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Describing my immediate surroundings towards the beginning and a twist to the tale or possible solutions to issues towards the end of some blogs and how they relate to my expectations of the world at large.

  • 20101111-Tweaking Again

    Tonight, I tweaked my paid CSS upgrade to “hide” the “visibility” of the “navigation” element and replaced that element with a descriptive content about this site. This appears on the upper right hand corner of the blog. I know the descriptive “tagline” about this blog already appears as a “short” version below the “site title” but I  wanted more detail.

    As a result, I removed the “Steira “About” Text widget” and set two static pages to display “Howdy” as the “Front Page” and “Recent posts” as the “Posts Page”. Then I set the “Blog pages show at most” to only one post at a time. This is to keep the blog simple. So this means my WordPress.com site is more like a webpage than a weblog because of the “front page” displays a “static page”. And the traffic will have been decreased because the front/home page is no longer set to my latest posts.
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    Addendum- Last edited by FLYNN on 20101112 at 05:40:41 AM UTC: Forget it. I put everything back – posts as front/home page, top/navigation bar on top and “about this site” widget on the sidebar.

  • Being Served

    I love being served for dinner. Every night after a hard day’s work, the three of us would sit down to the meals cooked by Maw. Some days Paw would prefer food already cooked by others. But Maw’s food is from her heart. Her food feeds her family with love. No wonder we are fat!

    Tonight is no exception. At 7:53am the doorbell rang. It was an old guy with gray hair. He wore dark blue-gray jacket. He had some papers. He tore one page from the stapled stack, handed me the stack and left silently into the night without incident. I was left with my mind saying: “Screw you”. He just did his job for and behalf of TPTB and pals by “screwing me”.

    So with that said: “I hate you all”. What has taken over ten slong years, goes down like that in similar fashion – divorce court, where one side is wronged because of their English words; while the other side feels nothing was done wrong except try to help people.

    This latest wake-up call provided me a glimpse of their usual tears-for-fears tactics (albeit food-for-oil deals) for hapless poor and destitute folks, like moi. TPTB are just waiting to see what shakes out – to get even or to lay low. Well, I believe I’ve been lying down on my back for too slong – don’t you think Pete?

    It’s the vicious cycle of life and debt. The Oroubous won’t stop eating its own tail:- What goes around, comes around! Somehow, I feel the buck as to stop here with moi. Like others per their online complaints, these “mules” have taken up their monetary crosses by these double-crossers, who are behind their government cross-hairs.

    Oh, but these snakes are well prepared to cover their bases. They don’t care because they are heartless, demon-seeds. Oh, I should be more sensitive to these “gifted” liars, who continue their delay or snag tactic, and not label them in such evil ways as their “axis” spins like a merry-go-round. The Oroubous, remember?

    The ones that don’t care, just really do NOT care to loose what isn’t theirs to keep.They are truly blessed. I too am truly blessed for servicing in many ways – the love and comfort of family and the beautiful weather and the health of body and mind.

    But I’ll admit. I am selfish. I don’t know how to give from the heart. Money speaks easier and that’s my greatest fear — to loose everything I believe in and worked hard for and most importantly — the fear of loosing those I love, who go without the essentials in life, such as food, clothing and shelter.

    Do you understand where I’m going with this one, Pete? And who are those guys you mentioned in the past? Are they here in America? You know what I mean! Come on!

    Anyway, and this is what I get in return – being served by their own kinds – what I truly deserve for being a “good Samaritan”. Tonight made me quite fearful and humored that TPTB would dare do that to people like moi. Why don’t you, TPTB and pals, just shut-down the whole system and start over?

    Each of us is worth more than what is printed on pieces of paper. For us slaves, we are just not playing anymore. You can keep your fame and fortune. I prefer to remain anonymous – an Asian with Oreo sentiments.

    You had played by their laws, rules and regulations for too long. But you failed to keep your words – promises and guarantees – which in turn hopefully won’t betray my promises to a fine lad.

    Damn! Besides his good heart, he is good looking, too! If he’s the One you have set me up with, that’s cool! But for how long must I wait before the ball-and-chains tied around my ankles and theirs end up drowning all of us – your “relative” kind? You and they possess “special gifts”, remember?

    This temp job from hell is but a small life preserver for my family and me. And I thank you. But alas, the stock sank today and that’s not good news in the least bit for us INVESTORS!

