It snowed out today. Nothing accumulated or piled up, but nonetheless, it snowed out. October 16th and it had to flurry. Actually I think we have a flurry or two every year by this time so it’s really no big deal, unless you talk to the old people. Because if you ask old man Clarence he’ll surely tell you that this is what it did back in 1925 and that was the worst winter on record and according to the way his knees are aching, he’s pretty sure we’ll have a repeat of that again this year. Actually today while I was at work I overheard these two old women talking and it went something like this… Lady 1 “oh my god did you see it snowing today?” Lady 2 “yes, I just can’t believe it”

Ok, first off it is the middle of October and we are in Wisconsin, somebody explain to me what the big surprise is. I would understand and totally agree with that conversation if it were say… July. But October just doesn’t cut it now does it, at least not those of us still in touch with reality.

Do you know what the coolest thing about this whole election is? It’s the fact that in my lifetime it’s the most active I’ve seen the general public get involved. Whether you are pulling for Kerry or Bush your views are totally represented in this election. Even in our little horseshit local paper in the letters to the editor I see back and forth about both of the candidates. I’m pretty sure it has to do with the war because things like that usually seem to suddenly politically motivate people. I do love how people seem to think that their measly opinion is going to change my mind on how I will vote. It’s like look, if George Bush can’t convince me to vote for him how in the fuck do you think you’re going to pull off the job skipper? You’re not, so put your opinion in your pocket and go the fuck home.

I’m getting sick of work. Let me rephrase that. I’m getting sick and tired of all of the stupid fucking bullshit that I have to put up with at work… yeah, that’s more like it. Our corporate office thinks that everything that we carry in our store needs to go through them first so they can download the prices to our store. That’s fine, except when I send the information to them and then like three weeks later the shit still isn’t in the system. There is also the instance of when we have items automatically subbed to us or we get shit that was ordered six to eight months in advance and that stuff isn’t in our system either. I actually emailed them last week and told them that it was ridiculous and that I was going to get my pricing gun out and start stickering everything. Apparently if you want to get people in a corporate setting excited, you mention something like that. It didn’t fix anything, just got a few empty promises out of people.

Now tomorrow at work there is going to be a new girl working at the service counter. When I say new girl I mean new girl. She has never ran the service counter before. There are a lot of things to know at the service counter so when I asked the Assistant Manager if this girl had any experience she said no, you’re going to have to show her how to open. Of course I had to remind her that I have clue fucking zero about opening the service counter since I have never done it and everything I do over there is based on the roughly 1 and 1/2 hours of total training time that I got over there. So tomorrow should be interesting to say the least and the mood I’m in I doubt I will be any help whatsoever because my main goal at that place is to just get the fuck out of there. In fact that is my new main goal… to get the fuck out of there. Permanently.

I’ve never messed around and put a second entry into my blog before, but I thought this might warrant it. I was just playing around and I noticed that someone has registered the domain www.disgruntledhuman.info… That’s all fine and dandy by me, but when I pull up the who is information on the site, it’s the same as mine and that pisses me off. I don’t know if it’s a glitch in the system or something because they don’t have their site up and running yet or what, but if they are attempting to mirror this site or put shit on that site and try somehow to attribute it to me then I guess there will be some hell to pay.

Usually around this time of year all the stupid little mice decide that it’s too cold outside for them to hang out so they think they need to come inside. That means that the garage now looks like prime real estate for them to hang out in. I saw one in the garage on Saturday so that night I put a mouse trap out there with a little peanut butter on it. Sunday morning I get up and there we go. Dead mouse in a tripped trap; just as expected. So I decided on Sunday that maybe there was more than one mouse in the garage and I should repeat my mouse trapping expedition for another evening. So Sunday before going to bed I decided to set another trap. Well, I get up this morning and go check out the trap at breakfast time and there is no trap. So I look around a little more and the trap is over in the corner behind the garbage cans. Only problem is there is nothing in the trap. I was expecting at least a little mouse paw or something in there. Now I have to wonder whether or not I have some big ass rat in the garage that I just pissed off last night with my trap or hopefully just a slightly smart mouse.

