So I just found out that they're cutting my hours at work.

Which sucks. But the really annoying thing is, I know they won't just give me an extra day off, or end my shift before 7.

No, I“ll probably have to go in later, and still work til' 7. So it”ll still feel like the same crappy shift, except I"ll have less money in my paycheck each week. Yay me!

I was just about to complete another AG update before heading off to work when suddenly a random error comes out of left field, wipes out 1hr and 30 mins worth of editing and closes the program. Even the autosave doesn't have any memory of this. I'm already a day late on this and now I have to wait until night to start all over. I'm fit to be tied right now! :gem:

Good lord, I despise technology.

My cat came in to wake me at 6am in the morning to feed him. I'd gone to bed at 2:30am.

He wasn't really that desperately hungry, he's just being a dick! >:{
Little bastard was jumping all over my bed. I somehow managed to ignore him and get to sleep again.
But he got his revenge- he changed the station on my clock radio so my alarm didn't go off and I slept in a whole hour!!! I had less than 10 minutes to get dressed and out the door.

So thanks to him, NEITHER of us got any breakfast this morning.
-I would've been able to feed him as normal when I got up at my usual time at 8.

Lonnehart
Yikes! That hat looks very heavy! I wonder how those British palace guards manage to stand all day long wearing those. O_O

Those bearskins are a lot more comfy than this:




Fur is softer on the head than steel or kevlar.

My old friend:



Give me a colback or bearskin any day. The Guardsmen I've spoken to say they prefer the bearskin to the steel pot. But berets are the most comfy. :)

More and more, I feel like I am slowly becoming a selfish jerk. I kinda like it.

skoolmunkee
More and more, I feel like I am slowly becoming a selfish jerk. I kinda like it.

me too.. not that you skool are becoming one, but because I am turning too ;P

I LOVE MY KEVLAR HELMET. it feels so comfortable on the head. it's like wearing a giant pillow……..
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i feel deliciously evil right now. for some reason i wanna be a dick to anyone and everyone. in fact, i just did on facebook. that starbucks 5 cents to aids for every cup thing….i said “if you have aids, you prolly deserve it”

i don't know why, but being mean is fun.

seventy2
i wanna be a dick to anyone and everyone.

…aids

Make sure you wear a condom then!
Don't want that to spread >:\

I'm thinking of taking a hiatus with my webcomic. That probably won't be good for my readership, but I'm in some sort of funk and feel like I'm forcing pages and they're looking like garbage. IMHO.

It's not as though I'm at a loss as to where I'm going with the story, I think I just need to step away from it for awhile, and regroup.

Gah. It's a weird feeling to be away from my art supplies.

When I'm at home and busy, all I ever want to do is go back to my parent's place, flop on their couch and drink their beer and do nothing. Now that I'm here at my parent's house, I realize that “do nothing” really means, “work on artwork of my own”. All I really want to be doing is go home, and start working on something for fun.

I sit by a juggalo in a class. That sucks.

Atom Apple
I sit by a juggalo in a class. That sucks.

Wow, i had no idea there were still sightings of them after 2005.

Sadly yes. And as a representative of the pretty-ok city of Detroit, I'd like to solemnly apologize to everyone on behalf of the city. We are very sorry things had to turn out like this.

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I have the most ungodly horrible pain behind my eye right now. It doesn't feel like a migraine, just a lot of pressure and headache meds don't do anything for it. I'm kind just hoping it's lack of sleep or low light. I wouldn't mind a nice simple solution to everything.

It is no fair having a huge headache on a day off. In fact I think huge headaches in general are just no fair.

skoolmunkee
It is no fair having a huge headache on a day off. In fact I think huge headaches in general are just no fair.

They're not supposed to be fair, they're supposed to be painful. I've had at least one everyday for a month and a half. D:

Work Rant:
I only have today off because it's Thanksgiving.

While normally fair and logical, the head manager will not allow me to be a “certified signer” for returns because I don't have enough “customer loyalty cards” assigned to my name…yeah, that makes perfect fucking sense…I can totally see the god damn connection between “loyalty cards” and “knowing how to do a return correctly”…I mean, I only had a top secret clearance in the military, but that means nothing when I don't have enough “loyalty cards” signed up…

I hate people.

I hate working there.


Life Rant:
I hate never having time to do things for myself outside of school and work. At least I have a break from school coming up, but they're giving me more hours at work…

I have a HUGE pain in my left shoulder from my neck being out of alignment thanks to being on my feet for 8 hours straight with no breaks at work.

