Rocky Mountain Dreamin

My head is still at the festival and it was wonderful as usual.
More later since I've only had four hours sleep its all fuzzy

Some thoughts:

Things that are a challenge this morning:

• waking up
  
• wearing long pants
  
• jamming the mascara brush in my eye (accidently)
  
• driving within the lines
  
• speaking coherently
  

Things that I found pleasant this moring:

• waking up in a bed
  
• brushing my teeth without any onlookers
  
• having clean feet
  
• coffee
  

Music was great. Kris Kristofferson is still hot even at 70 years old, FYI.

The Masters make the rules

Dear Blackie,

I am an accomplished network engineer. I have certifications that would make your head spin. I have a CCIe, a CCISS, and every letter in between. Problem is, I am stupid. Or something. I don't even remember taking the goddam test, let alone what the answers to any of the questions are. Now, why was I writing to you again? Oh yeah. Let's see. I have a great job at a small company. I have convinced the owner that he is damn lucky to have me and he pays me more than he should. It doesn't matter that everything I try to do is wrong or fucked up in some way. I can't order a frame relay circuit without getting a channelized T-1. I tell my employees to send routers to customers without knowing what the configurations should be. Wait, I lost my ass. Oh. Ok, nevermind. Found it. Anyway. It cost the company over a thousand dollars to get the customer to fix the router and the circuit that I ordered. Wow, am I important. So who are you again and why are you writing to me?

Signed,

Dipshit Dumbass Dicknose Doyle

Contains material that may be unsuitable

Der Blky:

I take smok brek. I do FR. I git bat revue cuz I
tink.

Sined,

A


Listen Comrad,

I am going to boil my screen in bleach and then burn my keyboard after writing this because just the thought of you makes me gag. You are a thief, a liar and a pig. You steal memory and CPUs out of the computers in the basement and sell them on the black market to fund your filth habit. You are damn lucky the fire department hasn'tshown up to put you out while you're on one of your endless smoke breaks. You no doubt have had access to FR's "back door" as she howled at you in some slavic dialect. So you think everyone should respect you more? You should be vaccinated. Why don't youpour vodka all over yourself and give the vermon that live on your body a mercy killing. Don't ever write to me again, you commie bastard.

Blackie

Network Whiz

Dear Blackie:
I'm a networking whiz who can't keep people from
head-hunting me. Theycall me at all hours of the night and day.
Fred and I are on a first-name basis. I currently have a spiffy
job but now I think I'm going to cash it in and take another
spiffier job because I'm that good and because they're going to
pay me more. I mean, these people don't even care that I can't
spell Cisco. They just want me. Besides being the network
queen, I also have a nice new town house and I drive a snazzy
little Mazda--2005 model. I got the sport interior
and everything. My question is: now that I have
my life in order, do you think I'll be able to get custody of
both dogs?

Signed,

GoinOwsiiiyToDriveTheMaz


Dear Crazy Whore,
You had better find yourself a place to work and stay there. What makes you think you know anything about networking? You don't even know how to lay fiber or build a log home. You couldn't reproduce a wallet with help from your mom. One of these days you are going to stay working somewhere longer than 10 minutes and they are going to figure out that you don't know OSPF from JSYN. What kind of idiot buys a car BEFORE they start a new job? You are asking for trouble, dumbass. You don't owe enough money already? You haven't even paid for that couch that had dickjuice on it five minutes after you got it shoved through your front door. You think you are hot shit living in a townhouse but you make your guests sleep on a couch and serve them half-eaten quesadillas. Oh yeah, you got a lotta class. Keep putting on the big show and you are going to fall flat on your face in the gutter where you belong. You will probably end up moving to Moberly with that prick husband of yours. Asshole!!!

Get lost!!!

Blackie

Note to Self

Dear Blackie,

Its a beautiful sunny day. For once the temperature is below 95 at 6 am and the humidity is less than 90%. My question to you is, why are people so fucking stupid?

Signed,

Blackie

Happy Anniversary

Two years ago today I walked out on a job in a manner that other mortals only dream of. To put it short and sweet, it was a big "Fuck You"

I wanted them to be in disarray, I wanted them to see how wrong they were. My point was made. Like the Grinch whose heart grew ten sizes, my balls dropped and grew ten sizes that day. metaphorically speaking.

