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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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ktworld
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8:48a |
Having fun in Ohio
This week has been crazy!!! non stop with running around with family- got to see my grandmother on my mother's side probably the last time I will see her- she held raz and he loved her forever for the pieces of ham she dropped on the floor- My dad had my name this Christmas (I knew way before bc he asked what I wanted) I was going to get new work shoes but then my mom told her SHE ordered them so I had to pick something else out- well I wanted a new camera- I got a coolpix (no not the touch screen) it is pretty awesome i have taken a lot of pics and I am sure i will post some shortly after I get back- best part if someone blinks a notice on the screen comes up that says "did someone blink? take again?" that cracks me up! Raz has been sick- i think he got too many scraps from my family- I tired to only give him Turkey (which he loves and his tummy can handle) but with a niece and nephew around... He finally stopped throwing up and i got him on a easy on the stomach diet- he is a happy camper now :P I also got some cash from other relitives- I think my mom and I are planning a trip to sephoria soon- can use it then. I used part of it last night - went to half price books and got a 80$ vet tech class book for 11$! w00t it was never used- still in org wrapping- i love it! also got a new book from T.A Pratt - it looks interesting it is under his real name Tim Pratt book here. I also got an autobiography of Chasity Bono- I am really into that one it is a good read for me I think. Planning a game of Twilight scene-it today- should be fun as I take over the masses :P Hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas- even your Snuggie Chris! |
| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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nova_42
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4:30p |
False Comparisons
Below is the content of an email I had been forwarded from a family member. I became suspicious of this story because the parallels it was drawing were all too obvious. So i decided to do some research. ( cut for length, click here ) as always your comments are welcome Current Mood:  irritatedCurrent Music: Deftones - Beware |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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crothian
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8:35p |
The fist present
Tomorrow for those unaware is my Birthday. Having a Birthday so near Christmas kind of sucks, I won't deny that. But this isn't about that aspect. One neat thing is my Birthday was always at least the first day of Christmas break or during Christmas Break. So on one hand I've had only one Birthday Party (it was at the beginning of the month and when I was 10 ) I've also never had to work or go to school on my Birthday. My first present to my self is to take the day off and in retail that's not always easy; but I do it anyway. Having a job that usually starts at 6am makes the day off more enjoyable. It means I can stay up late and enjoy a football game (go Giants!). But also going to work the next day so early would be no fun as I'd have to go to bed kind of early on my Birthday, so I take the 23rd off as well. And each day for the past week I've been asked to work those days but I remain steadfast. I have been very lax on my posting here. I've been working lots of hours more so then the first two Decembers of this job and I think I've worked more this month then the first 4 months of this year. This year the store is short staffed. It first happened with the economy. They hired few seasonal people and none in my departments. The number two person in the store abruptly turned in her two weeks around Thanksgiving so she bailed in our busiest time and left no opportunity to replace her. They won't fill that position till February. This really had a negative effect on the store. Most importantly she was in charge of the weekly schedule, so it has been late and knowing less then a week ahead of time what one's work schedule is really made a lot of people disgruntled. Her duties are covered by others but for the most part they just get by. A lesser departure was the supervisor in the Home department. She was going to quit her other job but when she told them they offered her a good promotion. Her lose while felt would not have been such an issue but for the next item. The store is huge, about 200 employees so we have lots of people in charge. The line from Office Space in which he says he has like nine bosses is true for me. In the Home department above the supervisor is basically a manager and assistant manager for lack of better names. Losing the supervisor still left those two, except it didn't. The assistant manager of the home department took her own life last week. I apologize for talking birthdays and suicide in the same post, but this is what is going on. It has shaken the store greatly. I worked with her many times over the past year when she came to our store. I won't say I knew her well because I didn't as I really don't know many of my co workers and managers well. I only see them at work. There is much speculation on why but oddly enough the internet is no place for idol rumors and speculation. This is the busiest time of the year and the store is keeping things together but it is easy to notice the impact on my co workers. I've read a few books and will post about them maybe next week. I might get another book or two read before the end of the year, but it's very busy. I was hoping to get writing done and some other projects but they've been put off till the new year. Once I'm back in school with a lesser class load and work load I'll be able to devote time weekly to it. I'm going to block of a certain set of hours and each week use them to write. January third things go back to normal or what passes for that around here. Current Mood:  pleased |