Ah, it’s Columbus Day, whatever that means. I guess it means that the lazy ass mailman didn’t have to deliver me any mail because he gets another day off. I never did really understand why we celebrated Columbus Day. Columbus “discovered” America is usually what we’re told as to why we celebrate. Yes, Columbus discovered America, much in the same way as I discover Wal Mart every time I go there. Sure it was there and there were plenty people inside when I arrived, but I still plant my flag and conquer when I get there. I guess if I were a government employee and wanted yet another day off then I would accept the day with open arms and all, but I still don’t think it should be a holiday; but then again, what do I know?

Fall is here and all I have to say is; fuck fall. Fall? I hate the fall. What bullshit. Oh the leaves change color. They change color for two days; then a big wind comes and you got nothing but sticks for the rest of the year. You never have a proper fall coat, nothing you wear is right. You wake up it’s sunny out, you put a coat on. You go out you’re sweating like a pig, you take it off then it’s cold… it’s bullshit. – Lewis Black The White Album.

Yes, the fall has arrived in Wisconsin. I know this because when I woke up this morning, a large amount of the leaves that were in the tree yesterday were now on the ground… but oh were they such pretty colors. Nothing like dying leaves to bring out the love in people. The fun part of all this is watching the retard neighbors outside raking like a fool. It’s not a battle you are going to win may I remind you. Look at the trees jackass, there’s still leaves up there which means that once you rake your precious yard up, more leaves are going to fall into it. That has always baffled me how some people can be so fucking anal about their yards like that. (in my best Beavis voice… huhuhuh… you said fucking anal) I just never really figured it out. I am surprised that these people aren’t out shoveling the snow off of their precious lawns during the winter. The funny thing is it’s not all the people in the neighborhood so that means that even if the trees are done shedding the leaves, the leaves from next door will probably blow into your yard by morning.

I got another email about Wal Mart this morning in my inbox. This one was different than the previous two. Why do you ask? Because the person that sent it is apparently able to form thoughts and then communicate them in writing. Check it out…

My Dad works at Wal-Mart. He told me that the only reason Wal-Mart won’t sell regular CDs is that there is not a rating system on them. Movies and such have a rating system and at the register when a movie is scanned it tells the cashier to check if the buyer is 18 or older. Same with guns and cigarettes sales. There isn’t a system like that for music..yet. He said that they are working with record labels to see if there is something they can do. But most say it is free speech and don’t plan to change it.

But, i do kinda agree with you. I would like to buy CDs at my Local Wal-mart, but I don’t because I like to hear the whole CD. Sucks when they rip it up to sell at Wal-mart.

That’s cool. Finally someone read my Wal Mart page and didn’t fly off the handle and go on some caps lock rampage because I insulted the smiley face place. I slightly disagree with this though, because most objectionable music does come with the Parental Advisory: Explicit Content sticker in place and therefore they could use that as the basis for the register to ask if the buyer was 18 or older. It happens whenever I buy an R rated movie or when someone buys smokes, so why not sell stickered music and just have age verification?

Normally on a Monday I should be bitching about going back to work and whatnot, but unfortunately I haven’t been away enough from there yet. I am luckily off Wednesday so that will be nice after a long week.

So I’m at work today putting up the hats, gloves and mittens display because that’s what you do in Wisconsin around this time. It’s a fact that it gets cold out around now. So of course while I’m putting them up I get a few different customers walking by me going… oh no, he’s putting out the winter gloves and hats, now it’s going to get cold. Yep, you figured it all out. Tonight you’ll be watching the weather and the meteoroligist is going to say “well, expect an extreme dip in temperatures in the next few days, but it’s not due to this cold front barreling down from Canada, no… it’s because that Dave guy put out his hats and gloves at the store today.” As much power as I’d love to claim I have, controlling the weather isn’t one that I have. Believe me, if I did it sure the fuck would never snow in Wisconsin; at least my town.

Another thing that bugs me about going from summer into fall is these people that think they must go outside and cover up their stupid fucking precious plants. What are you doing? If they are going to be staying outside all winter then maybe you should just look at this as practice or something. Otherwise they will never be prepared for the sub zero temps that are coming in the next couple months. If it’s a plant that you bring inside during the winter, then bring that bastard inside now and quit leaving it outside with only a sheet covering it… you cruel heartless bastard. Wait until PETPF gets a hold of you.

