Life as I know is over

Ok this stinks.
with my job I am on call one week out of 4. I get "calls" all hours of the day while on call. So they need to get in touch with me. up until about a year and half ago the company gave me a cell phone. They then changed policy and said they will only pay 25 bucks a month to a cell phone, there thinking was you will use your cell phone mostly for personal use and they shouldnt have to pay for that.
Well "The Man" was not getting away with that with me.
I dont need nor want a cell phone for personal use. Its one more way the "man" keeps you down.

So my co. said they would give me a pager. fine with me.
So for the last year or so I have not had a cell phone and all was right with the world.
I still have yet to hear a valid argument on why you must have a cell phone.

well my smart co. did an audit and found out they are paying about 120 bucks a month for my pager....OOOPPSSS
needless to say they quickly came up with a solution. get a cell phone and we will reinburse you for it. No dont go get the 1000 minutes blackberry enabled one, just get the cheap one be resonable etc.

So today I got the evil thing. My voice mail is "you have reached my cell phone, I dont answer the cell phone and I dont respond to voice mail, if you need me page me thru "XXXX" (our co's ticket generator) .

Basically means if there is a ticket I need to work, our ticket generator will page me and I will respond as I normally do.
You want to talk to me call my home phone or my desk phone.
I wont have the evil GW empire pumping there microscopic zombie drugs into my ear!

and cell phone co's do whatever they can to get every nickle out of you. What a scam. But if you know how to read you can keep above water. Dont let the man get you!

ok carry on

Burning Man

Burning Man



How do you explain Burning Man to someone who has never heard of it.

How do you explain it to someone who has but has never been?

How do you do this when its family members.

How do you do this when you communicate as poorly as the President of the U.S.A.?



I am going to try.



But I will do it by just jabbering over the next few months on this blog.



I first read something on burning man in the mid 90’s.

My first impression was of people running around acting crazy doing whatever they wanted. No limits, no commercialization, no big band playing. It could be compared to some of the “Hippy” fest from the 60’s and 70’s without the rock and roll bands.



Basically it looked like one hell of a good time.



A few years ago I started asking my wife to go with me. The conversation went something like this.



“It’s a big party in the desert, looks real fun”



“Hotels?”



“well uh no you camp in tents”



“Like a camp ground?”



“Um well no, there are no services, it’s the middle of the desert”



“Oh, well uh what kind of entertainment do they have? What kind of food”



“Well nothing unless you supply it, it’s a participation event you make the entertainment and bring your own food and water.”



“were is it and when?”



“Its in northwest Nevada in the Black Rock Desert the last week of August, they burn the man the Saturday before Labor Day.”



“Isn’t August the hottest time of the year?”



“well yes but the nights do get cold and they do have dust storms so bad you cant see, they call them white outs.”



“and burn what man?”



“Just a wooden man they build and burn on Saturday”



“So let me see if I understand this, we are going to drive 1800 miles to the desert of Nevada, AT the hottest time of the year. Camp in a tent with no electricity, no water unless we bring it, the only entertainment is what we bring or make except some wooden man they burn on Saturday, there are dust storms that are so bad there are white outs. No showers unless we make our own. No restaurants, nothing for sale and you want me to do this? Honey, you might have hit your head cause you have lost your damn mind!”

so...

So I goto burning man and that is a whole story in itself.
Maybe I will tell you about it someday!

I left on friday before the huricane, arrive sunday morning.
found out the next Saturday that New Orleans was gone...hummm
the next morning I left, finally got to the interstate and got outside radio.
I kid you not the first news I recieved from radio or anything other than a naked hippy was this abc news radio...

Prsident Bush says, "we at the white house are going to do everything we can for the victims. We are having a blood drive at the white house and I encourge every American to go out and give blood"

What a stupid person (I cant call him a Man cause he aint one!)

Blood? WTF? and this was before I found out how bad it really was. That guy that is our president has to be the dumbest president we have ever elected. I cant even imagine anyone more stupid than him. My cats have more sense than that stupid fool!

I finally got a phone and called home, it had been 8 days since talking to my wife.

"well your sister and her husband had to evacuate"

when did I have a sister in New Orleans? Well come to find out I dont, it was another gulf coast city. Yea she probably lost her chit, but they saved the cats. Now me, I would have left the cats and grabed the videos!