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6784 – cliche dueling

My counter to “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” is “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”.

One of my techs needs to watch their step and mouth… too much flapping lip and attitude.

Got something to say? Fair enough. Make yourself heard in a proper venue and suggestion area! If the idea’s a thought to be a good one and presented well, it’ll probably get implemented.

If it’s *not* considered to be a good idea, and you’re given perfectly valid reasons why… shut yer piehole, and be done with it. Please don’t piss and moan about it, and don’t keep resubmitting the idea once it’s been shot down multiple times.Site Meter

6485 and the sun dawns on a new day.

mug shotMug shot enlarges if clicked on. Good Job, bro. You’ve finally gotten yourself into a situation that nobody can extract you from. I wonder if he realises what he’s done to himself. A thief and a junkie. Want to know what else hurts, dear journal? Through the layers of his face and bone, I can see my father there. His name dragged through the dirt by the actions of his son. I feel so bad for my brother that it’s a physical pain, and I’m so angry with him, if he were here right now, I don’t know if I’d cry or beat the living shit out of him. Maybe do both.

Here’s the rest of the story that I got from the police via mother. He and Andy were arrested for attempted theft of a boat from the marina down at lauderdale-by-the-sea. The owner caught them with bolt cutters, trying to put it on his trailer hitch. When confronted, (one holding a bolt cutter, the other, the broken lock,) they claimed that they were looking to buy the boat and wanted to see if it would fit on the back of the truck.

When they showed up at his apartment, andy was there, and there was an assortment of needles on the table. Also, his recently filled prescription (2/23/04) of Xanax, 60 count had only 27 pills inside. I don’t know if he took the rest, or sold them, or some combination. He told me he was swapping over to zoloft, but apparently even that was a lie.

It’s expected that his bond will be $5000, taking into account his prior record. Neither my Mother nor will I provide it to him. He can sit in jail and wait on his court date. Maybe it’ll give him time to detox, and think about what a complete fucking idiot he’s been. I only hope that Andy isn’t too close by while all this is happening.. he took a trip to the pokey, too.(It’s harder to buy junk in jail than it is in prison, from what I understand.) Apparently Andy confessed to trying to steal the boat, while bro is going to stick to his guns, and plead moron, but not guilty.

I don’t know why a boat thief warrants six guys in unmarked cars or me having to look at a hole where bullets come out to kill people, but whatever. At least the Alpha-male cop was kind enough to bring those pills to my mother’s house, and didn’t require her to come out to the station. That’s surely appreciated.

3am – brother calls me to get him out of jail. I can’t, I’m on call, and the bail bondsman stil has my last fee… he says he’ll call Mike to pay $150 to get him out. we’ll see if his bail is actually that low.


In lighter news, morning thoughts.

Four new possible condos found and with luck, reviewed by me sometime this weekend.


Hmm.. my email post never made it. let’s requote from yesterday –

Einstein’s bagels are yummy, but the ultimate toasted cheese w/tomato on 12 grain is 21 frickin’ points…That’s way too high for what you get. Heck, that’s nearly as much as three pumpernickel bagels with veggie cream cheese on it…. (and I like pump-bagels a lot more, too.)

1 goblin-fart bagel – 6 points
2 tblsp veggie cream cheese – 1.5 points.

one little sammich taking up 2/3 of my daily intake…dang. (at least the pickle was 0 points.)

Funny how 5 hours later, overeating a sammich doesn’t seem to be so much of a big deal, eh?


Livejournal has added FOAF functionality… pretty cool. I’ve been waiting for a simplified version of this for quite some time.

via crschmidt

Some people might ask “What’s the point?” The point of FOAF is to allow machines to look through people, find information that you might be interested in about that person, and deliver it to you.

Perhaps I’m interested in other people that are friends of my friends who live near O’Hare airport – I’m looking for a ride. So, I put in my FOAF file, which defines my friends, and tell it to search for “basedNear” codes of O’Hare airport. By using FOAF, it could expand out, find friends of friends, and give you back contact information for them.

