couple details. *shrugs* I dunno. I keep regular contact with the guy so at worst he’ll just agree to get it over with so I’ll stop harassing the royal hell out of him. I fired off a couple more applications today, though, so in case that one falls through one of those *should* get me at least a callback. Should. In theory. At least I’d hope so anyway. Fortunately most of what I’m applying for is tech support type positions, so what I don’t already know they’ll probably train into me before they actually turn me loose, assuming it even gets that far. The only solid guarantee at this point is I’ll be leaving Pembroke. Where I’ll be moving to, though, is entirely up in the air, dependant on what pans out from these applications. Ideally, I’d like to stay in Ontario, so the likely places to move are probably Ottawa, Toronto, or London… maybe Guelf, but that’s probably stretching it a little. I could probably get away with moving elsewhere if the situation gets desperate enough, I’d just rather not. I’d like to actually know people if I’m gonna be moving anywhere, and well, any friends I used to have outside of Ontario mostly had millitary families as well, so probably aren’t even around anymore. Not to mention that whole being out on their own thing people tend to like to do about now. Anywho, my fingers are officially getting tired after those applications, so ’tis time I did something that didn’t involve a computer for a bit. Probably post something later on.. like another job application. Or a quiz. But probably another application. Someone hire me before I go postal.
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Careful who you whisper to about China’s sweatshops.
You may end up sued for everything you’re worth and then some. Apparently, in response to claims that an iPod factory forces employees to work in substandard conditions, the company that owns that factory is now suing the reporters who wrote the story for 500 times the average wage for a reporter, and has requested and got the reporters’ accounts frozen. Brilliant. So now, rather than it all going away, people are gonna wonder just what they’re hiding. Not that it takes a rocket scientist to figure out.. they’re hiding exactly what they’re suing the reporters for. Publicising what anyone who doesn’t live under a rock already knows. Obviously someone didn’t fill these folks in that by throwing a tantrum about it they’re just drawing more attention to it. Or maybe whoever the hell does their legal work just doesn’t have a clue. Anyone wanna speculate?
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Well, it’s as good an explanation as any.
Okay, so I’m neither Japanese nor a psychiatrist, but there’s still a lot about this story that I can agree with. Particularly speaking as someone who really doesn’t rely on things like facial expressions and such. I think that’s what makes it extremely easy for me to tell when something’s bothering someone, to be honest. Not so much because I have a medical degree, or anything like that, but.. hm. Let’s see how well I can explain myself here without making me sound like a complete and utter idiot.
People who can see find it incredibly easy to rely solely on the more obvious, and often more deceptive, visual queues. It’s easy for someone to force a smile and accompany it with the usual ‘I’m fine’, or ‘It’s just stress’, or something similar. And it’s equally easy for other people to accept that, and move on–if it doesn’t look like there’s a problem, then there can’t be much of one, can there? That, I think, is a huge difference with me; I can’t see a person’s facial expressions, so I have to rely on the less obvious, but really still just as easy to spot, non-visual clues. It’s surprising how many ways people can signal there’s something wrong without their even realising it. Anything from their tone of voice, to the way they enter a room… things most people miss, because they either can’t, or don’t want to, see past the false smile.
Now, I’m not gonna sit here and say I pull a Star Trek, where I can instantly know what someone’s thinking/feeling, but sometimes, I do think I get more of an indication of it than most people, just because I don’t have that pleasant little ‘Everything’s just peachy’ image to give me a reason to miss those other… I dunno, warning signs, I guess. Of course, just because I can usually tell doesn’t mean I’m going to mention it–it isn’t my business. I subscribe to the theory that if people want me to know, they’ll tell me. If they don’t tell me, then I probably shouldn’t be asking unless I’m in the mood to be told to fuck off. On a scale of 1 to 10 so far as loaded questions goes, it’s been my experience when it comes to seeing other people, at least, ‘What’s wrong’ rates right up there as about a 1. It can be the best, and the worst, question you could possibly ask or be asked, especially if there *is* something wrong–one of the reasons I don’t ask. That, and it’s not my business… see above. Heh… it’s kind of amusing, in a few ways. I’ve been told by a few people I should consider a career as a therapist. My response is usually the same… therapists are good for what they do, but who wants to spill their life story to someone they don’t know for $30 an hour? It’s hard enough doing it with someone you actually know, for free. And, personally, I’d much rather fall into the latter category… I like to actually know the person if they’re gonna fall apart in front of me. That whole comfort thing, I guess. But, hey, at least someone’s taking those few people’s advice… and, like the title says, it’s as good an explanation as any. -
I’ve been propositioned by a Texan!
Apparently, someone likes the idea of a Canadian love affair. Hm. I dunno how that’d work out, but… suhweet! Okay, I’ll stop being so easily amused now.
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Well, I guess it had to happen.
First, I should probably point out that I haven’t RP’d there in ages. But, that said, before I stopped having time to RP there and still keep up with everything else, including some fairly interesting RP I’ve got going on elsewhere when I can manage to log on, I’d been playing there fairly consistently for somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-4 years. And, I just found out not even half an hour ago, Eternal Struggle is shutting down. I didn’t even find out from the people in charge… rather indirectly, from someone who barely talks to the people in charge. Apparently, it’s been decided for the past couple weeks, and the plan is not to tell anyone–I guess one of the owners accidentally let it slip, then? Anyway. Yeah, it’s a little irritating, but like I said, I guess it had to happen. Numbers have been fairly low for, well, the past like 6 months, and they’re only getting lower. I dunno, they could have, maybe? … just said something about it, rather than just let it wind down until it’s eventually not there and whoever shows up to play not having a clue. Bleh. People’s reasoning for doing things is one thing I’ll never quite understand. Ah well, it’s done, I gave up any right I had to a say over it when I left the staff. Anyway… I’ll probably hold off actually publishing this entry until after it’s shut downn or at least until it becomes fairly well known… not that anyone from ES actually reads this thing anyway, but for just on the off chance people do, yeah, it was planned. And, yeah, they knew it would happen. The only reason you didn’t is because they wanted to keep it a secret. That’s politics, though. And that’s why I didn’t really care too much when I ended up having to leave the staff. I like RL politics. Politics in my RP, though, pisses me off.
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Now the NDP thinks it knows what Canadians want.
Harper says we can’t spare the troops for Lebanon, Layton says we can. And James says who cares? Canada’s millitary spends more time overseas lately than they actually do *in* Canada. Yeah, yeah, I’m well aware we have a rep to keep up as peacekeepers. But Christ almighty, enough is enough. Just because we can spare the 1200 people to send to Lebanon does not mean we should. In fact, that we can *only* spare 1200 people to send to Lebanon is, in my honest opinion, exactly why we shouldn’t. I tell you right now as part of a millitary family, though not having actually been *in* the millitary, 1200 people are not gonna make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. If this supposed peacekeeping mission goes south, it’s gonna go south whether that small gathering of troops from an already stretched thin country is there or not. Keep this up, folks. I wonder how an independant victory would work in the overall election picture. If enough of these fools keep making decisions like that we may yet find out.