-I'm pale white, what minority does he think I am?

Here's another (poorly drawn) comic, with work involved. I had to leave the company to get ready to go back to school. I need the break time anyway. I want nothing more than to relax. This is not particularly likely as I have to get ready to move as well, but that can wait for at least another week.

As you can see at least one of the 'wonderful' people I worked with had questioned why I was given my job in IT. It's possible that it may be true others were passed up for me to get the position, but I did that job well. I don't care what anyone says.

I do get irate at people, but I will never raise my voice to them. If someone wants to argue, then they can do all the one sided arguing they want. If they ask me questions, I'll answer them. Calmly and honestly. If they don't like it they can continue to argue and complain, while I sit there. While I do use violence in my comics alot, I am not a violent person. I'm actually rather peaceful in life. Although at times I do have the urge to smack a few people upside the head.

Although it should be noted that sometimes sitting in a wheelchair can be a nice thing. As when someone is yelling at a person in a wheelchair a crowd tends to gather and most of them will take your side. Especially if you're not saying anything stupid back. Most people start to read the crowd then leave. At the same time you can get easily cornered and I can't tell you how many conversations I've wanted avoid but couldn't because the person was blocking the unfortunately narrow hallway.

The guys I worked with were all pretty nice in the IT dept. (Even the guy who never stopped looking at my chest was pretty ok.) The work was pretty dull some days. One day we started a core wars league. (We were programming, so it was kind of like work, or at least looked like work.) I was in third out of five when I left. I wonder how well my bots will stand up over time. (Look here if you're interested in Core Wars.)

I will miss that job...

Well that's all for now.

Here's.. something!

If you can't see the full image, just click on it. Also it's in two parts so click on both to see them.

Arrg, rant time!

I usually love work. It's tiring and at times, and painful at others, but all in all I have few complaints. And all in all my day was quite grand, minus the forty minutes I spent with one particularly annoying fellow (whom I hope never reads this blog). Now as I mentioned before I work desktop support, so I get called around to offices where I either fix their problem or show them how to fix it on their own.

Today I was called to some guy's desk. Now, I suppose I have seen him about, but never really talked to him more than to say Hi. So for all intensive purposes I don't know him at all. I ask him to show me the problem and he does so, but while doing so starts this kind of atheist bashing rant. How they have no moral compass, and how without faith there is no hope, burning in hell, and so on.

Now it's not a fact I advertise to everyone, but I am an atheist. Now how exactly this random guy I work with knows is anyone's guess. Because some of the questions he asks during the rant are aimed specifically at me. Asking how did I decide, and how I should come to his church. It takes some willpower but I avoid opening my mouth at all throughout his tirade. When he paused for some questions I start talking about the computer. I won't be baited into an argument or debate. I finish watching his demonstration and start telling him how to fix his problem.

Unfortunately he is not listening to me at all. He is far too interested in telling me how wrong I am. So I continue to try to explain, and he begins to slowly do as he's told, after having me say each step at least twice. In the end as I'm leaving he asks me out!? I tell him "Sorry, no." and I'm off, with probably the most dumbfounded look on my face ever.

So let it be known that telling me I'm wrong for nearly 30 minutes is not a way to get me to consider you dating material.

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I left out details about who it was and what the problem was in order to keep my job. I hope this is still vague enough to avoid problems.

Thanks for the support whoever is still reading this, and look forward to next time, where I hope I will have something other than a long winded complaint about my day!

Curse you real life!

As you all heard in my last post, I am employed. I failed to realize exactly how much this would wear me out. Day after day all I wanted to do was vault myself onto my bed and read until I fell asleep.

And for the most part, that is what I have been doing. No art, no games, no programming for fun. Just reading and sleeping. And sorry to say, but for the most part, it will continue as such for the next 2 months or so.

Once I'm back and procrastinating at school, then I will have all the time to draw, write, and game. Assuming I don't get swamped there. I might make the odd posting here and there over the rest of summer, but don't expect anything with regularity.

Anyway, I'm sure you are all wondering what work gets me so tired. Well it's desktop support. I won't say for who or give out any details. I've seen people canned for less. The important part is that I have a good, paying job. Even if the pay itself is not that good.

Well that's all from me tonight. Hopefully I'll find myself back here next weekend. Maybe I'll review a book or something. I can't say I have much else to talk about. I would tell a few good stories from work, but I'm sure you've all heard the BOFH and PEBKAC stories before.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you're all still out there. If nothing else come back sometime in September. There will be updates! There might even be art!

Edit: Also had a birthday a while back. Happy birthday me!

Long time no post

I'm now employed. This seems to be a good thing as it means I can now pay for things. This could seem like a bad thing as I have had nearly no time to rest with work and the rest of my life still running at full speed.

But I will still endevor to post here, I certainly have a cache of sketchblogs I drew but never could get around to posting. So for the next few weeks you will see some new posts on old events. Not that you would know when these happened unless you were stalking me. =)

Anyway just posting to apologize for the lack of posts and to inform that there are some coming. Also my apologies to anyone who was on my DF fortress, I'd say it will return, but it will likely be too long of a wait for me to have free time to keep the fortress ongoing.

This movie made my brain crawl

Now I'm not a movie reviewer by any means, but 'The Last Templar' offended my geek sensibilities. The main character, might have been a bad female Indiana Jones, except that she really could care less about any artifact that isn't associated with the Templars. So she breaks through a roof into a supposedly ash and pumice buried city (with tons of inaccuracy there). She cares nothing for the potential find of the city itself. She could care less about the fact that her haste is basically to blame for the site's destruction. Nope, she just loves the fact she found the one item she was after. That is treasure seeking, not archeology. *grumblemuttergrumble* It seemed to be a commercial for religion, and christianity specifically. Not exactly what I call a good premise for a movie.



I'll stop there, much more of it bothered me than that, but I just had to complain a little.

A return to gaming

Back to dwarf fortress and back to Go. I've been playing go off and on, but have avoided the much more involved Dwarf Fortress. Now I've downloaded it and all other work has suddenly come to a standstill.

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Back to the game.

Now, I really am back. =)

Shock and awe! I have readers!

I have to say I didn't pay any attention to this for a while even after 'coming back' because the people I thought were reading it apparently had not been but failed to look and see if anyone had come by.

I will update a sketch soon for anyone still diligent enough to check, with a little hint as to where I have been over the past few weeks (I have no excuses for before that.)