The tools to do this thing need larger base data to advance. We need to be able to describe ourselves in a way that computers can understand in order to make better our interactions. This is the purpose of the semantic web – and LiveJournal is working to start it off.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/data/foaf is basically a machine-readable version of http://scottobear.livejournal.com/info and Here’s another way to browse my foaf via the explorerer

(If for some reason you don’t want your contact information shared, there’s an easy solution – simply choose to not have your information shown to all users, which will block it from your FOAF file as well. If you would like to block your FOAF file from containing information like your friendships, you can do so by including a URL in the Edit Information page, at http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml – simply fill in the “External FOAF URL” field.) Though, I can’t imagine why you’d list interests and such, and not want them to be indexed and found.


Any literati-types know about some writing SJ Perelnman or Woody Allen might’ve done about seeing films at MoMA? I’m looking to help out a researcher for the Department of Film and Media over there. Any help would be welcome.Site Meter

6484 Damn… Frankie the mooch was treated better.

Warning, foul language ahead.

Oh, the fuckin’ drama.

Police came by my apartment tonight, looking for my brother.

I assume it’s for something serious, as there were six cops there, 3 of whom swarmed into my house, wearing bulletproof vests another one had a gun to my head, outside, while two more looked at my ID and shined lights in my face.

The first thing out of my mouth? “Don’t let the cat get out!”

A cop’s got a fucking gun to my head, and I’m afraid that Newt’ll get outside and be hit by a car.

A guy’s got to have priorities, I guess.

They came here, because the ass-monkey that answers to my brother’s name registered his truck at this address. I didn’t know his exact home location, but I was happy to provide his cell phone number and to call the mother up to get the location of his apartment.

I guess they were looking for Andy, too… I knew full well that he was a problem, and bro was warned time and time again. He was just at court yesterday, and I guess he or his pals just couldn’t wait to screw up yet again. I wonder if this is going to have effect on his currently deferred charges, and my bond money?

I want to know what my brother did… Crackhead Mooch Frankie only got two cops, no drawn weapons. No-nose psycho Landlord got 12 police cars, a fire engine and a fire-car.

So, it’s worse than being a combative, lying crackhead, but not as bad as a suicidal, gun-toting loon. Good to know. So, I have a range to work in. I know my brother has a nose.

I *hate* having some other guys running around all over my territory. Looking at mail on my counter, reading the screen of my computer, and so on. I’d consider 4 of the cops as power-trippy cocksmokers… the other two looked like they could at least be a little respectful and work with me communications wise.

The lead cop had the nerve to ask “Why are you so jumpy if you don’t know what’s going on?”

My reply was “I didn’t like having your God-Damn gun pointed in my face… it’s a pretty jarring experience, and I hope you’re never on the other end of it. That makes me jumpy. If you had a half dozen guys show up with guns and flashlights out of the blue, you’d be jumpy, too.”

I didn’t finish the sentence that was in my head that basically ended with “You nazi, piggy motherfucker.”

Now, I know what they did was for their own protection, but that’s the thought that went through my head. Jackbooted, pig-shouted, jerkoffs. I work with nice cops every frickin’ day. Heaven forbid if a missig kid call came while I was at gunpoint.

I’m currently looking here to see if bro or one of his pals has been picked up. plus it’s interesting to see who else turns up.. it’s refreshed every quarter-hour. This one is useful, too.Site Meter

at the moment, he’s got a felony (open), 2 municipal ordinances, and a misdomeanor.

He was warned that I wouldn’t pay bond to get him out this time (if they’ll even grant bond, considering the situation.)

No more drama, please. Gimme some love, life.

#6263 Latest drama, now with a Frankie the mooch timeline!

Holy crap on a crap cracker. Looks like ol’ Frankie the Mooch has been sponging off of the wrong people.

Just a wee bit past midnight, I was just half asleep,watching SNL and I hear raised voices. Just two doors down, yells and pleadings to the tune of “I’ll get it, I’ll get it!” and then the sound of a man being beaten up. After taking a second to I called 911, because I’m certainly not up to stepping outside and breaking things up. After calling the police, I called the landlord, and notified him of the latest shenanigans in apartment #1. LL assured me that Frankie’s going to be out in a few days… hardee har har. I’d like to hope so, but I’ll only believe that when I see it.

