i want to give a huge thanks, NOT, to all the bastards who dilligently slave to discover an endless series of exploits for every common web application...it warms me to know that "Hackers" are slaving away at this so scumbag spammers can make use of them...because of their laboring we are faced with the monumental task of upgrading the majority of our php apps...under any circumstance, this is a daunting job, as we have literally dozens of installs of several of them...unfortunately, every single install is customized with Corrinne's hacks, and mods, which are unique to each install, and tied into the core scripting...this means we have weeks of work to upgrade, and then integrate all those hacks into the new version...SIGH.
sigh...have to go and get my driver's license renewed tomorrow...definately not looking forward to it...prolly would have been painless if that damn traffic warrant hadn't forced me to drive around for over a year on an expired license...at least i will be legal again, or i hope so...that should make up for the unpleasantness of actually doing it...at least i should be able to drive again without sweating being pulled over, or at least not more than normal sweating that.
once in a while it would be nice to get what you hope for, rather than what you expect....i have been making a sincerre effort to stay on top of the lawn this year...i have been totally successful in keeping the main yard, about 1 1/2 acres nicely mowed noew that we have a working riding mower....the problem is the front pasture, about 2 acres in size, and Dude's pasture, about 3/4 acre...those had both gotten overgrown before i could get them cut initially, which makes it impossible to mow in one attempt, even with the riding mower....so i have been nibbling at them every time i mow, to try and het them done without killing the mower...so i am at it yesterday, when our neighbor from across the street, who i had been meaning to ask if i could borrow his tractor and brushhog to whack the long stuff down to a manageble size, come driving up and tells me he has bought a new finishing mower for his tractor....then asks me if i would like him to mow the parts of the yard i haven't been able to do, including Dude's pasture...i of course accept, even asking if he would prefer me to do the actual mowing, as it is still a couple of hours worth of work...he says no prob, i will come over tomorrow, now today and do it....i thank him, and go back to what i was doing...in the back of my mind, i am thinking that he may not show up, if he does, he almost certainly really won't mow everything, but maybe he really will...i of course get optomistic, taking him at his word...when 4 pm has rolled around, i'm feeling pretty down, not surprised, but disappointed for sure...he turns up about 5, which gets me annoyed at myself for being so cynical, and starts mowing, which has me feeling good again...much to my dismay, he lives up to my realistic expectation...he mows about 2/3 of the front pasture, and most of that is just cut short enough that 4 or 5 days with the riding mower will maybe get it done so it can be mowed regularly...doesn't even touch Dude's pasture at all...*sigh*...Dude, btw, is my girlfriends miniature horse...he is about the size of a large dog...the grass in his pasture is taller than he is in places already...don't know what i'm gonna do to get it cut...mind you, i am grateful to him for doing what he did, as it saved me a lot of work, but i can't help being disappointed by the whole thing...i hate being right at times like this.
i got ants in my computer room...fuck...evidently, they are coming form a tree next to the building, and some steps will have to be taken to remove the little bastiches...i hate ants...why oh why did they have to infest in here....damn damn damn...hopefully i will be able to end this scourge shortly.
while i am a little late, as usual, in doing so, i bid farewell to another Dallas nightlife icon, The Red Jacket...the club closed down last with little warning Sunday, after almost 8 years...evidently they lost their lease and were forced to close...i saw some great shows there over the years and am very sorry to see it go...i wish i could understand what Dallas has against keeping their good nightclubs and concert venues...The Red Jacket now joins the Bronco Bowl, and Caravan of Dreams as just another memory of what was...no doubt they will use the space to buid another home depot, or perhaps some over-rated restraunt will move in and then go out of business...i guess the only nightlife DFW wants to be famous for are country-western and topless bars.
yesterday marks the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre...this has to be one of the sadder rememberances this month...while i mourned this terrible events memory, i was gladdened by the fact it received more than just passing notice in the news...i hope that the lessons of this terrible day are not lost to the short attention span given current history...perhaps having the public memory refreshed will prevent a similar event in the future, though i doubt it will as people seem so intent on forgetting the lessons history teaches those of us willing to learn...i offer my sincere and heartfelt regrets to the families of those lost there.
