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My Current Florida Confusion

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on May 27, 2008
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Have you out there heard of Alex Barton?  If so, you are probably pretty outraged.  If you haven’t, then read this here article.  Personally, I am so pissed off at a lot of people right now.

Apparently taking a child to the front of the classroom and having all his classmates tell him what they don’t like about him and then voting him out of the classroom, that isn’t considered emotional abuse.  Let me tell you something.  Being in front of the class like that is fucking terrifying.  Then you add the horror of being called “disgusting” and “annoying” by your peers and THEN voted 14-2 to leave the classroom.  The teacher then sends you to spend the rest of the day in the nurse’s office.  No.  That wouldn’t bother anyone.

The Florida state attorney’s office doesn’t consider the situation endured by Alex Barton to fill the requirements for emotional child abuse.  Really?  What the fuck is emotional abuse then?  Being verbally abused by your friends and classmates in a public setting?  Being voted out of the classroom, denied your legal right and obligation to attend an education institution.  I’m sure that Alex didn’t consider that he was being denied an education by his own teacher, but that is still the case.

Then add the case that Alex was in the process of being diagnosed with Asperger’s.  I can’t really be sure whether or not Wendy Portillo (Alex’s teacher) knew of the possible diagnosis, but she should have known.  Though, regardless of whether the possible diagnosis was known, you do NOT treat a student like that.

The fact that Alex may have Asperger’s may be causing this issue being blown way up; however, I think this is a good thing.  There is no doubt in my mind that there are hundreds of kids who get mistreated like this every day.  The teacher gets protected by the school system, nothing happens, and the kid gets mistreated for the rest of the time spent under the teacher.  There needs to be a greater amount of scrutiny placed on teachers when dealing with children.  Bullshit like this needs to be made more public and the teacher needs to be fired.  Ms. Portillo was moved to a office position and hopefully there will be enough outrage to cause her to get flat out fired.

What is your take on this situation?

Looks Around

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Anthony Thompson
on February 18, 2008
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Things are changing for Lexy and I, so I decided to change the look of this here site.  I like it, makes it look a bit more “bloggy” somehow.  There is some work to be done with the sidebars, but I can’t figure out what I need to do.  Suggestions are welcome.

The two of us have decided that we are getting out of this money blackhole we call a house.  Its not that the house is falling apart or anything, it is that we are tired of financially supporting those who promised to pay their share on time, when money is due, but have failed to uphold that end of the bargain.  It is sad when those around you decide to treat you not as friends, but as landlords or utility companies.  It is fine if you don’t feel like paying a bill for two or three months, but when you fuck with our future, our credit, there is a line to be drawn.  That is essentially the crux of the problem.  The only people we know in this area, our friends, have not been treating us as friends and that I cannot stand.  I’m not a complete hardass.  I understand that people come on hard times and they don’t make as much money as they would normally, but Lexy supported this house when she didn’t have a job and nobody thought to say, “Hey, let me help take some of that burden.  Let’s share the responsibilities of this house.”  I told many this when we first moved in.  These situations destroy friendships much faster that natural erosion and that is exactly what happened.  My will and want to help other people has plummeted.  Lexy and I have helped keep people afloat in this house with no reciprocation that I just don’t see them as friends anymore.  Really, I see them as people I can’t wait to get out of my life, and that really saddens me.

Yes, the lease on this house is not up yet, but the landlord has been very accommodating and we have a plan that will keep him in a rent check.  The next step is to get a hold of him and present it.  I will keep you updated.

So, Lexy and I have decided to bid adieu to this house, and thus our Warrensburg friends, in favor of a place, hopefully, in Odessa, MO.  The idea is that Odessa is between where Lexy works and where we go to school.  It will also be beneficial to be closer to KC when I go in for the interviews at the Apple Store.

That’s right, I have an interview at the Apple Store in KC.  Actually, I have two more interviews.  I did the phone interview on Friday and am fairly certain that I did extremely well.  Now I have a “group” interview, which I’m not sure what that means, but if I get through that, then I go on to the one-on-one interview.  The idea that was set up by the interviewer over the phone is that I will start as a Mac Specialist as part-time and move on to a Creative position when I can start working full-time.  I am super excited to have an even remote opportunity to work for Apple in really any capacity.

That’s is pretty much a rehashing of everything that is happening in my life right now.

