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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I used to get bronchitis a lot. It's more annoying paired with strep throat. Sorry you get it so often, Cteno.
So I've completed one week with this cold. I ended up going to urgent care on my birthday, the same day I started this. I went in thinking I was having a heart attack, but the doctor suspects I have a hiatal hernia. So that, along with an anxiety attack and the beginnings of a cold, and I'm feeling like total shit on my 30th. Not sure if I got the cold from my parents, Brandon, my co-workers, the clients, or if it's generally con crud from Anime L.A. a couple weeks ago, but I was literally inundated with germs from EVERYWHERE.  |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I wish I could sleep that late and with such steadiness. Since starting this job it's been common for me to wake up every hour throughout the night, thinking I'd overslept. Even though I've literally been going to bed at 8 because I'm sick and trying to make up for lost sleep, I've still been wide awake at 2, 3, 4, 5. Ugggggh... | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I'd been listening to the stories as they unfolded, before and after work, on NPR.
As the Charlie Hebdo story happened, I was shocked. I mean, four founding cartoonists just dead. Along with the editor-in-chief, police that were guarding them... Frankly, I haven't really developed an opinion. I have yet to utter, "Je Suis Charlie!" in solidarity. I think it's because most of the gut reaction I've seen in saying it is not necessarily a backing of the magazine, as it seems on the surface. Past the purely good intentions, it seems like a slogan with which to preface many people's Islamophobic sentiments. It's to the point that the so called other side is saying, "Je Suis Muslim!" and the French aren't happy with this "perversion" of it. It all reminds me of our own grab for patriotism following 9/11 and the rampant paranoia and prejudice that developed in its wake. Watching the French, attacked in such a heinous manner and their own hate starting to foment as they deface mosques and so on feels a lot like watching Americans 13+ years ago. Some cartoonists got it right in depicting the damage the shooters have really done, what with the shootings' secondary victim: 
I heard another news story on NPR this week that more than half of the inmates crowding prisons in France are Muslim. MORE THAN HALF. Amateur video supposedly shows how under-maintained they are. The shooters apparently were in one of these facilities where they were radicalized by an imam inside. The thing is, why is the diversity within their prison system so disproportionate? It's like American prisons and our high population of African-Americans within. All the same, I've found this cartoon uplifting: Lucille Clerc's drawing Now, regarding ISIS, I'm not particularly well-read on these fools more than it seems other terrorist groups hate them just as much. Which for some reason got into my head this image of them all being rival Girl Scout troops trying to sell more cookies than the others and these kids (ISIS) are just the stuck-up ones able to blackmail the rich neighborhood houses to buy more of their Samoas. Humor is a great weapon. It's not fair if you're only allowed to laugh at one thing, but not another. (Last edited by Rogue on 01-24-15 11:33 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| So a lot of people have gotten sick with measles in these past couple weeks, originating from a bunch of non-vaccinated kids getting it while at Disneyland. Most people are immunized against measles/mumps/rubella and many other things, but due to the rise in anti-vaxxers claiming vaccinations cause autism (they say it's 1 in every 120 people, or something. The number frequently changes, and the CDC doesn't just glibbly state ratios like that) there's been a rise in diseases the world over. Anyway, what are your thoughts on this? In all honesty, I don't care. I really, really don't, but it gets mentioned on NPR every single morning and evenings when I'm on my way to and from work. Granted, some of the cases are in children too young to be immunized (and it's a goddamn shame in those cases), but this is Darwinism in action. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Originally posted by Cteno Jesus... My condolences, man. And, Xeo, I completely know the feeling about co-workers constantly being sick. Working with people with developmental disabilities, most of them don't cover their coughs or sneezes and it seems in the two months I've been working here, there's consistently been at least two staff members sick at any given time. This past week and a half I was one of them.
