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Archive for the ‘Annoyed’ Category
A quick note
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007I’m doing what…where?
Saturday, July 21st, 2007I think the one thing I hate the most in the world, and anyone who knows me can vouch for this, is disorganization. I like to be able to walk into a clean house and when it comes to things like cleaning and laundry I have a system that I like to work with. It’s folded the second it comes out of the dryer and then goes into a laundry basket and straight back to the room. There’s no reason for something to just sit there for longer than maybe 15-20 minutes. Again, this is just how I’ve done things for many years.
So you can imagine my surprise when I found out that my new washer/dryer setup was located in the garage. I’m used to it being inside in it’s own little room and completely out of the way from bothering anyone. Knowing that I’m now in a garage doing everything has had me a bit annoyed because there’s so much crap in there that you can barely move, we’re in serious need of some storage cabinets and maybe with a clean-out of the garage we could actually, I don’t know, fit the car in there? It’s being used as a storage room and if that’s the case I don’t know why we can’t take the big bulky door off and turn it into an actual usable room considering it’s a two car garage – that’s a huge extension on the house that could be used instead of abused the way it is now!
Sex Offender “Too Short” for Prison
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I spend quite a bit of time watching the news. It’s mainly for the fact that I like to stay on top of current events but it’s also based on the fact that there’s nothing good on television anymore. I was watching CNN last night, maybe even MSNBC, because lord knows there’s enough news channels. I came across a story that not only disturbed me, but pissed me off to absolutely no end.
Judge rules sex offender is too short for prison
SIDNEY, Neb. – A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.
This man was charged on six documented counts of sexually assaulting a 13 year-old girl. He’s 52 years old and yes, 5 foot 1 inches tall. The judge then went on to state “I shudder to think of what would happen to you in prison”.
Uhm…HELLO!? He raped a 13 year-old girl, on multiple accounts and just because there are only 6 documented doesn’t mean there weren’t more behind it. I really could care less about how short he is, if you lack enough of a brain to drag your 52 year-old ass over to a 13 year-old girl then you deserve to be in jail with the rest of your kind – burdens on society.
His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.
“You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child,” she said. “That doesn’t make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category.”
He’s not a hunter? He raped a fucking child and he’s not a hunter? Based on other reports that I’ve read, this girl is extremely messed up because of these acts. Knowing that this poor child is scarred for life, how does this not make him a damn hunter?
Another thing that burns me – because yes, this story continues.
Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his pornography. He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.
And the kicker:
“I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life,” the judge told Thompson. “I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced.”
You can easily have fucking control over a person if you put them in jail where they belong. Do the crime, pay the fucking time!
A live-vote on msnbc.com (where the bulk of this article came from) has a poll up with the question:
“Do you agree this man should be kept out of prison?”
There are currently 72,656 responses to this poll. 3% of them said “Yes, the judge still gave the defendant sufficient punishment”. The people with a brain – 97% – said that “No, being small does not make a person exempt from jail.”
How exactly is 10 years of probation considered a sufficient punishment? This judge is almost as fucking stupid as the one who keeps letting Paris out of jail. Oh sure, she’s on probation in a multi million dollar home with her fluffy pillows and maid service – I swear she’s really being punished!
Probation means shit, send him to jail to be raped the same way he took advantage of that girl.
What do you think? Should he be in jail or is probation enough?
Being an adult isn’t that hard, you know?
Saturday, July 14th, 2007I know that many websites are based on the whole “If you don’t like what I have to say, click the X” mentality. Hell, I consider all of my domains to run by the same standard. It’s rare when I come across something that completely offends me and I receive a lot of spam email during the day in regards to either child porn, penis enlargement, random “you suck” comments left on my blog and other stupid things like that. I’ve naturally grown a sort of thick-skin to avoid really being effected by any of these statements being thrown at me.
I recently came across a website that offended me to no end, and this is a very rare occurrence. The owner of the site is a business man that is new in his field and more than likely just hasn’t worked out the kinks yet. He’s in the process of ridding someone who’s abusing his services and instead of dealing with it privately he’s gone on to not only publicly explain what she’s doing wrong but has also thrown random statements (that I doubt are even true) of drug usage and other aspects of her life that no one is really entitled to know. He was smart enough to not list her name for any of this but all the girl would have to do is find his website and look at the sidebar to know exactly who this man was talking about considering his pictures are plastered all over the place. I’m not quite sure how someone is able to get away with this when they’re supposed to be considered a professional.
