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By nightflameblue (Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 10:49:04 AM EST) (all tags)
You've just been served.


Dad got his lawyer love letter a couple days back from Ma. So all's going well there.

Still have no clue what the hell's going on there. According to the letter, Ma's lawyer is claiming that she found out he bought back his share of company stock in 2004, though he actually did it in 2001 or 2002. It's a six year statute of limitations on financial/marital ties and dissolutions in this state, so if it's based on when it happened, it's too late. If it's based on when she became aware of it, it's not.

Can't think of a court in the land that's going to say any crime's statute of limitations only starts when the victim becomes aware. Especially in this case, where she just sat on it doing nothing with it up to this point.

Apparently the letter mentions me by name. So this could get real interesting.

Go parents. Divorced eight years and still finding ways to use me as a way to hurt each other. Rawk awn.

DOT*DOT*DOT

The crapateria just gave me credit of 4.50 because I forgot my cash. Too bad I'm honest enough to pay them back as soon as I go pick up cash.

WHA'JOU SAY

It's too bad I suck at drawing, because I had an AWESOME idea for a cartoon last night. Zippy recently got glasses and when he puts them on it's like he becomes this super-brain. That and the boss and his engineer buddy turning into RAWK GAWDS every time they're near each other gave me an idea for a group of super heroes whose secret identities make them all uber nerds running a company's IT department.

Alas, it'll never be.

OF ALL THE

Possibly the greatest web site of all time. Though they need better consistency amongst their theories, I loves me some crackpot. And some of their crackpot has just enough reality interspersed that you can FEEL the belief seeping through every word.

Good times.

Also, I'd like to thank that internet script that pointed me towards Sitchin the other day. Awesome. Sitchin is incredible in his ability to avoid going completely whack-a-loon, thus lending credibility to what would seem, on the surface, to be completely ridiculous theories.

Personal Crackpot Theory of the Day - Earth is not a colony of Mars as has been stated elsewhere. Interest in space travel is well documented among "primitive" Earth cultures. Some of them succeeded and did not document it, or the documentation was destroyed or confiscated by current powers-that-be to prevent commoners from knowing how advanced these previous cultures were. Mars was a colony of Earth. Catastrophic failure of that colonization effort followed by current space exploration and cover-up efforts have led to the erroneous conclusion by those who believe themselves well informed that Earth was a colony of Mars. Anti-centrism makes that theory far more acceptable, though evidence actually shows that Earth was our home long before Mars. We're only a few big rocks from space away from being Mars II here afterall.

HEY! ISN'T THAT

Drunken NFB sliding scale of awesome:

  • YOU'RE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!
  • YOU'RE NOT FUCKING AWESOME! \M/
  • You're pretty awesome.
  • YOU'RE FUCKING AWESOME! \M/ \M/
  • Mrs. NFB

"YOU'RE FUCKING AWESOME!" followed by two metal fists in your face is apparently my version of, "I love you man." Further research may be conducted, but I'm absolutely certain that Mrs. NFB is a singular top spot, unable to be superseded and unable to be occupied by more than one person.

For the record: Our niece is pretty awesome, because she's not old enough yet to be fucking awesome. Or so I told Mrs. NFB.

BUT THEN SHE SAID

Resistance is futile. The Funhouse Workers Christmas Party has been cancelled. Rest assured management will be extremely considerate of your feelings while they enjoy their Christmas Party. Happy Holidays.

The Funhouse Financial Meeting and Report will be conducted tomorrow to assure everyone there will be no layoffs. The layoffs will begin in one week. Thank you, have a nice day.

DISS CON NECK TA

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Our holiday party was moved from an offsite by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 11:01:54 AM EST
golf club, with alcoholic drinks, to a potluck in a conference room (no booze of course). At least the Euchre tournament is still on.




Christmas Parties. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 11:18:13 AM EST
Our company Christmas Parties are serious business. Typically includes live entertainment, LOTS of alcohol, ridiculous amounts of prizes and games, huge amounts of food, all hosted in some huge banquet hall.

It's a nice cost-cutting measure, really, to drop it. However, it would be a nicer gesture if the cost savings wasn't used to host a bigger, more extravagant party for our dealers to "keep their business."

*SHRUG*



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We haven't had those in a long time by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 11:23:18 AM EST
it's been years since we've even gotten free alcohol ( for a Christmas party, the launch party I went to a few weeks back had an open bar and a live entertainer_. Forget bringing spouses, too.

That said, I have no idea what goes on in the sales side of the corp, and probably don't want to know.


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parties by garlic (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 01:03:41 PM EST
last year: "too much overhead money is spent on parties. they are cancelled.

this year: "look at all this extra overhead money we have! Let's spend it on tools (vs capital budget, which is set asside for tools). Aw... there's no money left for parties now. too bad."

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Rock'n'Roll and Mind Control by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 11:28:38 AM EST
Really, what can you say?

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)



YES MASTER! by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 12:07:18 PM EST
I mean, I don't know what you're talking about.

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statute of limitations by garlic (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 01:05:40 PM EST
The supreme court just said that for discrimanatory pay violations, the timer starts when they first pay you discrimanatoryilly. So a valid defense against a suit would be "we discriminated against you, but we've been doing it for too long for you to sue us over it."



Sitchin is still wrong by theboz (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 03:52:37 PM EST
I read one of his books, and his translations of ancient words, as well as a few other things, are clearly wrong and he clearly made stuff up to fit his agenda.  I suggest googling for anti-Sitchin stuff.  It's been a while since I read up on that so I can't remember specifics.

Oh, and if you want to elaborate your crackpot theory of the day, you can even throw in that something went wrong as a result of what the colonies did, and the atmosphere of Mars was partially vented off, resulting in it becoming the desolate wasteland that it is today.  It would be a metaphor for global warming, which would bring a moral to your story.  Also, for fun you could throw in that some life forms survived and evolved to live underground, sort of like graboids from the Tremors movies.
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That's what I always say about you, boz, you have a good memory for random facts about pussy. -- joh3n


Oh, I didn't think he was right. by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #9 Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 04:02:23 PM EST
I just said he manages to keep the crackpot backed off enough to make him believable.

A good crackpot theory shouldn't have a moral. That's a mistake too many crackpots make. Makes it all too unbelievable if it fits too sensationally into $TOPIC_OF_THE_DAY.



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