A pair of policemen have since come by, and I gave my name and approximation as to what happened. The combatants have since left, and mooch-boy isn’t answering his door, so there’s little else I can do but keep an ear open and be ready to call again, if need be.

I really can’t help but think that Frankie brought this onto himself, but I still feel pity. He’s a pathetic, sad creature, for all of his moochy, creepy ways… and doesn’t deserve a punch in the mouth for being a toad.

Let’s see… Searching for Frankie in past entries – numerous mooches and attempted mooches left out.

  • 5/11/03 – first mooch
  • 5/14/03 – first chastising
  • 7/7/03 – spinach roll
  • 8/15/03 – knockers (maybe the same guy(s) as tonight?
  • 8/27/03 – phone mooch
  • 9/8/03 – “fix my wank machine?”
  • 9/11/03 – begs for money/food. I foolishly give.
  • 9/13/03 – last feeding time
  • 9/14/03 – he’s got cigs and beer, breaks my sleep, tries to mooch more
  • 9/21/03 – mooch, use being on call to deny phone
  • 10/15/03 – Sammy and Frankie have an argument
  • 10/27/03 – Frankie Served notice, supposedly evicted within 5 days.
  • 10/31/03 – 5 days later, He’s still here.
  • 11/08/03 – attempted mooching
  • 11/10/03 – Mailbox Mess
  • 11/16/03 – Today.
  • 11/19/03 – Moved out by LL?

[update – 1:32am – more fighting outside. I called the police back, waiting for arrival. 1:35-same cops as before swung by and Frankie’s not coming out, though his light is on now. I got a glimpse of the other guy, though, a skinny Spanish guy, mustache, white t-shirt, dark shorts, red backpack. Apparently in the scuffle, a pair of sunglasses dropped and a can of beer were spilled in the courtyard. I suspect Frankie’s not coming to the door because he’s fearing either eviction or being jailed by the cops.]Site Meter

[update2 – 1:51am – raised voices again, and glass breaking. This is my third call to the police. I hope they get here before they disperse and run off again.]

[update3 – 2:48am – Cops just finished interrogating Frankie, and I’m amazed that they didn’t take him to jail. They found it was his window that had been broken, and he opened the door after a long knocking session…they saw him and movement inside, and so persisted. Once they got him outside, he claimed to have no identification, and gave the name “Stephen” or “Steve”, and a birthday in September of ’65… and didn’t remember his social security number. They immediately figured he was full of it because I referred to him as Frankie earlier and that’s the name on the mailbox.

While he was talking to the Policemen, he tried a few times to head back into the house…. It was at that point that one of the cops looked more closely inside, and saw a crack pipe on the table beside his TV remote. They pressured him some more, and it turns out that he gave his brother’s name. He eventually admitted to his real name of Francis, and suddenly could remember his social and birthday in January of ’63. The police gave him moderate hell for being a liar… he claimed that there was a girl over, and that the crack and paraphernalia was hers. (That’s *very unlikely*… the cops said as much. “Why should we believe some guy that lied to us about his name, his social and his window breaking?” Frankie then claimed that he lied because he was worried about his “new boss” getting wind of it…. they went in circles back and forth up and down for about an hour… I’m *amazed* that the resolution was that after three calls out, admitted lies, and possession of drugs… they let him off. They had him destroy the pipe, stomp on it, and throw the remainder on the roof… but when he asked if he should destroy the drugs, the dark haired cop told him to keep it… that he can hang on to that small amount of pleasure because his life is pretty much in the toilet, now. They did say that if they got a fourth call, for whatever reason, that they’d give him a break of a different sort, because they were far too tired of the time wasted already (three hours, off and on).

