Me.....a star?

Me....A Star!!

Well I could be! I think. I could do any one of those reality shows, really, how hard is it to pick up pigs hearts covered in blood with your teeth? Thats about the hardest thing I've seen on any of these shows yet. Or jump on a plane and "race" around the world? That survivor shit is the rough stuff though, not that I'm an asshole or anything like that, but I can't kiss ass enough (and I'm not pretty enough) to win a popularity contest like that. That bachelor sure has the easy ride though, dating and makin out with like 14 women, chosing which one he thinks will be the best in bed. And thats ONLY if he dosent get to test drive them before-hand. That would certainly make the decision easier, and a much more worthwhile study. I could do that job. Yeah, I could be star.

Just call me righty, or is it lefty?

It's been a while since I've actually written anything constructive here, but i don't see you updating your blog so get off my back!
Unemployement, (though in theory, not working is a dream of mine,) just isn't turning out the way I had hoped. Went to the beach one day, as is one of the most sought after activities of the unemployed, and it all turned to shit from there. Beautiful beach, hot sunshine, and huge waves, the likes of which I havent seen in years! An incredible day, but.........I tore a friggen muscle in my left shoulder while frolicking in the foamy surf. So, now, even if offered a job, I can't take it. At least not comfortably. I will not turn down work of course, but the amount of pills I'd have to be on to get through the day would render me virtually useless, but lots fun to be around!

Poetry Time:

My left arm, left arm
poor mangled apendage
sometimes it hurts me to type
I'll survive in the long run
but at this very moment
thank God i jerk off with my right

I am 81% evil.

Wow! I'm almost pure evil! Sin is my way of life. If there is a hell I have packed my bags for the trip.

Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com

Signing on the dotted line....

I posted this on the message board for the stream group on the Hi5 friends network

I think the real reason for this pay cut is your run of the mill corporate greed and nothing more. The #1 CS site in the world can't demand a higher dollar value for THE BEST product?
They just know that most people really need that job even if it's less than the original starting wage. People with kids and houses can't just up and leave the island or that God forsaken building, and they know that in the end after all the fuss and muss that the ones that stay and accept the paycuts will be the ones who will accept it again when another contract has to be "negotiated at a comparitive competitive rate". And it will happen.
Once the suits see what they can get away with, they will want to get away with it even more. We'll be working for minimum wage before they're through keeping thier stock holders happy, and lining thier own pockets with raises for VP's and CEO's.
Don't feel bad for me, I have only 2 piddly bills to pay out of each check, and no dependants but for someone like Dan or Brad who just recently bought houses, this is a real kick in the cock.
The reason I'm not signing the paper is not a financial one, it a self respect issue with me. I've given 3 years of my life, (which in the long run is NOT that long), to that company, never said shit even when I was up to my eyeballs in it, worked 60 hours a week when it was required of me to meet business needs, was as bendy as the best and for all my dedication and time I'm NOT going to get my 25 cent raise this year? No, in fact I'm going back to square one, as if I didn't have any experience in this field, never taken a call, and never set foot in that building, thank you very much! They've wiped out 3 years of my life and made me finally see the truth. We don't matter! We never did!
The truth is people will sign, have signed or are signing now as I type this. Stream will remain open for business for a short time anyway. And the MTO concerns? Not a problem. With the people who do leave, or refuse to sign gone, it'll be a red Q where ever you are in that building, there will be half hour lunches and over time galore.
But not for me. As I said earlier it's a respect issue for me. If I'm not getting it from the company then I'll have to get it from my self.

yippie

I'm having a breakdown
I nearly screamed through the phone at a level 1 tech today
not that I thought she should know better, but answer a few
questions so i can get off to a running start with the customer.
As it was I was borderline, I never even talk at a normal level
on the phone with the mic so close to my mouth I don't have to,
so when i did raise my voice it seemed pretty loud, but hey
"I was doing the duplicate tile fix"
"so do they have an old account"
"no, I was told to"
"By who"
"A roamer"
again "Who?"
"are you going to take this call!!!"
"Send her through, just send her through!!!"

Fuck off and bite the brown spot! Bitch!

Well we got to keep our jobs so some people are pissed at that
maybe that was her problem, but I shouldn't be bleeding from the
mouth from biting my tongue. This is getting to be less and less like fun everyday.
I guess it actually is a JOB. Sucks to be me!

 
poetry corner:

Ice cold beer in fisted hand
shakey, wobbly, barely able to stand
one more hotdog from the mobile cart
retching and gagging is sure to start

piles of vomit, a multicolored array
I need new shoes, not tommorrow, today
If was able to speak, you know I would say
"Have yourself a blurry seaside daze!"

