So, I havent written anything for a few days. Things like this happens from time to time. I got a life too you know.
What?
My belly button isnt picking itself. And I got ice that needs to be watched melting. Aside from those things, I've been extremely tired the past days. I've had a couple of potential employers calling me. And for some reason they always call early in the morning. Why would they do that? They know I dont have a job, or I wouldnt have contacted them in the first place. Sine I dont have a job, I'm most likely asleep at 8 in the morning.
It's like they are testing you. Call early, and incase they can tell they woke you up they gonna think. "Hell no, I'm not giving that lazy ass a job. Sleeping at 8 in the morning like that."
And believe me, I'm doing my very best to not sound as if I were asleep when they call. It's hard and takes alot of practice. Basically what you have to do is to not use your brain, and just respond on a reflex on everything they say. Usually its nothing important anyway.
So this morning the phone rang again around 8 in the morning, ofcourse I was asleep. My reaction to the phone was to jump out of my bed and stand on the cold floor while answering the phone and doing my best to sound as if I have already been awake for atleast 2 hours, and already had my 1 hour morning walk. The man who called asked me a bunch of question, and I just replied whatever came to my mind.
I have no idea what so ever what I actually said to him. It might have been something like this though.
Me: Hello...
Man: Hello, I wish to talk to Zanno.
Me: Yes, we have ducks.
Man: Umm, are you Zanno?
Me: Absolutely.
Man: Oh ok, well we might have a job for you. But I would like to meet you before we make a decision.
Me: I'm pretty sure I didn't put it there on purpose.
Man:...
Man: Can you make it 10.30 on monday?
Me: Sure, that'll be perfect.
Man: Alright good, I'll see you monday then.
Me: Don't wait up for me.
Man: eeh, well..bye.
As you can see conversations can be quite confusing in the morning. And I vaguely remember that I was supposed to write something down so I would remember it later. But before the thought went to action, I fell asleep again.
A few hours later when I woke up, I knew someone had called me about a job, and that they wanted to meet me. Well knew might be an exaggeration, because to be honest I wasnt really sure that anyone had actually called or if it was just a dream. Atleast I didnt know until I checked my cellphone. Then I knew for sure that it was something I was supposed to remember, something that I cant remember for my life. I couldnt even remember the name of the guy who called.
So I figured the best thing to do was to call him back, pretend that I remember everything but lost the note where I wrote down all the important stuff. So I called him back.
Man: Hello.
Me: Hey, it's me. Zanno. We spoke this morning?
Man: Ah yes, how's the ducks?
Me: Huh? umm, well.
Me: Anyway, I lost the note where I wrote down the info you gave me this morning. Can you please repeat it for me?
To make a short story even shorter, he gave me the time and place for me to meet him on monday.
Atleast he didnt ask me to meet him earlier than 10.30 in the morning. Should be enough time for me to wake up, and not make a complete fool of myself when I meet up with him.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Paper schmaper.
Yesterday I wasnt able to go to sleep until around 5 in the morning. Dont ask me why, because I have no idea.
4 hours after I finally fell asleep the phone woke me up. It was a potential employer. Great first impression they got from me I imagine. They asked me to come in for an interview tomorrow morning. Good news, I guess.
The also asked me to bring papers on what i have done and stuff.
Papers...
Always these damn papers. Whats wrong with people? If I wanted to lie about what I have done and what I can do, I could just write a paper myself and say just about anything in it. Just because something is printed on a paper doesnt mean that its true. Take the bible for an example, its printed on paper. Still just a made up story.
Well, technically I guess the bible was first printed on papyrus or something, still doesnt make it true though. I can probably write a good story on papyrus as well. Saying that I used to be the king of france, now give me a job already. Just because I wrote it on a paper its true?
I'm trying to figure out what to say and so on the interview tomorrow. I'm probably going to have to argue how useless paper is, and how useless references are. Make them understand that I have nothing to gain from lying to them. Worst thing that can happen is that I lie to them, and say I can do stuff that I really cant do. It wouldnt take very long for someone to see that I was lying, and I would get fired. Then I'll be back in the exact same position as I am in right now. Then what did I gain from lying? Nothing.
The best proof anyone can get that I actually can do the stuff I say I can, is to give me a chance to prove it. But I guess people dont understand that.
I really dont feel like typing anymore right now.
Tomorrow I will either make yet anopther post stating how retarded people are, or it will be a post saying I finally got a job.
4 hours after I finally fell asleep the phone woke me up. It was a potential employer. Great first impression they got from me I imagine. They asked me to come in for an interview tomorrow morning. Good news, I guess.
The also asked me to bring papers on what i have done and stuff.
Papers...
Always these damn papers. Whats wrong with people? If I wanted to lie about what I have done and what I can do, I could just write a paper myself and say just about anything in it. Just because something is printed on a paper doesnt mean that its true. Take the bible for an example, its printed on paper. Still just a made up story.
Well, technically I guess the bible was first printed on papyrus or something, still doesnt make it true though. I can probably write a good story on papyrus as well. Saying that I used to be the king of france, now give me a job already. Just because I wrote it on a paper its true?
I'm trying to figure out what to say and so on the interview tomorrow. I'm probably going to have to argue how useless paper is, and how useless references are. Make them understand that I have nothing to gain from lying to them. Worst thing that can happen is that I lie to them, and say I can do stuff that I really cant do. It wouldnt take very long for someone to see that I was lying, and I would get fired. Then I'll be back in the exact same position as I am in right now. Then what did I gain from lying? Nothing.
The best proof anyone can get that I actually can do the stuff I say I can, is to give me a chance to prove it. But I guess people dont understand that.
I really dont feel like typing anymore right now.
Tomorrow I will either make yet anopther post stating how retarded people are, or it will be a post saying I finally got a job.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
License for TV, what?
I just had a very intresting conversation over the phone. I had gotten a bill, one that I thought I shouldnt have to pay.
Where I live one must pay a license fee just to have a TV. Its retarded. First of all, if you have a license for anything, it usually means that you had to learn how to use it. Like a gun license and such. Now if someone came home to me to educate me how to use a TV, they'd get punched in the face to begin with. If they asked me if I wanted them to come and show me how the TV works, they'd get punched in the face.
I dont need anyone to tell me how a TV works, so in my opinion I dont need a license for it. Even if somehow I could understand what this is, other thahn just another way to make money off my ass. I could never understand why you need to pay for this so called license ever 3 months. Pay it once and then its done, ok I could probably do that just to get them off my ass. But every 3 months, really?
So anyway, I got this bill from them. And just seeing the damn bill made me mad as a hornet. First of all I'm just renting a room in an apartment, and the guy im renting from is paying his license. Second off, I dont even own a TV. And they keep sending me these damn bills anyway.
So I called them up, tried to breath slow and deep so that I wouldnt explode in their face the first thing I do. Even though it would have felt really nice to just scream at them and explain to them how incredible retarded they are, I'm not stupid. Well, im not that stupid anyway. I imagine alot of people call them and scream everyday. So I'm trying to keep my calm and going to try and reason with them.
Even though I have to listen to elevator music for 15 minutes while waiting for them to answer. I bet they think that that music will calm any angry customers that are calling, I also bet they are wrong.
Finally after 15 minutes on hold a woman answers. I explain to her that I got a bill that I have no intention of paying, that I'm only renting a room and have been so for quite awhile now. Then she tells me that 6 months ago they called me and that I then had admitted to having a TV.
Which I may or may not have done, I might have been drunk and admitted to anything.
So I'm telling her its not my number, must have been someone else. She checks up the number on the internet, and Im crossing my fingers that im not listed. Turns out im not listed, good for me!
Then she proceed with telling me that even if the guy who I rent from is paying his license, I have to pay for a license myself as well. If I have a TV.
I dont own a TV...
What use would I have of a TV anyway? there's always crap on TV anyway, and inbetween the crap there's commersial. Yeah, I'm no TV person.
Still keeping my calm here, but its getting really hard to put up a calm surface for this woman. So I once again explain how I rent a room, I have no TV whoever they called 6 months ago wasnt me, and I have never spoken with them before.
Lucky me, I'm pretty convincing. It only took me maybe 10 minutes to explain all this to her in a way she'd understand. And she finally told me I didnt have to pay any TV license, and thet she would remove me from their pay list or whatever it is they have.
If I ever get another bill from them I will send them a gift back. This gift may or may not contain explosives.
Where I live one must pay a license fee just to have a TV. Its retarded. First of all, if you have a license for anything, it usually means that you had to learn how to use it. Like a gun license and such. Now if someone came home to me to educate me how to use a TV, they'd get punched in the face to begin with. If they asked me if I wanted them to come and show me how the TV works, they'd get punched in the face.
I dont need anyone to tell me how a TV works, so in my opinion I dont need a license for it. Even if somehow I could understand what this is, other thahn just another way to make money off my ass. I could never understand why you need to pay for this so called license ever 3 months. Pay it once and then its done, ok I could probably do that just to get them off my ass. But every 3 months, really?
So anyway, I got this bill from them. And just seeing the damn bill made me mad as a hornet. First of all I'm just renting a room in an apartment, and the guy im renting from is paying his license. Second off, I dont even own a TV. And they keep sending me these damn bills anyway.
So I called them up, tried to breath slow and deep so that I wouldnt explode in their face the first thing I do. Even though it would have felt really nice to just scream at them and explain to them how incredible retarded they are, I'm not stupid. Well, im not that stupid anyway. I imagine alot of people call them and scream everyday. So I'm trying to keep my calm and going to try and reason with them.
Even though I have to listen to elevator music for 15 minutes while waiting for them to answer. I bet they think that that music will calm any angry customers that are calling, I also bet they are wrong.
Finally after 15 minutes on hold a woman answers. I explain to her that I got a bill that I have no intention of paying, that I'm only renting a room and have been so for quite awhile now. Then she tells me that 6 months ago they called me and that I then had admitted to having a TV.
Which I may or may not have done, I might have been drunk and admitted to anything.
So I'm telling her its not my number, must have been someone else. She checks up the number on the internet, and Im crossing my fingers that im not listed. Turns out im not listed, good for me!
Then she proceed with telling me that even if the guy who I rent from is paying his license, I have to pay for a license myself as well. If I have a TV.
I dont own a TV...
What use would I have of a TV anyway? there's always crap on TV anyway, and inbetween the crap there's commersial. Yeah, I'm no TV person.
Still keeping my calm here, but its getting really hard to put up a calm surface for this woman. So I once again explain how I rent a room, I have no TV whoever they called 6 months ago wasnt me, and I have never spoken with them before.
Lucky me, I'm pretty convincing. It only took me maybe 10 minutes to explain all this to her in a way she'd understand. And she finally told me I didnt have to pay any TV license, and thet she would remove me from their pay list or whatever it is they have.
If I ever get another bill from them I will send them a gift back. This gift may or may not contain explosives.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Lets talk politics.
Politics sucks, politicians sucks even more.
Done.
But if you want me to elaborate some, I will. Now I dont know much about world politics, or even the politics of my own country. But I'm not blind. I know what I see. What I see is that no matter who is in charge it all boils down to this.
A whole country working their asses off just to enable maybe 2% of the population to live a high end life. Does that seem fair to you? Politicians isnt in politics to make things better for the people, they're in it to make things better for themselves, to make themselves money. Want proof with that?
Ok well, if the politicians actually were in it for the people, they wouldnt mind living of a minimum wage salary for 1 year, just so they know what it takes to survive. They wouldnt mind making that small sacrifice for a year if that meant that in the long run things would get better for the people. If you can find even 1 politician that would be willing to do that, then I'll admit I'm wrong.
Its easy to make more money than you can spend every month and tell those with no jobs how easy everything is. Raise the taxes and lower the standard for the avarage worker, while pocket the big money for yourself. Make fancy statesments of how bad the economy is right now and that everyone is going through a rough time, and at the end of the day go hom to one of your million dollar villas.
And dont even get me started on royalties. We have a king, he's an idiot. No really he is, he cant even spell his own name. While our politicians telling everyone how bad the economy is and how everyone has to sacrifice something and lower their standards. They are giving the royal family millions upon millions every year, for no other reason than to pay for their jetset life.
Back in the days we had real kings, they were fighting wars and shit. They were in the front line of the battlefield with nothing more than a sword in their hands. A sword!. They were real men. Nothing like todays so called royalties, bunch of fags if you ask me.
If our goverment stopped giving hundreds of millions to the "royal family" each year, they could give each and everyone in our country about 500.000 each. Every year.
I can understand wanting to keep the royal family around for old traditions and what not. But since they are not actually doing anything but spending money all day long, they should not be spending the tax payers money for their own luxuries. The royal family is the richest wellfare family in the world. For real. I dont see why we should pay all these money just in order to perserve a tradition. not even the real kings back in the days, the one that actually made a difference in our country were as rich as todays royal family is. And back then they worked for their money, and more important for their people. Now all the royal family does is having one scandal after another, and keep spending our money. Think they give a shit about the people? Think they give a crap about those who works their ass of and give their hard earned money to them? Nah. Funny thing is, even if they actually did care, not even the goverment think they are important enough to have a say in anything anyway.