What kind of cops allow a con like Frankie to stay at home after all of that stuff? My only guess is that they didn’t want to have to deal with the paperwork… I heard via the police radio that he had priors of petty theft but no drug charges, so that might’ve been a factor… but what I see is that they let a drug-using guy with a criminal record stay home from jail time, even though he gave false identification, obstructed justice, was in possession of drug paraphernalia and the drugs to be used inside. I suspect that they let him keep the crack because they couldn’t take it with them without having to deal with some sort of paperwork as well.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll be calling the landlord back, and fill him in on the details above. It’s a pity, I think that all parties involved (including Frankie) would be better off with Mr Crackhead – Broken Window – Lies to the Cops – Would Rather Incriminate His Own Brother To Cover His Ass – Has Dubious Fights – Supposedly Being Evicted – Mooch – Dumbass Bad Neighbor in the clink, negotiating with cigarettes on the best way to avoid frequent anal rape. He needs to be off of the street… not for rehabilitation… I don’t believe that’s an option.. but instead to protect society before he gets bolder than stealing stuff and smoking up with his ill-gotten gain.] Other Note… the non-Frankie hoodlums left before the cops came back. I suspect the police would have been angry with me, if there wasn’t a broken window for them to investigate.

Well, prop2 is losing a lot of her sympathy credit in the office. She called at 9am this morning (she was due in at 8) and said that the power was out, and that she was waiting to hear back from FPL as to whether or not it was an inside the house thing or something else. What she *didn’t* say was why her jobless husband was not available to do that while she got to work… She never called back to even say she’s stuck at home for some nonsense reason… FPL seldom takes more than a half hour to get on the stick… I can’t say as I remember any time short of a Hurricane that has caused interrupted service for more than an hour. Tomorrow, I visit the neurologist and hopefully get some good, progressive news to counter the lightening strike that’s going to hit at work. I still feel bad for her, and sincerely hope that she finds another gig soon, preferably better suited to her.

I’m going to be in the print issue of December’s Popular Science Magazine! (Well, the letters page.) Continue reading

finn spotted my and sappho’s entry regarding her being annoying here – (the entry is friends-only now.) strangely, she let us know in a weirdly passive-agressive way. She posted a reply, and then came into karen’s office to let us know that she wrote a reply, but didn’t confront us in any way. Instead we spoke about livejournal and puppies.

I went in and smoothed things over with the Finn… turns out that sappho blabbed my aim to karen to diana, and it got back to the finn again… another breach of security.

Long day at work.

Long day at work.

Strike that… long week.

I welcome tomorrow with open arms. Payday, Gateway to the weekend… possibly some good quality time with my sweetheart. I’ve been in a mild funk this mid-week…everyone’s been stressed and tech’s been poopy. I think we’re over the bulk of it, though. worked late tonight, and got some things lined up properly, and minimal work for me tomorrow…so I can get back to my regularly scheduled programming. Newton turns 3 on Saturday. He’s still a kitten… a doofus, and playful.

Going to have a little spot of supper, and then hit the sack. Nighters, dear journal.

Well, it looks like the talk had at least the minor effect of her timely arrival at work this morning. The alternating demeanor of plastic and frosty still remains, though. I suspect that those are the only styles of behavior that she has ingrained into a daily routine… so it may take a little while longer to rework those into something a little more tolerable.

Quote of the day: “I’ve never had so many people conspire to get me fired!” – The Finn

If I worked someplace, and knew that the majority of the staff (from the forklift driver to fellow directors,) couldn’t stand me and wanted me out to the point that there was a letter writing campaign against me, I’d be seeking employment elsewhere. Heck, who wants to work where they’re not wanted?

Just got the flipside of the meeting from Kev. According to him, the entire board caught a ration of turd for allowing the maturity level to drop from high school level to that of about fifth grade. Specific problems mention rumormongering, cliquishness, and jumping the regular chain of command. The incident of Sappho’s ankle apparently never came up, though many complaints came in to Jim’s office via inappropriate venues instead of via the HR department. It seems that Jim was upset because he shouldn’t be hearing these things… that’s a job for his underlings to handle… not to be landing in his personal email, or his personal assistant’s.

