evile: howdy. Did the movers get everything fixed up?
SkyeDS: yes, all is well now :)
evile: awesome! hopefully that'll make Sharon happier, too.
SkyeDS: well, they did my office before hers, and hers is still
messed up, so...
evile: oops.
SkyeDS: <shrugs> I didn't have anything to do with that
evile: Probably makes more sense logistically. Or something.
SkyeDS: these people always have something to be upset about
SkyeDS: makes it hard for me to care
evile: yeah. drama junkies are hard to take seriously. Chicken Little
syndrome.
SkyeDS: I'm waiting to be told that Paul (the big ass boss) is upset
with me because I couldn't get anything done around the movers
yesterday.
evile: They didn't show up til almost 4, WTF.
SkyeDS: I have a question about business use of your car
SkyeDS: do you get to write off more than mileage?
SkyeDS: like part of the lease payment?
evile: nopers. It's possible that if I'd been willing to keep a
mileage log or something, I could have. But...time/trouble vs. return
didn't seem worthwhile.
SkyeDS: wonder what a business has to do to write off the entire cost
of a vehicle that's used for nothing but business
evile: I dunno. That's probably a question for the IRS or an
accountant.
SkyeDS: yep. should be easy question too.
evile: I had wierdness because I didn't have an office separate from
my home, so the first leg of any trip would be non-business-
reimbursable, it just seemed stupid so after about a month of trying
to keep business & personal milage separate, I gave up.
SkyeDS: that does sound weird
evile: And the IRS *really* likes to audit people who write off
mileage & people who have home offices. If they find so much as a
piece of personal correspondence in the space you're writing off
as 'office' you are fuxored.
SkyeDS: I had a home office for six years and didn't get audited.
But I probably was too small to count
evile: No telling. I am entirely too negative & paranoid, really. I
just didn't see that the $ benefits were worth the hassle & risk of
audit.
evile: Sweetie wants us to go camping this weekend. It's supposed to be
cold out. And just to put a bit of icing on the cake, some friend-of-
a-friend is playing a gig at some local dive near Pace Bend.
So...suffering thru some ungodly hippie racket followed by freezing
my ass off in the great outdoors.
SkyeDS: I thought PB was expensive camping
evile: Sweetie likes it enough to pay. He's been out there the last 2
weekends
evile: Saturday daytime is supposed to be sunny, but a little chilly.
I might go outside for the day, but I'd want to be home by the time
it got down to that 32 degree low!
SkyeDS: if people want lessons on Sats/Suns my time will need serious
rearranging
evile: yup. A lot less free time for you. At least at first, while
you're still working your temp & your contract work at the same time.
SkyeDS: oh no.
SkyeDS: not going to teach until IBM is gone.
evile: good.
SkyeDS: I was thinking more along the lines of park/Kaleon time
evile: oh, okay then.
SkyeDS: the therapist yesterday convinced the baby's parents to come
get him on Sundays (from Kaleon's) so that's progress
evile: cool.
evile: They wouldn't even necessarily have to go to Kaleons, there are
lots of restaurants & cafes & hangout places nearby where you could
drop him off on your way and they could pick him up.
evile: But it's a good sign that they're willing to do what the
therapist suggests
SkyeDS: I was thinking bennigan's (there close)
evile: I didnt' know there was a bennigans on campus or near campus.
There's Amy's, Mangia, Half Price Books right up the road, Toy Joy,
Kerbey Ln...lots of collegey stuff.
SkyeDS: the bennigan's at 183/35
SkyeDS: Kaleon's partment behind it
evile: Oh, I guess he moved since I saw his place last. heh.
SkyeDS: yeah he's in chevy chase off that intersection
evile: That's handier than campus.
SkyeDS: much
evile: I probably should have guessed when you mentioned his complex
had a hot tub. That little student ghetto place he used to live in
wouldn't have room for something like that.
