Summerslam

Yup, I saw Summerslam. Basically J suggested it that day, so we went to see it after doing our usual Sunday shopping. The best match was the Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio, not just for the work and bumps they took, but there was also a good emotional impact. For all the weeks leading up to the Summerslam, and they were trying to build it up, I was just rolling my eyes, and really not paying attention to the trash talk. But their ring performance did more to illustrate and tell the pain of losing a child than all their speeches could. Benoit winning the match that quick was really wierd. I don't think that was supposed to happen. But at least Benoit has a title.

HBK really is one of the best workers out there. He was selling Hogan so much, Hogan only had to lift his foot, and HBK would fly into it. I really don't think the crowd gave HBK the props they should've for all the work he did. HBK was always one of my favourite wrestlers. Ever since the Rockers hit the WWF, I've had a thing for him. When he first turned heel, kicking Marty Jannetty into the glass on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's show, I was really upset and mad at him. And I was confused about the whole sexual innuendo with Scary Sherri. (What can I say, I was an innocent in a lot of things) And for a year I drifted away from the WWE. But I saw when they created DX and that was sooooo awesome. For me, that's when you actually saw the people behind the personas and people were allowed to be themselves, instead of some caricature. Course I was super sad when he retired, and elated when he returned. I'd hoped they'd pick up the HBK-HHH relationship, but alas. I'm not sure why he became a born-again Christian, I don't think the Playgirl spread was anything to be ashamed of. (Yes, I do have that issue. Actually my only issue of Playgirl) I'm not any religion except "not Christian"(kudos to D for coming up w/ that) so Shawn bringing that into his wrestling really wigs me out. I understand Chris Jericho is also of the same persuasion, but I don't remember seeing that huge of an emphasis by him like HBK does.

Anyways as for Batista powerbombing JBL into the stairs. Wow, JBL sure takes a lotta bumps.

HRD

I'm sure everyone's had their fair share of problems with the Human Resources Dept, if they have one that is. In my job, we do have a special office set up for them. A nice little posh area. And when we go in for help, they tell us to go to the website for Human Resources. Not just for info on policies and benefits but for -everything-. You want a letter of employment? Go on HRD. Don't work here anymore so login doesn't work? Too bad, and that is the god-honest truth that they told someone that. Yes, they are a bunch of a**holes. When we were in our managerial training, one of our biggest beefs was the people at HR. They're just a joke to us.

So now they're not printing out our paystubs anymore and want us to view it online. Ok, fine save the trees and all. But the website will not load properly on anything other than IE. So risking viruses, keyloggers, trojans I open up my IE. Well, now the paystub won't load either. Try to send back feedback. Instead of a handy form you can fill out, they've decided to set up a Java-based message board. Which after waiting 2 min for it to load (and I have cable modem, and it's in the middle of the night), it finally shows me something. Well nice to see that I'm not the only one w/ this problem. Have to double click on a topic to read it. No way to get to next message in the thread other than going back. Great, doesn't show me which message I read or even get me back to where I was in the message board. I have to remember who I read and re-find the topic again. And right now, it's displaying nothing. Literally, it has that kinda ghost image from my other pages which I click on the window, I can see what I'm typing on this window in the other window in the area where the Java is.

And I'm sure if I go to them asking for paper stubs, they'll tell me to print it off the website. Our company underwent a good lopping off the top(lots of operation managers were laid off) and if there's one dept that needs trimming, it's HR. Useless f*ckwads.

Animethon Summary

Typing this while watching RAW.

That was cool to see Benjamin and Angle wrestle, the whole pupil-teacher thing. I'm not sure what they're doing w/ Chavo's character, but it's ... controversial. I guess if a Latino says it, it's ok? Benjamin's awesome and I wish they'd push him more. Now that Cena's champ, it shouldn't be a prob for matches but I guess a face-face match wouldn't be that interesting.

So here's my report on Animethon, or at least how I experienced Animethon. Showed up @ H's house at 8 in the morning. Ended up not leaving her place until about 9 b/c she was showing me her dirty pictures of Aragorn and Boromir. Since I was going to working at Animethon in the dealer's room, I needed to get a pass to get in and out, so went thru the back to talk w/ my employer. H came with me, and we basically snuck in even though I wasn't working the Saturday. Stayed in the Dealer's room for about 3 hrs b/c we weren't sure if we could get back in. Went to lunch at Eastbound, and then saw the Naruto movie "Dai Katsugeki!! Yuki Hime Shinobu Houjou Datte Bayo!". It wasn't bad, but really felt like an OVA. Didn't get to see the movie short though :( I wish Sakura was able to show her ability more, she was fairly crafy but not crafty enough. Sasuke really outsmarted her. H had to go home, so stayed outside talking for about an hour. Then ran in to watch "Kannaduki no Miko" Was in the back, when I saw J and M walk in, I did a little wave and I dont' know if he saw me, or actually wasn't interested in what was on the screen but he turned around and left. Which was like "What the f--?! Whatever, I don't wanna sit next to him anyways" Wasn't too impressed w/ the anime, I'm really sick of the genki useless airhead that seems to attract everyone. She had no personality. I was sort interested in seeing her gf react to the boy rescuing everytime, but not that interested. Met my A, T, W in there, and we went to the room of mystery. Saw "Club to Death Dokura-chan" which was awesome. Brutally funny, ecchi and sweet, shows what happens to the angels that you don't hear about :D Had some $4 pizza(per slice!) and then went home.

