Year End awards

Is it just me or do I suck at this? I'm too busy to write out my bills much less this silly blog. But enough of my bitching. Time for some end of the year awards for the most insane acts of 2005.

1. Most overhyped topic: Intelligent Design. Does this even make sense? Some 'higher power' designed the Earth. Okay, most Christians ASSUME the bonehead that agrees with this will believe it's GOD. But it could be Neptune or Ares just as well. Or even better, Groucho Marx. Sheesh.

2. Most annoying moment: ANYTHING doing with Jessica/Nick, Britney/Kevin or Brad/Jennifer. What a freaking stupid waste of time and paper discussing these useless wastes of carbon. Can we PLEASE move on to something less stupid?

3. Complete waste of my time: Anything Politically Correct. (See Intelligent Design above) Also the whole Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays nonsense. Did I suddenly fall into a country that got real stupid real fast? What's with this bull of having the OFFENDED minority tell the MAJORITY what to do? Screw you people, grow up or get out. We don't need your crap here.

4. Music of the year: None. Have you listened to the garbage they play now? I've heard cats in blenders make better music. Hip hop? More like 'hip slop'. You wonder why records aren't selling? Could it be they are shoving total CRAP down our throats? Oh no, it's downloading! Morons.

5. High point of year: Getting my new job. I love my job. It pays well and I work with a great group of people. I mean they put up with me after all. Check it: http://www.ercbroadband.org for those who care.

If I think of any others I'll be sure to post them. But that's my bitch session for today. Stay tuned, I may post tomorrow as well. :D

God I'm lazy...

Has it already been almost 2 months since my last post? Well it's a good thing the world isn't hinging on my every word. Although it might be a good place to start. No one else on this planet seems to be doing anything other than pointing fingers and dodging the bloody truth.

Ah well enough of the whining. I have nothing else really to talk about today. I'e been slammed at work and have had no time to even contemplate thinking.

Who's a slacker?

Actually, that would be me. It's been ages since I posted crap, so I thought I'd make up for it by saying: No one gives a shit if I don't post. This is only for me to vent. I don't do this for fame, or glory, just as a way to keep from annoying my few friends with all my anger issues. While everyone else on the planet is bitching about movies or TV or whatever other childish complaint they have, I'll continue to do my own thing and let the world bend over and spell RUN.

I will however discuss my favorite subjects, mostly books and Classical History. I'm continuing to be amazed at the parallels between modern America and the Late Roman Republic (hence the name of my blog for those ignorants out there). The political infighting, the continued attempts by all levels of government to try to legislate MORALITY just amuses the hell out of me. How do you even being to impose your moral code on someone else? The more we try to do that, the harder those of us who prefer keeping those sorry bastards at arms length will fight back. I'm continually amused at the 'moral outrage' of those piss poor idiots, the Democrats (I wonder, do they KNOW what a democracy is according to Plato?) and their childish whining at video game makers for corrupting our young people. Have you ever considered, you MORONS that those ignorant baggy pants wearing imbeciles were corrupt prior to their purchasing Grand Theft Auto? Have you pillars of society even considered the possibility that it's not the GUN that kills people, but the SOB who pulls the f*cking trigger? Hell, no. Nor will they ever when American society is so docile that it just doesn't give a rat's ass anymore what the government does.

Does any of this sound familiar? Hasn't the world endured a similar set of circumstances? And where exactly did that lead us? Straight to the bloody Dark Ages. George Carlin made an interesting comment, that all systems are breaking down. That everything tends toward entropy. Granted he wasn't the author of those tidbits, but I just happened to be listening to a CD of his so I'll cite him as a reference. It all boils down to this, the peak of American society, the peak of 'Empire' for lack of a better term was 60 or so years ago. The 'greatest generation' was the pinnacle of American ingenuity and will power. The last generation with any desire or ambition to better themselves or give their all for their country and the planet. With them goes the flower of our country. After them we're all lazy, useless, unambitious cry-babies. I admit it, I'm not as forceful as I should be. Complacency is my tragic flaw. But at least I'm not a degenerate parent who thinks the schools should raise my kids, thinks that punishment should always be much less than the crime, and lets my kids watch whatever they want to, surf the websites they want to and listen to whatever pathetic crap they call music.