 

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Sunday, sunday sunday!!
Shot night, sandbar, pre-seaside daze kick off /warmup party, pictures at 11!
 
Short blog tonight, obviously going out to get shit faced again tonight. LOL
 
The reception to end all receptions, the mother of all receptions was held last night, and I had a ball, incredible how people can change so much about themselves (thier looks and what the do with themselves and where they live, blah blah blah) but are still basically the very same as you remember them from years before. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, it's fun to watch people in thier 30's act the same way they did when they were teenagers though.
 
Back to work, back on the phones, taken violently from training class at what amounts to gun point and put right back to the grind. This racket is a sad sad way to live. Not even sure if there will be a job there in a months time and we're still supposed to give 110% till we find out if we're getting pink slips. lol I should have went to university, wouldn't have to deal with any of this shit.
  
  
  
  
 

To blog or not to blog? That is the question I put forth from my steely throne, ensconsed in the warm embrace of velet pajamas, sipping on moonshine and bijou, smoking fat cigars, rolled on the virginal inner-thighs of young cuban women. Take the time to drop a line? Maybe you'll create a rhyme. And he did and he looked upon the rhyme and said "this is good stuff, have you had enough?" "Yes!!Yes yes!!" the thunderous reply echos from the balconies and rooftops of the inner sanctum. "No more suessian taunts from your razor-wheted wit." "Assault not those who have assaulted against you with more diatribes, and contritcities." And he looked down upon the masses huddled naked for warmth and fornication against a cold and cruel world and he agreed. "Yes, it is a glorious day!", then he adding rather curtly "I shall ride at dawn, prepare the women!" And he was gone, never to be heard from again in these parts. Poking around in Cuba, was his last rumoured siting, looking for virgin thighs and truth in advertising. He searches in vain, knowing all the time it is a hopeless quest. We're all pretty much fucked from day one, so who amongst us can put forth such a claim as ludicris as virginity? And yet he searches still.

Set up a tent tonight bigger than some of the apartments I've lived in, made by the people who make the swiss army knives, this thing is huge - 11 man 3 room with a porch 2 windows. Roughing it in style!

I guess everybody is going to have a Gmail account pretty soon, so many people adding me to thier gmail messenger accounts, and I've finally seen one of the ads which were causing all the privacy controversy at the launch time, and IT'S NOTHING AT ALL. Same as doing a google search and getting a side bar/frame on the right with a coupla links in it - all pertaining to the subject of the mail - and I had to subscribe to a mailing list in order for that to come through, none of my personal mail from contacts have contained any links to external sites at all. MSN/hotmail is going to try to catch up this fall with a 250MB free account.......so between my gig at google, 250 meg at hotmail and my new 100 meg at yahoo, I'll have more online storage than my first hard drive had. hehehe

Wrote a test today at work - OEM and OS - got 77/100. I can live with that. I'd love to do something differnet that this account, maybe even enough to stay here a while longer. 2-1/2 years is too long for that account, can't wait to switch it up to something a bit more interesting.

I'm not apologizing for the lack of updates to this blog anymore, I'm busy - get off my friggen back!

Skinnyblogalicious

Time off cut short

Well it's back to work, so maybe i will be bloggin a bit more than I thought. Life sucks. Same job, same client, same position, same wage. There's no adjustment period, but there's nothing new either.

Six weeks sounds like such a long time, but it's gonna fly by, the summer will be over and all 800 of us will be out of work and will have had no time to find new work, because we will be working!

Could be worse though, I could have kids to support or a mortgage to pay, as it is, it's not too hard to smile some of the time.

Well after the heartbreaking hockey game, I couldn't bear to blog again til now, nearly a month later. What a let down.uggghg

Sunny days are here again and I can't see myself doing much blogging over the next while, unless I really have something worth while to say, which is rare, espeacially over the summer months. Sun baked and beer addled, with guitar in hand of course, is how I want to spend the rest of my summer days. I may make some changes to the page, but I can't see there being very much to write.