Maybe I read too much

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Anthony Thompson
on September 22, 2007
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Into things, that is. Maybe I bitch too much about my life and how it’s being lived around me. Well, if I didn’t talk about my life, I would most likely be less interesting than I am now. Imagine that. Me. LESS interesting. Wow. Hard to imagine.

Anywhoo. I found out tonight that I’m not the kind of person that my friends would want even to have a drink with. Yup. Apparently I’m not the kind of person who could just drink and chill out. No, apparently I’m the kind of person who would want to talk about “things” when I drink.

You know what? I haven’t had a conversation with ANYONE in this house since we moved in. In fact, every time I’m home, people are gone. Every time I’m away, people are at home. I’m not saying people are trying to avoid me. Its just that I like hanging out with the people I live with and I never do. I haven’t even had a decent conversation with my best friend. I’m not saying we have to talk about drama shit or any of that (though I know there is a lot of that on his mind), but, a decent mind-exercising conversation would be nice. Apparently it has something to do with how he thinks I perceive his manhood or that he’s a failure or some shit. I don’t know, its all fucked up and funny. I’ve noticed that he has become much more of a douchebag and an asshole since some shit happened. Its fine if you are trying to be funny once and a while, but holy crap cracker, sometimes people actually like being around a decent human being once and a damn while. I’m really starting to get pissed off about it. It really sucks living with a person who doesn’t give a shit about you or insults you and everyone around you constantly.

Which brings me to another topic. I’ve noticed that there is an awful lot of humor-at-expense going on around here. Mostly directed at Lexy. Thursday night was really bad. I was getting upset about it, it was so bad. Apparently it was “make fun of Lexy” night all night until people decided they had better places to be. That really makes for a comfortable living environment. “Let me make fun of you until I decide I’m tired of being around you.” “It’s so funny that something grotesquely embarrassing happened to you, even though it’s really mean.” No “I’m sorry that happened to you.” No “those people were so mean.” Nothing like that. Only a, “tell everyone else what happened to you that was so funny.” I don’t think it was funny. I think it was embarrassing and of low character; however, apparently terrible things happening to people are funny. That makes me think that maybe *eating cheese is funny*. Maybe I’ll start making jokes about it. That’d be great. I mean, it’s a terrible thing that’s happening to the two of you, so it must be fucking funny, right? I don’t want to live in that kind of house and hopefully you don’t either.

It really hasn’t been all that great living here. I mean, it has had its fun times, but overall, it’s been draining. I can’t hang out with my friends because they are either all not here or being a complete dick. There is only so much TV and video games can do for me to keep me occupied. I can’t rightly go out and make new friends because when I try that, it becomes so painfully obvious how much people don’t really like me. Either that or they don’t get my jokes. I tried to be funny and open and spriteful at a presentation I gave in a class and the reaction was one of bored crickets. I’ve moved past my belief that there is some sort of conspiracy. That was bogus. I think I’ve settled on the idea that I’ve moved in with the wrong type of people. People who, when I am removed, get along and have fun. Now, when you add me back in, I become this monster that one must please in order for there to fun of any kind or the fun all happens in secret. That isn’t exactly true, but the feeling is there.

So, remember. When I’m watching TV or playing a video game, usually its because I have nothing better to do. I have no place to go. I have no people to see. I live with the only friends that I have ready access to (JC friends are not considered readily accessible) and they’re usually not here to hang out with. Then at the end of the day when Lexy asks me to go do something with her, I am so depressed from a day of doing nothing with nobody, that I just can’t see the point in doing anything. It isn’t anyone else’s fault for that, I know. Only I am responsible for how I feel, but sometimes (regardless of what the professor of my Interpersonal Comm class says) you can’t help but feel how you feel.

There you go. Another entry where I bitch about what its like to live in this house.

