I’m sorta playing Dark Age of Camelot again. I just keep coming back to it. It’s Come Back to Camelot time again. Not like me to turn down something free. So it’s the life of a mid for me this time out:

Which was something I didn’t want to do. I associate mids as those nasty bogey men under the bed in a child’s feverish imagination. I guess getting your ass handed to you as much as it seemed like we did on Bors you just start to hate those rat bastards. And it’s no coincidence that Gawain is playing it too. In fact I blame it all on him. Stealing me away from my horse.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has gone gold! Here is the press release:

Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games Announce
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to Ship March 20

Quintessential RPG for the Next Generation Coming to Xbox 360 and PC

Rockville, MD – March 2, 2006 – Bethesda Softworks® and 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that the highly-anticipated role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion has gone to gold master and will be available in stores in North America and Europe during the week of March 20. Oblivion will be available for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC in both regular and collector’s editions.

“Our most ambitious project ever is finally done,” said Todd Howard, executive producer of Oblivion. “We’re excited to get the game into everyone’s hands and let them experience it for themselves. We hope they enjoy it. I think it’s our best game yet.”

Oblivion is an epic, open-ended single-player RPG for the next generation providing gamers with one of the most life-like gaming experiences to date. The powerful combination of unprecedented graphics and freeform gameplay allows gamers to unravel the main quest or explore the vast world at their own pace. Oblivion is the fourth chapter in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series that includes Morrowind® (2002 RPG of the year – Computer Gaming World), Daggerfall (1996 RPG of the year — PC Gamer), and Arena (1994 RPG of the year – Computer Player).

“Oblivion will set the new standard for next generation gaming and change the way role-playing games are viewed forever,” said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. “We set very high goals and ensure they are reached because that is what our fans deserve and have come to expect from Bethesda Softworks. We are very proud of our team’s accomplishments with respect to Oblivion.”

Oblivion has already garnered numerous awards and an impressive collection of accolades, including being voted “RPG of Show” in 2005 by the Best of E3 Game Critics Awards. Oblivion ranks as one of the “Most Anticipated Games of 2006” according to PC Gamer, GameSpy, IGN, and Yahoo Games among many others, and has been featured on nearly thirty magazine covers worldwide.

“Oblivion is one of the most anticipated video games of 2006 and its release will be a milestone for the Xbox 360 and PC,” said Christoph Hartmann, Managing Director, 2K Games. “A shining example of next-generation role-playing, Oblivion breaks new ground in the genre with unparalleled graphics, revolutionary gameplay and an expansive RPG world.”

Oblivion for Xbox 360 and PC, co-published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games, has been rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB.

Hurray!

Well it was not a miracle. The mouse did not appear again and the idiot punched in at 7:01am. The place will not change. It is a lost cause. A sinking ship. Honestly run for your fucking lives people. Employees are fucked, thats a given right? Guess what? The guests have it even worse.

Get this. The train wreck that is the whole food and beverage department is doing a new continental breakfast. Details are sketchy at this point. But the stuff I know is a hoot. So when you the guest checks into the hotel, we the front desk give you a coupon. This coupon on the top (in bold no less) says:

Complimentary Continental Breakfast
6:00am to 9:00am

Now you checked in to the hotel and there is more than one of you. You got the wife and kids with you. You still get one coupon. Just one. You could stuff the fucking Harlem Globetrotters into the room with you and you would still get the one coupon. It gets better. So if you and the Globetrotters wake up in the morning and decide that you all want to get the “Complimentary Continental Breakfast” and you notice the one coupon.

You call the desk and ask for a few more coupons. You and the guys are surprised first that the desk clerk told you that they sell the “Complimentary Continental Breakfast” coupons for 3.99 a pop. Then you all of the sudden are totally confused as why you would pay 3.99 for something that calls itself Complimentary. Dictionary.com defines Complimentary as:

Given free to repay a favor or as an act of courtesy

Which makes me wonder if the chuckleheads at the hotel understand what the word really means. Because they honestly expect the front desk clerks to sell these coupons labeled Complimentary for 3.99 a pop. The worse part is that is says the thing goes from 6:00am to 9:00am. The restaurant (to my knowledge) opens at 6:30am when the lazy fuckers come in on time over there. Which is very rare.

I plan to treat this bullshit just like I do with the bus tickets. That’s right I’m not selling this shit. As far I am concerned this hotel does not have a place to eat. When guests ask where a good place to eat is I direct them to the places across the street from us. It’s hard to believe this but the hotel’s restaurant is in worse shape than the front desk.

