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| Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | | 11:01 am |
Addendum (CrackBoy)
Learned today that my co-worker, AKA CrackBoy, has been tossed from team to team for being completely useless. He has yet to have done anything for my employer since hired on. Good grief, folks, why haven't you fired this guy? More depressing: He makes 20% more than I do on top of it. All because his 'office' is located in CA, and with CA being a high cost of living area, they get a bonus to their salary. :P Life isn't fair. -- Kagetsume. | | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 1:21 am |
| | Monday, January 12th, 2009 | | 11:23 am |
Hell froze over today.
I'm not kidding. I reported an annoying bug with IE to Microsoft (it screws up internal DOM generation in some cases of questionable HTML input). Sent them a small testcase that showed, it, etc ... And to my surprise they not only confirmed it was definitely a bug ... but that they were going to *fix* it. And even offered me a hotfix if I wanted it. Holy jeebus. You just know Satan is in his long underwear right now, since the evil empire admitted an error exists and actually wants to fix it. Current Mood:  shocked | | Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | | 2:43 pm |
Useless people
Once again I am glad I live nowhere near my sister. I just learned today she's once again charged with receiving stolen goods and her husband (which she claimed she left, but really didn't), is charged with armed robbery and possession of a firearm (which is illegal considering he's a felon). She's also stolen from my parents, trashed everything she's ever been given. Trashed cars she was loaned. Heck, lost one to legal impound (which incidentally was my car that I paid off and gave to my parents some years ago). And of course ... if you ask her, none of this is ever her fault. she takes no responsibility for her life, her actions, and her mistakes. She also flat lies about everything, even when there is no point to it. You can literally watch her do something wrong, then confront her about it and she'll flat deny she did anything ... even if you were standing there WATCHING her. I really have no sympathy for her at this point; she's screwed her own life away and spat in the faces on anyone who ever tried to help her. I know she hates me because she's always claimed my parents 'liked me better'. No, the deal was I didn't cause problems, I helped them out, and I paid my own way. I was responsible, took ownership for my mistakes, and worked to fix them when they occurred. It was for that I earned their trust, it had nothing to do with general 'liking better'. She's no child anymore. For goodness sake she's like 40 now. And she still can't hold down a sane job or support herself. But by all that's holy ... that isn't her fault. Yeah ... right. Annoyed, -- Kagetsume. | | Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | | 1:54 pm |
Not good.
It's not good with one of the hostess' of a Japanese restaurant I go to for lunch a couple times a month looked at me when I came in today and said: "Are you okay? You look exhausted."Frankly, I feel exhausted. I don't think I'm sleeping well at all these days. Maybe I'll be lucky and just collapse and die from exhaustion soon. It would be a win for everyone, really. I'm worth far more dead than I am alive. -- Kagetsume. | | Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | | 10:05 am |
Lovely.
Having not slept well so far this week, I also now feel slightly ill. Coming down with something probably explains why I haven't been sleeping well. Whee. -- Kagetsume | | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | | 11:32 am |
A day in the life of someone condemned to an IDIOT-O-THON.
The idiot-o-thon continues at my place of employment. Reasons are many and I probably can't go into them here, but lets just say people follow procedure no matter what ... even when it makes no sense at all. This I must blame on society as no one teaches people how to think anymore. It's all about just memorizing actions and doing them. I blame the 'No Child Level Behind' programs and all the standardized tests. Why? Because it forces educators to teach to the test ... not to teach how to learn and understand. Heck, parents aren't even required to be parents anymore. Just stick the kid infront of a TV or send them somewhere so they don't impinge on the parents' time. If you didn't want to *raise* children, don't *have* them. Okay, so this is degrading into another rant. So ... I'll stop here. I would give anything to work with people who can think and reason. I don't need people that 'just follow orders', I need people with the ability to reason. Is that so much to ask? -- Kagetsume | | Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | | 1:57 pm |
A public service announcement
For fans of Sobe LifeWater and other drinks colored with cochineal extract, just be aware of one thing: You're drinking bug squeezings.The red color comes from that extract, and that extract is bug juice. Literally. Look it up in Wikipedia. That is all. -- Kagetsume | | Friday, September 12th, 2008 | | 9:55 am |
It shouldn't take ...