SkyeDS: nope
SkyeDS: he's got half a dozen friends he works and games with in the
same complex now
SkyeDS: well whaddya know
SkyeDS: boss knocked, I opened up, showed her that I worked my ass
off this morning and she's happy
evile: The Rocky people did that a decade or so ago with the
Brownstone. from what I understand it was just one big nasty soap
opera. If you have a few hours, ask Joanna bout the Brownstone Days
sometime :)
evile: Glad the boss is happy with you. Nice change of pace :)
SkyeDS: yep
evile: I re-sent the orkut invite. I don't think orkut sent anything
to any of the people I added to my 'friends' list.
SkyeDS: launchcast is a marvelous thing
evile: I've been getting major train wrecks today. Enya & the Sex
Pistols.
SkyeDS: lol
SkyeDS: I haven't played my station yet
SkyeDS: I'm still programming it
SkyeDS: I go through a different station each day
evile: sounds like a good plan. I only have 2-3 I listen to often.
evile: So far, your station isn't train-wrecky at all. I listened to
it for a bit on...Monday or Tuesday, I think...
SkyeDS: lol
SkyeDS: just wait
evile: I don't know if mine just got better with more ratings or if I
just got used to it, but it does seem like it is not as bad as it
used to be.
SkyeDS: this week I've covered Rock, Country, Showtunes and Oldies.
SkyeDS: oh and Pop
evile: cool :)
SkyeDS: I'm waiting for Enya to hit back to back with like Ozzy
evile: hee.
evile: Oh did I tell you? They didn't finish waxing last night, so we
have to unplug & put everything on top of the desks again today. No
word on when they'll actually be done.
SkyeDS: fun fun
evile: I'm sure having to kill 10 years' worth of feral dust rhinos
probably took up most of their time last night.
SkyeDS: you didn't want to work today anyway did you?
evile: The shit thing is I clock in & out on my computer. And it
takes several minutes after plugging in & turning on to be able to
send email. Which are me being here off the clock. FTS. I clocked
myself in using a blank piece of paper & the punch they use for mail.
SkyeDS: <hugs> :(
evile: Thanks. I am sure I'll like it when the floors are clean &
shiny. Whenever that eventually happens :P
evile: You know, I'm only 4 days into it, so I probably shouldn't say
anything, but restricted calories aren't so bad. I can still eat
whatever I want, just no more after I hit 1400 for the day.
SkyeDS: I did calorie rotation in high school and did real well with
it
evile: I like LC and I do lose weight on it, but for the first few
weeks I absolutely _crave_ everything I can't have.
evile: I don't like the word 'no'...tell me I can't have anal sex
with Adolf Hitler, and I'll decide that's EXACTLY what I want to do.
Stupid.
SkyeDS: one thing atkins said that I took up was that you need a break
SkyeDS: pick another plan and go with it for a week once a month
SkyeDS: when I did rotation in high school I did free days and that
worked too (one per week)
evile: yeah.
evile: I liked ediets.com, they had good worksheets & nice mood-
lifting comments & such, but they send a TON of email. With graphics
& all kindsa good stuff. bleh!
SkyeDS: alternating plans/free days avoid plateaus and are good for
the psychology too
SkyeDS: boredom and cravings and stuff
evile: yup. I've had to do that with my exercise videos & DVDs. Ana
Caban's Pilates works WELL, but it gets boring.
SkyeDS: boredom = big factor in diet and exercise both methinks
evile: yup.
evile: I heard something on the radio today about Gov. Perry
encouraging all Texans to take the Gov's fitness challenge or some
crap. What a hypocritical piece of garbage he is...
SkyeDS: I say see if you can find 10 good people in Washington
SkyeDS: tell them to high tail it
SkyeDS: and then nuke the rest of both parties
evile: Term limits & campaign contribution limits would probably be
helpful.
SkyeDS: both of which could be construed by purists as restraints of
the 1st amendment
evile: But we have a precedent in that nobody can serve as President
more than twice, right?