I know, I’ve had my fair share of crap going on in the past but I would never take it as far as this person has with his client issues. I just hope that before he gets any further in his field he works on some kind of business etiquette for his future ventures or he’s not going to get very far in life at all.
It’s not a spider, it’s unique!
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Quite a few people have told me that my unique hits throughout the day are nothing more than crawlers and spiders. I can honestly tell you that this is truly not the case at all. I have quite a few stat based programs setup on my domain and each program calculates the true statistics (ip address, referrals, etc) of every visitor that my domain receives. Only 8% of my daily visitors are crawler based. This means that 92% of my daily hits are, in fact, human. For every 100 visitors, 8 of them are bots; this goes on to mean that for every 1,000 visitors to my site (which is about half of my daily average) only 80 of them are bots.
So please, would you care to explain how advertisers and fellow bloggers alike can claim that true unique hits are nothing more than bots?
A pretty sucky day so far
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I’m not sure if it’s the weather or not but I woke up feeling like complete crap today. My stomach is bothering me, my throat is a little scratchy and I’ve found that if I stand for too long I begin to get dizzy. The smell in the house doesn’t help very much either, multiple wee wee pads down and all of them filled up. Princess, yet again, missing one entirely so now that’s soaking into the rug. Since it’s too warm to open the windows the smell is just kind of lingering and it’s so potent to the point of making me nauseous on top of how bad I was originally feeling. I swear when Sean and I get out of here we’re going to just deal with hard because those naturally would require carpet for me.
Still searching high and low.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007It’s really to the point of just being too hard for me to come across an accredited distance learning school. I was set on AIU, considered Westwood and I’ve blogged about Capella University in the past but they, unfortunately, don’t offer me the courses that I’m interested in taking at the moment. The only thing close is a bachelors in Graphics and Multimedia but that’s not where I want to be. I want a web programming course, I just need someone who’s doing it at home to tell me if their school sucks or not but no one seems to know anything about it. I could still put everything on hold and just get my degree in medical billing and transcription, which down here would probably make me quite a bit of money considering in this complex alone 80% of the residents are all over the age of 60 so at least I know there’s a job base, I could just shoot down to Bebe Medical and apply but that doesn’t mean it’ll work out well for me.
My problem is that I’m still in a somewhat New York state of mind. While some people are looking at $30,000 for an entire college course (all semesters) as being rather expensive, compare it to the tens of thousands of dollars one would have to spend at a campus based college per semester if they went somewhere like CW Post. Sean attempted to go to CW Post but tuition was $17,000 per semester and then after that it was $400 per course, per semester. So figure he’s taking five courses, which is $19,000 per semester. He goes for his bachelors which is four semesters so that brings the total of a campus based degree up to a whopping $76,000. This is before you’re paying for room and board, before you’re factoring in the price of books and supplies, that could easily take what you thought was only going to be a $20,000 loan straight into the world of $100,000 loans and sooner or later, debt for the rest of your life. Now you see why I don’t want a campus based school.
Are you that desperate?
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007I’m not quite sure as to why but I keep getting the absolute dumbest comments being left by people who just float through. I previously posted about my issues with finding a school. Every aspect of the entry was pointing towards ripoffreport.com (no, it was NOT a sponsored post, contrary to popular belief) explaining that there are 70+ strikes against a supposed-to-be top notch accredited university. I also noted that every single school I’ve come across also has the exact same statistics and the only option for me at this point is a campus based school that more than likely will not fit into my schedule, this is why I’m choosing to go to an online school so I can work at my own pace – not someone else’s.
So I open my inbox today and notice a comment from someone without a real name, a phony email address, and a link to the site matching the name as though I was actually writing up a sponsored post, but in this case it was just someone looking for a back link because they saw that I plug commenter’s.
Now, the comment literally said “they are all great schools, but the most important thing is to have fun“. I only listed one school, I listed how horrible the school actually was and I then went on to explain that it’s very stressful to even FIND a school. How exactly am I going to have fun? How exactly is a school that literally rips you off going to be a great one?
Why the fuck are you stupid ‘spammers’ so fucking stupid!
Where’d this person come from? Well, IP’s show me that it was a referral from someone elses site that houses the do-follow blogroll. Why are people not only spamming those who follow the rules, but abusing the system so disgustingly? I just don’t get it.
I could use a bit of help from you…
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007For a few months now I’ve been spending a lot of time looking into different schools. I’m interested in getting my Bachelors (or even Masters if possible) for Web Design/Development. Up until recently I was seriously considering AIU Online. A commenter (Thank you Scott) noted that I should float around RipOffReport.com and search for AIU. I come to find out that there are 70 some-odd strikes against them, and these are only documented ones on this site. I now know there are lawsuits pending against this company for fraud and teachers that couldn’t give a damn about the students they’re supposed to be helping.