Update
It should be said that this retarded pay for Complimentary Continental Breakfast was done away with. I am not claiming to have anything to do with it dying a painful death. I just wanted to make it known that it is dead.

Now they give away a free hot breakfast. with a choice of eggs, bacon or sausage, toast, and coffee. It’s served from 6:30am to 10:00am Sunday to Thursday.

On Monday the 27th of February in the Year of Our Lord 2006 the idiot punched in at 6:59 am. This is a very note worthy event, one that needs to be documented. For I have had an epiphany and Jesus himself came before me in the form of a mouse. Oh thank you lord for this miracle!

One has to start to question the divine when such forces of nature like the idiot show up early. Even if it is just one minute early. This is all I have ever wanted. I’ve tried many tactics to get this point to hit home with the idiot. Writing about it here on my website. Which later rewarded me with a limp dicked half-assed threating phone call. After that I switched to Plan B. Which was even simpler and it is what I should have done all along.

At 7:00 am I punch out and I leave the hotel. I don’t care if the idiot is there or not. My schedule clearly states that I work 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. I go by the time clock here at work. Which is now only two minutes ahead of real time. I honestly don’t see it being to unreasonable to ask that people come in on time. Especially when your given a head start. But it matters not.

No one in management even knew I was doing this. No one told me to stop. No one asked me why I was leaving when no one was here to replace me. I had to inform those clueless chuckleheads on just what exactly I was doing. It’s funny how you tell the right person and you get some results. Although I am getting ahead of myself.

It is yet to be seen if this miracle repeats its self this morning. This could all be for naught. Perhaps if Our Lord Jesus appears again tonight I will know that it is the miracle I suspect it to be. Jesus incidentally appears here at the hotel as a mouse. Which in retrospect it probably is just a mouse and not the Lord and Savior.

Either way I have decided to name the mouse Jesus. If it starts shitting all over behind the front desk I may have to do like the romans. But I’m quite positive that Jesus will be with the hotel for awhile. I can count on that better than any hope that the idiot continues to come in on time or early.

When I built my new computer I used the recommended system requirements (listed in the faq) for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as my guideline. They released some new screenshots and I snagged them up:

If you never played any of the previous games (last one was Morrowind) the easiest way to describe the game is that it is a mmorpg without all the other people to bother you. It looks hot and everytime I read a preview I get all giddy with excitement. The rumor mill says this one will be out in late March.

I think things are now officially out of whack at the hotel. As if it was normal at some point with the stupid shit the sheriff allows the idiot to get away with. Last week the sheriff took a week (or more) off. The sheriff does not return to work (hah) until this coming Wednesday. Now get this. His excuse was that he was sick. That the hotel was making him sick. He had a doctors excuse to go along with this limp dick reasoning of his. Do I need to say it? Yeah lets. What a pussy.

For fucks sake. I’ve worked at that shithole for a decade plus change. I’ve seen a lot (and I mean a lot) of managers come and go. The sheriff of operations has got to be in my opinion the worst of the whole fucking lot. To use that kind of bullshit excuse. Jesus what a fucking pussy. It’s like official now My Boss Is A Pussy (plug time) huh? Honestly the piece of shit that hired this guy should be strung up and tarred and feathered. The sheriff has brought about the most chaotic time the hotel has ever experienced.

A desk clerk did the schedule for this upcoming week? Is that fucked up? The sheriff couldn’t bother to do the fucking schedule. Jesus I dislike this sheriff more and more I hear about the shit he gets away with. Hello you Owner people! Wake the fuck up! What the fuck are you paying this guy for? He doesn’t do his job. Desk clerks do his job. Desk clerks take shifts he should work. Desk clerks now do the schedule that he should do. At what point do you decide that just maybe this guy isn’t worth the money your paying him?

It’s a sad state of affairs at the hotel. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to change. Under this current owner/management I see little hope for the place. I often say it can’t get any worse. I’m always proven wrong though as it gets worse. But on the flip side it can be restated that it now is official that my boss is a pussy.

Not dead yet. Been playing with the computer I built. To lazy to download a benchmarking thingamabob. Screenshots will be coming and in excess. Here is the dxdiag report for those who want to see the what I bought:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 2/18/2006, 02:07:52
Machine name: TURK-6D1A6B065
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 09/19/05 12:07:53 Ver: 08.00.10
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 367MB used, 2094MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

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