That’s right, People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants and Flowers. I’m starting a new group because animals don’t deserve to be in the spotlight all the time. Guess what, you salad eating vegetarian mother fuckers, you’re our first target. When we’re finished nobody will be eating plants and you won’t be trimming them or any of that shit. If you’re that hungry then go kill some stupid animal and leave the poor plants alone. Anyway, back to the topic. Why the hell do people go outside and cover their plants up when a few weeks from now they’ll just say fuck it and let them freeze to death? I guess I don’t see the point. It’s like keeping someone on life support and then going, oh well fuck em, I’ve done enough… pull the plug. Guess that’s why I’m not one of these plant people. As far as I’m concerned plants only serve one purpose and that’s to provide my ass with some damn oxygen. The plant needs the carbon dioxide I exhale to live and I need the oxygen it emits to breathe so therefore the plants can stay… but quit fucking decorating with the goddamn things!

Ok, so I’m watching the news last night and reading it online and they are talking about Mt. St. Helens is probably going to erupt again pretty soon, in fact yesterday they said it would within 24 hours and there would probably be lava involved this time. So I get home from work today and I start flipping through the news channels to see if it blew it’s top yet and it hadn’t… but there was this dufus from FOX News (redundant I know) live from the Volcano. Here is this guy standing maybe 3 miles away if that pointing at it and talking about it. He was telling the person that was safe in the studio that we are at the 22 hour mark and it hasn’t blown up yet, etc… Well, don’t you think that if the scientists are saying that this volcano might blow up again and have some lava in the eruption this time that you might just want to get the fuck out of the way? I know I would. They were talking about people in Seattle may get some of the ash fallout from it and they are like 50 miles away from there, so I would venture to guess that if you are standing within view of this thing when it blows you might get more than an ash showering. Even if you don’t get pummeled with lava then you still are going to have your air filled with ash. Here, I know you work for FOX News and aren’t that smart, but let me explain something to you that I learned in third grade. You need oxygen to breathe, and you need to breathe to stay alive. If the air you are attempting to breathe becomes filled with ash and whatever else the volcano is giving off, then you probably aren’t going to be breathing much are you? So fucking move away from the death trap, or is it sweeps week. If you are going to do that, then at least send Geraldo out there.

I watched the debate and I guess most of the polls are saying that Kerry won. I guess the only two ways you wouldn’t know that Kerry won the first debate is if you had either not watched it or were a Republican. I don’t want to brag too much but I think that on this debate Kerry owned Bush’s ass. It does make me extremely uneasy to watch the President of the U.S.A. stutter and stammer through most of the questions that were asked of him. The way he talked and answered the questions asked of him reminds me more of the manager of a fast food joint when you question them about the weird object in your french fries; definitely not the leader of the free world. I truly hope that the next two debates result in similar outcomes because I don’t want four more years of this bullshit. Like I’ve said before, the only way I would vote for Bush is if I was voting him off the island.

I was truly stunned that the some of the Republicans were talking about how well the debate went for Bush and that he had shown Kerry up a few times. Shown him up on what? Were we watching the same debate because from what I saw Bush was stammering like someone who accidentally touched the prongs of some electrical cord while he was trying to plug it in. I think that when he went speechless, it was because his earpiece that he had in to have someone in the back give him answers wasn’t working. I did enjoy the fact that every time Kerry would get him on something he had to say that Kerry was always changing his message. It’s like yeah, we covered that about two topics ago, so why don’t you move along and respond to what we are discussing now. He’s a, what’s the word? It rhymes with moron; oh it is moron.

Anyone who reads this blog to any extent knows I don’t spend much time watching television. I do watch movies and my few vices, but for the most part I don’t spend a whole lot of time surfing for shit to watch. Tonight while I was at a relative’s house they had on Wheel of Fortune. I almost forgot this sorry excuse of a program was still allowed to be broadcast.

