T.B.A.G.: Transforming Being Assembled for Gratification

fitting.

i have decided that i do not want a relationship with someone that acts like an older sister.

ive also realized that no time off is making me a very stingy crotchedy man.
going on 18 days with only 2 days off.
you cant really relax with just one day off.
that only gives you the night of the day that you've already worked (if it was the day).
and the next morning/afternoon to do whatever it is you want to.
thats definately not enough time to wind down.
ive been pissy with most everyone.
...some, it was due. there are other asses out there that arent me,
and maybe some havent deserved it, but its fred thats creating this monster.

pent up aggression.

sadly, when school starts, it wont be any better.
i hate the 9 - 5er, mon - fridayers.
you'd think that with all the 24/7 shit out there that there wouldnt be so many of them.
but i live with 4.
i wish i wouldnt have to worry about a thing everytime friday night rolls around.
hopefully in the future.....

lying in bed, just about to go to sleep and i see a little green gideon bible sitting on a couple stuff magazines.
then i remember back to summer slam when i was dissappointed to see shawn micheals wearing a wife beater that had
PHILLIPPIANS 4:13 boldly printed on it.
so i looked it up.
.... ah yes, one of the staple verses that i learned back in the day, but lost forgot it went under this heading:
i can do all things through christ who strengthens me.

so then bored, and a bit not wanting to sleep even though i should, i kinda parouse the new testament.
seeing that most of paul's letters (which is pretty much everything that isnt one of the first 4 gospels) ends in the same manner.
except, james, i believe.
but, no matter.
then i get to Jude and actually read some of it.
and i sit here wondering why bible freaks dont ever use this in their arguments against homosexuality:
jude 7
as sodom and gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengence of eternal fire.

maybe they do use that. who knows.
but either way. i guess with shit like this, i dont know how the church can be accepting of homosexuals in their communities...
jesus promotes unrest!

got to open today.
the first hr went by fast.
the rest, however, did not.

during this time i found a bermudan dime.
i wonder how many countries' currencies have the fucking queen elizabeth's head on it.

want some work stories?
here goes:
earlier today i had a black dude with a metro shirt on.
probably drives the bus that i couldnt see around to know if i was going to get slammed on my trip over to J in the C for lunch.
the only thing wrong was that this dude was always shakin. and not that voluntary shit.
like parkinsons or whatever.
uncontrollable, small spasms.
now i dont know about you,
but i sure dont want people like that driving vehicles on the same roads that i do when theyre shakey as fuck and 4 times the size of my car.
scary shit.

2nd, aka, best for last.
i had this rather large woman in my line today.
ive seen my share of large women in the store, and this was definately one of the heavy rankers.
this is like on the verge of smart cart action. if she was any older, (she was only about 35-40) im sure she wouldnt be strong enough to walk around the store with her weight.
so anyway, my guess is somewhere around 400 lbs.
well.
the cart is behind her, like most people seem to manage to do.
and they want it infront of her.
so she puts herself a bit into my little cubby area.
i was amazed that she didnt have to get any further in. i wasnt smothered,
however.
HOWEVER.
her pubic roll which probably hung half way down to her knees (no joke),
touched my leg.
um. yeah. i'll leave it at that..... pubic roll.

the thing that i was going to post about before but forgot:
im finally realizing that i'm not going to ever get respect from a random person on the street.
and im finally realizing that i also dont have to take their disrespect.
short-man syndrome in the works?
we'll see.......

i dont think chix realize that guys have to react to their attitudes.
but theres no real way to that would be beneficial to both.
kinda sad.

its been a while since i've worked full time.
let alone overtime.
45 hrs is making me pooped.
and finally a day off after 8 straight days of work!
too bad it shall be filled with errands.

but as the swell sez.
at least you got a job. no bitching.

theres been a buncha random things over the last few days that i've wanted to write down but either got distracted or i got too busy.
now i've forgotten them all.
doh well.

i just realized.
work ethic strongly reflects in home life.
cleanliness, etc.
shit.

i think i found a winner though:
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
--Napoleon, early 1800s

these seem to be a running theme:
The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
--Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, Arabic poet, early 1000s

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
--Bertrand Russell, early 1900s

and what about them presidents... in god we trust?
Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies.
--Thomas Jefferson, early 1800s

The question before the human race is, whether the god of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
--John Adams, early 1800s

This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.
--John Adams, early 1800s