    That’s right! If George Soros (another fall guy) got your kinds around the neck worldwide, will you have sold yourselves out for the greater good? Gosh, that sounded Communist!

    So I’ll leave that “food for thought” with you and whatever is left of your moral compass. Hope you have a good night’s sleep.

  • Sinking Stocks

    In recent news:

    Stocks sink as Cisco’s outlook disappoints
    By STEPHEN BERNARD, AP Business Writer Stephen Bernard, Ap Business Writer – 1 hr 7 mins ago

    NEW YORK – Stocks tumbled Thursday after a disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems Inc. rattled a market already on edge as an economic summit of world leaders got under way in South Korea.

    “Cisco is clearly a tech benchmark,” said Philip Dow, director of equity strategy at RBC Wealth Management. “With a second disappointment in a row, people are questioning if their business model is broken.” 

    Cisco’s shortfall an omen for rest of tech world
    By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer Jordan Robertson, Ap Technology Writer –
    34 mins ago

    SAN FRANCISCO – A gloomy outlook from Cisco Systems Inc. is shaking some investors’ faith in the strength of the technology industry’s recovery. “The economic environment is still very difficult,” he said.

    “Unemployment remains high. That hasn’t been solved.”He added that “one quarter is too early to call a trend, but it definitely raises a red flag.”

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    Well, there goes my temp job from hell. After all, I work in Silicon Valley.

  • 20101111-Weathery Ways

    The weather is beautiful. The sun is shining brightly and the wind blows colder. There were lots of chemtrails over the airport and the eBay areas. The old and new ‘X-marks’ were made over my temp job from hell. And I took photos at the south and north corners of eBay block and a few more over the construction site where Mike was walking in the opposite direction while talking on his cellphone (again). The sylphs were eating the chemtrails, of course. I took a few more photos of these “light-weight” versions because the prior ones were much “bolder”.

  • Caffeine OD

    So last night, I felt VERY funny. When I came home, I could feel the caffeine buzz in my system. I was jittery all over and my very restless that I dug through boxes of old handbags to replace my brown bag, which I ended up stuffing fuller with two plastic containers – one for the skin and one for comestics.

    The results of my overcharged system that evening was due to my consumption of two mugs of:

    1. FLAVIA “MilkyWay® swirl” – creamy caramel taste and
    2. FLAVIA “expresso roast” – dark, roast, bold & earthy.

    In addition, I drank one mug of Lipton – Green Tea 100% Natural Premium Green Tea.

  • 20101111-Noticing Numbers

    Here are three more images showing numbers of double digits:

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    Addendum-Last edited by FLYNN on 20101111 at 16:58:55 PM UTC: I forgot to add the fourth image!

  • 20101110-Trying Theme

    Based on my “blog stats”, my blogging days are just about over. I can’t find an ideal theme to my satisfaction.

    And as a result I’ve switched WordPress.com theme to: Steira by Made by Elephant – Read more about Steira →.

    The colors are basic white and blue. The sidebar contains only six widgets – four are Steira (“About” Text, Recent Posts, Categories, Recent Comments), one is a “Text widget” and one is the Meta.

    I had to use my paid CSS upgrade to remove the font type – “Arial Narrow”; so now the text is more readable.

    I should “KISS” this WordPress.com theme with pleasure and stuck with the motto:

    “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”

    And that is the appearance of my weblog – simple and stupid.

  • Control Freaks

    “I like control.”

    ~JenJen

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    Well, I’m a worse control freak and fearless, too. I’m reviewing the “shared drives” and cleaned up my folder and one other and deleted some of JenJen’s folders. It’s not logical.

    Anyway, my folder appears right below Erica’s as Flynn. For the real snoopers, the timedate stamp for my spreadsheets indicate how far along I’ve completed each task.

    So those stupid emails inquiring about our completion of each work pisses me off. Just look at the tree of my folder and you will see how I think and operate. This place is full of morons! Sheesh!

  • 20101110-More Spooks

    So that’s how it goes with this damn company. People are finding out information about each other more than necessary. That’s what happened last month. I revealed a lot of personal stuff, which is good because it means they can’t force me to spend what I don’t have! I notice how certain “spooks” are assigned to assess the other person or the temporary workers. That’s what happened with my former micro-manager, Corinne. She’d take us out to lunch at company expense and ask lots of personal questions.