Thats right, our own king doesnt have any say at all when it comes to the country he is king over. This whole country and the way it is ran by those in charge is a fucking joke.
Done.
But if you want me to elaborate some, I will. Now I dont know much about world politics, or even the politics of my own country. But I'm not blind. I know what I see. What I see is that no matter who is in charge it all boils down to this.
A whole country working their asses off just to enable maybe 2% of the population to live a high end life. Does that seem fair to you? Politicians isnt in politics to make things better for the people, they're in it to make things better for themselves, to make themselves money. Want proof with that?
Ok well, if the politicians actually were in it for the people, they wouldnt mind living of a minimum wage salary for 1 year, just so they know what it takes to survive. They wouldnt mind making that small sacrifice for a year if that meant that in the long run things would get better for the people. If you can find even 1 politician that would be willing to do that, then I'll admit I'm wrong.
Its easy to make more money than you can spend every month and tell those with no jobs how easy everything is. Raise the taxes and lower the standard for the avarage worker, while pocket the big money for yourself. Make fancy statesments of how bad the economy is right now and that everyone is going through a rough time, and at the end of the day go hom to one of your million dollar villas.
And dont even get me started on royalties. We have a king, he's an idiot. No really he is, he cant even spell his own name. While our politicians telling everyone how bad the economy is and how everyone has to sacrifice something and lower their standards. They are giving the royal family millions upon millions every year, for no other reason than to pay for their jetset life.
Back in the days we had real kings, they were fighting wars and shit. They were in the front line of the battlefield with nothing more than a sword in their hands. A sword!. They were real men. Nothing like todays so called royalties, bunch of fags if you ask me.
If our goverment stopped giving hundreds of millions to the "royal family" each year, they could give each and everyone in our country about 500.000 each. Every year.
I can understand wanting to keep the royal family around for old traditions and what not. But since they are not actually doing anything but spending money all day long, they should not be spending the tax payers money for their own luxuries. The royal family is the richest wellfare family in the world. For real. I dont see why we should pay all these money just in order to perserve a tradition. not even the real kings back in the days, the one that actually made a difference in our country were as rich as todays royal family is. And back then they worked for their money, and more important for their people. Now all the royal family does is having one scandal after another, and keep spending our money. Think they give a shit about the people? Think they give a crap about those who works their ass of and give their hard earned money to them? Nah. Funny thing is, even if they actually did care, not even the goverment think they are important enough to have a say in anything anyway.
Thats right, our own king doesnt have any say at all when it comes to the country he is king over. This whole country and the way it is ran by those in charge is a fucking joke.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
It's magic.
I'm one of those people that is happy when stuff works like they are supposed to. I'm not really asking why or how it works, as long as it works its all good to me. It would take too much time and energy to try and figure out how and why things work the way they do.
For example, if I turn the key in my car, it starts. I dont need to know why it starts, for all I care it can be magic.
I have no idea how my cellphone works, I think it has something to do with radiovawes. But again, it might as well be magic.
I have no idea why the electricity in the wall sockets dont shoot out sparks and kill me if i get too close. I'm glad it doesnt kill me, but I have no idea why.
My point is, I dont need to know these things. As long as everything just works as they're supposed to. I'm happy. Its only when stuff stops working as intended that I really notice it. Like when the car dont start in the morning when you're on the way to work. But even then I'm not too intrested in knowing why, I'm just mad because it dont work as it should. If I were able to "fix" it by screaming and yelling at it for 10 minutes, I would. I wouldnt really care why the screaming and yelling fixed it though.
There is other people, people who dont think like me aparently. Yeah I know, odd huh? Some people out there cant stand not knowing how stuff works and why. And just telling them its "magic" wont get you very far. They need to know down to the last molecule, how and why. I'm not saying these people are wrong in any way, because they are not. These people are probably the ones that are the successfull ones in life. You dont become a rocket scientists without wanting to know how stuff works and why.
I'm a very accepting person. If someone were to give me a button, and tell me by pressing this button I could have whatever I want. I wouldnt think twice about how it works. I would probably not want to know how it works anyway. What if whenever I use my button cute and fuzzy baby bunnies die in masses, just so I can have what I want. Would I wanna know that? Not really. Would it make a difference? Nope. Even if someone told me that everytime I push my button to fullfill my needs, thousands of fuzzy baby bunnies dies. I'd still press that button without hesitating.
Maybe I would think, poor those bunnies, but I would really like a new car. Or even maybe just a cup of coffee. What? I like coffee. 1000 dead baby bunnies is a small price to pay to not have to go make my coffee myself.
For example, if I turn the key in my car, it starts. I dont need to know why it starts, for all I care it can be magic.
I have no idea how my cellphone works, I think it has something to do with radiovawes. But again, it might as well be magic.
I have no idea why the electricity in the wall sockets dont shoot out sparks and kill me if i get too close. I'm glad it doesnt kill me, but I have no idea why.
My point is, I dont need to know these things. As long as everything just works as they're supposed to. I'm happy. Its only when stuff stops working as intended that I really notice it. Like when the car dont start in the morning when you're on the way to work. But even then I'm not too intrested in knowing why, I'm just mad because it dont work as it should. If I were able to "fix" it by screaming and yelling at it for 10 minutes, I would. I wouldnt really care why the screaming and yelling fixed it though.
There is other people, people who dont think like me aparently. Yeah I know, odd huh? Some people out there cant stand not knowing how stuff works and why. And just telling them its "magic" wont get you very far. They need to know down to the last molecule, how and why. I'm not saying these people are wrong in any way, because they are not. These people are probably the ones that are the successfull ones in life. You dont become a rocket scientists without wanting to know how stuff works and why.
I'm a very accepting person. If someone were to give me a button, and tell me by pressing this button I could have whatever I want. I wouldnt think twice about how it works. I would probably not want to know how it works anyway. What if whenever I use my button cute and fuzzy baby bunnies die in masses, just so I can have what I want. Would I wanna know that? Not really. Would it make a difference? Nope. Even if someone told me that everytime I push my button to fullfill my needs, thousands of fuzzy baby bunnies dies. I'd still press that button without hesitating.
Maybe I would think, poor those bunnies, but I would really like a new car. Or even maybe just a cup of coffee. What? I like coffee. 1000 dead baby bunnies is a small price to pay to not have to go make my coffee myself.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Trigger happy.
People have always found excuses for fighting each other. Every since that day when you were 4 years old and that mean kid next door took your favourite toy and refused to give it back.
Then you have people fighting over religions, among other things. It just seems to be in peoples nature to want to fight. Maybe its the cave-man gene that tells us we have to show that we are stronger. No matter why, people have always been fighting each other, and I have no doubt they will always fight.
The difference from my point of view is this. When I grew up kids and teenagers were fighting just as they are today. But it was different back then. Back then they were fighting with their fists, and whoever got knocked down first lost, as simple as that. and it was an unwritten rule to not keep hitting someone who was already down.
Now these days every other guy, not only teenagers, but kids and adults as well are carrying some sort of weapon. A knife, a gun anything. Why would they do that? You read every day in the paper that someone had killed someone over some really stupid thing. And then claim that they didnt mean to kill him. I got news for you, if you shoot someone in the face, they usually die. If you didnt mean to kill anyone then why did you even carry a gun in the firt place? For protection you say? Yeah, I dont believe that. If everyone was carrying a gun for protection, people will get trigger happy. They will see threats where there is none and shoot before they find out there was no threat.
That guy looked at you in a way you find threatening? Bam, shoot him!
This guy have an opinion that differs from yours? Bam shoot him!
That guy took the parking space you had your eyes on? Bam shoot him!
I dont believe in carrying guns for protection, because even if thats all you want it for. You will never know when you find yourself in a situation where you get so provoked that you will use it, even if its not needed for your own safety.
Besides, is it worth it to spend the rest of your life in prison because you reacted too fast and killed someone?
Ofcourse, where I live the authorities have greatly underestimated how long we live. Because anyone who gets a life sentence ususally gets out from prison in about 10 years or so. What are they thinking about?
You bastard! you killed someone, you'll pay for this by sitting in prison for the rest of your life. We estimate that you will live for 10 years, so unless you die within these 10 years we're just gonna set you free again. But by then I really hope you have learned your lesson!
Whatever happen with an eye for an eye? Killed someone? Then you deserve to get killed in the same way.
Could I ever kill someone? Ofcourse I could, if my life or the life of someone i love was in danger I sure could kill someone. Am I carrying around a gun every day just incase anything like that should happen? No I'm not, why would I? That sounds almost like you're hoping for someone to attack you so you'll get an excuse to shoot them. If I find myself in a situation where I need to kill someone to either protect myself or someone I love, I can assure you I dont need a gun.
I'll kill that bastard with my cellphone if needed. I'll smash that cellphone so hard in his face that he wont know what hit him. Guns are for pussies.
Then you have people fighting over religions, among other things. It just seems to be in peoples nature to want to fight. Maybe its the cave-man gene that tells us we have to show that we are stronger. No matter why, people have always been fighting each other, and I have no doubt they will always fight.
The difference from my point of view is this. When I grew up kids and teenagers were fighting just as they are today. But it was different back then. Back then they were fighting with their fists, and whoever got knocked down first lost, as simple as that. and it was an unwritten rule to not keep hitting someone who was already down.
Now these days every other guy, not only teenagers, but kids and adults as well are carrying some sort of weapon. A knife, a gun anything. Why would they do that? You read every day in the paper that someone had killed someone over some really stupid thing. And then claim that they didnt mean to kill him. I got news for you, if you shoot someone in the face, they usually die. If you didnt mean to kill anyone then why did you even carry a gun in the firt place? For protection you say? Yeah, I dont believe that. If everyone was carrying a gun for protection, people will get trigger happy. They will see threats where there is none and shoot before they find out there was no threat.
That guy looked at you in a way you find threatening? Bam, shoot him!
This guy have an opinion that differs from yours? Bam shoot him!
That guy took the parking space you had your eyes on? Bam shoot him!
I dont believe in carrying guns for protection, because even if thats all you want it for. You will never know when you find yourself in a situation where you get so provoked that you will use it, even if its not needed for your own safety.
Besides, is it worth it to spend the rest of your life in prison because you reacted too fast and killed someone?
Ofcourse, where I live the authorities have greatly underestimated how long we live. Because anyone who gets a life sentence ususally gets out from prison in about 10 years or so. What are they thinking about?
You bastard! you killed someone, you'll pay for this by sitting in prison for the rest of your life. We estimate that you will live for 10 years, so unless you die within these 10 years we're just gonna set you free again. But by then I really hope you have learned your lesson!
Whatever happen with an eye for an eye? Killed someone? Then you deserve to get killed in the same way.
Could I ever kill someone? Ofcourse I could, if my life or the life of someone i love was in danger I sure could kill someone. Am I carrying around a gun every day just incase anything like that should happen? No I'm not, why would I? That sounds almost like you're hoping for someone to attack you so you'll get an excuse to shoot them. If I find myself in a situation where I need to kill someone to either protect myself or someone I love, I can assure you I dont need a gun.
I'll kill that bastard with my cellphone if needed. I'll smash that cellphone so hard in his face that he wont know what hit him. Guns are for pussies.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
We are at war!
Awhile ago one of our neighbour countries, Iceland, declared war with the rest of the europe. By using a highly technological weapon also known as a volcano, they have spewed volcanic ash all over europe, preventing any airline traffic from taking off and land. Now some of you might think its all the work of mother nature, or even that its the hand of god who is punishing us. You are all wrong. Even though volcanos themselves are made by nature, the eruption of this one is man made.
The people of Iceland have gotten tired of beeing a secluded island that nobody cares for. For decades now they have put alot of resources into finding a way to make their volcanos erupt at their will. And this is just the beginning. This was merely a small test with one of their smaller volcanos, while the real attack is still to come from the bigger one, Katla. We believe that the government of Iceland have been in contact with the rest of the governments in europe, and have demanded them to fully surrender themselves to Iceland in order for them to cancel the planned eruption of Katla.
This attack is believed to have its roots from the fact that Iceland is nothing more than an over sized iceberg, less than 40,000 square mile big. It may even be the very same iceberg that did the attack on Titanic, 98 years ago almost on the day, april 14th 1912. Its believed that Iceland had planned this volcanic attack to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of them successfully sinking Titanic. But, since they have a language that no one, not even themselves can understand, there have been some misscommunication.
As of now, its impossible to leave europe. Which means that Iceland is basically holding all europeans prisoners for now. This is just the first step towards world domination under Iceland. What other terrors awaits us from Iceland?