Snitsky and toes... well everyone's got their thing.

The next day I showed up at Animethon at 10, and worked all day until 7. Only had an hour to get lunch, and basically gave back my paycheque since I spent almost $100 @ C&L Multimedia, and I got paid $120. It was kinda funny when I was working b/c even when we were setting up, and I was dressed in a white shirt w/ shortalls, organizers would come up to me and start asking me things. Then when I was working, and I was doing the cash, everyone would come up to me, and ask me about getting deals, where the store was, and all kinds of things, and treating me as if I ran it. Which I guess I kinda did b/c I'd tell the other people to hand out the biz cards and straighten out the shelves a bit as they got emptied. It must just be my experience working at Superstore as an assistant supervisor. It was fun, even though J said I had my "work face" on which is usually "I'm busy so ask me quick". Yes J was there.

I don't think the white hair makes Bischoff look any older.

So on the Friday, there was going to be party for C, and it was going to be at 7. And set up for C&L was supposed to go from 3-6. So plenty of time right? Except the C&L guy was late, gym wasn't ready, but I still left at 6. But J was acting all bitchy and it was at the party where I made the crack about running off to BC w/ H. So we were watching MST3000, and after that crack, he didn't laugh for at least 1/2 hour, he was so f*cked in the head.

Sweet, Tori and Candice just kicked Ashley's ass. I'm so used to Tori being a face. I still miss Trish. And Victoria was briefly back as a heel, but w/o Trish, there's no competition.

So on Sunday, when I was working at the booth, J comes thru, and he sorta looks at me as if he expects me to spit in his face or something. Of course I ring the purchase thru b/c 1) I'm professional 2) I'm not that petty. And then when there was a break in the lineup b/c everyone was watching the demostrations, he comes by and goes "I'm sorry about Friday, I was being a jerk." Gee, talk about a captive audience, like I could leave the booth. And I sure as hell couldn't swear or do anything, so I was like "whatever, fine" And I don't know if he was trying to do his best hang-dog impression or what, but basically we confirmed that we were going to do something the next day. But the next day... I laid it out for him.

I told him that I don't like him always putting his hand on my back, especially when I'm browsing and he starts putting his hand there and rubbing it up and down. I used to let him give me backrubs b/c my job was a back-killer but the amount of pressure he was using when we were shopping was not a "therapeutic touch." I showed H once what he did, and she was sooo creeped out. And he's like "I thought you like backrubs." And yes, I actually had to explain the difference. Oh, so I had to tell him that I don't do hugs. Wait... this feels like deja vu. *reading thru old posts* Ah, here's one in Nov and Dec. I know this was the 2nd time I've had to tell him that I don't do hugs. Oh, and I had to tell him all this in the middle of the store, b/c there we were again, shopping in our favourite comic book store, and I look at manga, he looks at manga, I look at comics, he looks at comics, I look at gaming books, there he is again. I'm whipping around the store, and he's just following me. Then I did the stupid thing and picked up a book to look at, and there he comes up behind me, and there goes his hand.

And now he's acting all petty and treating me like shit. And I really shoulda taken him up on his offer to break off our friendship, but f-ck I'm too nice, and I'd feel guilty if he did something to himself, which he claims he's gotten over, but I know it's just lip to not have him committed. But you know, that guilt is quickly going away.

Damn, Cena won. Wow, Jericho really has blue eyes. Boy, can Jericho grovel. Awwww. poor Jericho. Well Smackdown does need a boost. Oooh, Angle's kicking Cena's ass. Cool. Now there's a guy who can get things done. Angle is sooo intense.

A Friend Indeed...

So on Saturday I had a party for my friend H b/c she was going to Korea for a year. I invited a lot of people, and a bunch said they would come, but inevitably only a couple showed up, so there were a couple empty seats at the restaurant. But we had a lot of fun and got a lot of dirty looks from the other patrons b/c we were loud and uninhibited in our topic discussions.