This is surviving from the golden age of game shows. You know, back when you had your large list of different game shows to choose from in case you thought you had a chance to be a contestant; but more likely just a casual observer. I don’t know if it went as far back as Let’s Make a Deal or anything, but it’s an older show, that’s for sure. Nowadays there aren’t too many game shows out there, unless you consider eating a fucking pig spleen to be a good premise for a game show. Yes, reality TV is nothing more than the game show’s retarded step cousin that we apparently can’t stop from breeding. Of course, I have ripped reality TV enough in the past so I will give it the night off and get back to what I was bitching about in the first place: The Wheel of Fortune. Sure, if you tune into it nowadays, then you would just think it was a prize filled show with a very easy task. Spin the wheel and take a chance. That and be able to solve a goddamn puzzle. Other than that there really isn’t anything too hard to the game, as most of it relies on luck and the common sense of a third grader (which at least one contestant a night does not possess.)

You see though, when I was a youngster and I would be forced to watch this game show it was totally different. First off Vanna (wtf kind of name is that anyway?) didn’t just touch the letter, she actually had to earn her huge ass salary and manually turn the letters. They still lit them up for her so she didn’t fuck it up and accidentally turn the wrong letters, but she actually had to push one of the sides until it started turning and then completely spin the letter box around. I believe that was the practice until somewhere in the year 2000 when unknowingly to fans of the show Vanna caught her hand in one of the letter R’s as she was spinning it for the puzzle FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Due to that unfortunate accident that almost ended her career as the premier letter turner in the United States, drastic changes were made. From that day forward letters were no longer turned, instead a multi-million dollar touch screen system was put in, that in all honesty can run itself. However out of guilt and to avoid a lawsuit, they are keeping Vanna around for a while longer, at least until her tits start sagging some more.

The other thing that is totally different on the show is the prizes. Back in my old days of watching this slop, they didn’t win prizes, they won money. Sounds good doesn’t it? Well, hold onto your hats kids, it gets worse. After each puzzle was solved, the poor Jeopardy contestant reject was then forced to spend the money they just earned on “prizes.” Ah, the illustrious catch… because they never got to bid on anything really nice, it was always lame shit that only dumb fuckers that lived in California would ever want to even own. The poor contestant would win $650 in the round then be forced to waste it on a stupid fucking ceramic Dalmatian. First off I know that piece of shit Dalmatian was never worth as much as they were saying, and I also know that had there been anything better that nobody would have bought half that shit. From what I understand, the reasons that they used to have the shop segment to buy all of those stupid bullshit prizes was because it was Merv Griffin’s way of having a garage sale. He had all of these lame ass trinkets just lying around his house and he thought maybe he could donate them to charity or maybe try to sell them and then it dawned on him. Sell it to those stupid fucking contestants. What a better way to get rid of your crap that even Goodwill wouldn’t take than to give someone money and then say, it’s only good to buy this shit.
Ahh, the old days when Wheel of Fortune wasn’t such a lame piece of shit.

It’s really the only explanation I can figure out. I can’t remember anytime in my life when Florida has been hit so many times like this. Maybe I’m wrong but history was never really my strong point I guess. At any rate I would say that the people in Florida are probably getting sick of the weather. I think God hates Florida because it’s shaped like a giant penis and as all religious people will tell you, the penis is evil. Of course most religious people aren’t really in touch with reality anyway.

I am pretty open minded as far as I can tell. I don’t buy a lot of bullshit out there in the world, but I don’t really try and change things I don’t like because I’m sure there are some out there that do like stuff. One of the newest things I’ve been exposed to is the “one million” campaign going on out there. The campaign consists of a three separate websites all slinging the same bullshit. There is onemilliondads, moms and youth. Of course when you dig a little deeper you see they are all part of the AFA program. The AFA is the American Family Association which sounds rather benign until you get into their propaganda filled website. Now as far as what they say I don’t totally disagree with them as I do think family values is important, although it’s a parents job to instill those and not to bitch because the world is corrupting their kids. I do think of the AFA as rather shallow and closed minded, but then again you are dealing with hardcore Christians here and you have to expect that. From reading on their site I have gathered that Jesus did not die on the cross so homosexuals could marry and therefore they denounce that rather heavily on the AFA site and some of their links. I don’t want to get into that segment at this time… I am more interested in speaking on the “one million” segment here.

