So I got myself a new iPod Touch with my X-Mas money. It’s so awesome just having sound. The 4th gen is really something. You can go over here to see the Apple site describing the device. Below you can find some screens of Aralon and Rage HD.

Aralon is Oblivion and Morrowind mushed down into an iPod Touch game.

Rage is a little game from id Software. You may have heard of id before. Rage is an on the rails shooter. Despite that it’s still fun.

I will add more as I remember. Here are some shots of Infinity Blade, a game one should have at the least to be able to show off what a iPod Touch Generation 4 can do.

I gave the new girl her exit interview. Not official in any way of course. The main thing that stood out for me is the reason the young lady is quitting. It’s funny really. She said she has a degree in HR and that her experience here at this hotel has made her change what she thought was her career path.

See the poor thing was trained in a matter of days. I remember a time when people were trained for weeks or in some cases months. This hotel is taking the worst hotel ever approach as of late and gives all trainees balls to the wall training in just a few days. The girl who this was her last day said she felt like half the time she didn’t know what she was doing. It’s a shame.

She also confirmed my suspicion that they (they always equals management) don’t inform new people about this retarded you have to stay until your relief has counted their cash thing rule. A while ago this was put in place because someone stole money from the change drawer. To combat this evil theft they decided to treat their employees like children and enforced this fucking stupid you stay until the next shift counts their money rule. This will not stop stupid people from stealing from the workplace.

Even better when you realize they have cameras they are to lazy to move to watch all of us nasty employees.

I mean if they really wanted to make sure the money wasn’t being stolen from their own employees turn that camera a bit and the issue is resolved. But I suspect they are honestly to lazy to turn the camera or too cheap to buy a new camera.

After having to deal with the idiot for so long at the worst hotel ever I just may be a little crazy about wanting to leave at my scheduled time. This craziness was explained to my boss before he hired me at my interview with him. So now I have to call the wisconsin department of labor and find out if they can fire me for leaving at the time they scheduled me to leave. This is almost a worst hotel ever level of retardeness.

Memo Time! This shit gets thrown up on the back of the door into the front desk office. It’s not like they want to draw attention to this kind of news. The bits I like are below and the bolded stuff was done by me:

This hotel is in a transition period. With the loss of <Name Removed> and the slowdown in business travel, the guest service and overall value that we offer our customers must be better than ever. I am confident that <Name Removed> knowledge and experience will enable us to do just that.

So now I this read as we (the peons) have to do more work. For those of you not counting at home it’s about 2 years and 6 months since my last raise from this hotel. So they (the bosses) expect more work for no more pay. This hotel is slowly starting to get to me.

It’s finally X-Mas Eve. My Christmas fervor can almost come to an end. I get into Christmas mode about a week or two into November and start immediately playing Bing Crosby X-Mas tunes on my iPod non stop. But as soon as presents are open Christmas morning I snap out of it.

What’s the deal with the word Christmas anyway? Why is it a big deal? Supposedly Atheists don’t want the term Christmas used? Instead they throw around Happy Holidays. I don’t get it. I can’t say I’m a believer. But I do try to keep an open mind. But even if I don’t believe in Jesus Christ I dig Christmas.

And why would anyone be against it? It’s a holiday that brings happiness to children who want to believe in the idea that out there somewhere is this Santa guy who takes it upon himself to give away free shit to the people of this world. It’s a nice thing to want to believe in. I try to encourage my niece and nephew to hold onto that shit for as long as they can. The world will be more than happy to introduce them to it’s real nature soon enough.

Also Christmas isn’t about Christ. The kids I know don’t think shit it’s the birthday of Jesus let’s eat cake. Christmas to kids is the equivalent of getting good loot in World of Warcraft. Which I don’t think is a bad thing. You got to get the good loot while you can.

Man it’s getting harder and harder to write. I’ve a number of time thought about quitting “blogging” outright. I’ve even thought about selling my domain. I’ve not really looked into the selling thing. I’m not going to sell my baby for a mere pittance.

I bought a Gutter Sense for me and my dad. I don’t like the idea of my old man getting up on the roof to clean the gutters by hand. I also am far to lazy to get my own fat ass up on the roof to clean the gutters. So Gutter Sense was a cheap solution to the problem. I gave it a quick test run and I think it does what it advertises.

Other than that I’m playing Fallout New Vegas.

