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rmiles7721April 19, 2007Site News

Nothing Else Today…

rmiles7721April 19, 2007Site News

I’m feeling pretty blah tonight. Very tired. I ended up staying late last night when I went in for the shift change so didn’t go to bed until after midnight.

It still looks like I will be picking up the three stores at some point soon but I have no idea when. I am just sort of playing it by ear right now and doing my job.

Tomorrow is going to be a pretty long day. I am slightly shorthanded due to one of my cooks being accused of sexual harassment. I’ve pulled him off of his shift and the only time he is going to be able to work for awhile is if I am there at least until the investigation. Even after that he may need to go somewhere else, I just don’t think I have anyone on the night shift that will work with him should the company decide to keep him. That’s a decision I pretty much have no control over right now.

My other night shift cook had his Aunt pass away today. He was calling to let me know, and that he would still be at work tonight but has to leave for Florida at five AM. I told him I appreciated it and am getting ready to go to bed. It takes me awhile to wake up so if I have to be there by 4:30 I need to get up by 3 or so. I’m pretty tired and boring tonight anyway so sleeping shouldn’t be a problem.

Sorry about the lack of anything cool over the last two days. Maybe I will talk about the time I duct taped my children into a trash barrel and rolled them into traffic some other evening.

Another Book Meme

rmiles7721April 19, 2007Blogging, Entertainment

Valkyrie Angel brought this meme up in the comments to one of my other posts, I guess she is participating right now and is trying to get readers to participate at well, so I am recycling this post from March of this year since I am too lazy and it was so recent that nothing has changed.

Another book meme thanks to Jenn at Everyday Randomness. This one is even bigger than the sci-fi meme I did recently.

Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

I’m not going to italicize any of them because I am not adverse to reading just about anything that might cross my lap. Personally I think that the bible should not be in the list, but to each his own. I have read several different versions of it, so I did bold it.

Help Save Internet Radio

rmiles7721April 18, 20076Entertainment, Politics, Technology

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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Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora,

I’m writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays, and broadcast radio doesn’t pay these at all. Left unchanged, these new royalties will kill every Internet radio site, including Pandora.

In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition, a group that includes listeners, artists, labels and webcasters. I hope that you will consider joining us.

Please sign our petition urging your Congressional representative to act to save Internet radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9631541

Please feel free to forward this link/email to your friends – the more petitioners we can get, the better.

Understand that we are fully supportive of paying royalties to the artists whose music we play, and have done so since our inception. As a former touring musician myself, I’m no stranger to the challenges facing working musicians. The issue we have with the recent ruling is that it puts the cost of streaming far out of the range of ANY webcaster’s business potential.

I hope you’ll take just a few minutes to sign our petition – it WILL make a difference. As a young industry, we do not have the lobbying power of the RIAA. You, our listeners, are by far our biggest and most influential allies.

As always, and now more than ever, thank you for your support.

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-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)

© copyright 2006, Pandora Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

360 22nd Street – Suite 440 – Oakland CA – 94612


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These are Great!

rmiles7721April 18, 20071Site News

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.

I Am Taking The Promotion…

rmiles7721April 18, 2007Site News

…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.

New Site Design

rmiles7721April 17, 20078Blogging, Technology

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.

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Just a Thought…

rmiles7721April 17, 20072Uncategorized

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.

Site Design

rmiles7721April 17, 20075Blogging, Technology

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.

Very Cool

rmiles7721April 16, 2007Entertainment

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.


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