It is also believed that Iceland have a fleet of highly trained whales at their disposal. Confirmation on what kind of whales we are talking about is still needed. While the volcanic ashes that are now covering bigger parts of europe may possible create a semi nuclear winter for 95% of europe. Iceland themselves have been preparing themselves for this for years. Their geysers are their defence to their volcanos. While the volcao ashes are spreading, the steam and water from they geysers seem to have the effect that the volcano ashes are spreading away from Iceland, rather than stay there.
The world as we know it is about to end. Sooner than anyone would have thought. You may very well find yourself speaking a language you cant understand within the next couple of months. I dont know which is worse, to become a part of the Icelandic Empire, or to die a horrible death in a nuclear winter caused by volcanic ashes. You have to judge for yourself.
Dont forget to tell your loved one how much you love them, soon it will be too late and they wont be able to understand you.
The people of Iceland have gotten tired of beeing a secluded island that nobody cares for. For decades now they have put alot of resources into finding a way to make their volcanos erupt at their will. And this is just the beginning. This was merely a small test with one of their smaller volcanos, while the real attack is still to come from the bigger one, Katla. We believe that the government of Iceland have been in contact with the rest of the governments in europe, and have demanded them to fully surrender themselves to Iceland in order for them to cancel the planned eruption of Katla.
This attack is believed to have its roots from the fact that Iceland is nothing more than an over sized iceberg, less than 40,000 square mile big. It may even be the very same iceberg that did the attack on Titanic, 98 years ago almost on the day, april 14th 1912. Its believed that Iceland had planned this volcanic attack to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of them successfully sinking Titanic. But, since they have a language that no one, not even themselves can understand, there have been some misscommunication.
As of now, its impossible to leave europe. Which means that Iceland is basically holding all europeans prisoners for now. This is just the first step towards world domination under Iceland. What other terrors awaits us from Iceland?
It is also believed that Iceland have a fleet of highly trained whales at their disposal. Confirmation on what kind of whales we are talking about is still needed. While the volcanic ashes that are now covering bigger parts of europe may possible create a semi nuclear winter for 95% of europe. Iceland themselves have been preparing themselves for this for years. Their geysers are their defence to their volcanos. While the volcao ashes are spreading, the steam and water from they geysers seem to have the effect that the volcano ashes are spreading away from Iceland, rather than stay there.
The world as we know it is about to end. Sooner than anyone would have thought. You may very well find yourself speaking a language you cant understand within the next couple of months. I dont know which is worse, to become a part of the Icelandic Empire, or to die a horrible death in a nuclear winter caused by volcanic ashes. You have to judge for yourself.
Dont forget to tell your loved one how much you love them, soon it will be too late and they wont be able to understand you.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Work related.
Now this might come as a surprise for those who knows me. But I think very highly of myself. I firmly believe that I can just walk in to any random company or office, and find one person that I can outperform on his job. Its not that hard.
Now as you can see, these are just some examples of jobs i could easily do. Only problem is I don't have official papers saying I can. Whats up with that anyway? In what way would it benefit me to lie and say I can do something I cant do? I'd just embarras myself and get myself fired, see? In my opinion, it should be enough that I walk in somewhere I wanna work and tell them I can do this. If I had any doubt in myself, I would never say I could do it in the first place. It makes sense to me.
Now, when it comes to jobs that I'm very familliar with, as welder. I take it as a big insult that companies I apply to work for want papers on it. I've been working as a welder for 10 years, I know this job. But rather than put a little trust in me and let me show them what I can do, they prefer to hire some dude who dont even know what a welding machine looks like, but he got some paper saying he knows how to weld, because he read a book about it. What the hell?
And they want references! What an insult! But really, if I have travelled all over the world welding shit for people, then who the hell am I going to have as my reference? Does it make sense that someone who sat in an office 2000 miles away from where I worked, and who has only seen me once when I signed the contract should be my reference? That doesnt make any sense at all to me. Now I have tried to use people I have worked together with as my references, but the companies I've applied for say they are "unreliable", because they are my "friends". Common, they have been WORKING with me, hence they have seen me perform with their own eyes. But yea, why dont we ask this guy in a suit that have never even seen me work how well I perform, that makes alot more sense.
Or you can just hire this guy over here, the one who knows how to weld in theory, because he read about it. And someone wrote him a note saying "good job, you have read about welding. And I gotta say you read it very well".
Grocery store - I can pack/unpack groceries just as good as anyone else. Probably better.
Salesman - How hard can it be? You're selling stuff, probably stuff that some people want. The people that want what you sell are going to buy it no matter who the salesman is.
Butcher - Again, how hard can it be? I know which end of the knife is the sharp one. Chop chop, no problem there.
Bus driver - I got a driving license, so whats the big deal? A bus might be a little bit bigger than my car, but I bet its all just about the same.
Construction worker - Yeah, someone tells you what to build, they give you blueprints and all the materials you need to get the job done. Sooo hard.
Teacher - I know stuff! I promise I do, and I can pass my knowledge on to others, no problem there. Especially when it comes to children, because they wouldnt know if what I said was wrong anyway, and if they question me I could just say "Because it just is that way".
psychiatrist - I'm a pretty good listener. And from my understanding, people who go to psychiatrists usually just need someone to listen to them. Most of them already know the answers for their questions, they just need someone they can vent to in order to get their thoughts straight. And pills, oh the pills. Let's not go there.
Priest - Just because I dont believe doesnt mean I cant convince others to believe. Besides they have this guide book called the bible anyway. Basically all you need to know as a priest is how to read. I can read.
Broker - Now this is something I think I'll be very good at. I'm always broke, and shouldnt have a problem to make other people broke as well. This would definitely be a job for me.
Now as you can see, these are just some examples of jobs i could easily do. Only problem is I don't have official papers saying I can. Whats up with that anyway? In what way would it benefit me to lie and say I can do something I cant do? I'd just embarras myself and get myself fired, see? In my opinion, it should be enough that I walk in somewhere I wanna work and tell them I can do this. If I had any doubt in myself, I would never say I could do it in the first place. It makes sense to me.
Now, when it comes to jobs that I'm very familliar with, as welder. I take it as a big insult that companies I apply to work for want papers on it. I've been working as a welder for 10 years, I know this job. But rather than put a little trust in me and let me show them what I can do, they prefer to hire some dude who dont even know what a welding machine looks like, but he got some paper saying he knows how to weld, because he read a book about it. What the hell?
And they want references! What an insult! But really, if I have travelled all over the world welding shit for people, then who the hell am I going to have as my reference? Does it make sense that someone who sat in an office 2000 miles away from where I worked, and who has only seen me once when I signed the contract should be my reference? That doesnt make any sense at all to me. Now I have tried to use people I have worked together with as my references, but the companies I've applied for say they are "unreliable", because they are my "friends". Common, they have been WORKING with me, hence they have seen me perform with their own eyes. But yea, why dont we ask this guy in a suit that have never even seen me work how well I perform, that makes alot more sense.
Or you can just hire this guy over here, the one who knows how to weld in theory, because he read about it. And someone wrote him a note saying "good job, you have read about welding. And I gotta say you read it very well".
Monday, April 19, 2010
Your child,
I know you love your child, and only wants whats best for him/her. I know you want to protect them against the evil in the world. You want them to know no evil, and all that. I can understand that, I really can.
But the sooner your child learns that the world isnt all pink clouds and fuzzy rabits, the better they will do out in the world. Can you even begin to imagine what it would do to your child if you show them that the world is all fuzzy and cuddly, what do you think will happen when they realize that the world is a bitch? If the live in a protective area until they are teens, then what? What have you accomplished by making them believe that the world is a nice place? It will come as a chock to them that the world in general is just there in order to use them, and you know its true. Why else would you feel the need to protect them?
Now I dont suggest that you show pictures of vicims of war to your child every day at breakfast. But telling them that the world is a wonderful place, and all you have to do to get treated right and well is to treat others right and well, is technically lying to your child. You don't want to lie to your child do you?
You know that in reality, its the ones that acts like jerks and are extremely selfish that gets the most out of life right? I'm not talking about morals and such now. But its from my experience the people that know to take what they believe they are worth that usually gets away with it. While someone who might be worth just as much sits in silence and wait for it to be given to him or her.
Maybe I am cynical, but that doesnt mean that I'm wrong. Way too many times have I seen "the nice guy" get run over by those that arent so nice. And more often than not they'll get away with it. Ofcourse its not a good idea to raise your child to become an ass either. But the best way to protect your child would be to prepare them for the real world, am I wrong? And the real world is pretty ugly. Honor and moral gets you nowhere. I dont mean you should not learn your child about moral and honor, just that they shouldnt rely on it. In a perfect world, treating others with honor, respect and moral would make the treat you the same way. But the world is far from perfect, people will cheat their way through life if they get the chance of doing so. They will take what dont belong to them, if they believe its easier than working for it themselves.
Just keep in mind, you dont want your child to be the one that everyone uses because he or she is too nice to people.
But the sooner your child learns that the world isnt all pink clouds and fuzzy rabits, the better they will do out in the world. Can you even begin to imagine what it would do to your child if you show them that the world is all fuzzy and cuddly, what do you think will happen when they realize that the world is a bitch? If the live in a protective area until they are teens, then what? What have you accomplished by making them believe that the world is a nice place? It will come as a chock to them that the world in general is just there in order to use them, and you know its true. Why else would you feel the need to protect them?
Now I dont suggest that you show pictures of vicims of war to your child every day at breakfast. But telling them that the world is a wonderful place, and all you have to do to get treated right and well is to treat others right and well, is technically lying to your child. You don't want to lie to your child do you?
You know that in reality, its the ones that acts like jerks and are extremely selfish that gets the most out of life right? I'm not talking about morals and such now. But its from my experience the people that know to take what they believe they are worth that usually gets away with it. While someone who might be worth just as much sits in silence and wait for it to be given to him or her.
Maybe I am cynical, but that doesnt mean that I'm wrong. Way too many times have I seen "the nice guy" get run over by those that arent so nice. And more often than not they'll get away with it. Ofcourse its not a good idea to raise your child to become an ass either. But the best way to protect your child would be to prepare them for the real world, am I wrong? And the real world is pretty ugly. Honor and moral gets you nowhere. I dont mean you should not learn your child about moral and honor, just that they shouldnt rely on it. In a perfect world, treating others with honor, respect and moral would make the treat you the same way. But the world is far from perfect, people will cheat their way through life if they get the chance of doing so. They will take what dont belong to them, if they believe its easier than working for it themselves.
Just keep in mind, you dont want your child to be the one that everyone uses because he or she is too nice to people.
What men say.
After I made the post about women the other day, it was pointed out to me that I should make a simmilar one about men. Now why would I do that? We're men, we say what we mean. Dont we? I know what I say and what I mean all the time, but just to be fair I will do my best. Which means internet research. After spending my whole weekend online on various womens forums and stuff like that, I have found out what men say and what they really mean according to women on the internet.
Enjoy!
Now, this list isnt very accurate or flattering to us men in my opinion. It makes us look like all we care about is food and sex. As if that isnt the only thing women care about as well, that and shoes.
Enjoy!
I'm hungry = I'm hungry
I'm tired = I'm tired
Do you want to go to a movie? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you
Can I take you out to dinner? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you
Would you like to dance? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you
Can I call you sometime? = I'd eventually like to have sex with you
Nice dress! = Nice cleavage!
You look tense, let me give you a massage = I want to fondle you
What's wrong? = What meaningless self-inflicted psycho trauma are you going through now?
You look upset = I guess sex tonight is out of the question
Yes, I love your new hairstyle = I liked it better before
Yes, your haircut looks good = $50 and it doesn't even look different!
I like the first dress you tried on better = Pick any freakin' dress and let's go!
Sure, let's go see that play = I don't want to go, but you'll make my life miserable if I don't go.
Will you marry me? = I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other guys.
You're the only girl I've ever cared about = You are the only girl who has not rejected me
Now, this list isnt very accurate or flattering to us men in my opinion. It makes us look like all we care about is food and sex. As if that isnt the only thing women care about as well, that and shoes.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Women
During my daily browsing for fun stuff on the internet today, I stumbled on the subject of women. Now we all already know that women are most of the time impossible to understand, and rarely say right out what they actually mean, or want to say.
This is what some men/guys on the internet has to say about what women say, and what they really mean.
"It's not you, it's me" = "It's you"
"I think we should see other people." = "Ha, I already am!"
"I just need some space" = "GTFO".
"No, I'm not mad" = "I'm furious, probably about absolutely nothing, and you couldn't possibly know why, BUT YOU BETTER FUCKING KNOW WHY OR YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT FOR 5 HOURS!"
"I have a headache." = "I prefer the vibrator you don't know I have."
