Back on line (Feb 2, 2011)
with the assistance of an assimilation device from
AT&T...

Not havinb been online or on this site continously for many months,
I have had many experiences in RL (that's what they tell me it is) that have maybe changed my altitude toward being online.

I am now turned the corner and approaching the big 50.
This Jan 28th I became 49
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I got a new lapdog computer (May 13, 2010)
It is an Acer Timeline Aspire something or other with a fifteen inch screen and I hate it.

I don't like touch pads.

I despise Windows Vista.

I can't perform simple tasks on this stupid thing.

It was designed for non-humans.

The WR got someone to slap this thing together for a bit cheaper than I supposedly could have got it down at the box store.

She won't listen to a thing I say in complaint against Microsoft. She says it's just something I'll have to learn to live with.
Horse pucky.

Six hundred dollars down the drain.

I should be able to transfer my necessary files from this ancient Windows 98 piece of junk to the new piece of junk, right? Nope, no can do. If I want to save it online and then download it, there is some hope. But the operating systems have nothing to do with each other. Windows sucks.

The WR also insisted I buy a two hundred dollar external hard drive. I still don't understand why. I have tried to use it but it only backed up file folders and not files... I can't get Vista to let me use it to save things to. The button doesn not exist in the File menu!

What is this world coming to when the damned computers are designed by people who have no idea how things are supposed to work in RL.

I checked out some of the user forums for Vista and they are full of little geekoids making fun of people who expect things to actually work. Some of them even suggest that some people should never be allowed to touch a computer. I suggest it is the other way around. If you sell computers and software for a living, if a normal human cannot use your crap, then you should not be allowed to sell it. Niche marketing is fine, for that niche. For the rest of the planet, K.I.S.S.!
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I got new glasses (Mar 2, 2010)
Ray-Bans, the old style black frames. I needed the lenses bigger than were currently available with the squinchy selection at my glasses-maker's shop. I also liked the rock and roll connotations. They have springy hinges and the lenses are bifocal, again.
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It is now ten after eight PM, military time (Jan 2, 2010)
I use military time on my cellaphone because I work what is known as the "graveyard shift".

So, if I'm having trouble sleeping, or I am just clock-watching, I get the odd sensation of time travel on a daily basis because we have now reached the advanced part of existence where the past is piling up on us.

So, 2010, which would have just been a fantasy when military time was first instituted, is now just a fact. 1927, on the other hand, which was when I woke up this evening, is so far in the past that it requires an extensive search online and at the library before it matters. 1059 is a legend, and 0033, is biblical in it's remoteness.

Some years do not exist, of course, in this scale of time, so my birth year, 1962, would have to be found in another scale of sorts. I haven't bothered to investigate that yet.

So, while people yelled and screamed about a "new year" last night, it was just another minute to me...
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I am sincerely depressed (Oct 13, 2009)
and everybody keeps telling me to go to a doctor.
I cannot think of anything more depressing.

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I seem to have acquired (Jul 7, 2009)
a new badge. Something about being in the edited guide.

wow
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I'd forgotten about this (May 26, 2009)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A681563
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had to bury a cat today (Mar 4, 2009)
One of the kittens who was born Christmas season before last did not survive into his second year. Cueball was a rather large cream and seal point male whose seal points were faint tabby markings.
He had a personality only second to his big brother, Edgar, who has been dead since Memorial Day. Cueball had always seemed rather simple compared to the other kittens. Recently he had adopted Spidder, my four year old cat, as his role model and had begun to imitate him. Cueball's remaining siblings are two tiny females, Eightball, a dark grey, and Cupcake, an orange and black and white calico.

Cueball became road pizza due to one of the would-be racers in my neighborhood. Good thing it wasn't someone's child... or maybe it isn't. Maybe someone might pay attention then.
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As anucustimed ast I am to pubic speaking (Feb 25, 2009)
I find it odd that anyon ewith a lick a since would espect me to stand up and comede with you.