AIU, up until yesterday, was the #1 school on my possibilities list. Now, thanks to ripoffreport.com, I’ve come to find out that my top FIVE schools are literally nothing more THAN a Rip Off. So this is where my visitors come in.
I know, through your blogs, that many of you have a degree of some sort a few of you have gotten them from internet based schools, like I’m looking to do. I’ve done a search on Google for internet based schools that offer Web Design / Web Programming but unfortunately all of these schools are on RipOffReport.com with absolutely horrible reviews, most of which include money fraud. One of the schools I was interested in has even claimed that they never received a certified cashiers check that was CASHED by their administration office. So naturally I’m stuck.
If you, or anyone you know, is currently going to an accredited university online and can steer me in the right direction of a school that isn’t going to screw me over, it would be greatly appreciated!
I’d really love to get my degree, I honestly don’t know where to turn and the only colleges around me are community colleges that can only offer me an associates degree in a field that has to do with computers, but is no where near where I need to be.
Google doesn’t help me, Yahoo doesn’t either – what do I do?
Technorati: RipOffReport, Internet Schools
Do-Follow = GO AWAY!
Monday, July 2nd, 2007While I still have absolutely no inspiration for anything, I’ve gone ahead and put the final touches on the July template. I wanted to just do a simple CSS template that wasn’t going to be much of a hassle and then I realized, my templates include about 15-20 template files based on all of the formatting I’ve done to specific pages. That’s all fine and dandy because for the most part, they’re already coded and I just have to change around some style tags here and there. I wasn’t, however, expecting the template itself to need 4 stylesheet files just so it wasn’t a 2,000 line long stylesheet. I don’t really like breaking things up like that but I guess my idea of simple is basically turning everything into complete and total chaos.
I still do have a lot of things to get done today but I would like to make a note to those whom are participants of this bull shit “Click & Comment Monday” crap. Please do not even bother to comment on my site unless you actually have something relevant to the entry to comment on. The bulk of you are coming from the do-follow blog roll and I have spoken to Tricia in the past and she does not appreciate those abusing the blogroll. I completely agree with her. The reason for the blog roll was so that do-follow bloggers can join together and read new and interesting sites. It doesn’t mean contribute a whole day to going down the list and posting the same bull shit comment on every site you visit just so you can gain hits to your site that basically has NOTHING interesting on it. I understand the point of PR, but don’t abuse it, you look like a fool.
If you’re a Click & Comment Monday visitor – don’t even bother clicking ‘Post a Response’, I’m banning every name, ip address, email address and website from here on in that comments having nothing to do with the entry itself.
Some of you may be wondering why this is such a big deal it’s ‘comments on your site‘, that’s not the case here. All comments are moderated due to idiots that just don’t seem to go away. So I have to moderate through 100+ comments every Monday from people going down the blogrolls. If I removed the moderation option than I would literally be plugging the people who know nothing more than the obnoxious and extremely rude way of getting back links. It’s not just the do-follow roll, it’s also the PPP Postie roll as well – and I’m not holding the owners of either one of these blog rolls responsible because they did not create the blog roll with the intent of having users be bombarded with spam comments.
I give up…
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Nothing happened between my last post and now to give me any kind of inspiration for a July theme, as far as I’m concerned (at this point in time) there won’t be a change. Maybe something will trigger me in upcoming days, I know there’s a holiday around the corner, but I’m heavily doubting it at this point.
I have emails up the wazoo with bitchy people asking stupid questions. I’m not sure how but WordPress was bombed with spam that took me about a half hour of going through PHPmyADMIN just to delete and I’m craving coffee right now to keep me awake even though it’s after 3am and I should just go curl up with Sean and crash for the night, he’s been knocked out since 11:30 this evening!
