I had a storm come though last night, it was actually pleasant for a change. Normally storms like that get into my head and kind of freak me out, but last night was different. Upon taking the time to actually sit back and watch the storm unfold, I found a quiet enjoyment in nature for a change. I wish I had a digital camera that was quick enough to get a picture of a bolt of lightning, that would be an amazing background for anything, and I think I just inspired myself, we'll have to see.
When I get off of here, I'm going to sit myself down and try to get those pictures done, I've been putting them off for too long now.
Comments:
Outlaw Melfina
Shogi, like Western Chess, is very complicated to explain without numerous visual aides, of which I have none to use. It has to be taught through play, like any other game of strategy.
Here is the page of a freeware shogi program that includes a bunch of variants that even I don't have. Modern Shogi is the one I'm learning to play right now, if you go to look for it on the list of variants at the bottom of the page.
I'm not the kind of person to generalize quite that much and hate the world because of a few self absorbed ignorants. I use my personal experience, and my intuition guide my choices and beliefs, and right now both of those are telling me every fiber of my being is strongly opposed to pretty much everything this state I was beginning to believe I could call home encompasses. There's an old saying "home is where the heart is", well, after being treated as poorly as I have been by the people I turned to for help, my heart is anywhere but here in West Virginia.
And I won't even get started on celebrities.
Caprice
Federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, been that way since September 1, 1997. Only the states that don't get Government funding can have a lower minimum wage (I'm looking across the river at you Ohio) than that. And in no realm, real or fantasy, is pocket change enough for the work involved with cleaning hotel rooms. Think about it this way is it worth $5.15 to clean three whole rooms? That's making six beds, cleaning three bathtubs, three shower walls, three bathroom floors, three toilets, three sinks, polishing three dressers, three tables, three nightstands (assuming one per room), cleaning six mirrors (assumes two per room), dusting lamps, picture frames, headboards, TVs, AC/Heater units, and window ledges, and vacuuming three carpets. For the record, that means a housekeeper would have to average up to but no more than 20 minutes per room. $7.00 an hour for housekeeping would be better, but here in hillbilly Hell, the people writing the checks don't see it that way.
The head housekeeper I worked under would absolutely cringe to hear anyone talk of "shortcuts". She was a stickler for doing things right, and had ways of knowing when things weren't done correctly, it was uncanny. The best lesson of all to the shortcut prone housekeepers who took the shortcuts and didn't check under the beds in their rooms like they were supposed to was this: I found a hundred dollar bill under one bed (did the right thing and turned it in to the hotel manager, no one claimed it after three months, so I got to keep it). That was an intersting lesson to teach without even expecting to be a teacher in the first place. Isn't life funny that way?
I can only comment on the OtakuBowl from an intellectual standpoint, since I didn't vote in it at all, and intellectually, I'm not really in the mood to comment on the outcome of the OtakuBowl.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck." - Ben Kenobi;
Star Wars I think that sums up my current feelings on the matter. I'm not so sure I can believe in luck anymore. As for finding work, well I'll be holding my breath and counting the minutes till I do find something.
Drawing and writing are just about the only things that do bring me contentment these days. Not much else seems to offer that anymore.
Anime Dreams!
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice
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