Friday night was Chase and My Birthday Parties at SugarHouse. We had a blast.
2 hours of premium open bar... and then 2 free bottles for VIP since we brought so many people.
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Friday night was Chase and My Birthday Parties at SugarHouse. We had a blast.
2 hours of premium open bar... and then 2 free bottles for VIP since we brought so many people.
Check out the fun!!
The Great Chocolate Chase (22 MB download)
You can never have too much chocolate, right? We don't think so, so here's a treat: indulge in a whole new twist on Chocolatier! Join Evangeline Baumeister and your favorite Chocolatier characters, making and serving chocolate treats. With the help of Klaus Werner's creative inventions, you'll face challenges at every turn to get new chocolates into the eager hands of hungry customers. Savor this all-new assembly management/adventure game!
]]>The Great Chocolate Chase (22 MB download)
You can never have too much chocolate, right? We don't think so, so here's a treat: indulge in a whole new twist on Chocolatier! Join Evangeline Baumeister and your favorite Chocolatier characters, making and serving chocolate treats. With the help of Klaus Werner's creative inventions, you'll face challenges at every turn to get new chocolates into the eager hands of hungry customers. Savor this all-new assembly management/adventure game!
]]>"I see it! I saw it....ohhh, I see it!! I saw it. Eeks...I see it!!!!!! I saw it. Just you wait. I am going to catch you on one of these turns. I'll never wear out! I'm a CAT. We are born with patience and persistence. You can't stay back there forever. Ohhhhh...I see it!!!!!! Gosh darn it, I saw it. No, I see it, I see it................!"
]]>"Okay, I know I'm representing law enforcement in this community, but.....this guy is NAKED. I could turn around and whack him where it hurts with my baton, but....that would mean actually looking at it. What to do? What to do? I'm running to my car. I definately need backup. I don't want to touch any part of this freak's body. Eeeooowww...I'd have to get a good look at his butt to even get the handcuffs on. Why did they allow me to patrol without a partner today, of all days? Stop chasing me!! Oh please, don't let him get close enough to touch me!!"
]]>The music matches the video perfectly. California Police are having a wee problem with using the pit maneuver on this vehicle. The "bad guy" is one heck of a driver. Very entertaining to observe.
]]>i have seen all the 3 earlier sequels of this film. fourth one of the Indiana Jones series released this week. seeing a new Steven Speilberg film is always full of excitement. as usual i went alone to cinemax to see this film. i wass happy to get a seperate seat at the red lounge for 100 bucks. good deal. well the film was not much different from the others of the series.
i think in this film Spielberg did somethig very difficult to achieve and even conceive. he made the film exactly in the same genre as the earlier ones. he has not fallen prey to available super glossy SFX. visually he has kept the film in the same basic level of photography. also the stunts and light hearted scenes (motor cycle chase- in the library- the bike skids and a student asks him a question on archeology) keep reminding you that you are watching a Indiana Jones sequal.
some SFX are new. there is as usual a wicked woman who is very tough. there are wicked men too- many of them. they all looking for a all powerful human crystal heads. this will give them all the knowledge there is in the universe. in the climax everyone gets there. good people get out safely but the baddies and the evil woman are evaporated by the power of 11 (or 13) crystal humans.
there are some amazing chase sequences that only Spielberg team can conceive and execute. the sets in the climax too is out of the world. it is an engineering marvel.
]]>This is one of those “well, duh” issues, I guess, but the dichotomy between what companies say and what they do is simply astounding to me. Much like what the dichotomy between what politicians say and do. And we all hate politicians, but we can vote against companies (and their practices) with our dollars and yet, apparently, we don’t.
If you look at virtually any company’s website or annual report, you can find their mission statement and after you get done with the crap about “empowered employees saving the earth” you will find out that they really, really respect and cherish and love their customers. Turns out what they really, really respect and cherish and love is their customer’s money. And they will lie and cheat and deceive to get it.
Now you’d think that all this lying, cheating and deceiving would be kind of a turn off for customers, not to mention kind of illegal. But no.
For instance, how are rebates not a “bait and switch”? Did we say that was $49.95? Well yeah, you pay us $150 today and if you complete these seven steps in the exact order we tell you and slice and dice the box it came in just so and send the whole mess in before midnight tonite to Young America, MN, we might send you a check for $100.05 in 4 to 6 weeks. So obviously the $49.95 is a lie. If the real cost, across the board was $49.95, that’s what you’d pay at the store and be done with it.
People don’t complain about this because they’re all sure that they’re gonna do the seven steps, etc. But we all know that the only reason companies do this is that some good portion of the populace won’t do the seven steps before midnight tonite, so the company gets to keep the $100 and 50 cents. If you really loved and cherished those folks would you be trying to hose them out of $100.50? You would not. Clearly your money is more important than you are.
My last point on rebates is this: it’s not like just one or two companies are doing them, there’s hundreds. And they ALL think you’re a schmuck. How does that make you feel? Cherished?
OK, rebates are an easy target, but there’s tons more proof that companies, in general, hate you and will do virtually anything to screw you out of a few bucks, while at the same time proclaiming their love for you.