"I'm not interested in a relationship" = "I will get in a relationship soon, but not with you"
"No, it's okay" = "Fuck no it's not okay, fix it, NOW."
"I just want a nice guy, someone that likes me for me." = "I'm going to ignore guys who are nice and date douches that just want me for my body."
"I'm fine." = "If you don't apologize or make it up to me in the next few seconds I'm going to cry."
"We need to talk." = "I need to complain."
"I'm fine!" = "You're gonna get shit no matter what you do!"
"I don't want to talk about it" = "I want to talk about it, but if you try to make me talk about it, I'll start crying even more because you're pushing me, but if you don't try to talk about it, I'll yell at you for not caring."
"It's nothing"= "you did something wrong, but I am not going to tell you what, and you had better figured out what and apologized for it and have bought me something with-in a day or I am going to be in tears in the bathroom and make you feel like crap."
"No you go have fun with your friends"- "because I am going to make you watch a project runway marathon and sex in the city with my friends tomorrow, but you don't know that yet."
"How much do you love me?" = "I did something today you're really not going to like."
"So who are you going out with?"- "there had better not be any women there, even if they are 80 years old and 500 lbs."
"I Love You" - "You better say it back instantly or no sex til you say it and mean it"
These are just some examples for how men/guys see the things women says. Now who am I to judge what is right or wrong here. But as a man I sure have been in situations where a woman is as mad as a hornet at me and im totally clueless why she is mad and what i have done wrong. And they have a way of telling you that "everything is fine" when you ask whats wrong. Now, how does a woman expect you to learn from your misstakes if they never let you know what you did wrong?
Women, (wo)man up and say whats on your mind, when its on your mind! Telling us men 3 months later what we did wrong, is not working. If I do or say something wrong today, rather than tell me how I pissed you off today, you'll bring up what I did 3 months ago that pissed you off, which you by the way never told me 3 months ago when I could have done something about it.
This is what some men/guys on the internet has to say about what women say, and what they really mean.
"It's not you, it's me" = "It's you"
"I think we should see other people." = "Ha, I already am!"
"I just need some space" = "GTFO".
"No, I'm not mad" = "I'm furious, probably about absolutely nothing, and you couldn't possibly know why, BUT YOU BETTER FUCKING KNOW WHY OR YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT FOR 5 HOURS!"
"I have a headache." = "I prefer the vibrator you don't know I have."
"I'm not interested in a relationship" = "I will get in a relationship soon, but not with you"
"No, it's okay" = "Fuck no it's not okay, fix it, NOW."
"I just want a nice guy, someone that likes me for me." = "I'm going to ignore guys who are nice and date douches that just want me for my body."
"I'm fine." = "If you don't apologize or make it up to me in the next few seconds I'm going to cry."
"We need to talk." = "I need to complain."
"I'm fine!" = "You're gonna get shit no matter what you do!"
"I don't want to talk about it" = "I want to talk about it, but if you try to make me talk about it, I'll start crying even more because you're pushing me, but if you don't try to talk about it, I'll yell at you for not caring."
"It's nothing"= "you did something wrong, but I am not going to tell you what, and you had better figured out what and apologized for it and have bought me something with-in a day or I am going to be in tears in the bathroom and make you feel like crap."
"No you go have fun with your friends"- "because I am going to make you watch a project runway marathon and sex in the city with my friends tomorrow, but you don't know that yet."
"How much do you love me?" = "I did something today you're really not going to like."
"So who are you going out with?"- "there had better not be any women there, even if they are 80 years old and 500 lbs."
"I Love You" - "You better say it back instantly or no sex til you say it and mean it"
These are just some examples for how men/guys see the things women says. Now who am I to judge what is right or wrong here. But as a man I sure have been in situations where a woman is as mad as a hornet at me and im totally clueless why she is mad and what i have done wrong. And they have a way of telling you that "everything is fine" when you ask whats wrong. Now, how does a woman expect you to learn from your misstakes if they never let you know what you did wrong?
Women, (wo)man up and say whats on your mind, when its on your mind! Telling us men 3 months later what we did wrong, is not working. If I do or say something wrong today, rather than tell me how I pissed you off today, you'll bring up what I did 3 months ago that pissed you off, which you by the way never told me 3 months ago when I could have done something about it.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Rage!
This will be my second post for today, and I'm doing it solely in order to show how stupid and forgiving people actually are.
Today was the third phase of the alpha test I'm currently doing, it was supposed to have started 20 minutes ago. However when I couldn't log in the game I went to their forums to see whats up. And this is the message I see from the gaming company.
During the alpha test that occurred on Apr. 15, 2010 at 18:00 (GMT), due to characters logging with with damaged data, there were a number of server issues and many had trouble staying connected to the alpha test.
As a result of our investigation, we have found that while some characters were deleted because of data issues the other day, all of the damaged characters were not deleted. Because of this, we will once again be isolating and deleting the characters in question.
Additionally, while we plan to deal with this issue with all possible speed, we do not yet know when this will be complete. Therefore, the alpha tests for Apr. 15 and Apr. 18 have been canceled.
The next alpha test dates will be posted as soon as the issues have been resolved such that we can resume.
Ok, so I can understand there's a problem and what not. What I cant understand is the testers reactions. I see this as even more of my time wasted. Because I could have gone and done something esle instead of sitting home waiting on the alpha test to start. Most of the other testers though seems to be completely content by having their time wasted again and again. This is some of the responses that were posted in the forums, made by the testers.
What the...?
I mean really? This gaming company keeps wasting your time week after week and giving you nothing in return, and the best you people can come up with is "thank you sir, may I have another?" Now I know the european, japanese and americans have different forums, and I have no idea what is said on the other 2. So I cant say if its just europeans that are this gay or not. Or is people just afraid of getting pissed off? Think they'll get kicked from the non working test we're supposed to run if they get mad and voice their opinions? I myself have already tried to reason with these people, but unsuccessfully. It's like we're talking different languages, which we kind of do I guess, but still.
This is how I see it. The damn gaming company shouldnt have realeased any alpha/beta test at all until they had done atleast some testings by themselves. We are supposed to be testing the game for bugs, and so far no one has been able to stay logged in long enough to know what is a bug and what isnt. The only thing we have done so far is stress testing their test server, which there are very good softwares that could do.
I dont know exactly how many testers there are, but lets say its roughly 2000 testers in each area, Europe, Asia, and America, thats 6000 testers. Now this gaming company is wasting 4 hours for all of us 3 times per week. thats a total of 72000 hours per week. To make an example, if you work for 8 hours per day, 7 days per week you work 2920 hours in 1 year. Not alot of people actually work every single day every week. But you get the point. If you were to work 8 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year. 72000 hours equal 24.5 years of hard work. You can only imagine how much money you would have made in 24.5 years. Basically this gaming company is wasting 24 years per week for us testers. And these people (the gay testers) just goes along with that and think thats all fine. What is wrong with people!?
Today was the third phase of the alpha test I'm currently doing, it was supposed to have started 20 minutes ago. However when I couldn't log in the game I went to their forums to see whats up. And this is the message I see from the gaming company.
During the alpha test that occurred on Apr. 15, 2010 at 18:00 (GMT), due to characters logging with with damaged data, there were a number of server issues and many had trouble staying connected to the alpha test.
As a result of our investigation, we have found that while some characters were deleted because of data issues the other day, all of the damaged characters were not deleted. Because of this, we will once again be isolating and deleting the characters in question.
Additionally, while we plan to deal with this issue with all possible speed, we do not yet know when this will be complete. Therefore, the alpha tests for Apr. 15 and Apr. 18 have been canceled.
The next alpha test dates will be posted as soon as the issues have been resolved such that we can resume.
Ok, so I can understand there's a problem and what not. What I cant understand is the testers reactions. I see this as even more of my time wasted. Because I could have gone and done something esle instead of sitting home waiting on the alpha test to start. Most of the other testers though seems to be completely content by having their time wasted again and again. This is some of the responses that were posted in the forums, made by the testers.
"So ? It's not a problem at all"
"Patiently awaiting the next round of testing, and here's hoping they might even get some more work done until then!"
"I think it's good that they've cancelled todays and saturdays tests. It gives them more time to work out some of the problems such as the informous high traffic error."
"And I think it's a pretty good thing they they've cancelled today's and sunday's tests, prolonging the tests will give them extended time to iron out more bugs and issues they know about."
"I wasn't in the mood for testing, anyway."
"One side of me is like ok, more time equals a more stable server and playtime for the next time."
"Good on them deciding to take the time to get it right."
"just looking forward to being able to log on, get in and play a little."
"I guess it's best for them to take the time and get it right. Less frustration in the coming weeks."
"if the next time the servers will be more stable I will wait with pleasure."
What the...?
I mean really? This gaming company keeps wasting your time week after week and giving you nothing in return, and the best you people can come up with is "thank you sir, may I have another?" Now I know the european, japanese and americans have different forums, and I have no idea what is said on the other 2. So I cant say if its just europeans that are this gay or not. Or is people just afraid of getting pissed off? Think they'll get kicked from the non working test we're supposed to run if they get mad and voice their opinions? I myself have already tried to reason with these people, but unsuccessfully. It's like we're talking different languages, which we kind of do I guess, but still.
This is how I see it. The damn gaming company shouldnt have realeased any alpha/beta test at all until they had done atleast some testings by themselves. We are supposed to be testing the game for bugs, and so far no one has been able to stay logged in long enough to know what is a bug and what isnt. The only thing we have done so far is stress testing their test server, which there are very good softwares that could do.
I dont know exactly how many testers there are, but lets say its roughly 2000 testers in each area, Europe, Asia, and America, thats 6000 testers. Now this gaming company is wasting 4 hours for all of us 3 times per week. thats a total of 72000 hours per week. To make an example, if you work for 8 hours per day, 7 days per week you work 2920 hours in 1 year. Not alot of people actually work every single day every week. But you get the point. If you were to work 8 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year. 72000 hours equal 24.5 years of hard work. You can only imagine how much money you would have made in 24.5 years. Basically this gaming company is wasting 24 years per week for us testers. And these people (the gay testers) just goes along with that and think thats all fine. What is wrong with people!?
Patience is a virtue.
I have no patience, none at all. I have no patience with people in general, or with stupidity. Stupidity isnt always the same as unintelligent mind you. There's lots of intelligent people who are stupid out in the world, just look at your loca politician and the desicions thay make.
I most certainly dont have any patience at all when things are supposed to be one way, but goes in the oposite direction. I dont see the point in that at all. Really I dont. If something is supposed to be one way, but other people make sure its not what its supposed to be, I just wanna punch someone in the face. Really hard. What is the point in working towards getting something wrong? How are people like that thinking, or arent they thinking at all? "Hmm, lets put alot of time and effort into making this completely wrong". Really people?
Maybe its something wrong with me. Maybe its my innate laziness that makes me want to do stuff right the first time so I dont have to do it all over again. I'm not going to try and hide it, I am lazy. I'm not doing anything I dont absolutely have to do, unless I actually enjoy doing it. But most of the time, anything that is even related to working I dont enjoy.
Now, as I said I have no patience. That is not to be misstaken for my stubborness though. I'm as stubborn as a rock, in the meaning that rock actually are stubborn. I mean try to tell a rock that it's actually an apple, it'll still be a rock no matter how persistant you are. Now thats stubborn right? These two traits I have, I find contradicting each other more often than not. If something does go wrong, I really have no patience trying to fix it, but at the same time I am way to stubborn to not fix it. How's that for glutton for punishment? Aparently self torture is i my nature, and I cant help it.
Yesterday I tried to fix an audio book so that I could put it on my phone, so I can listen to it wherever I am. Thats usually no problem, most audio books have few files and are easy to manage. Now this one had a bazillion files all less than 400 kb, rather than the usual 20ish files all between 5-10 mb. Now this wouldnt really had been a problem unless it was because when I put them files on my phone, they get all mixed up. I dont wanna listen to 53 sec of the first chapter followed by 44 sec of the 7th chapter, followed by 37 sec of the 3rd chapter. Well you see my point.
So I figured that I will make each CD in to 1 seperate file. It doesnt sound very hard and complicated now does it? So I downloaded a bunch of audio convert programs from the internet. First one i tried I fell in love with. It was so easy. Put all files in one place, press a button and have them all joined together in 1 file in another place. It cant be much easier than that. Only when I was going to listen to this new file I found what was wrong. Because the program I used was just a trial version I got a commersial message in my audio book every 10 sec. We cant have that now can we? I tried one of the other programs that I had downlaoded, this was a free software.
It was almost as easy to work with as the first one, put file there, get 1 separate file somewhere else. So i did this with all 20 CD's. Now I had 20 files, each around 60-80 mb, instead of having around 1500 files all 20-400 kb. Then I see something. My files, that I just made arent named the way I told them to be named. Ok, no big deal, I'll just rename them all. So I'm fixing all the tags on my files, name, album, artist, genre and all that. Then I put it in windows media player in order to convert them so I can put them on my phone. Only when the files are showing on the media player they arent named the way I named them still.