HAVE A GOOD SUMMER

Well we sit on the eve of what promises to be the most exciting hockey played by professional players since the summit series of '72, which I was too young to remember, but have seen many a rebroadcast.
Two young teams, hungry for a Stanley Cup to put them on the map in the hockey world. From the opposite sides of the continent, as far southeast as the states will go and as far as the Canadian Rockies to the northwest will allow. Travel time could be a factor.
No matter which team walks away with the cup, we the fans will be the winners in the long run, having witnessed some of the best professional hockey we will ever have the chance to see.

That said, updating this thing is a real pain sometimes, trying to tweak the design to keep me interested is hard and this computer dosent want to display me an updated view of the thing. So many thing i want to do, but the time constraints are brutal. I have to log into three different web sites download info and files from one site and upload to another site and then finally link it all together to make one totally copastetic? view. And, I only have an hour or so to update each week while the girlfriend is eyes deep in gay guys on "queer as folk", other than that it's hockey (for another 2 weeks anyway) then maybe i can do some serious house keeping here, instead of just changing a font colour.

Gotta go......

Well, don't they have a pretty new blog style going here, all rounded off and unoffensive? Very nice design. I might hire these people to do my living room.

I just got around to blogging since the leafs tragically lost game 6 to philly. Gotta pull off my previously confident post to replace it with a big "go calgary go" post.

I've done a bit of housecleaning myself and found a hosting service (thanks to Shrapnels) that isn't bothering me about hosting a few pictures. Thanks to LYCOS and Angelfire can bite me.

Not sure if i like the fruity blue or not, may have to change that in the near future - no time now though - hockey game is on - got to go!

SKINNYLICKIN TECHSUPPORT

Hey, does anyone do windows updates at all?? W32.sasser.worm, nuff said. Update your computers. You pay too much money for your computers, which incidentally could launch missiles and all you do is get email and go to ebay, and then more for internet access, and you don't want to be as up to date as possible? Sucks to be you!

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No more VTO, 300 calls waiting, lets early out, lets get fired for a point infraction when there's 18 shifts til we get an 11 week paid vacation. I think the technicians here are as stupid as the customers sometimes.

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Still Skinnylickin - still skinnylickingood

Well i got a new side bar to commemerate my new quitting frame of mind! Buttin out again, this time it's for good, i can feel it! (sure you say, what about last time?) Well last time too, but ran into some difficulty with "environment issues" which seem to be under control for now. (sure you say, we'll see, we'll see!) And i say, ya we will!! So there!!

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Looks like the Canadians are falling to Tampa Bay, possibly in 4 games, so it sucks to be a Canadians fan, but even more, it sucks for hockey fans from Canada. I'm a leafs fan, blue and white, wrong or right!, But I wanted to see the Canadians, (whose fans are apparently sworn to never ever say a nice thing about the Leafs), win so there would be a chance of the east being the leafs and canadians, guaranteeing a Canadian team goes to the stanley cup finals. The hopes are now on the leafs and the flames, not much chance for the habs to be coming back and winning four straight, just can't see it happening.

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All our jobs are in limbo, and we've already bent over backwards for this place and i can't bend anymore. Well the 11 weeks of paid, possible time off will be good, and it might just be the kick in the ass I need to get the hell outta here and get a decent pay check coming in, not this pittance, it's just enough to live on, not enough to live. But it's all the lazy people like me need to keep us here, just enough to live on.

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(revised as the loser's lament)

ROUND 2 - HERE WE COME!!!

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Well, well Boston fans, see ya next year! Montreal made history and came back from a 3-1 deficeit(?) to win the first round!

All we need now is Toronto to win tommorrow, night and both teams to advance to the eastern conference finals for every canadian hockey fan's wet dream to come true. I wouldn't even care who won! Just to see that series would be incredible to watch that series.
SkinnylickinLater!!!!

The bastard flu is finally lending reprieve, I can almost think straight again. Look out world, here I come. YA

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Appetite is slowly coming back to me and Maitre `D functions at home shall be soon restored to their previous grandeur! Viva la sausage burger!

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Work is so slow. How slow is it? Well, it's so slow that I'm looking for more work. Reached the ceiling as far as where I can go in this company now, and I'm sure there will be no blanket raises when the new owners take over, just the same old same old, and I don't think I can handle it much longer. The option of Korea has been taken away, unless I can get a degree somewhere – anyone want to donate their edumacation to me? So it looks bleak, but it'll get better. I hope! ☺

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Began reading from the quit smoking bible again, and this time I think I'll read to the end like they say I should, keep smoking till they tell me to quit, so I can count myself among the 99% successfully cured. Talk about being in a shitty minority. You are in a group of only 1% of the world's population, and to add the insult to injury – you're condemned to smoke till your lungs are dried up ashen husks. Gonna stay on course this time, the payout is too big at the end to fuck around with the instruction manual.