It shouldn't take threatening someone with pursuing official reprimands at work to get them to produce work they committed to completing and were over two weeks late on it. But if you decide to ignore my polite requests for updates over two weeks, you get what you get. -- Kagetsume. | | Friday, September 5th, 2008 | | 8:41 am |
Learning to let go.
One of the hardest things for me to do is let go of something. When I agree to do something, for example, run a game as a GM or even just be a PC in it, it's a commitment. I will generally always see it through regardless because I made the promise to other people. Same goes for work, or just about anything else in my personal life. If I say I'll do it, I do it. I guess this is great from some perspectives as it means I'm reliable. People can trust I'll be there and get whatever it is done, whatever it takes and practically whatever the cost. Well, there's also a huge dark side to it; because sometimes I should just let it go and move on. Yeah, some people will be disappointed, but perhaps that's better than continuing with something that gets to a point of being nothing but frustrating. But you know ... that's so incredibly hard for me to do. I'm faced right now with this decision on something I've been involved with for a very long time. But ... it's lost the fun or excitement it used to have. Effectively I committed to see through to the end something that is simply never going to end. My part in it is stuck in limbo, has been for a long time, will be for a long time to come. The completely frustrating part to me was how much fun I used to have with it; how exciting it all used to be. But now when I think on it, I just get upset. So ... here's a place I think I need to learn to let go, accept that it's over and will never really find its conclusion, and move on. Part of me is sad to say goodbye to something I put a lot of time and energy into over the years, all the late nights and silly moments. But ... all that is gone anyway. I'm just holding on with this hope that someday, somehow, it might all return. But ... I think I need to be honest with myself and the situation; it's not returning. It ended a long time ago and I've just been too stubborn to accept it. So, here I will raise a glass to the fond memories I had of some great times and try to just keep the happy memories and friends I made. This last bit where it fell apart ... I think that I need to bury away and forget; there's no point in harboring a grudge or anger over it as the only person it affects is me and it's stupid to continue to allow it to bother me. I'll miss it, but nothing lasts forever, does it? No matter how much we might want. No matter how much commitment one person gives to it; if it's a group effort eventually it will end because someone(s) in the group will falter. One person can't carry it on forever when the others have given up on it. And I can't expect others to have the same level of drive and commitment to see things through; it's not fair to them, either. I know I'm an exception, not a rule, to humanity when it comes to such things. I cannot hold others to the standards I have for myself; it's just not fair to them. And frankly, trying to carry it all on alone now just hurts and to end this rambling post with an old saying from a joke: If it hurts, quit doing it. -- Kagetsume. | | Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 2:00 pm |
| | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | | 5:14 pm |
The Lotus Tax
Estimated cost for new read tires for the lotus: $600. Ow. -- Kagetsume | | Friday, May 30th, 2008 | | 3:19 pm |
| | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | | 12:56 pm |
Argh, I've been cuted.
A cat adoption group was at my worksite today (Pretty sure it's run by co-workers). So ... I was attacked by a bunch of kittens. Granted, I encouraged them, but... -- Kagetsume | | Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | | 12:55 am |
So, I bought a PS3...
And it's friggin' awesome! Not only do Blu-Ray dics look incredible in 1080i (I only have up to 1080i on Component input, my HD TV is 7 years old, almost. Still looks amazing), the games are great. Currently playing Ratchet And Clank, Tools of Destruction. Its not only beautiful, the gameplay is great, the cut scenes amazing, the story funny as hell, and the voice acting superb. So, I'm very happy with my purchase. The latest PS3 models do have a stupid issue, though. They can't play PS2 games. Sony, trying to save money, pulled out the PS2 hardware support. So ... if you get one, keep your PS2. -- Kagetsume | | Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | | 6:38 pm |
Finally got my car back.
