is to rock…
HARDER!
Cataloging the Detritus of my Life
is to rock…
HARDER!
Is located just outside of Sacramento and is the home of the UC Aggies. I live in Davis, CA. A city with a large educated population surrounded by farming communities, it’s a little bit of blue in a sea of red, its greatest flaw though is the the complete lack of culture. There are a few art galleries in town, it doesn’t seem that anyone visits them though and the art in them is often, in my humble opinion, not worth sharing with friends or family. The hottest spot in town appears to be the place I’m working a Borders Superstore. That is correct, when people are looking for something to do when they are planning a night out on the town, somehow they decide that no night will be complete without stopping by a bookstore?! Inconceivable!?
Anyway to get to the point I’m trying to make in this post. California is being rained on, you might have seen it in the news. At times the rain is accompanied by 30-50 mph gusts of wind. So yesterday part of the city lost power. Apparently some of them will be without power for a couple of days. Somehow, Borders got listed as the nearest shelter for people without power?! The store all day yesterday was full of people, not buying anything. All they wanted to do was trash the store and make my miserable job more so. I barely get paid enough to care about how the store looks, I certainly don’t get paid enough to listen to the pussies who live in this town “sob” stories. Especially considering the fact that they don’t have a sob story. This isn’t New Orleans folks, you lost your power that’s it. The greatest moment for me had to be when we asked people to stop sitting and laying on the floor because it was becoming a safety issue. A women felt it was in her rights to talk to our manager so that she could complain to corporate. Why? She was being harassed by the employees of Borders. She and her 6 children were just sitting there on the floor blocking a major avenue of the store, and they were politely asked to stand up?! The Humanity! She then informed us that “There are children without power, WITHOUT power! Davis is facing a real crisis”. I had to bite my tongue and walk away at this point. Else I would have told her to shut up, that a power outage was not a crisis, it was the norm for the majority of humans in the world today and that she had no right to bitch or moan about anything… Second best moment was the two teenage girls begging to use our outlets to recharge their Ipods, they were almost in tears when we said “no”…
Note to self righteous prigs in Davis, CA – You don’t get to be pretentious unless you have a damn good reason for being so, living in Davis does not, I repeat, does not justify your attitude. You are a nobody living in a no name place. Get over yourself.
P.S. I hate you!
One of the things I that helps with accomplishing the goals you set out is telling people about them, as I stated in this post. That’s why I made a big public stink about it in the first place it’s also why I’m still talking about it too, in the hopes that one of you who reads this will mention it to me in person, to help keep me on the ball. Diana has been great in this regard, any time she sees my hands getting near my mouth she gives me a look and tells me to knock it off. It has been 20 days since I last bit them, I’m thinking the old habit of biting will be broken in another 15.
That leaves working out… Not much good news on that front, December is a terrible month to start exercising regularly. My work schedule starts doing funky things, funkier than usual that is. On top of that there is all sorts of traveling and such. I haven’t worked out at all. I’m thinking swimming is out too, with my schedule changing at work, and the job switch in March, I don’t think I can do it. So I’m canceling that. The complex I live in has a work-out room which I can use. I have a short term goal to organize a work out plan by the end of next week, which I then can implement. Diana is going to be a big help there too as she is also trying to start a work-out regime… I’ll keep you updated!
What else is in the queue? Oh, next after stop biting nails and exercising is meditation. I’m really excited about this one! Everything I’ve read on the subject says it’s life altering, paradigm shifting, and mind numbingly boring too! I can’t wait to find out for myself!
Also dozens of books and games in the queue… You saw the towers, you know! Oh, I also have 2 days to come up with something worth sharing with my writing group (sorry MOAP!)
Most of you can ignore this as you have no idea what QFG2 is, but for those of you who do know what it is you know you should be very excited! For those of you who don’t QFG was a Sierra series that combined traditional RPG elements with Sierra’s award winning storytelling and adventures! I’d BETA this if I had the time too, but since I don’t I’ll wait for the final release.
I will be playing through the originals though! Thank goodness for DOSbox!
Read all about it if you want here