You know the funny thing about truth? It’s all a matter of your point of view. What I consider the truth is all a matter of my point of view. The same thing I think is the truth could be considered a lie coming from someone else’s point of view. The only reason I bring this up is because of some events going on at the hotel. I hear lots of things from lots of people. From my point of view none of what I hear is even close to the truth.

Mike the guy who has been doing the audit with me has quit. So the mad dash to find and train a new auditor has started. Now according to my truth I’m the only one left who can train someone to do the night audit. I have to say that I’m going to miss Mike. Mike was/is a good guy. He has gone on to sunny California to find some new truths.

So I’m given a new audit trainee. A very smart and I should say very artistic person. And the whole artistic thing is a good quality as far as I’m concerned. Just seeing some young people who are interested in art makes me want to get going again on the whole artistic front.

As the usual for this kind of post I have strayed from the point. The point being trust no one. I hate to invoke a X-Files mantra, but that’s the only way to explain the way this hotel works. Take no ones word for granted. Everyone has an agenda. Even me. I will lie and spin the truth willingly for my own purposes.

Which may make you wonder what my agenda is? And like a great Bond villian I will tell you. Everything I do is to further chaos at the hotel. If I can cause enough trouble for the lying backstabbing management then I’m a happy man. If I can expose these frauds then I’m a happy man. If I can get even one or two other employees to think like I do then I’m a happy man. I guess my ultimate goal is to stick it to “them” as much as I can. And that makes me a happy man.

Well my PC is finally working again. I gave up on the idea of me fixing it myself. So I took it to a local computer store to have them look at it. I’m kicking myself now. I wasted probably two hundred dollars on three fans, a new hard drive, a new cd-rom, and a new power supply. The problem was that one of my sticks of 256mb of ram had gone bad. I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t think of trying different ram.

That stick of bad ram caused a lot of havoc. It was the reason I couldn’t install Windows XP again. It’s amazing what kind of damage one stick of bad ram can do. I’m almost back to the state the computer was in before this all started. It’s hard to believe this has been going on since May 16 of this year.

Needless to say I’m a very happy guy now. Anyway to commemorate the occasion of having a working PC again here are some shots of the recently released Unreal Tournament 2003 (1024×768):

Unreal Tournament 2003 is lots of fun. Everything about UT2003 reminds me of Quake 3. From the menus to the characters and even the levels. I’m not saying this is a bad thing. I’m just saying it’s a lot like Quake 3.

It’s great having a working computer again. But I can’t help feel like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. I guess I have had it working so many times like it was fine, just to have it go to hell on me later. I have my fingers crossed.

I talked to the guy who runs the Coleman Posse website on AIM the other day. It wasn’t a major conversation, it was just a polite hello. I really like the guy, for what I know of him. I urge everyone to go check his site if you have not yet. Apparently he’s been getting some shit from some assholes saying he’s copying another site’s whole vibe. Which is bullshit. Go check him out for yourself.

And for good measure here are two other links I found at the Coleman Posse links page. Hotmail Sucks and Tourist of Death. Both of these sites are done by the same person.

Hotmail Sucks made me laugh hard reading about his problems with some AOL user bitching about his Tourist of Death website. After telling the AOl user to “go punch yourself in the balls” the AOL guy narks him out to Hotmail and his account gets yanked. It’s funny stuff and the amazing thing was when the Hotmail Sucks host backed up the guys rights when the little bitch of AOL user e-mailed the website host to complain.

Holy shit! I have a broadband connection and man is it fast. It’s the Charter Pipeline deal the cable company does. I signed up for only the cheapest one and it moves like lightning. Only bad thing is that no more internet at work. Oh well.

I don’t want to go to work. I don’t want to leave my internet connection behind. That’s the only bad thing about the cable modem. I can’t use it at work. I canceled my AOL account I had been using at work when the computer was down. Well that’s about it. I have to get ready for work.

So I’ve decided to start an offline journal. I’ll keep this at work and upload it when I get home. I’m already getting the shakes because I don’t have an internet connection at work. I forgot the implication this will mean. First and foremost it means I can’t update my website from work. Second it means no more Dark Age of Camelot at work. When I think about it, it’s kind of pathetic how such a little thing brings me such immense pleasure.

I also am interested in finding out just how many of you that come to my site have some kind of broadband connection. Which brings me to mention I have a new poll running. The question is a easy yes or no. Do you have broadband? It’s over on the right. Go and vote if you get a chance.

Another thing worth asking, is just how many of you run some kind of pop up stopper? If you don’t and even if you do I’m going to pimp the one I use. http://www.emsproject.com/FS is the link to the EMS Free Surfer website. It is as the name suggests a free program. If you come to my pop up heavy website then this is something you need if you don’t have one already.

I had a wish list that I made a while ago. Two of the items are taken care of. Those being getting the computer working and getting broadband. The next item on the list is dropping my free server here at Virtual Avenue and getting a host I will pay for. It’s another one of those things that I don’t really need, but must have. A paid host will enable me to have access to PHP and MySql databases.

This will enable me to do some fancier things with my website. Not to mention it will give a lot more space to play with. I have fifty megs with this free deal. The paid host I’m thinking about switching to offers 500mb of space. Seeing how I’ve almost used up the whole 50 megs, extra space won’t hurt. Just imagine all of the stupid game screenshots I could put up with 500mb of space. The only problem with this is that it may cause trouble with the free e-mail accounts I offer. I will update when I have more info on that.

Changes at Ramada continue is the name of a Beloit Daily News article. The news item tells about the changes going on at the hotel. It is also worth mentioning because it has a picture of the infamous “Temporary Gm” who created and then forgot the 3 R’s, 4 F’s. The picture below should have a caption saying “and it was this big” don’t you think?

The picture doesn’t do the guy justice. Or either I just never noticed what a huge Cro-magnum forehead this guy has. I mean that in the nicest way possible.