You may begin laughing now in the hopes that it will drown out any unfunny thing I may forget to say.
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Don't let me forget this (Jan 17, 2009)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A31638792
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I got mentioned again. (Dec 9, 2008)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A44319945
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I quit my part time job (Nov 5, 2008)
last Tuesday morning. The district manager got on the wrong side of my not-too-generous mood that morning by showing up announced and then proceeding to just be irritating. She told me I wasn't supposed to be doing something and when I asked,"Why?", she told me "policy".
Sorry, had enough of that from Dollar General corporation. They treat their employees like preschoolers and then expect industry and initiative from them. Bah.

So, now, I am back to where I was almost a year ago when I started there. Two days off with nothing to do and nowhere to go and no money to spend... so I just sleep and read and surf the web... out of my mind with boredom.
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I just don't know what to do with myself (Oct 4, 2008)
I hate my job.
The WR is going through some kind of seasonal thing and I am sliding into my usual seasonal depression.

I have fallen into a rut with my recordings on the Tascam DP-02.

I have cats running around the house that I can't catch.

I weigh too much.

I am working two jobs.

The UG has people who admire my work with the EPD.
They keep catching old entries of mine with the random search feature.
This is not hard as I've probably written a thousand entries of one sort or another.
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Sorry, busy. (Aug 15, 2008)
I am spending the time I used to use online. The Tascam DP-02 is the toy I've wanted my entire life. I've also been working towards it by not learning to play music the way you are supposed to.

I have generated over 180 "compositions" since March. A good quarter of them have ended up in the bin. Since this is didgital technology, I don't have piles of tape sitting around, just a slim deck of CDs.
I have given away dozens of CD compilations of my work and only a few have commented. I think the rest are nonplussed.

I truly believe I am engaged in my life's work.


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portastudio (Apr 6, 2008)
I spent half my income tax return money on something
most people have absolutely no need for: a home recording device
that will allow me to make my own cds.
It is a Tascam Portastudio with an 8gig hard drive and 8 usuable channels and all kinds onboard effects that also has a cd burner built in.

always wanted to make my own album.
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I survived a robbery attempt at work (Mar 2, 2008)
The fellow ended up a few packets of cigarettes and I ended up with a bruised throat.
He did not get into the cash register.
I got to ride to the police station in a police car and I got to sit with a sergeant in an interview room and give my statement while he typed on a Dell computer.
I got the rest of the morning off and I don't have to go to work this evening.


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Ladies and gentlefuns, I present: (Feb 6, 2008)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A4147652
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I have been sick (Dec 31, 2007)
Spent the last two nights off from work.
Which is funny because Christmas week my assistant manager (the WR) scheduled me off (without asking me)for three days before working Christmas eve and Christmas day and then two days off after. They used up my unused sick days for the year in order to schedule my days off.

I think I got sick being off. Then I had to take off being sick, with no sick time left. Wow.

I did get to spend two evenings with Shnooks, eating pizza and being lazy and walking to the mall to the used video store and the bookstore.

My fill-in at the 7-11 was the WR. Nobody else had the time or was inclined. So she ended up working 16 hours yesterday. Poetic justice I think since I'd done the same for her and others so many times before.

So I woke up this morning and picked up some trash, as I have it everywhere, being the batchelor living slob that I am. Then I made some bad coffee and sat in the loo reading Vanity Fair (the magazine, I have no knowledge of the book). Then I got up and looked for my cellaphone and discovered I'd messed up and lost it. It was in the last place I looked, the bag of trash I'd collected. Boy, did I feel stupid.