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
--Abraham Lincoln, mid 1800s

and for the ladies:
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
--Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, mid 1800s

i love this shit:
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
--Joseph Campbell, mythologist, late 1900s

and we already knew this guy was a pimp:
So, when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, if you go for all these fairy tales, that "evil" woman convinced the man to eat the apple, but the apple came from the Tree of Knowledge. And the punishment that was then handed down, the woman gets to bleed and the guy's got to go to work, is the result of a man desiring, because his woman suggested that it would be a good idea, that he get all the knowledge that was supposedly the property and domain of God. So, that right away sets up Christianity as an anti-intellectual religion. You never want to be that smart. If you're a woman, it's going to be running down your leg, and if you're a guy, you're going to be in the salt mines for the rest of your life. So, just be a dumb fuck and you'll all go to heaven. That's the subtext of Christianity.
--Frank Zappa, late 1900s

and you gotta throw this dude:
No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the deity in the bible.
--Steve Allen, late 1900s

and just to end it as the link did:
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
--Isaac Asimov, late 1900s

my bad.
i told you there were too many to post.
but i attempted anyway...
i mostly just threw in the ones where people would know the quoter, mostly.

i think i like this link to that site better though.
theres too many to highlight.

i found this in a link as mikes website.
it shows how assed everyone in religion (including martin luther) used to be/are.
my favorite:
To arrive at the truth in all things we ought always to be ready to believe that, what seems to us white, is black, if the hierarchical Church so defines it.
--Ignatius de Loyola, Spanish theologian, mid 1500s

but i also like this one.
We Catholics are also under an obligation to keep secrets faithfully. And sometimes the easiest way to fulfill that duty is to say what is false, or to tell a lie.
--Catholic Encyclical #10, 1800s

cuz it shows that Catholics think they can go even above the 10 commandments if they want to; change the rules whenever needed, ya know?
catholics.
jesus.
oh. btw. the link.

ok. so maybe those are gay examples, and not quite what i wanted to get at,
but it just made me realize the "beauty" of religion, at least as far as i know it from christianity's standpoint....
... blind faith: take what has been told as true. no questions.

then thats a whole other topic:
people basing beliefs as fact from the bible.
gah.

go ahead and read wanks 8/7 blog.
most christians are exactly how hes telling it.
its like people not wanting to believe that columbus was an assed bastard that led to the extinction of a whole 3 million strong tribe of indians.
or george wa. intending to rid the nation of the remaining indians.
its just what they've not been taught.
so when it comes to questioning what they've been told, they aint about to stand for it.
think outside the lines.
expect that not everything has been told to you....
theres most likely always another side to the story.

my bad.
out.

i had this 90 yr old man in somebody else's line today.
i went over and offered for him to come to my empty lane.
he agreed but fumbled around with his cane some.
i grab his 3 items out of his cart and kinda let him deal with his cart,
since there was no real way i could manage it how the situation occurred.
he gets up to me final and says flat out
a 22 yr old german girl fucked me up and now i have to carry this thing around.
...refering to his cane.
at first didnt catch what he was saying and i thought he was talking about one of the checkers.
but after thinking about it. i realize theres no one that would fit that description.
maybe he meant something from WWII.
that would be quite some time to be bitter about an injury from somebody.
but. i dont know if i'd really blame him.
although getting on with life would probably be a bit more enjoyable.
however theres no doubt that you'd have certain reminders of the incident when youre struggling as he was today.
old people are sad.

....or crotchedy.
but thats a whole nuther story......

helping megan find her way to bus downtown over the phone via internet.
i find the quickest route. tell her what it is. shes got walking directions,
but then she realizes that its route 70.
she wants 71, 72, or 73. but these stops drop her further from her interview,
that and i couldnt find where it drops her off at on a map.
so i ask her why she doesnt want 70.
70 doesnt go under the tunnel. i like the tunnel.
dear god.
chix will be chix.

gah. visiting the parents with the g-fry means having to relive the whole time you spent growing up with your parents.
how ... fun.
yet, there is no substitute for home cookin!

on another topic in my life,
work really likes me, but theyre getting strict as fuck.
one of my bosses got fired yesterday because he didnt sign a little piece of paper that you should when you get into a checkstand.
well. that made me shit my pants because i probably only had about a 40% signing rate until this was brought to my attention today.
i also didnt change my password like i was supposed to, but they didnt care, although they wanted it changed today.
oh yeah. i also havent completed a produce sheet since i've been there.
theyre due every sunday, and i've probably been there for about 4 or 5 of those.... hmmm....

well. i'll head back to work tomorrow and try to get away with everything i always try to!