Now in one of my earlier posts, I'd written how my "friend" J had called me and then my phone died, and it took me about 10 min to call him back b/c I was answering another call on my house phone. So I found out why he wanted to know what I was doing on Saturday. One of our mutual friends M was turning 18 later this month, and he'd wanted a party before he went back to school. No one had a set time for when the party would be. So since he never said anything to me the day after when I saw him, it was like whatever, maybe he just wanted to get together to do something as an apology for being such an a$$hole or b/c it's his needy-compulsive nature that he wanted to spend time w/ me. Seriously he's jealous that I'm spending a day out w/ my other friends when for about 2 years, I would spend about 4 hrs hanging out at his house after work 5 days out of the week. And I've known him for about 10 years now. Anyways, around Friday he wanted to get his gaming books back. Well, whatever, they're his books, even though we hadn't gamed for ages. So on Friday night when he drops me off at home, he's like "Say bye to H for me, cause I probably won't see her before she leaves." So okay, whatever and when I told H, she was like "you didn't invite him?" And I give her this look, and her husb from the front seat was said"Why would she want to?" And H said "good point."

So I see J today, and he just casually mentions that he had a b-day party for M on Saturday. Well thanks a fu(king lot since he knew I had a present for M, and since another mutual friend C was going to be there, I could've gave C his present from his B-day b/c it was coming in the mail at the time. And he starts talking that they did gaming, and M bought himself a PS2 and had lots of fun. Well since he's rubbing it in and shit, I didn't want to seem all upset, so I didn't react. And later in the day, M got thrown out of his house by his dad, so we were trying to find a place for him to stay since he was already kicked out by his mom to his dad's. So I'm like, "well he might be able to stay at my house if he's really quiet so my dad doesn't know." And J goes "Well it shouldn't be your problem b/c he's my friend" Now that's just fu*king insulting. So if I don't hang out w/ someone 24/7 it shouldn't mean that I'm not a friend anymore. What a fuc*ing joke. At least I know what he considers a friend. He's just like Tad in the Season Finale for Queer as Folk. Just b/c Ted when acted friendly towards the bartender and Emmet, Tad accused him of being a slut and goes all ballistic. And then later Tad comes by all sorry and thinks it's all ok. And of course Tad started isolating Ted from his friends.

Speak of QAF, I took the calibrator quiz, and the first time I was like Emmet, which is wierd b/c I'm not flamboyant, and when I took it again, I was Ted. But unlike Ted, I'm not desperately looking for a partner. Then again, I'm not 39 either.

this really is an online diary and reminder list

Just looking thru some of my old entries why waiting for the post to publish. Apparently in May, I wrote that I needed to dust my desk. Yeah, so I finally did it the other day. However this time on my vacation, I accomplished a lot more. Animethon was happening and I actually worked there instead. C&L Multimedia came to the convention and were looking for help and I worked there. Earned $120 which meant in net total I only spent around $50. But I also missed some sweet deals on manga. That's ok, have lots to read anyways.

I need to take a shower, I'll write more about my holiday, since lots of stuff happened, which I want to remember.

A lesson in Microbiology

So my brother had a party on the weekend,and he bought 2 fruit platters. Now the last time he bought a fruit platter for a party, the leftovers sat there for 2 days and then I ate about 6-8 pieces every night until it was gone. Then my dad bitched at me about being a pig, and hogging all the good stuff for myself. So this time I didn't touch the leftovers until tonight. Which is about...5 days after the party. And no one has even opened it until now. So what do I find among the grapes. strawberries, watermelon, canteloupe, honeydew melon, and pineapple? Fuzzy mold growing on the grapes, spreading to the strawberries, possessing the pineapple and contaminating the canteloupe. The honeydew had a possible spot and the watermelon looked ok. So I picked off 2 watermelon and 2 honeydew. I tried the canteloupe but it tasted bitter so I spat it out. Well what a wonderful waste of nutrients, grower's hard work, and $9 Cdn. Did I throw it out? Nope, because if they wanna bitch at me about eating the food, then here's the f*cking reason why food needs to be eaten soon. Label said it was best before Aug 13.

Speaking of my dad being a dumb@ss, he always lectures me on being fat (aside from other sh!t that I've mentioned) and then it's always at the dinner table when there's a drumstick left or whatever, he'll tell me to eat it. And so I go "I'm full, you eat it." and he acts all pissed off. And then wraps it as leftovers for next dinner. Yumm, food that's been reheated 5 times. For some reason, I usually don't eat at home at the same time as the rest of them, and if I have to, I'm usually sitting in front of the TV instead of the dinner table.

Ohmigod!

So I went into my email program cause I need to send an email to to one of my friends about the party, and lo and behold, I have comments! Comments!!... wow... It's so cool... It's so weird. I didn't think anyone would find my little blog in the morass of live journals, blogs or just personal websites. Yeah, I was squealing like Woody Allen... on helium! Yup purty darn exciting! So I guess I'm going to get fired for all the stuff I wrote about work. Heh heh. Actually there's a whole message board dedicated to how much the company sucks. But anyways, thank you so much for reading! I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!! ;P So will Sally Field be remembered for anything other than that quote? Hah!