So I was reading this excerpt in Vanity Fair from a book by Sally Bedell Smith about Jackie Kennedy.
Fascinating. She was twelve years younger than Jack, who remained unmarried until he was 36 and kept acting like he was unmarried in many ways until his death. She smoked filtered L and M cigarettes almost incessantly, even when she was pregnant. She held herself at 120 pounds when she wasn't gravid. She sought the counsel of a doctor in the fear that her lack of sexual experience was making Jack seek gratification elsewhere. According to the book, the fact that she was willing to bring the subject up at a private dinner one night brought her to a new level of respect in Jack's eyes. He continued to gather mistresses like ties, but he spent a little more time with his wife when he had the time. She on the other hand was intellectually unfaithful mainly because Jack was unsophisticated. Sounds like a royal couple to me.
They had the intelligence and sense to stay out of each other's way when it was necessary. She was horsey and he was boatey. She set up an in-house daycare and nursery school cooperative at the White House and redocorated the place with donations while he cavorted with men of influence and women of variable virtues.

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I'm not as young as they think I am (Dec 9, 2007)
I am almost 47.
I have customers who think I am at least ten years younger.

I have some who are younger than I who treat me like a teenager.

Also, I have this voluminous knowledge of history, fashion, and other supposed trivia. So I have people who are my age talking about things being "before their time" and I have no idea what they are talking about.

It never ceases to bore me how ignorant people are about their own cultures and legacies. So much is unrooted in the now, that I wonder what they have to teach their children, if anything.
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it seems I have not written (Nov 27, 2007)
in here for awhile.

I wonder why.
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I be on the Front Page again! (Sep 7, 2007)
Just the little blurb for the Post, with a link to one of the Platypus Dancing cartoons in this weeks edition.
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Some kind of vacation? (Sep 3, 2007)
My boss managed to shovel five days out of the schedule this week for me not to go to work. The WR has forbidden me to go anywhere near the store. I've only had one conversation about work in the last three days. Supposedly I have two more nights off.
I started out my time off with a glitch.
My pay day was thursday. When I went to get my money out of the ATM, I got involved in a conversation with a co-worker about her husband losing his most recent job. When I turned back to the ATM, my money was gone. It turned out that the machine had sucked it back in.

I ended up calling the 1 800 number and didn't get a decent response. I had to go down to my bank and file a dispute of transaction form. The airhead behind the desk told me it might take forty days to get my money back. I went back to the store and told my boss what was going on. She became very incensed and told me to call the 800 number again. I used my cellaphone and did. Then my boss told me that I should use the customer service phone built into the ATM and get a better representative to talk to. I did and I got the same girl I had gotten on my phone. I asked to talk to her supervisor like I had been instructed to, and then handed the phone to my boss so she could talk to the supervisor. She hung up in disgust.
I understand from the WR that she made a few more phone calls during the day. I went away and got some cat food and some beer, then went and explained the situation to my landlord. Then I went home and tried to sleep before I went to work that night.
The WR woke me up sometime Friday afternoon and I went to the bank and withdrew my money which had somehow magically appeared in my account in the intervening fifteen hours. Then I went to the comic book store and the pizza restaurant.
Then it was kind of downhill from there.
I went to the Public Library Annual Booksale at the mall with Shnooks and Uvula yesterday and bought some cheap boots at the Academy store on the way home.
It has rained several times today, most notably about fifteen seconds after my washing machine stopped on the first load I've done in days.
I had even considered playing with my recently repaired lawn mower (it was in the shop for over a month) but the rain put the kibosh on that, too.
I am so alone!
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Ducking the issue (Aug 20, 2007)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/onthefuture/A923537
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Dr. Who or James Bond? (Jul 11, 2007)
I wonder why noone ever did a cross over?

I just saw the Dr. Who with the newest or one of the newer Doctors.
Why is it I cannot watch any of the newer Whos without thinking of DNA?
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Thief of Bagdad (Jun 29, 2007)
I know it's a hokey story, but Douglas Fairbanks expensive silent movie "The Thief of Bagdad" is a masterpiece in epic movie-telling.
I once had a taping of it off of Turner Classic Movies, the Silent Sunday show, but I don't know where it's got to.
I found an old video tape copy in a used bookstore a couple years ago. I am watching it now. It has drama, romance, special effects, stunts, gigantic sets and, of course, Douglas Fairbanks!
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