Well training of the new guy is going well. I showed him the ropes the first day. The last three days since he has been doing all the work. I have been sitting back and obsessively watching and reading anything and everything I can find on the upcoming war.

Saturday was my 15th day of working in a row. The new schedule is up and guess what? Seven more day’s. I’m so burnt out right now. I’m thinking about how this law may give me a brake. You can read the whole “One Day Rest In Seven Act” law. So by the end of this shit I’ll have about 22 days in a row or more.

The worse thing is the fact that they have yet to give me a raise for my helping out. Thanks to the law I know I don’t have to do this shit unless I want to. I have not seen my friends or family for at least a week. My Dad who I live with hasn’t seen me in a week at least. I’m getting sick of this shit.

So I’ve decided to call the Illinios Dept. Of Labor. I got to wait till monday morning. On monday morning they can kiss my ass.

War, it amazes me. We as a people are at a consensus on something. When was the last time we as a people agreed on something. New Yorkers are helping one another. New Yorkers are some of the most unfriendly people on the face of the earth. The House and Senate are on a consensus:

“The Senate vote was unanimous, while the House tally was 420-1..” [Read More]

The fact when you hear people on the tv and on the news calling it “war”. There is no beating around the bush here. We are not making up other terms. This isn’t a police action. It’s not like the Gulf War. I saw the one guy on the news (I think it was a Pentagon briefing) say that it would be a sustained campaign. A sustanined campaign ! So it’s like a matter of time before we go in.

What in the hell has been going on today? I don’t think we all realize what has happened. I’ve heard people today on the news make mention of the two words: Pearl Harbor. I think that is right on in describing this situation. But with Pearl Harbor at least we knew who did it. This is so different.

My generation has never had to witness this kind of horrible event. I’m not to sure what I’m feeling right now. Rage? Disbelief? I’ve seen the footage yet I just wish it wasn’t true. I went to bed around noon today and when I got up I hoped it was some kind of bad dream.

So what is to be done? What should be done? I’m not the kind of person who is super patriotic. But this brings the latent patriot out of me. And I want vengeance. I think we all want this, don’t we? I don’t care who it is we bomb off the face of this earth, we just need to bomb someone off the face of the earth. Fuck that, we need to send in a whole invasion. Lets make a list and take care of some of these fucks who should have been taken care of a long time ago.

And sure Bush isn’t one of my peeps. I voted for… well fuck I can’t remember. But it wasn’t Bush or Gore. But now I want Bush to do what his daddy did. And I know he has it in him. If Bush wants a second term he need to do the right thing. Now I don’t want a war. But do we have any other option? Right now we need a target. And I hope we get one.

Here is my resident Sobo with what he had to say about this event early this morning:

Name: Sobo
Date: 09/11/01
Time: 07:31 AM

Comments
Well I take it that by the time you wake up, you’ll know what happened today. Its a sad moment but now its time for retalliation…if we find out who it was that did this horrible act. My one comment to those terrorists is “show your ugly face and stare the nation in the eye…so we can kill your asses for what you did to us” and if they are a foreign nation, nuke them…unless they have oil..then just go full scale war!…ok i think im ranting and raving now so ill shut up but this stuff makes me mad

Well I got to get to work. But I have MSNBC (IE6) streaming audio running in the browser. This the first time in a long time that I have been glued to the news.

What’s new? Lets see under the contents over on the left side is a little box that shows some of my Forum stats. It’s not like the Forum gets a lot of use, it just kind of neat to have. For the hell of it I will mention to register for the Forum. You don’t have to, as you can post as a guest. But it’s just an idea. I do dig the whole message board thing.

I haven’t heard any thing yet about the cowboy’s finalizing their purchase of the hotel. So I don’t know what’s going on with that.

All I do know is that tomorrow is payday and I’m going to buy my GeForce 3. I’m going to be bummed if I can’t tell a difference in the graphics.

This makes me mad. I saw this article titled GeForce 3 Ultra Soon over at The Shack. I haven’t even got the regular GeForce 3 yet and they announce their making an ultra version of it. Anyway here is the quote:

The GeForce3 Ultra is likely to get extra memory bandwidth over the standard GeForce3, while the low-end GeForce3 MX models are likely to used single data rate RAM instead of the double data rate RAM based on the higher-spec chips, lowering memory bandwidth but still giving buyers access to the same features.

Ooh! “Extra memory bandwidth.” It makes me drool.

Well I’m almost at the end of my second night out of who knows how many days in a row. This time I have no relief insight. This time I have no relief. And I’m not as excited about working another long stretch. Because the big check is coming on the sixth. That’s when I will be going to pick up my GeForce3.

I have also been signing up for every pc game beta I can find. So far I have filled out applications for Neocron, Project Entropia, Earth And Beyond, Jumpgate, EVE:The Second Genesis, Atriarch. Now that I have the hardware to play these games I just can’t wait.

I heard that the cowboy’s that are going to buy the hotel will finalize their deal on the fourth. So I just want to state for the record that if for whatever reason we don’t get paid on the sixth, that I’m not coming in. The fucking cowboy’s can kiss my ass. The old owners can kiss my ass. Fuck the hotel management can kiss my ass.

Sorry I got worked up. It’s just that I heard that our old owners haven’t been paying bills. So I find it feasible that they would stiff us on their last check they owe us. Will see.

Well I’ve kept quiet the whole four days off. Nothing happened that really needed me to comment on. Oh sure I could have told you how I was playing f’ing computer games twenty four seven. But I didn’t want to put anyone to sleep.

So you have been warned! Here are some of the PC Games I’ve been playing:

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura-This one is a rpg. A rpg set in a fantasy world which just had an industrial revolution.
• Max Payne-What can I say? If you got the hardware go for it. A undercover cop framed by the mob killed his wife shoot ’em up.
• MechCommander 2-Far better than the first one a few years back. Totally 3d and lots of fun.

Thats about all I did on my four days off. Me and Troy did go see Jay And Silent Bob Strikes Back again. I’m not really to sure how long I will be working again. I think it could be a while.