Only kind of starting to feel like myself, though every day another part of my abdomen hurts like a bitch. The past few days it's felt like I've had terrible menstrual cramps, but it's not that time yet.  |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Originally posted by Elara And being a person who works with MANY different people who have been diagnosed with autism, I can back you up in saying it doesn't present itself the same way in everyone who has it. Most of the adults I encounter in my day-to-day work at the inclusion center have it paired with other developmental disabilities (intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome, cerebal palsy, etc) and of course there's the spectrum you mentioned. I agree, this really just makes the anti-vaxxers look like jackasses who hate a group of people they don't understand, who can be just as higher functioning as the rest of us with thoughts and feelings, so much so that they fear it'll happen to their babies. It's part of the reason why most people in my business HATE Autism Speaks and all those other "charities," because they're really just demonizing the disability, calling it a disease, putting out ads with the sentiment of "Don't let this awful thing happen to your kids! Give us money!" It's like saying people with autism are doomed, as though they're damaged goods, and you should donate for research to help prevent it rather than teach acceptance or doing anything to benefit those who already have it. The only sense that I understand in being fearful for having a child with developmental disabilities is if you're worried about what's going to happen to them when you pass away. Those with a developmental disability tend to have a shorter lifespan than the average person (which is why we're all impressed with this one older gentleman we have who's in good health and pushing 73), and many of the group homes we deal with are frightening, to say the least. But yes, back to vaccinations... Penn and Teller put it best. (Last edited by Rogue on 01-30-15 08:48 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Today is the 170th anniversary of the publishing of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Just a fun fact. | |||
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Going through it right now. D'oh.
Brandon tends to sit at his computer until 4 and when he finally climbs into bed, it wakes me up. It's coming up on 6, but I've been up for nearly a couple hours now. Well... I'll probably play a little of the "Burial At Sea" DLC for "Bioshock Infinite." But then I've got to leave for work around 7:15 and I've got to make my lunch. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Oh my god, just fuck the Red Cross' website.
I need to be First Aid and CPR certified for my job, which they usually handle the training for, but due to my company not offering any classes any time soon (I suspect it's because the woman who usually handles the training just had her husband pass away) I had to go looking for a class to take within 2 weeks and pay for it myself or risk being fired or put on suspension. I went by the Red Cross headquarters in Torrance. No one there. Called all the phone numbers available; it's apparently past business hours because they're on Eastern Standard Time. And the website is confusing to navigate. It takes a week, but I'm finally able to look up classes at work, but not trusting the computers there with typing in my debit card information, I call Bran and tell him to book a certain class for me. $90, gaaah. Oh well, he owes me $300 at the moment for his new amp for which I'd loaned him the money. He proceeds to do the laundry and other things and only tries to book the class right before he's about to be out the door to go to work. Lo and behold, the site's claiming that class is full. He then calls me (and I have to very quickly cover it and say I'm going on a break, because cell phone usage on the job is a fire-able offence when you need to maintain constant, non-distracted supervision) and I kind of go off on him saying I'd called him in the morning to do it right away. He then misses work, calling the Red Cross, chatting with them online and getting it all sorted out. The class, at it turns out, wasn't full. He got a referral number and booked it for me. Whenever I tried looking for the same class (held 1/29) online, it kept not coming up. In fact, it was telling me there weren't any open classes 'til mid-February. The site is just fucked. Which sucked at the time, because the other new person needs certification too and I was going to refer him to the class I was taking, but I couldn't get it to come up. Later, I get an e-mail saying I haven't completed the online coursework, and trying to access it is similarly difficult. It didn't recognize the username Brandon registered for me and I couldn't get to any of the online stuff. He ends up calling them again, and thankfully there was someone available at night for once, and they go, "Yeah, that username thing is your whole e-mail address. It's weird." And it's not over. The coursework is easy enough. If you pass the pre-test you can just skip to the next lesson. After the 8 lessons, you take the assessment. Pass that you get to print your certificate (which you bring to the class where you then use the dummies). Thinking this was available in the system or would be e-mailed to me, I went to my dad's comp, which is attached to the printer. As it turns out, that one time you see the certificate is the ONLY time. You can't just log in from another computer and looking at the coursework, it looks as though I'm only opening it for the first time with NOTHING marked with a green check mark. In a moment of just going, "Ah fuck it!" I ended up taking all the pre-tests on each lesson, passing them, then taking the assessment, and passing it, only to discover that the certificate that pops up DOES NOT HAVE MY NAME ON IT LIKE IT'S FUCKING SUPPOSED TO. Had to wait for Brandon to come home and figure out how to connect my laptop to the printer without moving it to the next room (no battery in it, so unplug and it's all gone), because I didn't close the certificate window on it, THANKFULLY. Achievement Unlocked, certificate printed. The next day, which was going to be my training that evening, I ask Quinton if he was able to get into the class with the course ID number I gave him since he couldn't find it online either. Not only did he get in and get the coursework done without a problem, he had found a promo code to knock the price down from $90 to $65. We're not even supposed to have to pay for this shit. I asked my dad if I could write this stuff off as a business expense later and he says I can't because I'm not going to be itemizing my taxes.
Anyway, I'm CPR certified now. At least the class was no sweat and the teacher was cool. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Go you!
Fact: Now that I have a job, I get HORRIBLY depressed if I don't do anything on the weekends and consider it a waste if I just stay home. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I guess we're restarting our lists?