mrexcess
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7:55p |
Pause and Consider
I'm not so prideful as to believe that I have nothing to learn, or that there are not more experienced, wiser, better informed, or more intelligent people out there than myself. So with that well in mind, time to stand back and try to learn all I can from the fruit borne of President Obama's incrementalist approach to change. Doubts and hopes abound, but time will tell. Current Mood: eyes open |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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ktworld
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7:49p |
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mrexcess
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1:24a |
Take Two
At the risk of being labeled an irrational liberal extremist by the Obama administration and Fox News, I must stand with Dr. Howard Dean in calling for the Senate's health reform bill to be killed, reconciled into oblivion, or vetoed by the President. This bill is a corporate handout to the health care industry that fails to substantially address the deep flaws in our system of health care and closes off the avenue to real reform. The bill fails to implement meaningful cost control measures. Despite America's spending double the average of modern nations to provide care that is no better, the nearest this bill approaches cost controls is an essentially voluntary cap on insurance industry profits, phrased in the loopholiest way the United States Congress could imagine. It requires providers to spend 80%-85% of premium payments on expenditures that "reimbuse for clinical services provided to enrollees under such coverage"; or "for activities that improve health care quality" Nice, eh? [ed. note - deleted a bogus claim that an exemption could be gained by a letter of explanation... no such provision appears in the pertinent section of the bill] Despite the failure to control costs, this bill will require all Americans to buy private health insurance, or face steep fines from the federal government. You heard me correctly: the Senate's solution to rising health care costs and a providing industry that abuses consumers habitually is to force us to patronize them. Even the meager nod to consumer choice that was the vaunted health insurance index is, if not dead, now broken beyond utility. In the place of one price list upon which providers would be required to compete, the Senate bill creates a confusing array of them without mandated industry participation. It does nothing of substance to address the cruel system of employment-based basic health insurance that places society's most vulnerable at further risk, and makes consumer choice an impossibility for the rest. It will, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis, leave over 15 million Americans without health insurance in 2019. It's hard to craft a health care reform bill in America that gets it all wrong, and though Congress certainly seems to have given it their all, there are still some laudable provisions. Eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions and coverage caps is fantastic, closing the long discussed Medicare "donut hole" is great, there are quite a few good "one-liner" provisions in there. Sugar or no sugar though, this is bad medicine. Of course, it will pass the Senate and Obama will support it despite widespread public opposition and the simple truth that the bill is a bad idea. Special interests have once again succeeded in seperating the representatives from the represented, and now faced with a choice between this bill and no bill, the Democrats seem willing to make the politically calculated decision to accomplish "something". It is a pity that what they did not and will not choose to accomplish, is acquisition of a spine. Maybe Obama should ask one of his many personal staff doctors about that... or maybe he should call Dr. Dean. *** Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while,
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst,
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever,
We don't have the power but we never say never,
Sitting in a sandpit life is a short trip,
The music's for the sad man
Forever young,
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever and ever
(Uh) Forever young, (Young)
(Ay, may the best of your todays) I wanna be forever young (be the worst of your tomorrows)
(But we ain't even thinkin' that far) Do you really want to live forever? (Ya know whatimean?)
Forever and ever
Forever young
So we livin' life like a video
Where the sun is always out and you never get old
And the champagne's always cold
And the music's always good
And the pretty girls just happen to stop by in the hood
And they hop they pretty ass up on the hood of that pretty ass car
Without a wrinkle in today
Cuz there's no tomorrow
Just some picture perfect day
That lasts a whole lifetime
And it never ends
Cuz all we have to do is hit rewind
So lets just stay in the moment, smoke some weed, drink some wine,
Reminisce, talk some shit forever young is in your mind
Leave a mark that can't erase, neither space nor time
So when the director yells cut,
I’ll be fine,
I’m forever young...
