Oh yes, you can never have too much fire.

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My father came down to Burkesville with Norma and I to meet her parents. All went well. We burned a decently sized bonfire full of Cedar. In addition, my father had a chance to shoot an AK-47, and partake in the beauty that is the Undiscovered Country. After actually spending time in such desolate (1,200 people as of the 2000 census) farmland, good ole’ boy country, my father has determined that he may not actually like to live in an area where you can’t see your neighbor a mile away. Myself on the other hand, oh glorious primary source of randomness on this website, would very much like to live that way. Once a month trip to town to obtain goods, food et al, rest of the time spent on the farm with my wife, dogs, cats, wildlife and land. It’s all a matter of living simply and within ones means. I can do this, contrary to popular belief.

I am more at home in the words, on a farm, growing my own things, than I am driving to work four to five times a week listening to people go on about some worthless want, rather than an absolute necessity. It’s not that I don’t like technology and gadgets and human advancement, but more like there is an extreme concern over humanity’s inability to survive without it.

Do you know how to build a lean-to in a rainstorm and make it stable enough to stave off the winds and have it built in a proper direction for maximum protection, with only trees, branches, and brush laying around? No tools, just you and your bare hands, tennis shoes in a muddy forest. How are you going to obtain sustenance? Drinkable water? Do you even know what would happen to you if you ate only the meat from a rabbit that you lucked into catching, instead of eating everything from it; intestines, eyes, bone marrow? Protein poisoning is what you’ll get, rabbit meat is so lean that your body will begin absorbing itself to get other nutrients and fats that it needs, making you very ill and eventually collapsing and dieing, only a mere mile from humanity.

Maybe you should get together with some of your buddies, and go on a camping trip, and learn how to survive in the wild. Learn to canoe or kayak & how to properly set up camp. Do you know why you set up on a higher plain than a lower one? In case of rain, the lower camp will be more likely to flood than the higher one. I have known people who have died from camping on the river front because it was pretty, but while they were sleeping, a rain storm up the river, (which they ignored thinking the rain wouldn’t affect them) caused it to sweep their tents away. The children were saved, but their father drowned rescuing them.

So, long story short, look at the bonfire pictures and enjoy things burning.

Tsali Wasituna

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Says goodmorning!

We’re preparing to go out to breakfest at Wild Eggs, good stuff. If you haven’t checked them out yet, they’re in the old Tumbleweed DuPont location, near Norton Suburban hospital.

Open 6am-2:30 Pm Mon-Fri, and 7am-noon on Sat and Sun. Their primary food focus is breakfest and brunch.

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Your humble master, The James, makes a rare apperance indeed. There is food everywhere, but it disgusts me immensely. How sure are you that Mary washed her hands after masturbating, then deciding to make a meatloaf? Did Matt wash after wiping his ass with his bare hands, before he made those hot dogs?

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We ate at Jason’s today, jealous? Sure you are, I know you are. What you gonna do about it hmmm? Bah, fine, don’t be jealous, instead just don’t worry, be happy.

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Blogger had been having issues the last couple weeks, so no updates as of late, but tis all fixed now.

Secondly, newhires at my employer are being paid $13.50/hour starting out, while there are people who have been working here for 3 years who are only making $12.50/hour. That’s even after they received their full 6% possible raises each year, highly unfair I say.

Heck, when they were hiring into VAS this past group, they were promising $13.50 to those individuals. This was lower than I got moving over here to VAS, because I was already beyond that rate from my yearly raises, and promotion to TTM before. Otherwise I would’ve been at $12.91 at this time.

Rumor mill has it that AT&T is negotiating a new contract with higher payrate for the call center they recently built in Louisville. The guesstimation is somewhere near $14.00/hour to be competitive to other similar companies current newhire rate. This only went up because of AT&T and other call centers increasing their rates to match, but it’s still unfair to long time employee’s still making less than that.

I was supposed to go out and have lunch with my dad today at 4 PM, but Norma took the Jeep as she left early on VTO. My dad didn’t check his email before he left and went on out to eat and never came to get me.

It was cold standing outside for an hour.

I then went to the vending machine to try to get something to eat, but the vending machines here refuse to take the newer new 10 dollar bills. I haven’t eaten in over 24 hours, go me! Oh well, I needed to loose weight and go on an even more level of mental instability at this job.

I think I’m going to continue on this slightly depressed route and walk home tonight. I know Norma will be out back waiting for me at 10 PM, but I’m just not feeling it today. I’d rather walk and be really cold, but jamming to my portable XM radio, than to be riding in a car with my loved one and not talking because I’m upset.

Getting information from IUS this coming week about classes and continuing my education finally. In addition I’ll call them to set up an appointment to speak with a counselor in the next couple weeks or so. Yay for furthering my education, even though I already know everything! YES! I AM THAT SELF-ABSORBent.

Anywho..

I did a practice online test for CCNP certification, and I passed it with a 97%, I just don’t want to pay the money for the test cause I’m poor.

I think part of my problem may be that Norma takes so much VTO. It’s not that I have to pay for everything, cause she manages her money well and always has enough for what she needs. So here I am practically begging for overtime so I can afford my bills and to live and what-not, and it irk’s me immensely that she takes so much VTO. If she didn’t take it every chance she had, then she’d have additional free money to buy things she’d like, to save up for a house, buy a new car, get a TV larger than 13 inches. Her reason for taking VTO so much is because she hates her job and here. What does she think? That I don’t hate my job as well? I’m displeased with it immensely, but I will work because it’s a job that helps to pay the bills. If I called in every time I didn’t want to go to work, I wouldn’t have a job here any more. I also only have 0.5 occurrences, compared to her 6 occurrences, again not because I love my job, but because it is a Job.

A Prairie Home Companion is on Public Radio right now, go listen!!!! NOW!! OR I’LL KILL A MOUSE!!!

Tsali Wasituna

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