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LJ Fun!

It appears I have caused the trolls of LJ to go into a frenzy with my post about the incompetence of the DragonCon “staff”. I was told I’d be charged the on-site price for our 08 badges, but I was charged $45, the AFTER Con price which really pissed me the hell off.

Of course, the Kool Aid drinkers descend upon the post and start the retarded comments, like, “Well why dincha go to the Con store?” and “Well why doncha stop coming to the con?” and my personal favourite “Man, that $5 really ruined your day!”. Uh, yah. So, I close the comments to keep their drivel out of my inbox. Then when they try to take over my LJ, I lock that down, too. Well, lemme tell ya, that really pissed ’em off! OMG, they set up a whole THREAD just for flaming me. I have a fan club!! W00t! If these clearly addled individuals think that flaming me on an LJ board will hurt my widdle feewings, man are THEY wrong! I think it’s funny as hell! And another Fan Club!

These people are obviously too dense to understand that $5 is NOT the point. Incompetence, no accountability and bad management of the Con IS the point. Not to mention that dumb woman in the office telling me clearly: “I’m not going to argue over $5. You can have them at the on-site price, no problem.” When I’m told one thing then something else happens, well, I tend to get PISSY. They also don’t seem to recall when I posted several detailed entries with suggestions about making the Con better and even had people lined up to help create a database and such. Did the con folk acknowledge any of this? Hell NO. The most you’ll get from the Con Slaves if you try to discuss ways to improve is a blank look or a pissed off diatribe about “We are doing the best we can. We’re volunteers, you know.” Like for some reason the fact that this multimillion dollar corporation has no employees is a good thing… Yah.

There’s one loser LARPer that follows me around LJ posting flames about how horrible I am – which is tragically funny seeing as how he spends an inordinate amount of time trying to flame me, which is – if I’m not mistaken – the very thing he’s pissed off at me for.

Eh, the flames are fair. Some are pretty good, others, just lame. If any of them had any sense, they’d check the old posts to see just how much I did try to help. But they won’t. Too dumb. Eh.

Well, the diversion of that took me away from my duties with Disease and Pestilence. I’ve got to get caught up. No rest for the wicked! >;->

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FGM No More

FGM has closed up shop.

FGM is dead – long live FGM!

You may address me as MISANGELA.

Bitches.

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It’s a slow time for blogging

Even the usually busy LJ has been a dearth of entries!

Eh. I dunno, I’m so busy in my head that I guess I’ve lost the will to write as much as I used to.

How about a catch all post? That is something I don’t do much, but at this juncture, I think it’s really called for! Here’s a list of the random things I’ve been up to, in no particular order:

– I’ve been unhappy with my eating/drinking/smoking routine. I’m about to change all that up drastically. I’m tired of being fat and the only way to not be fat is to stop overeating and drinking alcohol and get back to the Kathy Smith Exercise Bitch DVDs every morning. Here goes nothing…

– The smoking needs to be cut back. I’ve peaked with it as high as it’s ever been for the last year. It’s got to get back to one a day or something like that. And no more binges of smoking a pack at a time. That’s just silly. I’m currently at 2-3 packs a week and that’s simply too much. (I smoke Djarum Vanillas for those of you who don’t know – and they are BAD BAD BAD for you.)

– I built a fenced area for my bird feeders and bird bath. I’m sick of Bernadette eating my birds, so this is an experiment to see if a barrier will keep her out. She’s a climber, but I don’t think she’ll climb this flimsy fence. Even if she does, I think it’ll still give the birds time to get away. We’ll see.

– We’re doing postcards for the postcard show at Mint Gallery in December. I’m doing photography, poetry and some Chinese calligraphy if I can do anything that looks halfway decent. Nick is doing photography and something hand drawn, Emily is gonna do a card or two and even Heather is going to do a couple of things. Anyone else who wants to join us, please drop me a line! It’s non juried and NOT restricted to “real” artists. Deadline is the day of the show, which is Dec 8 or 9 – I’ll have to get the exact date from Mint. :-)

– There’s been some emotional juking and jiving going on lately, too. We’ve got friends who are going through changes and struggles and it’s hard to not get somewhat affected. I’m faring OK with bouts of irritation and/or concern but Nick is taking waaaaay too much of this on as his personal load. Which of course is causing some strife between us. ::sigh:: An astrological forecast that I read today pointed out: “Scorpio, you must find a balance between the Warrior and the Lover within you. It may seem impossible from where you stand now, but I know you can do it. ” Uh, yah. Well that makes one of him.

– I feel a bit disconnected all ’round. This time of year is always challenging for me and it looks like this year is no exception. ::bigger sigh::

– I mentioned the number 8 in a previous post and that we’re coming up on an 8 year. While that is true, it’s not truly accurate. To get more info on numerology, go here. I highly recommend numerology as a guide. I like astrololgy, but it’s far fuzzier than numerology, which is simple addition. I’ve used it for my name, my company name, my address and other things with success…

That’s it for today. I’ve managed to while away my morning with this and assing around the interweb. I’ve got to get cleaned up and over to the restaurant. Ciao.