Ode to Drama

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on September 16, 2007
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I FUCKING HATE DRAMA!!!  There has been so much god damned drama in the past week… I am so tired of it.  All this shit going on.  Most other people think that it doesn’t involve me.  Well.  It does.  I live here too.  I have to listen to people either slam doors, kick shit around, be a complete bitch or asshole either to me or someone else, or any combination thereof.  Frankly, I’m tired of it.  I went through a very severe and difficult bit of drama a couple of months before moving into this house.  I don’t want any of this crap anymore.  I’m not really at liberty to talk about any of this, mostly because I don’t feel like talking about it.  Let us just suffice to say that I really am tired of living in a house where I am looked over because of all the shit going on between people.  Yeah, I know, it sounds rather selfish, but you must realize that I hardly ever get to see anyone I’m living with.  I moved in with all of these people because they were my friends.  Now, with my class schedule and working, I get home at 7pm, which apparently is let’s-go-out-and-get-drunk time.  I’m serious, like every night, half this house comes stumbling home drunk from the bar… after I’ve gone to bed.  That is probably an exaggeration, but still, it’s a lot.  I never say anything to people because I don’t want their frustration with what’s been going on to be directed at me.  So, anyway, I get home at seven and the house is (generally) empty except for the two other people who get up and go to work early in the morning.  This is my whole damn week.  Then Friday rolls around and everyone either is at work or out doing something else.  So, I’m stuck at home, not really doing anything, watching TV, playing video games, et cetera until I get tired and go to bed.  It wasn’t so bad until all this fucking drama started up.  It still wasn’t bad when one couple broke up and they kinda kept it under wraps.  Then the other couple broke up and then there was some brief crisscrossing.  Even after that was over, it made for a rather stressful and unhappy house.  I argue that it still does.  Then compound this with the fact that Lexy and I are getting married in a shade under three weeks.  Yeah.  Stress.  It sucks a huge cock.  I sit here and try to tell myself, “This isn’t any of your business.”  This has kind of been my mantra for several days now, but its a failed mantra.  Every time I tell myself that it isn’t my business, my own brain counters with, “You have to live with these people.”  Personally, I think my brain a rather smart fellow who knows what he’s talking about.  So, when he comes up with a good point like that, I naturally agree with him.

Now, you could definitely argue that I could just stay out of all of this shit and just be all Zen about it.  There is a problem with that.  I’m the kind of person who cares about his friends.  Not that I’m saying that other people don’t.  No, what I’m saying is that I like giving little nuggets of advice to people.  Unfortunately my advice nugget warehouse hasn’t had that many withdrawals, but that’s another deal entirely that I have already bitched about.

I have turned out to be a rather observant person over these last few months.  I have made certain conclusions from the thin evidence that I was given that have turned out to not only be true, but really true.  I’m talking dead on educated guesses here.  I have missed a couple of things, but there are good explanations for those that I will not go into in order to protect the *ahem* innocent.

*Sigh*  I wish my life worked out so I could go to Independence on Wednesday or Thursday and get some Buffalo Wild Wings and a movie.

I really do think this whole moving into a house with five other people was possibly the worst decision we’ve made.  I hate moving.  Now it appears that with all the shit recently, we get to move again in a year.  I hate this shit.  So fucking much.  If I’d stuck with Computer Engineering, I never would have been in this situation.  That one decision.  Such an idiot I am.

What have I done?

C’mon people.

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on September 14, 2007
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I read this article and you know what went through my head? Here it is, “You stupid fucking people!” Here’s what really gets me.

The 6,707-word terms and conditions document on the AT&T Web site says: “Substantial charges may be incurred if phone is taken out of the U.S. even if no services are intentionally used.”

Kliegerman said said most people don’t read the lengthy terms and conditions. Furthermore, the rate plans listed on the site indicate “unlimited data (Email/Web),” without an asterisk. He said that’s misleading.

I’m more than certain that the contract you sign to get an iPhone says a lot of the same stuff as that. You don’t blindly sign a contract if you were buying a house or car, do you? Well, if you do, you are an idiot. If you can go to jail for doing something you didn’t know was illegal, the same principle applies here. Ignorance is never an excuse. Apple should just tell their customers that they should have read the Terms and Conditions. Period.

So, what should people do to prevent these huge bills? Get an international data plan. Then, if you only go out of the country once in a few years, get it on your account before you leave and take it off when you get back. Boom, problem solved.

Don’t be a stupid consumer.  Get educated.  Learn what you’re buying and getting into.  If you do that, you’ll never get screwed by your own ignorance.  I do realize that there are times when you just get screwed no matter what you do, but that isn’t your issue.  That’s when you fight the company, but this situation of people not understanding the terms of their contract with AT&T, that is their own fault and AT&T should demand the full total of bill.

I am ruthless against stupid consumers.  I should be in management.