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Me and him have had this conversation a few times already:

[07:00] Gawain: Watching “unbreakable” again.
[23:30] Turk: jesus why man?
[23:30] Turk: have I not expressed my hatred of unbreakable?
[23:31] Turk: the newb (who I thought saw it too) just saw it recently and he hated it too
[23:35] Gawain: Really? Its probably in my top 10 favorite movies. Its certainly my favorite of Shamylaminanian’s films.
[23:35] Turk: psst
[23:35] Turk: the first one he did was a fluke
[23:35] Turk: I liked that one
[23:35] Gawain: yeah it was okay.
[23:36] Gawain: But I liked unbreakable a lot more.
[23:36] Turk: unbreakable offends me as a comic book collector
[23:36] Gawain: I thought the ending was a little bit meh, but I loved Bruce Willis as a normal dude who learned he was actually a super hero.
[23:37] Turk: and it does not at all mirror comic book stories
[23:37] Turk: and that’s why I hate it
[23:37] Turk: it’s all bullshit
[23:38] Gawain: I guess? The authenticity of the comic book bullshit is a very distant concern to me over the fact that bruce willis playing a reluctant superhero kicks ass.
[23:38] Turk: well your not a comic collector
[23:38] Gawain: true.
[23:38] Turk: and or don’t take comic books seriously
[23:39] Gawain: I suppose that its similar to the way I hated that fucking Sandra Bullock movie where she was a computer security expert and some super hackers had created a way to hack any computer on the planet using a tiny pi symbol in on a website. That sort of made me furious.
[23:39] Gawain: But I think that technically unbreakable was a better film.
[23:40] Turk: yes exactly
[23:40] Turk: to the sandra bullock thing
[23:40] Turk: not that its a better movie
[23:41] Gawain: Still, I enjoyed unbreakable. I’m sorry that it wasn’t authentic for you nerds.
[23:41] Turk: apology accepted
[23:41] Gawain: I think its probably the most “realistic” depiction of what would happen if a dude suddenly found out he was a super hero, comic bullshit aside, and that’s why I like the movie.
[23:41] Turk: oh bullshit
[23:41] Turk: in shallies little mind sure
[23:42] Gawain: What would be different?
[23:42] Turk: this unbreakable conversation goes back as far as 2006 by the way
[23:42] Turk: what would be different?
[23:42] Gawain: yeah yeah, what would be different?
[23:42] Turk: I would have to watch the piece of shit again
[23:42] Turk: samuel l jacksons character for one thing
[23:43] Gawain: If a dude who was super strong and resilient found out in a sudden way beyond his control that he was in fact a “super hero” how would his reactions be different?
[23:44] Turk: its jackson man
[23:44] Turk: his character
[23:44] Gawain: meh, that was just the foil. its unimportant to bruce willis’s character. Say he found out in a different way.
[23:44] Turk: what was it black fury? for fucks sake
[23:44] Gawain: What im saying is that his reactions are what I would expect to such an event.
[23:44] Turk: sure sure
[23:45] Turk: as I said in the past
[23:45] Turk: that movie just rubs me the wrong way
[23:46] Turk: I should like it
[23:46] Turk: but I don’t
[23:46] Gawain: … Is it the gay thing?
[23:46] Turk: it’s mostly that it’s that fucking shamalamadingdongs movie more than anything
[23:46] Turk: is there a gay plot in it?
[23:46] Turk: I don’t remember
[23:46] Gawain: No, I mean, how you’re gay, and there wasn’t a gay character in it for you to empathize with.
[23:46] Turk: I don’t like m night shamamma
[23:47] Turk: ahhaahahahaaha
[23:47] Gawain: hahahahahaha
[23:47] Turk: yes yes that is it
[23:47] Gawain: man I totally pulled that right off.
[23:47] Gawain: You are the best straight guy ever.
[23:47] Turk: my hatred for m night shamalama has turned me into a poofter
[23:47] Gawain: You’re totally the smothers brother with the mustache.
[23:47] Turk: this may go up as a chat log on my site
[23:47] Turk: I so need to post something
[23:48] Turk: the one with the mustache is the cool one?
[23:48] Gawain: no, hes the straight man.
[23:48] Turk: your the dumb fucker then? ok
[23:48] Gawain: yeah.
[23:48] Turk: I can live with that
[23:48] Turk: you being the dumb fucker
[23:48] Turk: this is so posted on my site
[23:48] Turk: admitting your the dumb fucker
[23:48] Turk: I WIN!!!!
[23:49] Gawain: You don’t win. I got you to admit to being homosexual.
[23:49] Gawain: Though honestly it won’t be a big surprise for anyone you know.
[23:49] Gawain: So I guess maybe you do win.
[23:49] Turk: I would rather be a peter poofter than a dumb fucker
[23:50] Gawain: Good thing I guess, huh?
[23:50] Turk: stop being funny now I need to copy and paste this

I’m so desperate to post something here. Thanks to Gawain for letting me be the “straight” man.

[00:00] Turk: boy don’t do a google image search for dick smothers
[00:00] Turk: wow
[00:01] Gawain: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
[00:01] Gawain: you need to add that to the chat log.

I’ve changed my gravatar to the Dick Smothers image below. I have found an image for Gawain to use as well.