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I hate blogging about work, but when you're at work, what else is on your mind?
90 minutes with this woman, go out of my way to help her, it's outta my hands by the end of the call, so all I can do is give instruction on what to get done to make it work. Not so much as a fucking "thank you"! The ignorance of these people is blinding! I say "thanks" when someone apologizes for doing me wrong in some way! I know that’s going too far with manners, but there's gotta be a line there somewhere and if you cross it your mother or grandmother starts rolling over in their grave. Ease your ancestor's eternal slumber and say a simple "please" and / or "thank you"; I don't want to have change the blog name to "raising Americans".

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Ever see the movie Canadian Bacon, well there is a line in this movie where Alan Alda (playing the US president) is attempting to inspire American hatred of Canadians so they can justify an invasion of Canada (kind has a familiar ring to it huh?). Well the big propaganda spin doctoring all cumulated in the line "Canadians, They walk among us".
And I see this as the way for us to help out our racist, IQ challenged, armor-piercing,
high velocity, semi automatic loving neighbors from the south of the border.

We can move in next door, most of us are white and most of us speak English, so we wouldn't draw a hint of suspicion from the overly racist US population. Of course we would have to slack off a bit on the job, cut out the beer and the back bacon, learn to watch baseball from start to finish, (not just from the stretch) and put an big show of watching hunting programs on TNN but I think we could pull it off.

We could teach them how to spell, and pronounce words like house properly, and empress upon them the importance of knowing their own home telephone # - what do you do if your car breaks down, you can remember the auto club # for a tow, but the # for calling the wife or husband, or (even scarier) the kids just eludes you? That ain't right.

The bastard flu is finally lending reprieve, I can almost think straight again. Look out world, here I come. YA

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Appetite is slowly coming back to me and Maitre `D functions shall be soon restored to their previous grandeur! Viva la sausage burger!

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Work is so slow. How slow is it? Well, it's so slow that I'm looking for more work. Reached the ceiling as far as where I can go in this company now, and I'm sure there will be no blanket raises when the new owners take over, just the same old same old, and I don't think I can handle it much longer. The option of Korea has been taken away, unless I can get a degree somewhere – anyone want to donate their edumacation to me? So it looks bleak, but it'll get better. I hope! ☺

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Began reading from the quit smoking bible again, and this time I think I'll read to the end like they say I should, keep smoking till they tell me to quit, so I can count myself among the 99% successfully cured. Talk about being in a shitty minority. You are in a group of only 1% of the world's population, and to add the insult to injury – you're condemned to smoke till your lungs are dried up ashen husks. Gonna stay on course this time, the payout is too big at the end to fuck around with the instruction manual.

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I hate blogging about work, but when you're at work, what else is on your mind?
90 minutes with this woman, go out of my way to help her, it's outta my hands by the end of the call, so all I can do is give instruction on what to get done to make it work. Not so much as a fucking "thank you"! The ignorance of these people is blinding! I say "thanks" when someone apologizes for doing me wrong in some way! I know that’s going too far with manners, but there's gotta be a line there somewhere and if you cross it your mother or grandmother starts rolling over in their grave. Ease your ancestor's eternal slumber and say a simple "please" and / or "thank you"; I don't want to have change the blog name to "raising Americans".

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Ever see the movie Canadian Bacon, well there is a line in this movie where Alan Alda (playing the US president) is attempting to inspire American hatred of Canadians so they can justify an invasion of Canada (kind has a familiar ring to it huh?). Well the big propaganda spin doctoring all cumulated in the line "Canadians, They walk among us".
And I see this as the way for us to help out our racist, IQ challenged, armor-piercing,
high velocity, semi automatic loving neighbors from the south of the border.

We can move in next door, most of us are white and most of us speak English, so we wouldn't draw a hint of suspicion from the overly racist US population. Of course we would have to slack off a bit on the job, cut out the beer and the back bacon, learn to watch baseball from start to finish, (not just from the stretch) and put an big show of watching hunting programs on TNN but I think we could pull it off.

We could teach them how to spell, and pronounce words like house properly, and empress upon them the importance of knowing their own home telephone # - what do you do if your car breaks down, you can remember the auto club # for a tow, but the # for calling the wife or husband, or (even scarier) the kids just eludes you? That ain't right.