Now had it been that i mis spelled titles or something I would have understood, it would have all been my fault. But this wasnt the case. 1 of my files said it was some dance collection whatever thingy, it even had a cover picture!! What the,.... I didnt even had that picture anywhere on my computer. Some of the other files said "Learn Korean", im pretty darn sure I have never wanted to learn korean, and I'm very sure that I did not name my audio book files that way. Not to speak of that some of the tags were written on some squiggly language (probably korean then I guess). Now these tags refused to be changed! no matter how many times I renamed them. Granted that it was still my audio book despite the names of the files, but still! When I put the files in my phone I want them all in order in one place so I can easily make a playlist that works the way I want it to. But with files having random korean names, my files are all over the place once put in the phone.
This is one example of the things I dont have patience with. But because my stubborness, I sat up til 5 am this morning trying to fix this. Eventually I had to give up because I was falling asleep, and I didnt want to have to punch my computer/phone in the "face" for doing it wrong.
I most certainly dont have any patience at all when things are supposed to be one way, but goes in the oposite direction. I dont see the point in that at all. Really I dont. If something is supposed to be one way, but other people make sure its not what its supposed to be, I just wanna punch someone in the face. Really hard. What is the point in working towards getting something wrong? How are people like that thinking, or arent they thinking at all? "Hmm, lets put alot of time and effort into making this completely wrong". Really people?
Maybe its something wrong with me. Maybe its my innate laziness that makes me want to do stuff right the first time so I dont have to do it all over again. I'm not going to try and hide it, I am lazy. I'm not doing anything I dont absolutely have to do, unless I actually enjoy doing it. But most of the time, anything that is even related to working I dont enjoy.
Now, as I said I have no patience. That is not to be misstaken for my stubborness though. I'm as stubborn as a rock, in the meaning that rock actually are stubborn. I mean try to tell a rock that it's actually an apple, it'll still be a rock no matter how persistant you are. Now thats stubborn right? These two traits I have, I find contradicting each other more often than not. If something does go wrong, I really have no patience trying to fix it, but at the same time I am way to stubborn to not fix it. How's that for glutton for punishment? Aparently self torture is i my nature, and I cant help it.
Yesterday I tried to fix an audio book so that I could put it on my phone, so I can listen to it wherever I am. Thats usually no problem, most audio books have few files and are easy to manage. Now this one had a bazillion files all less than 400 kb, rather than the usual 20ish files all between 5-10 mb. Now this wouldnt really had been a problem unless it was because when I put them files on my phone, they get all mixed up. I dont wanna listen to 53 sec of the first chapter followed by 44 sec of the 7th chapter, followed by 37 sec of the 3rd chapter. Well you see my point.
So I figured that I will make each CD in to 1 seperate file. It doesnt sound very hard and complicated now does it? So I downloaded a bunch of audio convert programs from the internet. First one i tried I fell in love with. It was so easy. Put all files in one place, press a button and have them all joined together in 1 file in another place. It cant be much easier than that. Only when I was going to listen to this new file I found what was wrong. Because the program I used was just a trial version I got a commersial message in my audio book every 10 sec. We cant have that now can we? I tried one of the other programs that I had downlaoded, this was a free software.
It was almost as easy to work with as the first one, put file there, get 1 separate file somewhere else. So i did this with all 20 CD's. Now I had 20 files, each around 60-80 mb, instead of having around 1500 files all 20-400 kb. Then I see something. My files, that I just made arent named the way I told them to be named. Ok, no big deal, I'll just rename them all. So I'm fixing all the tags on my files, name, album, artist, genre and all that. Then I put it in windows media player in order to convert them so I can put them on my phone. Only when the files are showing on the media player they arent named the way I named them still.
Now had it been that i mis spelled titles or something I would have understood, it would have all been my fault. But this wasnt the case. 1 of my files said it was some dance collection whatever thingy, it even had a cover picture!! What the,.... I didnt even had that picture anywhere on my computer. Some of the other files said "Learn Korean", im pretty darn sure I have never wanted to learn korean, and I'm very sure that I did not name my audio book files that way. Not to speak of that some of the tags were written on some squiggly language (probably korean then I guess). Now these tags refused to be changed! no matter how many times I renamed them. Granted that it was still my audio book despite the names of the files, but still! When I put the files in my phone I want them all in order in one place so I can easily make a playlist that works the way I want it to. But with files having random korean names, my files are all over the place once put in the phone.
This is one example of the things I dont have patience with. But because my stubborness, I sat up til 5 am this morning trying to fix this. Eventually I had to give up because I was falling asleep, and I didnt want to have to punch my computer/phone in the "face" for doing it wrong.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Rants.
The differences between living alone and living with someone else are many. For one, living alone you dont have to take someone elses feelings into consideration, you dont have to respect someone elses privacy, or lack thereof.
Now I dont live alone, nor am I living together with someone I love, or even really care for. I have a roommate, a german one, he's here working. I had never met him before the day I moved in, I had never even spoken to him. It all works out pretty easy. I give him money, and he let me have a room in his apartment (intenet® included). He have no expectations on me, other than I give him the rent money by the end of the month. And well that I dont make a mess everywhere and expect him to clean up after me, which suits me fine, I dont like messes very much myself.
The downside though about living with someone you dont care about, is that you'll have to go to bed alone at night (unless you want a german guy with you in bed, which I dont). And you also have no right to have expectations on him, or the right to complain to him (unless the internet® stop working). You also cant go eat his food from the fridge, which can be tempting at times. It always seems that no matter how much food I have at home, his food always seems nicer. Why is that by the way? Grass is always greener and all that? I wonder if he thinks the same about my food, if he does maybe we can have food switch days.
Another thing would be that I obviously cant have lots of friends over and have a party, especially not since he is working 6 days per week, while I'm working zero days per week. The whole snuggeling in front of a good movie and having taco nights is also not an option.
Now I dont watch TV, I really never do watch TV at all. I really dont see the point in it. Lets say I wanna watch a TV show, or a movie or something. Then I get to watch 5-10 minutes of what I want, followed by 10 minutes of commersial, then another 5-10 minutes of what I want followed by yet another 10 minute commersial break. Why would anyone put themselves through that? I'd much rather downlaod the TV show I want to see from the internet® and watch it when I have the time to do so, without any breaks, or with as many and as long breaks as I want to have. I dont want to watch a half naked man use a razorblade with 8 blades and batteries in the middle of my favourite TV show, that will most likely NOT make me buy that razor. I'd by any razor BUT that one, I will always remember that razor as the one that popped up just when the TV show I was watching was most exciting. The resentment towards that razor will be huge.
I think the whole commersial thingy is backfiring at them. The pay huge amount of money to show their products on TV, which will annoy the crap out of people and keep them from buying said product. Not to speak of the fact the the commersials costs alot of money, so they have to sell these items alot more expensive than a brand who dont use TV commersial for their products. If the stop doing TV commersials, their product would cost less money and they could sell it cheaper, and if they really are that good, people will keep buying it. Simple math to me.
But then again, I guess I think too high of humankind. I guess 97.5% of them all are mindless sheeps with no will of their own. If someone on TV tells them to buy something, they'll run to the store and buy it. Even if they have no use for it what so ever. If anyone on TV says you cant live without a razor that has both 8 blades AND batteries, then its obviously true, you can't live without it. Better hurry up and get one before you get caught without it and die.
Now I dont live alone, nor am I living together with someone I love, or even really care for. I have a roommate, a german one, he's here working. I had never met him before the day I moved in, I had never even spoken to him. It all works out pretty easy. I give him money, and he let me have a room in his apartment (intenet® included). He have no expectations on me, other than I give him the rent money by the end of the month. And well that I dont make a mess everywhere and expect him to clean up after me, which suits me fine, I dont like messes very much myself.
The downside though about living with someone you dont care about, is that you'll have to go to bed alone at night (unless you want a german guy with you in bed, which I dont). And you also have no right to have expectations on him, or the right to complain to him (unless the internet® stop working). You also cant go eat his food from the fridge, which can be tempting at times. It always seems that no matter how much food I have at home, his food always seems nicer. Why is that by the way? Grass is always greener and all that? I wonder if he thinks the same about my food, if he does maybe we can have food switch days.
Another thing would be that I obviously cant have lots of friends over and have a party, especially not since he is working 6 days per week, while I'm working zero days per week. The whole snuggeling in front of a good movie and having taco nights is also not an option.
Now I dont watch TV, I really never do watch TV at all. I really dont see the point in it. Lets say I wanna watch a TV show, or a movie or something. Then I get to watch 5-10 minutes of what I want, followed by 10 minutes of commersial, then another 5-10 minutes of what I want followed by yet another 10 minute commersial break. Why would anyone put themselves through that? I'd much rather downlaod the TV show I want to see from the internet® and watch it when I have the time to do so, without any breaks, or with as many and as long breaks as I want to have. I dont want to watch a half naked man use a razorblade with 8 blades and batteries in the middle of my favourite TV show, that will most likely NOT make me buy that razor. I'd by any razor BUT that one, I will always remember that razor as the one that popped up just when the TV show I was watching was most exciting. The resentment towards that razor will be huge.
I think the whole commersial thingy is backfiring at them. The pay huge amount of money to show their products on TV, which will annoy the crap out of people and keep them from buying said product. Not to speak of the fact the the commersials costs alot of money, so they have to sell these items alot more expensive than a brand who dont use TV commersial for their products. If the stop doing TV commersials, their product would cost less money and they could sell it cheaper, and if they really are that good, people will keep buying it. Simple math to me.
But then again, I guess I think too high of humankind. I guess 97.5% of them all are mindless sheeps with no will of their own. If someone on TV tells them to buy something, they'll run to the store and buy it. Even if they have no use for it what so ever. If anyone on TV says you cant live without a razor that has both 8 blades AND batteries, then its obviously true, you can't live without it. Better hurry up and get one before you get caught without it and die.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The horror!
Today my friend forced me to go with him to this place he call "Outside". It's a scary place this outside. When I asked him what we would do there he reply "Get some resh air". You know, I'm all for the envoriment and all, I like recycling and stuff. I really dont mind staying here and recycling my air for a few more days. Who knows how much rain forest that would save? But beeing the persistant little bugger as he is (my friend that is), he wouldnt leave me alone until I agreed on go outside with him.
I was also running out of coffee and cigarettes, which had a big influense in me agreeing to go anywhere.
We must have passed atleast 3 grocery stores that probably sold a whole variety of coffee and cigarettes on our way. But could I go in there and buy what I wanted and then go back home again? No. He insisted that we took a longer walk for this "fresh air" thingy.
As windy as it was here today, I'm pretty sure I got an overdose of fresh air. I didnt even have to breath really, just open my mouth and the air just streamed down my lungs whether I wanted or not. Do you know how many cigarettes I have to smoke to make up for all that? Me neither, but I'm sure its atleast a full packet extra the next few days.
But I endured it all. I took comfort in the fact that later today I was having the second phase of the alpha test I'm doing for a big game company.
The alpha test started an hour ago by the way. And guess what I'm doing instead of beeing online and bumping my pixel head against a pixel wall time after time to make sure its solid? I'm sitting here and writing an online blog, that no one will probably even read. Makes sense, no?
Well, let me explain. After the first alpha test the game company had us uninstall the game and downlaod a new version of it. I downlaoded this new version 2 days ago, just to be done in time so when the test server open I can just log in and start banging my head against random stuff in game.
7.54 PM CET (central european time) I started up the game.
Started up the game...
Started up the...
Started...
!!!
What the...!?
11000 Version update failed.
It wont even let me get to where I'm supposed to put my pasword in order to log in. This is annoying, since I checked, double checked, tripple checked everying TWICE yesterday to make sure everything worked out the way it was supposed to. And it did.
So now I'm having to download it all over again and see if that makes a difference. And guess what. It will take about 6-8 hours!
What was that you say? Get a better and faster internet you say? For your information my internet have 24 mb/s download speed! However when downloading the client from Square E... umm I mean from the "Game Company" I'm only able to downlaod about 100 kb/s. Cheap bastards!
Last alpha test I was able to play around 20 minutes out of 4 hours, this time around I'll get to download the client once again, and by the time thats all done the test server is down again.
And people say "You're so lucky to be in the alpha test".
Lucky!??
Lucky is to win the lottery, lucky is to find a bag with lots of money in it that no one is missing. Lucky is the get A on your math test by just guessing all the answers. This is NOT lucky! I'd like to believe I was carefully chosen because of my superior understanding of game mechanics. And maybe because I have given my money to this game company every month for the past 6 years. And now all they are doing is wasting 12 hours of my time every week and call it "alpha test".