SkyeDS: yes
SkyeDS: which the same people no doubt argued against before that
passed
evile: Not that it really prevents dynasty-building. We are seeing
results now of stuff Nixon put in play.
SkyeDS: most people just dont have enough foresight to see 10
generations ahead
evile: That's what I found so fascinating in the original Dune
series. The ones by his son aren't any good for that, but the first 3-
4 in Frank Herberts original series were very cool re: all the
politics.
SkyeDS: Anne McCaffrey is good w/ it too
SkyeDS: and Mercedes Lackey
evile: Another problem with most people is that they don't have any
problem robbing future generations to get more stuff today. Or any
problem borrowing against future earnings to get more stuff
today...very short sighted.
SkyeDS: and I guess arguably Robert Jordan but my god that man is
writing a fucking encyclopedia
SkyeDS: someone should bitchsmack his editor
evile: I am hesitant to pick up any series that are still in
progress.
SkyeDS: not planning for 10 generations is a problem economically,
politically AND environmentally
SkyeDS: I think if you look at most problems of both individuals and
society, they all interconnect back to the same root/s.
evile: Macro vs Micro/"as above so below." Exactly.
SkyeDS: being able to see Patterns, and being able to affect them
more than most, but not fix them altogether, would be very
aggravating if I dwelt much on it
evile: Yup. I'm just working on me, and not inflicting offspring on
the world, and that's as far as it's going to get.
SkyeDS: I have a whole list of "somebody ought to" but no inclination
to do it myself
SkyeDS: I tried that when I was younger and got shot down
SkyeDS: and I'm still paying for it (student loan) so no thank you
evile: yuck.
SkyeDS: you might not remember that I was once upon a time going to
save the Texas public school system
evile: That whole mess is not save-able. Assuming I did have kids,
I'd home school.
SkyeDS: me too
SkyeDS: my only concern used to be activities
SkyeDS: band, choir, uil
SkyeDS: and you can get those if you home school with groups
evile: right.
SkyeDS: and I think they ought to make UIL allow home schoolers to
compete
evile: seems fair to me. your taxes pay for it as much as anyone
elses.
SkyeDS: exact;u
SkyeDS: I still wish they'd just privatize schools entirely
SkyeDS: school wasn't always free in this country
SkyeDS: it isn't a constitutional right
evile: Most people take it completely for granted anyway.
SkyeDS: there is no right to free school
SkyeDS: it isn't free
SkyeDS: those of us with kids pay for something broken
SkyeDS: all it is is taxpayer funded babysitting
SkyeDS: and it sucks even as babysitting
evile: yup.
SkyeDS: let teachers run schools like private businesses and a lot
would straighten up
SkyeDS: I believe you'd see the costs go down AND the quality improve
at the same time
evile: absolutely.
evile: There was a pagan homeschooling network yahoo group for a
while, but since it was not of interest, I didn't follow it. I guess
the concept was that pagan people were going to homeschool their kids
together to get them socialized & also let the adults trade areas of
expertise & stuff
SkyeDS: there is a big pagan homeschooling network in Texas
SkyeDS: and oddly enough they work in hand sometimes with the Xian
HS network
evile: I wonder if the yahoo group was an offshoot of that, or just a
bunch of people who didn't know about the bigger group.
SkyeDS: it makes sense for pagans and xians to homeschool together
SkyeDS: if they both want to instill spiritual values themselves and
for academics to be purely academic
evile: Assuming none of them are fundie freaks, yes.
evile: Any person of sincere faith & spiritual practice is going to
have more in common with another person of sincere faith than with
someone who is either a fundie freak or agnostic.
SkyeDS: zactly
evile: I am going to have another chat with my boss lady. The
clerical staff is getting snippy again.