I give a damn about my country, I give a damn about my kids. It's not the government who should tell us what's right. Look at your grandparents. You know, those of us in the South fought a war against the very thing most people relish now, the intrusion of the government to make their decisions for them. It's a sad thing.

*puts away soapbox*

The joy of it all....

You know what's great about this blogging crap? You can spill your freaking guts and no one will ever freaking read it. That's part of the joy of the global community, it's all global, no community. Not that I particularly care if anyone reads what I have to say. It's never been my style to give a shit what people think. But it tickles the crap out of me to see all the 'profound' blogs out there with all this wonderful insight into things that people pretend to be earth-shaking. It's too damn funny to me to think these people put so much thought into it. If they spent more time on homework, they might actually do some earth-shaking things.

Where's the Beef?

So it's been a while. I've been busy. It's been a long few weeks. I'm adjusting to a new job, which I love. Plus I'm also doing some work on the side with web design and SQL work. Nothing to write home about. Not only that my wife has been harrassing me to redecorate the house. Being a man, I'm not sure what's wrong with the current state of the decoration in my house, but she's got this bug up her butt to get things re-done over the summer.

Good for her, but keep me out of it. I'm too anal retentive about certain things to make a good interior decorator. For one, I have to have things symmetrical. Anything that isn't balanced in my house bugs me to no end until I fix it. It's not a feng-shui thing. I could care less whether my feng and my shui are copasetic or not, it's just a matter of balance.

Second, I hate things at funny angles. I used to work at a furniture store that had decorators who insisted on putting bed at odd angles from the corner of a room. That sort of thing makes my skin crawl. Call me crazy, but I get uncomfortable around things like that. Yes, I know it's insane, but that's how I am.

Speaking of insane, has everyone in California lost their minds? I mean for a criminal it's paradise, if you are wealthy, famous and a resident of California, you have carte blanche to rape/kill/maim/molest until you are blue in the face. I've never seen such degeneracy as I do out there. I need say no more on that subject.

And finally, has the Bush family lost it's mind? Threatening to get rid of the filibuster rule to get the judicial nominations pushed through, and now Jeb wanting to re-open the investigation into Terri Schiavo's case? When did our leaders become such namby-pamby whiny sissies when they don't get their way? I'm embarrassed to see this kind of political maneuvering from the highest offices in the land. Yes, I'm not totally blind to the fact that IT HAPPENS, but for Pete's sake, try a little harder to hide it. I am an ardent supporter of Bush's handling of Iraq and our troops, but I'm very disillusioned with not so much his other policies, but his shoving them down our throats. But then, as a second term President, he's got nothing to lose. Idiots all of them.

Why do women never listen?

Is it just me or all women deaf to men? Do we speak in a decibel range women don't naturally hear? Memo to all women: We're not all idiots or imcompetents, some of us actually know what we're talking about. Granted a large portion of men in this world suck as human beings (my dad being one of them....too stubborn to admit he's wrong and too wrapped up in his 'macho-ness') but there are those of us genuinely good guys, you know the ones all you females think are gay, that actually do care and listen and offer help when it's asked for.

But there are those of you who insist we know SQUAT and refuse to even consider that we might, for once, be right. Never mind it may never happen again, it WILL NEVER happen.

And you wonder why we never talk.

Whoa is this cool or what?

