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OK, this is totally bizarre.

According to T Shirt Countdown, my store got 589 votes in one day, vaulting it from 12th place to 3rd. I’m sure someone must have run a bot or something to generate those votes, since I know nobody is buying my shirts and mousepads and such. Oh, well, maybe I’ll sell a bunch to the 102nd folks and veteran types. 🙂
current_mood: amused

Darn! I’ve dropped from my high of #11 back to #12 on T Shirt Countdown. I’m never gonna make the top 10. 🙂

No new designs in the store, but I’m thinking of some Christmas designs.
current_mood: thirsty

OK, I’m #11 on the T-shirt Countdown. That’s pretty cool, but the Top 10 are the ones who show up on the front page of the site. Anyone want to help push me over the top? Hit my store to vote me into the top 10. You know you want a new shirt…

OK, so not only is the 19th the boy’s birthday, and my sister’s birthday, it turns out to be ‘s birthday as well!

Just stacking up the birthday wishes, here. Well, Kit, happy birthday, and we’re having a dinner party for the boy, if you’d like to stop by for some lasagne. Might be a bit of a drive, but I offered anyway. 🙂
current_mood: chipper

The award system at work resembles the military way too closely. I realize, with an organization that supports the military and with the vast majority of the employees (and more importantly, the management) being veterans, such things are inevitable. This is absurd.

My Boss (B1) works for B2. B1 recently (under duress) recommended everyone on his team for awards, which have to be sent through B2. B2 now feels that it is imperative that B1 get a comparable award when we peons get ours. So, every award that I get is another award for my boss, as well as each award that he gets personally.

This is like Amway. He gets an award for any work he does, and anyone he can recruit under him as well. I thought Ponzi schemes were illegal.

Perusing my webstats page (Yep I’m bored), I noticed that the most frequent visitor so far in October is from Compaq.com. Following that address are the proxy servers for three large military sites. Glad to know my friends still in uniform have plenty of time on their hands…

Exactly why is NL the most common non-US domain this month, anyway? I got used to AU being up there all the time. Maybe my inlaws are spending lots of time looking at cute pictures of the boy.

I got this in email at work today. Figure and would enjoy it, at the least.

With all of this talk of war, many of us will encounter “Peace Activists” who will try to convince us that we must refrain from retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001. These activists may be alone or in a gathering. Most of us do not know how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:

1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.

2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the nose.

3. When the person gets up off the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you so be careful.

4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if they are committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are saying.

5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct.

6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose.

7. Repeat steps 2 – 5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid an argument he/she is making. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people. It is unacceptable and must be dealt with, perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are doing for our children and us. We must support them and our leaders at times like these. We have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep being hit in the nose.

Case closed.
current_mood: amused

So, if you didn’t know already, I’m kind of an Origami freak. I got a book a few months ago that has a bunch of dollar-bill folds. Some are quick and easy, like making a simple US dollar into a 5-pointed star. I’d make that and leave it as a tip in a restaurant.

A coworker has bought a bunch of these off of me now, and I’ve been working through the book. My personal favorite so far: the elephant. Very cool looking. Maybe I’ll make a bunch and take a pic of them to post for everyone’s entertainment.

So, if you were a waiter/waitress, and you got a triceratops as part of your tip, would you unfold it and spend it or keep it as a cool piece of memorabilia?
current_mood: tired

LJ is insanely slow today, giving me much more than the usual number of timeouts and such.

Meanwhile, my shirt designs have jumped up from 16 to 13 tonight, on the T Shirt Countdown site.
current_mood: tired

Over on SlashDot, they’re planning an interview with the object of WAY too many people’s obsessions here in LJ-land: Wesley Crusher. Yes, boys and (mainly) girls, you can Ask Wil Wheaton Anything. Go nuts.

OK, in a continuing effort to waste lots of time and amuse myself, I’ve added a whole boatload of new items to my Store. Finally got tired of waiting for the help of friends, and pulled out Adobe Illustrator to make my own crest and such. Now, I’ve added a bunch of brightly colored items, especially aimed at those of us who spent way too much time in Korea, but maybe you know someone who would be amused by a Military Intelligence mug or something.

At least vote to keep me on the T-Shirt Countdown list. I’m 15 and holding right now, but I’d sure like to be in the top 10, just because I’m pathetic like that.

Purity tests are like IQ tests: they all give a different score. I’m sure I got a score around 45% on the old 500-question Purity Test, but the Spark version gave me 52%. I don’t think I’ve gotten MORE pure. In fact, I can think of at least one thing I’ve been able to add to the “yes” side since the last time I took one of those things.

After spending half the day staring at a blank monitor for fear of upsetting the LAN nazis, doing no actual productive work at all, I came home.

After went to work, the monster awoke. And monster is the correct term today.

Lotion – opened and dumped on self.

Wallet – acquired, and dumped all cards and cash all over the couch. Was getting set on serious destruction when I sent him to his room to pout.

After a few minutes and no little man poking his cute little head out of his room, I enter to investigate. He had discovered his baby powder, and dumped that into a drawer he had pulled out of his nightstand onto the floor.

Naturally, he looks up when I exclaim, as if he can not possibly understand why this is not a perfectly acceptable thing to do. He was given his third bath in three days, and then we went out to climb the monkey bars and run around like crazy people. Hope he likes dinner…
current_mood: busy

What do you know, it is yet another LJ girlie’s birthday today. Hope you get everything you want, Lori.

Here’s a keeper:

Subject: Never Buy Condoms Again

Yeah, I’m not reading that message at all, thanks. Mmm, mailorder rubbers, just what everyone needs.

I know I’m old, compared to the norm on LJ, but this was not always the case. When I was in High School back in SoCal, there was an online phenomenon similar to LJ called BBS forums.

We even had get-togethers, although rarely on the scale of the LA LJ Bash. At one gathering, I had printed out the collected conversational threads from the previous several months to share with the crowd as we chowed down on pizza (75% of the gatherings were at pizza places for some reason). Imagine trying to print out even a single day worth of the collected ramblings from this thing. Damn!

‘Twas young ‘s birthday today. She is now old enough to buy alcohol if she ever visits the States.

Of course, since it is currently 10pm in Oz, this is somewhat belated. Hope you had a good day, Ruth.

Ahhh… The boy went to sleep without complaint, after an evening where (for a change) I never once felt like strangling him even a little bit. Good thing those little people are cute, or they’d never make it to adulthood.

My job is still pointless, and we found out this week that the current contract has been renewed with this company. Oh, joy, I get to continue working for a company that is notorious throughout the defense industry for being cheap bastards. Oh, well. Could be worse, could be working hard for little money, instead of working little for decent money. I’ve heard of something called job satisfaction; wonder what that is.

Night, LJ freaks and folks.

OK, so now I’m starting to slip back down the T Shirt Countdown charts. C’mon, people! Get in there and vote for your favorite antisocial jerk. Start Here

hehe

Not that anyone cares, but cam is on.

10:18pm – Time for bed. Night.