SkyeDS: why can't people just play nice in the sandbox with other
children...
evile: I love it when someone assumes they are important enough for
me to actively engage in malicious acts against them. Sorry, that's
not the case. A genuine mistake was made, it was not deliberate, and
I'm sorry they have to make it personal to make themselves feel like
big shit.
evile: and there is absolutely ZERO evidence to show that it was _my_
mistake anyway, so they need to shut their big fat holes.
SkyeDS: there's a combination for you
SkyeDS: Poison and Ronnie Milsap
evile: heh!
evile: People around here really need some lessons in communication.
It does NOT accomplish anything to talk down to people, or accuse
them of deliberately fucking something up.
SkyeDS: something Sharon and Paul could learn too
SkyeDS: gawd/dess I hope the Judge throws this out of court tomorrow
SkyeDS: but it's too complicated and it won't work that way I'm sure
evile: It would accomplish the same thing (and maybe more) to
approach someone with "We've been seeing this problem. Can you be
sure this isn't happening before you bring stuff over?"
SkyeDS: even though it's obvious to the blind that they have no case
evile: Rather than "YOU have been making this mistake"
evile: And then if it gets to the point where it's obvious that
someone is _deliberately_ and repeatedly doing somehting wrong, then
go to their supervisor and keep it professional. Not this snarky
bullcrap.
evile: I am with the 'hire contractors' model of business. having
employees is a giant PITA. Especially lazy ass entitlement minded
heffers like we have here.
evile: I guess this is as important as they get to be in their lives,
so they have to abuse it as much as possible before they go home to
thieir nothing little lives.
evile: The latest uproar was over one of my unit leaving a fricken
STAPLE in something. Puh leeze. You'd think I'd gone over there and
thrown garbage on them or something
SkyeDS: I'm sorry but that's funny
evile: It is...but it's just so damned PETTY and PATHETIC.
evile: Get pissed off because you didn't get a raise for the last 2
years. Take THAT personally, but dont' get pissed off because out of
100 documents, ONE didn't get the staple taken out. christ. Grow the
hell up.
SkyeDS: lolol
evile: So stupid. I would give body parts and possibly internal
organs to have cool coworkers.
evile: J-Law doesn't know how good she has it...
SkyeDS: lol another pair for you, Queen and Enya
evile: heh. Perfect.
evile: aaa! SEVERELY burned popcorn. And here I was hoping to go home
without a headache today. uff.
SkyeDS: :(
evile: When I die and go to hell, there will be burned popcorn served
at the square dance lessons.
SkyeDS: lol
evile: I've been thinking of mending my ways because of all that :P
Right after I go to the Alamo Drafthouse showing of Mel Gibson's
Jesus movie.
SkyeDS: let me know how that is
evile: They're serving 'flesh and blood' themed food that will be
blessed on site by a priest. All of this at Midnight on Ash Wednesday
(tail end of Mardi Gras, however you wanna look at it)...woo. Major
hell-going.
SkyeDS: a real priest?
evile: Thats what the ad said.
evile: They probably left out the word 'satanic' or 'discordian' or
something key like that.
SkyeDS: lol
evile: I haven't been a practicing catholic in over 20 years now, and
the thought still makes me really uncomfortable. I dont' think you
ever really get over that early religious conditioning.
SkyeDS: their attempts at early conditioning with me never took
SkyeDS: but then my parents aren't truly spiritual
evile: I think my mom went catholic at a pretty impressionable time
in my life. Plus its so theatrical, it kind of gets right to the
nonverbal parts of you. Or did me anyway.
SkyeDS: it's the closest thing to paganism you can get in Xianity.
Thinnest whitewash venner
SkyeDS: err veneer
evile: yeah but the Guilt is purely Xtian addition :P
SkyeDS: I have a friend who is a High Church Anglican Priest and he
thinks that I have propensities for mystery and ritual that would
make me a good HCA.
SkyeDS: and I pointed out that I'm perfectly good at what I am
evile: wow.
SkyeDS: my lutheran friend thinks I'd be a good lutheran too
SkyeDS: would be nice if one of the strega elders would say, gee, she
makes a good strega.
evile: heh. That's interesting. They probably do mean it as a
compliment...
