I saw some news reports on this and have already signed a petition as well as sent letters to my congressmen but I received this email today and felt like it was important enough to post. Even if you don’t listen to Internet radio, this is an important issue and you should head on over and do what you can. Thanks
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But if you don’t want to listen to people making fun of your Christianity don’t click play. I just thought that they were so appropriate. I guess if I were a true Christian I wouldn’t find them so funny, but they are SO true. There are several parts, I am going to torture you and embed them all.
This is part two (duh)
part three
part four
I particularly like the tongues of fire in the last one.
…but I still don’t have a time line. I spoke with my Vice President this morning at length, and while the conversation sounded pretty positive you can never tell what’s going to happen with them. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time someone with my company has lied to me.
Later on in the day one of the guys in Alabama that might have also taken over the district called me up for a reference and to congratulate me. I guess that my VP had also visited him today and told him that had I not been wanting the district they might have pulled him back over here, but they were putting me in it instead. Good damn deal. That’s at least a $20k raise, possibly more once I have been there a few months.
They still have to fill my position and there are a couple of possibilities there, so it might be two days or two months, although they aren’t going to leave it open too long, and thanks to some changes that my company made this past year the only way that they could feasibly fill the spot and NOT promote me would be with a transfer, a lateral move putting someone from a different area into the spot. Since I hold the senior position on their promotion list (I’ve turned down four districts so far in the last year) they HAVE to offer it to me first.
It does mean that at least right away, posting may be a bit lighter, but for me light posting means one paid post and three or four normal ones anyway 🙂
I will probably take some time to write on my days off next week and save some of them as drafts for a few of those 20 hour days when all I want to do when i get home is to pass out.
I will end up with the three stores in the Villa Rica area, including the one where they arrested that dude for filming people in the bathrooms. I guess I need to leave my cameras at home.
Here’s what the new site design is going to look like once I finally get all of the bugs out. Let me know what you think.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to pull a big old plug out and have some brain matter come out with it? Me either.
I am getting a new template ready for the site as I have been fairly unhappy with my design for quite some time. It is not 100% complete as it is from a normal web page template, and I am having to code it to work with my blog platform, but I would like some feedback if possible. It is currently located at http://www.shadowscope.com/gothtest/testindex.php. Don’t leave any comments there as I have only gotten started on the main index page thus far, but any feedback would be appreciated.
One of my older posts that I had submitted over at Indie Bloggers, “Growing up With the Boob Tube” was approved over at Indie Bloggers. They must really be running dry to have my crap up. 😉
Actually it was one of those posts that I really thought was well done and well thought out. 99% of what I post is whatever crap happens to be flying through my head at that particular point during the day, but some of them I really make an attempt to entertain, inform, or at least make your head explode from the insanity of what I might be thinking about.
There are some pretty good writers that post over at Indie bloggers, so go check it out if you get the chance. I may start submitting some more cross-posted stuff if I have the time. It had been so long since I had anything approved I was starting to get a complex.
Back when I was nine or ten (before I knew any better) I used to like Barry Manilow. OK, so the secret’s out now. I have just become a social pariah among my peers. Anyway, the shadowscope mom used to love Barry Manilow, so I got to listen to quite a bit of it and I liked him. I think at that point in my life he reminded me of Gene Wilder, who I loved as a comedian. I don’t know why. I just did.
Mr Fabulous has a stunning re-write of Copacabana over at his site. In order to get the full hilarious effect of the song though, make sure that you listen to the audio portion at the end of the post. Oh, and go vote for him as funniest blogger at the Blogger’s Choice awards (it’s linked in the post).
…Perugia?
One of the things that I really enjoy doing when I am writing some of my reviews are the posts about vacations in different places, particularly in foreign countries that I have not been able to visit. I was checking out hotelclub.net tonight because you know, that’s what I do 🙂 and I came across a listing for Discount Perugia Hotels.
Where is Perugia you say? It is the capital city in the region of Umbria which is in central Italy right near the Tiber river (or so Wiki tells me). Hey, and they have a chocolate festival in October. Italy and Germany in October. Sweet. Chocolate and Beer, two of my favorite food groups.
Anyway, they only have one listing for a five star hotel in Perugia but there are several four stars available such as the Castello Dell’Oscano Hotel Cenerente, which is probably more in my price range.
Check out this postcard from Perugia.
Looks like a really nice place to visit actually.
That one is the Fontana Maggiore which is at the center of Piazza IV Novembre. I was built as a monument to celebrate the success of the completion of the aqueduct which carried water into the main square back in 1277. Pretty darned cool hydraulic system seeing as how it was designed 730 years ago.
My brother sent me a link in the comments to my original entry on the VA Tech shootings. Apparently Bryce is a student there and has posted several times on the shootings. They are very heartfelt and like most of the students there he is confused and hurt. He has apparently been interviewed several times today and this is his site.
Man, there are actually news agencies commenting on his blog trying to get interviews. What a bunch of fucking ambulance chasing vultures. CBC and MTV have both posted comments requesting interviews that I saw and I didn’t read in very far. I can’t really say that I wouldn’t grant one myself though. Blogging is becoming very mainstream now.
My heartfelt condolences go out to all of the victims and their families in this tragedy, as do the prayers from the rest of my family.
