xanga – Page 24 – From the ashes of Heaven

The world never ceases to amaze.

So… this morning I let a kid into the part to use the pay phone to call for a ride then had another supervisor escort him out. On his way out he got his hand stamped for reentry which he later tired to use to get into the park. I stopped the kid and his 4 friends/cousins/whatevers from getting in at least 4 times (they never paid to get in). I can understand the first try… it was actually not an unclever thing. Even the second time I can understand because I had walked away. After that, it was just stupid. Ever security guard at the front gate knew his face, the day manager knew his face, most of the front gate personnel knew his face… what the hell?

More fun stories of IT… So the power went out at Wyandot today. Not a huge deal. Some of the rides were shut down for checks and such… but nothing major… unless you are at a water park that hasn’t had any real capital improvement in 9 years. Our UPS… yeah… uninterruptable my ass. All of my database servers died alond with our email server, pos server, credit card server, and ticketing server (although the last 2 I didn’t know about untill much later). I happened to be in our season pass processing center at the time so I knew what happened right away, and despite my pretty consistent bitching about the pos UPS I got most systems back up in around 10 minutes. Unfortunately the GM happened to be in season pass too so he was like “whats going on?” because he wanted to make a nice announcement to the people in season pass… That really isn’t the fun part of the story… 45 minutes to an hour later I get flagged down by the front gate sup and she tells me that the “ticket scanners are double beeping” and asks me who to tell. “Me.” So yeah… for 45+ minutes our ticketing scanners weren’t doing jack and no one bothered to tell me. YAY! Oh yeah… my boss also had me stay till 7 so I could replace all the UPS batteries.

Archangel / May 29, 2006 / Work, xanga / 0 Comments

At least I’m moral?

Despite the fact that I’m drunk, my moral compass still works (even if for the wrong reasons).

My weekend home has been pretty good for once. Left after work on Friday, which was ok except for the fact that they spent over an hour trying for find someone to lifeguard for me so I could get to my actual work. But meh. Life goes on and I wasn’t there too late. Saturday was a late morning but still a good one. I went to see Tim for the first time in like 6 months and we went climbing somewhere in Boston Heights. After I dropped Tim off I went to my dad’s to go to his sisters for a bbq. Too much of my life is now exposed to people who are far too interested, but I at least have several very good leads on finding my sister (at the very least I can hunt down her mother’s family). I drove home from my aunt’s and then out to Marsena’s, and I have to say the valley has a surprising amount of fun bars that aren’t horribly trashy. Suday still to come. I’ll be driving home early to do homework and goto a birthday party.

P.S. This post is taking entirely too long to type (while fixing typos).

**Faces in the dark**

**Whispers in the night**

**Moments lost in time**

**Memories fading away**

**Something never changing**

**Hope forever gone.**

Archangel / May 28, 2006 / Personal, xanga / 0 Comments

This one I can definitely blame on my family.

I really need to drop this before I say something and ruin a friendship I’d like to keep (or take things to a point that I can’t rebuild if necessary). The only thing I’m going to say now is that I at least follow through on my word.

There are times where I really don’t like myself for the core components that make me who I am, which ironically are the same things that make me like myself most of the time. My gaming guild is an honor guild… meaning we have some kids that aren’t very good at the games we play but they all are supposed to have good attitudes and are supposed to respect the things AOD stands for. One of my corporals caught a private in my division using hacks (for computer illiterates its like steroids for your game play). The game demos that were sent to me more than confirmed the use and since I’m the server administrator I was left with the duty of removing him from the clan. Normally this isn’t a terribly uncomfortable thing for me to do because the other person will scream and yell and bitch to no avail. But this kid was just young and did something stupid to play better to try and get more respect from the division. He knew what he did was really wrong and he even knew the consequences of his actions. As a clan SGT I had no recourse but to kick him once I confirmed things from the demos, not to mention my own sense of honor and respect compelled me to do the same… but I still feel really crappy about it given his attitude. I did what I could to lessen the blow considering he was 13 and this was his first clan, but I still think he was pretty crushed.

So much to say… so many inhibitions.

Archangel / May 23, 2006 / Personal, xanga / 0 Comments

Pissed off in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

<annoyed_rant>
Apparently I get to fling mud in my Xanga now… anyone have a really old catapult or even a ballista? Side note: Xanga has a place for comments for a reason.

I’d like to just leave it at “my mistake”, but my ego is deafening. Read what you want, but don’t assume you know what you’re reading or why it is there. Don’t read between the lines unless you know whats currently going on in my head. Even if you think you know me well, which is certainly possible, bad things happen that you don’t know about that I’m not apt to tell anyone and I’m am certainly free to comment on it if I so chose with out ridicule or pedantic and obtuse comments. [The those of you who don’t know the words pedantic or obtuse, the preceding sentence was in itself pedantic and President Bush is obtuse.] I’d also like to point out before someone cares to attack me without reason, I am using “you” as a plurative.
</annoyed_rant> XML anyone? (yes I know its not really XML without the root, piss off)

I realize this placement sucks… but skip the above if you really don’t like me… it will just piss you off more.

I had a… unique (read tiring) weekend. I started off with a lovely phone call at 8:54AM from Wyandot telling me they needed me to life guard. Of course that meant that there was only 1 guard in CI and they needed me to meet state minimums. I grudgingly obliged and missed all my classes. 7 hours later I was finally relieved (by someone who’s name I can’t remember but for some reason I do know she likes pineapples and anything covered in chocolate). Friday night was abysmally boring… mostly because I could barely move after standing/walking on a knee that I wrecked the night before climbing.

Saturday I was supposed to go home again, but no such luck. I woke up around 8AM to go back to Wyandot but had a wonderful migraine. Went back to sleep woke up at noon, took a few Ibuprofen and sat in traffic for an hour trying to get into Wyandot. The only saving grace of this weekend is that I did end up “asking” the girl from work to go to dinner. She was unfortunately otherwise occupied but at least I can say I tried (and she didn’t say “no”). My reason for not asking will still forever remain hidden.

Sunday wasn’t crappy, but could still use some work. I’m still having problems getting to sleep so I didn’t goto bed until 5AM Sunday, which means I didn’t get out of bed until 1PM or so. I then spent the rest of the day doing homework…. which it frightens me how used to that I’m getting.

Archangel / May 22, 2006 / Work, xanga / 0 Comments

All we are is dust in the wind…

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment’s gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don’t hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

It is so easy to forget and be forgotten. We think we’ll always remember… we think we changed something so someone can never forget… its all a fools errand. Those who are truly important will always fade far into the backdrop of life and when you do remember its far too late. Don’t glorify and raise yourself up, it costs too much.

Saw The DaVinchi Code last night. Very provocative movie. I will definitely be reading the book. I know there is little truth in the “greatest cover up of human history”, but I have to wonder what parts of history we are actually missing. It is a widely known fact that the gospels weren’t actually written until at least 30 years after the death of Christ. The oldest of the included gospels was written around 90 years after the death of Christ. There are even a number of other gospels (texts that tell about the life of Christ) that were left out because of their age and in some cases “heretical” content. Poses questions… does it not?

I’ve been having some serious trouble sleeping as of late. I was up till 5am last night simply because I couldn’t fall asleep.

Archangel / May 21, 2006 / Personal, xanga / 0 Comments