Thursday 13 March 2003

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    Desert Blessings
    By Alice Camille
    Wednesday of the First Week


    Age of Bronze is an example of what comics should be.


    Anyway, I'm disappointed that AP Network News reported the assassination of the Serbian president, but ABC News and Virgin News have not.  They're all-Iraq all the time when it comes to international news. 


    Last night I was doing E-mail and Xanga when Tom decides to IM me about his HPLA System Meeting with Wayne and Matt guess he didn't feel it went well, as Wayne and Matt wanted a D&D clone for spellcasting and character attributes, which obviously doesn't fit the HP books at all.  He then turns it into a complaint against local cons and how he's going to quit working for them as the Gaming Director after the cons he's already committed to doing.  Then it turns into complaining about the player's in his D&D campaign and how he's thinking of dropping it if they don't start showing more appreciation.  Which finally devolves into a hyoercritical evaluation of Jackson's D&D campaign and how he's ready to quit it.  Suffice it to say that the pressures of buying a new house (and moving into it in two weeks) plus the possible loss of his job are stressing him immensely.  So, obviously he and Lori deserve our prayers. 


    I also got my AT&T bill yesterday--the first one this year!  And they have the gall to charge me a $1.40 late fee after I called them with my new address in December!  We'll see about this so-called late fee.  We'll see.


    I keep getting put in a possition which I think threatens George's authority.  They (upper management) tried taking the marquee slogan development from him and giving it to me, but he eventually took it back.  Now they want to take the making of "Special Savings" signs from him and give them to me.  I don't think he'll be too happy to hear of this plan when he returns from vacation on Friday.  The problem is that they know he's....not as motivated...to full these tasks as I would be.  I tend to get things done when asked.  And people know it. 


    Can you believe it's almost spring already?  What happened to the time!  I almost fear how fast time will go some twenty years hence!  We're already being warned of 90s by the weekend, the smog is blocking the view of the snowcapped Four Peaks, and I can ride one third of the way home from work in sunlight!  Next thing we know, LepreCon XXIX will be here!  Where did all our time go?


    And I'll leave you with a quote, like I used to do in the old days before Xanga and silly on-line quizes infiltrated their spot:
    There is a sobering side to eccentricity. Odd behavior can flourish only in a tolerant society and that it often produces radical new ideas by virtue of its willingness to cast off accepted norms. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.