Forever young,
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever and ever
Forever young
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, forever
Fear not when, fear not why,
Fear not much while we're alive,
Life is for living not living up tight,
See ya somewhere up in the sky,
Fear not die, I'll be alive for a million years, bye bye,
So not for legends, I'm forever young
My name shall survive
Through the darkest blocks, over kitchen stoves, over Pyrex pots
My name shall be passed down to generations while debatin' up in barber shops,
Young slum, hung here, show that that nigga from here
With a little ambition just what we can become here,
And as the father passed his story down to his son's ears,
Younger kid, younger every year, yeah
So if you love me baby, this is how you let me know
Don’t ever let me go
That's how you let me know, baby
Forever young,
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever and ever
Forever young
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, forever young
Slamming Bentley doors,
Hopping out of Porsches,
Popping up on Forbes lists,
Gorgeous,
Hold up,
Niggaz startin' law suits,
They be talkin' bullshit
I be talkin' more shit
They nauseous,
Hold up,
I'll be here forever
You know, I'm on my fall shit,
And I ain't wit' foreclosure, I will never forfeit,
Less than four bars,
Guru bring the chorus in,
Did you get the picture yet,
I'm painting you a portrait of young...
Forever young,
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever
Forever young Current Mood:  hopefulCurrent Music: Jay-Z - Forever Young |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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nova_42
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11:54a |
goodbye brave warrior...
...you will be missed. Police: Bengals' Henry dies day after dispute CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after suffering serious injuries upon falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities describe as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. Thursday. Henry was 26. Henry was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after being found on a residential road "apparently suffering life-threatening injuries,'' according to police. Police said a dispute began at a home about a half-mile away, and Henry jumped into the bed of the pickup truck as his fiancee was driving away from the residence. Police said at some point when she was driving, Henry "came out of the back of the vehicle.'' They wouldn't identify the woman, and no charges were immediately filed. ( Read more... ) source Current Mood:  sad |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
shancara
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11:55p |
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
whod81
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4:43p |
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mrexcess
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11:38a |
Of Legends
Well, I fail at writing over the weekend! Just didn't have it in me then. I'm still pushing it... "listening mode". And "working mode", finally billing some hours. And "learning mode", as I dip my toe into the world of 3D modeling and CAD for the first time since POV-Ray scared me off as a teenager. While not exactly Lightwave 3D or AutoCAD in terms of featureset (both of whose demo versions I'm messing with as well), Google's SketchUp is pretty stunningly capable for free software and more than adequate for modeling projects that don't require skeletal detail, particularly home layout and design. "Nobody Knows" by director Yuichi Kimura is a master work. Elegantly spartan in dialog, every line and scene of this story about 12 year old Akira and his siblings left to fend for themselves in Japanese society drips with layered meaning and emotional intensity. Lighthearted blockbuster material this is not... it's a rough ride, full of confusion and longing and ugly beauty. Life is the same way. Copenhagen's climate summit has ended, at least for now, in chaos, with the G77 walking out of talks that didn't seem to be making much progress anyhoo. The troubling but increasingly obvious reality is that a worldwide greenhouse gas regulation regime stringent enough to control the problem is probably outside the realm of possibility. Too many powerful interests would have to be subsumed to the cause. Instead the science will continue being ignored, the ice caps will keep melting, and the present order will be maintained until such time as reality becomes more insistent about things. Tony Blair would probably be willing to trade places with him anyway, as the UK salivates over his date with the witness stand before an inquiry about the UK's participation in the catastrophe of Western political and military judgment known as the Iraq invasion. Netanyahu is still talking up the West Bank settlement freeze, while one of his ministers promises 10,000 more settlers there by the end of the year. Palestinians continue to eschew interim negotiations that permit continued settlement construction while failing to address the central issues of this conflict fast approaching it's fifth decade. Obama has sounded a conciliatory note in his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. This seems appropriate for a President that has continued George W. Bush's policies of rendition to torture, and failed to act against policy interpretations permitting legal torture by the US itself in any substantive or binding way. Obama may well be right about war when he said in his acceptance speech that "sometimes war is necessary to achieve peace", but he is wrong about torture. Ours is no exceptional foe that excuses behavior considered abominable to the Americans who opposed the Warsaw Pact... or the Axis. In what has to be the most unusual story yet involving the Italian PM and a model, Berlusconi was just savaged fairly severely by an unstable man wielding a replica of a Milan cathedral. The docs are pretty certain that my dad's Achalasia isn't related to any sort of cancer, so that's good. Less good news on the "mom's BP" front, her pulse pressure was up above 120 last night an hour or two after taking a pill... BP was 200+. Sigh. Off to work with me. Current Mood: wound upCurrent Music: Steve Roach - Dream Body |
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