The Angry Fat Man

There's a general comradary that I haven't felt at work since I left the telecomm there in KC and went to work for the V. It isn't because there aren't people I don't hang with and shoot the breeze with here in Bad-driver-ville. It's just that I didn't actually work WITH or on the same team, as anyone here. The closest guy I worked with was in Phoenix...that's pretty far to go for some coffee and a chat about work.

I'll admit that I talk to Stef all the time on SameTime, our internal IM program. But that only gets you so far into the buddy relationship at work. It could just be that at PCS we were a "Band of Brothers", trying to fight off the system and constantly bitching about managers and whether we were going to get fired the next day...

Well, I'll be leaving the land of snow covered mountains, mega-yuppies, and enironmental extremists (Yup, even in SUV loving Denver, amazing isn't it?) here in about 4 days and heading down to Billy-Bob city, just north of Fort Worth, where I can be released into the sprawling wild cube farms with workers of my own kind.

Now, I'm not saying that you can burp, fart, and scratch without someone complaining down there, but when every other vehicle in the lot is a truck (not pickups, we're talking dually diesel F350 kind of beasts) instead of a Jeep or an Audi, I know I'm back nearer to "home".

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 09:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Here comes the can o' worms.

I'm tired of hearing about morality in politics. I mean really, what morality is there in ANY political party? "I want guns, to kill stuff with, and to go to war to spread my viewpoints but I don't want unborn children to die." On the other hand, "I'm against warmongering, but I don't mind if someone else wants an abortion." Ummmm, hello, that right there just shows you that there is NO "morality" in our current political structure. it just depends on where you live in the moral vacancy that is the U.S.

We all have our little "addictions", by which I am not talking illicit drugs, that we indulge in. We like "Desperate Housewives" or "Will & Grace", but the religious right would have those shows banned. Mind altering drugs are illegal (unless you take a lot of Nyquil!!!) but people are very nonchalant about doing them. People are pissed at showing adultery on TV and having a president that was an adulterer, but studies have shown that a lot of married folks would cheat if they could get away with it.

These same pillars of the community that say abortion is wrong would like to have you believe that it's okay to go out and and drink a lot and kill small woodland creatures with their semi-automatic weapons, and then head back to the house and beat the wife. Where is the moral high-ground? I don't think there ever was one. We are all unethical and immoral at times, and trying to inject morality in a world that thrives on immorality is really hypocritical and completely useless.

God, help us.

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 12:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I dunno where this is really going, I've just been P-I-S-T pissed at my craptop from work lately. A few weeks ago I was getting a piece of software pushed to me while I was on our VPN while at home and the program errored out. No prob, hit cancel, left the craptop alone. We pack up, head to Hays to then head to Dallas to look for a house. I turn the boat anchor on and it tells me that winnt/system32/system is either toast or missing....IT was able to get it fixed by the end of my second day there, but that doesn't help with training much.

So, we get back here, life is cool for a week or so, and I start hearing a grinding noise from the case fan...great! Well, I powered up the boat anchor again and it farts on me, truly farts (okay, so the fan grinds for like 2 seconds then stops) and I get a blinking cursor bar, that's it, old school cursor, remember pre-OS days? I know what's happened, the HDD is smoked... Well, that's not what the IT desk says! I go through the normal power cycle, pull battery, hold down power button, reseat hard drive, pull clock battery, and get nothing, just cursor.

Long story longer, the thermostat melted, the case fan died and it seems that the platters inside the HDD ground into the side....CATASTROPHIC FAILURE, like I said, I'm not a dumb end-user here......damned helpless desk, that's what scientists need to work on, the end to red tape, there has to be some sort of cure for this white collar work epidemic.

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 10:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

See if you can guess what side this Ranter is on...
ULTIMATE RANT!
I just love the name of the site :-)

Mucho thanks to Franci for finding that one and posting on her site. I gotta tell you, my wife loves the way Franci can put things into her own perspective!

I really just felt that this rant was A number 1 rant material. If only I could use that many cuss words in my rants...I feel bad about dropping the F-bomb, let alone a bazillion times like this cat.

Enjoy

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 04:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, I too voted, and got super bored with all elections way before today. I could really give a flying poo who really wins, because it doesn't matter, I tend to agree with Matt, it really doesn't matter TOO much. Granted the president can push things, like war, but you know, we're never going to go to war, would we :-) Seriously, I could really care less. I was actually only super excited to vote for the referendum that would split the electoral votes here in Colorado. (Even though I won't live here anymore). But, of course, folks shot it down. I really think that they need to split all state electoral colleges, because it would get us closer to an actual popular vote....but looking at the election coverage right now, and a majority of states going only slightly off 50/50 in this race, what the hell would be different?

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 09:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

My 60 days of counting didn't last. To tell the truth, I got bored with it.

I think the main thing is that while I said I was going to remain impartial during the whole thing, I figured out pretty quickly that there is one candidate that I really don't like. It isn't that I can't get behind his policies... I just can't stand him.

One thing that I still believe today is that I don't think the president has very little to do with how the country actually progresses. The president cannot create jobs. The president cannot increase consumer and corporate spending or decrease inflation.

The president is a figurehead. It is his job to collect the smartest bunch of people to help him make the decisions. That is what made Reagan a good president.

The other thing that I have realized in the past couple of weeks is that because I live in a small state, my vote really doesn't count. I don't live in a swing state, so the candidates don't even bother to visit.

The last thing... I am so glad that after tomorrow, we will have no more commercials! Life will be so nice.

1 Day & No More Counting...

My name is The Angry Fat Man and I endorse this message.

Posted by The Angry Fat Man at 09:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)