OK, time to name names (but just for illustrative purposes):
Macy’s
– my wife is a fine and long-term Macy’s customer and constantly gets
15% or $10 off coupons. Can she use them? Of course not, because the
things she’d actually like to buy are excluded from the coupon’s
discount. Would it kill Macy’s to give out a 15% off coupon with no
limitations to its good customers? It would not. But why do that when
you can screw them out of a few more dollars?
Wireless Companies – I was gonna say AT&T, but they’re all the same. Is there a real problem with offering a plan with 1500 minutes for, say, $99,95 month, all in? Of course not. They advertise $99.95, but is the actual bill ever $99.95? It is not. If you respected your customers, you’d actually give them what you advertise. And make sure that you let them know before they ran up a bazillion dollars of overage charges. I’ve gotten text messages from AT&T advertising stuff but never to alert me that I’ve gone over my monthly allowance. Technologically impossible? I think not.
Credit card companies. You probably think I’m going to rail against 20% interest rates or the fact that years of loyal card-ownership go out the window if you’re three days late one month. Well there are those things, but frankly we all know those things going in so they don’t really fall into the “screwing your customers with malice aforethought” category. But this does: You know those checks you get, monthly, offering low, low interest rates if you use them to pay off other high-rate cards? Turns out that this is not the great deal you’d think – it’s a ploy to insulate, and increase, the debt you owe (at 20%) from ever getting paid off. How’s that work? Here’s the fine print - the debt you roll over at 2.99% gets paid off first, so that $500 you send in every month doesn’t reduce your high-interest debt at all. The highest rate debt gets paid off dead last. Nice.
Now believe me, I get the profit motive (business major!) and I also know that these companies have probably done cost-benefit analyses that support, on paper, screwing over your customer base to make a few bucks.
What I just really just don’t see is why companies feel they’ve got to lie to be profitable. And here’s my real problem – there are people (not companies) making these decisions. Do the people making these decisions know the people who write the mission statement? My fear is that they’re the same people.
It just goes to prove that Mencken’s phrase “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public” is, sadly, still true and that, sadly, there are still people willing to exploit that fact.
]]>I'm back from school. Only two weeks left and I'm unsure about Summer quarter.
I started reading a book that Janessa let me barrow. This one is quite a bit better than the previous one she recommended. It really brings me back and encourages me to read like I used to. I miss those books too. A good story ranks high among my favorite things in the world. Quite highly in fact. This one mixes bits of science to explain the magic that takes place. I can definitely recognize the minor references to physics. I'm not sure how many books this author has written but when I finish this one, I'd be interested to read more by him.
I need to call my aunt sometime today as well. I'm not sure if she depended on me to call her but there was definitely no call from her end. We are supposed to hang out Saturday but I feel like maybe she might flake out. It's a trait that she, my mother, and my grandmother all possess. Through the years, I've some to see it a bit in me, but I honestly look down upon myself for doing it so I try to avoid it. I find that I've surrounded myself partially with these kinds of people though. I really don't like it.
Chase's birthday party is tonight. I said I'd go, and I will, but I didn't promise a time. I have to get up early tomorrow to go to work so that's that. He'll understand. At least I drove out there. Takashi will be studying hopefully so when I come home, we can go to sleep.
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Third-person pov. Cannot remember beginning.
I'm at this apartment complex. I walk into a room and find a girl around my age, brunette, pretty. I look around the room and notice it's a nail salon. Or rather, it looks like a normal enough room but she has a table for painting nails? Whatever.I sit in front of the girl and ask to have my nails painted. French manicure with black tips. She reaches for my hand and starts to polish. As she starts on the first nail I remember I do not have any cash. I glance around the room for a credit card reader but do not see one. Ask if she can take credit, debit, or check. She keeps painting and reassures that I can use credit. We talk though the conversation is not memorable.
Omniscient. Scene cuts to some late teens/twenty-somethings. They talk of something or other excitedly. I only remember a boy and a long-haired blonde girl. The girl is very happy. Prancing, even.
Back to me. She finishes three fingers on my left hand (index, middle, and ring) and then reaches out for my right. She makes me contort it in an awkward way that I recognize even in my dream. She starts to paint and after a while of talking, excuses herself for a moment. I look down at my left hand and realize the finished nails do not match. I turn to my right hand; index, ring, and pinkie are done and don't match either.
The boy is now talking to another boy. Girl is seen in the distance happily talking to another girl. The boys suspect
The brunette comes back and announces that my nails are done. I lace my hands together and for some reason the haphazard painting kinda makes sense now. We say our goodbyes and I walk out of her room and end up in the Runaways scene.
"Chase" says they've been waiting for me. "Nico" is gone. We're on a mission of some kind.
Meh, and I wake up exactly five minutes before my alarm clock was to go off.
Fin.
What a strange yet boring dream.
UPDATE: Just remembered, there was this one part in the dream (not sure when) where I was wearing this really tacky outfit. At first, I thought I was pretty baller but somewhere while I was frolicking around the ugliness hit me and I was like, Oh man. All I remember is a big green shirt, a denim skirt, and big, ol' black leather belt I put over the shirt. Eh.
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I'm ready to embark on a journey of Love
in search of the greatest lover ever
in which I don't find Him, but He finds me.
and as I search Him,
and He searches me,
I find
He is the Lover,
and I'm His beloved.
and I'm chasing Him
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He loves me more than I can ever know.
And that's just the greatest thing ever.
For His love is better than wine,
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And what is life?
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if I try to live without Christ.