You know why most gaming companies dont have alpha tests? Its because they arent so damn cheap, they actually do their alpha test "in house", they hire people and pay them with something I would like to call "money", in order to do the alpha test. Then later on they have a closed beta and an open beta test that they invite certain people to (people like me). The difference between alpha and beta is that the beta version of the game is actually playable, while the alpha test is only stressing both my computer and my nerves.
The only thing good with alpha, is that my alpha account will be valid for closed and open beta as well once they get that far. So I'm seriously considering just skipping this "alpha" and wait til everyone who thinks they're so damn "lucky" to be in alpha to fix the worst bugs, and then I'll just join when the fun starts.
Jerks
I was also running out of coffee and cigarettes, which had a big influense in me agreeing to go anywhere.
We must have passed atleast 3 grocery stores that probably sold a whole variety of coffee and cigarettes on our way. But could I go in there and buy what I wanted and then go back home again? No. He insisted that we took a longer walk for this "fresh air" thingy.
As windy as it was here today, I'm pretty sure I got an overdose of fresh air. I didnt even have to breath really, just open my mouth and the air just streamed down my lungs whether I wanted or not. Do you know how many cigarettes I have to smoke to make up for all that? Me neither, but I'm sure its atleast a full packet extra the next few days.
But I endured it all. I took comfort in the fact that later today I was having the second phase of the alpha test I'm doing for a big game company.
The alpha test started an hour ago by the way. And guess what I'm doing instead of beeing online and bumping my pixel head against a pixel wall time after time to make sure its solid? I'm sitting here and writing an online blog, that no one will probably even read. Makes sense, no?
Well, let me explain. After the first alpha test the game company had us uninstall the game and downlaod a new version of it. I downlaoded this new version 2 days ago, just to be done in time so when the test server open I can just log in and start banging my head against random stuff in game.
7.54 PM CET (central european time) I started up the game.
Started up the game...
Started up the...
Started...
!!!
What the...!?
11000 Version update failed.
It wont even let me get to where I'm supposed to put my pasword in order to log in. This is annoying, since I checked, double checked, tripple checked everying TWICE yesterday to make sure everything worked out the way it was supposed to. And it did.
So now I'm having to download it all over again and see if that makes a difference. And guess what. It will take about 6-8 hours!
What was that you say? Get a better and faster internet you say? For your information my internet have 24 mb/s download speed! However when downloading the client from Square E... umm I mean from the "Game Company" I'm only able to downlaod about 100 kb/s. Cheap bastards!
Last alpha test I was able to play around 20 minutes out of 4 hours, this time around I'll get to download the client once again, and by the time thats all done the test server is down again.
And people say "You're so lucky to be in the alpha test".
Lucky!??
Lucky is to win the lottery, lucky is to find a bag with lots of money in it that no one is missing. Lucky is the get A on your math test by just guessing all the answers. This is NOT lucky! I'd like to believe I was carefully chosen because of my superior understanding of game mechanics. And maybe because I have given my money to this game company every month for the past 6 years. And now all they are doing is wasting 12 hours of my time every week and call it "alpha test".
You know why most gaming companies dont have alpha tests? Its because they arent so damn cheap, they actually do their alpha test "in house", they hire people and pay them with something I would like to call "money", in order to do the alpha test. Then later on they have a closed beta and an open beta test that they invite certain people to (people like me). The difference between alpha and beta is that the beta version of the game is actually playable, while the alpha test is only stressing both my computer and my nerves.
The only thing good with alpha, is that my alpha account will be valid for closed and open beta as well once they get that far. So I'm seriously considering just skipping this "alpha" and wait til everyone who thinks they're so damn "lucky" to be in alpha to fix the worst bugs, and then I'll just join when the fun starts.
Jerks
Monday, April 12, 2010
Just another day.
Yet another weekend is over.
Although weekends are no different than any other day of the week to me. The avarage saturday looks something like this usually.
12:00 Wake up, incredible sleepy still.
12:01 Make my way to the kitchen and make really strong coffee.
12:02 Chain smoke 2 cigaretts while the coffee is making.
12:05 Sweet sweet coffee!
12:10 Boot up comuter.
12:15 Check email, facebook, look for job, browse some forums.
12:30 Start up Final Fantasy XI.
12:45 Still trying to wake up. Need more coffee!
13:15 Looking for funny stuff on the internet while looking for party in game.
15:00 Trying to decide if I'm hungry.
15:01 If hungry warm up leftovers, if not, more coffee.
16:00 Bored.
17:00 Bored, still looking for party in game. Make a party? Too lazy.
17:02 Text message on the cellphone, don't bother to see who it is and what they want.
17:12 Need more coffee again. And smoking.
17:20 I should probably learn japanese...
17:35 Another text message on the cellphone. Both messages is someone wanting me to call them up, ignoring it.
18:17 Restless, weather is nice, a cold beer would have been nice too. but I have none.
18:47 Oh thats right, cat needs food and such. Cats are demanding animals...
19:08 Raid the fridge, there's lots of food in there, but nothing I want right now. How come no matter how much stuff you have in the fridge you always want the stuff you dont have anyway?
19:23 Worrying about the future.
19:37 Worrying about the future AND about money.
19:56 Making criminal plans on how to get money and secure the future.
20:01 Giving up on my plans because I know I would get caught anyway.
20:05 Playing the lottery, I can feeel it I'm going to win this week. The jackpot is currently 300 million.
20:10 Making plans for when I win those 300 millions. So much to do and have to decide in which order I should do it all.
20:16 More coffee, putting on some music.
20:17 Is this really MY playlist? What was I thiking of?
20:35 Still looking for party in game, maybe I should change to another job.
20:37 Stomach growling, making a few cheese sandwhiches while having a cigarette.
21:00 Checking The Pirate Bay for new stuff.
21:08 Downlaoding the latest episode of CSI from TPB.
21:14 Dowload ready. It's in RAR format and password protected. I'm asked to go to some Spanish website to get the password. Yeah right, deleting CSI.
21:18 Cursing out all spanish people for beeng evil.
21:35 Staring at my character in game. Checking chatlog to see if I missed a party invite, but I havent.
21:42 Got a tell in game! www.brogame.com we sell gil cheap! only 24$ for 1 milion! now 5% extra code: BR74. Just for you! Comon!
21:43 Cursing out all RMT's and Square Enix.
22:00 Wishing I could make money as easy in real life as I can in the game, go kill some animals, sell their remains and get rich.
22:14 More coffee.
22:16 smoking.
22:30 Decide to solo some in game, got aggro on the way to camp and died.
22:31 Cursing out the game.
23:15 Browsing the internet for funny stuff.
23:24 Reading some amusing argument on an internet forum.
23:43 Trolling said forum for a bit. Smiling to myself. This is fun, people are getting mad.
00:23 I'm getting sleepy.
00:25 Getting a party invite in game. Figures, just as I was about to log off...
00:26 More coffee.
01:05 Leader of the party is still looking for members...
01:30 Party finally starts.
01:32 Healer lost their internet connection.
01:40 Healer coming back again.
02:23 Getting really sleepy, finding someone to take my place in the party so I can leave.
02:55 My replacement finally shows up.
02:56 Logging off the game.
02:58 Going to bed.
03:03 Remember that I forgot to brush my teeth. I'll do it tomorrow morning.
I know, you're probably jealous over the life I'm living. I would be too if I were you. As you can tell, I'm having a really exciting life. Tomorrow I might go on an adventure to the grocery store, I'm running out of coffee and cigarettes.
Although weekends are no different than any other day of the week to me. The avarage saturday looks something like this usually.
12:00 Wake up, incredible sleepy still.
12:01 Make my way to the kitchen and make really strong coffee.
12:02 Chain smoke 2 cigaretts while the coffee is making.
12:05 Sweet sweet coffee!
12:10 Boot up comuter.
12:15 Check email, facebook, look for job, browse some forums.
12:30 Start up Final Fantasy XI.
12:45 Still trying to wake up. Need more coffee!
13:15 Looking for funny stuff on the internet while looking for party in game.
15:00 Trying to decide if I'm hungry.
15:01 If hungry warm up leftovers, if not, more coffee.
16:00 Bored.
17:00 Bored, still looking for party in game. Make a party? Too lazy.
17:02 Text message on the cellphone, don't bother to see who it is and what they want.
17:12 Need more coffee again. And smoking.
17:20 I should probably learn japanese...
17:35 Another text message on the cellphone. Both messages is someone wanting me to call them up, ignoring it.
18:17 Restless, weather is nice, a cold beer would have been nice too. but I have none.
18:47 Oh thats right, cat needs food and such. Cats are demanding animals...
19:08 Raid the fridge, there's lots of food in there, but nothing I want right now. How come no matter how much stuff you have in the fridge you always want the stuff you dont have anyway?
19:23 Worrying about the future.
19:37 Worrying about the future AND about money.
19:56 Making criminal plans on how to get money and secure the future.
20:01 Giving up on my plans because I know I would get caught anyway.
20:05 Playing the lottery, I can feeel it I'm going to win this week. The jackpot is currently 300 million.
20:10 Making plans for when I win those 300 millions. So much to do and have to decide in which order I should do it all.
20:16 More coffee, putting on some music.
20:17 Is this really MY playlist? What was I thiking of?
20:35 Still looking for party in game, maybe I should change to another job.
20:37 Stomach growling, making a few cheese sandwhiches while having a cigarette.
21:00 Checking The Pirate Bay for new stuff.
21:08 Downlaoding the latest episode of CSI from TPB.
21:14 Dowload ready. It's in RAR format and password protected. I'm asked to go to some Spanish website to get the password. Yeah right, deleting CSI.
21:18 Cursing out all spanish people for beeng evil.
21:35 Staring at my character in game. Checking chatlog to see if I missed a party invite, but I havent.
21:42 Got a tell in game! www.brogame.com we sell gil cheap! only 24$ for 1 milion! now 5% extra code: BR74. Just for you! Comon!
21:43 Cursing out all RMT's and Square Enix.
22:00 Wishing I could make money as easy in real life as I can in the game, go kill some animals, sell their remains and get rich.
22:14 More coffee.
22:16 smoking.
22:30 Decide to solo some in game, got aggro on the way to camp and died.
22:31 Cursing out the game.
23:15 Browsing the internet for funny stuff.
23:24 Reading some amusing argument on an internet forum.
23:43 Trolling said forum for a bit. Smiling to myself. This is fun, people are getting mad.
00:23 I'm getting sleepy.
00:25 Getting a party invite in game. Figures, just as I was about to log off...
00:26 More coffee.
01:05 Leader of the party is still looking for members...
01:30 Party finally starts.
01:32 Healer lost their internet connection.
01:40 Healer coming back again.
02:23 Getting really sleepy, finding someone to take my place in the party so I can leave.
02:55 My replacement finally shows up.
02:56 Logging off the game.
02:58 Going to bed.
03:03 Remember that I forgot to brush my teeth. I'll do it tomorrow morning.
I know, you're probably jealous over the life I'm living. I would be too if I were you. As you can tell, I'm having a really exciting life. Tomorrow I might go on an adventure to the grocery store, I'm running out of coffee and cigarettes.
Friday, April 9, 2010
This bug has...a bug?
So, I'm one of the chosen few. Read few thousand. Who gets to alpha test this new MMORPG game. For those who dont know what MMORPG is, it stands for "Massively multiplayer online role-playing game". Like World Of Warcraft, Eve online, Final Fantasy XI and such. Since I'm an alpha tester I'm not allowed to reveal any information about this game at the moment, so you have to figure it out yourself which MMORPG game I'm talking about.
Yesterday was supposed to have been our first playday, the gave us a 4 hour window to log in and test the game for bugs. First it took about 30 minutes to even be able to log in and create a character, then I got kicked out from the game because of server issues. Then it took about another 45 minutes before I was able to log back in again. I managed to stay in game for about 10 minutes this time. In these 10 minutes I had the time to go through a cutscene, kill a fish and go through another cutscene, and finally get dumped in a city. Then I got kicked off the game again. And another 30 minutes to try and log back on again. Was able to stay online for maybe another 5 minutes, managed to go to the other side of the town, basically I got lost while looking for a way out of the town. Got an error message, game crashed. Another 30-40 minutes of trying to log on, finally got on again. Trying to remember where I am and where I was going, game crashes again. Spent another 20 minutes to try and log in, said "Fuck this".
Went to the official alpha forum where I am supposed to be reporting bugs. Open the bug report, spending 15 minutes typing about the problem I've found so far. Submitting. After I submitted my bug report I get a message saying
"The dark hand of evil has reached from the depths of the Pit to cause an unexplainable error while registering your report, rendering all your efforts to naught. We humbly ask that you brave the journey back to the Bug Report Form and attempt once more to complete your noble quest."