The three “one million” sites are all for cleaning up television and taking anything THEY see as objectionable off the air. How do they propose to do this? By writing letters to the advertisers of these programs and try to get them to drop their ads. Some have been successful already and they aren’t stopping. Here is the mission statement (this one from the moms page, although they are all three the same): Our goal is to stop the exploitation of our children, especially by the entertainment media (TV, music, movies, etc.). Mom, OneMillionMoms.com is the most powerful tool you have to stand against the immorality, violence, vulgarity and profanity the entertainment media is throwing at your children. It is time to fight back!

Yes, because obviously none of these moms have a power button or the capability to change the channel on their remote controls. There are plenty of vulgar things on television these days and most of it is on later in the evening when your children should be doing their homework or going to bed. Here’s a novel idea since this society disturbs you so very much. Why not turn off the television and read your child a book. How about play a game with them? Not a violent video game though, since I’m sure you’ve burned all of those, but a nice board game like Candyland… or is that offensive to diabetics? At any rate what I’m saying is that instead of trying to make everything around you sterile, why don’t you instead spend your time trying to be a parent and instill some morals into your child so that when they grow up and are on their own they can make the correct decisions when they are faced with the reality that not everything in this world is pure.
Shows such as South Park are on the air because they have millions of fans (myself included). I don’t have any kids but I do have friends and relatives in the 5 year old range and there is no way I would let them watch South Park or listen to some of my rap music I have because as a responsible adult I don’t want them exposed to that. However, as an adult I do like to watch South Park and listen to rap music that has swear words in it, and therefore I don’t appreciate other people going around trying to eliminate it because they find it offensive. I don’t like oriental food, so you know what I do? I don’t go to oriental restaurants. I surely don’t petition to close those restaurants and try to get others to stop going because I don’t like it, I just make the decision to go elsewhere. It’s my freedom of choice, which if I’m not mistaken is one of the principles this country is founded upon. I always hear them say that it was the most offensive program they ever watched. Well why the hell did you watch it then if it was so offensive? Most normal people would see that, go wow, that’s disgusting and then blip, turn the channel. See, freedom of choice. There is nothing that makes you watch something you don’t like except for stupidity.

Speaking of South Park, their newest beef is with Best Buy because they refused to pull their advertising from South Park. Here is an excerpt from their site: Best Buy continues to sponsor the filthy South Park show on Comedy Central. In fact, they have inexcusably dismissed the concerns of more than 10,000 parents who have contacted them in the past week.
Here’s how Best Buy’s Corporate Relations Manager, Susan Busch, defends their support of South Park. “We do not endorse or encourage any behavior that is presented or suggested by the content of this program. We strongly encourage our customers to watch and listen to programs that are appropriate for themselves and their families.”
This is Best Buy’s message in a nutshell: “We don’t care what you think. We’ll continue to support South Park with our advertising dollars, despite your concerns.”
Although they say they don’t endorse or encourage the behavior presented or suggested, Best Buy gives South Park their personal seal of approval by continuing to financially support it!
Please don’t let Best Buy get away with helping keep trash TV on the air! Let’s make sure they understand we don’t like their salty advertising policy.

Ok, what I’m seeing Susan Busch say for Best Buy is the same thing that I’m saying. Watch and listen to programs that are appropriate for them. You know, that pesky freedom of choice thing again. I’m going to reiterate this point one more time for the narrow minded Christian set in hopes that they will get it through their thick bible beating skulls. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean that it should be banned from existence. I know you think everyone should join hands, sing hymns and read psalms until they are blue in the face, but the reality is that not everyone agrees with you.

You see, I don’t like your site or your values but all I am doing is expressing my opinion on that, I’m not pushing your web hosting service to drop you or anyone that advertises on your site to stop because along with freedom of choice comes freedom of speech, and you can exercise that as much as you want. If you feel the shows are bad then go ahead and talk about how bad they are, but don’t try and take them away from me and the millions of others that enjoy them. So although I don’t condone your actions, I won’t attempt to stop them either, because for one I don’t really see you as a major threat, and for two I’m not a hypocritical Christian like those that run the above mentioned websites.

So why do groups like this think that because this offends their little Christian bubble that therefore the rest of us should suffer for it? Like I really want to spend the rest of my life watching Sesame Street and reruns of Touched by and Angel. Of course the clincher on these sites is that it is free to become a member, but… but we would appreciate donations and there is even the option to become a Sustaining member and have your donation taken directly from your credit card or checking account monthly. So after all the bellyaching about morals, it once again comes down to this.

