{"id":28509,"date":"2011-03-07T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28509"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:30:31","slug":"brogging-of-the-mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28509","title":{"rendered":"Brogging of the mundane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Burglary update<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u00a0<em>finally\u00a0<\/em>managed to get a hold of the Fulton County prosecutor aide in regards to the thugs that tried to rob my home back in\u00a0<em>October<\/em>.\u00a0 Honestly, given the lack of effort exerted by the county, I figured that I had heard the last of them after the initial arrest of the hoods.\u00a0 I called every number and contact I was given, with no response.\u00a0 In fact, I had to hound this person\u00a0<em>in order to respond<\/em>\u00a0to a letter they had sent to me.\u00a0 Apparently wanted to let me know that their bond pleas have been denied a second time, and one more denial, and then they&#8217;re going to actual, court-court.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s comforting to know that since their arrest back on October 27th, they&#8217;ve been in jail since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Job update<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Pros of the place I&#8217;m currently on assignment for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Located in downtown, which means my commute doesn&#8217;t exceed 30 miles each way<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Walking distance to a Starbucks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Highest hourly contract rate I&#8217;ve ever made<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Is work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Cons of the place I&#8217;m currently on assignment for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Located in downtown, which means that my commute utterly blows 100% of the time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">No water cooler \/ not-tasting like shit water available<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Mandatory business attire five days a week, with no casual Fridays even<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Is boring as fuck work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Naturally, the pros outweigh the cons like Yokozuna vs. Juventud Guerrera, but typically most people would rather watch a Juvy match over a Yokozuna one on any given day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ranting about gas prices<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">When I was leaving the house, the gas station near my place read $3.45 a gallon.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why, but gas prices have the ability to depress me easier than stories of people dying.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why that is, and there&#8217;s really nothing that can be done about it, in this capitalist, greedy world we live in.\u00a0 But it doesn&#8217;t change the fact that I simply dread driving my current, less-fuel-efficient-than-my-old car sometimes, because even the most necessary, sometimes tedious of errands means that I&#8217;m another gallon away from needing to visit the pump and drop another $43 to fill my tank.\u00a0 $43 used to be enough to get a Piss1 game, and Taco Bell on the way home to play it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I think what depresses me is the notion that I feel that greedy oil people are fervently pursuing one more million to pile on their existing billions, at the expense of others.\u00a0 Gas prices are inherently a tangible number of how greedy someone, somewhere in the world is feeling, even if it&#8217;s literally crippling those who are struggling to make ends meet.\u00a0 I knew a guy in high school who&#8217;s dad was an upper-VP executive for ExxonMobil.\u00a0 Suffice to say, he had the Saleen Mustang, when other kids were driving Honda Civics and Chevy Cavaliers.\u00a0 I camp out for Starrcade tickets, and still get way back seats on the floor, while he sits at the rail, despite not even liking wrestling, but going because it was the &#8220;in&#8221; thing at the time.\u00a0 And so forth, and so forth.\u00a0 I ask the question about a hundred times a year, but at what point does another million really matter?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The radio&#8217;s been playing all these sob-story commercial spots for BP, and the oil spill of last year.\u00a0 About how generous BP is, in cleaning up the oil, and compensating all the people directly effected by the disaster.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s obvious that it&#8217;s a PR ploy, these spots are, but the truth of the matter is, it&#8217;s probably working, and that&#8217;s pretty wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">In the wake of the disaster, what happened?\u00a0 Gas prices went up.\u00a0 At least that time, it was a tangible rationale, as all the crude being dumped into the gulf did in fact lead to less fuel being refined into fuel.\u00a0 So basically, the public had to pay for BP&#8217;s fuckup, and I don&#8217;t get that.\u00a0 If a Target worker knocked over a piece of dinnerware, the customer right next to them isn&#8217;t the one who pays for it.\u00a0 If a McDonalds employee knocks over the rack with all the fries on it, and they all land on the floor, the price of fries doesn&#8217;t jump up to make up for the lost profits on the trashed fries.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like oil is on their own set of rules, and no matter what happens in the world, in the end, it&#8217;s the common public that has to suffer the consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Fuck BP, and fuck all these oil companies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s times like these, I wish that shit in\u00a0<em>Revenge of the Nerds<\/em>\u00a0was a bit more attainable, with the production of their own fuel when the Nerds cut the fuel supply to the cool frat led by Jefferson D&#8217;arcy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burglary update I\u00a0finally\u00a0managed to get a hold of the Fulton County prosecutor aide in regards to the thugs that tried to rob my home back in\u00a0October.\u00a0 Honestly, given the lack of effort exerted by the county, I figured that I had heard the last of them after the initial arrest of the hoods.\u00a0 I called &hellip; 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