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I got an email today from someone that I have never heard of, and have no idea how they happened upon
my site. This person told me that I should stop with the bashing of MSN customer support. That is a valid
argument, probably the best argument that I have gotten since I started doing this site all those weeks ago.
I respect his POV and appreciate his email. Thing is that the MSN customer support is just so rich a subject
that I could go on and on about it for days, if I was so inclined. They seem to have the guys that get
turned down for jobs at McDonalds working there. If anyone really wants me to stop my bitching about
their inept service, that person better work for them, and be in a position to hire people who have
ever actually done anything to a pc other than love the monitor in a disturbing fashion...Show me just
one case where MSN customer support has fixed a problem (not counting incorrect passwords) and I will
quit my bitching.
Nice to know that someone happened upon my site though. Unless, of course, my regular reader actually
sent them a link. I am relatively sure that I didn't send them a link, so it must have been just
a chance occurance.
• There is something that I was thinking about today that I found just a bit
amusing, if not disturbing. I started to keep an actual journal when I was in the sixth grade (that would be
a diary to the ladies), but gave it up after it had been found and, consequently, read by one of my
brothers. I just quit keeping the journal altogether, even though it was probably not nearly as personal
as some of the stuff that I post here. Why is this? I have two working theories, I am not sure which one
is closer to the truth, I am not sure if either one is even close to the truth to be honest.
My first theory is that I was at that age where things start to happen for young people. Hair started
appearing on my fingers, toes and elsewhere. I do not remember a word of what I actually wrote in that
journal, but I could surmise that I would have written about changes that my body was going through.
As I think back on it, I think that would be an interesting read for a lot of kids (more on that in
a moment).
My second theory is that I would like to be remembered, long after I have died and gone into the dirt
that christians call heaven. Words that you speak can often be misquoted or just ignored, words that
you write down are there. Words that you write down are there forever (depending on the source of the
media that you are using). What I write here could easily outlive me if I could get a relative to preserve
it all on a disk. The thing is that I think a lot of people are doing the same thing.
Lots of wealthy people choose not to have children, yet have their memoirs printed. I am certainly not
wealthy, I look at it kind of backwards. If I can not offer my child the absolute best, I would rather not
have a child. I don't mean toy cars and the such, I mean that if I know that I will not be able
to provide the best education for a child I would rather have that child not be born. I certainly could not
foot the 30,000 dollar a year charge for an ivy league college, but I would expect that my child would be
capable of that level of success. Sure there are sholarships that would cover some of the cost, but the
out-of-pocket cost would still be pretty high. One could only mortgage their home so many times...
Myself, as your average blue-collar worker, could not provide the correct environment for a child
to thrive. I could surely provide an environment where a child could survive, yet I would feel extremely bad if the
time came when he/she got accepted into an ivy league college and I had to say that we couldn't afford it.
My lack of education would then go against my child. Forcing them to work low wage jobs all his/her life, would it be better to have or not have
that child? I thought that the whole point of having children was to make sure that they have it
'better than you did'. I am sure that there would be no lack of love (site my dogs, for example), but
education is everything for a child. I know that I can not afford to send a child to the best
schools, and I think that is why I type here each day.
This site will likely be my legacy. The thing that is spoken of, in hushed words, from one family
member to another. They never had any children, people will say, that must have been a sad existance.
I don't suppose I will really mind if I am remembered that way, I just don't want to bring a new life
into this world that can only hope to be remembered the same. I strongly believe that the goals that
you have for your child/children should be to do better than you ever did, if that is not possible please use
a condom...
• When I was in the sixth grade they started doing sex ed. I really think
that the teachers were more uncomfortable than the class. When the movies played one of the teachers
would go to the bathroom, while the other just sat reading the paper. When it ended he would look up
and say, "any questions?". Even if you had questions you would not ask them from this guy.
Totally on a side note, the latter of the teachers was later arrested and charged for molesting children
in the third grade class while he was a substitute teacher at a different school. You just have to
love the grammar school system here, don't you?
I really can't remember exactly what those videos showed, what I can remember is that it set everything to
a certain age. Say you wake up on your sixteenth birthday, that means that you will have full
pubic hair, even if you have never had a sign of it before. Men will have chest hair at eighteen, again, even
if you had never had any sign of it before. The male penis is able to function for reproductive purposes
at the age of thirteen. I assume that all of these things must happen on that particular birthday, as
the video did not describe any 'gray area' that could explain anomolies in their system.
The thing is that I got hair on my chest before I got hair on my love-sack. A friend of mine, name of
Mike W* had a full beard by the time the puberty bug got down to his cajones. Sure, it is not an exact science,
so don't try to make it so exact in the 'self help' videos about puberty. That just goes to make us al
self-concious and really hate the guy who made the video in the first place.
Of course it is me being bitter, and I think I am really getting good at it. YMMV, but the facts
will remain the same.
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