Sigh again

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on September 9, 2007
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So, I realize that it has been a loooong time since my last entry here.  There is actually a couple of good reasons for that.  The first and foremost, I started classes again this semester and I am working as a math tutor.  The gig is pretty sweet and I do enjoy it, so there’s that.  The second reason is that we have moved into a new house.  We are living here with five other people.  The house is nice and big so there is plenty of room.  We also got Dish for our television and I am happy about that.  Granted, the tech needs to come out here and finish the job, but hopefully that will be done tomorrow.

So, I’m living in a house with a lot of other people.  Yeah.  It’s going great for the most part.  I am fairly certain that I am the least liked person in the house, but that’s just my theory.  Oh well.

My parents gave us quite a bit of stuff for the house.  I am greatly appreciative of it.  They gave us a lawnmower that we need to test and see if it is hos enough to deal with the lawn.  They gave us some water hoses, two sprinklers, quick release hose fittings, and a water timer for the yard.  They taught me how to take care of the water softener.  My Dad even gave us a deadbolt and new door handle for the back door.  He even keyed them both to our house key.  To me this seems like a wealth of stuff to just give to someone, even if they are your son.  Mike gave me easily over a thousand dollars of RG6 coaxial cable, various fittings, and other such items for free.  Now we can wire up the other two bedrooms with satellite/cable outlets for free.  My roommates?  They don’t appear to care.  My parents and Mike make this nice gesture and I get nothing out of anyone else living here.  I’m not asking for a ticker-tape parade, but at least some kind of acknowledgment for the generosity would be nice.  How am I supposed to care about a clear hot tube when nobody cares about all the FREE shit I’m getting and finding for the house?  Maybe my standards are too high.  I don’t know.

Now it turns out that Dave might be getting deployed to the Balkans in a year or so.  To me, this sounded like I would have to move again.  I said so and I got this “your a fucking moron” attitude from Dave.  Now, when someone expects me to know the intricate workings of military deployment, I get more than a little annoyed.  Especially when you raspberry at me and tell me I’m wrong.  No, I don’t know how that shit works, but to me it doesn’t make any sense to pay for a place you’re not living in.  So, yeah he’ll still be getting paid, but why would he pay for his portion of the house when he isn’t living in it?  Now he’s pissed at me for not asking him to help me replace the door handle and deadbolt on the back door.  I don’t fucking know anymore.  It seems like whenever I do something, I end up being the bad guy.

Fuck, I’m tired.  I’m gonna see what’s recorded on the DVR and go to bed.

Oh my, MS

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on August 7, 2007
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It appears that Microsoft just cannot make up their mind as to whether or not to stop raping their customers.  As all of you may know, I was an early adopter of the Xbox 360, getting one at launch and feeling all proud of myself for jumping on a brand new technology.  Oh, how I was duped.  First they release the Elite 360.  A nice, black 120Gb HDD Xbox 360 with HDMI output.  Now, I find out that they are very likely going to be releasing the Core and Premium versions with… HDMI output.  That means that my 360 (which is a Premium 360) will be very much out of date.  I am soooooooo fucking angry.  You know what this means, right?  Always wait at least two years before buying a new console.

Apparently Sony and Microsoft cannot spend the time and money to make a good product from the beginning.  No, they have to fucking keep adding shit to it that cannot be added onto previous versions of their console.  I am actually happy (so far) with my PS3 because all of the system addons done to it have been through free software updates.  The newer, cheaper PS3s, I’m not sad that I don’t have because it actually uses software emulation for an operation that my PS3 has a specific chip for.  That means my PS3 is more reliable on that end.  However, Microsoft.  Oh my.  They are a decent company, but goddamn, they rape their customers.  When the Elite was released, I thought to myself, “It’s ok.  It has a 120Gb HDD.  That’d be nice, but I don’t need it.  The HDMI would be nice, but the console’s a little more expensive.”  Now that the basic 360s are probably going to be released with HDMI, I am just so angry.  What are they going to do about customers; good customers who paid them money to get their shitty HD DVD player fixed?  I will email Microsoft and see about this HDMI rumour and see about getting my 360 replaced.  Keep tuned to this post as I will post updates to it.

Why am I so angry?