Ok... So not only is the game bugged, which is understandable. but the bug report thingy is, well bugged as well. Decided I'm not going to spend another 15 minutes to try and submit another bug report. Browsing the forum for a bit, see that everyone has the same problem as I had. And alot of people complaining, which is understandable. If I cared enough I would also complain, I just wasted 4 hours staring at a login screen, fun times.
Then you have the internet white knights saying stuff like "Don't complain, its aplha, blah blah blah" As if they believe they will get special treatment from the gaming company if they "defend" them on an online forum. Umm hello... We are there to find bugs and report them, we are there to voice our opinion about this game and help to make it better. Not just accept everything that is wrong, and be thankful that we get the oportunity to stare on a login screen. Now if I owned a game company and ran a test like this, I would want the testers to voice their opinion about whats bad, so that we can fix the problem. I wouldnt want a bunch of suckups to say that everything is damn near divine (because this is what they think the game company want to hear).
So yeah, I'm glad to be a part of this and all, but its not all that cool. I refuse to act as if I have just won 50 million on the lottery. I will speak my mind, and if the game company really dont want my opinion, they can just remove me from the testing, and keep all the guys that say what they want to hear instead.
So all you internet white knights, take your e-stallion and go defend some e-princess or something and leave the real testing to us who have an opinion of our own. ok?
Yesterday was supposed to have been our first playday, the gave us a 4 hour window to log in and test the game for bugs. First it took about 30 minutes to even be able to log in and create a character, then I got kicked out from the game because of server issues. Then it took about another 45 minutes before I was able to log back in again. I managed to stay in game for about 10 minutes this time. In these 10 minutes I had the time to go through a cutscene, kill a fish and go through another cutscene, and finally get dumped in a city. Then I got kicked off the game again. And another 30 minutes to try and log back on again. Was able to stay online for maybe another 5 minutes, managed to go to the other side of the town, basically I got lost while looking for a way out of the town. Got an error message, game crashed. Another 30-40 minutes of trying to log on, finally got on again. Trying to remember where I am and where I was going, game crashes again. Spent another 20 minutes to try and log in, said "Fuck this".
Went to the official alpha forum where I am supposed to be reporting bugs. Open the bug report, spending 15 minutes typing about the problem I've found so far. Submitting. After I submitted my bug report I get a message saying
"The dark hand of evil has reached from the depths of the Pit to cause an unexplainable error while registering your report, rendering all your efforts to naught. We humbly ask that you brave the journey back to the Bug Report Form and attempt once more to complete your noble quest."
Ok... So not only is the game bugged, which is understandable. but the bug report thingy is, well bugged as well. Decided I'm not going to spend another 15 minutes to try and submit another bug report. Browsing the forum for a bit, see that everyone has the same problem as I had. And alot of people complaining, which is understandable. If I cared enough I would also complain, I just wasted 4 hours staring at a login screen, fun times.
Then you have the internet white knights saying stuff like "Don't complain, its aplha, blah blah blah" As if they believe they will get special treatment from the gaming company if they "defend" them on an online forum. Umm hello... We are there to find bugs and report them, we are there to voice our opinion about this game and help to make it better. Not just accept everything that is wrong, and be thankful that we get the oportunity to stare on a login screen. Now if I owned a game company and ran a test like this, I would want the testers to voice their opinion about whats bad, so that we can fix the problem. I wouldnt want a bunch of suckups to say that everything is damn near divine (because this is what they think the game company want to hear).
So yeah, I'm glad to be a part of this and all, but its not all that cool. I refuse to act as if I have just won 50 million on the lottery. I will speak my mind, and if the game company really dont want my opinion, they can just remove me from the testing, and keep all the guys that say what they want to hear instead.
So all you internet white knights, take your e-stallion and go defend some e-princess or something and leave the real testing to us who have an opinion of our own. ok?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The beauty of friendship.
I've always thought that friendship is something mutual. Maybe not as it was when you were 10 years old and you asked someone if they wanted to be your friend. But you know, you find out that you have similar intrests and such. I'm a firm believer that you have the right to choose who is your friend and who isn't. I have found out though, that not everyone feels the way I do.
I know, odd isn't it? That came as a surprise for me as well.
I have had those kind of friends that only consider you as a friend, a very good friend I might add, but only when they need something from you. Money, a ride somewhere. Well you get the point. And when you tell them you can't, or don't want to, some of them gets really mad. Now, I don't thikn that arguments and fights belongs in a friendship, it kind of takes the whole purpose of friendship away from it all. Atleast that's my opinion. If you have friends it's because they make you fell good and comfortable, and because you have fun together. Not so you can have random fights with a person because you don't think the same.
Friendship is kind of overrated anyway. I kind of like beeing alone by myself, it doesnt bother me one bit. Now, this doesnt nessesarily means that I'm not social, it just means that I want to be social on my own terms. I dont want friends that cant take a no, or that call me up and want me to do something and get all mad if I say no. I tend to not answer my phone when people like that call. Which makes them send angry text messages to me instead.
Is it really that hard for some people to understand that if someone don't answer their phone they either don't want to talk with you, or they are busy at the moment and will call you back when they are less busy? I have had "friends" that when I don't answer the phone they keep ringing every 30 sec, and just wont give up. Especially these friends that only call when they want something from you. Some of them even went as far as to come to my home and bother me, even though I think it's pretty clear that I'm "busy" when I don't answer the phone.
If I do answer after awhile when they wont stop calling, I usually get a conversation like this.
Me: Yeah hello?
"Friend": Why the hell don't you answer your phone!!??
Me: Umm, because I've been busy?
"Friend": It's an emergency! I really need your help!
Me: Let me guess...you need a ride somewhere?
"Friend": YES! I need to buy nails!!
Me: You've called me nonstop for 2 hours straight because you need to buy nails?
"Friend": YES! I need you to drive me to the store!
Me: It would take you 20 minutes to walk to the store, 5 minutes with the city bus.
"Friend": So? Will you drive me?
Me: No.
"Friend": What!?
Me: No, I can't I have plans.
"Friend": But after, when you're done?
Me: It all depends on when I'm done with what I'm doing. I really dont know.
"Friend": But I need to know NOW!
Me: Ok, then I'm sorry. I cant drive you. I'm not going to promise I will if I dont know if I can.
"Friend": I thought we were friends...I hate you.
Click...
See what I mean? Why would anyone want to have so called friends that acts like that? I have one specific friend like that, every single time he calls I know he needs a ride somewhere. So, if I already know I'm not going to drive him anywhere, it makes perfect sense to me to not answer my phone when he calls. That way I can atleast avoid the totally unnessesary conversation above. Besides, if he had used his own feets instead of terrorizing my phone for 2 hours, he would have had his damn nails long before I even answered the phone and told him no in the first place.
I'm not your private cab driver, and I'm not going to drop everything I got on my hands to come and drive you to buy nails. Stop beeing so damn lazy and get something done yourself for once.
I know, odd isn't it? That came as a surprise for me as well.
I have had those kind of friends that only consider you as a friend, a very good friend I might add, but only when they need something from you. Money, a ride somewhere. Well you get the point. And when you tell them you can't, or don't want to, some of them gets really mad. Now, I don't thikn that arguments and fights belongs in a friendship, it kind of takes the whole purpose of friendship away from it all. Atleast that's my opinion. If you have friends it's because they make you fell good and comfortable, and because you have fun together. Not so you can have random fights with a person because you don't think the same.
Friendship is kind of overrated anyway. I kind of like beeing alone by myself, it doesnt bother me one bit. Now, this doesnt nessesarily means that I'm not social, it just means that I want to be social on my own terms. I dont want friends that cant take a no, or that call me up and want me to do something and get all mad if I say no. I tend to not answer my phone when people like that call. Which makes them send angry text messages to me instead.
Is it really that hard for some people to understand that if someone don't answer their phone they either don't want to talk with you, or they are busy at the moment and will call you back when they are less busy? I have had "friends" that when I don't answer the phone they keep ringing every 30 sec, and just wont give up. Especially these friends that only call when they want something from you. Some of them even went as far as to come to my home and bother me, even though I think it's pretty clear that I'm "busy" when I don't answer the phone.
If I do answer after awhile when they wont stop calling, I usually get a conversation like this.
Me: Yeah hello?
"Friend": Why the hell don't you answer your phone!!??
Me: Umm, because I've been busy?
"Friend": It's an emergency! I really need your help!
Me: Let me guess...you need a ride somewhere?
"Friend": YES! I need to buy nails!!
Me: You've called me nonstop for 2 hours straight because you need to buy nails?
"Friend": YES! I need you to drive me to the store!
Me: It would take you 20 minutes to walk to the store, 5 minutes with the city bus.
"Friend": So? Will you drive me?
Me: No.
"Friend": What!?
Me: No, I can't I have plans.
"Friend": But after, when you're done?
Me: It all depends on when I'm done with what I'm doing. I really dont know.
"Friend": But I need to know NOW!
Me: Ok, then I'm sorry. I cant drive you. I'm not going to promise I will if I dont know if I can.
"Friend": I thought we were friends...I hate you.
Click...
See what I mean? Why would anyone want to have so called friends that acts like that? I have one specific friend like that, every single time he calls I know he needs a ride somewhere. So, if I already know I'm not going to drive him anywhere, it makes perfect sense to me to not answer my phone when he calls. That way I can atleast avoid the totally unnessesary conversation above. Besides, if he had used his own feets instead of terrorizing my phone for 2 hours, he would have had his damn nails long before I even answered the phone and told him no in the first place.
I'm not your private cab driver, and I'm not going to drop everything I got on my hands to come and drive you to buy nails. Stop beeing so damn lazy and get something done yourself for once.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Tech support. How may I help you?
I was going to write something witty about religion today, since its eastern and all. I was even halfway done with something where I mock each and everyone who is even the slightest bit religious. But the past days it seems that everyone I know have a computer that broke, so today I will write about computers. Sort of.
First it's my friends sister, we can call her Julie. Her computer broke down a couple of days ago. Actually, it broke a long time ago, but since its a really old computer it took it about 6 months to realize it didnt work anymore. Usually you will know that something is wrong when you have to turn it on and off for 30 minutes every morning before it finally boots up. And when it finally starts up it sounds like someone laying on their deathbed dying from lung cancer. When your computer does this, it shouldnt come as a surprise when it just wont start one morning.
Now I'm no computer geek or anything, but I know some stuff about them. I know that when you have hardware failure on your computer its nothing that can be "fixed", you will have to replace the damaged part. Especially when it's your motherboard that is broken. It's not like when a program stops working and you can just reinstall it. Try to explain this to someone that dont know anything at all about computers, and are not even willing to buy new parts for their computer, and see how far that'll get you.
I got a text from Julie saying she was desperate, because she has been without internet for 3 days now. I can understand this. Then she says her brother is coming by later and she hope he can fix it. To which i reply, you can't just "fix it", you need to buy a new motherboard, atleast. But they don't want to listen, so I just leave it be. When she is desperate enough to see the truth and have been without her internet for a week or so, she will buy that motherboard.
Ten minutes later I get another text message saying, "Great... now the hamster died too!"
Then we have my dad. He dont know anything about computers either, but atleast he's trying. Trying and failing but nevertheless trying. He figured his computer was a bit alow, so he decided to go and buy more RAM for it in hope it would speed it up. This is a great idea, because he didnt have alot of RAM to begin with. Only thing is that because he dont know shit about computers, he just went and bought new RAM memory for it, without checking if it was compatible with his computer. So He calls me and ask me to come and look at it.
When I arrive at my dads house I ask him what his done and whats wrong. He then tells me that he bought the wrong RAM to begin with, he had bought DDR2 memories when his computer only supports DDR1, but he went back with them and got the right ones. This is all good. So I start up his computer and it goes. Beeep Beeep Beeep...
So I ask him again exactly what he did.
Dad: Well I came home with those other RAM memories, I put them in the computer and it wouldnt start.
Me: Wait what? You did what?
Dad: I put the RAM memories in the computer and it wouldn't start?
Me: You know you're not supposed to do that.
Dad: Well I figured as much when the computer didnt start.
Me: No, I mean you're not even supposed to be able to put in the wrong memory, they just won't fit.
Dad: Oh yeah, I thought it felt a bit odd that I had to push so hard to get them there.
Me: ....
So, I'm doing the usual stuff. Unplugging everything that isn't really needed to start up the computer. I reset his BIOS, I try his old RAM, I do everything. And then I tell him that he's gonna need to buy a new motherboard. Told him to write down the serial number on his old motherboard and take that to the store, so he get a new one that would work with his processor and all. This was two days ago.
Today he called me up again, saying the motherboard is in place but the computer still wont work. And I tell him when you put in a new motherboard like that you usually have to verify with microsoft that you have a legit version of windows. And that usually you will come to a screen that asks you to call them and verify your operating system. Don't ask me what he did when that screeen came up, because he sure didnt call to get his windows verified. Now all he gets is the boot screen asking him if he wants to start in fail safe mode. And now he asks me if I can fix it. Lucky me, my sisters boyfriend had offer to take his harddrive home and backup all information on it, format the damn thing and install a new version of windows for him.
