::Deep thoughts . . . and not so deep ones.::

:: Saturday, October 14, 2006 ::

Listening to: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Current Wallpaper:
Main `Puter: Yugi Mutou & Yami no Yugi (Yu-Gi-Oh R)
My `Puter: Yami no Yugi x Yugi Mutou (Yu-Gi-Oh) Futari no Tamashii
Work `Puter: Yami no Yugi (Yu-Gi-Oh) "Capsule Monsters" armor sets
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WTF??!!!
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Behold the glory of the multi-faceted rant!

First the work rant: There's something in the water this year. Either that, or the school system is feeding these kids something new. Whatever the case, there's no denying that the kids in my area have especially onry this year. It's like there's some force out there making them lash out at each other and anyone else in their path. At first I thought it was me, but after talking with the officers I'm sure the kids are just wilder this year. The weird thing is that these are all kids we've had before. Sure, some of them have caused problems before, but now they seem to be going all out!

Then there's the copycats. Ugh. I don't know if this is happening in your town, but here's the rough idea of things in mine. One of the small towns nearby had a kid bring in a gun to school. No one got hurt and the kid was apprehended, but the school got closed. So what happens next? A bunch of kids in our city, and a few of the surrounding towns, started calling in false reports. Claiming one kid or another was bringing in a gun, or saying that they were bringing in one. None of them had any intention of doing this, they just thought it would be a funny joke and they might get school cancelled. (That never happened though.) Of course, we treat each of these situations as a real threat. You can never tell for sure whose serious and whose just blowing smoke until after the investigation. This means that we and our fellow SRO departments have been wasting time and money on kids who think they're being cute. They don't think so after the police get through with them though. *smirks* It's all fun and games until you're on the receiving end of a criminal charge.

They ordered us a new printer for the office. A $2,000+ color laser-jet printer. It's so big, it would break the counter if we tried to set it on one. It also arrived broken and without its big manual. All HP sent was the single set-up page. *rolls eyes* The manual might be on a CD, but I'm not sure if we got that either. So this huge hunk of currently worthless plastic is sitting on the floor of our office, taking up nearly as much space as a whole dispatcher! The damn thing is 2.5ft tall, 2ft wide, and 2.5ft deep! The night after we got it, I told my mom (who is one of the evening dispatchers) that it was just sitting there, hulking over in the corner. I want to get it it's own name badge.

Mom's named it Bruce Banner. (You wouldn't like it when it's angry. *falls over giggling*) So that's the name that's going on its badge.

Work aside, I don't have a school rant this time. School's just kept me busy.

I do have a Internet rant: I'm a member of Webring and if you are too, then you already know where this is going. Webring has decided to force their members into using their paid services. How are they doing this? By restricting the free membership down to only 2 ring ownerships and 5 ring memberships. For $12 a year you can own 10 rings and be in 15. Or for $36 a year you can own 30 rings and be in 50.

Even if I were willing to pay (which I'm not), I would still fall into a huge problem. I currently own 12 webrings and am a member of more than 250 different webrings!

Yeah.

So now I'm looking into new hosts to move my webrings to. I thought Ringsurf would be a good idea, but they're awful small and most of the anime rings there seem to have been abandoned after only one or two sites joined. @_@ Ironically, I think a lot of them ended up on Webring. *sighs* Still, there's more web ring hosts out there, I'll just have to keep poking around. Hey, I've got until January before Webring drops the hammer on all us.

But it's a hell of a lot of work that I shouldn't have to do.

:: Rose-chan 4:32 AM [+] ::
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