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Crazy week, crazy people.

I consider myself a pretty good wrangler of artists, restaurant folk and other ADHD sorts. But I admit defeat at dealing with holier than thou hippies. I just can’t do it. I took a small job last week to help out some yoga instructors (who are ALWAYS self righteous hippies) with their crappy website. Whoever did it charged them “a lot of money” and made a simplistic html site w/out SEO and other errors. Well, after working with the yoga chick, I hope the first person charged a TON of money. I am walking away after DAYS, I can’t imagine working with this bitch for weeks or months. GAH!

Here is the conversation with the asshole hippy yoga instructor:

Hippy: Well, I thought it was supposed to be the 2nd header with that background?
Me: No, I told you it was the original header with the new green background.
Hippy: Ok, well, I want to have the background lavender with the second header.
Me: Um, ok, so won’t that be too purple? (Yes, I really said TOO PURPLE!)
Hippy: I don’t know, what do you think?
Me: It’s your site, you can do whatever you like. Hang on, let me switch it really quick. [Then Dreamweaver decides to crash.] AH! There goes the software! Geeze [hippy’s name] it’s all your fault!! Then I chuckle to indicate JOKE.
Hippy: [deadpan, humourless voice] Don’t talk to me like that. Don’t say things like that to me.
Me: WHAT? I’m joking, silly! It’s a joke about you crashing my software cuz you’re not here… Oh, nevermind. It was just a joke.
Hippy: [still deadpan, humourless voice] Well, that doesn’t work for me.
Me: What? Jokes don’t work for you? You’re kidding me!
Hippy: NO. I’m not. That upset me.
Me: Um. Well. ??
Hippy: …
Me: I’m not sure what the problem is exactly, but wait, aren’t you MARRIED to a Scorpio? How can you be married to one of us and act this way??
Hippy: It’s very difficult.
Me: [inside voice, thankfully] I’ll just bet, you self righteous hippy bitch!! I’ll bet your husband wants to kill you most of the time. I’ll offer to help him hide your skinny body when he does…
Me: [outside voice] The only reason I’m being this nice is because you are a client. Is there anything else you want done with the colors?

Then we finally get a fucking header combo she likes and I get off the phone. I wish the hippies good luck finding anyone who’ll help with their crappy website. As long as the wife is allowed to speak to the person doing the work, nothing will get done. No one wants to work with a psycho hippy bitch. No one.

I wish I could say this is unusual. But it isn’t. New age hippies tend to be the biggest assholes you’ll ever have to deal with. I hope you guys never have to deal with this sort of abuse. Ugh.

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Wow, March already?

Tempus Fugit!

We saw a flock of cranes heading North this morning – there is nothing like the weird honking of a flock of cranes! This weekend was chock full o’ ups and downs. Nick has been feeling sickly all weekend, but not consistently. He had swollen glands on Friday but no fever and has just felt crappy. Poor boy!

We did manage to do the Atlanta Cartoonists meeting yesterday, which turned out to be pretty great. Caught up with our buddy Eric and got to see his AWESOME artwork. From the convo at the meeting, I came up with an idea to offer artists a spot on our table at cons for a nominal fee to a) help offset the expense of the table and b) give them more exposure. I hope it catches on! :-)

Tomorrow promises to be a crazy day with Emily moving out and Stormy/Jim moving in across the street. I’m expecting to help Emily with vehicles and trunk rentals and stuff. I wish everyone best of luck with the moving!

This is a blah-blah post to try out the Twitter tools plugin!

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Critter Count: Con Nooga ’10

In accordance to our tradition, we present Critter Count from our journey last weekend. Very high numbers for such a short trip! (250 mi round trip)

All critters dead unless noted:
Critters 25
Road Pizza 17
Hawk 4
Dog 3
Shoes 4 (3 sneakers, 1 leather – a first!)
Deer 2
Beer Box 2 (Bud Light, natch)
Cat 2
Chicken 2
Bum (live) 1
Hawk w/ Rat (flying overhead) 1

Stay tuned for more Critter Counts™ as we travel to cons this year!

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Hidden News

So I’m perusing the AJC this morning and in the very back of the Business section there is a small blurb about the Connecticut US District court upholding a judgment against Pratt & Whitney, basically forcing them to remain in CT rather than move their manufacturing plants where they (P&W) want to move them.

The original case press release from Jan 15, 2010 entitled “Attorney General Says Pratt & Whitney Proved In Court Its Own Failures To Lawfully Protect CT Jobs” asserts that the company “breaches its collective bargaining agreement” with the Union and therefore should be compelled to remain in CT for the remainder of the Union agreement. The victory was applauded for forcing Pratt & Whitney to cater to the Union. From the Ameriborn Constitution News: “Congressman Joe Courtney [Dem] joined the members and leadership of the International Association of Machinists (IAM)…[to say to P&W] A deal is a deal.”

Why is this significant? It’s significant because a) it was buried in the paper and b) it is a very significant move by our judicial system to award control of PRIVATE COMPANIES to Unions and the government.

When the courts start awarding control of private companies (and banks) to the government (or Unions), this is a very disturbing lean towards fascism. If you’ll recall, our lovely politicians just changed the rules about how much money Unions can spend on political lobbying and/or advertisements. I also love how it’s the fucking Democrats who are pushing this agenda!! WTF?

Taken separately, these two items are easily overlooked or dismissed, but taken together, I think it is showing a very disturbing trend. Hmm, lessee, let’s allow the Unions (and corporations, too) spend as much as they want to get their bought and paid for candidate in office. THEN let’s start setting judicial precedent for allowing Unions and the government to force private companies to have plants where they are told and to bow to the Unions – or risk punishment.

These things together equal FASCISM. Plain and simple. It’s funny that the Democrats – who are always pointing fingers at the Republicans for being Nazis – are the very ones pushing for government seizure of banks and corporations. It’s like Nick says, you go far enough to the right OR left and you will end up with authoritarianism. I agree wholeheartedly.

Does anyone else think these are Very Bad Things to be happening? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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He can dish it, but…

He certainly can NOT take it. Boortz uses his Twitter feed as a dump for all the nasty shit he can’t say on air. He does not understand the point of Twitter and his tweets are horrible. So this morning, I sent him a tweet about how his tweets sound and he, in typical big mouth fashion, didn’t understand what I said, pitched a fit and blocked me. I took the time to write out explanatory tweets, but I’m sure he’s too good to read them.

Yah, he can dish it but gets all pissy when someone calls HIM out. What a total and complete prima donna. He ASSUMES because I’m on Twitter, that I *must* be a liberal or something, since I dared to call him out. I’m FAR from liberal – I’m actually a LIBERTARIAN, like he is! Obviously, he has no problems alienating even his own group! He does exactly what he constantly RAILS about: react before thinking and ignoring any opinion other than his own. Methinks he has smelled his own farts for far, far too long!

HYPOCRITE. He’s no better than Limbaugh or the other GASBAGS that spew bullshit on Talk Radio all day long. (This does NOT include Clark Howard, who is a nice guy and would NEVER behave like the narcissistic talk show assholes.)

Here is his childish DM informing me that His Highness has blocked me. I shall CHERISH it forever!

He can't take it!
He can't take it!

He also doesn’t realise that I can follow him with any of my other accounts, but why would I want to? I’ll not listen to his show ever again, either. I wonder if he realises that he PROVED that he is, indeed, an old out of touch gasbag by behaving like one? Eh, probably not.

It’s made may day, I can tell you that! If I can beat down Boortz, then I must be on the right track! HUZZAH!