Well, the Eclipse is back in my possession. Total cost for service and the manifold repair: $2116.99. Ow. -- Kagetsume | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 4:40 pm |
Lazy people suck
Today's topic is on how people who are lazy and cut corners really suck. Yes, I know I do not post often, but the past few days have been enough of an effort in frustration that I feel compelled to vent about it. So ... what triggered this? Car Dealerships. Well, that's a group that annoys most people, I think. But in this case it's not the current dealership that annoys me, but the former one. Basically my 2000 Eclipse GT needed its 120K service. I also had the check engine light come on that day due to a failing pair of O2 sensors. So ... off to the dealership I go. A new one since my former one sold off its Mitsubishi part. For the record, the 60K and 120K services on the V6 eclipse are expensive. Very labor intensive because you have to pull half the engine to get to the timing belt. so up front I knew I would have to spend $1k. Bleh, okay, I'll live. I get prices on the O2 sensors ... $450. so, up to $1450. Ugh ... okay, well, I need the car working! Find out I need new front break pads (not surprising, they've got 60K miles on them. I expected new ones soon). So, another $200 (They resurface the rotors and such too). So .. now up to $1650. This is starting to hurt ... and I haven't even gotten to what has pissed me off... I get a call from the dealer this morning. When they went to pull the manifold off for part of the tuneup (to get to the second set of sparkplugs), they discovered something. Namely, the former dealership SCREWED THE HELL UP! To the tune of using an air ratchet instead of a proper torque wrench when putting it back together when they did the 60K service. Why is this bad? Well, the engine block is aluminum. The bolts are steel. You exert a ton of force on the steel bolts and you will destroy the bolt holes. So, guess what? My manifold is messed up. They said I had two options. Replace it completely (and that's $1K more, folks) ... of they can try to rebore the boltholes and rethread them, which will only run around $200. There's an 80% chance that will work fine and no replacement needed. So ... they're trying that. Except two bolts have now broken off IN the manifold because they were effectively torque-welded into the manifold by those lazy numbnuts at the former dealership. Still, they said the ones that broke aren't too bad and they can still bore it. So, it's off to the machine shop. So, still hopefully only $200. The dealership service guy said what he suspects happened is that the mechanics at the other place were in a hurry and just didn't want to bother with using the right tool; probably along the lines of thinking 'Gee, this car has 60K miles on it. He'll trade it before 120K, so he'll never know this isn't quite right..). Bzzt, wrong. I keep my cars till they fall apart. And dammit, the car would last another 120K miles EASY if it was properly taken care of (which I did for all the basic maintenance with high end synthetic oils, filters, etc, etc.). So, in the end ... I just have to say ... IF YOU'RE IN THE SERVICE BUSINESS YOU'RE JUDGED BY THE QUALITY OF YOUR WORK! Being some lazy jerk who doesn't want to take the time to do it right doesn't cut it! If I were dictator of the world (some day!), this would be an executable offense. Or at the very least, I shouldn't have to pay for it. I can't expect the new dealership to eat the cost, but you can *bet* I'm going to raise a few issues with the old one (new name, new car set), ad well as send a letter to Mitsubishi explaining that if I take my car to an Authorized service shop, I expect it to be done right, or I expect them to pay for the repairs to fix what was done wrong (in nicer words, of course). I doubt anything will come of it, but ... if you sit around and let people crap on you without complaint, they'll just keep doing it. So, tomorrow I hopefully find out how bad I'm hit on these repairs. I'm guessing I'm at $2000 now. -- Kagetsume | | Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | | 12:19 am |
Mwhahaha.
I have a remote control dalek. The cats now hate me. -- Kagetsume | | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | | 11:24 am |
Two years and still 20/20
So ... two years have passed since I had LASIK done. Before the procedure I was -10.5 diopters which is hugely nearsighted. Not many are that bad or worse. Now two years later, I still read at 20/20 and my current level of nearsightedness is extremely minimal to nonexistent (and not worth trying to correct any further). All I have to say to that is YAY!-- Kagetsume | | Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | | 11:39 pm |
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