    No wonder Mike can speak a few Filipino words to moi — to gain my confidence. No wonder Steve keeps getting up and following JenJen to either the restroom or mini-lunch room. WTF? No wonder the thugs wearing mostly black clothing wave at JenJen. No wonder gays and lesbians look at me funny. No wonder at least two obviously bald guys walk up and down my aisle. It’s no wonder that this company has outsourced the bulk of its production to HONG KONG! It’s a mostly Asian-based company!

    Do you want to know something? Go screw yourselves, losers! Get a life and stop labeling me! Don’t you get it? I’m an American and don’t have anything do with Asians! That’s right! I hate being Asian! I hate being an Oreo, too – marshmallow goodness on the inside and chocolate sinful on the outside. That’s right! Just because I have dark hair and small, slanted eyes doesn’t mean I’m Asian! Okay, fine! I’m Asian. If it’s easier for you freaks to figure me out – I’m Asian! Get it? Sheesh!

  • 20101109-Tweaking Again

    Out of frustration, I’m nuts! I’ve switched WordPress.com themes again! This time it’s back to: Andreas09 by Andreas Viklund and Ainslie Johnson – A three-column theme with customizable colors and sidebars on the left and right. Read more about Andreas09 →.

    With my paid CSS upgrade, I centered the sitename, removed the hover padding of images with links and added discs to listed items with links, located in the sidebars

    The “Image Colour Settings” is “Striped Purple”. And the top navigation bar is limited to “home” of mostly posts and “contents” of mostly pages. It’s logical and simple. Either the readers will take time to read more or not care at all!

    The sidebars sport my favorite widgets of both “Gravatar” and “Welcome back!” They are on the topmost part of the left and right sidebars, respectively. The “Sticky posts” for my “Howdy” post and its YouTube video and for the “DST disabled” notification are back where they belong – front and center!

    I like this theme because it has timestamps for single views only, two sidebar columns for more widgets, and templates for “Archives” and “Links”. The font size may be small but at least the font color is darker against a lighter background.

    Shall I stay with this theme until something prettier comes along? For now, that’s the plan until I get bored again!

  • 20101109-More Spooks

    En route from the mini-lunch room to my desk, there were two guys that actually looked back and over their right shoulder into my direction:

    Yesterday evening, it was the gay, white guy. He is tall and skinny and definitely walks with a peculiar stride as he sashays to the back door. Just like Josey and moi, he wears his shades over his somewhat balding head. This guy really likes to leave in a hurry and rams open the back door like the more traditional Chinese workers here. I sent him a thought to “chill out, freak!”

    This evening, it was the tanned, Chinese guy. He, too is tall and skinny. For whatever reason, he always look like he sweats. It’s because he plays sports or works out. I don’t know. He always has this smirk on his face as he glances at my desk en route to the back door. I sent him a thought to “shut up, freak!”

    So whatever is going on, I really don’t remember why I’m stuck here with these damn losers and don’t know what I’m supposed to do, except curse TPTB, Pete and pals. As for the rest of you: “Go screw yourselves! Get a life and stop minding my business, freaks!”

  • 20101109-Weathery Ways

    The weather for today and yesterday was wonderful – lots fresh air and cold winds. The sunshine shone brightly. The skies were crispy and blue. Monday’s surprise was the fallen leaves all over the place! The back parking lot was especially littered with colors of brown, gold and orange. A long length of several sylphs appeared near the SJC today, too.

    Yesterday’s lunch walk was fun as I constantly adjusted my matching scarf to my hat from my childhood; tugged at my underwear which kept riding up my pants and knew Mike was following right behind because of his peculiar “high-pitched” voice while talking over the cellphone. He hasn’t been greeting moi all that much. It must have been my effective efforts to severe the reptoid’s imaginary tentacles.

    Like yesterday, I skipped, hopped and kicked some nice leaves in delight as I imagined walking through deeper piles of leaves in the forest. That was actually my first time to enjoy the outdoors and its first yield of dried leaves since my childhood. Today was a little warmer because the winds didn’t blow that much and I’ve recovered a little after a week of feeling sick.

    After my walk yesterday and en route back to work, a white utility van was parked at the opposite end of the cul-de-sac to the back parking lot. Upon my arrival, a brunette-haired lady stepped out of her driver’s side while talking on the phone. I had to cross 50 yards earlier to avoid a confrontation of any sorts and ended up “making a left turn”.

    I swear! There is not one day when my happiness is met with spooks!