I was talking to someone yesterday about how warm this winter has been (I make AMAZING weather conversation, oh yes). I remarked that next year we'd be swimming (without explaining myself and assuming they'd read my mind, like I often mistakenly do)... they chuckled and made replied that yes, "it'll just keep getting warmer!"

Really I meant because we'd be swimming (i.e. drowning, haha and snortchuckle) in the melted polar ice caps due to global warming.

But I guess the less-pessimistic interpretation works, too.

Kinda.


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Joined veganism and found this in the User Info. Struck me.

( Should we know better? )

Thought suddenly of memorizing Bible verses at First Baptist Christian School of E-town. Wondered if there aren't snippets of secular text that would be worth a similar pursuit in neuron-creation. Like this one.

We had our "holiday brunch" today, in the basement of our building.

My company is so freggen dumb.

When Katrina struck, I was blown away when they pledged to double-match any employee contributions to the relief effort. Every dollar turns into three -- huge, right? Yes. Oh, Shropson-Pest, you are so generous! You are so kind! Bless you, you really care about people! General sounds of applause and pleased gasping, blah blah blah. Some millions of dollars donated (because they are gigundous and international and have thousands of employees and billions of dollars, natch), blah blah.

A few weeks after the "We R Teh Best" announcement, the employees were informed that things like holiday parties and bonuses and such were going to be scaled down, due to the expense of the double-matching-gift program for Katrina relief. K.

Now, I'ma be careful here, because I wish nothing less than every good and generous thing for the survivors of Katrina. For the survivors of any disaster. Please do not misunderstand me.

My issue is with this HUGE company waving its dick around like it has money enough to wipe its ass with, and then forcing its employees -- the people who give it a dick to wave in the first place -- to, essentially, help pay for the waving when they A) WEREN'T GIVEN A CHOICE and B) DONATED THE MONEY TO BE MATCHED IN THE FIRST PLACE. These people have already given what they could; they come to work (I'm not even talking about myself here; I don't really consider myself to be a dedicated employee of Shropson-Pest) for peanuts, day in and day out; they look forward to ONE time during the year when their workplace and their co-workers have the potential to be fun and out-of-the-ordinary and relaxed... these people are the ones who lose their extras because Shropson couldn't stand behind THEIR pledge, eat the loss, and take home a few million less in profits for 2005.

And, like I alluded to earlier, no one will balk because it was Katrina. Shropson has an easy out in "We did it to help the victims! Don't you care about them?! We all need to sacrifice!".

So I'll just put/keep it here. I think it's shady, and dishonest, and not classy at all.

It seems a week full of wrongs-cum-right, or wrongs-on-their-way-to-being-right... or something. I got the overwhelming feeling that I should acknowledge these (albeit a day belatedly).


My retro-dated red ribbon:
(Snagged from numerous users.)




And retro-dated recognition:
( Rosa Fucking Parks. You go, girl. )


And no retro-dating for an everyday plea:
( There is never an excuse. )


We have so much work to do.

If any record, of any kind, at any time, inspires anyone I know to do anything so blindly fucking selfish and moronically motivated like this, especially after literally or figuratively LEAVING THE WINDOW TO THEIR OWN FUCKING MISFORTUNE HANGING WIDE OPEN, I might attack and cut off any dangling or convenient body part I can get my hands on.

You think I'm kidding. I'm not kidding.

The bird was shot... while cowering in a corner.

I'd like to go kick over every one of their goddamn dominoes myself. And then just hold them in a corner with an air rifle for ten minutes or so. Maybe a starter pistol, so I could shoot it and they'd think for a split second that they got shot. Over a domino record. Mother fuckers.