Damn, HBK just interfered in the match btwn Angle-Hogan and I didn't see how. Ah, sharpshooter! But Hogan's knees are too gimpy to bend! Michaels nearly falls on his face trying to turn him over!! Well, that was fun. What happened to Angle? Shoulda had Angle trashing Hogan too. The best submission was when Angle was doing the Ankle Lock and Chris Benoit was doing the Crippler Crossface. Don't remember who the poor jobber was, but that was totally nasty-cool. What's with those T-shirts being torn that way? Where they basically take off the sleeves and the sides of the shirt so it's like a poncho thing. It doesn't look good guys. I don't care if it's easier to take off, it's just silly.

Well, Daily Show was funny w/ Steve Carrell on. It's a lost art to get people to laugh when all you do for 5 min is just look at each other. I don't remember if I've mentioned Daily Show before, but it really one of my primary news sources, aside from CBC and reports from BBC. It's certainly less biased than CNN, and has more intelligence than ... CNN. CNN's just always on the TVs in the lunchroom, so I'm really sick of it.

Mondays

So I'm watching Monday Night Raw, and they had the Eugene Invitational. Now Eugene was kinda fun when he first came out, the whole underdog thing, but when he got Kurt's gold, and started cheating, then it just got stupid. I never liked that whole thing where when he hits his head on the turnbuckle, he'll start going all beserk. They really shouldnt' have had him cheat. Now I can't wait for Kurt to get his medals back. Wrestling's gotten kinda stupid. Smackdown is such a waste of time, I'm totally on the computer w/ smackdown. There's so many commercials and people just yapping, that there's only like 3-4 matches in 2 hrs. It's cool to see HBK as a heel again. I hate Hulk Hogan. I'm really not sure what to say about Jericho going heel.

Anyways, my friend H's going to be leaving for Korea soon, so I'm planning a going away party for her and trying to spend as much time as I can w/ her. Except stupid J got all jealous. No really. He's acting like a little wussy, and acts all pissed off when I say I'm going to do something with her. Shit, he was acting like such a little shit that the last time he asked me what I was doing with H, I told him that we're running off to BC to get married. And it was like instant silence, then he goes all monotone and says "that's funny, so what are you doing?"

Hell, he just called me to ask what I was doing this Saturday and my phone died. But does he call me back when I get my phone on the charger? Nooooooo. Elapsed time btwn dropped call and getting the charger: 1 min. So after I finished talking w/ A for 10 min who just called me on my house phone, I tried calling him on his cell, and either his phone is off or he's talking w/ someone. Well whatever bitch,I've got other things to do.

Rebellion!!!... well it is for me

So I go on vacation on Thursday, and I had today off, which means I have to go in for 1 freakin day. It's not a long vacation, almost a week, but gawd do I need it. The other day I was ready to walk out of work because they have this stupid statistic that they want everyone to fulfill, and I was just 20 sec over its tolerance. But I've seen other people been placed in the shathouse for just missing the stupid thing. It just so p!ssed me off, especially when I'd been trying to meet the f*cking target. But it's not like my supervisor's been a hardcase about it, but still the thought that such a tiny little number would affect me, just threw me off. It's just been so annoying, and makes me sooo angry. And the stupid SLR program that they had in place, well from the looks of all things, it seems that they're going to eliminate it. It's been well over 2 months that it's been suspended, and they haven't given us anything to do and any word on it. And they've been removing our access levels. Production minutes my butt. Any excuse to shaft us. One of us was placed into a "corrective action program" and accused of call avoiding. And then when it was closed, he was scheduled to take over a certain duty, but then a day later, he was removed from the schedule. I even had a dream about answering calls. Argh!!!!

So I'd been so upset about everything, and obviously it doesn't matter how good you are, just how much you suck up to people, that I decided to f*ck the manners, and do something radical. Well radical for me anyways. I coloured my hair. It's not an offbeat colour like pink or platinum blonde, but a red that's lighter than my natural highlights. I know lots of people colour their hair, but I've had completely virgin hair for about 8 years. And when I say virgin, I mean it hasn't gotten anything more harsh than dandruff-shampoo. It's pretty much the epitome of healthy hair. So major props to my friend H for helping me with it and doing all the work with bleaching and colouring it. Now I just have to get all the colour off my neck.

So I'd heard that Koyasu Takehito and Seki Tomokazu got together. Literally. That's what H told me, and I was like, no way! Seki-san is such a porn freak(well when your favourite actress is Traci Lords...), and Koyasu-san is married. This I've got to look up