Next time anyone asks me about their computer, I'm just gonna say I havent got a clue. I don't know anything about computers.
First it's my friends sister, we can call her Julie. Her computer broke down a couple of days ago. Actually, it broke a long time ago, but since its a really old computer it took it about 6 months to realize it didnt work anymore. Usually you will know that something is wrong when you have to turn it on and off for 30 minutes every morning before it finally boots up. And when it finally starts up it sounds like someone laying on their deathbed dying from lung cancer. When your computer does this, it shouldnt come as a surprise when it just wont start one morning.
Now I'm no computer geek or anything, but I know some stuff about them. I know that when you have hardware failure on your computer its nothing that can be "fixed", you will have to replace the damaged part. Especially when it's your motherboard that is broken. It's not like when a program stops working and you can just reinstall it. Try to explain this to someone that dont know anything at all about computers, and are not even willing to buy new parts for their computer, and see how far that'll get you.
I got a text from Julie saying she was desperate, because she has been without internet for 3 days now. I can understand this. Then she says her brother is coming by later and she hope he can fix it. To which i reply, you can't just "fix it", you need to buy a new motherboard, atleast. But they don't want to listen, so I just leave it be. When she is desperate enough to see the truth and have been without her internet for a week or so, she will buy that motherboard.
Ten minutes later I get another text message saying, "Great... now the hamster died too!"
Then we have my dad. He dont know anything about computers either, but atleast he's trying. Trying and failing but nevertheless trying. He figured his computer was a bit alow, so he decided to go and buy more RAM for it in hope it would speed it up. This is a great idea, because he didnt have alot of RAM to begin with. Only thing is that because he dont know shit about computers, he just went and bought new RAM memory for it, without checking if it was compatible with his computer. So He calls me and ask me to come and look at it.
When I arrive at my dads house I ask him what his done and whats wrong. He then tells me that he bought the wrong RAM to begin with, he had bought DDR2 memories when his computer only supports DDR1, but he went back with them and got the right ones. This is all good. So I start up his computer and it goes. Beeep Beeep Beeep...
So I ask him again exactly what he did.
Dad: Well I came home with those other RAM memories, I put them in the computer and it wouldnt start.
Me: Wait what? You did what?
Dad: I put the RAM memories in the computer and it wouldn't start?
Me: You know you're not supposed to do that.
Dad: Well I figured as much when the computer didnt start.
Me: No, I mean you're not even supposed to be able to put in the wrong memory, they just won't fit.
Dad: Oh yeah, I thought it felt a bit odd that I had to push so hard to get them there.
Me: ....
So, I'm doing the usual stuff. Unplugging everything that isn't really needed to start up the computer. I reset his BIOS, I try his old RAM, I do everything. And then I tell him that he's gonna need to buy a new motherboard. Told him to write down the serial number on his old motherboard and take that to the store, so he get a new one that would work with his processor and all. This was two days ago.
Today he called me up again, saying the motherboard is in place but the computer still wont work. And I tell him when you put in a new motherboard like that you usually have to verify with microsoft that you have a legit version of windows. And that usually you will come to a screen that asks you to call them and verify your operating system. Don't ask me what he did when that screeen came up, because he sure didnt call to get his windows verified. Now all he gets is the boot screen asking him if he wants to start in fail safe mode. And now he asks me if I can fix it. Lucky me, my sisters boyfriend had offer to take his harddrive home and backup all information on it, format the damn thing and install a new version of windows for him.
Next time anyone asks me about their computer, I'm just gonna say I havent got a clue. I don't know anything about computers.
Friday, April 2, 2010
It's an MP3 player!
Awhile ago a friend gave me an i-pod, mostly because he couldn't figure out how the damn thing worked. At the time I didn't understand what he meant, I mean, it's an MP3 player! How hard can it be?
* Plug in i-pod
* Put music on i-pod
* Remove i-pod
* Listen to music
See? How hard can it be?
Aparently it's not that easy, because its an i-pod! I followed the steps above, as I have done with my old MP3 player. Only the forth step didnt work. Even though I was 100% sure that I actually put music on my i-pod, it was nowhere to be found when I looked for it. I figured I must have missed something, so I plugged it back in.
Behold! There it was! All the music I had put on my i-pod was right there, where I left it less than 5 minutes ago. So again I remove the i-pod, browse it through the menus, and still no music. I'm starting to see why he gave it to me for free, it's obviously broken.
After a little bit of research I found out that you have to download i-tunes. Without this program you can put as much music as you want on your i-pod and still not be able to listen to it. Whats up with that? It would have made atleast some sense if you had to pay for i-tunes, but no, it's free. They force me to install and use a program I dont like and dont want to use, in order to listen to MY music on MY i-pod. What the hell?
So I download the program and install it, against my will mind you. Plug in my i-pod, go through all the steps. I-tunes is a confusing program. After awhile I unplug my i-pod, and going to see if my music is there now. It is, not only the songs I wanted though. Every damned audio file on my computer had magically been moved to this i-pod. Everything! I just wanted maybe 20-30 songs, not every single beep and pling from my computer.
I plug the i-pod back in, this time to remove stuff and try to put the stuff I want only. Lets see, "mark everything" and delete. Then I get a message warning me that not only will the selected files be deleted from my i-pod, but also from my computer. Hell no you wont! I might not like the beeps and plings from my computer on my i-pod to listen to, but I'm sure they are useful for something on my computer. Unsure what to do now, I found a button saying "Restore to factory". That sounds good, if it is indeed broken maybe this will fix it. "Warning everything on the i-pod will be lost", "Proceed?". Yes! take it away! remove it!
Alright. Finally trying again from the beginning, using babysteps this time. It turns out that the default settings on i-tunes is pretty much that every sound that has ever been on your computer will be copied to your i-pod. Searching around for a bit I finally found what I was looking for, an option that let me chose which folder I want to copy to the i-pod! yay!
Aparently women arent the only ones in the world that makes things more complicated than nessesary. Unless there's a woman in charge on Apple, that would actually make sense.
I like things easy, the easier the better. I dont like beeing told I cant listen to my own music on my own MP3 player, unless I install a software that I don't want to use. I will find a way to transfer my music without i-tunes! If it'll be the last thing I ever do.
* Plug in i-pod
* Put music on i-pod
* Remove i-pod
* Listen to music
See? How hard can it be?
Aparently it's not that easy, because its an i-pod! I followed the steps above, as I have done with my old MP3 player. Only the forth step didnt work. Even though I was 100% sure that I actually put music on my i-pod, it was nowhere to be found when I looked for it. I figured I must have missed something, so I plugged it back in.
Behold! There it was! All the music I had put on my i-pod was right there, where I left it less than 5 minutes ago. So again I remove the i-pod, browse it through the menus, and still no music. I'm starting to see why he gave it to me for free, it's obviously broken.
After a little bit of research I found out that you have to download i-tunes. Without this program you can put as much music as you want on your i-pod and still not be able to listen to it. Whats up with that? It would have made atleast some sense if you had to pay for i-tunes, but no, it's free. They force me to install and use a program I dont like and dont want to use, in order to listen to MY music on MY i-pod. What the hell?
So I download the program and install it, against my will mind you. Plug in my i-pod, go through all the steps. I-tunes is a confusing program. After awhile I unplug my i-pod, and going to see if my music is there now. It is, not only the songs I wanted though. Every damned audio file on my computer had magically been moved to this i-pod. Everything! I just wanted maybe 20-30 songs, not every single beep and pling from my computer.
I plug the i-pod back in, this time to remove stuff and try to put the stuff I want only. Lets see, "mark everything" and delete. Then I get a message warning me that not only will the selected files be deleted from my i-pod, but also from my computer. Hell no you wont! I might not like the beeps and plings from my computer on my i-pod to listen to, but I'm sure they are useful for something on my computer. Unsure what to do now, I found a button saying "Restore to factory". That sounds good, if it is indeed broken maybe this will fix it. "Warning everything on the i-pod will be lost", "Proceed?". Yes! take it away! remove it!
Alright. Finally trying again from the beginning, using babysteps this time. It turns out that the default settings on i-tunes is pretty much that every sound that has ever been on your computer will be copied to your i-pod. Searching around for a bit I finally found what I was looking for, an option that let me chose which folder I want to copy to the i-pod! yay!
Aparently women arent the only ones in the world that makes things more complicated than nessesary. Unless there's a woman in charge on Apple, that would actually make sense.
I like things easy, the easier the better. I dont like beeing told I cant listen to my own music on my own MP3 player, unless I install a software that I don't want to use. I will find a way to transfer my music without i-tunes! If it'll be the last thing I ever do.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
How do people find jobs?
I've been unemployed for a year now. Not by my own choice mind you. I'm a welder, and about a year ago aparently people stopped needing stuff welded. Dont ask me why, I'm sure there's people who has that as a job to figure those things out, and I'm sure those people aren't unemployed.
Where I live you have unemployment insurance. Which means that should you lose your job, you will get 75% (I think) of what you made while working in insurance money every month. After been unemployed for I think about 200 days, they lower the insurance to 70% (I think), and after 300 days they lower it yet again to 60%.
Now, for anyone who didnt make alot of money to begin with, its hard to survive on the 75% you get at first, but its doable. When they lower it to 70% you know you definatly going to have to cut down on the amount of pizza you eat every month. But 60%? Thats like a big kick in the nuts! Seriusly, those 60% barely even cover a normal rent.
Somehow some smart guy (atleast I bet he thinks he is smart), figured that the less money you get from your insurance, the more jobs will pop up. Basically you can remove all unemployment by just making sure than no one who is unemployed has enough money to pay for food and rent. Seems perfectly logical dont it?
I have 30 days left now til they lower my insurance to 60%, and I can't wait til they do that. Because aparently when they make it impossible for me to pay my rent and other bills, it will make other people need welders more. Don't ask me how that works, but again, some smart dude probably came up with a way to make people need welders, by starving the welders themselves. They should give that guy the nobel price in...well I'm sure there's some suitable nobel price they can give him.
Another funny thing is that I've been at lots of job interviews, where they say they are desperate for workers. Sounds great to me, since I'm desperate for a job. Sounds like we could help each other out on that, doesn't it? I guess they are all sitting at their phones right now waiting for when they lower my insurance to 60%, because they sure haven't called me yet. So I'm guessing that 30 days from now, I'm going to have to hire a secretary to answer all the phonecalls from every place I have been on a job inteview on. That's gonna be awesome!
Just so all you employers out there are prepared now, it all starts in 30 days. You dont really have to have a welding company. I'm not picky, I'll take any job. So if you happen to own a bank, that's fine too, I'll take a high positioned bank job as well if I have to. Don't be shy now, make sure to have my office ready in 30 days. Don't call me before noon though, because I'm most likely asleep then.
Where I live you have unemployment insurance. Which means that should you lose your job, you will get 75% (I think) of what you made while working in insurance money every month. After been unemployed for I think about 200 days, they lower the insurance to 70% (I think), and after 300 days they lower it yet again to 60%.
Now, for anyone who didnt make alot of money to begin with, its hard to survive on the 75% you get at first, but its doable. When they lower it to 70% you know you definatly going to have to cut down on the amount of pizza you eat every month. But 60%? Thats like a big kick in the nuts! Seriusly, those 60% barely even cover a normal rent.
Somehow some smart guy (atleast I bet he thinks he is smart), figured that the less money you get from your insurance, the more jobs will pop up. Basically you can remove all unemployment by just making sure than no one who is unemployed has enough money to pay for food and rent. Seems perfectly logical dont it?
I have 30 days left now til they lower my insurance to 60%, and I can't wait til they do that. Because aparently when they make it impossible for me to pay my rent and other bills, it will make other people need welders more. Don't ask me how that works, but again, some smart dude probably came up with a way to make people need welders, by starving the welders themselves. They should give that guy the nobel price in...well I'm sure there's some suitable nobel price they can give him.
Another funny thing is that I've been at lots of job interviews, where they say they are desperate for workers. Sounds great to me, since I'm desperate for a job. Sounds like we could help each other out on that, doesn't it? I guess they are all sitting at their phones right now waiting for when they lower my insurance to 60%, because they sure haven't called me yet. So I'm guessing that 30 days from now, I'm going to have to hire a secretary to answer all the phonecalls from every place I have been on a job inteview on. That's gonna be awesome!
Just so all you employers out there are prepared now, it all starts in 30 days. You dont really have to have a welding company. I'm not picky, I'll take any job. So if you happen to own a bank, that's fine too, I'll take a high positioned bank job as well if I have to. Don't be shy now, make sure to have my office ready in 30 days. Don't call me before noon though, because I'm most likely asleep then.
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