I was going to barbecue tonight because I had a craving for smoked sausage and rice with basil but since I’m the only one in the house who eats rice, I was going to make baked potatoes for everyone else. The potatoes we have are not only too small to make a REAL baked potato,¬† but they’d also been on the counter for almost two weeks and were starting to root themselves to the bag. Needless to say, I needed to go to the store to pick up some more potatoes. After I’d told Sean about this he offered to just go pick up something for dinner and we wound up at Bona Pizza, he loves them – I hate them. So instead of eating nasty pizza, I had a calzone. Now, in NY calzones don’t come in two freaking sizes so I should have known right then and there that this was going to be interesting. I figured okay, the large so I’ll have something to eat tomorrow night. Little did I know they make their calzones almost the same way one would make a stromboli. Fold a pizza in half and throw some extra cheese in. So now I’m sitting there with my LARGE pie folded in half that’s overstuffed with cheese and sausage. This is not a calzone. Calzones have mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese, ham, salami, pepperoni and sausage – unless you ask for straight cheese naturally. So I was a bit disappointed with dinner considering it had little chunks of sausage and about 10lbs of HORRIBLE cheese thrown in. It didn’t SUCK but even eating about a 1/4 of the thing – I can tell my stomach is going to be screaming at me for the rest of the week while I finish the fucker off. Any true Italian will know, food does NOT go to waste.
I have a taste for things, I grew up in New York so someone telling me that Grotto’s is the absolute best place in the world – I’ll naturally like to beat them senseless with a large trout. A good place in town is Louis, their pizza tastes the most like New York pizza minus the fact that yes, the crust is kind of thin. Sean likes more of a sweet sauce – he grew up in Jersey I wouldn’t expect any less – but he considers himself to be the master of Pizza…when you’re going to marry a New Yorker, your state of mind WILL change. He likes Bona because he basis the good stuff on the crust and theirs, yes, is thicker. It also tastes like straight flower – and not even semolina – what you’re SUPPOSED to cook with. The only place that I can say I enjoy the most, in this entire freaking state, is up in Georgetown they have a place called Bella Capri and when they say Calzone – you get a freaking calzone. Filled with the right stuff, the right AMOUNT of stuff and while their sauce is very bland (straight out of the can kind of bland) they include seasoning on the table so I can adjust it.
Either way, back to my original point; my mind sucks for not having any inspirational thoughts, my computer sucks for not finding me anything good, Google should die, no one in Delaware knows anything about good Italian food, tourists need to be shot considering Karen’s boy-toy was almost run over tonight, Bella and I almost got skunked on her walk tonight, spammers need to get off my back, and I’m freaking exhausted.
END RANT
When’s it gonna get here?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007I’m still waiting for the storm to get here, there’s a warning flashing across the screen for it but based on a weather guide I’m tapped into, I don’t really see much coming this way at all. I just hope it gets here sooner than later. The news stated it was going to get here after midnight, get pretty nasty, and then kind of float off sometime tomorrow morning. Either way I’m bored out of my mind and now I’m just itching to find something to do.
I’m limited in regards to the Thursday based Meme’s that I know of, so I’ll just post whatever I can come across.
1. Are you one of those people who is constantly busy with projects, social outings, etc or do you just like to lay low and stay home? Why/why not? I like to keep myself busy. I’ve been lucky enough to have a constant work flow over the course of the last few weeks just so I can keep myself entertained. I don’t mind having some me time where I can just sit back and relax but I have a horrible case of anal retentive behavior where I just need to keep moving so I can feel as though something was at least accomplished during the day. This may be why I tend to clean so much.
2. Whether you’re busy all the time or like to just chill, have you always been that way? How so/how not? Nope, I’ve always been someone who keeps busy 90% of the time.
3. Is there something you’d like to change about how you spend your time? If so, what is it? If not, why not? How are things manageable for you? I’d like to feel more productive throughout the day, I just need to find more things to do in order to keep me busy.
What the hell man?
Friday, June 22nd, 2007I’m so pissed off at myself, it’s unreal. I went to sleep around 1am anticipating that I’d be up early and I’d get myself back on track with my daily routines. So when I woke up at 3pm this afternoon I was freaking pissed. How the hell did I sleep for 14 hours? I know I only had two hours last night but why the hell couldn’t the first 8 hours cover what I missed yesterday? I knew before I went to sleep that I should have set the alarm. But I also know that I told Sean that I’m going to be up EARLY today and he was up all night long and for most of the day but never bothered coming into the bedroom and waking me up around the time he knew I wanted to be up “You needed the sleep” – no I didn’t freaking need the sleep – I have work to do!
How is it that every work-at-homer I know, is capable if sleeping on normal hours? Why am I the only one who just can’t seem to get it right? I typically only do about 10 hours of work a day and even if I woke up at 9am I’d be done by 7pm – that gives me more than enough time to get myself in bed by midnight at the latest. So how exactly do you retrain yourself to go on a normal schedule? I’m having a hell of a time figuring this out.
