Oops!

It seems that my daily ramblings aren't so daily anymore.

Well, rather than dwell on it I guess I'll update ya'll on what I've been doing.

I've been trying to pull BSR into some sort of shape. I'm turning it more into an affiliate site for bumper stickers. I still want to have a community side, but I think I'll need to have traffic to the site first.

I'm also still futzing around with the 3d art stuff. Since I still need more ram I haven't been doing as much there as I'd like. System slowness can cause frustration.

I've also tried to continue working with shadowfall. I feel slightly stuck. My characters have only moved slightly since the end of NaNo. And while I've figured out how to get them out of the building that they're stuck in, I just don't seem to be moving much when it comes to actually writing it down. And of course I still need to figure out how i'm going to fill in the storyline gaps between some of the scenes that I already have worked out in my head.

Of course the majority of my free time is taken up with playing video games. I think that there's just a mental exhaustion that takes over with the added work of two stores. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but with both stores getting busier I just can't seem to adjust. And since video games are only slightly more than mindless button mashing it seems to be the kind of relaxation that I need.

I'll try to get this blog running at a slightly better updating pace. But also check out my livejournal. Since many of my friends are LJ user as opposed to blogger I sometimes post more often over there. Not that it's in any way daily, but sometimes it is more often or different.

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sign, sign, everywhere a sign

Do humans just honestly not see some things, or are we so accustomed to ignoring certain things that the mind sees them and then dismisses immediately what it saw no matter how important or pertinant to our situation?

There are signs everywhere, advertisements, warnings, info. And it may be that we just are so used to them that many people really don't even acknowledge them anymore.

Unfortunately, that is one of my pet peeves.

I'm sure that most of you know that I am still stuck running two stores. And since I cannot be physically in two places at once I have to use signs to let people that come a direction I can't see knpw how to get me. So I have a sign, it used to be on the locked door, telling people to come next door if they need service and get me. And still there were people who assumed that the place was closed since the door didn't open and would leave. Now, since I have to prop the door open or it gets too hot in there I have placed the sign right next to the door, where it's impossible to miss. And yet I still get the odd person who goes in and waits and waits and waits.

And don't even get me started on the reserved parking space and its sign.

Makes you wonder if anybody would actually notice if all the signs just up and disappeared one day. I mean it's gotten to the point where customers ask me about the hours on a particular day when the sign is clearly posted that list the hours.

sigh...


In other news, I watched that FUD movie last night, bird flu in america. And I'll refrain from all the jokes about it being another disease movie. And I'll ignore the cut and paste dialog.

NO I'll go straight to the heart of the matter. What's the government hiding that they are hyping up this bird flu so much? Really, worldwide there have been slightly more than 100 deaths since this strain appeared. And while, yes, it's deadly to birds, even if it does mutate to a form transmissible by humans (which is possible, but you think we'd have seen it by now)how do we know that the mutation wouldn't knock the teeth right out of the virus.

Honestly. There is a lot of FUD, and the government allowed ABC (if they didn't encourage it) to spread the fud even more. The bird flu seemed to be the basis of all of their programming last night, I even saw that it was going to be on nightline. Even the way that it ended was intended to scare people. All in all the movie and the night of FUD programming only reaffirms my personal belief that ABC is staffed with ambulance chasers.

Ok, enough for now. Bye all.

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Language barrier

It's this time of year that I get horribly perturbed with a language barrier.

It's this time of year when all the servicemen come in to buy supplies for the hotel pools. Unfortunately most of them speak only spanish.

I tried spanish for several years, and not a bit of it stuck. I finally ended up taking German as a language in high school, and even though I haven't spoken it in years I still feel more confident in that than I ever did when trying to learn spanish.

But these guys sometimes get upset that I don't understand them, and then they start treating me like an idiot because they think it's because I'm a girl that I don't get what they are trying to say.

No, it's because you don't speak english.

Granted... I do have a few very good servicemen who come in, and despite the language barrier it all gets cleared up fairly easily. Of course these guys come in prepared. They bring in the information from the nameplates of the equipment if they need parts, and they know (roughly) how to pronounce the chemical that they need. If all else fails for the good ones diagrams and pointing to similar parts to the ones they need usually solve the problem.

But my gripe isn't with the prepared servicemen. No it's with the ones that expect me to be able to get parts ordered for them with no information. Yes, some parts can be used for several pieces of equipment, but it just doesn't work when the only english these guys speak is 'you order?' and they don't understand when I say I need more information.

For those of you wondering... no I'm not against immigrants. They are needed in many areas of the workforce. But they need to at least learn how to speak the language.

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