2015 - Bioshock Infinite's DLC: "Burial At Sea" Episodes 1 and 2 Yep... |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I need someone to geek out on it with since Brandon wasn't there when I played it and I don't want to spoil it for him when he plays it himself.
But holy crap! Spoiler: It all comes back to Jack and the first game! I sort of expected that it was going to. I mean, they were in Rapture and all. It was trippy playing as Elizabeth. It was like trying to play "Dishonor" and get low chaos with all the running around and avoiding people and just using non-lethal methods of taking out splicers. I think the biggest thing was that it finally explained why Jack's plane crashed, in that he opened the package and highjacked it. It's just yet again I don't quite understand the different universes thing. Supposedly there's only one Elizabeth at the end of Infinite, so how did she die twice in Rapture? And she was running around with Comstock? How'd she get her pinky finger back? It's a lot of dissect. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Seriously, though, fuck ISIS.
I'm coming home yesterday and hearing on the radio about them burning alive that Jordanian pilot they've been going on about having for negotiations. Apparently they may have killed him a month ago in that fucking heinous fashion and were still trying to collect ransom. No wonder they kept saying if they got paid they'd still only release one of the Japanese prisoners, but keep him for some reason. I really hope all of this is just unifying the hell out of everyone else, because this has gotten way too stupid on their part. I feel like Walter from "The Big Lebowski" shouting, "Fuck you ... Without a hostage there is no ransom. That's what ransom is! Those are the fucking rules." (Last edited by Rogue on 02-04-15 09:01 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of a huge convention that will consume my entire weekend and the paid holiday I'm getting on Monday. I'm not even kidding about how much I'm stressing this and wishing I just had a day of doing nothing in between all that and going back into work on Tuesday. 
I've got guests from Canada staying at my house starting tonight and I'm losing my mind worrying about them finding the house clean with all the amenities and my room's a fucking mess. Fact: My favorite comics publisher is Vertigo. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I'm still about... I dunno... a sixth of the way through. I keep getting distracted by all the manga and graphic novels I've been picking up.
In the past few weeks I've read most of "Vinland Saga" (each book is several hundred pages), read the first volume (years 1926 to 1939) of "Showa: History of Japan," which was also several hundred pages. The last one I finished was "Habibi," a really depressing, but really well-drawn and written story about an Arab girl and a black toddler she adopts. It goes much, MUCH deeper than that, but it's hard to explain the story without giving too much away. You learn a lot about Arabic and stories Muslims tell. "Habibi" was also really long, but I got through it pretty swiftly. Currently reading "Showa: History of Japan" years 1939-1944. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Work's been steady, but soul-consuming. I have little time for much else on getting home at 6 after picking up my mom from her job in Torrance.
I've got Gallifrey One this weekend and I am NOT looking forward to the sleeplessness since there will be no decompression time before getting back to work. Meantime, I've got Canadians staying over who are also working the con. They're planning to make poutine for us, but I have no clue when they'll get to. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| We didn't really get a winter here and that actually really sucks since we're in a drought and we need the melted snow.
Fuck this one chick I have to work with at the con this weekend. We're the same rank in Ops and she talks down at me and doesn't bother to remember my name. The rest of us are all pretty congenial, saying things like, "Hey Brian, can you help me with this?" and what not. She walks up to me, puts her hand on my arm as though she's attempting to build a rapport and goes, "Ops person! Go do this for me right now!" She's "commanded" me to go yell at tech to let in lines. I thought it was just me, but she's been pissing off a lot of people. I had brought this all to our boss (Lee's) attention last year, but was brushed off. This year's bullshit has me re-thinking even being on Ops next year altogether since I'm probably going to get more of the same. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| And I'm sick again.
Not sure if it's con crud (since Gallifrey was last weekend) or my continued exposure to 60+ people who don't remember to cover their mouths before coughing in my face five days a week. Fucking hell. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Yeah, I went to a show on Thursday where Brandon and I stood in the front row for Dread Crew of Oddwood and Alestorm. I was shouting, headbanging, everything. So yesterday, took the day off work, and kept myself bedridden with this cold.
Will probably spend this morning back in bed. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| I haven't been watching much new lately, mostly because Brandon and I aren't home together very often. Seems like when we are we're unwinding from work and ready for bed. At least Vikings and Face Off are back on. We've really fallen behind on Walking Dead.
We've been trying to work through the Teen Titans for months now, but it seems like we just end up attempting to watch it on Bran's slow phone when we're stuck waiting in front of our ramen place. Well, been meaning to watch Outlander. |
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