A general meeting is being held today, to inform us all as a group to reset our “action track” and restart movement up the chain of command again. If a problem is had with a coworker, then begin again at the immediate supervisor, and work your way up from there.

It sounds as if Jim’s so annoyed right now that he’s willing to replace the board with a single general manager. That’s a good idea, but I suspect Jim would pick an unacceptable person for the job. (He’s notorious bringing family members to the table, whether they have valuable skills or not.

I don’t see the employees ceasing complaint about the Finn… and I don’t see the Finn quitting anytime soon of her own volition. I suspect that she’d rather take the whole board down with her.

This is the last I’m going to write about her and work drama, dear journal, unless something really amazing or unsettling turns up. I’m tired of the subject.

Fragmentary, trying to get all info out

Though Kev told me that Jim (big boss) just brought some projects by for implementation, deeper scuttlebutt is that the owner came by this morning to address the ongoing political issue of Finn vs. *Everyone Else* (Sans Kev and possibly Santie.) When he came by today, he had a large stack of letters and e-mails in his possession, all citing the following problems (and more) with her behavior:

Socially unacceptable outbursts and generally hostile / childish attitude

Ex.- Needlessly delaying folks by stalling appointments made well in advance, ignoring or rerouting phone messages so that she doesn’t have to deal with the employee / vendor / etc.

Ex. – Spreading false rumors about Ken’s drinking in order to boost herself and to put him in a bad light

Ex. – Being the direct reason for Erica’s departure, after five years of excellent service

Ex. – Playing other directors against one another, including, but not limited to outright lies claiming that her hands were tied waiting for a response to messages (that were never sent).

Ex. – Refusal to perform her duties for employees that she’s not friendly with

Ex. – Expressing outrage that someone would move past her on the chain of command when they are dissatisfied with her “solutions” to problems. (Her solutions are generally from the school of “ignore it, and it’ll go away eventually”)

Ex. – An unwillingness to sit in the same room with someone she dislikes in order to learn how accounting and timesheets work. Instead, she prefers to waste four hours of the teacher’s time by making the teacher school the same subject matter twice.

Inflammatory and derogatory remarks made about coworkers in front of other coworkers, clients, and vendors

Slow (if any) response to the needs of her department

Constantly unavailable to provide services and fulfill duties of her job (Very poor attendance / Closed Door Policy / Long Lunch / etc)

Forging her timesheet to hide said poor attendance

Ex. – Asked multiple times to adjust information about insurance , w-2 forms, HRS, garnished wages, vacation and sick pay. Her lack of speed resulted in accounting write checks to people needlessly having monies withheld. (Many of these employees can’t spare a day’s pay per paycheck, living hand to mouth.)

There were interviews with many employees that didn’t send mail, and Jim’s information was confirmed.

Island boy told him that he feels Finn doesn’t know quite what she’s doing, and is incapable of giving even as much as a phone number for our insurance company to follow up on information he asked for weeks ago and never got from her.

Many mail shop employees confirmed the temper tantrums and lack of availability when they needed to discuss HR-related problems.

Over a dozen letters and e-mails were referred to. some we have no idea about the origin

Jim had her in the conference room alone for the better part of an hour, informing her that her performance wasn’t up to snuff.

I came in at noon, and missed being interviewed. I do have what I plan on saying ready, when the second wave hits. (I’m guessing that today was a verbal warning, next time will be written, and then firing, if things don’t change.) I feel that the only possible reason that she survived even the first round is that possibly Kevin went to bat for her. If it comes down to the board having to decide her survival, I see one vote for her to stay (Kev), two votes go (Ken and Chupa), and one undecided/ don’t care (Santie)

Apparently the whole board got a talking to for letting things get this far out of control.

We’ll see where this takes us.

October!

October!

Zoinks. Already!

Hmm… Apparently I missed some major drama at work yesterday. Lucky Me! I imagine I’ll hear about it today…and the Net’s still down. That’s pretty pesky, really. Livable, mind you, with dial-up speeds, transferring files is sloooow.

Newto’s Birthday is coming up this Saturday… I can’t believe he’s going to be three. He’s the best color for a Halloween kitty, short of black.