Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.

[Left]

I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.

This is the biggest I've smiled in WEEKS.  WEEKS, I tell you!

I think that argues for introducing my coworker to my little friends. 
A lot of little friends.

...This will take time, but I have an empty 20-gallon aquarium...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.

This is the biggest I've smiled in WEEKS.  WEEKS, I tell you!

I think that argues for introducing my coworker to my little friends. 
A lot of little friends.

...This will take time, but I have an empty 20-gallon aquarium...

I'd stick with the plastic ones.

For more good advice, watch this.  Redman is like Gandhi or some shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMelJIRCvmU

[Cain]

Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.

Welcome to the life (although, to be honest, I haven't been paid for a written word in more than a year).  Writing for money, no matter what kind of writing it is, has a level of truly enjoyable gutter mentality that cannot be provided by even the best drugs on the market. 

Congratulations.

Thanks.  Though I did remember after posting this, I got paid for all that essay writing a while back.  I don't feel that counts though, since it was answering undergrad University essay questions for the purpose of others plaigarizing them.

This is a lot more honest.  And even if my employers cannot pay me constantly (which they have said), it gives me some exposure and experience, as well as a number of online published articles which I might be able to leverage into better positions until I manage to achieve the dream and get paid by a newspaper for offering vapid opinions on the issue du jour, the writing equivalent of tenure for life.

[Cain]

Uploading videos today.  We'll see if the countryside internet will allow me to get all 2 hours of it up (4 videos), or whether it will require tomorrow as well. 

[Cain]

I blame all my activity on Facebook today on reading DearCoquette and IOZ and H. L. Mencken simultaneously.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him.
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. 

[Cain]

Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".

Oooh yes plz. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, but I only completed one playthrough (high on the stealth, low on the murder). The biggest complaint people seemed to have was the blatantly obvious "twist" in the last part, but it didn't bother me at all. I think it must have been so obvious, my brain subconsciously accepted it as part of the natural progress of the story and I didn't think twice about it.

I don't know much about recording gameplay for YouTube, but I would agree that going for a more aggressive playstyle would help. I found myself constantly reloading when I screwed up the stealth too badly, whouch would probably make for a lot of editing.

Part one uploaded.  Sadly did not Ghost Coldridge Prison, due to confusing the gun and the blade buttons (I have to swap those settings), but it was pretty easy. 

Also, for those who did not check out the DAO thread, please do so 

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

I lost my wallet when I was drunk and now I'm snowed into my parking lot and can't escape it to go find it  LANDLORD Y U NO PLOW

[Cain]

Because you don't pay your rent on time, because you spend it all on alcohol.  That's why he no plow.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

I paid my rent. Landlord is an old lady maybe thats why.

[Left]

Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him.
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. 

...I have a few ideas now...will let them marinate.

If something was stuck to the floor and he could not, for some strange reason, vacuum it up I think he'd explode in an OCD frenzy.  That has potential, I think.

[Reginald Ret]

Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him.
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. 

...I have a few ideas now...will let them marinate.

If something was stuck to the floor and he could not, for some strange reason, vacuum it up I think he'd explode in an OCD frenzy.  That has potential, I think.

put some styrofoam on the floorhis keyboard and pour some acetone on it. The resulting blackish tar will be quite hard to remove.

[Left]

...The keyboard is used by the secretary peeps more...collateral damage...otherwise excellent thought though...

He vacuums.
He uses one particular vacuum cleaner, which isn't the one the cleaning staff uses. 
In fact, he's the primary user of that vacuum cleaner to my knowledge.
This too has potential.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just spent all day applying for scholarships instead of studying for my midterm.

Sure hope that works out.