I can hold my head up and say that I worked hard, got a lot of work done, lots of good things accomplished, many other good things started. This all with the help of some really good people whom I miss terribly sometimes. They actually did all the work.

And yes it was fun. Not to say that it was wise as far as career moves go. But I have never regretted it and I know that it spoke volumes. Who listened? Not sure.

We're not gonna take it

This article should anger you enough to write a letter or email to your representatives in Congress and the Senate to demand that it stop. The president and the vice president take an oath to protect and defend the constitution. The right and responsibility to vote is fundamental to our democracy.

Comparing voters in Conneticut to Al Queida and accusing them of aiding and abetting terrorists in reprehensible and encroaches on treason. Tell your representative that we demand a government by the people, for the people and of the people and that you demand our elected officials abide by the will of the people.

If you don't know how to reach your representatives go to this website and enter your zip code. You will receive the contact info for your congressman.

Listen My children and you shall hear

Time after time when I hear the sound bytes coming out of the White House and in general the right wing, it occurs to me that they are accusing others of what they themselves are doing. Tony the Tigger Snow bounced today:

White House spokesman Tony Snow called the primary "a defining moment for the Democratic Party, whose national leaders now have made it clear that if you disagree with the extreme left in their party they're going to come after you."

This isnt a surprise to anyone nor does it take deep thought or discussion. And it isn't even the topic that I give a shit about today. I mention it only because of the 'terror alert' today caused by the loudly touted hijacking attempt in London. So many questions, so little factual information.

So when they say things like, "If we pull out of Iraq it will cause another 9/11", I worry. Why will it cause another 9/11? Will you make it so? The first 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq, so wouldn't it be convenient if the second one did? You know, they are all Ishlamick Fashisshtshs, just like all non neocons are hate mongers.

Why don't we go on red alert the day before the attack? They obviously knew about it weeks ago. Michael Chertoff doesn't require the same kind of information from his homeland security spies as does the National Weather service. This bothers me. Alot.

Enough already

Ok, a break from the snarky fun for a minute. What the hell is going on in this world? We seem to have two sets of humans. One that worships the gods of unchecked greed and violence and the other seems to be simply asleep, or as the song goes, 'comfortably numb'.

Even on the Internets people talk and posture not unlike the Sunday morning talking heads. But that's all they do. Nobody plans their vacation or time off around marching on Washington. Where are the people of courage? Where are the righteous warriors? Where are the peaceful assemblies of conscientious objectors? Where are the principalled voters? I fear it is going to take a terrible reckoning for them to surface.

I don't know what to do. I don't want to be comfortably numb. But there is so much war and violence that I just want to shrink away, turn of the tv, stop reading the Internets and get comfortably numb. Either that or I want to start a march on Washington. Who do these muthers in Washington think they are? Kings, that's who. They really believe they are entitled, some kind of weird fucked-up Calvanism or something.

Here is something interesting to me. The other day in the grocery store I was stuck inline at the checkout. I was about fourth in line while a woman at the front of the line was struggling with her inability to purchase certain items with her food stamp card and not enough cash to pay for them either. So as she was going through the exercize of taking an item at a time out of the total, the guy behind me was getting quite perturbed.

"I wish I had a food stamp card", he mumbled. I turned around to face him while he continued, "I work for my keep.".

At first I just shook my head and shrugged my shoulders and said nothing. But after a few minutes, I turned to him and said, "you know, why shouldn't people take advantage of the system? Our government steals billions from us every day."

"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, you said you work for your money, you pay taxes, right?"
"Yeah, and people like her live off of the money I pay in"
"Think about it" I said, "who is the bigger thief, the woman who takes advantage of a couple hundred dollars a month, or the billionaires that get even richer from this war and your tax dollars, while our economy goes to shit, this war is costing billions, whose worse?"

"I don't know, I just know I work and I don't eat for free"

So there you have it. Who are you the most angry at?

The war profiteering bastards that sit in congress and the white house, or the rest of us who let them get away with it? I mean, why shouldn't they steal from us, we let them. Why shouldn't they murder our young sons and daughters in this war, we let them, not only that we praise them for their patriotism.

What is to stop them?