late, as usual, but i wanted to say a sad farewell, and mourn the loss of three great ones...john ritter was one of the best physical comedians there has been, and i will miss him...i truly mourn the loss of two giants of music, warren zevon, and johnny cash...both these men leave a legacy of great music, and provide examples that you could suceed, despite refusing to be mainstream in what you wrote, and did...i am amazed how both men stayed true to who they were to the end, and regret that their loss deeply
another infant died after being left in the car. what is it going to take to keep this from happening. by the child car driver again. i simply do not understand how you can forget that there is a child in the back, lock up and leave them there to roast. this was his fucking job. no way do you excuse forgetting to do what you are paid to be doing, and been there in the first place. even worse are the parents who do this. i can see forgetting to leave your book or cigarettes, but your child? then, i have never understood parents who abuse, or ignore their children either. maybe i'm weird, but my daughter has always been more important to me than anything else. i would always rather spend time with her than watch tv, and it crushed me the few times i had to punish her. maybe some engineering genius can design a device that smacks these people upside the head every time their focus wanders from what should be their first thought. the daycare ones, are worse in one way for sure. all the news is on how they will prosecute the guy, as if this will make things better for the poor woman who is probably out of her mind with grief and guilt for trusting them to do their job, and stealing her baby. to top it all off, you know there are at least a few ghouls, masquerading as reporters, just foaming at the mouth to ask the most thoughtlessly obvious of questions like; "How Do You Feel About Your Baby Dying". hrmmm. well gee i don't know, let be stick the fireplace poker in your gut and spin it a few times and tell me, dipshit?
another all nighter...fun fun fun....well at least i get a good amount accomplished most of the time this way....been so busy working on web site projects(alas not for myself) that haven't had any time for working on my site or for creating new art...need to make some time for both very soon...getting that must create itch
finnally getting over soem nasty flu crud....nothing like being sick to kill any creative urges...hopefully get back into it now
Why is it that you can't treat most people nicely with out having to pay for it later on...i always thought that if you did nice things for people that not only would they appreciate it, but that nice things would come back to you...instead what i seem to get is i do nice things for people, mostly ones who are supposed to be my friends and they not only act like it is their due, but then stick it in and break it off when i get tired of being used
Case in point...i had(notice the past tense here) what i thought were some friends who came to me for help....more than once....after all they were good(so i thought, boy was i ever wrong here) friends...i even married them(i am a minister of the ULC) in my living room....so when they needed a place to live(i had an extra room at the time) for a few months i said sure....they were after all both employed(at the time) and were going to pay their share of the bills...they were a bit short of cash and would only pay me half the rent up front and the rest later in the month...seems like a good deal all the way around...i get the empty room filled and save a bit on bills, my supposed friends get a place to live till they can find a house to rent, everyone is happy right??? HELL NO
So what really happens here is this...first they are both unemployed before the end of the second week...they are both adult....he is over 30 she is in her mid 20s...well these lazy fucks dont look for work for quite a while...it only takes her about another 5 or 6 weeks to find a job as a waitress a block away...he meanwhile is supposedly doing work building web pages(which seems to mostly consist of using my computer and then not returning it the way it was(screen resolution off...etc)) and bitching about how the customers want changes all the time....this web work however does not seem to involve getting paid and i guess a real job is out of the question...well i make ok money, but i sure dont make enough to support myself and two lazy ass adults...i am finally forced to ask for some rent money(hating to be in this position) and get this attitude like i am out of line...you know it isnt like im asking for all of their money...im telling them to make sure they keep enough for food gas and smokes, but they act like i am being some sort of asshole by expecting them to pay their own way...now he does give me rides to work sometimes(i pay for gas mind you), but i dont think it is asking much really all things considered...i also by then have found out that their idea of married bliss is to fight constantly and i am feeling like i am 15 years in the past reliving most of the worst aspects of my first marriage...fun fun fun....of course it gets worse...although they dont seem to have money for bills they always have money for beer and pot...this pisses me off, but i cant get myself to say anything for a long time....finally i do get fed up and let them know that they must get caught up on the bills or vacate by the end of the month(3 weeks away)...so they decide they are gonna move out...well they kind of start movin at odd hours, and worst of all only take the stuff they need right away, so now i have this room full of their leftovers and a bunch of trash(two full large hefty bags worth no less) and the floor looks like world war three had been held in there...of course this is far from over....they now are either telling people that they moved to get privacy or that i threw them out for no reason...well i get someone to take their old room...she cleans up the two bags of trash and packs up 5 boxes and three suitcases of their shit and stacks it neatly in the dining area where it sits for three months...i finally get tired of playing storage(unpaid of course) and when after they call the cops on me(another fun story) i toss the last box of their shit in the dumpster and of course i am once again an asshole for throwing away their valuable papers(if they were so valuable then why did they sit there for months)...so im thinking well this is all over...am i right hell no...they decide they must have revenge for all the mistreatment(??????) i heaped on them and have been spending the last 6 months or so on a smear campaign alternating this with occasionally slashing the tires on my and my roomates cars....what a great world we live in eh
Now don't worry kids, because despite this and many other examples of extending my hand in friendship only to have it spit in, I am still the same(maybe a bit sadder) nice guy as I was before i had the misfotune to meet these two...so if i see you needin my help it will probably still be there for ya
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