Max: Ketchup With What The Catsup 2
Last monday I started telephony training. So far, it has been a complete waste of time. What time we didn't spend reviewing billing databases we are all already familiar with or just sitting there waiting for the trainers to figure out how to work the training software was spent learning how to put orders together, something we will never actually do on the job. The week was not a total waste. Thursday night I went to see Victor Wooten. It was an amazing show. In what was perhaps the highlight of an evening if highlights, Vic and his band (which included his brother Regi on guitar) played "Higher Law" from Vic's latest CD then segued into Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" in the middle of which Regi launched into Van Halen's "Eruption" at the start of a guitar solo that would have left EVH in the dust. To cap this off they launched back into "Kashmir". I feel deep pity for the billions of people who were not there to see it.
Another bonus is that for the duration of training, my weekend actually falls on the weekend, rather than in the middle of the bloody week like it has for the past few years. Yesterday we had a going away party for Laura's friend Beth who has been living with us for the past year. She is moving to her sister's place in St. Joseph, MO (where Abbott met Costello). Inebriation, a propane grill and fireworks made for an interesting evening. Today, I am hoping to just chill a bit. Laura was talking about heading downtown to the fair, but I am hoping she will change her mind. I am feeling a strong need to chill today. We'll see what happens.
Oh, BTW. I want to thank each and every person out there who voted for the Shrubster last November. The right wing, Bill of Rights hating nutball he will soon be appointing to the SCOTUS is your fault. And all of us will have to live with the fucker for at least a couple of decades.
Another bonus is that for the duration of training, my weekend actually falls on the weekend, rather than in the middle of the bloody week like it has for the past few years. Yesterday we had a going away party for Laura's friend Beth who has been living with us for the past year. She is moving to her sister's place in St. Joseph, MO (where Abbott met Costello). Inebriation, a propane grill and fireworks made for an interesting evening. Today, I am hoping to just chill a bit. Laura was talking about heading downtown to the fair, but I am hoping she will change her mind. I am feeling a strong need to chill today. We'll see what happens.
Oh, BTW. I want to thank each and every person out there who voted for the Shrubster last November. The right wing, Bill of Rights hating nutball he will soon be appointing to the SCOTUS is your fault. And all of us will have to live with the fucker for at least a couple of decades.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 7/03/2005 11:47:00 AM
16 Comments:
Um.... what's SCOUTUS?
And I feel the need to sober up- I mean chill- today, too, so no worries.
SCOTUS = Supreme Court of the United States.
Why the hell does the main page say "3 comments" when there were only two?? That's totally a let down when I click to read the new message and there's nothing new!
Strange, there are four now...
Yeah. now it says there are four and there actually ARE four. It's just trying to make me look like a damn fool!
Well, I had left a third message, but it was only there about an hour, then disappeared. Here it is again:
Sort of on topic (following #2 above)check out
http://www.aclj.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=1705
According to the Supreme Court and what I've read, the govt can now take ANY private property from people and give it to other private interests IF it can improve economic developement for the area. Before, imminent domain only applied to taking property for public use, widening streets and such. Now they can take a house from someone and give it to a private developer to put up a stripmall in the interests of economic developement. They can do the same just to raise the tax assesment of the property as that produces more money for the govt. There is now no such thing as private ownership of land in the US. Even churches are not safe. Have a nice day.
Imminent Domain has been so abused that this new ruling is almost meaningless. When the city of Boston wanted to add highway access to the downtown area, they bought out homes for as little as a dollar. They tore down entire blocks of historic buildings, destroyed thriving neighborhoods. Now, those highways are considered an eyesore. With BILLIONS of dollars, these eyesores are being ripped down and replaced with tunnels. The project is known as "The Big Dig." Many would say it's more like "The Money Pit." Boston is not the only culprit here.
In other words, there is no law, short of the Golden Rule. "He who has the gold, makes the rules." Only in our case, we are stupid enough to elect those with the gold.
I've not heard of this imminant domain. Is that anything like emmanent domain? :)
Hey, I never said I could spell, or even talk well for that matter. I can make words and word-like sounds so I'm doing better than some folk.
Just trying to translate for those who don't speak Huddite.
Silly me, I copied Hud's spelling because I figured he knew what he was talking about - last time I make THAT mistake! :)
Remember, Max is always right. Hud, not so much.
Laura thinks I sound pissy. I'm not. Maybe she shouldn't read over my shoulder.
Ahh, but you forget, Hud IS always right, in Huds World. You just refuse to acknowledge my reality, and that would bother me if I didn't live in Huds World.
Wasn't Hud's World a movie staring Alan Alda?
I think you are thinking "PeeWee's Playhouse."
This is exactly what I was talking about, only reversed and more stupid than usual:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/06/everglades.holdout.ap/index.html
I would have had no reluctance to pick up a $4 million check for my pad. Hell, I'm willing to go as low as $3.5 million.
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