SkyeDS: I know they do and I take it as such
SkyeDS: they are my friends
evile: (the xtians, that is)...sorry you're having troubles with the
Elders in your own faith.
SkyeDS: no troubles, yet
SkyeDS: I just sit back and watch their troubles from a distance
evile: That doesn't sound like much fun.
SkyeDS: it's fine as long as I"m not in them
SkyeDS: and i haven't really seen what I would call trouble
evile: Raven G. 'reads' like a major arrogant a-hole. I am sure in
person he is either someone you LOVE or HATE pretty much right away.
SkyeDS: well, like most Aries, I think he needs someone else doing
his research for him
SkyeDS: he likes to talk like he's an authority without necessarily
backing himself up all the time
evile: If he were in my religious hierarchy, I'd have _major_
difficulties with him.
SkyeDS: I don't come into enough contact with him for it to be an
issue, yet
SkyeDS: Amberlyn has major attitude
SkyeDS: but I learn from her so I don't say anything yet
evile: That is your HPS?
SkyeDS: nod
SkyeDS: she prides herself on being the hardest teacher in the Clan
SkyeDS: <shrug>
SkyeDS: I know she doesn't get along with my friends Iona and Maggie
SkyeDS: but I stay out of that. way the hell out of that.
evile: Yup.
SkyeDS: she asked me why I am not striving toward initiation
SkyeDS: and I said I am, in my own way and my own time
SkyeDS: let her make of that what she will
evile: You ought to be more familiar with your own limits than anyone
else, so that makes sense to me.
SkyeDS: well if/when she decides I'm not aggressive or ambitious
enough in my pursuit, she can cut me loose and I'll study with Gaia,
Maggie and Iona
evile: true.
SkyeDS: to reach 3d degree, I have to be initiated by a man. For a
reason. And there are only two in the country, Raven and someone I
don't know at all.
SkyeDS: no thank you.
evile: ew.
evile: Is there a possibility to meet &/or get to know either of
these people before you'd be required to take the 3rd degree from
them?
SkyeDS: I imagine I'd have been studying with them by that point
evile: So it wouldn't be that wierd, once you got there. Just seems
wierd from a distance.
SkyeDS: will cross that bridge if/when I get to it, but that is
probably long way away if ever
evile: You can tell me "MYOB"..but are we talking 'great rite' for
real and whatnot at 3rd deg?
SkyeDS: yes
evile: yee. That would be difficult for me, personally. I like all of
my teachers, but I guess I'm very ... constrained re: boundaries
between teacher & student, and I would feel that broke a boundary.
SkyeDS: nods
evile: Then again, I live almost entirely in my head, so I have a lot
of boundaries other people dont'.
SkyeDS: it would truly have to be part of the Pattern and feel
perfectly right, otherwise, no thank you
evile: yup.
evile: One of my friends from Nude Yoga is in CMA & due to his wife's
interest, joined GWNN. His perspective on Beltane things in
comparision to the GWNN play party was pretty interesting.
SkyeDS: I bet.
SkyeDS: many bdsm connotations in the older traditions
evile: Heck, even in Masons & Oddfellows. But they got it from Golden
Dawn & older trads., too.
SkyeDS: masons very incestuous w/ the streghe in Italy for centuries.
evile: unsurprising :)
SkyeDS: another interconnectedness. I have been involved with low
level masonic/eastern star ritual many times
evile: *nods*
SkyeDS: in the words of the immortal Capt Jack Sparrow,
interconnectedness "is very interesting"
evile: I offended lots of kids in my Old Testament class by talking
about cultural reasons for earlyMuslim, Jewish & Christian practices,
and how it's less about religion than Middle Eastern culture in
general. But...I think it's fascinating to find the roots of things.
SkyeDS: me too!
SkyeDS: I nearly got thrown out of Sunday school many times talking
about how the OT was Jewish Myth
evile: oopsie.