Give us your money in the name of all that’s holy… or we will smite you.

It’s about time Friday finally got here, and thankfully on my weekend off. I did have Wednesday off but that seemed more like a tease than an actual day off. You know, you stay up late on Tuesday and then you sleep in a little on Wednesday then Wednesday night comes and it’s like shit, I gotta get up tomorrow for work. Well, I do have to get up for work tomorrow, and it’s an early office day, but the good side is that I get out of there somewhere around 1:30. I still haven’t figured out what I’m doing Saturday yet but hopefully it will be more than sitting in the house doing nothing. Maybe I can swing a golf club one more time this year.

More stupidity from my corporate office. Now we are supposed to look at our entire store every day and if we have any out of stocks we are supposed to go to another store and buy the product and put it on our shelves. What? So if I happen to run out of the 24 count Tylenol, even though I have 20 other varieties, I’m supposed to jog my ass to a competitor and BUY stuff from their store and then put it on my shelf to sell? It’s not like we have another corporate store a half mile away from us or anything so let me restate this so hopefully you can be as dumbfounded as I am. I am supposed to go to MY COMPETITOR and BUY – AT FULL RETAIL – the product I’m out of stock on and then bring it back to my store and put it on the shelves to sell… and did I mention probably lose money on? So my store that is in competition with all of these other stores will now go buy product at these stores and therefore help their bottom line out and totally fuck our bottom line. It makes you wonder why this company is failing doesn’t it? What’s next, they going to put a shitload of dollar days in the stores? Oh wait, nevermind.

Retail is a tough business, especially when the people running the show and calling the shots are so out of touch with reality. My company’s current plan is to sink a shitload of retail space into dollar days. My retail space. I have already dedicated 20′ of my space to this product and I can’t say the sales have been phenomenal, in fact lackluster may be a better term. So anyway one of the people from our main office comes into the store yesterday and is walking around deciding that we should cut 4′ off this section and we’ll just dump picture frames and well you don’t need that much space for this section etc… Then we will have an entire aisle for your dollar days. Ok, my question is this. My set gross profit percent is 35% for my HBC and 45% for my GM. If I am making less than that at inventory time then they fly into a tizzy and want an explanation. Well, this dollar day bullshit that we are getting in has a whopping 25% markup on it. So if I am to devote an entire 56 foot aisle to this shit what do you think is going to happen to my gross profit percentage? I may not be one of the wizards that work in my corporate office but I can damn sure tell you that my GP is going to drop. Also when you start cutting out items that have $3 to $5 rings on them and replace them with 56′ of items that have only $1 rings on each. Let’s see, 56′ multiplied by $1 = retarded. And I thought the customers were stupid.

The same one that was there yesterday sizing up my department getting ready to fuck it all up wanted to know why we still had 16′ full of summer products at full price. He said we should have marked that down a month or so ago. In case I had not bitched about this in the past on here I’ll give the history lesson now. Back in July, July 14th to be exact I emailed my corporate office GM guru and asked him if I could mark down my garden supplies by 25% so I could help move some of this product around. (We are no longer allowed to make any decisions such as this because apparently after working in the store for nine fucking years I have no clue how to do shit) He emailed me back and asked me what I had and the quantities of each and I emailed that back and then never heard shit from him after that.

So about mid July I assemble a list of all the shit I still own and the prices I want to go at and I send them to this dumbass. Well big surprise, no response which means I resend the email and just happen to copy a few of his superiors. Well apparently that’s what it takes to get a response out of him but the response I get was not an approval to mark down any product but a denial to mark down anything and said that no seasonal markdowns would be approved by him now or in the future. In fact he ends up sending me a list of suggestions of what I can do with all of this product to help sell it. For instance I can work all of my BBQ tools into the regular kitchen tools I have because they will sell throughout the winter at regular price. (Have you read my blog? it gets to -40 degrees here, not exactly grilling out weather). Another wonderful suggestion was to put the bamboo plate holders into the paper plates section because those sell year round, and in fact as I know… the holidays are the best time to sell these. Did I just fall off the fucking turnip truck or something? What the hell do you people smoke up at that corporate office because that is some of the most asinine bullshit I’ve ever heard, and that brings us up to yesterday when I was asked WHY I didn’t have my shit marked down. Luckily I had the email printed up and I was able to pass it along. I hope someone gets fired over this. In fact, I volunteer.