QWest is the WORST company to ever have Internet with, but there's nobody else. USA has “areas of ownership” for Internet companies. If Comcast is doing cable and QWest is doing DSL, then Verizon cannot, by law, compete with FIOS DSL in the area. They choke my speed on “media heavy” (IE YouTube) and gaming. I'm trying to update TF2 and I got a message from them, 45 minutes after my speeds dropped off, saying that my “Internet is being restricted due to suspected abusive activity of service caused by high transfers.” They DO know people play video games online, right?

I hate articles on thanksgiving screeching that we're celebrating the genocide of indians with the genocide of turkeys. :/ I want to be around my family and ridiculously large meals + those cute little ‘what are you thankful for’ where you feel warm and fuzzy when they mention you, not how my ancestors raped the land and defiled the women of american natives.

This is the first thanksgiving my family has had at home in probably 10 years though, we usually mooch off our pals. It's tradition :)

Just got my computer back! The guy who fixed it was so great…in two days he fixed it right up, I didn't lose anything, and he didn't even charge! I think we're going to get him a fruit basket or a box of chocolates or something.

Hippie Van
Just got my computer back! The guy who fixed it was so great…in two days he fixed it right up, I didn't lose anything, and he didn't even charge! I think we're going to get him a fruit basket or a box of chocolates or something.

At least it wasn't Best Buy. My friend got his computer sent there to be “fixed”
HE NEVER SAW IT AGAIN.

I Am The 1337 Master

Hippie Van
Just got my computer back! The guy who fixed it was so great…in two days he fixed it right up, I didn't lose anything, and he didn't even charge! I think we're going to get him a fruit basket or a box of chocolates or something.

At least it wasn't Best Buy. My friend got his computer sent there to be “fixed”
HE NEVER SAW IT AGAIN.

Eep! That's like my worst nightmare!
I just took mine to a little booth in the college my dad works at. I don't think they usually have a whole lot to do so he probably had nothing better to do than play around with my laptop.

Skullbie
I hate articles on thanksgiving screeching that we're celebrating the genocide of indians with the genocide of turkeys. :/ I want to be around my family and ridiculously large meals + those cute little ‘what are you thankful for’ where you feel warm and fuzzy when they mention you, not how my ancestors raped the land and defiled the women of american natives.

This is the first thanksgiving my family has had at home in probably 10 years though, we usually mooch off our pals. It's tradition :)

that's super dumb when you consider that we're actually celebrating that indians helped settlers survive the harsh winter and gave food to those they didn't know. we hadn't raped and pillaged yet.

i love it when people (the articles skullbie's referencing) are historically inaccurate.

seventy2
that's super dumb when you consider that we're actually celebrating that indians helped settlers survive the harsh winter and gave food to those they didn't know. we hadn't raped and pillaged yet.

Perhaps the ones in that particular settlement…

In reality, North America is a very large continent and European colonisation happened over a few hundred years. What the Thanksgiving holiday references has become the mythical origin of the U.S., completely ignoring the rest of the story- French and Spanish settlement, the British prison colonies… etc.

That is probably the reason people write those negative articles; not to take anything away from your holiday with your family, but to puncture the fantasy of the idea of the peaceful religious origin myth.

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It is pretty spiteful to do it around the time of the holiday itself though. Much like those wankers who go on about how Christmas is too commercial and all the made up Christmas Urban myths (like Santa being a Coca Cola thing etc) to try and make things crap for everyone.

Ugh… I'm glad I fix MY OWN COMPUTERS. I never have to deal with inept techs who think they know what they're doing when it's clear that they don't (seen it when I sent my machine to a repair shop once).

Well, I'm ready for Christmas Eve now.

*pushes a button on a weird looking remote, and his house transforms revealing SAM emplacements, Anti Aircraft Vulcan cannons, Flak Cannons, four Red Nosed Reindeer/flying sleigh detection radars, proximity/pressure sensitive mines on his roof, upward pointing barbs in his chimney, and mines around and inside his windows and front door designed to explode outward with lots of shrapnel when a really fat person tries to enter the house*

There's no way that old guy is going to leave a cold piece of coal in my stockings this year!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! >:-D

Re: Bah humbug.

