It worked!  Mick just earned bonus points.

Dayum.  I’m gonna donate to this puppy.

Skåll!!!

P.S.: My.  Shortest.  Post.  Ever.

…And I haven’t yet even investigated, much less downloaded and installed Mick’s excellent suggestion.

And when does that update happen to appear?  After another hiatus, another cool-down from another round of getting my mind broken by morons.

Nothing is ever easy.  I swear.

So what has happened to me in almost a fortnight?  Here’s two of several things: My iPod started flaking out and died and was replaced, and I’ve discovered a new philosophy that’s intriguing me (yet it still has to prove itself).

Thank god for the rainy end-of-summer weekend.  I forgot how much I enjoy just watching the rain over a cup of coffee and thinking.

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Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a corporate world, or maybe it’s a desperation of people trying to pay rising bills in a world that doesn’t care, or maybe I’m just in a weird phase of my life where the stupid people are attracted to me like iron to a magnet, but every few weeks now it just gets to me — people’s stupid demands.  Cries that I can’t do this, I need to do that, why don’t I do something about that, why did I let that person fail…

Disclaimer: this blog post, like many before it, will be vague on specifics of names, places, or specific timeframes.  I have to protect the guilty, because I can’t afford a lawyer or deal with the mindnumbing frustration and pointless anger that a lawsuit would bring upon me.  So please fill in the names with your favorite enemies if you really need names.

Oh, wait — Disclaimer number two: I’m taking the opposite side of many popular opinions amongst some valued friends, or even my own opinion in some cases.  It’s called drawing out the discussion.  I get any hateful words about it and I’ll cheerfully delete your e-mail.  Then I’ll go outside and enjoy the day, knowing that the hateful words came from another idiot.  Then I’ll have one more person to avoid like the plague.

Back to the post.

I hate entitled people.  No — hate isn’t a strong enough word.  I loathe their smug requests for attention, or money, or fairness, or some god-given right.

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