SkyeDS: and I was not popular when I brought up the Enuma Elish, etc
evile: People get offended, when they should be excited about finding
independent corroboration for their practices/myths/legends.
SkyeDS: but I started reading Greek myth when I was 8, and other
world myth shortly after, and the similarities can't be ignored
SkyeDS: nor the chronology
evile: I've never understood why people need to be like
that...finding things to be different & uppity about instead of
finding things in common & finding ways to relate to one another..
SkyeDS: I don't like religions that don't want you to study in
scholarly fashion
evile: me neither.
SkyeDS: how do you tell a kid whose brain works just fine thank you,
that Noah and Moses are the true stories
evile: It does seem like 'mystery' type religions draw people. I
think masons etc. fill the place that those type of practices once
did. But there is a large difference, IMHO, between saying "i am
better than you because you are pagan and I am christian" and
participating quietly in an initiates-only practice
SkyeDS: when there are stories just like them in more than one myth
system, thousands of years earlier
evile: yup. Plus I liked Enuma Elish better, because the gods'
attitude towards humans was very entertaining.
evile: Just seemed, in general, to have more reasons why it happened,
better fleshed out characters...more compelling story.
evile: yucko. my section of floor isn't getting waxed until Tuesday.
SkyeDS: :(
evile: oh well. grin & bear it, I guess, until I can put everything
back where it belongs.
SkyeDS: <hugs>
evile: thanks :)
SkyeDS: tomorrow is tgif at least
evile: yup. I think I'll get in some OT on Saturday a.m.,though.
Might as well.
SkyeDS: I have come to the conclusion that IBM is no better than
Dell.
evile: Probably not. Once an organization gets so big, that's pretty
much IT as far as efficiency & logic goes
evile: sort of like putting horses in harness...once you get past a
certain number, there is no efficient way to add more
SkyeDS: I don't like the way they treat their people
evile: It's a buyer's market. Employees don't have much leverage
these days. You can put up with the shit and keep your job or you can
take your degree and training & go work for McDonalds.
SkyeDS: dell already learned that going off to India doesn't work as
well in practice as in theory
SkyeDS: so what does IBM think it's doing going to a party that's
over already and wasn't so hot in the first place
evile: it's called 'not being able to learn from others' mistakes'...
SkyeDS: kind of stupid
evile: We all know individual people like that. Back to the
micro/macro thing.
evile: IBM watched Dell crash & burn, and they go "Oh, well, but *I*
know what they did wrong, and that won't happen to ME"..and then they
do the same thing and get the same result.
SkyeDS: insanity ;)
evile: yup.
evile: it's possible that the small wily mammal companies can watch
the big dinosaur companies falling into the tarpits and get away
clean & even make a profit. We shall see. It's happened before
SkyeDS: bout time, for you
SkyeDS: another hour here
evile: Yeah. I should make my final rounds. At least I dont' have to
crawl around on the floor unplugging & stuff.
SkyeDS: people I would have liked to have been when I grow up
SkyeDS: Bette Midler or Stevie Nicks
evile: I like Ms. Nicks' fashion sense. Don't approve of her longtime
cocaine addiction, happy she's beat it.
SkyeDS: I like her wardrobe and her music
SkyeDS: not her private life
evile: I don't know much about Bette Midler. I like some of her
songs. She was cute in that movie about getting kidnapped by Judge
Reinhold.
SkyeDS: her movies are cute
SkyeDS: like a good deal o fher music
SkyeDS: and the titsling song, LOL
evile: Maybe I should do a Bette Midler marathon this weekend. :)
SkyeDS: she did a movie with shelly whatsherface that had a roomful
of blue and golds in it
evile: hm. I will check IMDB & go to the video store with a good
list, because they probably wont' have half of what I'm looking for.
SkyeDS: little girls room <hugs> see you tomorrow :)
evile: *hugs* have a good evening :)
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