I can't wait for this holiday season to end. CAN'T. WAIT. I despise everything about it and today was a fine enough example.

walmart had a sale…and i couldn't help myself…i got a TV at half off. it's the newer model of the one i got in ‘07…a lot lighter and thinner…and only a picture difference when playing video games…(which is 90% of what i use it for)

I’m sure that money would have been better sitting in savings…but i don't really think so. at least….that's what i'm going to tell myself.

Two of my sister's dogs are at the vet on an IV because they have some kind of toxin… :[ I love those pups and I am super worried about them, I feel like crying.

The current US Thanksgiving is a continuation of one introduced by Lincoln during the War Between the States. The real first US Thanksgiving was November 26, 1789, called by President George Washington as a national day of Thanksgiving for the passage of the Constitution and the foundation of the US Republic.

The whole Pilgrim schtick is romantic Victorian mythology. And of course the Victorians couldn't be bothered to remember the real settlers of the USA in JAMESTOWN Virginia like MY ancestors!

And Ozone there were no prison colonies as such in the USA, only prisons emptied and the people shipped to the American colonies or the people offered the choice of prison or indentured servitude in America. Kind of neat how you can read the ship manifests and Indenture contracts in various colonial archives.

bravo1102
the people shipped to the American colonies or the people offered the choice of prison or indentured servitude in America. Kind of neat how you can read the ship manifests and Indenture contracts in various colonial archives.

You're just using definitions there man. Indentured labour penal colonies is what I meant. The same thing they did with parts of Australia after they couldn't really use North America any longer. ;)
The difference is that America forgets it and romanticises the Pilgrims and Australia forgets the free settlers (although there were far more settlers) and romanticises the convicts…
Strange, but the Aussie objective is to create the myth of an independent rebel working class battler- Starting off as convicts and then striving in the bush as sheep shearers, wheat farmers and gold-miners, creating a country out of sweat and hard work.

When in reality most people very quickly moved to the cities and most of the mythologising about the rural idyll by poets, painters, composers, and writers was all done by city people.
-Victorians and Edwardians lol! (not to be confused by people from the state of Victoria)
So that's something in common about our countries: those Victorians and their origin myths :)

skoolmunkee
Two of my sister's dogs are at the vet on an IV because they have some kind of toxin… :[ I love those pups and I am super worried about them, I feel like crying.

Hope they get better!

But they weren't penal colonies like they were in Australia. They were just people shipped to the colonies under a contract. The reality of the legal language was different. It was changed when the people were shipped to Australia to keep them from doing that whole revolution thing. In the Americas the contract could be broken and even bought out. The prevailing Colonial American culture by the late 17th Century came to be make something of yourself. Once the contract was up go out and get some land and make a go of it. The indentured servant had a lot more freedom than they did in the Australian penal colonies. They weren't prisoners, only laborers. The reality was different as well as the language of the contracts. That's why I mentioned reading them.

That whole oppurtunity thing (and face it North America had a whole lot more oppurtunity in the 17th and 18th Century than Australia). Virgin forest and rich soil versus the Outback? It wasn't a myth. An indentured servant had the chance to be a free Englishman with their own land. They weren't guarded by soldiers. There was an infrastructure that preexisted them that they worked in. The Americas was settled by freemen who then used the indentured servants as labor. Once the contract was up the servant could go home, buy his own land or even continue as a salaried employee. Things like that didn't grow up for a long time in Australia whereas in America they were here from the beginning.

An example: Jamestown and Virginia colony. Land grants pruchased and then the indentured servants brought over, who then turned around and got their land grants and brought over servants who then got their own land… And before you knew it they all thought they were all free Englishmen who deserved their rights.

I've got to give my avatar a rest. Getting sick of it.

I don't think you know much about the situation in Australia Bravo. :)

In North America you have people shipped to be bought and sold as slaves. Georgia was founded as a penal colony. People bought and sold. I've done reading about that penal system and I think you may be looking at it through rosy glasses. ;)

In Australia the convicts could become free settlers very early on. That was the way they decided to found the place. The main difference with Australia was that the British Empire didn't lose it so the system went on longer. In North America it was a free market slavery system, in Australia it was more government controlled. :)

Yep, there were actual prisons. A relatively small number really. I think the Yanks tend to exaggerate on the “Penal colony” idea of Australia in order to minimise the similarities of the origin stories.
i.e not part of the accepted mythology.

But then ALL countries have their cherished origin mythologies and ways of looking at their founding that fit with their way of thinking about their country. It's part of being human. We rationalise what we don't like, and we identify strongly with whatever groups we belong to (mainly our nations).