Why is it that every time I look for a new job, one of the requirements is “likes people”. What kind of fucking prejudice is that? Just because I slightly despise certain people… let’s call them customers, then I should be blacklisted on the job market? Technically I don’t hate all customers anyway, just the ones that whine and bitch about stupid shit, you know – 98% of them. So aside from that and the fact that the job market is utter shit I am still employed at my current location. I guess I should be happy that I still have a job, even though it is one I despise and loathe. Of course tomorrow through Sunday I am going to be working in the office, so I get to be up before 5:30 am those days. As you can tell I’m bubbling over with excitement from that shit. There is nothing I like more than getting up before the sun rises and going to work. In fact there is nothing that I would rather do than… oh wait, yes there is. Cutting my toenails with a rusty hacksaw, that would be better.
I watched the Punisher mini-series on Monday. First off, it was over 2 hours and apparently I’m not blessed enough to be left alone for two hours to enjoy a good movie because I think I got called at least 8 times during it. By the last phone call I was ready to do some punishing of my own. Normally I’m supposed to be working during these times, so who told these fuckers I was home anyway? It’s like I get the call and I’m talking to this person going, ok I have this DVD on pause and he is about to shove the business end of a paper cutter into this guys skull. Can you top that, if not call me back in an hour and a half.

Of course as soon as you turn off the phone in this technology driven world everyone thinks you’ve been killed or something. People are like, oh my god I have tried calling you all day and you didn’t answer your phone; I thought something bad may have happened. No, I was just enjoying the peace and quiet of not having the phone ring. Remember back in the old days where you could go places and nobody could get a hold of your ass and you could just enjoy the day? Now people expect you to have that cell phone sewn to your ass so you never miss a call. They don’t care if you just flushed down a nasty shit at the Taco Bell, they need to talk to you. Have you ever had this where someone is desperately trying to get a hold of you for nothing? Well you know, I do have voicemail, you can just talk into that and then I will return your call as soon as I can… muster up enough energy to give a shit that you’ve called. Someone will say to you, well with this new cellular technology I figured you would answer your phone. And of course you say, well there’s this newer technology called Caller ID, and then there is its brother called silent ring. Perhaps I need to introduce you to their great uncle – restraining order.

So I get up yesterday and go to take a shower. Well, I go into the bathroom and I have the shower, not the tub and the shower; so when you turn on the water it’s spraying out the showerhead right away. Anyway, I turn on the water and then I reach in and go to move the showerhead to the left slightly. Apparently that particular model doesn’t move that way, because instead of it moving, it just fucking broke. It broke off. I’m standing there naked looking at this nozzle thing just dumping water out. Well, there’s no fucking way I can take a shower under that because I don’t like to stand that close to the wall. So off to the hardware store it was, because if there’s anything I like to do, it’s going out in public when I haven’t showered yet. At least if they see me with the showerhead in my hand, they might get the idea and grant me mercy. Of course that set the mood for the remainder of the day as I basically just waited for everything else to go wrong; and luckily it didn’t.
I do get to venture back to my wonderful job tomorrow, which makes me oh so happy. I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than work, except maybe pull my toenails out with a pair of pliers… but you know, other than that.

I downloaded Netscape last night because I have been wanting to for quite some time. Not because I am ready to abandon IE or anything, but mostly because I wanted to be able to check what my site looks like on both browsers and I can honestly say that I hope nobody that visits my sites has Netscape. That browser completely trashes some of the aspects of my site and I guess I didn’t realize the differences between the two until I put them side by side. So of course that means back to the drawing board for my site. Actually since I never really gave a fuck about the Netscape side of things before, I’m not going to pay a whole lot of attention to them now either. I am going to redo my 3rd Bass site though, getting rid of frames etc. I will try and test the new design elements on that, because there’s no way in hell I’m redoing my entire site this soon, maybe a week or two, but not now.