So here I am. Back again. Started my new job and man is it cool! I get to work for the government, but besides that I get my own Internet2 node. Woo hoo. I am beside myself thinking of all the bandwidth I have now. But you don't really want to hear about that do you? I didn't think so. Like I said, my life is boring as hell. I watched one of my nephews get married this weekend. There's nothing more classy than the Maid of Honor sporting a HUGE barbed wire tattoo on her arm. You just have to love rednecks. 'Them's good people!' Geez. Get some makeup for that you skanky ho. It was an outdoor wedding and the 'you may now kiss the bride' was interrupted by a very well mannered neighbor driving his big rig down the street not 40 feet from the wedding. You just have to love that. Hell, they should have just had a rodeo while they were at it.

Even though I'm from the South, I hate rednecks. There's nothing worse to me than someone who deliberately keeps themselves ignorant because it's not cool to be smart. Well, buck up, boys cuz all the plant jobs are headed to Asia and unless you speak Mandarin (which requires a certain amount of brains) you had better learn 'do you want fries with that?' in a hurry. Idiots and morons, the lot of them.

What do batteries run on?

I know, I know, it's been week or so since my last post. I've been busy trying to avoid working. I start a new job on Wednesday and I've been busting my butt doing paperwork to get security clearance since my new job is for the government. I've never seen such red tape. You could rebuild the pyramids at Giza with this crap. But I suppose it's worth it as I will be working for our troops overseas. Whether you like it or hate it, you must respect it. My father, grandfather and father-in-law were all in wars. My father-in-law the most decorated soldier in McDowell county. He fought in 2 wars, WWII and Korea. I'm very proud of my family and their history as soldiers. I mean it is Memorial Day after all.

For the love of Pete.....

I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick to death of morons who insist on calling themselves MCSE's who don't know squat. Not only that, I'm sick to death of Management (I use the term VERY loosely) that can't keep their heads out of their asses long enough to know a good thing when it hits them.

See, the issue stems from the fact that I'm leaving the company I work for now, to go to another job where I will actually get to use a REAL operating system (Linux!). Granted I was hired here to actually be used in situations where the other techs here couldn't handle it. Which means if it wasn't Windows, I was called in. Not only that, I'm the DB guy and a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. However, I have felt the entire time here that I wasn't wanted. That I've over-stayed my welcome and they were looking for any excuse to get rid of me. And since I"m a consultant I get paid by Billable hours. And they have conveniently found ways to minimize my hours without making it totally obvious.

So, I get a job offer and I decide to take it. What do I get for my pains from these creeps? Nothing more than, "Well now we don't have to decide which of the two guys we interviewed to hire (we had another consultant leave about a month ago), we can hire them both."

No, 'Thanks for the work', 'Why are you leaving' or 'What can we do to make you stay?'. If I didn't have one last project to finish up prior to my leaving that NO ONE ELSE in the company can do, I'd be out on my ass now.

I really don't have any major qualms with anyone here, but geez, give a guy a pat on the back. Try to find out why he's leaving. Try to find out why no Consultant here has worked for them longer than 10 months. I mean even the biggest idiot can see there's a problem. But no, Management just blindly gropes on like a lemming looking for a cliff. Makes you wonder how these fools got their degrees.

What is the world coming to.....

The end is near...no, not really. My first blog post. The world really is ending when I cave and get my own blog. Normally, I just bitch and moan to the voices in my head. But why not share my insanity with the rest of the universe? And because I'm a first rate lame-o here's a little about me.

I'm 32 years old with 4 kids, all girls and I'm a Network Engineer that's soon to be working on the coolest gig in the world, managing an Internet2 node in North Carolina. Can't wait to pull down my pirated movies in less than 10 seconds!

As for what I like to do, actually, I'm boring as hell. I love to read and collect books, I have 4,000 and counting. I am an amateur historian specializing in Roman History, specifically the time period of 1st century BC to about 60 AD. Other than that, I watch a little TV (love 'HOUSE' it rocks) and mostly enjoy British humor, BlackAdder, MontyPython, etc. And that's about it....

I intend to use this area only for my own personal bitch session and rants on all kinds of things. Read it or not. It's your bandwidth. Pax vobiscum.