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on July 31, 2007
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I was sitting here having a chat with Adam (a very short chat) and started thinking, You know, this shit with John has really fucked me over on friends.  I told Adam that I am thinking about starting to play Warhammer 40k as the Daemonhunters and all I got was a “right on.”  Now, I wasn’t expecting a party, but maybe a little interest would have been nice.  I mean, he immediately changed the subject to himself and his car and how it doesn’t have a good bumper or good speakers…  Ok.  I just couldn’t get interested in that.  How can I be interested in someone who doesn’t express interest in me?  What does this have to do with John?  I really think that Adam and Steve are starting to think that maybe John was onto something by removing me from his life.  It seems that I’m not part of any serious conversations anymore.  I tried to talk to Steve about this stuff with John and he just changed the subject.  I can understand him not being comfortable talking about that stuff, especially since he is good friends with John.

I think I was set off on this anger spiral by Adam’s comment to a note on Facebook written by Sarah.  I really don’t have any reason to be angry.  Maybe I didn’t like the apparent tone of Adam’s comment.  Maybe I don’t like how Adam appears (to me) to dismiss Sarah when Adam wants something.  Maybe I’m wrong.  I don’t know.  Not anymore.

Sometimes I get overly sensitive.  I need to stop dwelling on myself.  It’s kind of hard to do though.  I’m living with someone who straight up lied to my face for several months.  I was best friends with someone who actually hates me and will talk shit about me at any opportunity.  It’s really hard not to take things personally when you have friends like that.  I need to work on that.

That reminds me of a commercial that I saw about friends of people with a mental illness.  I’m not saying that I have a mental illness because I’m not into that whole create a new condition for every minor annoyance.  Sometimes I wish I had friends as supportive and interested as the guys in that commercial.  I know people like that exist because I’ve seen it.

God damn, I bitch a lot.  How do you stop thinking thoughts that automatically pop into your head?  *sigh*

Once upon a time.

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on May 29, 2007
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Yeah.  I’m going to filter this entry.  What of it?

I hope John and Holly are happy.  They have completely removed my desire for anything.  I guess this happens when you loose a close friend over something so stupid.  Of course, I mean stupid referring to what I said in a couple of voice messages I left on John’s phone.  Everyone tells me that I should just get over it and move on.  That I should work on removing John as a friend.  I can’t do that.  I go to bed every night extremely sad because another day has gone by and I still haven’t received a call from John.

I even contemplated suicide.  Thinking, “That would show them what happens when you don’t forgive someone.”  Writing the suicide note that explicitly says it was their fault.  Then I realized that I have other friends that would be sad.  Not to mention Lexy.  I like to think that she would be so pissed that she would follow me into whatever afterlife there is just to kick my ass.  Dave and Natasha, Adam, Steve, my parents, other members of my family.  I think Dawn might be sad too, but you’d never guess it since she’s never home.  ;)  Ok, maybe I should let up on those “Dawn’s never home” jokes.  She has other people besides us.

Taking your own life for someone who wouldn’t care is definitely not worth it.

I do have Dave.  He’s always been an awesome guy and it sometimes makes me feel bad that I’ve looked him over in the past year.  I don’t think he thinks about that anymore, or whether he ever did, I don’t know.   All I know now is Dave is a better friend.  He understands that when I get pissed, that if he just gives me time to cool down, then we cool.  I think John had that too, but I think Holly might have convinced him otherwise.

Not that Holly is a bad person, she is trying to protect herself and her husband.  I can’t blame her for that.

I have been getting better about controlling my temper.  I don’t get upset at people as often, but a person’s past can definitely come back to haunt them.  That’s what happened between me and John and Holly.  I suddenly, for one reason or another, was asked to carry too much without an answer from those two and I broke.  I think what did it was that they were more than happy to tell other people the problems they had with us, but never us.  Things could have been so much better with communication.  I don’t know how many times I need to apologize.  I doubt it ever did any good.  I would love to just sit down with the two of them and explain everything.  That will never happen, though.  At this point the conversation is passive.  Kind of like TV.

I hope the pain will go away.

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So… MS did shaft me.

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on March 28, 2007
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They officially announced the Xbox 360 Elite.  I’m sooooooooo mad.  I don’t care about the 120 GB HDD.  I don’t care about the upscaling.  I do care about the HDMI.  I have an HD-DVD add on and I want my motherfucking 1080p from HD-DVDs.  Let me buy a new video cable and a new HDD.  I don’t care.  I went HD because of my 360.  I bought TWO HDTVs because of that console.  How do they reward me?  With a third SKU of Xbox 360.  I hate you Microsoft.  Why would you hate your customers so much?  Fuck you.