Calax

Re-energizing for my school day. Have to do my foreign language then go pick up Rome 2. And if I don't get an email from one of my professors, tomorrow I'm gonna need to hit up the student disabilities office and tweak the system so I'm "full time" at 10 credits. And for the record: Many of the new freshmen look like they're all of about 12 years old.

... Re-installing RTW because of Rome two tomorrow night.

And what, pray tell, did the creepy old professor want you to do for HIM? Hopefully nothing you will have difficulty living with. Kidding of course! Basically I was retaking the class and just asked "So.... you have your gradebooks from 2 years ago when you failed me?" He checked the grade and found he'd messed up.

Just got an old F grade changed to a C!

Who'd have thought that one such as I would be reading roman pornography.

It starts changing later, but it's ultimately overshadowed by FarCry 3 for effectively having the same transformation of it's main character. But in FarCry there's an ultimate point to all of it, while in Tomb Raider it's basically "Look guys, we're doing this to see if you want the property and to set up the fact that she's gonna be a mass murderer for the next games". Honestly? I think they'd probably have had a better time if they'd marketed the game as "Lara Croft!" or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJHevjXntI That, again.

Realistically most of us would end up dead in the fall of civilization... and the only winners are the cowards. Why? Because they(we) are opportunists. And generally understand that when crap is going down the drain you can't play knight in shining armor. Admittedly in part this would depend upon how the world was ending... in a epidemic you'd probably find family units sticking together but being incredibly xenophobic (in case the sickness jumped). In a more nuclear ending you'd see people trying to act as larger groups to survive, but it's unlikely they'd be larger than a township. Although the initial chaos that wiped out most people would have individuals operating on their own, or maybe clinging to their dependent relationship (so parents and young offspring). Depressingly those who'd be trying to be Chivalrous or whatever would end up getting crushed 'neath pragmatism and base instinct. Sorry my bipolar has been acting up so I've been looking at the dark side of things.

Personally, if I were to do this, I'd probably pack just enough liquor to get well and sodding drunk, then a pistol wit one round. Hs friends made one and bafflingly put real money in it... Because that will have intrinsic value when the world descends into an anarchic state.

For a "part time" employee, I put in a lot of hours. As in, my last two weeks had almost exactly 72 bloody hours logged between them. I wish today was on my last weeks paycheck, yay for about 5 hours of pure overtime! Also, I have the 10:30 run tonight (get home about midnight) and class begins at 9 am tomorrow.

Doing the math... might make overtime this week for the first time in.... 6 years? Currently at 62 hours in the pay period, and today I'm gonna add another 10 to 11 to that today (last day of the period). For this week I'm at 38.somthing, so if I pull a little more than 11 hours, technically I'm earning overtime (not much but it's overtime. Next week I'm at about 20 hours overall, but am the only driver really working saturday after noon. Which means my runs are going to take longer in general because of drop offs. If this were McDonalds I'd have been fired for dunking an emplyoee's head in the frier so go figure

To a degree, I've found what's best for this sort of situation (at least from what I've seen work on me) is figure out a way for him to be not dependant on you but reliant. (So he doesn't need you to survive, but it makes things easier) and then you turn around and start using that to edge him back into the workforce. So if he's a renter, make him pay a reduced rent while also doing the houshold chores.... that way he HAS to earn SOMETHING to pay his rent, and he has to be off his ass to mow the lawn etc (if you have one)

Tell him that the reason he missed the deadline is the same reason he can't find a job?

Futzed around this morning for about six hours, while writing three correspondences, and sorting through life. Then went to work and was not out of my drivers seat for more than thirty minutes between 7:15 pm and 4:15 am. And I just realized the only things I are yesterday was three slim Jims, pop tarts, and Mountain Dew. Hrm

Should be noted that my Avatar has changed... to this yahoo or more specifically, an alternate skin of his

Lot of old names in here... Calax is just something I came up with And Cmdr Char Aznableis the Avatar (Currently)

Are you taking one for the team and having sex with your boss? I get worried when people say " there boss is awesome" Nope, she's happily married. It's just that when we all hung out and got drunk we learned a small pile about her exploits (on a horse, on a motorcycle, on a roof, on campus in just about every building, in a van while lesbians banged on the windows......... not that sort of banging however). Did have an odd night last month where I ended up in bed with my lesbian was-boss-but-demoted-herself. But that's not exactly gonna repeat itself (again, she's a lesbian... unless she's so drunk she's barely able to walk).

Gonna go out on a limb and say that my boss is awesome. To the point that me and my co-worker (slash girl who hired me) have started using our bosses... exploits as hashtags in text. This is also the boss that is getting us new computers (The one we use at the airport is almost a decade old if I were to guess, and has 1 gig of ram), raises, cheap soda, and actually figuring out how to market us. Which reminds me, note to self, tomorrow hit campus and figure out who I have to talk to about getting onto the campus mailing list.

First day with Add meds in my system. Supposedly this'll be rather intense.

So, new boss loves me, so I'm going to be gettin a promotion, possibly a double. And there's a raise coming in general. Also going on ADD meds for the first time in... a decade or more... this is gonna be interestin.

No you are right. On the road to a destination is not the same as being there but it is better to turn back before you are too far along. Plus in this instance there is a point of no return (gun control) after which there is no turning back without bloodshed. Or even then. Only Gun Control? Not gonna lie, your shotguns aren't going to do anything if a tank (or even an APC) rolls up to your front door. There is a reason you never see a drug cartel (you know, guys who break the laws to have MUCH higher powered weapons than are legal) going head to head with a Swat Team and winning. You'd think that other amendments would be as sacred as that, but nobody gets in to much of a fuss if a law passes that makes it easier for a cop to stick his finger up my rear.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/politics/nsa-privacy-rules/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Meow... Also GD, we've been over the drones before, it all depends on what you read into what was said.

been intending to hit Netflix up for Breaking Bad, but got distracted by "Bar Rescue". It's basically Kitchen Nightmares except with bars and nightclubs and booze rather than food. It's interesting but when you watch a pile of them together you can actually tell when they had to create some form of drama to fix up. Some of the episodes are amazing, usually when the owner is messed up and has to be worked over to fix everything, but a couple it feels more like the owner was told "Well, we thought this was a mess, but it's not as much of a mess as we thought... uhh... let's shoot you being a sexist leech so you can have a transformation later!". The reason I say this is because the first 10-15 minutes of the episode usually sticks to the owner and the constant problems of the bars. In one case, they were trying to make a point that the owner hired bartenders that were hot and let them get away with murder because "got a great ass" is an excuse. But after they get called on it, bam, everythings different. And it falls into the same pit the American Kitchen Nightmares did... it becomes wayyy to formulaic. Although it has more variety than Ramsey, because he never uses the same concept or style twice. And it's not always just a Bar, it can be a nightclub, a dance joint, a dive bar, whatever... and he'll keep it with that same style (so you never see a nightclub get converted into a bar).

In america it's the type of food that's only eaten when high... like Frosted flakes.

Two technically.still have to figure out what to ask for/say is available next week because classes begin for us (well, not next week, but the 26th, the next week they're scheduling). I'm trying not to be to "you can't schedule me here here and dere!" but at the same time if I'm open to much I'm left in a pickle of having every single day be a work day. I like the # of hours I get, just not how they spread out... ya dig? >.> Right now I've got 30 minutes before I climb back into my van, do my "preflight checks" and take off. And an angry part of my mind is swearing that the note on the schedule on one of my runs asking the manager to talk to the owner is because I messed up... but the more rational part says that it's nothing.