Noise Pollution
Thursday, June 21st, 2007I’m still running on about two hours of sleep at the moment. I’m going to push myself so that I can stay up until about 11 at the absolute latest, from there I’m going to be crashing and hope I wake up sometime around 8am tomorrow morning. From there I can get some serious work done and hopefully get myself back on the schedule I’d prefer to have.
Sean prefers to stay up for the night claiming that it’s easier for him to work because there aren’t any distractions. However, right now he’s got the TV blasting because he can’t hear it and he also just woke up from a 5 hour nap. At least he got some kind of sleep in the last 24 hours. I’ve only managed about 2 hours – at the absolute most and I feel miserable. If I could get myself back on a NORMAL schedule then I wouldn’t have to worry about forcing myself to sleep at night if I need to be up early in the morning.
I think, with this change, I’m going to start doing some more work from my laptop instead of my desktop. Even with Princess barking her face off in excess, it’s quieter in the living room than it is in this office at the moment. I don’t know if his ears are clogged or what but this is absurd. I’m tempted to drag him to a doctor to have them cleaned out properly. He claims that his ears hurt when he uses a Q-Tip, have a doctor clear that right up with a few drops and maybe that’ll make things a little quieter around here.
I don’t mean to be badmouthing him. I guess I’m just agitated right now. I’m basically done for the night, minus a few things here and there…I may just go to bed earlier at this rate.
Happy Tuesday!
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007The sun is slowly starting to set and I’ve only been up for an hour. While everyone else considers 5PM to be hour 17 of the day, I on the other hand consider it to be hour #2 of my day…see what kind of world I’m in? Last night Sean and I watched Bench warmers, tonight we’re going up to Blockbuster to pick up Reno911 if there are actually any left, he should have gone this morning! Oh well, according to him no one rents on Tuesday’s anyway – I just hope that’s actually the case considering all the freaking tourists are down here.
We got a little bored after the movie and wound up playing backgammon online for a little bit. Then after some television we got back to work and that’s when I completed the template for blog-ideas. I still have a lot of email to go through but I’m hesitant because most of them are bitchy clients who I probably never should have put on the servers to begin with. Just recently I got rid of a kid who I’ve hated for years. He signs up, stops payment two months in and then bitches that his account is suspended. He’s done this to me on two domains, he’s now officially blacklisted. Tony loves when I tell him to put that kind of stuff through, lol.
So tonight there’s little plans made, but a lot of work to be done. I have quite a few clients to get back to, I hope to have Reno 911 in my hands sometime soon but that depends on whether or not Sean is going to get off his booty. Once that’s all completed I’m going to start completing the Beta on blog-ideas.net so even if I don’t have the database up and running I can at least get the content pages ready for all of the front end stuff. For now it isn’t hard to just setup a randomizing JavaScript for the ideas and then build from there as time goes on. I hope to get some more templates up and running as well, I’m going to need to play around in Photoshop for a while anyway.
In any event, I’m going to get my butt in gear on finishing up the email. Maybe I’ll be able to get some more backgammon in while Sean is in the shower or something. At least it’ll keep me entertained – in peace and quite no less. I need to get my iPod back in here, I’m going nuts listening to all this crap going on around me!
I’m dealing with complete MORONS!
Monday, June 18th, 2007All of the yard work has been completed, the weed-whacker has no more string so completing the job to the original standards is close to impossible to meet. It looks cleaner, there isn’t an over abundance of crap laying around, it’s clean and a few twigs here and there aren’t of any concern to us at all at this point. The house was dented up a little bit thanks to Sean going ape shit with a weed whacker but it shouldn’t matter too much considering no one really goes back there…or so we thought.
We found out from the lady next door that a man who’s always got his dogs running around in the backyard had a complaint about what the neighbors to the other side of us did to their backyard. They put up a fence and also put a shed up that matched their house perfectly (down the color and style). The yard, by everyone else’s standards is absolutely gorgeous. They’ve done beautiful work on the landscape, there’s more than enough room for their two small dogs to run around and there’s plenty of seating for the two of them to just sit back and relax on their stylish Adirondack Chairs. So what exactly is the problem? This man lost running room for his dogs and now have to go further away from his house in order for them to play. I can’t wait to see his complaint after we put up OUR fence. I’d love to hear him complain that his dogs can’t take a shit in OUR BACKYARD anymore! This guy has more than enough room in his own backyards, the fact that there’s a foot-ball field up the block doesn’t mean your pets are entitled to be there. The last I heard, you don’t walk along the side of someone else’s home so you can allow your dogs to crap in their back-yard. Fucking douche bag.
